<p>Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is &#8216;fully conscious&#8217;, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab.</p>
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<p><a href="https://klarasystems.com/articles/pool-and-vdev-topology-for-proxmox-workloads/">Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads</a></p>
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<p><b>News/discussion</b></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/ai_blamed_again_as_hard_drives_sell_out/">AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/hard-drive-pricing-in-the-uk-is-so-high-that-a-person-flew-to-the-us-to-buy-them-instead-saving-money-despite-flight-and-hotel-costs-hdd-deal-seeker-saved-more-than-usd2-000-by-taking-a-trip">Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/">Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is &#8216;fully conscious&#8217;</a></p>
<p><a href="https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/">An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me</a></p>
<p><a href="https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/">An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened</a></p>
<p><a href="https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-3/">An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout</a></p>
<p><a href="https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/">An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward</a></p>
<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/">Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations</a></p>
<p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p">Sorry all this is my fault</a></p>
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