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The one bit of advice we’d give to someone wanting to become a professional sysadmin. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Apple deletes a person’s entire digital life, PornHub Premium user data is leaked, Mozilla’s new CEO wants to ruin Firefox, Tech Force in the USA is alarming, and fine tuning storage for databases.

 

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Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?

 

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20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data

Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Rest assured, Firefox will always remain a browser built around user control

Tech Force

Trump administration launches Tech Force hiring push

 

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The Crucial brand of consumer SSDs and RAM is going away, AMD and Intel memory encryption can be bypassed with cheap hardware, more AI buffoonery, and monitoring users’ usage on a network.

 

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When RAID Isn’t Enough: ZFS Redundancy Done Right

 

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Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

Cheap Hardware Module Bypasses AMD, Intel Memory Encryption

Google’s vibe coding platform deletes entire drive

One day, AI might be better than you at surfing the web. That day isn’t today

 

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We were asked about monitoring users’ usage on a network.

 

 

 

 

 

Tailscale

Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.

 

 

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What a government crackdown on VPNs would look like, malware groups play the long game with browser extensions, a new major version of FreeBSD is released, and using a single database vs one DB per application or VM.

 

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ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization

 

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The VPN panic is only getting started

Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement

 

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Google kept collecting sensor data even after bricking Nest thermostats, FreeBSD’s container support gets serious, and where to find cheap (or even dirt cheap) used hardware.

 

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How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI

December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats

 

News/discussion

Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats

FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3

 

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We were asked about where to find cheap (or even dirt cheap) used hardware.

 

 

 

 

 

Tailscale

Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.

 

 

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Windows is becoming an “agentic OS”, some WD SMR drives are dying prematurely, backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted devices on your network.

 

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Understanding Storage Performance Metrics

December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats

 

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Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data

WD launches investigation into problems with its controversial SMR hard drives

 

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We were asked about backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted devices on your network.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Allan tells us about the recent OpenZFS Summit including inconsistent JBODs, more details about mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard that allows you to keep using partially dead hard drives, Seagate’s roadmap for 50 and 100 TB drives, and NVMe connected mechanical drives. Plus using a separate mini PC for work.

 

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Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS

December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats

 

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We were asked about using a separate mini PC for work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.

 

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Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks

November Webinar: ZFS Mastery: The Bits They Don’t Put in the Man Pages

 

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Do Refurbished Hard Disks Make Sense For Your Home NAS Server?

Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve

Jim’s M.2 NVMe nightmare

 

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We were asked about using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.

 

 

 

 

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Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster.

 

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Discussion

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

When a decompression ZIP bomb meets ZFS: 19 PB written on a 15 TB disk

 

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It looks like the storage companies aren’t betting on the AI bubble lasting much longer, the arguments against self-hosting, and setting up a server for virtualization and containers.

 

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ZFS Performance Tuning in the Real World: ARC, L2ARC, and SLOG

 

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Expect HDD, SSD shortages as AI rewrites the rules of storage hierarchy — multiple companies announce price hikes, too

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

 

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We were asked about setting up a server for virtualization and containers.