2.5 Admins 141: Sysadmin Hunt

What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web, why some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic password managers and regularly powercyling network gear, moving from Mercurial to Git, running old applications on modern Ubuntu, and more.

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Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance

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How we’re building a browser when it’s supposed to be impossible

New BIOS updates attempt to keep Ryzen 7000X3D processors from frying themselves

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