Podcast Episodes

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 6 months, 3 weeks 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 7 months 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 7 months, 1 week 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 7 months, 2 weeks 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 7 months, 3 weeks ago

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 8 months 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 8 months, 1 week 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 8 months, 2 weeks 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 8 months, 3 weeks 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 8 months, 4 weeks ago