2.5 Admins 02: Updating to Arm

Our thoughts on DNS-over-HTTPS, whether Arm is about to take over, HDD advice, and automatic updates and reboots.

 

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Check out Joe’s light-hearted podcast The New Show

Jim will be speaking at Open Source 101 At Home

 

News

Surreptitiously Swapping SMR into Hard Drive Lines Must Stop

Canada’s .ca overlord rolls out free privacy-protecting DNS-over-HTTPS service for folks in Great White North

Paul Vixie on DoH @ vBSDCon 2019

Paul Vixie: DNS Wars: Episode IV: A New Bypass @ EuroBSDCon 2019

The rumor that just won’t die: Apple to keep Intel at Arm’s length in 2021 with launch of ‘A14-powered laptops’

Making macOS run well on ARM processors isn’t the hard part

What is ARM Morello

ARM backs the CHERI project

 

Free Consulting

Frank wrote in to ask advice on which HDDs to buy, and Jake was curious about automatic updates and reboots.