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What Linux and FOSS technology should Joe learn next? Is it a case of waiting for a problem to present itself before even trying?
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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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Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants you to use the “proper” VS Code, Intel AI chips aren’t selling well, yet another open source project has to deal with crawlers, TrueNAS goes Linux-only, and more.
News
Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia
Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure
Windows isn’t an OS, it’s a bad habit bordering on addiction
Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
Intel’s AI PC chips aren’t selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom
ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository
TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base
Fangtooth Unifies the TrueNAS Community
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1Password Extended Access Management
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Andy is convinced that functional programming isn’t boring. Listen to find out if he’s right!
Functional Programming & Haskell
Functional Programming & Haskell – Computerphile
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Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren’t quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane’s janky Kubernetes setup, and more.
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Crosswalks were comically vulnerable to being hacked, even Google struggles with tiered SSD and HDD storage, some insight into how AI scrapers are using domestic IPs, and creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.
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Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking
News/discussion
Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
How Colossus optimizes data placement for performance
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We were asked about creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.
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Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics manipulation, strange old audio archives, and more.
Discoveries
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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
News
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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We were asked about backing up the keys for encrypted backups.