Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet

Synology has quietly walked the policy back. […] Drives from Seagate, WD, and others will work exactly as they did before—complete with full monitoring, alerts, and storage features.

That’s fantastic news. I still don’t know if I’ll stay with Synology, as I’d already started migrating off it, but now I won’t completely rule it out.

I don’t know if the perfect video game exists, but “Hades II” slots itself flawlessly into the part of my brain that weighs such things.

“Challenge: Name the worst possible TV show you can imagine.”

Photo of a TV guide showing “Larry King’s Prostate Report”.

JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.

Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.

blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025…