Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 139: Just Abandon Twitter

The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drive innovation, Arm servers, and the Fediverse. Plus whether FreeBSD’s license has held it back, and generating SSL ce…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

2.5 Admins 138: Drive Failure

Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud outage locks some people out of their data, why we don’t talk much about Veeam, and running containers a…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

2.5 Admins 137: Schrodinger’s Backup

Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the importance of testing your backups, and we brainstorm a sysadmin’s version of a minimal password manage…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

2.5 Admins 136: Red Scare

Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about the way the security research community is changing, and what server manufacturers we recommend.

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

2.5 Admins 135: Moonshots

Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philosophical question, Jim’s frustrations with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system.

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Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

2.5 Admins 134: 2guys1tesla

Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers.

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FreeBSD vs Linux: Traci…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

2.5 Admins 133: ElasticWallet

Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker, why you really shouldn’t use a smart plug to powercycle your router, running SMB and NFS shares on…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

2.5 Admins 132: 1.5FA

Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent LastPass breach, and setting up a DNS server in the cloud.

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Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

2.5 Admins 131: At Least Try

Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don’t use Btrfs, and getting notifications for your monitoring.

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Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

2.5 Admins 130: HotBot Topic

Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering spam, and organising data with backups in mind.

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Published on 2 years, 10 months ago