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What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.
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Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn’t appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted backups.
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Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS
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Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home
CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun
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Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
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Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds
Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution – Phoronix
The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is
Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download
Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
KDE Korner
This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore
KWallet Now A Wrapper For Secret Service
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We’ve done hot takes episodes in the past but this is different, it’s hot questions. Would we rather have bad managers who can code or good managers who can’t? Too many comments or none? 80 columns or as long as you like? What editor do we use and why?
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With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges of major cloud migrations.
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IPv4 addresses are worth an awful lot of money, the serious dangers of a seemingly sensible deepfake law, Microsoft is 50 years old, and our thoughts on antivirus on Linux and Windows.
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Accurate and Effective Storage Benchmarking
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Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans
Congress close to passing deepfake law—Trump said he wants to use it himself
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We were asked about antivirus on Linux and Windows.
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Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more.
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Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thresholds have gone up significantly. We channel our inner Linux Luddites, but don’t really come up with any solutions.
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Jim’s server is getting hammered by AI scrapers and he’s big mad about it, why RCS doesn’t work on Android without Google apps, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.
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Network Offload and Socket Splicing (SO_SPLICE) in FreeBSD
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Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
80% of Web Traffic Is Bots — The Hidden Cost of AI Scraping
An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic
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We were asked about RCS on AOSP, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.