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Ubuntu Firewall Setup in Less Than 5 Minutes (Plus One Step That Will Lock You Out)

Ubuntu Firewall Setup in Less Than 5 Minutes (Plus One Step That Will Lock You Out)

Setting up a Virtual Private Server (VPS) without a firewall is asking for trouble. Ideally, you’d have a dedicated security person to handle all of this, but that’s rarely the case. One thing I always do on a fresh Linux server is configure a firewall. It used to be a real headache, but […] The post Ubuntu Firewall Setup in Less Than 5 Minutes (Plus One Step That Will Lock You Out) appeared first on PHP Architect.

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Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle

Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle

The following article originally appeared on “Dan Shapiro’s blog” and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Companies are now producing dark factories—engines that turn specs into shipping software. The implementations can be complex and sometimes involve Mad Max metaphors. But they don’t have to be like that. If you want a five-minute factory, […]

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Socket for Jira Is Now Available

Socket for Jira Is Now Available

Security findings only matter if organizations can act on them. That usually means getting the right issues into the systems where engineering and security teams already work. Socket for Jira is now available, making it easy to turn Socket alerts into Jira issues and keep remediation work moving as alerts change over time. Teams can create tickets manually from individual alerts or set up automated ticketing rules to create, update, and resolve issues based on activity in Socket. The…

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llm-openrouter 0.6

llm-openrouter 0.6

Release: llm-openrouter 0.6 llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire. I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRouter as soon as it became available there. Here's its pelican - this time as an HTML page because Kimi chose to include an HTML and JavaScript UI to control the animation. Transcript here. Tags: openrouter, llm, llm-release, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, kimi, ai-in-china, llms, ai, generative-ai

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Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons

Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons

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SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette

SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette

TIL: SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette I put together some notes on patterns for fetching data from a Datasette instance directly into Google Sheets - using the importdata() function, a "named function" that wraps it or a Google Apps Script if you need to send an API token in an HTTP header (not supported by importdata().) Here's an example sheet demonstrating all three methods. Tags: spreadsheets, datasette, google

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Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tell Claude Opus 4.7 is the first model to change the tokenizer, so it's only worth running comparisons between 4.7 and 4.6. The Claude token counting API accepts any Claude model ID though so I've included options for all four of the notable current models (Opus 4.7 and 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku…

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Headless everything for personal AI

Headless everything for personal AI

Headless everything for personal AI Matt Webb thinks headless services are about to become much more common: Why? Because using personal AIs is a better experience for users than using services directly (honestly); and headless services are quicker and more dependable for the personal AIs than having them click round a GUI with a bot-controlled mouse. Evidently Marc Benioff thinks so too: Welcome Salesforce Headless 360: No Browser Required! Our API is the UI. Entire Salesforce & Agentforce…

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