Considering upgrading from TrueNAS Core to FreeBSD 15 + Sylve

 Interestingly enough, someone has posted a blog of their experience from doing the upgrade from TrueNAS Core, based upon FreeBSD 13.3, to a setup using FreeBSD 15 with Sylve. I am quite interested in performing such an upgrade as it would allow me to keep the same Jails that I have already running, something that I would not be able to do if I migrate to TrueNAS Scale.

Either way, it will require effort but I am thinking that upgrading to FreeBSD 15 + Sylve will be less effort.

Ref:

• https://blog.klop.ws/2026/03/migrate-truenas-core-to-sylve.html
• https://sylve.io/docs/
  

Random thought on smart appliances

Smart home "white box" appliances, appliances which are not handheld, have no business being wifi connected. They should be 10/1000 Mbps ethernet or canbus.

Sophisticated Google Phishing Attack

There appears to be a high quality account takeover attacks, targeting Google Gmail accounts where the bad actor tries to initiate a password reset on the victim. 

In order to facilitate the attack, they're using Google Cloud Monitoring to send the victim a convincing email from the google.com domain such that it passes Gmail's SPF email checks.

The attacker first phones the victim, claiming that they're checking about a primary phone number change or something. They then send the alert email above to "authenticate* themselves before they initiate a password change where they ask the user to complete the verification check on their device. They will tell the user what number to confirm. After the victim does that, it's game over.

Anyways, I hope no one I know falls victim to this attack.