2.5 Admins

2.5 Admins 310: GPLFreeBSD Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disagree about how serious OpenAI’s agent hacking Hugging Face is, FreeBSD removes the last bits of GPL software and suffers an embarrassing git flub , and backing up to an encrypted NAS without ZFS. https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-310/ #podcast #sysadmin

2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often. https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-309/ #podcast #sysadmin

2.5 Admins 308: Sloppy Shims Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database. https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-308/ #podcast #sysadmin

2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool. https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-307/ #podcast #sysadmin

2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building. https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-306/ #podcast #sysadmin

2.5 Admins 299: RMAggravation

People trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave someone’s domain name away, and when and how to fix ZFS fragmentation.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-299/

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2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics

Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general, and changing the properties of existing ZFS pools.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-297/

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2.5 Admins 296: Beware of the Leopard

Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimited” never means that, and attempting to avoid software that’s written with AI.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-296/

2.5 Admins 295: Orbital Meltdown

Why putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on really old Dell servers.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-295/

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2.5 Admins 294: Oh, R2

Arm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a friend’s photos.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-294/

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2.5 Admins 293: Reduced Flicker

Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer’s server is down, and whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-293/

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2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected

The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesystems inside VMs.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-292/

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2.5 Admins 291: UPS for LiFePO4

Why passkeys aren’t the right solution to everything, Allan tells us why he loves his new Lithium Iron Phosphate UPS, Btrfs vs ZFS on root, and restricting Internet access for IoT devices on your network.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-291/

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2.5 Admins 290: Tired of Tracking

Microsoft Authenticator will delete Entra credentials on phones that aren’t running stock ROMs, Jim’s nightmare experience trying to get a user back into their MS account, tracking vehicles via tire pressure monitors, using a ZFS pool in a degraded state, and keeping cold ZFS storage dataset snapshots in sync.
 
https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-290/

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2.5 Admins 289: Hunter2

An exciting new cold storage technology seems to be getting closer, Nvidia seemingly wants a slice of the laptop hardware action, why you (and your users) should definitely not use LLMs to “generate” passwords , and whistleblowing when sensitive customer data isn’t being taken seriously.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-289/

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2.5 Admins 288: HDD Tourism

Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-288/

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2.5 Admins 287: Dual Arguators

Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-287/

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2.5 Admins 285: example.com.oops

Outlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of cloud and on-prem (centralised and local computing), and why you probably shouldn’t use NMVe to SATA adapters.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-285/

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2.5 Admins 284: BooTooth

Why you might not want your Windows encryption keys to be backed up to Microsoft, some Bluetooth devices are vulnerable to snooping and tracking, a lesson in the need for backups, and the best practices and stack for setting up a mail server.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-284/

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2.5 Admins 283: FSOD

The last method to activate Windows without the Internet has gone away, malware that tricks users with a fake blue screen of death, and recovering from bad RAM with ZFS.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-283/

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