This week we ask the question, when is it okay to leverage technology you don't understand, and when should you work to acquire the underlying domain knowledge?
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00:52 Intro
Cut from the same cloth
02:12 When to Leverage Tools
Will always be jobs for deep understanding
Lets Encrypt shortening life of certs
AWX story
Why AWX
Short term damage control
Advice for someone else
You have to understand the manual process
Is it still possible to dig down?
Clicking through UI skill set
How much time do you spend down the rabbit hole
23:09 News Wire
Open ZFS 2.3.3 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3.3)
Open ZFS 2.2.8 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.8-Released)
Darktable 5.2 - darktable.org (https://www.darktable.org/2025/06/darktable-5.2.0-released/)
QtCreator 17 - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-17-released)
Nano 8.5 - gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-06/msg00003.html)
MKVToolNix 93.0 - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/93.0/)
Linux 6.14 EOL - endoflife.date (https://endoflife.date/linux)
Plasma 6.4 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/)
KDE Frameworks 6.15 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.15.0/)
IceWM 3.8 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/IceWM-3.8-Released)
Sway 1.15 - github.com (https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.11)
WSL 2.6 Open Source - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSL-2.6-Open-Source)
PostmarketOS 25.06 - postmarketos.org (https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/06/22/v25.06-release/)
Rocky Linux 10.0 - rockylinux.org (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-10-0-ga-release)
Kali Linux 2025.02 - kali.org (https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-2-release/)
Amazon Linux 2023 FIPS 140-3 - aws.amazon.com (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/amazon-linux-2023-achieves-fips-140-3-validation/)
PAM & Udisks Flaws - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/new-linux-flaws-enable-full-root-access.html)
Mistral 3.2 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-just-updated-its-open-source-small-model-from-3-1-to-3-2-heres-why/)
MiniMax M1 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/minimax_m1_model_chinese_llm/)
24:40 AI vs Privacy
Users don't want sensitive data retained
Claims order creates "mass surveillance program"
If it's on the internet, it's public
Expectation of using AI
Will this change the way people use these tools
Responsibility is on the professional
Approaching 50/50 AI/Human internet data
Data mining and model training
ARSTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/judge-rejects-claim-that-forcing-openai-to-keep-chatgpt-logs-is-mass-surveillance/)
41:00 Framework 12 inch Laptop
Designed to be repaired
Framework presenter pulled off the keyboard live
13 inch vs 15 inch laptops
Touch screen 2 in 1
Productivity on the plane
Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-12)
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