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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

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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

 

 

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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

 

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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.

 

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

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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

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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

 

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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

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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

 

 

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Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux servers, and you’ll never guess what Jim and Allan recommend for easily rolling back updates.

 

Plugs

ZFS Developer job description

Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve

Support us on patreon

 

News

Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support—what you need to know

If you’re using older, vulnerable Cisco small biz routers, throw them out

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about antivirus on Linux servers, and easily rolling back updates.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux

Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools for Linux best practices

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint

 

 

 

 

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The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu desktop, and when you should have passwords on your SSH keys.

 

Plugs

ZFS Developer job description

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News/discussion

How are we improving Firefox snap performance? Part 1

 

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We were asked about passwords on SSH keys.

 

 

 

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Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be automated, what to do with SMR drives, and more.

 

Plugs

ZFS Developer job description

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News

Freeing up of hundreds of millions of IPv4 addresses proposed

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 splashes down on Win Server 2022

Massive podcast outage caused by Spotify’s failure to renew security certificate

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about making use of SMR drives, and tuning ZFS

 

 

 

 

Kolide

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A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and perfect use case for WireGuard.

 

Discussion

Jim has been testing Bhyve

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about connecting home and small business networks, and choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server.