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Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups.

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Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs

Investors threw 50% less money at quantum sector last year

Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true

Google has killed cached results in search

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In this episode:

• bcachefs debuted in Linux 6.7, and Martin has excitedly installed it on everything!
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• Alan helps someone with an Exodus of Bitcoin
  • Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle
• Mark has pulled the trigger on a new “home server”

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Gary’s recent trip to FOSDEM made him wonder if the type of Linux user who goes to FOSS events has changed. Has the demographic shifted more towards “normal” people who use Linux as a tool rather than something to tinker with? Plus more on planned obsolescence, and a quick prediction about the Apple Vision Pro.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:40 — 24.1MB)

Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more.

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announcing freenginx.org

Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software

OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns

Fast Dedup is a Valentines Gift to the OpenZFS and TrueNAS Communities

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How we’d give away a million dollars, the oldest movies we’ve watched enough times to quote, and where and when we’d time travel to. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.

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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.

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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.

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IT consultant in Germany fined for exposing shoddy security

Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain

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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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