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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.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:47 — 23.4MB)

A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.

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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide

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Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege

VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom

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We were asked about how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:55 — 22.7MB)

Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.

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ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

Discussion

Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15

I’m starting to wonder if modern next-gen filesystems are approaching an inherent limit of human ability to mentally model and manage complexity

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We were asked whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:37 — 24.0MB)

Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server.

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Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient, Data-Sure Storage Solution

Klara co-hosted a webinar with TrueNAS about ZFS Fast Dedup

News

Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”

Intellectual Property & Piracy FAQ | Nintendo Support

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Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot

I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives

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We were asked about securing applications on a home server.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:54 — 25.9MB)

SharePoint is exploitable by Microsoft’s AI, NIST proposes a new metric for exploited vulnerabilities, SBCs that look cool for a mini NAS and a router,  and setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.

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The Maintainer’s Dilemma: Strategies for Supporting Legacy Drivers Across Decades of Hardware Evolution

News/discussion

Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint

NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities

ODROID-H4 PLUS

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H4 Mini-ITX Kit

Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro is a versatile router board with WiFi 7, 10 Gb and 2.5 Gb LAN, and multiple M.2 connectors

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We were asked about setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.

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Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta’s new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the inside details of a new mixed-disk-size ZFS RAID feature, and moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link.

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The Overlooked Complexity of Firmware Security in the IoT Era

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Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

Introducing ZFS AnyRaid, Sponsored by Eshtek

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We were asked about moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:21 — 23.8MB)

Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.

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What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (So You Don’t Have To)

News

O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call

Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 – Let’s Encrypt

VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them

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We were asked about connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.

SAS Expanders, Build Your Own JBOD DAS Enclosure and Save – Iteration 1

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TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there’s a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn’t make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature.

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Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter

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TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base

FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

ZFS raw-send corruption bug fixed

5 things I regret about using my Raspberry Pi as a NAS

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We were asked about the zpool checkpoint feature.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 33:46 — 27.4MB)

The basic computer science problems that still remain unsolvable, why you shouldn’t trust AI to tune ZFS (or answer any admin questions), and setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.

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Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS

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We were asked about setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:23 — 24.7MB)

Old passwords work for Windows RDP, Broadcom shows why perpetual software licenses aren’t really forever, Windows Server is getting hotpatching, and preventing changes to archived files.

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Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS

News/discussion

Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that

Broadcom sends cease-and-desist letters to subscription-less VMware users

Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025

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We were asked about preventing changes to archived files.