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Tesla owners locked out of their cars, a Linux side-channel attack that enables DNS cache poisoning, why Jim doesn’t use Proxmox, and accessing KVM hosts from Windows.   Plugs Jim was on Late Night Linux twice, as well as Late Night Linux Extra. Support us on patreon   News Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage Server errors hit Tesla remote-control app Linux has a serious security problem that once again enables DNS cache poisoning   Free Consulting We were asked about why Jim doesn’t use Proxmox, and accessing KVM hosts from Windows.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

How some Swedish parents tried to take control of their kids’ education app, why you shouldn’t try to add magsafe to your phone, introducing the new shiny at work, Samba security, and more.   Plugs FreeBSD Papers We Love: Jails and Cloneable Network Stacks Support us on patreon   News/Discussion These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops   Free Consulting We were asked about monitoring, how junior admins can introduce new workflows in the face of resistance, and Samba security.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Categories: podcast  

Why the metaverse sounds terrible, Alder Lake benchmarks, revoking SSH keys, remote management of Windows machines, and more.   Plugs Looking towards the future: FreeBSD on RISC-V Support us on patreon   News Welcome to Meta Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: It’s a barn burner OpenZFS Developer Summit   Free Consulting We were asked about managing and revoking SSH keys, and remote management of Windows machines.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Categories: podcast

The Oculus Go is opened up, a potential addition to HTTPS, Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, testing ZFS backups, virtualising a firewall, and more.   Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online Advanced ZFS Snapshots – Holds and Clones Support us on patreon   News/Discussion John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset HTTPS Attestable: Remote, secure, verified enclaves proposed Intel Announces 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake” CPUs       Free Consulting We were asked about testing ZFS backups, and virtualising a firewall.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

The stupid notch on the new Macs, why Windows 11 had performance issues with AMD CPUs, why hibernation isn’t really a thing, and more.   Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online Understanding top(1) on FreeBSD Support us on patreon   News AMD and Microsoft release fixes for Ryzen slowdowns in Windows 11 Apple’s MacBook Pro is a GPU-shaped warning to Nvidia and AMD   Free Consulting We were asked about hibernation, and whether there’s a distro with a Linux kernel and a BSD userland.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

How not to steal and sell sensitive information, why ISPs shouldn’t try to sue Netflix, and the best way to set up wireless access points.   Plugs Webinar: Enterprise Certificate Management on FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 ET FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup Support us on patreon   News/Discussion FBI Arrests Navy Nuclear Engineer, Wife Accused of Selling Submarine Secrets S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from ‘Squid Game’   Free Consulting We were asked about setting up wireless access points to avoid lag-spikes.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

How Facebook’s services managed to go down for 6 hours, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now easier than ever to set up, and expanding a large capacity storage server.   Plugs Webinar: Enterprise Certificate Management on FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 ET All Things Open Manipulating a ZFS Pool from the Rescue System Support us on patreon   News Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know Update about the October 4th outage Animated graphic of Facebook BGP routes disappearing The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available     Free Consulting We were asked about expanding the storage in large capacity server.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Why RISC-V looks promising for the future, how the web switched to HTTPS by default, an interesting DoS method, and how mitigating ssh attacks has changed over the years.   Plugs RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block Support us on patreon   News/Discussion Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin   Free Consulting We were asked about SSH tarpits.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.      

A pretty serious flaw with Autodiscover that leaks email credentials, why Btrfs sucks for more than one disk, and the best hardware for a low-powered NAS.   Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available When to use a SLOG, and when not to Support us on patreon   News Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover bug leaks hundreds of thousands of domain credentials Microsoft knew of Exchange Autodiscover flaw five years ago Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem   Free Consulting We were asked about the best hardware for a low-powered NAS.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

What exactly constitutes WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, your feedback about time-based YouTube blocking, Optane in servers, and what sysadmins actually do.   Plugs Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP stack Support us on patreon   News/Discussion WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all   Free Consulting We were asked about Optane in servers, and what sysadmins actually do.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.