Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Why a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn’t want you to run Exchange Server on-prem, Google will finally stop being a proper search engine, setting up an email server for internal use, and mitigating DDoS attacks without Cloudflare.



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Tuning ZFS for Databases

Webinar: May 27th at 11am EDT: Database Performance on ZFS with Tom Lawrence



News/discussion

Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6

Exchange Server zero-day vulnerability can be triggered by opening a malicious email

Google Search as you know it is over



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Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.



News

LVFS Sponsorship Announcement

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own

Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?

‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit

Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos

DirtyCBC: When Linux Kernel Decrypt-Before-MAC Turns Authenticated Encryption Into a Page-Cache Write



















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Andy has been taking the One Billion Row Challenge, and has been thinking about the broader question of what makes software fast.



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We get into some homelab updates. Sean has been consolidating hardware, Gary has been implementing high availability with Proxmox, and Shane has been working hard to get Home Assistant working with Kubernetes, as well as downloading YouTube videos.



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People trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave someone’s domain name away, and when and how to fix ZFS fragmentation.



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Fast Dedup Economics: When Deduplication Beats Buying New Disks



News/discussion

Toshiba refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty — company offers refund at the purchase price, not the higher current retail price

GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation



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