What the new Docker pull limits really mean and how to deal with them, and whether paying for 12 years of support for Kubernetes is a good idea.

Docker Hub pull usage and limits

Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS

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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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Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is a touch buggy, and more.

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Lumon Industries (Macrodata-Refinement)

Skies-ADSB

Home Assistant Voice PE

Casio F91W to 5000m underwater

Pi-hole v6

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It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana, Joe got ReactOS, Gary got GhostBSD, and Chris got Haiku.

Haiku Package Management

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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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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 24

gdnsd

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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The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin.

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Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

Passing the torch on Asahi Linux

[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself

On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.) – Theodore Ts’o

Terence Eden on young people in FOSS

Linux Dev Time – Episode 118

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

Amazon Kindles jailbroken

Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning

Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy

Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

Matrix is at a T junction

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We dig into the technical details of the Linux Kernel Rust drama.

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The best ways to implement geo-redundancy for containers and VMs using load balancers and Kubernetes, and moving 5TB of storage to the cloud.

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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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