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#backup

Borgmatic / Bash CI / git-crypt and key management

Borgmatic Backups for security“Backups are important for information security. Underestimated, often forgotten, but key to resilience and compliance alike.” - every sane tech expert Data is more valuable than ever. And hard disks are just consumables. In the old days (early 2010s), I had setups with Bacula Backup. It

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#cli

Malware Hashes (tool)

Malware Hashes is an unexciting tool with an unexciting name for the unexciting task of hashing malware.

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#genai

Use MCP servers with Gemini 3 Web / Deep Research / Deep Think / RAGflow with DSPy

Fellow researchers and knowledge seekers, today I have a special trick. The most powerful research tool you have ever had. 1. Gemini 3 (Model Card) - available via a subscription 2. RAGflow with my RAGflow MCP server (GitHub) 1. using a custom knowledge base (Quant Literature) 3. MCP server availability

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#opinion

Cloudflare, Akamai / history and perspective

Yesterday we let down the internet. Sorry... (Cloudflare, every 4-5 months) Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.The Cloudflare

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