Squirrelly_Pawn

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Network Engineer in the TV/Media space
Network Automation Enthusiast

BJJ/Judo stuff occasionally too

Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna's Archive for $13trillion for "brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings"

Spotify and three major record labels have sued Anna's Archive for $13trillion, alleging that the platform scraped 86million music files.

NME

The #Fediverse is a decentralised world, but some things have established themselves in my timeline over the years. So as a refresher, here a few hashtags you could use, feel free to add more in the replies.

#FediHire when you are looking for a job
#FediGive when you have something to give away or donate
#FediBlock If you want to warn others of accounts/instances to block
#Caturday Needs no explanation ;)
#SelfHost to discuss running your own online stuff
#AskFedi #FediHelp to ask stuff

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ChatGPT ads are coming, OpenAI leak suggests

CEO Sam Altman once described ads as a ‘last resort’

The Independent
3 new critters in our house 3 days!

AOL has now shut down dial-up service as of September 30.

Let us play the forgotten music...

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI

Spent quite some hours with FreeBSD networking on my Home-Server, but now it all works!!! 🥳

- 6 Intel NICs (Some with tagged, some untagged networks)

- Bridges and virtual switches for Behyve VMs and Jails

- Trunk-Port to my Aruba AP with all VLANs for different SSIDs

- Full IPv6 support on all networks

- Firewall (via pf) and NAT for Legacy-IP

- PCI Passthrough of one NIC to a Behyve VM (with IOMMU/vt-d)

FreeBSD is just a network beast 🙂  

#freebsd #networking #bsd #ipv6

Breaking away from classic art, here's a drawing by my 13-year-old daughter using "Crayolas". #ProudMom #art

Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS

https://www.webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-desktop-share-in-u-s-signaling-open-source-surge-against-windows-and-macos/

Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS

Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.

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