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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 Support us on patreon   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     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.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.      

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 Support us on patreon   News/discussion GitHub Copilot Linux Downtime – Episode 51 Why can’t Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs pass the bar exam? Blame the E-cores   Free Consulting We were asked about database VM snapshot consistency.     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.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more.   Plugs Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting started with bhyve Support us on patreon   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 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.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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  Support us on patreon   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   Free Consulting We were asked about hostnames and DNS.       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.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more.       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.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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 Support us on patreon   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     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.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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         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.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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 Support us on patreon   News/discussion How are we improving Firefox snap performance? Part 1   Free Consulting We were asked about passwords on SSH keys.       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.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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 Support us on patreon   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 Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3LpQbqk   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.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.    

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.       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.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.