Welcome to Random Short Take #94. Let’s get random.

• Starting off with something a little heavy, but I thought this article from John Birmingham, entitled the map of days, was a fantastic exploration of aging and definitely worth a read.
• Chin-Fah recently wrote about deduplication reimagined in OpenZFS. The Fast Dedupe Table (FDT) could really improve the experience of deduplication with OpenZFS.
• Howard asks if the Fusion Drive was a good idea? I never had a system with one installed, so can’t comment, but for a period of time they made a lot of sense. Nowadays, I’m not so sure.
• In press release news, Zerto has unveiled an updated Cyber Resilience Vault solution using HPE Alletra Storage MP.
• In other PR news, Panasas has become VDURA.
• You want to do cool stuff with Raspberry Pis? You should probably be following Jeff Geerling (if you aren’t already). Check out his post on building a Pi Frigate NVR with Axzez’s Interceptor 1U Case.
• I giggle-cried my way through this article – ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services. I just received an e-mail from Amazon encouraging me to “build up my movie library”. Yeah, not if I can avoid it. Remember kids, if it’s not delivering value to shareholders, don’t expect it to last. That includes your digital libraries purchased from major studios. I might do a separate rant post on the rise and fall and rise and fall of physical media in the future. I still buy physical media, but I’m very much in the minority.
• Speaking of accessing physical media, I came across the plexupdate utility on GitHub. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but it’s doing the job at the moment. Yes, I am the kind of person who will randomly run scripts from GitHub without checking first – hire me as your CISO ;)