Hello, friends! I'm thrilled to announce that The Homelab Almanac, v3.0 has officially launched! There is a ton of new stuff in this version, including:

• Proper DNS for the lab
• Lab PKI
• Automatic signed certificate retrieval
• New secrets management
• Proxmox clustering
• Network storage
• Cloud integration

And lots more. Now, with all this addition, plus the work to make it, I've had to increase the price to $29.99 USD. I know that's a lot. But for what THA is, I still think it's fair. But I'm also running a sale right now. Code OMGVERSIONTHREE gets you 50% off until the end of June.

And of course, if you've already purchased THA, you just got access to the new version. Thanks for being an early supporter!

I hope you love this new version of the book. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

And seriously: thank you to everyone who's supported @thetaggartinstitute over the years, and especially the folks who have purchased and enjoyed The Homelab Almanac. I had no idea what I was getting myself into writing this book, but it's been lovely to see folks build community around it.

https://taggart-tech.com/thav3/

Final-ish schedule for #bsdcan dropped: https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-all.html

You can stil register, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html

#conference #bsd #unix #development #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #sysadmin #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware

The #FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report is out!

🔗 https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2025-01-2025-03/

I’m consistently surprised by company CEOs who tell me that “the product doesn’t matter”.

They generally spout some anachronistic platitudes about how $other.thing is what actually matters.

Kinda amusingly - they are usually saying this while lamenting their lack of sales.

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #EthicalTech