Podcast Episodes

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 9 months 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 9 months, 1 week 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 9 months, 2 weeks 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 9 months, 4 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 10 months ago

2.5 Admins 234: ChiaFraud

Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datas…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

2.5 Admins 233: 2.005 Admins

We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote d…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 232: S:

An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in …

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

2.5 Admins 231: USB 3.2.2-ubuntu2

Microsoft didn’t control an important domain that it was using and end up red-faced, the dangers of using free VPN apps, a proof of concept exploit is out for last year’s SSH vulnerability, USB is ge…

Published on 11 months ago

2.5 Admins 230: Pool of Theseus

A new version of ZFS is out and we go over the great new features. Plus recovering data after accidentally writing part of an ISO onto a USB drive, how to deal with abuse of your domain, and replacin…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago