Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 60

Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.   Discoveries Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert) open-apollo Ovine EndeavourOS               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   News/discussion HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that’s been widely criticized by astronomers Feels like all of us need to pay way more attention to the new rules affecting EU and US folk, requiring all new cars to include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face   Free consulting We were asked about picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Having seen some technologies come to a definite end, Chris wonders if we should be willing to draw a line under open source software sometimes.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right   News/discussion Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you’re in the EU Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now IncusOS Incus   Free consulting We were asked about configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.     News Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date OpenMandriva Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage KDE at 30                 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

With an increase in the number of security bugs being disclosed irresponsibly, we dig into how the process should work, the differences between normal bugs and security bugs, the complexities of coordinating patches, the human issues involved, and more.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Is the industry now better or worse than when we got into it?               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Native inotify in FreeBSD   Feedback Anker SOLIX EV Charger Adapter (For F3000, J1722 only) EcoFlow EV Charger to Portable Power Station Adaptor (SAE J1772 to 5P8 Port, 50A) WattCycle First-to-Market: WattLINK – EcoFlow Delta 2/3 Series PPS E     Free consulting We were asked about whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

The condiment we’d pick if we could only have one. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, May from Linux After Dark, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

A great example of accessibility features benefitting more than the target audience, a new version of the classic game Nethack, checking for bufferbloat, and Windows 10 limps on in discoveries. Then Félim’s question about the perceived value of open source goes in unexpected directions.   Discoveries quick drag Nethack 5 check your bufferbloat opnsense help Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here