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A 20-year-old bug in Python’s ctypes
Recently, while tinkering with the comtypes library, I stumbled upon a mysterious SIGSEGV. At first, I assumed the crash originated within the library itself, so I dug into its source code. To my surprise, comtypes doesn’t even include any C code in its implementation!
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LXC with GPU passthrough
LXC is a Linux container runtime. Unlike runc (containerd) or CRI-O (k8s), LXC does not follow the OCI specs; and they manages system containers rather than application containers. Since they’re lighter than full-fledged VMs, LXC has gained significant interest from homelab enthusiasts looking to maximize hardware performance.