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Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philosophical question, Jim’s frustrations with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system.

 

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FreeBSD History: Understanding the origins of DTrace

 

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Requiem for Google Reader, gone but not forgotten

Samsung’s Moon photos are fake — but so is a lot of mobile photography

How Samsung Galaxy Cameras Combine Super Resolution Technologies With AI Technology to Produce High-Quality Images of the Moon

 

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We were asked about connecting a POS system.

 

 

 

 

 

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.

 

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

 

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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Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers.

 

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FreeBSD vs Linux: Tracing and Troubleshooting

 

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Silicon Valley Bank collapses

Common equity capital chart

Man accidentally drove away in someone else’s tesla using the car’s app

 

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We were asked about filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers.

 

 

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

 

 

 

 

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Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker, why you really shouldn’t use a smart plug to powercycle your router, running SMB and NFS shares on the same host, why private keys should stay private, and using old hardware as a backup server.

 

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Klara Webinar: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit

 

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We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit

GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts

You Should[n’t] Be Using a Smart Plug to Restart Your Router

 

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We were asked about running SMB and NFS shares on the same host, why private keys should stay private, and using old hardware as a backup server.

 

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

 

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.

 

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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Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent LastPass breach, and setting up a DNS server in the cloud.

 

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Klara: ZFS Optimization Success Stories

 

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An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter

LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken

 

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We were asked about setting up a DNS server in the cloud.

 

 

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

 

 

 

 

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Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don’t use Btrfs, and getting notifications for your monitoring.

 

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Klara Sysadmin Series: How to catch a bitcoin miner

 

News/discussion

Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software

Comcast gave false map data to FCC—and didn’t admit it until Ars got involved

 

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We were asked about getting notifications for your monitoring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

 

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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Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering spam, and organising data with backups in mind.

 

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Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit

 

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Bing is having bizarre emotional breakdowns and there’s a subreddit with examples

Alphabet stock price drops after Google Bard launch blunder

Microsoft classifies own emails as junk

 

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We were asked about organising data with backups in mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy cameras, why Jim and Allan won’t be active on Mastodon any time soon, and how we set up servers in a few minutes.

 

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Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit

 

News/discussion

US school runs lights 24/7/365: The smart lights have been broken since 2021

This is why your DNS queries now have random capitalization

Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras

 

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We were asked about how we set up servers in a few minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3Xfbsct

 

 

 

 

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Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a mail server.

 

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Auditing for Storage Performance

 

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WhatsApp accounts takeover

Perfectly Good MacBooks From 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock

 

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We were asked about setting up a mail server.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying to be your own bank, and separating legacy WiFi devices from modern ones.

 

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OpenZFS: Data Security vs Integrity

 

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Why Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You Think

Years late and 36 cores short of AMD, who are Intel’s 4th-gen Xeons even for?

 

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We were asked about separating legacy WiFi devices from modern ones.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3Xfbsct

 

 

 

 

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A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake SSDs on Amazon, and IP schemes vs internal DNS.

 

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FreeBSD vs Linux: Package Management

 

News

FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file

The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good

ZFSBootMenu

Why the Heck Is Amazon Selling These Fake 16 Terabyte Portable SSD Drives?

 

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We were asked about IP schemes.