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System-level ad-blocking in Android in 2026
Kevin Boone surveys DNS-based system ad-blocking on Android — commercial DNS/VPNs, non-root local-VPN apps like AdAway, and rooted hosts-file approaches via Magisk — plus limitations and side-effects.
2 min · 433 words
Tuning a Server for Benchmarking
How to tune a Linux server so benchmarks are repeatable: isolating noise from CPU frequency scaling, interrupts, and background services so small performance wins are actually visible.
5 min · 1,109 words