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2.5 Admins 184: Avast, mateys

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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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News “So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to […]

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Feb 29, 2024

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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 02: Updating to Arm: Our thoughts on DNS-over-HTTPS, whether Arm is about to take over, HDD advice, and automatic updates and reboots. Plugs Help us keep the lights on by supporting us on Patreon. Watch Allan’s Homelab panel recording for BSDCan 2020 on May 5th, by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 06: BFYTW: Jim bought the worst laptop in the world, a quick update on SMR drives, learning the basics of ZFS, and updating air-gapped servers. Plug Support the podcast on Patreon News We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to Lawsuit vs. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses: The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS. Plugs FreeBSD Periodic Scripts Support us on patreon News/discussion Microsoft: Windows needs at least 8 hours online to update reliably Why we’re migrating (many of) our... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 64: Augmented Dystopia: Why the metaverse sounds terrible, Alder Lake benchmarks, revoking SSH keys, remote management of Windows machines, and more. Plugs Looking towards the future: FreeBSD on RISC-V Support us on patreon News Welcome to Meta Intel’s Alder Lake big. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 70: Xmas AMA: It’s our holiday AMA episode. We answered your questions about hobbies, TV resolutions, living in the moment, and the biggest screw-ups we’ve witnessed. Plugs Panel: FreeBSD Arm64 Flexibility with Ampere Support us on patreon Linode Simplify yo... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 57: Spherical Chickens: What exactly constitutes WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, your feedback about time-based YouTube blocking, Optane in servers, and what sysadmins actually do. Plugs Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP stack Support us on patreon News/Discussion WhatsApp “en... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 01: ZFS love-fest: In our first episode, Allan Jude, Jim Salter, and Joe Ressington discuss Amazon cutting affiliate rates, SMR hard drives, and setting up off-site backups on the cheap. News Amazon reportedly planning drastic cuts to affiliate commission rates Buyer... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 59: Megaphone in the Middle: Why RISC-V looks promising for the future, how the web switched to HTTPS by default, an interesting DoS method, and how mitigating ssh attacks has changed over the years. Plugs RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block Support us on patreon News/Di... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 03: Apache’s Btr than you think: Why Apache is still relevant in 2020, and the differences between ZFS and Btrfs. Plugs Allan’s BSDCan Homelab panel Allan on setns.live Support the podcast on Patreon Apache vs Nginx Apache 101 Free Consulting Several people including Emil have a... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 04: Zooming from pets to cattle: Zoom’s new encryption, podcasts in walled gardens, and servers as pets vs cattle. Plug Support the podcast on Patreon News Zoom to require users to upgrade to 5.0 after May 30th Zoom bought Keybase in early May Joe Rogan will move his podcast to Sp... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 62: Top Notch: The stupid notch on the new Macs, why Windows 11 had performance issues with AMD CPUs, why hibernation isn’t really a thing, and more. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online Understanding top(1) on FreeBSD Support us on patreon News AMD ... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 68: Shuckchain: A mystery in the Tor network, whether blockchain has any real-world value, configuring passwords with Ansible, and burning in new disks. With guest host Gary Williams from Linux After Dark. Plugs Allan was on Late Night Linux Extra talking about Free... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 60: Butter Fingers: How Facebook’s services managed to go down for 6 hours, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now easier than ever to set up, and expanding a large capacity storage server. Plugs Webinar: Enterprise Certificate Management on FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 E... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 61: Alice and Bob: How not to steal and sell sensitive information, why ISPs shouldn’t try to sue Netflix, and the best way to set up wireless access points. Plugs Webinar: Enterprise Certificate Management on FreeBSD – October 28th @ 12:00 ET FreeBSD Developer Worksta... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 58: Autocompromised: A pretty serious flaw with Autodiscover that leaks email credentials, why Btrfs sucks for more than one disk, and the best hardware for a low-powered NAS. Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available When to use a SLOG, by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 07: Fail dumpster fire: Initial Arm Mac benchmarks are out and they aren’t terrible, getting the best transfer speeds over USB, and rolling our own home routers. Plugs FreeBSD Bug Squash Support the podcast on Patreon News First benchmarks surface for Apple’s ARM-based De... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 66: Lack of Entropy: Tesla owners locked out of their cars, a Linux side-channel attack that enables DNS cache poisoning, why Jim doesn’t use Proxmox, and accessing KVM hosts from Windows. Plugs Jim was on Late Night Linux twice, as well as Late Night Linux Extra. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 67: Haitch: An insight into the massive scale of Google’s infrastructure, Allan and Jim refuse to accept that crypto now means cryptocurrency (and confuse Latin and Greek), multi-factor auth and WireGuard, and testing network quality. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 69: Nice: A huge vulnerability in a Java logging library, ZFS on AWS disappoints, the fastest web servers for static sites, the importance of certs, and more. Plugs Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to investigate known security issues Support us on patreon News/Dis... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 71: Recover Calmly: Why ransomware isn’t really an infosec problem, how some open source work Allan helped with saved a company millions of dollars, your feedback, and more. Plugs OpenZFS: Native Encryption Support us on patreon News/Discussion Kronos hack will likely... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 05: IPv6 when?: When the world will move to IPv6, WD SMR drives put to the test, raw vs qcow2 on ZFS, and erasing SSDs. Plug Support the podcast on Patreon News It could be ‘five to ten years’ before the world finally drags itself away from IPv4 We put Western Dig... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 56: OMIGOD root: Yet another Azure vulnerability, Anonymous dumps a huge Epik leak, running a desktop in a VM, SSH keys on a Yubikey, and ZFS send to TrueNAS. Plugs Understanding ZFS Channel Programs Support us on patreon News Security researchers at Wiz discover a... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 77: The Joe Ressington Experience: What the recent Spotify controversy means for open podcasting standards, why young people increasingly don’t understand the concept of a hierarchical filesystem, and our update practices. Plugs Modern inetd on FreeBSD Support us on patreon Discussi... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 65: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten: How some Swedish parents tried to take control of their kids’ education app, why you shouldn’t try to add magsafe to your phone, introducing the new shiny at work, Samba security, and more. Plugs FreeBSD Papers We Love: Jails and Cloneable Network St... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 75: Burning Fiber: Allan has a recent war story for us, Microsoft blocked email from Linode, maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server, and more. Plugs Cluster Provisioning with Nomad and Pot Support us on patreon Feedback Register article about Micro... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 72: Email Cartel: Microsoft suffers an embarrassment with Exchange, why it’s so hard to host your own email, and the easiest and safest way to manage your backups. Plugs BSDCan 2022: June 1-4th. CFP Closes Jan 19th Support us on patreon News/discussion Microsoft rel... by 2.5 Admins
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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 patreon Discussion How CAPTCHA puzzles cloak phishing page URLs in emails Jim gets mad about ... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 73: QR Choad: A novel approach to an old scam, your feedback about web servers and ransomware, and maintaining old databases. Plugs Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD Support us on patreon News/Discussion Pay to park scam Feedback Jim’s review of the ... by 2.5 Admins
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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: September 15-18, 2022 in Vienna, Austria. Submit by May 25th Support us on patreon News Appl... by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 80: 100 Emoji: Browser version numbers might break websites, Samsung’s bad crypto implementation, more on Mazda and Caddy, the FreeBSD init system, and keeping VMs in sync between the two physical hosts. Plugs UNIX Philosophy: The ideas that made UNIX Improving Rec... by 2.5 Admins
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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. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 174: Guess Who’s Watching: What you need to know about the recent SSH vulnerability, yet another privacy issue with cloud-connected security cameras, why it’s difficult to get to the bottom of an obscure ZFS encryption bug, and more. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 173: Ghost Files: Google Drive client users lost months of files, a feature of UEFI that has left millions of computers potentially vulnerable to persistent malware, and why you probably shouldn’t buy cheap resold volume Windows licenses. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF: A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android multi-user bug, package managers on Windows, and Toshiba hard drives. by 2.5 Admins
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2.5 Admins 168: Do The Right Thing: Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it should be, Jim’s report from the Ubuntu Summit, and what to do when you find a company’s sensitive data on the Internet. by 2.5 Admins
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