More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives.

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bhyve: the BSD hypervisor

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Damaged ZFS filesystems can be more or less unrepairable

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We were asked about open source Active Directory alternatives.

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Another attempt to replace passwords, trying to solve the problem of write-once storage, and the unusual ways we manage our invoices.

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EuroBSDCon CfP: September 15-18, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. Submit by May 25th

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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

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We were asked about open source invoice software.

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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.

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Learning the Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell

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Twitter thread about optical media longevity

Qubes OS

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We were asked about exporting VMs.

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Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror.

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Build your own NAS, Part 2: Tuning

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Elon Musk strikes deal to buy Twitter for $44bn

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Launchpad bug to remove ZFS-on-root from Ubiquity installer

zsys removed from the 22.04 installer

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We were asked about running setting up your own apt mirror.

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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.

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Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS

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Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart homes

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Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need

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We were asked about  ZFS and multipath, and running Postgres with containers.

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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.

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Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation

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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

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CAPTCHAs in phishing attacks, Jim gets angry about Bitcoin propaganda in schools, and packet loss with UDP.

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Tuning OpenZFS Record size

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How CAPTCHA puzzles cloak phishing page URLs in emails

Jim gets mad about crypto propaganda in schools

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An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more.

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Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?

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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

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We were asked about switches, and self-hosting DNS.

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SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works.

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Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS

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Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs

New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?

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Postfix, Virtual Domain Setup

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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.

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Controlling Resource Limits with RCTL in FreeBSD

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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

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We were asked about using Nagios with Sanoid.

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