Ask The Hosts – Episode 40

Chris needs a solution for his family to watch ripped media while travelling, and Gary has a complex but cool travel network setup.                   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.

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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Send us an email   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   Free consulting We were asked about keeping a NAS powered on as little as possible.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Pop culture phenomena that passed us by, and how long it’s acceptable to wait before replying to a message. With Félim, Gary, Jim, and special guest Shane from Linux Lads.            

Audacity’s new major release makes it more like a proper digital workstation, Debian finally gets off the genAI fence and disappoints some of us, California exempts Linux from terrible age verification laws, and Asahi boots on M3 Macs. With guest host Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.   News Audacity 4 Debian Votes To Allow “Responsible Use Of Generative AI” Results for LLM usage in Debian Retiring from the Project (vv221) California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3)                       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

Andy recently wrote that product quality is proportional to attention and code quality is inversely proportional to pressure. Is he right?               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

Sean wonders about the best way to build a new platform and how opinionated it should be, and then Aaron and Shane think about buying a UPS.               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     Subscribe to the RSS feed.

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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes ZFS vs Ceph: Choosing the Right Storage Architecture   News/discussion 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   Free consulting We were asked about an overheating host bus adapter.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

KDE has a new proper LTS and Joe is very interested, the Steam Frame is (really) nearly here, the Epic Games Store is coming to Linux, Nintendo continues to play whack-a-mole with Switch emulators, and GitHub’s serious scaling issues are getting ridiculous.   News/discussion What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04 Kubuntu Focus, Techpaladin Software, and KDE e.V. Announce the ‘bullet-proof’ KDE Software Initiative New Frame welcome videos pushed to Steam Store assets Epic Games Store Will Support Linux “Soon” Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera! The August 17 GitHub outage, and the work ahead                 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

It’s the ten year old computer challenge! Can we daily drive a desktop or laptop from 2016? There’s only one way to find out! Mike’s shitpost                     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.

A TV station struggles to retrieve its data from the data centre company that a defunct intermediary used, why we don’t want AI to manage our networks (even if Microsoft thinks we should), and understanding vdevs, and datasets in ZFS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes OpenZFS User and Developer Summit 2026 CfP is open until September 11 FreeBSD Security in Production: Vulnerability Response and Operational Best Practices   News/discussion Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane   Free consulting We were asked about pools, vdevs, and datasets in ZFS.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.