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Supermarkets found out why their fridges shouldn’t be on the Internet and Samsung smart fridges broke after a firmware update, why we don’t recommend MoCA, some tips for running ethernet cables in your house, and why it’s fine to use a short TTL with your domains.



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Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 2



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Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food

The username is admin and the password changes every day automatically to.. the current date

Freeze the Controller, Defrost the Food: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Danfoss Refrigeration Controllers

Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges



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Why batteries in homes could benefit everyone involved, why we didn’t bring up wake-on-LAN when someone asked about keeping a NAS powered on as little as possible, building a router vs buying one, and ways to manage ssh connections.



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How I kept cool with NYC’s free battery program for window AC units















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Google offers a few pennies to web publishers to make up for stealing their content and not sending them any traffic, the tech we’d try to use after the apocalypse, why Jim doesn’t virtualise his clients’ desktops, and setting up Volume Shadow Copy so your users can restore their own files.



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FreeBSD: The Hidden Cost of Upgrading in Production



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Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling

















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The challenges of funding open source software projects, how Netflix uses FreeBSD in a positive way, why you shouldn’t try to complicate your monitoring, and running servers in a small residence.



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Why Is Everyone Stuck on FreeBSD 13?



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Microsoft really wants you to update your Exchange server, our thoughts on immutable distros, more on Jim’s approach to internet access for his kids, restricting access to servers on a corporate network, and cloning and backing up operating systems with ZFS.



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OpenZFS User and Developer Summit 2026: October 27-30



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Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers

















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