Podcast Episodes

2.5 Admins 244: Branded and Splintered

Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn’t appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted ba…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 243: 0.5 Centuries

IPv4 addresses are worth an awful lot of money, the serious dangers of a seemingly sensible deepfake law, Microsoft is 50 years old, and our thoughts on antivirus on Linux and Windows.

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Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 242: Malscraping

Jim’s server is getting hammered by AI scrapers and he’s big mad about it, why RCS doesn’t work on Android without Google apps, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their Wire…

Published on 5 months ago

2.5 Admins 241: Anecdatum

Whether tech debt is inevitable and where the blame lies, how to properly organise ZFS datasets, and selectively managing updates.

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Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

2.5 Admins 240: 30 DVI Cables

The key differences between throughput and latency – and when they matter, the tech that we’d keep if we stopped working in IT, and avoiding bitrot with rsync backups.

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Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 239: Collective Power

RISC-V is on the rise in China, why Power CPUs aren’t as promising, the dystopian nightmare of surveillance tech at work, and  decrypting ZFS at boot.

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Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 238: Hyperbranded Nonsense

Ten-year-old Chromecasts stop working, movie DVDs start rotting, Skype is finally dying, using ZFS on VM guests and hosts.

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Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 237: Kafkaesque

HP was forcing people to wait on hold for 15 minutes to get support, the DOGE site was embarrassingly insecure, setting up encrypted offsite backups, and mixing SATA and NVMe in a server.

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Published on 6 months ago

2.5 Admins 236: Hybrid Admins Show

Arm is going to make its own server chips, WordPress is selling “100 year” domain registrations, geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows to Backblaze B2.

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Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 235: XKCD221

Google found a way to run unofficial microcode on AMD CPUs, whether software should get a CVE when it goes end of life, LLMs changing Redditors’ minds and self-replicating, and managing SSH keys at s…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago