This week we talk about how Ai took out a production database, we answer questions on best home automation practices, and we talk a bit of storage cache.

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00:48 Intro

Gratitude
Curiosity

02:30 Cache Drives - David

Terminology and discovery
ZIL (ZFS Intent Log)
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous
SLOG
Mirror drives
ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache)
- Stored in RAM
L2ARC
- Spill over from ARC
Work load dependant
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12:42 Nextcloud - Aryeh

Home Assistant SFTP Storage
Dumping to NFS share
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0 2 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ trashbin:cleanup homeassistant_user
Nextcloud Docs

17:28 Home Automation - Tony

Home automations are personal
Lutron Training
Less is more
Bedroom automation
Eject handles/over-rides
Orbit Panels

31:00 SIP Server - Twobit

34:17 News Wire

Kdenlive 26.04.0 - kdenlive.org
Midori 11.7 - github.com
Bleachbit 6.0 - bleachbit.org
QEMU 11.0 - qemu.org
LXQT 2.4 - lxqt-project.org
Firefox 150 - firfox.com
Thunderbird 150 - thunderbird.net
Ubuntu 26.04 - ubuntu.com
Fedora 44 - fedoramagazine.org
Tails 7.7 - tails.net
VECT 2.0 Destroys Files - thehackernews.com
Pack2TheRoot - securityweek.com
GoGra Backdoor - thehackernews.com
DeepSeek v4 - siliconangle.com
Kimi k2.6 - pandaily.com
Qwen3.6-27B - marktechpost.com

35:50 Discussion Segment

Cursor - AI first IDE
Opus - AI model
Agents
Cursor "modes"
- Agent
- Planning mode
Cursor wants to "resell AI" to you
The Register Cursor
Steve's AI automation mishap
AI can be amusing
Mythos
The Register Mythos
Metasploit

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