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How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thoughts on crypto nonsense, and more.   Plugs Learning the Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell Support us on patreon   Feedback Twitter thread about optical media longevity Qubes OS   Free Consulting We were asked about exporting VMs.         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.  

Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror.   Plugs Build your own NAS, Part 2: Tuning Support us on patreon   News Elon Musk strikes deal to buy Twitter for $44bn Tweet from Rik Mills (Ubuntu & Kubuntu developer) Launchpad bug to remove ZFS-on-root from Ubiquity installer zsys removed from the 22.04 installer   Free Consulting We were asked about running setting up your own apt mirror.       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.  

Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containers, and cloud storage that isn’t quite as good as it sounds. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast.   Plugs Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Support us on patreon   News Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart homes   Feedback Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need Jottacloud   Free Consulting We were asked about  ZFS and multipath, and running Postgres with containers.         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 new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securing SSH keys when using Git. With guest host Dalton Durst from Linux After Dark.   Plugs Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation Support us on patreon   News OpenSSH 9.0 released At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage – in two weeks Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country Apple: What to do if you get an alert that an AirTag is with you AirGuard – AirTag protection Tom Scott video   Free Consulting We were asked about securing SSH keys when using Git.       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.    

CAPTCHAs in phishing attacks, Jim gets angry about Bitcoin propaganda in schools, and packet loss with UDP.   Plugs Tuning OpenZFS Record size Support us on patreon   Discussion How CAPTCHA puzzles cloak phishing page URLs in emails Jim gets mad about crypto propaganda in schools   Free Consulting We were asked about packet loss with UDP.     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.  

An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more.   Plugs Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1? Support us on patreon   News BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war The Fragile Open Source Ecosystem Isn’t Ready for ‘Protestware’ Okta Hack Exposes A Huge Hole In Tech Giant Security: Their Call Centers Microsoft: Lapsus$ Used Employee Account to Steal Source Code Lapsus$ found a spreadsheet of passwords as they breached Okta, documents show     Free Consulting We were asked about switches, and self-hosting DNS. Allan’s DNS Made easy affiliate link     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.  

SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works.   Plugs Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS Support us on patreon   News Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?   Free Consulting We were asked how to learn the inner workings of a mail server. Postfix, Virtual Domain Setup     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.  

Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid.   Plugs Controlling Resource Limits with RCTL in FreeBSD Support us on patreon   News Google makes second-largest acquisition ever: $5.4 billion for Mandiant Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity Internet backbone provider Lumen quits Russia Another Step Towards The Russian Splinternet Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left Cloudflare, Akamai defend decision to stay in Russia     Free Consulting We were asked about using Nagios with Sanoid. Reddit thread       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.  

How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.   Plugs NFS Sharing with ZFS Support us on patreon   Discussion Backups ‘no longer effective’ for stopping ransomware attacks Where Did I Put That File?   Free Consulting We were asked about the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.       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.  

Browser version numbers might break websites, Samsung’s bad crypto implementation, more on Mazda and Caddy, the FreeBSD init system, and keeping VMs in sync between the two physical hosts.   Plugs UNIX Philosophy: The ideas that made UNIX Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS Support us on patreon   News Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope? Samsung shipped ‘100m’ Android phones with flawed encryption   Free Consulting We were asked about the FreeBSD init system, and VMs in sync between the two physical hosts.   The FreeBSD Boot Process reboot -r on untrusted 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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.