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What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web, why some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic password managers and regularly powercyling network gear, moving from Mercurial to Git, running old applications on modern Ubuntu, and more.

 

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Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance

 

News/discussion

How we’re building a browser when it’s supposed to be impossible

New BIOS updates attempt to keep Ryzen 7000X3D processors from frying themselves

 

Feedback

Pass

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about moving from Mercurial to Git, and running old applications on modern Ubuntu.

 

 

 

 

Factor

Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/25a40 and use code 25a40 to get 40% off your first box.

 

The Traceroute Podcast

Listen and subscribe to the new season of the Traceroute Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.  Check out the website.

 

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 not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be worried about public phone chargers, an “anti-ransomware” SSD, and monitoring ZFS with Zabbix.

 

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Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions: OpenZFS vs. The Rest

 

News

Vague warning about an Amazon compromise

Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised

Be Skeptical of FBI Warnings About Phone Chargers

Let’s take a closer look at these claims of anti-ransomware SSDs

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about monitoring ZFS with Zabbix.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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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The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drive innovation, Arm servers, and the Fediverse. Plus whether FreeBSD’s license has held it back, and generating SSL certificates on a router.

 

 

 

 

 

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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Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud outage locks some people out of their data, why we don’t talk much about Veeam, and running containers as root.

 

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Managing Disk Arrays on FreeBSD and TrueNAS

 

News

Google Drive quietly introduced (then pulled) a file creation limit for all users

HDD average life span misses 3-year mark in study of 2,007 defective drives

Users fume after My Cloud network breach locks them out of their data

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about running containers as root.

 

 

 

 

 

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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Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the importance of testing your backups, and we brainstorm a sysadmin’s version of a minimal password manager.

 

News/discussion

Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face

You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about rolling your own password manager.

 

 

 

 

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off at hellofresh.com/25admins50 using the promo code 25admins50

 

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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Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about the way the security research community is changing, and what server manufacturers we recommend.

 

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News

TikTok ban hearing: all the news on the US’s crackdown on the video platform

The ‘Insanely Broad’ RESTRICT Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok

Tesla Model 3 Hacked in Less Than 2 Minutes at Pwn2Own Contest

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about what server manufacturers we recommend.

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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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.

 

Plugs

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FreeBSD History: Understanding the origins of DTrace

 

News/discussion

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

 

Free Consulting

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.

 

Plugs

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FreeBSD vs Linux: Tracing and Troubleshooting

 

News

Silicon Valley Bank collapses

Common equity capital chart

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

 

Free Consulting

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.

 

Plugs

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Klara Webinar: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit

 

News/discussion

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

 

Free Consulting

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.

 

Plugs

Support us on patreon

Klara: ZFS Optimization Success Stories

 

News

An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter

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

 

Free Consulting

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