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Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.

 

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What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (So You Don’t Have To)

 

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Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 – Let’s Encrypt

VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them

 

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SAS Expanders, Build Your Own JBOD DAS Enclosure and Save – Iteration 1