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A Comfy Corner for Software, Security, Cloud, and AI

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Sorting email inboxes with local LLMs

Categorizing by message contents without sacrificing privacy

Working with disk image files in linux

From loop devices to mounting

Setting up Local LLM voice conversations

Talking with your graphics card in real-time

Passing secrets to applications

Comparing different methods and their tradeoffs

Limiting hardware resources for KVM guest VMs

Fairly dividing physical resources between vms

Automated guest vm provisioning on KVM

Spinning up new vms without manual intervention

Record, share or stream terminal sessions with asciinema

Showing others what's happening in your shell

Building an OPNsense environment on KVM

Easy setup for test sandboxes and production workloads alike

Practical wget use cases

From downloads to web automation

Getting started with KVM and virsh

From zero to a running vm without tripping over errors