Notes

  1. ldd may run the binary you are inspecting

    ldd is not a parser. It is a shell script that asks the dynamic loader to trace itself — normally by running the loader with --list, and in some versions and…

    TIL
  2. Give AI agents privileged access with pkexec

    AI coding agents usually run unprivileged and stall when they need root — installing a package, writing under /etc, restarting a service. Instead of running…

    TIL
  3. Ask the package manager what changed on disk

    Every package manager already stores checksums for the files it installed, which turns "has anything been modified since installation?" into one command…

    TIL