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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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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The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.

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Ardour 9.0 — What’s new

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AI controls are coming to Firefox

Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

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With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice?

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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

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The best museums we’ve been to, the people we admire, and our weirdest train journeys. With Gary from Linux After Dark.

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Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and friends are cooking up something (but it’s not exactly clear what that is), KDE Linux is progressing nicely, and more. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.

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Ikea’s new Matter smart home devices are having connection problems

Introducing Amutable

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The career progression options you have as a software engineer, moving from junior to senior dev, other paths you can go down like architecture or tech lead, and why management isn’t for everyone.

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Why we have doubts about the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, what it would take to build a proper European cloud that could compete with AWS, and why it’s such a difficult undertaking.

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