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661: Break up Big Tech
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/30/26 |  661: Break up Big Tech✨ | Big TechPorting MacOS+4 | — | MacOSOpenBSD+3 | Nintendo WiiPomera DM250 | Big TechMacOS+5 | Tarsnap | 46m 24s | |
| 4/23/26 | 660: I just work here✨ | FreeBSDNetBSD+4 | — | ProxmoxFreeBSD+3 | — | ProxmoxFreeBSD+6 | Tarsnap | 43m 56s | |
| 4/16/26 | 659: Full traffic send✨ | WaylandLinux Desktop+5 | — | BSDsBSD Now | Linux | WaylandLinux+5 | Tarsnap | 1h 08m 04s | |
| 4/9/26 | 658: It’s the vibe of it✨ | Technical IndependenceOpenZFS+5 | — | Motorola 88000ext4+5 | — | FreeBSDOpenZFS+6 | Tarsnap | 1h 00m 02s | |
| 4/2/26 | 657: Hibernation is a long sleep✨ | technology dependenceFreeBSD 15+4 | — | FreeBSDLinuxator+5 | — | technology dependenceFreeBSD 15+7 | Tarsnap | 50m 57s | |
| 3/26/26 | 656: Honey, I shrunk the PDP✨ | OpenZFS Storage DesignTelnet+4 | — | OpenZFSPiDP 11/70+4 | SGI | OpenZFSTelnet+5 | Tarsnap | 1h 10m 44s | |
| 3/19/26 | 655: No Reboot Required✨ | NetBSD JailsProxmox ARC and L2ARC Sizing+3 | — | ProxmoxFreeBSD+2 | — | NetBSDFreeBSD+5 | Tarsnap | 1h 00m 55s | |
| 3/12/26 | 654: Plasma Rage✨ | ProxmoxKDE Plasma+5 | — | KDE PlasmaNetBSD+5 | — | ProxmoxKDE Plasma+6 | Tarsnap | 45m 26s | |
| 3/5/26 | 653: Butter makes everything better✨ | ZFS vs BTRFSOpenBSD+4 | — | WireGuardZFS+6 | — | BSDZFS+6 | Tarsnap | 55m 18s | |
| 2/26/26 | 652: Ghostly Graphics✨ | OpenZFS monitoringhelloSystem release+5 | — | OpenZFShelloSystem+6 | — | OpenZFShelloSystem+7 | Tarsnap | 1h 10m 14s | |
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| 2/19/26 | 651: Spatially aware ZFS | GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls News Roundup Xfce is great Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic The scariest boot loader code OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Matt - Audio Levels Interviews can be troublesome because there's only so much we can do with multiple guests with multiple feeds, and mulitple audio conditions. We can try to normalize but sometimes it's just not easy to do without editing taking an entire day.. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 2/12/26 | 650: Korn Chips | AT&T's $2000 shell, ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity, FFS Backups, FreeBSD Home Nas, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity News Roundup FFS Backup FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1) 8 more parts! Beastie Bits The BSD Proposal UNIX Magic Poster Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15 FreeBSD 15.0 VNET Jails Call for NetBSD testing Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Gary - Links Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | 649: The Desk Review | ZFS Scrubs and Data integrity, Propolice, FreeBSD vs Slackware and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity The story of Propolice Desk reviews describe comment ask questions No reponses, no justications. [Tj's Desk](media/bsdnow649-tjs-desk.jpg) [Ruben's Desk](media/bsdnow649-rubens-desk.jpg) News Roundup FreeBSD vs. Slackware: Which super stable OS is right for you? Prometheus, Let's Encrypt, and making sure all our TLS certificates are monitored Wait, a repairable ThinkPad!? Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | 648: Greytrapping for years | FreeBSD's Future, 18 years of greytrapping, PF vs Linux firewalls, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Powering the Future of FreeBSD Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? BSDCan Organisating committee Interview News Roundup How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner BSD PF versus Linux nftables for firewalls for us Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 1/22/26 | 647: Why BSDs? | Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why BSDs? 2025: A Year of Advocacy, Community, and Growth What are we excited for in tech in 2026? Almost Completley Open riscv32 silicon with BaoChip and Xous The death of vmware and the possibilites for diversity that creates Capabilities arriving in FreeBSD main NetBSD on the WiiU and open hardware for retro computing Capabilities arriving with CheriIOT News Roundup Wireguard The FreeBSD Way Beastie Bits BastilleBSD 2025 User Survey Re: ZFS status on NetBSD Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Albin- Foss-North Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 1/15/26 | 646: Unix v4 | The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway! UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape WebZFS News Roundup OpenBGPD 9.0 released MidnightBSD 4.0 Let's run FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Figuring out how I want to set up the TVPC TVPC update C&C Red Alert2 in your browser Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions rick - shout out.md Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | 645: Unwrapping gifts | NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 Perl's decline was cultural News Roundup Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025) Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas... HardnedBSD News FreeBSD + Flua Json in Base Building from Source Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Dave - FreeBSD and Flua Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 1/1/26 | 644: Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in? | Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in? NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 2025? Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions - Gary - Storage Is Cheap Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 12/25/25 | 643: Unwrapping gifts | Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? News Roundup We can't fund our way out of the free and open source maintenance problem The story of Propolice, the OpenBSD stack protector Copying everything off a zpool, destroying it, creating a new one, and copying everything back All aboard the 15.0-RELEASE train! Beastie Bits Running A PDP-8 From 1965 The library of time OPNsense 25.7.9 released - OPNsense 25.10.1 business edition released Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Martin - recordings Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 12/18/25 | 642: Look Harder | NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec? Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva News Roundup We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again The usability of open source operating systems Phoenix AZ timezone issue The only existing copy of UNIX v4 Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec? Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva News Roundup We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again The usability of open source operating systems Phoenix AZ timezone issue The only existing copy of UNIX v4 Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 12/11/25 | 641: Open to Free | FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Welcome to the world FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement and Release Notes We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for Firewalls - Submitted by listener Gary News Roundup ZFS Boot Environments Explained Why I (still) love Linux rocinante - A configuration management tool by the BastilleBSD team A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug and YouTube Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Claudio - A Silent Reflection Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 12/4/25 | 640: Cleaning up Hammer | FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization News Roundup How I think OpenZFS's 'written' and 'written@' dataset properties work Make sure your Hammer cleanup cleans up [TUHS] David C Brock of CHM: 2024 oral history with Ken Thompson + Doug McIlroy Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” Source and state limiters introduced in pf Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Göran - grafana Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 11/27/25 | 639: Reproducible Builds | Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI News Roundup Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop + disks Crucial FreeBSD Toolkit Some notes on OpenZFS's 'written' dataset property vi improvements on Dragonfly Big news for small /usr partitions Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Patrick - Feedback Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
| 11/20/25 | 638: Hipsters want their distribution back | New Open Indiana Release, Understanding Storage Performance, a Unix OS for the TI99, FreeBSD Tribal knowledge, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Signifier flotation devices Open Indiana Hipster Announcement Understanding Storage Performance Metrics News Roundup UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A Making the veb(4) virtual Ethernet bridge VLAN aware FreeBSD tribal knowledge: minor version upgrades It's been 10 years since ZFS's 10th aniversary its integration into Solaris - A Reflection Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel Sponsored By:Tarsnap Promo Code: bsdnow | — | ||||||
| 11/13/25 | 637: /etc/hosts | Time to update our /etc/hosts file... NOTES* This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Show updates Intro Ruben Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel | — | ||||||
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