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Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta’s new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the inside details of a new mixed-disk-size ZFS RAID feature, and moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link.

 

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The Overlooked Complexity of Firmware Security in the IoT Era

 

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Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

Introducing ZFS AnyRaid, Sponsored by Eshtek

 

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Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.

 

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What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (So You Don’t Have To)

 

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O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call

Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 – Let’s Encrypt

VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them

 

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We were asked about connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.

SAS Expanders, Build Your Own JBOD DAS Enclosure and Save – Iteration 1

 

 

 

 

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TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there’s a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn’t make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature.

 

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Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter

 

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TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base

FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

ZFS raw-send corruption bug fixed

5 things I regret about using my Raspberry Pi as a NAS

 

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The basic computer science problems that still remain unsolvable, why you shouldn’t trust AI to tune ZFS (or answer any admin questions), and setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.

 

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Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS

 

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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

 

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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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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

 

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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

The web is broken, IMHO

 

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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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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

Microsoft is now 50 years old

 

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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

 

News

Jim hit by AI scrapers

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

Threat Spotlight: The good, the bad, and the ‘gray bots’ – the Gen AI scraper bots targeting your web apps

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.

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Whether tech debt is inevitable and where the blame lies, how to properly organise ZFS datasets, and selectively managing updates.

 

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ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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