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What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, available tools, small clouds vs the big three, hiring people with experience of particular cloud platforms, support, compliance, ease of repatriation, and more.
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Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let’s Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses, and the differences between backup and production systems.
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Microsoft’s 19-hour Outlook outage exposes fragility in cloud infrastructure
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on July 14, 2025
We’ve Issued Our First IP Address Certificate
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We were asked about the differences between backup and production systems.
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The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and an update on Joe’s KDE experiment.
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Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
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Entroware
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It’s our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hardware, our silly challenges, our move away from custom phone ROMs, our disappointment with Arm desktop Linux, composable/immutable distros, how we’ve changed as people, and more.
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To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration.
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Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS
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Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
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Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
SUSE to roll out Sovereign Premium Support
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
KDE Korner
This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
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What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project.
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How we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebula) and reverse proxies. Sean introduces us to Pangolin as an open source alternative middle-ground.
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Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.
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Microsoft’s free updates for Windows 10 draw criticism
Denmark plans to thwart deepfakers by giving everyone copyright over their own features
Why I Stopped Using RAID on My Plex Media Server
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We were asked about getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.
