Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops.

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OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability

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Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent

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We were asked about how we set up disk encryption on laptops.

A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption – Ars Technica

Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation

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Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a laptop properly.

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ZFS vs Btrfs: Architecture, Features, and Stability

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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fas

Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys

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We were asked about backing up a laptop properly.

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Outlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of cloud and on-prem (centralised and local computing), and why you probably shouldn’t use NMVe to SATA adapters.

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ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls

Modern VDI on Proxmox: ZFS Reliability and GPU Acceleration at Lower Cost

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Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

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We were asked about SATA to PCIe adapters.

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