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425: Ryzen Gets Real

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Show Notes

We take a look at AMD's upcoming line of Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs, and share our first impressions of Ubuntu 20.04's approach to ZFS on root.

Plus Let's Encrypt's certificate validation mix-up, Intel's questionable new power supply design, and more. Links: Let's Encrypt changes course on certificate revocation

Revoking certain certificates on March 4

Let's Encrypt: Incomplete revocation for CAA rechecking bug

Pass authzModel by value, not reference

The Complete Guide to CAA Records

DNS Certification Authority Authorization

AMD's 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors are finally here

How Intel is changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec

Single Rail Power Supply ATX12VO Design Guide

FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying

FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying [Video Announcement]

Ubuntu 20.04's zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management

ubuntu/zsys: zsys daemon and client for zfs systems

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