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Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.

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Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right

News/discussion

Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you’re in the EU

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

IncusOS

Incus

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We were asked about configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 26:37 — 24.7MB)

Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.

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Native inotify in FreeBSD

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Anker SOLIX EV Charger Adapter (For F3000, J1722 only)

EcoFlow EV Charger to Portable Power Station Adaptor (SAE J1772 to 5P8 Port, 50A)

WattCycle First-to-Market: WattLINK – EcoFlow Delta 2/3 Series PPS E

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We were asked about whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:04 — 25.8MB)

Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building.

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Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS

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Jeff Moss explains why setting up private email and VPN services are so difficult

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XigmaNAS

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We were asked about bridging WiFi to an external building.

Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy way

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:21 — 28.1MB)

Wiring up a house for networking including cables, access points, connectors, and racks. Plus Google is found liable for what its AI overviews say.

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Managing Cache and DirectIO for Databases on ZFS

Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA

News/discussion

Landmark German ruling declares Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words and makes it liable for false answers

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We were asked about wiring up a house for access points etc.

Jim’s guide to Wi-Fi AP placement

Monoprice 24-port Cat5e Patch Panel

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People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, and the best simple consumer WiFi gear.

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Why ZFS Is the Ideal Filesystem for Multi-User/Department Media Production

Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA

News/discussion

Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks

Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils

Coreutils for Windows

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop

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We were asked about the best simple consumer WiFi gear.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 22:24 — 20.8MB)

Arm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a friend’s photos.

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FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View​

News/discussion

Arm expands compute platform to silicon products in historic company first

Anthropic exposes Claude Code source by accident

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We were asked about setting up a backup for a friend’s photos.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:12 — 25.2MB)

The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesystems inside VMs.

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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage

News/discussion

US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America

National Security Determination on the Threat Posed by Routers Produced by Foreign Countries (pdf)

1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines

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We were asked about the safety of filesystems inside VMs.

Automox Turnkey Results

Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:38 — 26.5MB)

Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab.

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Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads

News/discussion

AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs

Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

Sorry all this is my fault

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We were asked about ZFS and VMs in the homelab.