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    <title>TechSNAP - Episodes Tagged with “Storage”</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 00:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
    <description>Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Every two weeks TechSNAP covers the stories that impact those of us in the tech industry, and all of us that follow it. Every episode we dedicate a portion of the show to answer audience questions, discuss best practices, and solving your problems.
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    <itunes:subtitle>Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. </itunes:subtitle>
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    <itunes:summary>Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast. Every two weeks TechSNAP covers the stories that impact those of us in the tech industry, and all of us that follow it. Every episode we dedicate a portion of the show to answer audience questions, discuss best practices, and solving your problems.
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  <title>430: All Good Things</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 00:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.
Plus our favorite features from Fedora 32, and why Wes loves DNF. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>It&#39;s a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.</p>

<p>Plus our favorite features from Fedora 32, and why Wes loves DNF.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="What&#39;s new in Fedora 32 Workstation" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-32-workstation/">What's new in Fedora 32 Workstation</a></li><li><a title="Fedora 32 ChangeSet" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/32/ChangeSet">Fedora 32 ChangeSet</a></li><li><a title="Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/linux-distro-review-fedora-workstation-32/">Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/428">TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check</a></li><li><a title="ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disks-two-filesystems-one-winner/">ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner</a></li><li><a title="Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/">Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight</a></li><li><a title="Find Jim on 2.5 Admins" rel="nofollow" href="https://2.5admins.com/">Find Jim on 2.5 Admins</a></li><li><a title="Find Wes on LINUX Unplugged" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/">Find Wes on LINUX Unplugged</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 1: First episode of TechSNAP (in 2011!)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7La9Z-XrCE">TechSNAP 1: First episode of TechSNAP (in 2011!)</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 300: End of the Allan and Chris era (2017)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/106026/2089-days-uptime-techsnap-300/">TechSNAP 300: End of the Allan and Chris era (2017)</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 301: Enter Dan and Wes " rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/106086/the-next-generation-techsnap-301/">TechSNAP 301: Enter Dan and Wes </a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 347: A Farewell to Dan" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/120317/a-farewell-to-dan-techsnap-347/">TechSNAP 347: A Farewell to Dan</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 348: Chris is back!" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/120687/server-neglect-techsnap-348/">TechSNAP 348: Chris is back!</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 389: Jim&#39;s first time as a guest" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128101/the-future-of-http-techsnap-389/">TechSNAP 389: Jim's first time as a guest</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 390: Jim&#39;s second guest appearance" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/390">TechSNAP 390: Jim's second guest appearance</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 393: Chris says goodbye" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128656/back-to-our-roots-techsnap-393/">TechSNAP 393: Chris says goodbye</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 395: Jim joins the show" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128941/the-acme-era-techsnap-395/">TechSNAP 395: Jim joins the show</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>It&#39;s a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.</p>

<p>Plus our favorite features from Fedora 32, and why Wes loves DNF.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="What&#39;s new in Fedora 32 Workstation" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-32-workstation/">What's new in Fedora 32 Workstation</a></li><li><a title="Fedora 32 ChangeSet" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/32/ChangeSet">Fedora 32 ChangeSet</a></li><li><a title="Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/linux-distro-review-fedora-workstation-32/">Linux distro review: Fedora Workstation 32</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/428">TechSNAP 428: RAID Reality Check</a></li><li><a title="ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disks-two-filesystems-one-winner/">ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner</a></li><li><a title="Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/">Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight</a></li><li><a title="Find Jim on 2.5 Admins" rel="nofollow" href="https://2.5admins.com/">Find Jim on 2.5 Admins</a></li><li><a title="Find Wes on LINUX Unplugged" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/">Find Wes on LINUX Unplugged</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 1: First episode of TechSNAP (in 2011!)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7La9Z-XrCE">TechSNAP 1: First episode of TechSNAP (in 2011!)</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 300: End of the Allan and Chris era (2017)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/106026/2089-days-uptime-techsnap-300/">TechSNAP 300: End of the Allan and Chris era (2017)</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 301: Enter Dan and Wes " rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/106086/the-next-generation-techsnap-301/">TechSNAP 301: Enter Dan and Wes </a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 347: A Farewell to Dan" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/120317/a-farewell-to-dan-techsnap-347/">TechSNAP 347: A Farewell to Dan</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 348: Chris is back!" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/120687/server-neglect-techsnap-348/">TechSNAP 348: Chris is back!</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 389: Jim&#39;s first time as a guest" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128101/the-future-of-http-techsnap-389/">TechSNAP 389: Jim's first time as a guest</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 390: Jim&#39;s second guest appearance" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/390">TechSNAP 390: Jim's second guest appearance</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 393: Chris says goodbye" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128656/back-to-our-roots-techsnap-393/">TechSNAP 393: Chris says goodbye</a></li><li><a title="TechSNAP 395: Jim joins the show" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/128941/the-acme-era-techsnap-395/">TechSNAP 395: Jim joins the show</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>428: RAID Reality Check</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2020 00:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We dive deep into the world of  RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>36:00</itunes:duration>
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  <description>We dive deep into the world of  RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.
Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>We dive deep into the world of  RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.</p>

<p>Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-worlds-fastest-processor-epyc-rome-7fx2-cpus">AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs</a></li><li><a title="AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=amd-epyc-7f52&amp;num=1">AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review</a></li><li><a title="Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/">Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight</a></li><li><a title="New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/new-cloudflare-tool-can-tell-you-if-your-isp-has-deployed-bgp-fixes/">New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes</a></li><li><a title="Is BGP safe yet?" rel="nofollow" href="https://isbgpsafeyet.com/">Is BGP safe yet?</a></li><li><a title="RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/">RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing</a></li><li><a title="Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer" rel="nofollow" href="https://trstringer.com/systemd-timer-vs-cronjob/">Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer</a></li><li><a title="systemd/Timers - ArchWiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers">systemd/Timers - ArchWiki</a></li><li><a title="systemd.time (Time format docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html">systemd.time (Time format docs)</a></li><li><a title="systemd.timer (Unit docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html">systemd.timer (Unit docs)</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>We dive deep into the world of  RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.</p>

<p>Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-worlds-fastest-processor-epyc-rome-7fx2-cpus">AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs</a></li><li><a title="AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=amd-epyc-7f52&amp;num=1">AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review</a></li><li><a title="Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/">Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight</a></li><li><a title="New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/new-cloudflare-tool-can-tell-you-if-your-isp-has-deployed-bgp-fixes/">New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes</a></li><li><a title="Is BGP safe yet?" rel="nofollow" href="https://isbgpsafeyet.com/">Is BGP safe yet?</a></li><li><a title="RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/">RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing</a></li><li><a title="Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer" rel="nofollow" href="https://trstringer.com/systemd-timer-vs-cronjob/">Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer</a></li><li><a title="systemd/Timers - ArchWiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers">systemd/Timers - ArchWiki</a></li><li><a title="systemd.time (Time format docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html">systemd.time (Time format docs)</a></li><li><a title="systemd.timer (Unit docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html">systemd.timer (Unit docs)</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>425: Ryzen Gets Real</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/95197d05-40d6-4e68-8e0b-2f586ce8dc55/fc127e6a-cc96-408c-ae38-8049074a8f34.mp3" length="23682530" type="audio/mp3"/>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We take a look at AMD's upcoming line of Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs, and share our first impressions of Ubuntu 20.04's approach to ZFS on root.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>32:53</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>We take a look at AMD's upcoming line of Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs, and share our first impressions of Ubuntu 20.04's approach to ZFS on root. 
Plus Let's Encrypt's certificate validation mix-up, Intel's questionable new power supply design, and more. 
</description>
  <itunes:keywords>Let's Encrypt, Boulder, Go, HTTPS, TLS, CAA, DNS, ACME, automation, Intel, AMD, Ryzen, Ryzen 4000, laptop, mobile processors, CPU, GPU, computer hardware, gaming, integrated graphics, graphics, battery life, Lenovo, Ryzen Mobile, ATX12VO, power supply, PSU, motherboard, electronics, iXsystems, TrueNAS, FreeNAS, TrueNAS Core, ZFS, fusion pools, storage, zsys, 20.04, Ubuntu, Canonical, snapshots, APT, sanoid, DevOps, TechSNAP, Jupiter Broadcasting, A Cloud Guru, Linux Academy, sysadmin podcast, </itunes:keywords>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We take a look at AMD&#39;s upcoming line of Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs, and share our first impressions of Ubuntu 20.04&#39;s approach to ZFS on root. </p>

<p>Plus Let&#39;s Encrypt&#39;s certificate validation mix-up, Intel&#39;s questionable new power supply design, and more.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Let&#39;s Encrypt changes course on certificate revocation" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/lets-encrypt-holds-off-on-revocation-of-certificates/">Let's Encrypt changes course on certificate revocation</a></li><li><a title="Revoking certain certificates on March 4" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/revoking-certain-certificates-on-march-4/114864">Revoking certain certificates on March 4</a></li><li><a title="Let&#39;s Encrypt: Incomplete revocation for CAA rechecking bug" rel="nofollow" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619179#c7">Let's Encrypt: Incomplete revocation for CAA rechecking bug</a></li><li><a title="Pass authzModel by value, not reference" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/pull/4690/files#diff-2285b0268539881fde96d9928ecef358R1412">Pass authzModel by value, not reference</a></li><li><a title="The Complete Guide to CAA Records" rel="nofollow" href="https://jasonofflorida.com/the-complete-guide-to-caa-records/">The Complete Guide to CAA Records</a></li><li><a title="DNS Certification Authority Authorization" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_Certification_Authority_Authorization">DNS Certification Authority Authorization</a></li><li><a title="AMD&#39;s 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors are finally here" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/amds-7nm-ryzen-4000-laptop-processors-are-finally-here/">AMD's 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors are finally here</a></li><li><a title="How Intel is changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.pcworld.com/article/3518831/how-intels-changing-the-future-of-power-supplies-with-its-atx12vo-spec.html">How Intel is changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec</a></li><li><a title="Single Rail Power Supply ATX12VO Design Guide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/guides/single-rail-power-supply-platform-atx12vo-design-guide.pdf">Single Rail Power Supply ATX12VO Design Guide</a></li><li><a title="FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/">FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying</a></li><li><a title="FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying [Video Announcement]" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gK2g8g0btI">FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying [Video Announcement]</a></li><li><a title="Ubuntu 20.04&#39;s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/ubuntu-20-04s-zsys-adds-zfs-snapshots-to-package-management/">Ubuntu 20.04's zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management</a></li><li><a title="ubuntu/zsys: zsys daemon and client for zfs systems" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys">ubuntu/zsys: zsys daemon and client for zfs systems</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We take a look at AMD&#39;s upcoming line of Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs, and share our first impressions of Ubuntu 20.04&#39;s approach to ZFS on root. </p>

<p>Plus Let&#39;s Encrypt&#39;s certificate validation mix-up, Intel&#39;s questionable new power supply design, and more.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Let&#39;s Encrypt changes course on certificate revocation" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/lets-encrypt-holds-off-on-revocation-of-certificates/">Let's Encrypt changes course on certificate revocation</a></li><li><a title="Revoking certain certificates on March 4" rel="nofollow" href="https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/revoking-certain-certificates-on-march-4/114864">Revoking certain certificates on March 4</a></li><li><a title="Let&#39;s Encrypt: Incomplete revocation for CAA rechecking bug" rel="nofollow" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619179#c7">Let's Encrypt: Incomplete revocation for CAA rechecking bug</a></li><li><a title="Pass authzModel by value, not reference" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/pull/4690/files#diff-2285b0268539881fde96d9928ecef358R1412">Pass authzModel by value, not reference</a></li><li><a title="The Complete Guide to CAA Records" rel="nofollow" href="https://jasonofflorida.com/the-complete-guide-to-caa-records/">The Complete Guide to CAA Records</a></li><li><a title="DNS Certification Authority Authorization" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_Certification_Authority_Authorization">DNS Certification Authority Authorization</a></li><li><a title="AMD&#39;s 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors are finally here" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/amds-7nm-ryzen-4000-laptop-processors-are-finally-here/">AMD's 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors are finally here</a></li><li><a title="How Intel is changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.pcworld.com/article/3518831/how-intels-changing-the-future-of-power-supplies-with-its-atx12vo-spec.html">How Intel is changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec</a></li><li><a title="Single Rail Power Supply ATX12VO Design Guide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/guides/single-rail-power-supply-platform-atx12vo-design-guide.pdf">Single Rail Power Supply ATX12VO Design Guide</a></li><li><a title="FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/freenas-truenas-unification/">FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying</a></li><li><a title="FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying [Video Announcement]" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gK2g8g0btI">FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying [Video Announcement]</a></li><li><a title="Ubuntu 20.04&#39;s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/03/ubuntu-20-04s-zsys-adds-zfs-snapshots-to-package-management/">Ubuntu 20.04's zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management</a></li><li><a title="ubuntu/zsys: zsys daemon and client for zfs systems" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys">ubuntu/zsys: zsys daemon and client for zfs systems</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>423: Hopeful for HAMR</title>
  <link>https://techsnap.systems/423</link>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We explore the potential of heat-assisted magnetic recording and get excited about a possibly persistent L2ARC.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>29:36</itunes:duration>
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  <description>We explore the potential of heat-assisted magnetic recording and get excited about a possibly persistent L2ARC. 
Plus Jim's journeys with Clear Linux, and why Ubuntu 18.04.4 is a maintenance release worth talking about. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>We explore the potential of heat-assisted magnetic recording and get excited about a possibly persistent L2ARC. </p>

<p>Plus Jim&#39;s journeys with Clear Linux, and why Ubuntu 18.04.4 is a maintenance release worth talking about.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS: here&#39;s what&#39;s new" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/ubuntu-18-04-4-lts-released-wednesday-heres-whats-new/">Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS: here's what's new</a> &mdash; It's not as shiny and exciting as entirely new versions, of course, but it does pack in some worthwhile security and bugfix upgrades, as well as support for more and newer hardware.</li><li><a title="18.04.4 - Ubuntu Wiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/18.04.4">18.04.4 - Ubuntu Wiki</a></li><li><a title="MobaXterm" rel="nofollow" href="https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/">MobaXterm</a> &mdash; Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more.</li><li><a title="Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/linux-distro-review-intels-own-clear-linux-os/?comments=1">Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS</a> &mdash; There's not much question that Clear Linux is your best bet if you want to turn in the best possible benchmark numbers. The question not addressed here is, what's it like to run Clear Linux as a daily driver? We were curious, so we took it for a spin.</li><li><a title="Clear Linux* Project" rel="nofollow" href="https://clearlinux.org/">Clear Linux* Project</a> &mdash; Clear Linux OS is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution optimized for performance and security, from the Cloud to the Edge, designed for customization, and manageability.</li><li><a title="swupd — Documentation for Clear Linux* project" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/guides/clear/swupd.html">swupd — Documentation for Clear Linux* project</a></li><li><a title="clr-boot-manager: Kernel &amp; Boot Loader Management" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/clearlinux/clr-boot-manager">clr-boot-manager: Kernel &amp; Boot Loader Management</a></li><li><a title="Cannot compile zfs for 5.5-rc2 · Issue #9745 · zfsonlinux/zfs" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/9745">Cannot compile zfs for 5.5-rc2 · Issue #9745 · zfsonlinux/zfs</a></li><li><a title="Persistent L2ARC might be coming to ZFS on Linux" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/zfs-on-linux-should-get-a-persistent-ssd-read-cache-feature-soon/">Persistent L2ARC might be coming to ZFS on Linux</a> &mdash; The primary ARC is kept in system RAM, but an L2ARC device can be created from one or more fast disks. In a ZFS pool with one or more L2ARC devices, when blocks are evicted from the primary ARC in RAM, they are moved down to L2ARC rather than being thrown away entirely. In the past, this feature has been of limited value, both because indexing a large L2ARC occupies system RAM which could have been better used for primary ARC and because L2ARC was not persistent across reboots.</li><li><a title="Persistent L2ARC by gamanakis · Pull Request #9582 · zfsonlinux/zfs" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/9582">Persistent L2ARC by gamanakis · Pull Request #9582 · zfsonlinux/zfs</a> &mdash; This feature implements a light-weight persistent L2ARC metadata structure that allows L2ARC contents to be recovered after a reboot. This significantly eases the impact a reboot has on read performance on systems with large caches.</li><li><a title="LINUX Unplugged 303: Stateless and Dateless" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/303">LINUX Unplugged 303: Stateless and Dateless</a> &mdash; We visit Intel to figure out what Clear Linux is all about and explain a few tricks that make it unique.</li><li><a title="LINUX Unplugged Blog: Clear Linux OS 2019" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/articles/clear-linux-os-2019">LINUX Unplugged Blog: Clear Linux OS 2019</a></li><li><a title="HAMR don’t hurt ’em: laser-assisted hard drives are coming in 2020" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/hamr-dont-hurt-em-laser-assisted-hard-drives-are-coming-in-2020/">HAMR don’t hurt ’em: laser-assisted hard drives are coming in 2020</a> &mdash; Although the 2012 "just around the corner" HAMR drives seem to have been mostly vapor, the technology is a reality now. Seagate has been trialing 16TB HAMR drives with select customers for more than a year and claims that the trials have proved that its HAMR drives are "plug and play replacements" for traditional CMR drives, requiring no special care and having no particular poor use cases compared to the drives we're all used to.</li><li><a title="HAMR Milestone: Seagate Achieves 16TB Capacity on Internal HAMR Test Units" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/hamr-milestone-seagate-achieves-16tb-capacity-on-internal-hamr-test-units/">HAMR Milestone: Seagate Achieves 16TB Capacity on Internal HAMR Test Units</a></li><li><a title="Western Digital debuts 18TB and 20TB near-MAMR disk drives" rel="nofollow" href="https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/09/03/western-digital-18tb-and-20tb-mamr-disk-drives/">Western Digital debuts 18TB and 20TB near-MAMR disk drives</a></li><li><a title="Previously on TechSNAP 341: HAMR Time" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/341">Previously on TechSNAP 341: HAMR Time</a> &mdash; We've got bad news for Wifi-lovers as the KRACK hack takes the world by storm; We have the details &amp; some places to watch to make sure you stay patched. Plus, some distressing revelations about third party access to your personal information through some US mobile carriers. Then we cover the ongoing debate over HAMR, MAMR, and the future of hard drive technology &amp; take a mini deep dive into the world of elliptic curve cryptography.

</li></ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>We explore the potential of heat-assisted magnetic recording and get excited about a possibly persistent L2ARC. </p>

<p>Plus Jim&#39;s journeys with Clear Linux, and why Ubuntu 18.04.4 is a maintenance release worth talking about.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS: here&#39;s what&#39;s new" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/ubuntu-18-04-4-lts-released-wednesday-heres-whats-new/">Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS: here's what's new</a> &mdash; It's not as shiny and exciting as entirely new versions, of course, but it does pack in some worthwhile security and bugfix upgrades, as well as support for more and newer hardware.</li><li><a title="18.04.4 - Ubuntu Wiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/18.04.4">18.04.4 - Ubuntu Wiki</a></li><li><a title="MobaXterm" rel="nofollow" href="https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/">MobaXterm</a> &mdash; Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more.</li><li><a title="Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/linux-distro-review-intels-own-clear-linux-os/?comments=1">Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS</a> &mdash; There's not much question that Clear Linux is your best bet if you want to turn in the best possible benchmark numbers. The question not addressed here is, what's it like to run Clear Linux as a daily driver? We were curious, so we took it for a spin.</li><li><a title="Clear Linux* Project" rel="nofollow" href="https://clearlinux.org/">Clear Linux* Project</a> &mdash; Clear Linux OS is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution optimized for performance and security, from the Cloud to the Edge, designed for customization, and manageability.</li><li><a title="swupd — Documentation for Clear Linux* project" rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/guides/clear/swupd.html">swupd — Documentation for Clear Linux* project</a></li><li><a title="clr-boot-manager: Kernel &amp; Boot Loader Management" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/clearlinux/clr-boot-manager">clr-boot-manager: Kernel &amp; Boot Loader Management</a></li><li><a title="Cannot compile zfs for 5.5-rc2 · Issue #9745 · zfsonlinux/zfs" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/9745">Cannot compile zfs for 5.5-rc2 · Issue #9745 · zfsonlinux/zfs</a></li><li><a title="Persistent L2ARC might be coming to ZFS on Linux" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/zfs-on-linux-should-get-a-persistent-ssd-read-cache-feature-soon/">Persistent L2ARC might be coming to ZFS on Linux</a> &mdash; The primary ARC is kept in system RAM, but an L2ARC device can be created from one or more fast disks. In a ZFS pool with one or more L2ARC devices, when blocks are evicted from the primary ARC in RAM, they are moved down to L2ARC rather than being thrown away entirely. In the past, this feature has been of limited value, both because indexing a large L2ARC occupies system RAM which could have been better used for primary ARC and because L2ARC was not persistent across reboots.</li><li><a title="Persistent L2ARC by gamanakis · Pull Request #9582 · zfsonlinux/zfs" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/9582">Persistent L2ARC by gamanakis · Pull Request #9582 · zfsonlinux/zfs</a> &mdash; This feature implements a light-weight persistent L2ARC metadata structure that allows L2ARC contents to be recovered after a reboot. This significantly eases the impact a reboot has on read performance on systems with large caches.</li><li><a title="LINUX Unplugged 303: Stateless and Dateless" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/303">LINUX Unplugged 303: Stateless and Dateless</a> &mdash; We visit Intel to figure out what Clear Linux is all about and explain a few tricks that make it unique.</li><li><a title="LINUX Unplugged Blog: Clear Linux OS 2019" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/articles/clear-linux-os-2019">LINUX Unplugged Blog: Clear Linux OS 2019</a></li><li><a title="HAMR don’t hurt ’em: laser-assisted hard drives are coming in 2020" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/hamr-dont-hurt-em-laser-assisted-hard-drives-are-coming-in-2020/">HAMR don’t hurt ’em: laser-assisted hard drives are coming in 2020</a> &mdash; Although the 2012 "just around the corner" HAMR drives seem to have been mostly vapor, the technology is a reality now. Seagate has been trialing 16TB HAMR drives with select customers for more than a year and claims that the trials have proved that its HAMR drives are "plug and play replacements" for traditional CMR drives, requiring no special care and having no particular poor use cases compared to the drives we're all used to.</li><li><a title="HAMR Milestone: Seagate Achieves 16TB Capacity on Internal HAMR Test Units" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/hamr-milestone-seagate-achieves-16tb-capacity-on-internal-hamr-test-units/">HAMR Milestone: Seagate Achieves 16TB Capacity on Internal HAMR Test Units</a></li><li><a title="Western Digital debuts 18TB and 20TB near-MAMR disk drives" rel="nofollow" href="https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/09/03/western-digital-18tb-and-20tb-mamr-disk-drives/">Western Digital debuts 18TB and 20TB near-MAMR disk drives</a></li><li><a title="Previously on TechSNAP 341: HAMR Time" rel="nofollow" href="https://techsnap.systems/341">Previously on TechSNAP 341: HAMR Time</a> &mdash; We've got bad news for Wifi-lovers as the KRACK hack takes the world by storm; We have the details &amp; some places to watch to make sure you stay patched. Plus, some distressing revelations about third party access to your personal information through some US mobile carriers. Then we cover the ongoing debate over HAMR, MAMR, and the future of hard drive technology &amp; take a mini deep dive into the world of elliptic curve cryptography.

</li></ul>]]>
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  <title>417: Machine Learning Magic</title>
  <link>https://techsnap.systems/417</link>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/95197d05-40d6-4e68-8e0b-2f586ce8dc55/88c620a6-0b1c-4698-aac4-ac757b632286.mp3" length="19052274" type="audio/mp3"/>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We explore the rapid adoption of machine learning, its impact on computer architecture, and how to avoid AI snake oil.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>26:27</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/9/95197d05-40d6-4e68-8e0b-2f586ce8dc55/cover.jpg?v=4"/>
  <description>We explore the rapid adoption of machine learning, its impact on computer architecture, and how to avoid AI snake oil.
Plus so-so SSD security, and a new wireless protocol that works best where the Wi-Fi sucks. 
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  <itunes:keywords>OFNP,wireless,wifi,On-Off Noise Power Communication,LORA,WiFi 6,Ubiquiti ,Unifi,Amplifi,Amplifi Alien,mesh wifi,router,home networking,networking,wireless,ethernet,ASUS,AiMesh,OFDMA,Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access,SmallNetBuilder,Tim Higgins,SSD,storage,IEEE,encryption,cryptography,hardware encryption,BitLocker,LUKS,DBAN,hard disk,hard drive,storage,solid state,Secure Erase,ATA,security,machine learning,AI,artificial intelligence,artificial general intelligence,training,neural network,inference,drunkard's walk,Nvidia,Tesla V100,Matrix multiplication,linear algebra,supercomputers,NPU,TPU,Google,Jeffrey Dean,CPU,GPU,Chip Design,Deep Learning,Intel AVX512,Deep Learning Boost,OpenVINO,ResNet,i9-10980XE,Arvind Narayanan,AIExpert, DevOps, TechSNAP, Jupiter Broadcasting</itunes:keywords>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We explore the rapid adoption of machine learning, its impact on computer architecture, and how to avoid AI snake oil.</p>

<p>Plus so-so SSD security, and a new wireless protocol that works best where the Wi-Fi sucks.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="“Where the Wi-Fi sucks” is where a new wireless protocol does its magic" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/where-the-wi-fi-sucks-is-where-a-new-wireless-protocol-does-its-magic/">“Where the Wi-Fi sucks” is where a new wireless protocol does its magic</a></li><li><a title="Ubiquiti’s new “Amplifi Alien” is a mesh-capable Wi-Fi 6 router" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/ubiquitis-new-amplifi-alien-is-a-mesh-capable-wi-fi-6-router/">Ubiquiti’s new “Amplifi Alien” is a mesh-capable Wi-Fi 6 router</a></li><li><a title="Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2019/papers/310.pdf">Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives</a></li><li><a title="Securely erase a solid-state drive" rel="nofollow" href="https://kb.iu.edu/d/aiut">Securely erase a solid-state drive</a></li><li><a title="Solid state drive/Memory cell clearing - ArchWiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing">Solid state drive/Memory cell clearing - ArchWiki</a></li><li><a title="The Deep Learning Revolution and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design" rel="nofollow" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05289">The Deep Learning Revolution and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design</a></li><li><a title="Intel Core i9-10980XE—a step forward for AI, a step back for everything else" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/intel-core-i9-10980xe-a-step-forward-for-ai-a-step-back-for-everything-else/">Intel Core i9-10980XE—a step forward for AI, a step back for everything else</a></li><li><a title="How to recognize AI snake oil" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf">How to recognize AI snake oil</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>We explore the rapid adoption of machine learning, its impact on computer architecture, and how to avoid AI snake oil.</p>

<p>Plus so-so SSD security, and a new wireless protocol that works best where the Wi-Fi sucks.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="“Where the Wi-Fi sucks” is where a new wireless protocol does its magic" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/where-the-wi-fi-sucks-is-where-a-new-wireless-protocol-does-its-magic/">“Where the Wi-Fi sucks” is where a new wireless protocol does its magic</a></li><li><a title="Ubiquiti’s new “Amplifi Alien” is a mesh-capable Wi-Fi 6 router" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/ubiquitis-new-amplifi-alien-is-a-mesh-capable-wi-fi-6-router/">Ubiquiti’s new “Amplifi Alien” is a mesh-capable Wi-Fi 6 router</a></li><li><a title="Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2019/papers/310.pdf">Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives</a></li><li><a title="Securely erase a solid-state drive" rel="nofollow" href="https://kb.iu.edu/d/aiut">Securely erase a solid-state drive</a></li><li><a title="Solid state drive/Memory cell clearing - ArchWiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing">Solid state drive/Memory cell clearing - ArchWiki</a></li><li><a title="The Deep Learning Revolution and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design" rel="nofollow" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05289">The Deep Learning Revolution and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design</a></li><li><a title="Intel Core i9-10980XE—a step forward for AI, a step back for everything else" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/intel-core-i9-10980xe-a-step-forward-for-ai-a-step-back-for-everything-else/">Intel Core i9-10980XE—a step forward for AI, a step back for everything else</a></li><li><a title="How to recognize AI snake oil" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf">How to recognize AI snake oil</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>405: Update Uncertainty</title>
  <link>https://techsnap.systems/405</link>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/95197d05-40d6-4e68-8e0b-2f586ce8dc55/8a576c94-20cc-497c-9de7-8402cd0a1135.mp3" length="22166906" type="audio/mp3"/>
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  <itunes:author>Jupiter Broadcasting</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>We explore the risky world of exposed RDP, from the brute force GoldBrute botnet to the dangerously worm-able BlueKeep vulnerability.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>30:47</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
  <itunes:image href="https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/9/95197d05-40d6-4e68-8e0b-2f586ce8dc55/cover.jpg?v=4"/>
  <description>We explore the risky world of exposed RDP, from the brute force GoldBrute botnet to the dangerously worm-able BlueKeep vulnerability.
Plus the importance of automatic updates, and Jim's new backup box.  
</description>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We explore the risky world of exposed RDP, from the brute force GoldBrute botnet to the dangerously worm-able BlueKeep vulnerability.</p>

<p>Plus the importance of automatic updates, and Jim&#39;s new backup box. </p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Errata Security: Almost One Million Vulnerable to BlueKeep Vuln (CVE-2019-0708)" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/05/almost-one-million-vulnerable-to.html">Errata Security: Almost One Million Vulnerable to BlueKeep Vuln (CVE-2019-0708)</a> &mdash; Microsoft announced a vulnerability in it's "Remote Desktop" product that can lead to robust, wormable exploits. I scanned the Internet to assess the danger. I find nearly 1-million devices on the public Internet that are vulnerable to the bug. </li><li><a title="Even the NSA is urging Windows users to patch BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) | ZDNet" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-the-nsa-is-urging-windows-users-to-patch-bluekeep-cve-2019-0708/">Even the NSA is urging Windows users to patch BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) | ZDNet</a> &mdash; "[The] NSA is concerned that malicious cyber actors will use the vulnerability in ransomware and exploit kits containing other known exploits, increasing capabilities against other unpatched systems.

</li><li><a title="Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708) – MSRC" rel="nofollow" href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2019/05/14/prevent-a-worm-by-updating-remote-desktop-services-cve-2019-0708/">Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708) – MSRC</a> &mdash; This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. In other words, the vulnerability is ‘wormable’, meaning that any future malware that exploits this vulnerability could propagate from vulnerable computer to vulnerable computer in a similar way as the WannaCry malware spread across the globe in 2017</li><li><a title="BlueKeep - everyone agrees, you should patch PCs running legacy versions of Windows" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.grahamcluley.com/bluekeep-everyone-agrees-you-should-patch-pcs-running-legacy-versions-of-windows/">BlueKeep - everyone agrees, you should patch PCs running legacy versions of Windows</a> &mdash; I have this horrible feeling that the only way we’re going to wake the world up to the need to patch their ageing versions of Windows against the BlueKeep vulnerability is to wait until a malicious worm begins to spread around the world.

</li><li><a title="CVE-2019-0708 | Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability" rel="nofollow" href="https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0708">CVE-2019-0708 | Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability</a> &mdash; A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – when an unauthenticated attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests. This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the target system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

</li><li><a title="Customer guidance for CVE-2019-0708 | Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability" rel="nofollow" href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4500705/customer-guidance-for-cve-2019-0708">Customer guidance for CVE-2019-0708 | Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability</a> &mdash; Microsoft is aware that some customers are running versions of Windows that no longer receive mainstream support. That means those customers will not have received any security updates to protect their systems from CVE-2019-0708, which is a critical remote code execution vulnerability.

</li><li><a title="Forget BlueKeep: Beware the GoldBrute | Threatpost" rel="nofollow" href="https://threatpost.com/forget-bluekeep-beware-goldbrute/145482/">Forget BlueKeep: Beware the GoldBrute | Threatpost</a> &mdash; In the past few days, GoldBrute (named after the Java class it uses) has attempted to brute-force Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections for 1.5 million Windows systems and counting, according to Morphus Labs chief research officer Renato Marinho. The botnet is actively scanning the internet for machines with RDP exposed, and trying out weak or reused passwords to see if it can gain access to the systems.</li><li><a title="The GoldBrute botnet" rel="nofollow" href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/06/10/the-goldbrute-botnet-is-trying-to-crack-open-1-5-million-rdp-servers/">The GoldBrute botnet</a> &mdash; The latest round of bad news emerged last week when Morphus Labs’ researcher Renato Marinho announced the discovery of an aggressive brute force campaign against 1.5 million RDP servers by a botnet called ‘GoldBrute’.

</li><li><a title="Ubuntu Automatic Updates" rel="nofollow" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/automatic-updates.html.en">Ubuntu Automatic Updates</a> &mdash; The unattended-upgrades package can be used to automatically install updated packages, and can be configured to update all packages or just install security updates. </li><li><a title="AutoUpdates - Fedora Project Wiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoUpdates">AutoUpdates - Fedora Project Wiki</a> &mdash; You must decide whether to use automatic DNF or YUM updates on each of your machines. </li><li><a title="It&#39;s time to block Windows Automatic Updating | Computerworld" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3339563/its-time-to-block-windows-automatic-updating.html">It's time to block Windows Automatic Updating | Computerworld</a> &mdash; Those of you who feel it’s important to install Windows and Office patches the moment they come out – I salute you. The Windows world needs more cannon fodder.</li><li><a title="Windows 10&#39;s Ugly Updates Just Got Uglier. Here&#39;s How To Stay Safe by Disabling Automatic Updates" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2019/04/25/windows-10s-ugly-updates-just-got-uglier-heres-how-to-stay-safe-by-disabling-automatic-updates/#591e6ac67ff0">Windows 10's Ugly Updates Just Got Uglier. Here's How To Stay Safe by Disabling Automatic Updates</a> &mdash; Stay safe by disabling automatic updates? How is that possible? As a general rule of thumb, I’d never recommend disabling updates because security patches are essential. But the situation with Windows 10 has become intolerable. Microsoft continues to fail and continues to release update after update that they know, or should know, has serious problems.</li><li><a title="Jim&#39;s New Rig" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/jrssnet/status/1136721049641455617">Jim's New Rig</a> &mdash; I build, sell, and manage much bigger and meaner systems than this all the time. But this one's MINE! 12 hot swap bays, Ryzen 7 2700 w/ ECC RAM, quiet enough to share an office with, and the trays can take either HDD or SSD with no adapter needed.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We explore the risky world of exposed RDP, from the brute force GoldBrute botnet to the dangerously worm-able BlueKeep vulnerability.</p>

<p>Plus the importance of automatic updates, and Jim&#39;s new backup box. </p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Errata Security: Almost One Million Vulnerable to BlueKeep Vuln (CVE-2019-0708)" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/05/almost-one-million-vulnerable-to.html">Errata Security: Almost One Million Vulnerable to BlueKeep Vuln (CVE-2019-0708)</a> &mdash; Microsoft announced a vulnerability in it's "Remote Desktop" product that can lead to robust, wormable exploits. I scanned the Internet to assess the danger. I find nearly 1-million devices on the public Internet that are vulnerable to the bug. </li><li><a title="Even the NSA is urging Windows users to patch BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) | ZDNet" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-the-nsa-is-urging-windows-users-to-patch-bluekeep-cve-2019-0708/">Even the NSA is urging Windows users to patch BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) | ZDNet</a> &mdash; "[The] NSA is concerned that malicious cyber actors will use the vulnerability in ransomware and exploit kits containing other known exploits, increasing capabilities against other unpatched systems.

</li><li><a title="Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708) – MSRC" rel="nofollow" href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2019/05/14/prevent-a-worm-by-updating-remote-desktop-services-cve-2019-0708/">Prevent a worm by updating Remote Desktop Services (CVE-2019-0708) – MSRC</a> &mdash; This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. In other words, the vulnerability is ‘wormable’, meaning that any future malware that exploits this vulnerability could propagate from vulnerable computer to vulnerable computer in a similar way as the WannaCry malware spread across the globe in 2017</li><li><a title="BlueKeep - everyone agrees, you should patch PCs running legacy versions of Windows" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.grahamcluley.com/bluekeep-everyone-agrees-you-should-patch-pcs-running-legacy-versions-of-windows/">BlueKeep - everyone agrees, you should patch PCs running legacy versions of Windows</a> &mdash; I have this horrible feeling that the only way we’re going to wake the world up to the need to patch their ageing versions of Windows against the BlueKeep vulnerability is to wait until a malicious worm begins to spread around the world.

</li><li><a title="CVE-2019-0708 | Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability" rel="nofollow" href="https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0708">CVE-2019-0708 | Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability</a> &mdash; A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – when an unauthenticated attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests. This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the target system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

</li><li><a title="Customer guidance for CVE-2019-0708 | Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability" rel="nofollow" href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4500705/customer-guidance-for-cve-2019-0708">Customer guidance for CVE-2019-0708 | Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability</a> &mdash; Microsoft is aware that some customers are running versions of Windows that no longer receive mainstream support. That means those customers will not have received any security updates to protect their systems from CVE-2019-0708, which is a critical remote code execution vulnerability.

</li><li><a title="Forget BlueKeep: Beware the GoldBrute | Threatpost" rel="nofollow" href="https://threatpost.com/forget-bluekeep-beware-goldbrute/145482/">Forget BlueKeep: Beware the GoldBrute | Threatpost</a> &mdash; In the past few days, GoldBrute (named after the Java class it uses) has attempted to brute-force Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections for 1.5 million Windows systems and counting, according to Morphus Labs chief research officer Renato Marinho. The botnet is actively scanning the internet for machines with RDP exposed, and trying out weak or reused passwords to see if it can gain access to the systems.</li><li><a title="The GoldBrute botnet" rel="nofollow" href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/06/10/the-goldbrute-botnet-is-trying-to-crack-open-1-5-million-rdp-servers/">The GoldBrute botnet</a> &mdash; The latest round of bad news emerged last week when Morphus Labs’ researcher Renato Marinho announced the discovery of an aggressive brute force campaign against 1.5 million RDP servers by a botnet called ‘GoldBrute’.

</li><li><a title="Ubuntu Automatic Updates" rel="nofollow" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/automatic-updates.html.en">Ubuntu Automatic Updates</a> &mdash; The unattended-upgrades package can be used to automatically install updated packages, and can be configured to update all packages or just install security updates. </li><li><a title="AutoUpdates - Fedora Project Wiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoUpdates">AutoUpdates - Fedora Project Wiki</a> &mdash; You must decide whether to use automatic DNF or YUM updates on each of your machines. </li><li><a title="It&#39;s time to block Windows Automatic Updating | Computerworld" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3339563/its-time-to-block-windows-automatic-updating.html">It's time to block Windows Automatic Updating | Computerworld</a> &mdash; Those of you who feel it’s important to install Windows and Office patches the moment they come out – I salute you. The Windows world needs more cannon fodder.</li><li><a title="Windows 10&#39;s Ugly Updates Just Got Uglier. Here&#39;s How To Stay Safe by Disabling Automatic Updates" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2019/04/25/windows-10s-ugly-updates-just-got-uglier-heres-how-to-stay-safe-by-disabling-automatic-updates/#591e6ac67ff0">Windows 10's Ugly Updates Just Got Uglier. Here's How To Stay Safe by Disabling Automatic Updates</a> &mdash; Stay safe by disabling automatic updates? How is that possible? As a general rule of thumb, I’d never recommend disabling updates because security patches are essential. But the situation with Windows 10 has become intolerable. Microsoft continues to fail and continues to release update after update that they know, or should know, has serious problems.</li><li><a title="Jim&#39;s New Rig" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/jrssnet/status/1136721049641455617">Jim's New Rig</a> &mdash; I build, sell, and manage much bigger and meaner systems than this all the time. But this one's MINE! 12 hot swap bays, Ryzen 7 2700 w/ ECC RAM, quiet enough to share an office with, and the trays can take either HDD or SSD with no adapter needed.</li></ul>]]>
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  <title>396: Floating Point Problems</title>
  <link>https://techsnap.systems/396</link>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:45:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/95197d05-40d6-4e68-8e0b-2f586ce8dc55/bc968a3f-c804-4203-ae2b-dc43ef919218.mp3" length="19582037" type="audio/mp3"/>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Jim and Wes are joined by OpenZFS developer Richard Yao to explain why the recent drama over Linux kernel 5.0 is no big deal, and how his fix for the underlying issue might actually make things faster.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>27:11</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>Jim and Wes are joined by OpenZFS developer Richard Yao to explain why the recent drama over Linux kernel 5.0 is no big deal, and how his fix for the underlying issue might actually make things faster.
Plus the nitty-gritty details of vectorized optimizations and kernel preemption, and our thoughts on the future of the relationship between ZFS and Linux. Special Guest: Richard Yao.
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  <itunes:keywords>GPL, CDDL, Oracle, FPU, SIMD, vectorized instructions, AVX, hardware acceleration, journaling, data integrity, LFNW, floating point, checksum, snapshot, clone, FreeBSD, kernel module, header, software license, Linux, Multitasking, kernel preemption, OpenZFS, ZFS, ZoL, ZFS on Linux, Storage, RAID, ZVOL, SysAdmin podcast, DevOps, TechSNAP</itunes:keywords>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Jim and Wes are joined by OpenZFS developer Richard Yao to explain why the recent drama over Linux kernel 5.0 is no big deal, and how his fix for the underlying issue might actually make things faster.</p>

<p>Plus the nitty-gritty details of vectorized optimizations and kernel preemption, and our thoughts on the future of the relationship between ZFS and Linux.</p><p>Special Guest: Richard Yao.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="LinuxFest Northwest 2019" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/conferences/2019">LinuxFest Northwest 2019</a> &mdash; Join a bunch of JB hosts and community celebrating the 20th anniversary! </li><li><a title="Choose Linux" rel="nofollow" href="https://chooselinux.show/">Choose Linux</a> &mdash; The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux.</li><li><a title="Linux 5.0: _kernel_fpu{begin,end} no longer exported" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8259">Linux 5.0: _kernel_fpu{begin,end} no longer exported</a> &mdash; The latest kernels removed the old compatibility headers.</li><li><a title="ZFS On Linux Landing Workaround For Linux 5.0 Kernel Support" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=ZFS-On-Linux-5.0-Workaround">ZFS On Linux Landing Workaround For Linux 5.0 Kernel Support</a> &mdash; So while these symbols are important for SIMD vectorized checksums for ZFS in the name of performance, with Linux 5.0+ they are not going to be exported for use by non-GPL modules. ZFS On Linux developer Tony Hutter has now staged a change that would disable vector instructions on Linux 5.0+ kernels.</li><li><a title="Re: x86/fpu: Don&#39;t export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()" rel="nofollow" href="https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=154714516832389">Re: x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()</a> &mdash; My tolerance for ZFS is pretty non-existant.  Sun explicitly did not want their code to work on Linux, so why would we do extra work to get their code to work properly?</li><li><a title="The future of ZFS in FreeBSD" rel="nofollow" href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-December/072422.html">The future of ZFS in FreeBSD</a> &mdash; This state of affairs has led to a general agreement among the stakeholders that I have spoken to that it makes sense to rebase FreeBSD's ZFS on ZoL. Brian Behlendorf has graciously encouraged me to add FreeBSD support directly so that we might all have a singleshared code base.</li><li><a title="Dephix: Kickoff to The Future" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.delphix.com/blog/kickoff-future-eko-2018">Dephix: Kickoff to The Future</a> &mdash; OpenZFS has grown over the last decade, and delivering our application on Linux provides great OpenZFS support while enabling higher velocity adoption of new environments.</li><li><a title="The future of ZFS on Linux [zfs-discuss] " rel="nofollow" href="http://list.zfsonlinux.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2019-January/033300.html">The future of ZFS on Linux [zfs-discuss] </a> &mdash; 
Do you realize that we don’t actually need the symbols that the kernel removed. It All they do is save/restore of register state while turning off/on preemption. Nothing stops us from doing that ourselves. It is possible to implement our own substitutes using code from either Illumos or FreeBSD or even write our own. 

Honestly, I am beginning to think that my attempt to compromise with mainline gave the wrong impression. I am simply tired of this behavior by them and felt like reaching out to put an end to it. In a few weeks, we will likely be running on Linux 5.0 as if those symbols had never been removed because we will almost certainly have our own substitutes for them. Having to bloat our code because mainline won’t give us access to trivial functionality is annoying, but it is not the end of the world.</li><li><a title="LINUX Unplugged Episode 284: Free as in Get Out" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/284">LINUX Unplugged Episode 284: Free as in Get Out</a></li><li><a title="BSD Now 279: Future of ZFS" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2019_01_02-future_of_zfs">BSD Now 279: Future of ZFS</a></li><li><a title="BSD Now 157: ZFS, The “Universal” File-system" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_08_31-the_universal_filesystem">BSD Now 157: ZFS, The “Universal” File-system</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>Jim and Wes are joined by OpenZFS developer Richard Yao to explain why the recent drama over Linux kernel 5.0 is no big deal, and how his fix for the underlying issue might actually make things faster.</p>

<p>Plus the nitty-gritty details of vectorized optimizations and kernel preemption, and our thoughts on the future of the relationship between ZFS and Linux.</p><p>Special Guest: Richard Yao.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="LinuxFest Northwest 2019" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/conferences/2019">LinuxFest Northwest 2019</a> &mdash; Join a bunch of JB hosts and community celebrating the 20th anniversary! </li><li><a title="Choose Linux" rel="nofollow" href="https://chooselinux.show/">Choose Linux</a> &mdash; The show that captures the excitement of discovering Linux.</li><li><a title="Linux 5.0: _kernel_fpu{begin,end} no longer exported" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8259">Linux 5.0: _kernel_fpu{begin,end} no longer exported</a> &mdash; The latest kernels removed the old compatibility headers.</li><li><a title="ZFS On Linux Landing Workaround For Linux 5.0 Kernel Support" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=ZFS-On-Linux-5.0-Workaround">ZFS On Linux Landing Workaround For Linux 5.0 Kernel Support</a> &mdash; So while these symbols are important for SIMD vectorized checksums for ZFS in the name of performance, with Linux 5.0+ they are not going to be exported for use by non-GPL modules. ZFS On Linux developer Tony Hutter has now staged a change that would disable vector instructions on Linux 5.0+ kernels.</li><li><a title="Re: x86/fpu: Don&#39;t export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()" rel="nofollow" href="https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=154714516832389">Re: x86/fpu: Don't export __kernel_fpu_{begin,end}()</a> &mdash; My tolerance for ZFS is pretty non-existant.  Sun explicitly did not want their code to work on Linux, so why would we do extra work to get their code to work properly?</li><li><a title="The future of ZFS in FreeBSD" rel="nofollow" href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-December/072422.html">The future of ZFS in FreeBSD</a> &mdash; This state of affairs has led to a general agreement among the stakeholders that I have spoken to that it makes sense to rebase FreeBSD's ZFS on ZoL. Brian Behlendorf has graciously encouraged me to add FreeBSD support directly so that we might all have a singleshared code base.</li><li><a title="Dephix: Kickoff to The Future" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.delphix.com/blog/kickoff-future-eko-2018">Dephix: Kickoff to The Future</a> &mdash; OpenZFS has grown over the last decade, and delivering our application on Linux provides great OpenZFS support while enabling higher velocity adoption of new environments.</li><li><a title="The future of ZFS on Linux [zfs-discuss] " rel="nofollow" href="http://list.zfsonlinux.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2019-January/033300.html">The future of ZFS on Linux [zfs-discuss] </a> &mdash; 
Do you realize that we don’t actually need the symbols that the kernel removed. It All they do is save/restore of register state while turning off/on preemption. Nothing stops us from doing that ourselves. It is possible to implement our own substitutes using code from either Illumos or FreeBSD or even write our own. 

Honestly, I am beginning to think that my attempt to compromise with mainline gave the wrong impression. I am simply tired of this behavior by them and felt like reaching out to put an end to it. In a few weeks, we will likely be running on Linux 5.0 as if those symbols had never been removed because we will almost certainly have our own substitutes for them. Having to bloat our code because mainline won’t give us access to trivial functionality is annoying, but it is not the end of the world.</li><li><a title="LINUX Unplugged Episode 284: Free as in Get Out" rel="nofollow" href="https://linuxunplugged.com/284">LINUX Unplugged Episode 284: Free as in Get Out</a></li><li><a title="BSD Now 279: Future of ZFS" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2019_01_02-future_of_zfs">BSD Now 279: Future of ZFS</a></li><li><a title="BSD Now 157: ZFS, The “Universal” File-system" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2016_08_31-the_universal_filesystem">BSD Now 157: ZFS, The “Universal” File-system</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>392: Keeping up with Kubernetes</title>
  <link>https://techsnap.systems/392</link>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 19:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
  <author>Jupiter Broadcasting</author>
  <enclosure url="https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/95197d05-40d6-4e68-8e0b-2f586ce8dc55/45523a8f-70a8-4800-a757-964c8f91f645.mp3" length="23364271" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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  <itunes:subtitle>A security vulnerability in Kubernetes causes a big stir, but we’ll break it all down and explain what went wrong. 
</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>27:28</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>A security vulnerability in Kubernetes causes a big stir, but we’ll break it all down and explain what went wrong. 
Plus the biggest stories out of Kubecon, and serverless gets serious. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>A security vulnerability in Kubernetes causes a big stir, but we’ll break it all down and explain what went wrong. </p>

<p>Plus the biggest stories out of Kubecon, and serverless gets serious.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Everything that was announced at KubeCon" rel="nofollow" href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/11/everything-that-was-announced-at-kubecon-cloudnativecon/">Everything that was announced at KubeCon</a></li><li><a title="CNCF to Host etcd" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/12/11/cncf-to-host-etcd/">CNCF to Host etcd</a> &mdash; The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept etcd as an incubation-level hosted project.</li><li><a title="Introduction to Knative" rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/@pczarkowski/introduction-to-knative-b93a0b9aeeef">Introduction to Knative</a> &mdash; Knative is a framework from the folks at Google and Pivotal focused on “serverless” style event driven functions.</li><li><a title="IBM Embraces Knative to Drive Serverless Standardization" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.eweek.com/cloud/ibm-embraces-knative-to-drive-serverless-standardization">IBM Embraces Knative to Drive Serverless Standardization</a> &mdash; Knative is not the first open-source functions-as-a-service effort that IBM has backed. Back in 2016, IBM announced the OpenWhisk effort, which is now run as an open-source project at the Apache Software Found.</li><li><a title="How Google Is Improving Kubernetes Container Security" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eweek.com/security/how-google-is-improving-kubernetes-container-security">How Google Is Improving Kubernetes Container Security</a> &mdash; "We go beyond what's in open source and put additional restrictions in place to secure users"</li><li><a title="Demystifying Kubernetes CVE-2018-1002105" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.twistlock.com/labs-blog/demystifying-kubernetes-cve-2018-1002105-dead-simple-exploit/">Demystifying Kubernetes CVE-2018-1002105</a> &mdash; With a specially crafted request, users that are authorized to establish a connection through the Kubernetes API server to a backend server can then send arbitrary requests over the same connection directly to that backend, authenticated with the Kubernetes API server’s TLS credentials used to establish the backend connection.</li><li><a title="The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver" rel="nofollow" href="https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-websocket-upgrade-security-vulnerability/">The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver</a></li><li><a title="Crossplane: An Open Source Multicloud Control Plane" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/crossplaneio/crossplane">Crossplane: An Open Source Multicloud Control Plane</a></li><li><a title="security.christmas" rel="nofollow" href="https://security.christmas/">security.christmas</a> &mdash; This year we will prepare you for the Christmas celebration, by giving you small presents of knowledge every day, which will teach you about the world of security.</li><li><a title="Introducing the Helm Hub" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.helm.sh/blog/intro-helm-hub/index.html">Introducing the Helm Hub</a> &mdash; This hub provides a means for you to find charts hosted in many distributed repositories hosted by numerous people and organizations.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>A security vulnerability in Kubernetes causes a big stir, but we’ll break it all down and explain what went wrong. </p>

<p>Plus the biggest stories out of Kubecon, and serverless gets serious.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Everything that was announced at KubeCon" rel="nofollow" href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/11/everything-that-was-announced-at-kubecon-cloudnativecon/">Everything that was announced at KubeCon</a></li><li><a title="CNCF to Host etcd" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/12/11/cncf-to-host-etcd/">CNCF to Host etcd</a> &mdash; The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept etcd as an incubation-level hosted project.</li><li><a title="Introduction to Knative" rel="nofollow" href="https://medium.com/@pczarkowski/introduction-to-knative-b93a0b9aeeef">Introduction to Knative</a> &mdash; Knative is a framework from the folks at Google and Pivotal focused on “serverless” style event driven functions.</li><li><a title="IBM Embraces Knative to Drive Serverless Standardization" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.eweek.com/cloud/ibm-embraces-knative-to-drive-serverless-standardization">IBM Embraces Knative to Drive Serverless Standardization</a> &mdash; Knative is not the first open-source functions-as-a-service effort that IBM has backed. Back in 2016, IBM announced the OpenWhisk effort, which is now run as an open-source project at the Apache Software Found.</li><li><a title="How Google Is Improving Kubernetes Container Security" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eweek.com/security/how-google-is-improving-kubernetes-container-security">How Google Is Improving Kubernetes Container Security</a> &mdash; "We go beyond what's in open source and put additional restrictions in place to secure users"</li><li><a title="Demystifying Kubernetes CVE-2018-1002105" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.twistlock.com/labs-blog/demystifying-kubernetes-cve-2018-1002105-dead-simple-exploit/">Demystifying Kubernetes CVE-2018-1002105</a> &mdash; With a specially crafted request, users that are authorized to establish a connection through the Kubernetes API server to a backend server can then send arbitrary requests over the same connection directly to that backend, authenticated with the Kubernetes API server’s TLS credentials used to establish the backend connection.</li><li><a title="The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver" rel="nofollow" href="https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-websocket-upgrade-security-vulnerability/">The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver</a></li><li><a title="Crossplane: An Open Source Multicloud Control Plane" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/crossplaneio/crossplane">Crossplane: An Open Source Multicloud Control Plane</a></li><li><a title="security.christmas" rel="nofollow" href="https://security.christmas/">security.christmas</a> &mdash; This year we will prepare you for the Christmas celebration, by giving you small presents of knowledge every day, which will teach you about the world of security.</li><li><a title="Introducing the Helm Hub" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.helm.sh/blog/intro-helm-hub/index.html">Introducing the Helm Hub</a> &mdash; This hub provides a means for you to find charts hosted in many distributed repositories hosted by numerous people and organizations.</li></ul>]]>
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