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Building Your Own Laptop: Selecting Parts for a High-Performance Custom Notebook

Date: 12/07/2025

Author: Jaw

You’ve decided to buy a high-performance laptop, but you’re discouraged by the prices — the combination of power and portability comes at a steep cost. In this article, I’ll explain how to build a portable laptop using standard desktop components, and highlight the advantages of this approach. I’ve named my creation the Truebook.

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Tiny Hummingbird: Exploring an Entirely Assembly Language Operating System

Date: 12/07/2025

Author: Andrey Vasilkov

Today in our gallery of curiosities, we have an intriguing item: an operating system written entirely in pure assembly language. Along with drivers, a graphical user interface, and dozens of pre-installed programs and games, it takes up less than one and a half megabytes. Meet the exceptionally fast OS Kolibri.

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Setting Up the ELK Stack: Configuring Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana for Log Collection and Analysis on Servers

Date: 11/07/2025

Author: Martin Prankevich

Service and application logs are often one of the few tools available to identify the source of issues. However, they are typically forgotten after installation and debugging. Modern approaches to development, deployment, and application maintenance demand a different mindset—one where you can quickly locate necessary information. Centralized log collection and analysis systems are invaluable in this regard. Today, we will explore how to configure the popular ELK stack.

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Effective Erasure: Ensuring Fast and Irrevocable Data Destruction

Date: 11/07/2025

Author: Oleg Afonin

Destroying evidence and covering tracks is typically reserved for the less law-abiding individuals. However, today we’ll discuss how to securely erase data from various devices when you plan to sell, give away, or simply dispose of a disk, phone, or computer.

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12 Essential Tweaks to Optimize KDE for the Perfect Desktop Experience

Date: 10/07/2025

Author: Ilya Ostapenko

Like any other prominent project, KDE has its staunch opponents and ardent supporters. Critics often target KDE for its complexity, excessive customization options, high resource consumption, and perceived lack of stability. However, its supporters counter these points by arguing that the vast array of settings allows KDE to be tailored to any need and hardware configuration.

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Essential Tools for Software Reverse Engineering and Cracking

Date: 10/07/2025

Author: Nik Zerof

Every reverse engineer, malware analyst, and researcher eventually develops a personal toolkit of utilities they regularly use for analysis, unpacking, or cracking. In this review, I will share my own version. This will be useful for anyone who hasn’t yet compiled their own set and is just beginning to explore this field. However, even seasoned reverse engineers might find it interesting to see what tools their peers are using.

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Exploring NixOS: The Unique and User-Friendly Linux Distribution

Date: 09/07/2025

Author: Valeriya Gubareva

How many times in your life have you reinstalled Linux? And how many times have you installed the same set of packages on multiple different machines? Have you ever had to start from scratch because of a failed system update or configuration? All of this is not only exhausting but can also lead to serious losses, especially in a business context. NixOS can help avoid such problems—a distribution that allows you to configure your system to the desired state with a single command.

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