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 two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
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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” SSD, and monitoring ZFS with Zabbix. Plugs Support us on patreon Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions: OpenZFS vs. The Rest News Vague warning about an Amazon compromise Mullvad VPN was […]
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 has held it back, and generating SSL certificates on a router. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and […]
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 don’t talk much about Veeam, and running containers as root. Plugs Support us on patreon Managing Disk Arrays on FreeBSD and TrueNAS News Google Drive quietly introduced (then pulled) […]
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 sysadmin’s version of a minimal password manager. News/discussion Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage […]
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 what server manufacturers we recommend. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars News TikTok ban hearing: all the […]
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 with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD History: Understanding the origins of DTrace News/discussion Requiem for Google Reader, gone but not forgotten Samsung’s […]
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 us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Tracing and Troubleshooting News Silicon Valley Bank collapses Common equity capital chart Man accidentally drove away in someone else’s […]
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 powercycle your router, running SMB and NFS shares on the same host, why private keys should stay private, and using old hardware as a backup server. Plugs Support us on […]
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. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Webinar: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit News An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter LastPass says employee’s home […]
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 notifications for your monitoring. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Sysadmin Series: How to catch a bitcoin miner News/discussion Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software […]
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. News Bing is having bizarre emotional breakdowns and there’s a subreddit with examples Alphabet stock price drops after Google Bard launch blunder Microsoft classifies own emails as junk […]
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 on Mastodon any time soon, and how we set up servers in a few minutes. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit […]
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 Storage Performance News WhatsApp accounts takeover Perfectly Good MacBooks From 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock Free Consulting We were […]
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 from modern ones. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS: Data Security vs Integrity News/discussion Why Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You […]
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 Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Package Management News FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file The Future of ZFS on […]