Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 259: New Web?

The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happeni…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 258: Artificial Dirtbag

Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 257: Outage365

Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let’s Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses, and the differences between backup and production …

Published on 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 256: Why ZFS

To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration.

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Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

2.5 Admins 255: Copyright Your Face

Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin j…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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 5 months, 3 weeks 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 5 months, 4 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 6 months 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 6 months, 1 week 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 6 months, 2 weeks ago