Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren’t quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane’s janky Kubernetes setup, and more.

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Crosswalks were comically vulnerable to being hacked, even Google struggles with tiered SSD and HDD storage, some insight into how AI scrapers are using domestic IPs, and creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.

Plugs

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Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking

News/discussion

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234

Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks

How Colossus optimizes data placement for performance

The web is broken, IMHO

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Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics manipulation, strange old audio archives, and more.

Discoveries 

POWKIDDY X55

ROCKNIX

undercut-f1

WebTUI

Astro Docs

Pinta 3.0

python-sh

Attention K-Mart Shoppers

Techmoan

r/LiminalSpace

The Conet Project

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What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.

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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

News

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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Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

News

Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds

Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution – Phoronix

The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is

Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download

Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

What’s new in APT 3.0

Getting Forked by Microsoft

The Day AppGet Died

KDE Korner

This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore

KWallet Now A Wrapper For Secret Service

Akademy Registration Now Open

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We’ve done hot takes episodes in the past but this is different, it’s hot questions. Would we rather have bad managers who can code or good managers who can’t? Too many comments or none? 80 columns or as long as you like? What editor do we use and why?

Vim for Fun or PeerTube version

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With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges of major cloud migrations.

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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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