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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SysCloud

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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

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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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Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.

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Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS

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Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dealers swap, Seagate investigates

Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dozens of readers report suspected cases

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Windows 11 on devices that don’t meet minimum system requirements

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Klara: Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces

SysCloud

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We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.

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Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance

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Xbox beta tests support for massive amounts of external storage

Migrating away from bcachefs

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SysCloud

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An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.

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Klara Webinar, Feb 13th: RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery

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MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

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We were asked about tricky offsite backups, why Two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.

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Automox

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Microsoft didn’t control an important domain that it was using and end up red-faced, the dangers of using free VPN apps, a proof of concept exploit is out for last year’s SSH vulnerability, USB is getting slightly less confusing labels, and swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.

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Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft

VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network

PoC Exploit Released For OpenSSH Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

An updated USB logo will now mark the fastest docking stations

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

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