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ZFS from its Solaris roots to enterprise storage today: pools, hardware choices, recovery and repository replication, with a Proxmox breakout and a practical ZFS cheat sheet.

Meta's new Muse agent is built around a curated long-term memory, and every major AI vendor is racing to solve the same problem. Meanwhile my own assistants still get sudden dementia every few days. A look at how agent memory actually works, from Hermes internals to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Apple and xAI's Grok Bot.

Getting ready for BSides Canberra with the original Flipper Zero: my experience with Momentum, RF remotes, NFC, USB tools and the iOS app, plus Wi-Fi, Ethernet and the upcoming Flipper One.

A DGX Spark with 128GB of unified memory let me explore much larger local models. Then I discovered Heretic variants, and a hardware experiment became a rather uncomfortable lesson in how AI refusals work, how easily they can be changed, and what that means for the rest of us.

A complete tutorial for bringing an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi into Home Assistant with ArduinoMqttClient, MQTT discovery, two onboard controls and two useful sensors.