GitLab’s New Rate Limits Won’t Break Git. They’ll Expose Bad Automation.
GitLab.com is adding plan-based rate limits. Git will mostly be fine; anonymous scripts, shared tokens, agent fan-out, and careless retries deserve attention.
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Anthropic Says Claude Leads 26% of Its AI R&D. “Leads” Needs Some Explaining.
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its AI R&D. The definition, measurement method, and 30,000-agent operation are more useful than the headline.
Lutron PD-8ANS vs Claro DVRF-5NS: Keep or Replace?
A practical comparison of Lutron’s older Caséta switch and its Claro replacement: wiring, loads, Home Assistant behavior, and when replacement is wasteful.
How to Restore Home Assistant YAML Without Losing Live Changes
A safe restore procedure for Home Assistant YAML: compare repository and live state, checkpoint both, merge forward, validate, restart, and verify behavior.
Why Read-Only SQL Filters Are Not a Security Boundary
A SELECT-only query check cannot contain database authority, credentials, cached results, or multi-host access. Here are the controls that can.
Self-Hosted Email vs Microsoft 365 for a Small IT Team
The real comparison includes identity, calendars, support load, retention, recovery, and the opportunity cost carried by a small operations team.
Why Rebuilding an Old Trixbox PBX Is a Bad Idea
An old home PBX exposes modern problems around unsupported software, public attack surfaces, emergency calling, credentials, power, and recovery.
10 Windows Tools for Technical Operations
A practical Windows workstation set for terminals, source control, remote administration, HTTP diagnosis, automation, and reproducible installation.
SSH SOCKS Proxy: When Dynamic Forwarding Is the Right Tool
How SSH dynamic forwarding works, where its encryption ends, how to verify the route, and when a real VPN is the better answer.
Unsupported Business Software Should Not Define Your Server
A legacy application can turn a clever Linux migration into an unsupported recovery problem. Start with the support matrix and restore path.