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The challenges of funding open source software projects, how Netflix uses FreeBSD in a positive way, why you shouldn’t try to complicate your monitoring, and running servers in a small residence.



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Why Is Everyone Stuck on FreeBSD 13?



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Netflix Case Study















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Microsoft really wants you to update your Exchange server, our thoughts on immutable distros, more on Jim’s approach to internet access for his kids, restricting access to servers on a corporate network, and cloning and backing up operating systems with ZFS.



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OpenZFS User and Developer Summit 2026: October 27-30



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Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers

















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Some of the ways you can mitigate the ridiculous hardware prices, and designing a small business LAN.



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FreeBSD’s Release Cycle: What It Means for Your Upgrade Schedule



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We were asked about designing a small business LAN.

















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A BGP hijack involved some basic errors, Microsoft teaches people to ignore warnings in Windows, Zoom appears to be reading the clipboard on X11, why a non-US open certificate authority is feasible in theory, and keeping a NAS powered on as little as possible.



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News/discussion

BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all

Windows bug incorrectly tells users that Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard



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What to read into a study of long-term Backblaze hard drive failure data, why the difference between TB and TiB matters, and what to do about an overheating host bus adapter.



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ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture



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Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST

Changing Language for Storage Capacity



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