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Andy Balaam joins us to talk about accepting contributions from devs with varying levels of experience. When to invest the time to mentor them, why documentation is important, how automated tools fit in, being willing to decline some contributions, dealing with companies vs individuals, and more.

Kolide

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:05 — 23.6MB)

Trying to report a security issue lands a consultant in trouble, a new take on the drop shipping scam, setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, choosing the right disk size, and more.

Plug

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News/discussion

IT consultant in Germany fined for exposing shoddy security

Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain

Free Consulting

We were asked about setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, and choosing the right disk size.

Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS

Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS

3.5″ internal drives sorted by price/TB

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:08 — 23.9MB)

In this episode:

• Mark is reading magazines with Libby and Calibre plugins.
• Alan is building Telegram for Asahi Linux.
• Martin is virtualising on an M2 Macbook with Lima

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We come up with our FOSS extremes. The funniest, the coolest, the cleverest, the most useful, the dullest, the most exciting, the most dangerous and problematic, the [something]est open source software.

Projects we mentioned:

alsamixer

Glow

Apache

nginx

HAProxy

Redis

VLC

Kodi

Nextcloud

Coreutils

Audacity

Asahi

Immich

antennapod

UniversalBlue

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 33:18 — 27.0MB)

Microsoft’s rudimentary error that allowed an attacker access to its executives’ emails, Pixel phones have another serious storage bug, hidden malware payload found at Ars Technica, and when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.

Plugs

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BSDCan 2024 – Call for papers

News

In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug

Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation

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We were asked about when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 22:18 — 18.1MB)

How we use AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, what they have done to the development industry, what might happen in the future, and the ethics of the whole thing. With guest host Linus.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:23 — 26.3MB)

Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the experience on the desktop, and what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.

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OpenZFS Best Practices: Part 2: File Serving and SANs

News/discussion

The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – and how IT squashed it

What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks

Free Consulting

We were asked about what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.

Xpenology

How can I use a PC to recover data when my Synology NAS malfunctions?

Automox

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:59 — 26.9MB)

In this episode:

• Alan is emulating SoundBlaster cards in FreeDOS on bare metal. Vogons
• Mark is planning for HP Microserver hardware failure
• Martin announces NeoFetch is dead, long live fastfetch, cpufetch, ramfetch, and onefetch,

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