- Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet: Linux anybody? That said, it won't push the adoption of alternate platforms that much.
- Mastering DNF & YUM: Advanced Repository Management for RHEL/CentOS SysAdmins: Going the beyond the typical repo management of RPM-based systems.
- Keel: automation of …
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Eleven Links of Note - December 27th, 2025
- We're getting robbed: A wild plague of medium writers ripping of Youtube content as blog articles, in some cases word for word.
- Apple Plans to Expand iPhone Driver's Licenses to These 7 U.S. States: I have yet to test this in …
Backups and Restores on OKD Using OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP)
As an infrastructure engineer, the most important responsibility you will have is maintaining backups and restores. A sound perational backup/restore system can make a difference between recovering from an outage or being down for an extended period of time, thus critically impacting your organization. Given that, I am going …
read moreEleven Links of Note - December 21st, 2025
- NIST Internet Time Servers: Yesterday, a bunch of time servers went down due to the weather (it might still be down as of this time of posting). If your infra is time sensitive, this may be useful as a reference.
- Postfix Macros and
let place: Not sure if …
Eleven Links of Note - December 20th, 2025
- Does swearing make you stronger? Science says yes: What the-?
- Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access: Awesome move. This is a great opportunity for people to have access to notable computer science papers
- Please Just …
Eleven Links of Note - December 17th, 2025
@helpmeexitvi This content is extremely niche thank you, please implement API gateway by the end of the day. #gcp #kubernetes #techhumor ♬ original sound - Someone - Ingress NGINX Controller Is Dead — Should You Move to Gateway API?: Vendor perspective on migrating to Gateway API.
- Debusine repositories now in beta: PPAs, but for …
Eleven Links of Note - December 16th, 2025
- Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers: TLDR; don't expect space data centers anytime soon.
- Releasing Icinga DB v1.5.1: Gesundheit.
- Your cloud. In your home.: Lovely. I think I shall call my network "Internet, but in your home".
- The Scourge of Arial …
Eleven Links of Note - December 15th, 2025
- Top Gun's Carrier Landing: Exposed: I never been able to land successfully on the carrier. This is probably why.
- Successfully deployed OKD 4.20.12 with the assisted installer: Text post of somebody who installed OKD with the assisted installer. Almost exactly how I did it.
- How Did …
Ten Links of Note - December 11th, 2025
- When would you ever want bubblesort?: When do you don't use it?
- Canonical Extends Kubernetes Long-Term Support to 15 Years: 15 years is a very long time to support a specific software version. I wish them luck.
- Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux: If you …