Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn’t appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted backups.

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Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS

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Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

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IPv4 addresses are worth an awful lot of money, the serious dangers of a seemingly sensible deepfake law, Microsoft is 50 years old, and our thoughts on antivirus on Linux and Windows.

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Accurate and Effective Storage Benchmarking

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Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans

Congress close to passing deepfake law—Trump said he wants to use it himself

Microsoft is now 50 years old

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Jim’s server is getting hammered by AI scrapers and he’s big mad about it, why RCS doesn’t work on Android without Google apps, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.

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Network Offload and Socket Splicing (SO_SPLICE) in FreeBSD

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Jim hit by AI scrapers

Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

80% of Web Traffic Is Bots — The Hidden Cost of AI Scraping

Threat Spotlight: The good, the bad, and the ‘gray bots’ – the Gen AI scraper bots targeting your web apps

An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic

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We were asked about RCS on AOSP, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.

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Whether tech debt is inevitable and where the blame lies, how to properly organise ZFS datasets, and selectively managing updates.

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ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication

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The key differences between throughput and latency – and when they matter, the tech that we’d keep if we stopped working in IT, and avoiding bitrot with rsync backups.

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Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP

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RISC-V is on the rise in China, why Power CPUs aren’t as promising, the dystopian nightmare of surveillance tech at work, and  decrypting ZFS at boot.

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Understanding ZFS in the Real World: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned & Future Plans

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Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU design

Raptor Computing Systems

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral

Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You

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SysCloud

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Ten-year-old Chromecasts stop working, movie DVDs start rotting, Skype is finally dying, using ZFS on VM guests and hosts.

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ZFS Space Accounting Explained

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Google apologizes for Chromecast outage in email to users

“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases

Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams

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HP was forcing people to wait on hold for 15 minutes to get support, the DOGE site was embarrassingly insecure, setting up encrypted offsite backups, and mixing SATA and NVMe in a server.

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Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices

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HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to ‘feedback’

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website (archive.is)

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Factor

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Arm is going to make its own server chips, WordPress is selling “100 year” domain registrations, geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows to Backblaze B2.

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Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces

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Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry

The WordPress.com 100-Year Domain

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We were asked about geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows to Backblaze B2.

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 24

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DNSMadeEasy – Failover Service [Allan’s Affiliate Link]

Kopia

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RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery

SysCloud

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Google found a way to run unofficial microcode on AMD CPUs, whether software should get a CVE when it goes end of life, LLMs changing Redditors’ minds and self-replicating, and managing SSH keys at scale.

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ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots

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How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 from RDRAND

CVEs for End of Life?

OpenAI says its models are more persuasive than 82 percent of Reddit users

AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified

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