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Stalker 2 patch 2.0 is the best of all.

Stalker 2 patch 2.0 is promising many changes. I hope it delivers.

Stalker 2 2.0 update to add the Iron Forest and CNPP.

Stalker 2 update to give us the CNPP and the Iron Forest. But will we get the Jupiter Plant.

New ISS tracker. This is a quick web project I made. This reads JSON to track the ISS across the Earth.

A very interesting ISS tracker to track the International Space Station around the Earth.

Linux MPV tips and tricks for playing files on your Linux box.

Some more very useful tips for the MPV movie player on Linux. How to play a Youtube video and select the resolution.

Six-hour radio signal from 40 light-years away.

Possible signal from TRAPPIST star system, this is very interesting.

CCS2 EV Chargers can provide an attack surface via SSH.

CCS2 EV Chargers (i.e., the one that isn't Tesla) provide a PHY/network interface, which allows network access to the control system, which has the password "root".

Arch Linux AUR hit by another wave of malicious packages.

The Arch Linux AUR has been hit by another malware attack.

How to get information out of the system log files on Linux—showing failed logins.

There are a few ways to extract information from the /var/log files using the Linux command line. Here are a few examples. Show the history of dnf commands on your Linux box with this command. (jcartwright@buddhism) 192.168.1.2 ~ $ grep "dnf in" /var/log/dnf.log 2026-07-21T10:04:04+1000 DDEBUG Command: dnf in brightnessctl 2026-07-27T09:01:01+1000 DDEBUG Command: dnf in cvs […]

The DeCSS prime number is very controversial indeed; it was used to break DVD encryption.

The DeCSS code was used to break DVD encryption. This was a revelation.

All the fuss about Windows having a unique machine ID saved when Linux has it as well.

It is not just Windows 10+ that has a unique machine ID number, Linux and Android as well.

Very nice bash PS1 prompts.

How to set a very nice and useful Linux bash prompt on your machine.

How to get the actual review scores for Odysee on Rotten Tomatoes.

Rotten Tomatoes is manipulating the score of The Odysee on the site to make the movie look better.

How to manipulate keyboard LEDs with the command line on Linux.

How to interact with the keyboard LEDs using the command line on Linux.

Get your most popular shell commands with a simple one-liner.

Get your most popular shell commands with a simple one-liner, this is a very interesting Linux hack.

SMS Scammers are still at it; this is amazing.

SMS Scammers are still up to their old tricks. They never stop.

How to regenerate the GRUB config file on Ubuntu using a simple command in the terminal.

How to use a simple command to regenerate the GRUB config file on Linux.

The smartrecruitersai.cc scam is all over Twitter; they are hiring for a fake job.

The smartrecruitersai.cc scam is on Twitter, just ignore this and block.

How to detect hotlinking on your website and stop people stealing your images and bandwidth.

How to stop hotlinking of images from your website with .htaccess.

How to watch a file in a terminal and see changes right away. Good for logfiles.

Here I am using the watch ‘tail Xorg.0.log’ Command to watch the access log file for the Xorg server. This will update every ten seconds and show changes to the logfile when there is activity on the Xorg server. Every 10.0s: tail Xorg.0.log buddhism: Fri Jul 3 09:47:17 2026 [ 312.267] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): DFP-5: disconnected […]

How to have far better rendering in Stalker 2. Enjoy a further model rendering distance.

How to have much greater rendering of models in Stalker 2 with an engine.ini tweak.

How to rip a clip from a YouTube video at a certain timestamp using yt-dlp.

How to capture a clip from a very long YouTube video without downloading the whole thing.

A selection of Stalker development documents I have uploaded. This is very interesting.

A selection of Stalker design documents. These are very interesting.

How to view the contents of a torrent before downloading on Linux. This is very useful.

How to view the contents of a .torrent file before adding it to a torrent client.

How to copy text from the terminal to the clipboard.

How to copy and paste text from the terminal to the clipboard using the command line.

Play Half-Life 2 in the browser for free with an amazing website.

Play Half Life 2 in the browser without an account. This really works.

How a bash script may run a set of functions like a C program.

How to write a bash script that uses functions like a C program.

Installing Alpine Linux in Docker. This is a neat way to test out a different Linux distribution.

How to run Alpine Linux with Docker very easily. This is a good way to test a distribution.

How can you check if a certain port is open on a Linux PC?

How to check for open ports when you are using a Linux machine.

Stalker 2 Cost of Hope DLC is getting closer; they have added a large new package to the Steam repo.

The new Cost of Hope DLC for Stalker 2 is coming out very soon.

How to draw a circle in the GIMP.

How to draw a circle in the GIMP. This is pretty easy.