Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 254: chrudo

A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

2.5 Admins 253: ImpossibleFS

Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 252: Nintendon’t Back Up

Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server.

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Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 251: OversharePoint

SharePoint is exploitable by Microsoft’s AI, NIST proposes a new metric for exploited vulnerabilities, SBCs that look cool for a mini NAS and a router,  and setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.

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Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 250: Better RAIDz?

Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta’s new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the inside details of a new mixed-disk-size ZFS RAID feature…

Published on 3 months ago

2.5 Admins 249: Octopodian Nightmare

Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form facto…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

2.5 Admins 248: NASty Pi

TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there’s a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn’t make a great NAS, and when …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 247: MPOF

The basic computer science problems that still remain unsolvable, why you shouldn’t trust AI to tune ZFS (or answer any admin questions), and setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.

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Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 246: Perpetual Hotpatch

Old passwords work for Windows RDP, Broadcom shows why perpetual software licenses aren’t really forever, Windows Server is getting hotpatching, and preventing changes to archived files.

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Published on 4 months ago

2.5 Admins 245: IPaaS

Crosswalks were comically vulnerable to being hacked, even Google struggles with tiered SSD and HDD storage, some insight into how AI scrapers are using domestic IPs, and creating a ZFS mirror one di…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago