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  "path": "/story/144551/hardware-hotplug-events-on-linux-the-gory-details/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-05T22:23:36.000Z",
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  "textContent": "One day, I suddenly wondered how to detect when a USB device is plugged or unplugged from a computer running Linux. For most users, this would be solved by relying on libusb. However, the use case I was investigating might not actually want to do so, and so this led me down a poorly-documented rabbit hole. ↫ ArcaneNibble (or R) And ArcaneNibble (or R) is taking you down with them.",
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