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Chris needs a solution for his family to watch ripped media while travelling, and Gary has a complex but cool travel network setup.
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A BGP hijack involved some basic errors, Microsoft teaches people to ignore warnings in Windows, Zoom appears to be reading the clipboard on X11, why a non-US open certificate authority is feasible in theory, and keeping a NAS powered on as little as possible.
Plugs
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News/discussion
BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all
Windows bug incorrectly tells users that Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off
Free consulting
We were asked about keeping a NAS powered on as little as possible.
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Audacity’s new major release makes it more like a proper digital workstation, Debian finally gets off the genAI fence and disappoints some of us, California exempts Linux from terrible age verification laws, and Asahi boots on M3 Macs. With guest host Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
News
Debian Votes To Allow “Responsible Use Of Generative AI”
Results for LLM usage in Debian
Retiring from the Project (vv221)
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3)
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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 26:57 — 25.0MB)
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Sean wonders about the best way to build a new platform and how opinionated it should be, and then Aaron and Shane think about buying a UPS.
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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:24 — 25.4MB)
What to read into a study of long-term Backblaze hard drive failure data, why the difference between TB and TiB matters, and what to do about an overheating host bus adapter.
Plugs
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ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
News/discussion
Changing Language for Storage Capacity
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We were asked about an overheating host bus adapter.
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KDE has a new proper LTS and Joe is very interested, the Steam Frame is (really) nearly here, the Epic Games Store is coming to Linux, Nintendo continues to play whack-a-mole with Switch emulators, and GitHub’s serious scaling issues are getting ridiculous.
News/discussion
What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04
New Frame welcome videos pushed to Steam Store assets
Epic Games Store Will Support Linux “Soon”
Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep
Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera!
The August 17 GitHub outage, and the work ahead
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It’s the ten year old computer challenge! Can we daily drive a desktop or laptop from 2016? There’s only one way to find out!
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A TV station struggles to retrieve its data from the data centre company that a defunct intermediary used, why we don’t want AI to manage our networks (even if Microsoft thinks we should), and understanding vdevs, and datasets in ZFS.
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OpenZFS User and Developer Summit 2026 CfP is open until September 11
FreeBSD Security in Production: Vulnerability Response and Operational Best Practices
News/discussion
Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane
Free consulting
We were asked about pools, vdevs, and datasets in ZFS.
