The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import.

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Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation

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Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation

TikTok video pre-loads cause ‘massive data wastage’

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We were asked about dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import.

Importing corrupted pool causes PANIC

Klara added additional diagnostics to ZFS to help investigate this issue, that shipped as part of 2.3.4

Klara also has a work-around to get past the errors, but it is likely to result in data loss if there are overlapping segments, or the leaking of free space when segments are not entirely removed (not to be attempted without a developer present)

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Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data centers and use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in production.

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Troubleshooting ZFS – Common Issues and How to Fix Them

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Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal

Nvidia and Intel’s $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch

OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors

Nvidia adds more air to the AI bubble with vague $100B OpenAI deal

The AI-energy apocalypse might be a little overblown

OpenAI’s Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

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Joe set up a FreeBSD box to serve as a replication target and it was surprisingly straightforward, if rather different from Linux. Plus the lies that storage tells us.

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Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn’t seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting provider thinks they are better than Cloudflare at blocking malicious traffic, a viral app turns out to be written by an enthusiastic dev who doesn’t understand best practices, and using S3 object storage outside of the cloud. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.

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Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown

Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows

Mythic Beasts will block Cloudflare IPs on shared hosting if abusive traffic gets through

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way

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We were asked about using S3 object storage outside of the cloud.

MinIO

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McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.

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How I Hacked McDonald’s

Seagate Uncovers Global Scheme That Sold 1 Million Used Drives as New

# smartctl -l farm /dev/sdx

Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing 

Woman gets 8 years for aiding North Koreans infiltrate 300 US firms

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We were asked about ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.

Introduction to ZFSBootMenu

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Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.

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ZFS Basecamp Launch: A Panel with the People Behind ZFS

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A new layer of security for certified Android devices

US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for

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Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays.

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FreeBSD Summer Roundup: Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure

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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference

Jim’s AI nightmare

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AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs.

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ZFS Summer Roundup: Smart Hardware Advice

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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 vs. Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 9950X3D Linux Performance Review

UK Government says delete old emails to save water

UK government to invest over £2 billion in the UK’s AI ecosystem

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The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening.

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We were asked about setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening.

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Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs.

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Discussion

It’s a mistake to over anthropomorphize LLMs, but it’s equally a mistake to *under* anthropomorphize them

Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI

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