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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.
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Whether we’d live in the country side or the city, the best Christmas presents we got as kids, and our Christmas movie traditions. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, Martin, Mark and Allan from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites.
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Home Assistant Developer Environment
Tailscale
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1Password Extended Access Management
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It’s part 2 of the £50 Linux machine challenge! This time: actually using them, what upgrades we did, what we’ll actually use them for, and more.
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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.
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Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more.
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Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – potentially bad news for Steam gamers
Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit
Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
Proposal to drop 32-bit in Fedora 44 withdrawn
Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: “We’ll Be Parting Ways”
Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy
A bug caused some major websites to break and this guy has quite a take on it
Accepting donations on OpenCollective – FlightGear
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Plasma 6.4 is much juicier than I remembered
This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore
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When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it’s hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder.
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How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo), and how to approach observability without overcomplicating things.
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