Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF

A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android multi-user bug, package managers on Windows, and Tosh…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 168: Do The Right Thing

Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it should be, Jim’s report from the Ubuntu Summit, and what to do when you find a company’s sensitive da…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 167: Delayed Flush

The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why we don’t talk about Toshiba hard drives very often, and the implications of poor Bluetooth security o…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque

What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pr…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 165: Big AI

The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS.

News/discussion

Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 164: Filthy Internet

Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot.

Feedback

Don’t use autofill on your password manager

Story Time

A…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 163: Two Factors One SPOF

A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution.

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News/discussion

How …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 162: Irresponsible Disclosure

Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.

Plugs

Suppo…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

2.5 Admins 161: 5PiB Coffee Mug

The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs.

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Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 160: Diss Unity

Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive problem, how one-off promotional domains can come back to bite you, and picking the hardware and sof…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago