2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 325: Fmail
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2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every week we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
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- 2.5 Admins 325: Fmail · 29 minWhy we think ActivityPub federation could replace email, Proxmox Backup Server is worth considering in addition to ZFS snapshots, follow-up on doomsday tech, sharing Jellyfin…
- 2.5 Admins 324: Less Canadian · 33 minA bug in APT shines a light on a long-standing issue, backing up databases in containers, the pros and cons of using FreeBSD to host Linux VMs, network isolation for VMs, and…
- 2.5 Admins 323: No /boot For You · 28 minWhy you should be watching for SSL certificates that you didn’t issue, Let’s Encrypt is shortening the length of certs to 64 days, Ubuntu tightens up GRUB with secure boot, an…
- 2.5 Admins 322: Internet Defrigeration · 29 minSupermarkets found out why their fridges shouldn’t be on the Internet and Samsung smart fridges broke after a firmware update, why we don’t recommend MoCA, some tips for running…
- 2.5 Admins 321: Backup Strategy · 28 minWhy batteries in homes could benefit everyone involved, why we didn’t bring up wake-on-LAN when someone asked about keeping a NAS powered on as little as possible, building a…
- 2.5 Admins 320: Dining on Goose · 30 minGoogle offers a few pennies to web publishers to make up for stealing their content and not sending them any traffic, the tech we’d try to use after the apocalypse, why Jim…
- 2.5 Admins 319: Funding Open Source · 30 minThe challenges of funding open source software projects, how Netflix uses FreeBSD in a positive way, why you shouldn’t try to complicate your monitoring, and running servers in a…
- 2.5 Admins 318: End of Exchange · 31 minMicrosoft really wants you to update your Exchange server, our thoughts on immutable distros, more on Jim’s approach to internet access for his kids, restricting access to…
- 2.5 Admins 317: Need Less · 26 minSome of the ways you can mitigate the ridiculous hardware prices, and designing a small business LAN. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early…
- 2.5 Admins 316: BGP Clipboard Hijack · 28 minA BGP hijack involved some basic errors, Microsoft teaches people to ignore warnings in Windows, Zoom appears to be reading the clipboard on X11, why a non-US open certificate…
- 2.5 Admins 315: Hot Bus Adapter · 27 minWhat to read into a study of long-term Backblaze hard drive failure data, why the difference between TB and TiB matters, and what to do about an overheating host bus adapter…
- 2.5 Admins 314: 50 PBS TBS · 28 minA TV station struggles to retrieve its data from the data centre company that a defunct intermediary used, why we don’t want AI to manage our networks (even if Microsoft thinks…
- 2.5 Admins 313: Cooking with NVMe · 28 minMicrosoft claims that Windows 11 will work well with 8GB of RAM, some of the innovations coming to high end SSDs, the arguments for TP-Link Omada over Ubiquiti UniFi. Plugs…
- 2.5 Admins 312: Bus Factor · 27 minIn a world where photos can no longer be trusted, Jim argues that we should move to a default distrust model where images are signed at every stage of the process of creation. We…
- 2.5 Admins 311: Couch Cushions · 28 minMicrosoft restored an account including files that it initially claimed wasn’t possible, Apple might lock down phones if people don’t keep up their lease payments, ZFS scrubs…
- 2.5 Admins 310: GPLFreeBSD · 29 minGoogle wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disagree about how serious OpenAI’s agent…
- 2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron · 24 minA new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for…
- 2.5 Admins 308: Sloppy Shims · 28 minMicrosoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning…
- 2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool · 27 minFollow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool. Plugs…
- 2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable · 28 minWhy setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi…
- 2.5 Admins 305: Short Two · 7 minThe one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break. See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
- 2.5 Admins 304: Wiring a House · 30 minWiring up a house for networking including cables, access points, connectors, and racks. Plus Google is found liable for what its AI overviews say. Plugs Support us on patreon…
- 2.5 Admins 303: Denial of Secrets · 30 minPeople were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, and the best simple consumer WiFi gear…
- 2.5 Admins 302: ClawPilot · 33 minMicrosoft threatens a security researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities publicly, bricks old versions of Office, and announces their version of OpenClaw. Plus keeping up with…
- 2.5 Admins 301: F(OSS) Consulting · 29 minIt looks like Bitlocker had a back door in it, how a listener accidentally broke Gitea for users of the snap version, Google accidentally published an unpatched exploit for…
- 2.5 Admins 300: IPvWot? · 28 minWhy a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn’t want you to run Exchange Server on-prem, Google will finally stop being a proper…
- 2.5 Admins 299: RMAggravation · 28 minPeople trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave someone’s domain name away, and when…
- 2.5 Admins 298: Windows PostdateMicrosoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of the best features you’ll get in the…
- 2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics · 33 minHitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general…
- 2.5 Admins 296: Beware of the Leopard · 31 minMicrosoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimited” never means that, and attempting to avoid…
- 2.5 Admins 295: Orbital Meltdown · 28 minWhy putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on really old Dell servers. Plug Support us…
- 2.5 Admins 294: Oh, R2 · 22 minArm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a friend’s photos. Plugs Support us on…
- 2.5 Admins 293: Reduced Flicker · 27 minMicrosoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer’s server is down, and whether you…
- 2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected · 27 minThe US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesystems inside VMs. Plugs…
- 2.5 Admins 291: UPS for LiFePO4 · 29 minWhy passkeys aren’t the right solution to everything, Allan tells us why he loves his new Lithium Iron Phosphate UPS, Btrfs vs ZFS on root, and restricting Internet access for…
- 2.5 Admins 290: Tired of Tracking · 29 minMicrosoft Authenticator will delete Entra credentials on phones that aren’t running stock ROMs, Jim’s nightmare experience trying to get a user back into their MS account…
- 2.5 Admins 289: Hunter2 · 27 minAn exciting new cold storage technology seems to be getting closer, Nvidia seemingly wants a slice of the laptop hardware action, why you (and your users) should definitely not…
- 2.5 Admins 288: HDD Tourism · 29 minHardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is…
- 2.5 Admins 287: Dual Arguators · 33 minJim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops. Plugs Support us…
- 2.5 Admins 286: Windows Crashed · 26 minNotepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a laptop properly. Plugs…
- 2.5 Admins 285: example.com.oops · 28 minOutlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of cloud and on-prem (centralised and local computing), and why you probably shouldn’t use NMVe to…
- 2.5 Admins 284: BooTooth · 26 minWhy you might not want your Windows encryption keys to be backed up to Microsoft, some Bluetooth devices are vulnerable to snooping and tracking, a lesson in the need for…
- 2.5 Admins 283: FSOD · 25 minThe last method to activate Windows without the Internet has gone away, malware that tricks users with a fake blue screen of death, and recovering from bad RAM with ZFS. Plugs…
- 2.5 Admins 282: Fragile DNS · 29 minCisco network gear fell over when it shouldn’t have, yet another security flaw is found in Microsoft Copilot, the US military is letting Grok into all its networks, and managing…
- 2.5 Admins 281: Lead The Target · 27 minThe many reasons why email shouldn’t be trusted. Plus how to stop your kids accessing inappropriate content online, and why the answer probably isn’t a technical one. Plugs…
- 2.5 Admins 280: Bad Parking · 26 minWhy you should probably keep paying for your old domains, the perpetual problem of typo squatting, a machine learning expert’s take on BS from LLMs, and whether to separate…
- 2.5 Admins 279: Short One · 7 minThe one bit of advice we’d give to someone wanting to become a professional sysadmin. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period. See our…
- 2.5 Admins 278: XXXfil · 26 minApple deletes a person’s entire digital life, PornHub Premium user data is leaked, Mozilla’s new CEO wants to ruin Firefox, Tech Force in the USA is alarming, and fine tuning…
- 2.5 Admins 277: Battering RAM · 29 minThe Crucial brand of consumer SSDs and RAM is going away, AMD and Intel memory encryption can be bypassed with cheap hardware, more AI buffoonery, and monitoring users’ usage on…
- 2.5 Admins 276: Very Prudish Network · 26 minWhat a government crackdown on VPNs would look like, malware groups play the long game with browser extensions, a new major version of FreeBSD is released, and using a single…
