Mastodon’s link previews are causing downtime for web servers without properly configured caching, locking down DNS inside Windows networks, why using write-once backup media is a bad idea, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.

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Mastodon delays firm fix to solve link preview DDoS

Mastodon Is DDoSing Me 

Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before

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We were asked about write-once backup media, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.

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How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different TVs, Jim’s alarming theory about AI malware, and encrypting offsite backups.

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Is your PC having trouble? Your smart TV might be to blame

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We were asked about encrypting offsite backups.

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ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess).

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How to upstream code to open source projects

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Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption

After years of testing, Seagate claims its heat-assisted HAMR drives are as reliable as traditional PMR storage

Seagate makes HDD price hikes, says AI caused demand spike

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We were asked about learning ZFS, and which filesystem to use for a single SSD.

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Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.

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Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine

Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive

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We were asked about disk queue schedulers in Linux.

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A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS.

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backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance for zvols

X fixes URL blunder that could enable social media phishing

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We were asked about adding SATA ports to a home NAS.

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Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog.

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Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

Telegram’s Peer-to-Peer Login system is a risky way to save $5 a month

Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users

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Kolide

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The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

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TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version

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Apple’s antitrust fight begins

US DOJ’s blockbuster lawsuit against Apple is headline grabber but poses limited near-term impact

Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted

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Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD

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Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images.

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An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices

Devs left with tough choices as Warner Bros. ends all Adult Swim Games downloads

Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”

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Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense.

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Roku disables players and TVs with attempt to coerce arbitration agreement

Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware

Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job

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We were asked about using jumbo frames on a network.

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The boss of Nvidia says kids don’t need to code because they can just use AI, companies sell their users’ data to train models, and why 2.5Gbps networking probably isn’t worth bothering with.

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Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI

Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

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We were asked about adding 2.5Gbps gear to your network.

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