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The biggest homelab mistakes we’ve made, and what we learned from them.
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2.5 Admins 311: Couch Cushions
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Microsoft restored an account including files that it initially claimed wasn’t possible, Apple might lock down phones if people don’t keep up their lease payments, ZFS scrubs shouldn’t be painful, and accessing another network from a locked-down work machine.
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ZFS vs Ceph: Do You Actually Need Ceph?
News/discussion
Microsoft restores player’s 25-year-old account following widespread backlash
iOS 27 code suggests Apple could restrict leased devices after missed payments
If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken
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We were asked about accessing another network from a locked-down work machine.
Linux After Dark – Episode 120
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Late Night Linux – Episode 397
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Initial Steam Machine reviews are broadly positive, Jellyfin is losing some key project leaders, Sony deletes more movies that people “bought”, why you probably shouldn’t wipe your phone when the US authorities ask for access, Graham repurposes some discarded crypto hardware to play arcade games, Félim gets that old game working, a great terminal music player, and more.
News
Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux – initial thoughts
Jellyfin Project Leadership Changes
Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them
US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82
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Linux After Dark – Episode 127
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We got a lot of feedback about choosing a distro for the friends and family we support, but a lot of suggestions didn’t make sense to us. We get into why we pick boring and safe choices instead of interesting and exciting ones.
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2.5 Admins 310: GPLFreeBSD
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Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disagree about how serious OpenAI’s agent hacking Hugging Face is, FreeBSD removes the last bits of GPL software and suffers an embarrassing git flub , and backing up to an encrypted NAS without ZFS.
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Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
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We were asked about backing up to an encrypted NAS without ZFS.
Late Night Linux – Episode 396
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With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.
News/discussion
“Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it”
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 155
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Does language choice actually matter?
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 61
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It’s another hot questions episode! Tech we’d use if we rebuilt everything from scratch, career advice to our past selves, how much of our jobs we could do from our phone, and the qualities we’ve seen in great managers.
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2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron
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A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.
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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST
FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that’s been widely criticized by astronomers
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We were asked about picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.
Late Night Linux – Episode 395
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Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.
Discoveries
Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert)
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