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A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups from a Windows machine.

 

Plugs

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iX and Klara – The Open Source Era is Upon Us

Your Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD’s rc

 

News

Drone attack Twitter thread

Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about pulling backups from a Windows machine.

cwRsync

Acrosync

 

 

 

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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SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more.

 

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the History of Package Management on FreeBSD

 

News/discussion

The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Mid-year Review

How Much RAM Do You Need in 2022?

Exploring Swap on FreeBSD

 

Feedback

Fastly

Gcore

Jetpack

A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute (pdf)

Paris Traceroute

How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr

TRex

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about sudo password security.

 

 

 

BorgBase

Manage all your Borg backup repositories in one place via web interface or API. Use promo code 25A to get 30% off your first year at BorgBase.com

 

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

 

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.

 

 

 

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How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS on Proxmox.

 

Plugs

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Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud

Allan and Wendell chat about ZFS data recovery

 

News

How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000

Announcing Turnstile, a user-friendly, privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about ZFS on Proxmox.

Klara Article: Jim on tuning ZFS recordsize

Jim’s Proxmox bug

 

 

 

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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Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches.

 

Discussion

The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about Power over Ethernet injectors vs PoE switches.

 

 

 

 

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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Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners.

With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin).

 

News/discussion

Blocking Kiwifarms

The modern OS desktop is a crime against humanity

Rick Astley has done more to prevent folks clicking on unknown links than all cyber security training combined

 

Free Consulting

We were asked for advice about backups for beginners.

IDrive

rsnapshot

 

 

 

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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Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches.

 

News/discussion

W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards

 

Free Consulting

We were asked what switches we recommend for enterprise.

 

 

 

 

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

 

Plugs

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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

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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.