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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

FS PBX

freePBX

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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