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2.5 Admins
2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every week we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
Episodes
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2.5 Admins 143: Even Stars Die
Adobe’s vague threats show why open source is often the pragmatic choice, Russians craft a poor man’s ransomware with WinRAR, Chrome drops the padlock icon…
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2.5 Admins 142: Intel Key Party
Google’s attempt to replace passwords with keys, why Jim thinks IBM is dragging Red Hat in the wrong direction, Intel’s rudimentary error that breaks a…
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2.5 Admins 141: Sysadmin Hunt
What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web, why some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic…
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2.5 Admins 140: /dev/nullvad
How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be worried about public phone chargers, an “anti-ransomware”…
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2.5 Admins 139: Just Abandon Twitter
The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drive innovation, Arm servers, and the Fediverse. Plus whether FreeBSD’s license…
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2.5 Admins 138: Drive Failure
Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud outage locks some people out of their data, why we…
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2.5 Admins 137: Schrodinger’s Backup
Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the importance of testing your backups, and we brainstorm a…
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2.5 Admins 136: Red Scare
Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about the way the security research community is changing, and…
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2.5 Admins 135: Moonshots
Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philosophical question, Jim’s frustrations…
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2.5 Admins 134: 2guys1tesla
Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers. Plugs Support…
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2.5 Admins 133: ElasticWallet
Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker, why you really shouldn’t use a smart plug to…
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2.5 Admins 132: 1.5FA
Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent LastPass breach, and setting up a DNS server in the cloud…
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2.5 Admins 131: At Least Try
Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don’t use Btrfs, and getting…
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2.5 Admins 130: HotBot Topic
Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering spam, and organising data with backups in mind. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 129: 2.5aDMiNs.cOm
A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy cameras, why Jim and Allan won’t be active…
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2.5 Admins 128: Some Value
Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a mail server. Plugs Support us on patreon Auditing for…
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2.5 Admins 127: Public Why-Fi
Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying to be your own bank, and separating legacy WiFi devices…
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2.5 Admins 126: Copy on Flight
A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake SSDs on Amazon, and IP schemes vs internal DNS. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 125: Into Thin Eir
Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaningless, we try not to laugh at the Bitcoin dev who lost all…
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2.5 Admins 124: LastMigration
LastPass vaults are leaked, ChatGPT is coming to Bing, live migrations, and SSD vs spinning disk power usage. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara is looking for…
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2.5 Admins 123: 4
It’s the last episode of the year so we look back at a couple of 2022 trends: the explosion of AI/ML, and big social media changes. Plus a quick-fire ZFS…
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2.5 Admins 122: PayAsYouPay
Buying and renting features in Intel hardware that you’ve already bought, killer robots, a huge nuclear fusion breakthrough, and the pros and cons of…
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2.5 Admins 121: 2PHA
Saving money by changing the CPU frequency governor on servers, Making unphishable 2FA phishable, phishing with Google Docs, monitoring at scale, and using ZFS…
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2.5 Admins 120: Certified Malware
Security cameras that aren’t quite as secure as they claim, why it’s difficult to trust software “from Samsung”, getting started with…
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2.5 Admins 119: Six Month Scrub
The risks of taking your laptop to a repair shop, why DNS has become concentrated to just a few providers, and powering down drives periodically. Plugs Support…
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2.5 Admins 118: Chaos Emerald Wealth
Why the Twitter infrastructure is creaking, Jim’s experiences of the Ubuntu Summit, changing VM resources without rebooting, and more. News/discussion…
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2.5 Admins 117: Local Burner
Microsoft’s half-baked Arm machine, why it’s a bad idea to go to the World Cup in Qatar, using WireGuard to punch through double NAT, and the best…
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2.5 Admins 116: Worst Billionaire
Android’s controversial VPN settings, the deepfake audio arms race, the Metaverse is even worse than we thought, and why you shouldn’t use external…
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2.5 Admins 115: Key Party
Password spray attacks, the value of certifications vs actual experience, and the best VPN strategy. News/discussion Use Authentication Policies to Fight…
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2.5 Admins 114: RAID WTF
An impressive AI pretends to be Linux, Jim gets angry about a RAIDZ calculator, and using a laptop as a server. News/discussion We interviewed Linux OS through…
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2.5 Admins 113: Eggs and Baskets
Traditional vs modern backup methods, hiding malware inside innocent-looking files, and power loss protection in SSDs. News/discussion Steganography alert…
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2.5 Admins 112: Reuse > Recycle
A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups from a Windows machine. Plugs Support us on patreon iX and…
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2.5 Admins 111: The Freezer Trick
SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 110: Border Gateway Currency
How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS…
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2.5 Admins 109: Selling Technical Debt
Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches…
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2.5 Admins 108: dQw4w9WgXcQ
Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners. With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin)…
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2.5 Admins 107: s/smart//g
Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches. News/discussion…
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2.5 Admins 106: Wrap Your Deenis
A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem. Plugs Support us on patreon…
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2.5 Admins 105: Old Men Yell at Cloud
The pros and cons of using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro…
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2.5 Admins 104: Bathtub Map
Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 103: AAD the SQL
Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more. With guest…
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2.5 Admins 102: Admins After Dark
The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more. With guest…
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2.5 Admins 101: Atomic Database
Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 100: 💯
More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more. Plugs Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting…
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2.5 Admins 99: 00000000
A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS. Plugs From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1…
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2.5 Admins 98: Lemonade
Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more. Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility…
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2.5 Admins 97: Gotta Go Fast
The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Webinar…
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2.5 Admins 96: Skunky Routers
Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux servers, and you’ll never guess what Jim and Allan…
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2.5 Admins 95: Opened in 45 Seconds
The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu desktop, and when you should have passwords on your SSH keys…
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2.5 Admins 94: Free IPv4s, Click Here!
Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be automated, what to do with SMR drives, and more. Plugs ZFS…
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2.5 Admins 93: Bhyve Mind
A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and perfect use case for WireGuard. Discussion Jim has been…
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2.5 Admins 92: End to End to End
End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA, and backing up your photos with encryption. Plugs…
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2.5 Admins 91: The Deenis
More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives. Plugs bhyve: the BSD…
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2.5 Admins 90: 2 Admins
Another attempt to replace passwords, trying to solve the problem of write-once storage, and the unusual ways we manage our invoices. Plugs EuroBSDCon CfP…
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2.5 Admins 89: Warm Storage
How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thoughts on crypto nonsense, and more. Plugs Learning the…
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2.5 Admins 88: Great Scott
Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror. Plugs Build your own NAS, Part 2…
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2.5 Admins 87: Unplanned Obsolescence
Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containers, and cloud storage that isn’t quite as…
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2.5 Admins 86: Reluctant Sysadmin
The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securing SSH keys when using Git. With guest host Dalton Durst…
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2.5 Admins 85: Textbook Scam
CAPTCHAs in phishing attacks, Jim gets angry about Bitcoin propaganda in schools, and packet loss with UDP. Plugs Tuning OpenZFS Record size Support us on…
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2.5 Admins 84: Open Source Sabotage
An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more. Plugs Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1? Support us on…