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A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem.

 

Plugs

Support us on patreon

EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe

 

News

Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server

Microsoft EU cloud revisions just so happen to exclude Google, Amazon

Google Play rule change disallows ad-blocking VPN apps

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about solving a DNS over HTTPS problem.

 

 

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

 

 

 

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The pros and cons of  using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro.

 

News/discussion

The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

 

Feedback

A few people wanted Allan and Jim to answer the same question that was discussed on Linux After Dark 23:

In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line?

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about firewall distros.

Configure CARP

 

 

 

 

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.

 

 

 

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Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises.

 

Plugs

Support us on patreon

EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe

 

News

Amazon to acquire Roomba robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion

Gmail is now officially allowed to spam-proof politicians’ emails

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about commissioning new drives, and ZFS scrubs.

 

 

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

 

 

 

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Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

 

Plugs

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News

It’s time to leave the leap second in the past

Meta thinks Facebook may need more “harmful health misinformation”

Electronics are built with death dates. Let’s not keep them a secret

Too Many Servers Could Mean No New Homes in Parts of the UK

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about separating databases from applications, and how to pick a DB in the first place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

 

Plugs

Support us on patreon

 

News

Linux x86 32-bit Is Vulnerable To Retbleed But Don’t Expect It To Get Fixed

Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade

Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter

Atlassian reveals critical flaws across its product line

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about ZFS snapshots, and Proxmox performance.

Jim’s Twitter thread about ZFS config in Proxmox

 

 

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

 

 

 

 

 

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Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency.

 

Plugs

Contributing to Open Source: Beyond Software Development

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News/discussion

GitHub Copilot

Linux Downtime – Episode 51

Why can’t Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs pass the bar exam? Blame the E-cores

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about database VM snapshot consistency.

 

 

 

 

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More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more.

 

Plugs

Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting started with bhyve

Support us on patreon

 

Things mentioned:

End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (selected models)

Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers

FreeIPA

Sophos

Icinga

InfluxDB

Graphite

Grafana

VictoriaMetrics

Bufferbloat Test by Waveform

A review of Monitor-IO

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

 

 

 

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A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS.

 

Plugs

From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1 

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News

PSA: buyer beware on “WaterPanther” drives

Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones

Rogers restores service for ‘vast majority’ of customers after massive outage

Rogers outage points to need for greater oversight of critical industry
After massive Rogers outage, Government of Canada to force telecoms to help each other in emergencies

Apple expands commitment to protect users from mercenary spyware

Why Lockdown mode from Apple is one of the coolest security ideas ever

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about hostnames and DNS.

 

 

 

 

 

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Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more.

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

 

 

 

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The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more.

 

Plugs

ZFS Developer job description

Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve

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Discussion

Public iPerf3 servers

DSLReports

MTR

fast.com

 

Feedback

OpenZFS on Windows

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about monitoring servers at scale.

Nagios

Zabbix

LibreNMS