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Proxmox, DECtalk, Retro, and Kubernetes
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Dumpster diver builds home lab Proxmox server from weekly landfill runs for SSDs, HDDs, GPUs, and even RAM — weekly e-waste raids net multi-drive Proxmox server and Asus ROG laptop
A tech enthusiast says that they managed to put together a home lab-worthy Proxmox server using PC parts scavenged from the nearby county landfill.
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Hackaday ☛ It’s The Speech Synthesiser You Wanted, For The Computer You Had
If you had an 8-bit computer in the 1980s and bought a speech synthesiser for it, what you got was invariably an alophone-based synthesiser using the SP0256 or similar. You definitely couldn’t afford DEC’s DECtalk, a high-end standalone speech synthesiser made famous to the masses as the unit used by Stephen Hawking. But now those two worlds can come together, thanks to [Michael Wessel], whose Perfect Paul ][ is a drop-in DECtalk emulator card for the Apple ][.
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You Can Use Your Old Mac Mini As A Home Server — Here's How
Turning your old Mac Mini into a media server is actually incredibly simple these days. Older Mac Minis come with Intel chips, which can easily support headless or server versions of Linux distributions without much extra elbow grease. From there, you can begin to dig into Docker or Podman, which are container programs that can be used to self-host your preferred media server platform and deliver it across your network.
The only real hurdle is if you're considering the original M1 Mac Mini from 2020 (or if you're loaded, the recently refreshed M4 version) as your server. Hosting Jellyfin or Plex (if you're still around after the massive price increase) on M-series devices is generally easier if you stick with macOS, as Asahi Linux support varies by model and still lacks hardware-accelerated video encoding. You'll also need something with a little juice behind it.
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Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes Changed Block Tracking API - Beta Differences
If you aren't yet familiar with changed block tracking for storage in Kubernetes, the Alpha announcement covers the motivation, the three primary components (the CSI SnapshotMetadata gRPC service, the SnapshotMetadataService CRD, and the external-snapshot-metadata sidecar), and a walkthrough of how to use the API. CBT currently applies to block volumes; file-volume and network file-share changed-list tracking is not covered by this feature. This post focuses on what is different in Beta.
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Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes v1.37: Memory QoS Graduates to Beta
This post covers what changed in v1.37, what the Beta promotion means for cluster operators, and how to configure the feature.
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InfoQ ☛ Amazon GNU/Linux 2027 Enters Public Preview with SELinux Enforcing by Default
AWS has released Amazon GNU/Linux 2027 in public preview, built on the AL2023 baseline with kernel 7.1 and SELinux in enforcing mode by default. Applications that pass on AL2023's permissive mode may fail under enforcing. The announcement gives no AL2023 end-of-support date, no GA date, and no in-place migration path.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers