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25admins, 4 days ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 198: SMB Pulse

Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogent root-server mysteriously goes out of sync without them spotting it, and protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-198/

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25admins, 12 days ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 197: Exchange Money

Linux kernel developers were infected with malware for 2 years, another nail in the coffin of proper federated email as Exchange Server moves to a subscription model, followup on zfsbootmenu and IPv6, and learning unfamiliar topics.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-197/

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25admins, 19 days ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 196: Won’tel

Microsoft’s new Copilot+ feature will record everything you are doing on your computer for some reason, but it will only work on new Arm hardware for now. Plus Apple’s weird iOS bug that restored deleted files and photos, and sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-196/

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25admins, 26 days ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 195: Execute Option 121

Why Windows 10 might be gaining users at Windows 11’s expense, an old DHCP option is a potential risk for VPN users, we should probably say “renting” rather than “buying”domains, and avoiding tracking when using IPv6.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-195/

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25admins, 1 month ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 194: Thundering Mastodon

Mastodon’s link previews are causing downtime for web servers without properly configured caching, locking down DNS inside Windows networks, why using write-once backup media is a bad idea, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-194/

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25admins, 1 month ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 193: TV DoS

How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different TVs, Jim’s alarming theory about AI malware, and encrypting offsite backups.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-193/

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25admins, 1 month ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 192: ZFS Week

ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess).

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-192/

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25admins, 1 month ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 191: Mechanical Turk

Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-191/

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25admins, 1 month ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 190: twitterz

A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-190/

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25admins, 2 months ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 189: Too Much Glass

Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-189/

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25admins, 2 months ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 188: Farewell to Core

The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-188/

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25admins, 2 months ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 187: MDK

Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-187/

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25admins, 3 months ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 185: 2.5 Gigabits

The boss of Nvidia says kids don’t need to code because they can just use AI, companies sell their users’ data to train models, and why 2.5Gbps networking probably isn’t worth bothering with.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-185/

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25admins, 3 months ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 184: Avast, mateys

More cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans students’ faces, using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-184/

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25admins, 3 months ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 183: Unbootable Quantum Toothbrushes

Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-183/

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25admins, 3 months ago to random

2.5 Admins 182: All the Small Things

Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-182/

25admins, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to linux

2.5 Admins 181: Triangle Fraud

Trying to report a security issue lands a consultant in trouble, a new take on the drop shipping scam, setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, choosing the right disk size, and more.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-181/

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25admins, 4 months ago to random

2.5 Admins 180: Email 777

Microsoft's rudimentary error that allowed an attacker access to its executives' emails, Pixel phones have another serious storage bug, hidden malware payload found at Ars Technica, and when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-180/

25admins, 4 months ago to random

2.5 Admins 179: Y2K NotOK

Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the experience on the desktop, and what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-179/

numbleroot, 4 months ago to random

@25admins Hey 👋 Enjoying your podcast very much, thank you all!

I'd have one feature request: Would it be possible to use chapter marks to separate the individual discussed topics from each other in an episode?

If one topic is less interesting than the others, chapter marks are much more convenient to skip it than forwarding an unknown number of times.

25admins, 4 months ago to Podcast

2.5 Admins 178: LOTS of Storage

Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-178/

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25admins, 4 months ago to random

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25admins, 5 months ago to random

2.5 Admins 177: Don’t Pay the Dane

Why the problems with open source licenses aren’t quite as easy to fix as some people think, the reasons you should never pay ransomware gangs, and running a Nagios distro on a Raspberry Pi.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-177/

25admins, 5 months ago to random

2.5 Admins 176: Sudo Cognito

What does “incognito mode” in Chrome actually mean and whether documenting browser standards in code is a good idea, the serious implications of a fun story about messing with a ChatGPT instance, and maximizing performance when using mixed disk types on ZFS mirrored vdevs.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-176/

25admins, 5 months ago to random

2.5 Admins 175: Guess Who’s Listening

Twitch pulls out of Korea thanks to the opposite of Net Neutrality, it’s not clear to what extent smart devices are listening to your conversations, more on water usage in data centers, and our thoughts on mandatory access controls.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-175/