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We break down the state of the pfSense changes and the red flags we see. Plus, we're joined by Wolfgang from Wolfgang's channel to dig into his homelab and much more.

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• Wolfgang's Channel - YouTube — Hi! My name is Wolfgang and I make videos about tech, Linux and computers.
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• Restricting ASRock Rack BMC to dedicated IPMI_LAN port only — During this process I came across a frustrating "bug" in the Asrock Rack BMC implementation. No matter the settings I gave the BMC it was getting two IP addresses. One on the IPMI_LAN port as expected in my management VLAN, and another on eth0 which is undesirable.
• Archive.org: opensense.com
• OPNsense.com - OPNsense.org — WIPO decides in favour of OPNsense
• pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction
• pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots Now Available
• New license types pfSense CE & Plus
• pfSense Plus Home+Lab is no longer available as a free download. TAC Subscription now required for CE upgrades.
• Addressing Changes to pfSense Plus Home+Lab — Today, we are announcing that the Home+Lab version of pfSense Plus, the commercial fork of the popular open-source firewall pfSense, is no longer available for free download.
• Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family — "I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff," a user said of Plex's Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.
• wESP32 — Wired ESP32 with PoE — The wESP32™ is an ESP32-based core board with wired Ethernet connectivity and power over Ethernet (PoE)
• ESP32-S3-BOX-3 Espressif Systems AIoT — The future Home Assistant voice hardware is shipping.
• Unifi Network - Setup Chromecast between VLANs
• Chromecast casting support across IP networks
• Inter-VLAN Casting with Chromecasts
• Jovian-NixOS — A set of packages and configurations for running NixOS on the Steam Deck.
• SSH 111 Boost Barn! — Thank you Boosters!
• Post-Show: Using NixOS as a router