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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/edi

Episodes

Total: 222

Why we didn’t mention pocket fluff when we talked about USB-C charging issues, Microsoft aband

Vulnerabilities in Asus hardware make us think there should be some regulations about what can be so

It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard d

How to prepare for your loved ones to have the access they need if the worst unexpectedly happens, J

Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogen

Linux kernel developers were infected with malware for 2 years, another nail in the coffin of proper

2.5 Admins 196: Won’tel

2024/5/23

Microsoft’s new Copilot+ feature will record everything you are doing on your computer for som

Why Windows 10 might be gaining users at Windows 11’s expense, an old DHCP option is a potenti

Mastodon’s link previews are causing downtime for web servers without properly configured cach

2.5 Admins 193: TV DoS

2024/5/2

How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different

2.5 Admins 192: ZFS Week

2024/4/25

ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation

Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI&#8221

2.5 Admins 190: twitterz

2024/4/11

A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail

Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on

The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM cha

2.5 Admins 187: MDK

2024/3/21

Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers&#82

Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and comput

The boss of Nvidia says kids don’t need to code because they can just use AI, companies sell t

More cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans stu

Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hyp