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Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn’t seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting provider thinks they are better than Cloudflare at blocking malicious traffic, a viral app turns out to be written by an enthusiastic dev who doesn’t understand best practices, and using S3 object storage outside of the cloud. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.

 

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Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown

Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows

Mythic Beasts will block Cloudflare IPs on shared hosting if abusive traffic gets through

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way

 

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McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.

 

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How I Hacked McDonald’s

Seagate Uncovers Global Scheme That Sold 1 Million Used Drives as New

# smartctl -l farm /dev/sdx

Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing 

Woman gets 8 years for aiding North Koreans infiltrate 300 US firms

 

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Introduction to ZFSBootMenu

 

 

 

 

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Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.

 

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ZFS Basecamp Launch: A Panel with the People Behind ZFS

 

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A new layer of security for certified Android devices

US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for

 

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Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays.

 

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FreeBSD Summer Roundup: Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure

 

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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference

Jim’s AI nightmare

 

 

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AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs.

 

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ZFS Summer Roundup: Smart Hardware Advice

 

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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 vs. Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 9950X3D Linux Performance Review

UK Government says delete old emails to save water

UK government to invest over £2 billion in the UK’s AI ecosystem

 

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The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening.

 

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Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs.

 

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It’s a mistake to over anthropomorphize LLMs, but it’s equally a mistake to *under* anthropomorphize them

Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI

 

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Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let’s Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses, and the differences between backup and production systems.

 

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Microsoft’s 19-hour Outlook outage exposes fragility in cloud infrastructure

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on July 14, 2025

We’ve Issued Our First IP Address Certificate

 

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To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration.

 

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Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS

Practical ZFS

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.

 

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Microsoft’s free updates for Windows 10 draw criticism

Denmark plans to thwart deepfakers by giving everyone copyright over their own features

Why I Stopped Using RAID on My Plex Media Server

 

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