Challenges and Recommendations for Consumer-Grade Long-Term Data Archival

Mastodon’s link previews are causing downtime for web servers without properly configured caching, locking down DNS inside Windows networks, why using write-once backup media is a bad idea, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.

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Mastodon delays firm fix to solve link preview DDoS

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Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before

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