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Eric Chou
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Wanna be a Kernel Hacker! | MS @NCKU_official EE
Taipei, Taiwan Katılım Şubat 2026
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@offlinemark Hi Mark! Welcome to Taiwan, when r u going to stop by 😃
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#kbox embeds a real Linux kernel (LKL) in-process, routing syscalls to it so programs run at near-native speed — no root, containers, VMs, or ptrace. It acts as a rootless chroot/proot alternative with kernel-level accuracy.
github.com/sysprog21/kbox
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everyone thinks eBPF = fancy tcpdump. no. it's basically a safe little VM inside your kernel and people are abusing it in wild ways:
- sched_ext lets you write your linux CPU scheduler in userspace. yes. swap out CFS for your own logic. gaming, latency-critical trading, AI workloads — all getting custom schedulers now.
- SO_REUSEPORT + eBPF = you pick which socket gets the packet. consistent hashing load balancing with zero proxy, zero hop. Cloudflare does this, Katran (FB's L4 LB) does 10M+ pps with XDP.
- uprobes on SSL_read/SSL_write means you can see decrypted TLS traffic without MITM or cert tricks. just hook libssl in-process. sounds illegal, isn't.
- BPF LSM hooks — literally write kernel security policy as a program. Tetragon, Falco, bpflock all doing runtime enforcement that SELinux could only dream of.
- computational storage offload — people are running eBPF on the SSD itself. compute near the bytes, skip the PCIe round trip. wild stuff.
- and yes there's eBPF rootkits (ebpfkit, TripleCross) hiding processes and hijacking syscalls from the kernel. defensive tech is also offensive tech, always.
oh and windows has eBPF now too btw. the "linux thing" era is over, this is becoming the universal safe-code-in-kernel standard.
tldr: if you're still using eBPF just for bpftrace one-liners you're leaving like 90% of the power on the table
by the way you can check this nice repo with a lot of interesting eBPF-based tools:
github.com/qmonnet/awesom…
#ebpf #networking #cilium #cloud #devops #sre #kubernetes #k8s

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10 terminal tools that make you 10x faster in 2026:
1. zoxide
A smarter cd that learns your habits. Type "z proj" and it jumps to the directory you actually meant.
Repo → github.com/ajeetdsouza/zo…
2. fzf
The fuzzy finder that powers half the terminal world. Search files, processes, git branches, shell history, anything.
Repo → github.com/junegunn/fzf
3. ripgrep
10x faster than grep. Respects .gitignore by default. Once you use it, you can never go back.
Repo → github.com/BurntSushi/rip…
4. lazygit
Every git command you hate, now one keypress away. Interactive rebase feels like cheating.
Repo → github.com/jesseduffield/…
5. starship
A shell prompt that shows git status, language versions, and cloud context. Works on every shell. Renders in under 10ms.
Repo → github.com/starship/stars…
6. atuin
Replaces your shell history with a searchable SQLite database. Syncs encrypted across every machine you own.
Repo → github.com/atuinsh/atuin
7. bat
cat with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and git integration. Your terminal will never look the same.
Repo → github.com/sharkdp/bat
8. eza
A modern ls with colors, icons, and git status built in. Makes every directory readable at a glance.
Repo → github.com/eza-community/…
9. yazi
A blazing fast file manager that runs in your terminal. Image previews, async I/O, vim keybindings.
Repo → github.com/sxyazi/yazi
10. delta
Turns git diff into something you actually want to read. Side-by-side view, syntax highlighting, line numbers.
Repo → github.com/dandavison/del…




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Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement
phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1…
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Video of my opening talk at the sched_ext microconference (LPC 2025), discussing open issues and future directions for sched_ext: deadline server, hierarchical schedulers, and built-in scheduler improvements.
youtube.com/watch?v=lQ26nF…

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Learn about Spark: sparkjs.dev
Experience the scale for yourself. Coit Tower consists of 40M+ splats, yet it’s fully interactive in your browser. The beauty of Spark LoD is seeing 100M+ splat worlds run smoothly on any device.
Explore here: wlt-ai-cdn.art/spark-2.0/2604…
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