January 28, 2022

63: Pulling the Rug Out

42 minutes

Alex has a new high-quality self-hosted music setup, and Chris solves complicated Internet problems.

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Google will shut down your free G Suite account — Google announced yesterday (Jan. 19) that all users of the G Suite "legacy free edition" would need to "to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription" by July 1, 2022 in order to keep using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and the Google office suite, including Docs, Sheets and Slides.

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Let's Encrypt is revoking lots of SSL certificates in two days — Let's Encrypt will begin revoking certain SSL/TLS certificates issued within the last 90 days due to a bug, starting January 28, 2022. The move could impact millions of active Let's Encrypt certificates.

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