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Supermarkets found out why their fridges shouldn’t be on the Internet and Samsung smart fridges broke after a firmware update, why we don’t recommend MoCA, some tips for running ethernet cables in your house, and why it’s fine to use a short TTL with your domains.
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Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 2
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Google offers a few pennies to web publishers to make up for stealing their content and not sending them any traffic, the tech we’d try to use after the apocalypse, why Jim doesn’t virtualise his clients’ desktops, and setting up Volume Shadow Copy so your users can restore their own files.
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FreeBSD: The Hidden Cost of Upgrading in Production
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Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
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The challenges of funding open source software projects, how Netflix uses FreeBSD in a positive way, why you shouldn’t try to complicate your monitoring, and running servers in a small residence.
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Why Is Everyone Stuck on FreeBSD 13?
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Microsoft really wants you to update your Exchange server, our thoughts on immutable distros, more on Jim’s approach to internet access for his kids, restricting access to servers on a corporate network, and cloning and backing up operating systems with ZFS.
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OpenZFS User and Developer Summit 2026: October 27-30
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Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
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Some of the ways you can mitigate the ridiculous hardware prices, and designing a small business LAN.
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FreeBSD’s Release Cycle: What It Means for Your Upgrade Schedule
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We were asked about designing a small business LAN.
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A BGP hijack involved some basic errors, Microsoft teaches people to ignore warnings in Windows, Zoom appears to be reading the clipboard on X11, why a non-US open certificate authority is feasible in theory, and keeping a NAS powered on as little as possible.
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BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all
Windows bug incorrectly tells users that Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off
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We were asked about keeping a NAS powered on as little as possible.
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What to read into a study of long-term Backblaze hard drive failure data, why the difference between TB and TiB matters, and what to do about an overheating host bus adapter.
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ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture
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Changing Language for Storage Capacity
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We were asked about an overheating host bus adapter.
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A TV station struggles to retrieve its data from the data centre company that a defunct intermediary used, why we don’t want AI to manage our networks (even if Microsoft thinks we should), and understanding vdevs, and datasets in ZFS.
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OpenZFS User and Developer Summit 2026 CfP is open until September 11
FreeBSD Security in Production: Vulnerability Response and Operational Best Practices
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Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane
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We were asked about pools, vdevs, and datasets in ZFS.
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Microsoft claims that Windows 11 will work well with 8GB of RAM, some of the innovations coming to high end SSDs, the arguments for TP-Link Omada over Ubiquiti UniFi.
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FreeBSD Support: Greatest Hits
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Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11
Windows quality: an update on the commitment we made in March
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We were asked about the arguments for TP-Link Omada over Ubiquiti UniFi.