2.5 Admins 2.5 Admins
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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 186: Jim Defends the CFAA
Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News Roku disables players and TVs with […]
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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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Jensen Huang says kids […]
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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. 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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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Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes […]
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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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News announcing freenginx.org Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software OpenZFS Native Encryption Use […]
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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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes […]
Customer Reviews
Awesome Pod
I love the podcast brothers. Very insightful and entertaining at the same time! Keep it going.
Kinda weird…
I can’t tell if it’s just marketing or if it’s actually AI generated but listening to this podcast is like reading spam email. It’s all product placements and ads and none of the commentary makes sense.
Tired of excuses of 2/3 hosts to be on Twitter the sewage river
I am tired of excuses of 2/3 hosts to be on Twitter the sewage river. May pick up the podcast at some other point