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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  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.  

End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA, and backing up your photos with encryption.   Plugs Evaluating FreeBSD-CURRENT for Production Use BSDCan 2022 – Online June 1-4th Support us on patreon   News “War upon end-to-end encryption”: EU wants Big Tech to scan private messages Broadcom to buy VMware on Thursday for ‘$60 billion’ Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison   Free Consulting We were asked about backing up photos with encryption. Stingle is a privacy-focused open source photo backup application Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management     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.  

More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives.   Plugs bhyve: the BSD hypervisor Support us on patreon   Feedback ubuntu/pool/main/b/bash Damaged ZFS filesystems can be more or less unrepairable   Free Consulting We were asked about open source Active Directory alternatives.     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.  

Another attempt to replace passwords, trying to solve the problem of write-once storage, and the unusual ways we manage our invoices.   Plugs EuroBSDCon CfP: September 15-18, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. Submit by May 25th Support us on patreon   News Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke Verbatim Launches Write-Once External SSD With 10-Year Warranty   Free Consulting We were asked about open source invoice software.       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.