Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of the best features you’ll get in the version of ZFS that ships with the new Ubuntu LTS, and backing up data from cloud services.
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Extending ZFS Performance Without Hardware Upgrades
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Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it’s encouraging experienced workers to leave
Your Windows update experience just got updated
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zfs-2.4.0
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Late Night Linux – Episode 384
05/05/2026 | 30 mins.
There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.
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Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late
SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations
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The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up
Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 149
03/05/2026 | 21 mins.
It’s yet another hot questions episode. Colour schemes, syntax highlighting, code patterns, fonts, and keyboards.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 55
01/05/2026 | 23 mins.
A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer.
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected
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2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics
30/04/2026 | 32 mins.
Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general, and changing the properties of existing ZFS pools.
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Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS
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How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks
Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord
Apple’s last tower topples… and the others will follow
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