2.5 Admins

Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Solutions for Business Flexibility and Cost-Effectiveness

News/discussion

The Secret Water Footprint of AI Technology

China requires all new Wi-Fi kit to run IPv6

Free Consulting

We were asked about the implications of poor Bluetooth security on an e-bike.

Monitor Traffic With Wireless Travel Time Sensors

DeepBlue Sensor

Bluetooth Pedestrian and Vehicle Tracking

The Traceroute Podcast

Check out the new season of the Traceroute Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Visit the website.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why we don’t talk about Toshiba hard drives very often, and the implications of poor Bluetooth security on an e-bike.

The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why we don’t talk about Toshiba hard drives very often, and the implications of poor Bluetooth security on an e-bike. Plugs Support us on patreon Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Solutions for Business Flexibility […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:45 2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-166/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 20:21:53 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=921 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-166/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-166/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi. Plugs Support us on patreon News Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to […] <![CDATA[

What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi.

Plugs

Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to look like KeePass’s official website

News

pixel 6 can’t access storage with multiple profiles after updating to android 14

Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more

Free Consulting

We were asked about the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi.

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:40 2.5 Admins 165: Big AI https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-165/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:56:09 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=918 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-165/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-165/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS. News/discussion Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art Free Consulting We were asked about building an SSD-only NAS. Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it […] <![CDATA[

The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS.

News/discussion

Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art

Free Consulting

We were asked about building an SSD-only NAS.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS. News/discussion Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art Free Consulting We were asked about building an SS...

The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS. News/discussion Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art Free Consulting We were asked about building an SSD-only NAS. Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:14 2.5 Admins 164: Filthy Internet https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-164/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:56:01 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=916 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-164/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-164/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot. Feedback Don’t use autofill on your password manager Story Time Adventures in network repair Free Consulting We were asked about hardware for a home router/Wi-Fi hotspot. HelloFresh With […] <![CDATA[

Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot.

Feedback

Don’t use autofill on your password manager

Story Time

Adventures in network repair

Free Consulting

We were asked about hardware for a home router/Wi-Fi hotspot.

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off plus free shipping at hellofresh.com/5025admins using code 5025admins.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot. Feedback Don’t use autofill on your password manager Story Time Adventures in network repair Free Consulting We were...

Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot. Feedback Don’t use autofill on your password manager Story Time Adventures in network repair Free Consulting We were asked about hardware for a home router/Wi-Fi hotspot. HelloFresh With […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:44 2.5 Admins 163: Two Factors One SPOF https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-163/ Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:56:01 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=912 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-163/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-163/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution. Plugs Support us on patreon News/discussion How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse Amolith’s wiki page about passwords Feedback Allan’s TV remote control […] <![CDATA[

A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution.

Plugs

How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse

News/discussion

Amolith’s wiki page about passwords

Feedback

Allan’s TV remote control

Free Consulting

We were asked about picking the right external storage solution.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution. Plugs Support us on patreon News/discussion How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breac...

A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution. Plugs Support us on patreon News/discussion How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse Amolith’s wiki page about passwords Feedback Allan’s TV remote control […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:30 2.5 Admins 162: Irresponsible Disclosure https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-162/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:34:41 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=909 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-162/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-162/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends. Plugs Support us on patreon News Submit your ideas or articles – OpenSource.net Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” […] <![CDATA[

Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.

Plugs

Submit your ideas or articles – OpenSource.net

News

Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters

Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical webp 0-day

Free Consulting

We were asked about setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends. Plugs Support us on patreon News Submit your ideas or articles...

Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends. Plugs Support us on patreon News Submit your ideas or articles – OpenSource.net Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:35 2.5 Admins 161: 5PiB Coffee Mug https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-161/ Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:56:35 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=902 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-161/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-161/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs. Plugs Support us on patreon Jim and Allan host Klara’s latest Webinar: OpenZFS Data Replication News/discussion Cerabyte roadmaps ceramic nano-memory storage Feedback Archivy ArchiveBox Free Consulting We […] <![CDATA[

The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs.

Plugs

Jim and Allan host Klara’s latest Webinar: OpenZFS Data Replication

News/discussion

Cerabyte roadmaps ceramic nano-memory storage

Feedback

Archivy

ArchiveBox

Free Consulting

We were asked about setting up storage inside VMs.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs. Plugs Support us on patreon Jim and Allan host Klara’s latest Webinar: OpenZFS Data Replication N...

The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs. Plugs Support us on patreon Jim and Allan host Klara’s latest Webinar: OpenZFS Data Replication News/discussion Cerabyte roadmaps ceramic nano-memory storage Feedback Archivy ArchiveBox Free Consulting We […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 26:19 2.5 Admins 160: Diss Unity https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-160/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 22:04:55 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=897 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-160/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-160/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive problem, how one-off promotional domains can come back to bite you, and picking the hardware and software for a router. News Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off Unity rushes to […] <![CDATA[

News

Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off

Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume

unity_to_godot_converter: An experimental converter from Unity to Godot game engines

Toyota outage caused by servers running out of storage

Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn

Free Consulting

We were asked about picking the hardware and software for a router.

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off plus 15% off the next 2 months at hellofresh.com/5025admins using code 5025admins.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive problem, how one-off promotional domains can come back to bite you, and picking the hardware and software for a router.

Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive problem, how one-off promotional domains can come back to bite you, and picking the hardware and software for a router. News Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off Unity rushes to […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:41 2.5 Admins 159: Dirty Install https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-159/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:56:09 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=892 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-159/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-159/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive to Microsoft’s offerings – it’s a pattern that we’ve seen from numerous companies, even Mozilla. Plus why it’s a bad idea to power your server on and off regularly. […] <![CDATA[

The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive to Microsoft’s offerings – it’s a pattern that we’ve seen from numerous companies, even Mozilla. Plus why it’s a bad idea to power your server on and off regularly.

Plugs

Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron

News/discussion

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

Free Consulting

We were asked about powering a home server on and off regularly.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive to Microsoft’s offerings – it’s a pattern that we’ve seen from numerous companies, even Mozilla.

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:31 2.5 Admins 158: It Doesn’t Go to 10 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-158/ Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:34:43 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=888 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-158/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-158/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’t really matter), managing ssh keys, setting up data storage for containers, and more on IPMI for Raspberry Pis. Plugs Support us on patreon News Dropbox limits ‘all […] <![CDATA[

Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’t really matter), managing ssh keys, setting up data storage for containers, and more on IPMI for Raspberry Pis.

Plugs

Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users

News

Intel doesn’t plan to support Wi-Fi 7 on Windows 10

Wi-Fi 7 is Coming: Here’s What You Need to Know

Feedback

Turing Pi

Free Consulting

We were asked about managing ssh keys, and setting up data storage for containers.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’t really matter), managing ssh keys, setting up data storage for containers,

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:57 2.5 Admins 157: Lincoln’s HDD https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-157/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:56:57 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=883 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-157/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-157/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap. Plugs Support us on Patreon News/discussion The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google Coughlin: SSDs will […] <![CDATA[

CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap.

Plugs

Support us on Patreon

News/discussion

The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google

Coughlin: SSDs will not kill disk drives

Samsung Announces 256TB SSDs and Unveils Peta-Byte Scale PBSSDs

Free Consulting

We were asked about setting up IPMI for cheap Arm boards.

PiKVM

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap. Plugs Support us on Patreon News/discussion The Internet is not fore...

CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap. Plugs Support us on Patreon News/discussion The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google Coughlin: SSDs will […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 26:45 2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-156/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:39:35 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=879 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-156/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-156/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and how and why you should use ECC RAM in your home server if you can. Plugs Support us on Patreon News Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” […] <![CDATA[

Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and how and why you should use ECC RAM in your home server if you can.

Plugs

Support us on Patreon

News

Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office

BlueJeans, Verizon’s Google Meet competitor you’ve never heard of, is shutting down

We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD

SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken

Free Consulting

We were asked about ECC RAM in a home server.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and how and why you should use ECC RAM in your home server if you can.

The Late Night Linux Family full false 25:12 2.5 Admins 155: Dialup Memories https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-155/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:56:27 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=872 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-155/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-155/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recovering old versions of files, and an exciting announcement about the show. Plugs 2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon […] <![CDATA[

Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recovering old versions of files, and an exciting announcement about the show.

Plugs

2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon

News/discussion

2.5 Admins in

The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

How To Start An ISP (like it’s 1993)

Free Consulting

We were asked about recovering old versions of files.

Linux Matters

Check out Linux Matters – a show in the Late Night Linux Family hosted by popey, Mark, and Wimpy about all the Linux matters that matter. They did a recent episode about backups (without using ZFS).

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recovering old versions of files, and an exciting announcement about the show. Plugs 2.

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:03 2.5 Admins 154: 8.8.8.8.8.8 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-154/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:13:07 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=870 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-154/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-154/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why the increasing trend of charging for public IPv4 addresses won’t change much, Google trials restricting its employees’ Internet access, and operating systems uploading firmware to devices at boot. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara 2023 Recommended Summer Reads – FreeBSD and Linux News New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public […] <![CDATA[

Plugs

Klara 2023 Recommended Summer Reads – FreeBSD and Linux

News

New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public IP Insights

AWS to charge customers for public IPv4 addresses from 2024

Google’s new security pilot program will ban employee Internet access

Free Consulting

We were asked about operating systems uploading firmware to devices at boot, rather than having it baked in.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Why the increasing trend of charging for public IPv4 addresses won’t change much, Google trials restricting its employees’ Internet access, and operating systems uploading firmware to devices at boot. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara 2023 Recommende...

Why the increasing trend of charging for public IPv4 addresses won’t change much, Google trials restricting its employees’ Internet access, and operating systems uploading firmware to devices at boot. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara 2023 Recommended Summer Reads – FreeBSD and Linux News New – AWS Public IPv4 Address Charge + Public […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:35 2.5 Admins 153: Robots.nope https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-153/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:56:48 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=866 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-153/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-153/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification and labeling system, and the issues with fully encrypting a server. Plugs Support us on patreon 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System News/discussion Google suggests updating the robots.txt standard Robots.txt is not the answer: […] <![CDATA[

Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification and labeling system, and the issues with fully encrypting a server.

Plugs

3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System

News/discussion

Google suggests updating the robots.txt standard

Robots.txt is not the answer: Proposing a new meta tag for LLM/AI

ChatGPT Browse with Bing temporarily disabled

The Biden administration is tackling smart devices with a new cybersecurity label

Free Consulting

We were asked about fully encrypting a server.

The Klara article that Allan mentioned

Factor

Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/25a50 and use code 25a50 to get 50% off.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification and labeling system, and the issues with fully encrypting a server. Plugs Support us on patreon 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operatin...

Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification and labeling system, and the issues with fully encrypting a server. Plugs Support us on patreon 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System News/discussion Google suggests updating the robots.txt standard Robots.txt is not the answer: […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:38 2.5 Admins 152: AirTags Use CR2032 Batteries https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-152/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 19:51:05 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=861 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-152/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-152/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Intel is giving up on NUCs and Asus is taking over the line, millions of classified US military emails are going to a Russian ally thanks to a common typo, and monitoring SSDs. Plugs Support us on patreon Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – Part 2 News Intel is quitting on its adorable, powerful, […] <![CDATA[

Intel is giving up on NUCs and Asus is taking over the line, millions of classified US military emails are going to a Russian ally thanks to a common typo, and monitoring SSDs.

Plugs

Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – Part 2

News

Intel is quitting on its adorable, powerful, and upgradable mini NUC computers

Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take Intel NUC Systems Product Line Forward

‘Millions’ of sensitive US military emails were reportedly sent to Mali due to a typo

Free Consulting

We were asked about monitoring SSDs.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Intel is giving up on NUCs and Asus is taking over the line, millions of classified US military emails are going to a Russian ally thanks to a common typo, and monitoring SSDs. Plugs Support us on patreon Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – Part 2 News I...

Intel is giving up on NUCs and Asus is taking over the line, millions of classified US military emails are going to a Russian ally thanks to a common typo, and monitoring SSDs. Plugs Support us on patreon Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – Part 2 News Intel is quitting on its adorable, powerful, […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:05 2.5 Admins 151: Practical ZFS https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-151/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:56:16 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=851 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-151/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-151/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Setting up a self-hosted alternative, what counts as a “removable” battery, and backing up a Windows machine to ZFS. News/discussion Practical ZFS Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries (Jim was wrong about AirTags and their batteries. He’ll correct the record next time. No need to email us.) Free Consulting […] <![CDATA[

Setting up a self-hosted alternative, what counts as a “removable” battery, and backing up a Windows machine to ZFS.

News/discussion

Practical ZFS

Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries

(Jim was wrong about AirTags and their batteries. He’ll correct the record next time. No need to email us.)

Free Consulting

We were asked about backing up a Windows machine to ZFS.

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off and free shipping at hellofresh.com/25admins50 using the promo code 25a50.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Setting up a self-hosted alternative, what counts as a “removable” battery, and backing up a Windows machine to ZFS. News/discussion Practical ZFS Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries (Jim was wrong about AirTags a...

Setting up a self-hosted alternative, what counts as a “removable” battery, and backing up a Windows machine to ZFS. News/discussion Practical ZFS Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries (Jim was wrong about AirTags and their batteries. He’ll correct the record next time. No need to email us.) Free Consulting […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:34 2.5 Admins 150: Red Hate https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-150/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:45:43 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=848 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-150/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-150/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Red Hat wants to limit redistribution of RHEL source code. We discuss their history with CentOS and the likely knock-on effects of taking direct aim at its customers’ GPL rights. Plus browsers doing port scans, and OpenWrt vs OPNsense. Plugs Support us on patreon Practical ZFS News Red Hat’s new source code policy […] <![CDATA[

Red Hat wants to limit redistribution of RHEL source code. We discuss their history with CentOS and the likely knock-on effects of taking direct aim at its customers’ GPL rights. Plus browsers doing port scans, and OpenWrt vs OPNsense.

Plugs

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained

Practical ZFS

News

Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors

Free Consulting

We were asked about OpenWrt vs OPNsense.

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

Factor

Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/25a50 and use code 25a50 to get 50% off.

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]]> Red Hat wants to limit redistribution of RHEL source code. We discuss their history with CentOS and the likely knock-on effects of taking direct aim at its customers’ GPL rights. Plus browsers doing port scans, and OpenWrt vs OPNsense.

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:56 2.5 Admins 149: Three Year Warning https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-149/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:56:53 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=844 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-149/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-149/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> WD disks “warning” that they have been running for 3 years, a modern replacement for IMAP that no one seems to be using, the potential issues that arise when PC games require an SSD to run, alternatives to VMware, and verifying your backups. News/discussion “Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs […] <![CDATA[

WD disks “warning” that they have been running for 3 years, a modern replacement for IMAP that no one seems to be using, the potential issues that arise when PC games require an SSD to run, alternatives to VMware, and verifying your backups.

News/discussion

“Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs

JMAP

PC games are starting to require SSDs

Free Consulting

We were asked about alternatives to VMware, and verifying your backups.

The Traceroute Podcast

Catch up with the new season of the Traceroute Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out the website.

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/25a and get started with $100 credit.

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]]> WD disks “warning” that they have been running for 3 years, a modern replacement for IMAP that no one seems to be using, the potential issues that arise when PC games require an SSD to run, alternatives to VMware, and verifying your backups.

The Late Night Linux Family full false 34:24 2.5 Admins 148: API Ultra 7 Pro for Workstations https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-148/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:56:44 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=840 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-148/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-148/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Reddit fails to see where its true value lies, Intel makes its consumer CPU lines confusing, and Microsoft’s “next generation” filesystem. News What Reddit Got Wrong Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ Intel has new labels for its next major CPU architecture Free Consulting We were asked about Microsoft’s “next […] <![CDATA[

Reddit fails to see where its true value lies, Intel makes its consumer CPU lines confusing, and Microsoft’s “next generation” filesystem.

News

What Reddit Got Wrong

Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’

Intel has new labels for its next major CPU architecture

Free Consulting

We were asked about Microsoft’s “next generation” filesystem ReFS.

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Reddit fails to see where its true value lies, Intel makes its consumer CPU lines confusing, and Microsoft’s “next generation” filesystem. News What Reddit Got Wrong Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ Intel has new labels ...

Reddit fails to see where its true value lies, Intel makes its consumer CPU lines confusing, and Microsoft’s “next generation” filesystem. News What Reddit Got Wrong Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ Intel has new labels for its next major CPU architecture Free Consulting We were asked about Microsoft’s “next […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:16 2.5 Admins 147: EPYC Fail https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-147/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:56:07 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=836 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-147/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-147/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement end to end encryption, a familiar bug ruins people’s uptime, and XFS vs ext4. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars News/discussion Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a […] <![CDATA[

Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement end to end encryption, a familiar bug ruins people’s uptime, and XFS vs ext4.

Plugs

FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars

News/discussion

Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor

Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What’s the actual score?

90+ orgs tell Slack to stop slacking when it comes to full encryption

AMD’s EPYC Rome Chips Crash After 1,044 Days of Uptime

Free Consulting

We were asked about using XFS vs ext4.

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 16 free meals plus free shipping at hellofresh.com/25admins16 using the promo code 25admins16.

Tailscale

Linode

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]]> Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement end to end encryption, a familiar bug ruins people’s uptime, and XFS vs ext4. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars ...

Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement end to end encryption, a familiar bug ruins people’s uptime, and XFS vs ext4. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars News/discussion Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:51 2.5 Admins 146: VisionForge https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-146/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 20:03:39 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=832 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-146/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-146/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> We are unimpressed by Apple’s new headset, a particularly bountiful watering hole attack, misdirection from the AI industry, and connecting hard disks via a PCIe card. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware News Apple Vision Pro Hololens dev Twitter thread (archived version) Some Curseforge accounts might […] <![CDATA[

We are unimpressed by Apple’s new headset, a particularly bountiful watering hole attack, misdirection from the AI industry, and connecting hard disks via a PCIe card.

Plugs

OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware

News

Apple Vision Pro

Hololens dev Twitter thread (archived version)

Some Curseforge accounts might be compromised/hacked, and are uploading malicious files

Statement on AI Risk

WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you

Air Force denies running simulation where AI drone “killed” its operator

Free Consulting

We were asked about connecting hard disks via a PCIe card.

Axiom

Axiom unlocks observability at any scale. Go to axiom.co/25a, create an account, and start your 14-day free trial. You can do better than legacy logging, with Axiom.

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> We are unimpressed by Apple’s new headset, a particularly bountiful watering hole attack, misdirection from the AI industry, and connecting hard disks via a PCIe card. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS,

We are unimpressed by Apple’s new headset, a particularly bountiful watering hole attack, misdirection from the AI industry, and connecting hard disks via a PCIe card. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware News Apple Vision Pro Hololens dev Twitter thread (archived version) Some Curseforge accounts might […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:00 2.5 Admins 145: Bad Standards https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-145/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:56:52 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=828 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-145/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-145/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> An unfixable bug shines a light on a fundamental issue with Windows, why M.2 is a terrible connector for SSDs, the pros and cons of 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi, and the state of ZFS encryption. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS For HPC Clusters News/discussion Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix […] <![CDATA[

An unfixable bug shines a light on a fundamental issue with Windows, why M.2 is a terrible connector for SSDs, the pros and cons of 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi, and the state of ZFS encryption.

Plugs

Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it

OpenZFS For HPC Clusters

News/discussion

You know M.2 SSDs suck, right?

Why 2.4GHz Wi-Fi is both the savior and the scourge of the smart home

Free Consulting

We were asked about the state of ZFS encryption.

Factor

Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/25a50 and use code 25a50 to get 50% off your first box.

The Traceroute Podcast

Listen and subscribe to the new season of the Traceroute Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out the website.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> An unfixable bug shines a light on a fundamental issue with Windows, why M.2 is a terrible connector for SSDs, the pros and cons of 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi, and the state of ZFS encryption. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS For HPC Clusters News/discussion ...

An unfixable bug shines a light on a fundamental issue with Windows, why M.2 is a terrible connector for SSDs, the pros and cons of 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi, and the state of ZFS encryption. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS For HPC Clusters News/discussion Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:53 2.5 Admins 144: AMRadio.zip https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-144/ Thu, 25 May 2023 18:48:08 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=826 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-144/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-144/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Google’s new TLDs are silly but not as dangerous as some people think, whether we should cling on to AM radio, Microsoft scans password-protected zip files, and how to assess open source software for its trustworthiness. Plug Support us on patreon News Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the […] <![CDATA[

Plug

Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the Internet pushes back

News

Google’s .zip and .mov domains aren’t the end of the world

Congress wants AM radio in all new cars—trade groups say that’s a mistake

Ford decides it won’t kill AM radio after all

Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware

Free Consulting

We were asked about how to assess open source software for its trustworthiness.

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

Tailscale

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Google’s new TLDs are silly but not as dangerous as some people think, whether we should cling on to AM radio, Microsoft scans password-protected zip files, and how to assess open source software for its trustworthiness.

Google’s new TLDs are silly but not as dangerous as some people think, whether we should cling on to AM radio, Microsoft scans password-protected zip files, and how to assess open source software for its trustworthiness. Plug Support us on patreon News Google pushes .zip and .mov domains onto the Internet, and the […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 33:18 2.5 Admins 143: Even Stars Die https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-143/ Thu, 18 May 2023 16:56:53 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=816 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-143/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-143/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Adobe’s vague threats show why open source is often the pragmatic choice, Russians craft a poor man’s ransomware with WinRAR, Chrome drops the padlock icon, Amazon pulls a Google, and using a keyfile with a password manager. Plugs Support us on patreon Understanding ZFS vdev Types News/discussion Adobe Tells Users They Can Get […] <![CDATA[

Plugs

Understanding ZFS vdev Types

News/discussion

Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop

Russian hackers use WinRAR to wipe Ukraine state agency’s data

Google Chrome to get rid of padlock icon

Our decision to wind down Amazon Halo

Free Consulting

We were asked about using a keyfile with a password manager.

Axiom

Axiom unlocks observability at any scale. Go to axiom.co/25a, create an account, and start your 14-day free trial. You can do better than legacy logging, with Axiom.

HelloFresh

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Adobe’s vague threats show why open source is often the pragmatic choice, Russians craft a poor man’s ransomware with WinRAR, Chrome drops the padlock icon, Amazon pulls a Google, and using a keyfile with a password manager.

Adobe’s vague threats show why open source is often the pragmatic choice, Russians craft a poor man’s ransomware with WinRAR, Chrome drops the padlock icon, Amazon pulls a Google, and using a keyfile with a password manager. Plugs Support us on patreon Understanding ZFS vdev Types News/discussion Adobe Tells Users They Can Get […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:25 2.5 Admins 142: Intel Key Party https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-142/ Fri, 12 May 2023 00:46:29 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=813 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-142/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-142/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Google’s attempt to replace passwords with keys, why Jim thinks IBM is dragging Red Hat in the wrong direction, Intel’s rudimentary error that breaks a security feature, and protecting your files from other users on your system. Plugs Support us on patreon What Makes OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments News […] <![CDATA[

Plugs

What Makes OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments

News

Google Online Security Blog: So long passwords, thanks for all the phish

opensource.com

Intel BootGuard key leaked

Free Consulting

We were asked about protecting your files from other users on your system.

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

Tailscale

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Google’s attempt to replace passwords with keys, why Jim thinks IBM is dragging Red Hat in the wrong direction, Intel’s rudimentary error that breaks a security feature, and protecting your files from other users on your system.

Google’s attempt to replace passwords with keys, why Jim thinks IBM is dragging Red Hat in the wrong direction, Intel’s rudimentary error that breaks a security feature, and protecting your files from other users on your system. Plugs Support us on patreon What Makes OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments News […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 33:32 2.5 Admins 141: Sysadmin Hunt https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-141/ Thu, 04 May 2023 16:56:39 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=806 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-141/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-141/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web, why some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic password managers and regularly powercyling network gear, moving from Mercurial to Git, running old applications on modern Ubuntu, and more. Plugs Support us on […] <![CDATA[

What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web, why some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic password managers and regularly powercyling network gear, moving from Mercurial to Git, running old applications on modern Ubuntu, and more.

Plugs

Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance

News/discussion

How we’re building a browser when it’s supposed to be impossible

New BIOS updates attempt to keep Ryzen 7000X3D processors from frying themselves

Feedback

Pass

Free Consulting

We were asked about moving from Mercurial to Git, and running old applications on modern Ubuntu.

Factor

Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/25a40 and use code 25a40 to get 40% off your first box.

The Traceroute Podcast

Listen and subscribe to the new season of the Traceroute Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out the website.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web, why some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic password managers and regularly powercyling network gear, moving from Mercurial to Git,

The Late Night Linux Family full false 33:47 2.5 Admins 140: /dev/nullvad https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-140/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:43:11 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=803 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-140/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-140/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be worried about public phone chargers, an “anti-ransomware” SSD, and monitoring ZFS with Zabbix. Plugs Support us on patreon Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions: OpenZFS vs. The Rest News Vague warning about an Amazon compromise Mullvad VPN was […] <![CDATA[

How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be worried about public phone chargers, an “anti-ransomware” SSD, and monitoring ZFS with Zabbix.

Plugs

Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions: OpenZFS vs. The Rest

News

Vague warning about an Amazon compromise

Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised

Be Skeptical of FBI Warnings About Phone Chargers

Let’s take a closer look at these claims of anti-ransomware SSDs

Free Consulting

We were asked about monitoring ZFS with Zabbix.

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

Tailscale

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be worried about public phone chargers, an “anti-ransomware” SSD, and monitoring ZFS with Zabbix. Plugs Support us on patreon Comparing Modern Open-Source ...

How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be worried about public phone chargers, an “anti-ransomware” SSD, and monitoring ZFS with Zabbix. Plugs Support us on patreon Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions: OpenZFS vs. The Rest News Vague warning about an Amazon compromise Mullvad VPN was […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:45 2.5 Admins 139: Just Abandon Twitter https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-139/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:56:16 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=799 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-139/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-139/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drive innovation, Arm servers, and the Fediverse. Plus whether FreeBSD’s license has held it back, and generating SSL certificates on a router. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and […] <![CDATA[

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drive innovation, Arm servers, and the Fediverse. Plus whether FreeBSD’s license has held it back, and generating SSL certificates on a router.

The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drive innovation, Arm servers, and the Fediverse. Plus whether FreeBSD’s license has held it back, and generating SSL certificates on a router. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:43 2.5 Admins 138: Drive Failure https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-138/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:56:37 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=797 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-138/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-138/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud outage locks some people out of their data, why we don’t talk much about Veeam, and running containers as root. Plugs Support us on patreon Managing Disk Arrays on FreeBSD and TrueNAS News Google Drive quietly introduced (then pulled) […] <![CDATA[

Plugs

Managing Disk Arrays on FreeBSD and TrueNAS

News

Google Drive quietly introduced (then pulled) a file creation limit for all users

HDD average life span misses 3-year mark in study of 2,007 defective drives

Users fume after My Cloud network breach locks them out of their data

Free Consulting

We were asked about running containers as root.

Linode

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

Tailscale

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud outage locks some people out of their data, why we don’t talk much about Veeam, and running containers as root.

Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud outage locks some people out of their data, why we don’t talk much about Veeam, and running containers as root. Plugs Support us on patreon Managing Disk Arrays on FreeBSD and TrueNAS News Google Drive quietly introduced (then pulled) […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 35:57 2.5 Admins 137: Schrodinger’s Backup https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-137/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:56:57 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=792 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-137/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-137/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the importance of testing your backups, and we brainstorm a sysadmin’s version of a minimal password manager. News/discussion Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage […] <![CDATA[

News/discussion

Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face

You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage

Free Consulting

We were asked about rolling your own password manager.

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off at hellofresh.com/25admins50 using the promo code 25admins50

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the importance of testing your backups, and we brainstorm a sysadmin’s version of a minimal password manager. News/discussion Journalist plugs in unknown USB ...

Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the importance of testing your backups, and we brainstorm a sysadmin’s version of a minimal password manager. News/discussion Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him—it exploded in his face You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:52 2.5 Admins 136: Red Scare https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-136/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:01:23 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=789 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-136/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-136/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about the way the security research community is changing, and what server manufacturers we recommend. Plugs Support us on patreon News TikTok ban hearing: all the news on the US’s crackdown on the video platform […] <![CDATA[

Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about the way the security research community is changing, and what server manufacturers we recommend.

Plugs

TikTok ban hearing: all the news on the US’s crackdown on the video platform

News

The ‘Insanely Broad’ RESTRICT Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok

Tesla Model 3 Hacked in Less Than 2 Minutes at Pwn2Own Contest

Free Consulting

We were asked about what server manufacturers we recommend.

Linode

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about the way the security research community is changing, and what server manufacturers we recommend. Plugs Support us on patreon News TikTok ban hearing...

Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about the way the security research community is changing, and what server manufacturers we recommend. Plugs Support us on patreon News TikTok ban hearing: all the news on the US’s crackdown on the video platform […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:34 2.5 Admins 135: Moonshots https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-135/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:56:29 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=769 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-135/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-135/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philosophical question, Jim’s frustrations with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD History: Understanding the origins of DTrace News/discussion Requiem for Google Reader, gone but not forgotten Samsung’s […] <![CDATA[

Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philosophical question, Jim’s frustrations with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system.

Plugs

FreeBSD History: Understanding the origins of DTrace

News/discussion

Requiem for Google Reader, gone but not forgotten

Samsung’s Moon photos are fake — but so is a lot of mobile photography

How Samsung Galaxy Cameras Combine Super Resolution Technologies With AI Technology to Produce High-Quality Images of the Moon

Free Consulting

We were asked about connecting a POS system.

Linode

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

Tailscale

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]]> Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philosophical question, Jim’s frustrations with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD History: Understanding the...

Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philosophical question, Jim’s frustrations with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD History: Understanding the origins of DTrace News/discussion Requiem for Google Reader, gone but not forgotten Samsung’s […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 33:37 2.5 Admins 134: 2guys1tesla https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-134/ Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:58:15 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=766 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-134/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-134/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Tracing and Troubleshooting News Silicon Valley Bank collapses Common equity capital chart Man accidentally drove away in someone else’s […] <![CDATA[

Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers.

Plugs

FreeBSD vs Linux: Tracing and Troubleshooting

News

Silicon Valley Bank collapses

Common equity capital chart

Man accidentally drove away in someone else’s tesla using the car’s app

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We were asked about filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers.

Linode

Kolide

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]]> Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Tracing and Troubleshooting News Silicon Valley Bank col...

Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Tracing and Troubleshooting News Silicon Valley Bank collapses Common equity capital chart Man accidentally drove away in someone else’s […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 33:26 2.5 Admins 133: ElasticWallet https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-133/ Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:56:00 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=760 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-133/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-133/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker, why you really shouldn’t use a smart plug to powercycle your router, running SMB and NFS shares on the same host, why private keys should stay private, and using old hardware as a backup server. Plugs Support us on […] <![CDATA[

Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker, why you really shouldn’t use a smart plug to powercycle your router, running SMB and NFS shares on the same host, why private keys should stay private, and using old hardware as a backup server.

Plugs

Klara Webinar: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit

News/discussion

We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit

GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts

You Should[n’t] Be Using a Smart Plug to Restart Your Router

Free Consulting

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Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

Linode

Tailscale

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]]> Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker, why you really shouldn’t use a smart plug to powercycle your router, running SMB and NFS shares on the same host,

The Late Night Linux Family full false 33:39 2.5 Admins 132: 1.5FA https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-132/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:30:05 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=756 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-132/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-132/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent LastPass breach, and setting up a DNS server in the cloud. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara: ZFS Optimization Success Stories News An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter LastPass says employee’s home computer was […] <![CDATA[

Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent LastPass breach, and setting up a DNS server in the cloud.

Plugs

Klara: ZFS Optimization Success Stories

News

An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter

LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken

Free Consulting

We were asked about setting up a DNS server in the cloud.

Linode

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more at kolide.com/25a

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]]> Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent LastPass breach, and setting up a DNS server in the cloud. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara: ZFS Optimization Success Stories News An update on two-...

Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent LastPass breach, and setting up a DNS server in the cloud. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara: ZFS Optimization Success Stories News An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter LastPass says employee’s home computer was […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:34 2.5 Admins 131: At Least Try https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-131/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:56:40 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=751 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-131/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-131/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don’t use Btrfs, and getting notifications for your monitoring. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Sysadmin Series: How to catch a bitcoin miner News/discussion Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software […] <![CDATA[

Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don’t use Btrfs, and getting notifications for your monitoring.

Plugs

Klara Sysadmin Series: How to catch a bitcoin miner

News/discussion

Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software

Comcast gave false map data to FCC—and didn’t admit it until Ars got involved

Free Consulting

We were asked about getting notifications for your monitoring.

Linode

Kolide

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Tailscale

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]]> Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don’t use Btrfs, and getting notifications for your monitoring. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Sysadmin Series: How to catch a bitcoin miner ...

Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don’t use Btrfs, and getting notifications for your monitoring. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Sysadmin Series: How to catch a bitcoin miner News/discussion Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 35:33 2.5 Admins 130: HotBot Topic https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-130/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:53:57 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=747 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-130/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-130/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering spam, and organising data with backups in mind. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit News Bing is having bizarre emotional breakdowns and there’s a subreddit with examples […] <![CDATA[

Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering spam, and organising data with backups in mind.

Plugs

Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit

News

Bing is having bizarre emotional breakdowns and there’s a subreddit with examples

Alphabet stock price drops after Google Bard launch blunder

Microsoft classifies own emails as junk

Free Consulting

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Linode

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]]> Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering spam, and organising data with backups in mind. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit N...

Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering spam, and organising data with backups in mind. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit News Bing is having bizarre emotional breakdowns and there’s a subreddit with examples […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:01 2.5 Admins 129: 2.5aDMiNs.cOm https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-129/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:56:23 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=742 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-129/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-129/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy cameras, why Jim and Allan won’t be active on Mastodon any time soon, and how we set up servers in a few minutes. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit […] <![CDATA[

Plugs

Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit

News/discussion

US school runs lights 24/7/365: The smart lights have been broken since 2021

This is why your DNS queries now have random capitalization

Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras

Free Consulting

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Linode

Tailscale

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3Xfbsct

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]]> A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy cameras, why Jim and Allan won’t be active on Mastodon any time soon, and how we set up servers in a few minutes.

A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy cameras, why Jim and Allan won’t be active on Mastodon any time soon, and how we set up servers in a few minutes. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Live Webinar, Feb 23rd: Deploying a Successful Performance Audit […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:52 2.5 Admins 128: Some Value https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-128/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:35:09 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=739 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-128/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-128/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a mail server. Plugs Support us on patreon Auditing for Storage Performance News WhatsApp accounts takeover Perfectly Good MacBooks From 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock Free Consulting We were […] <![CDATA[

Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a mail server.

Plugs

Auditing for Storage Performance

News

WhatsApp accounts takeover

Perfectly Good MacBooks From 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock

Free Consulting

We were asked about setting up a mail server.

Linode

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]]> Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a mail server. Plugs Support us on patreon Auditing for Storage Performance News WhatsApp accounts takeover Perfectly Good MacBooks From 2020 Are Being...

Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a mail server. Plugs Support us on patreon Auditing for Storage Performance News WhatsApp accounts takeover Perfectly Good MacBooks From 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock Free Consulting We were […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:45 2.5 Admins 127: Public Why-Fi https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-127/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:56:25 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=735 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-127/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-127/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying to be your own bank, and separating legacy WiFi devices from modern ones. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS: Data Security vs Integrity News/discussion Why Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You […] <![CDATA[

Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying to be your own bank, and separating legacy WiFi devices from modern ones.

Plugs

OpenZFS: Data Security vs Integrity

News/discussion

Why Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You Think

Years late and 36 cores short of AMD, who are Intel’s 4th-gen Xeons even for?

Free Consulting

We were asked about separating legacy WiFi devices from modern ones.

Linode

Tailscale

Kolide

Kolide can help you nail third party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3Xfbsct

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]]> Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying to be your own bank, and separating legacy WiFi devices from modern ones. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS: Data Security vs Integrity News/disc...

Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying to be your own bank, and separating legacy WiFi devices from modern ones. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS: Data Security vs Integrity News/discussion Why Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:39 2.5 Admins 126: Copy on Flight https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-126/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:03:00 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=731 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-126/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-126/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake SSDs on Amazon, and IP schemes vs internal DNS. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Package Management News FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file The Future of ZFS on […] <![CDATA[

A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake SSDs on Amazon, and IP schemes vs internal DNS.

Plugs

FreeBSD vs Linux: Package Management

News

FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file

The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good

ZFSBootMenu

Why the Heck Is Amazon Selling These Fake 16 Terabyte Portable SSD Drives?

Free Consulting

We were asked about IP schemes.

Linode

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]]> A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake SSDs on Amazon, and IP schemes vs internal DNS. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Package Management News FAA outage that grounded fligh...

A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake SSDs on Amazon, and IP schemes vs internal DNS. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux: Package Management News FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file The Future of ZFS on […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 33:13 2.5 Admins 125: Into Thin Eir https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-125/ Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:56:36 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=727 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-125/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-125/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaningless, we try not to laugh at the Bitcoin dev who lost all his magic beans, and directory services for mixed environments. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara’s best articles from 2022 News/discussion Eir says thousands of customer emails […] <![CDATA[

Plugs

Klara’s best articles from 2022

News/discussion

Eir says thousands of customer emails irretrievably deleted in error

Eir users offered free lifetime subscriptions after up to 20 years of emails deleted in error – The Irish Times

EA says it can’t recover 60% of players’ corrupted Madden franchise save files

It’s time to retire ‘edge’ from our IT vocabulary

Bitcoin Core developer loses all his BTC

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We were asked about directory services for mixed environments.

Linode

Kolide

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Tailscale

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]]> Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaningless, we try not to laugh at the Bitcoin dev who lost all his magic beans, and directory services for mixed environments.

Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaningless, we try not to laugh at the Bitcoin dev who lost all his magic beans, and directory services for mixed environments. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara’s best articles from 2022 News/discussion Eir says thousands of customer emails […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:46 2.5 Admins 124: LastMigration https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-124/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:57:38 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=724 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-124/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-124/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> LastPass vaults are leaked, ChatGPT is coming to Bing, live migrations, and SSD vs spinning disk power usage. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara is looking for sysadmins with ZFS experience, join Allan’s team News LastPass – Notice of Recent Security Incident The LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart […] <![CDATA[

LastPass vaults are leaked, ChatGPT is coming to Bing, live migrations, and SSD vs spinning disk power usage.

Plugs

Klara is looking for sysadmins with ZFS experience, join Allan’s team

News

LastPass – Notice of Recent Security Incident

The LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart by security experts

Microsoft to challenge Google by integrating ChatGPT with Bing search

Free Consulting

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Linode

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]]> LastPass vaults are leaked, ChatGPT is coming to Bing, live migrations, and SSD vs spinning disk power usage. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara is looking for sysadmins with ZFS experience, join Allan’s team News LastPass – Notice of Recent Securit...

LastPass vaults are leaked, ChatGPT is coming to Bing, live migrations, and SSD vs spinning disk power usage. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara is looking for sysadmins with ZFS experience, join Allan’s team News LastPass – Notice of Recent Security Incident The LastPass disclosure of leaked password vaults is being torn apart […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:23 2.5 Admins 123: 4 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-123/ Thu, 29 Dec 2022 16:56:42 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=719 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-123/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-123/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> It’s the last episode of the year so we look back at a couple of 2022 trends: the explosion of AI/ML, and big social media changes. Plus a quick-fire ZFS FAQ. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and […] <![CDATA[

It’s the last episode of the year so we look back at a couple of 2022 trends: the explosion of AI/ML, and big social media changes. Plus a quick-fire ZFS FAQ.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> It’s the last episode of the year so we look back at a couple of 2022 trends: the explosion of AI/ML, and big social media changes. Plus a quick-fire ZFS FAQ. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and de...

It’s the last episode of the year so we look back at a couple of 2022 trends: the explosion of AI/ML, and big social media changes. Plus a quick-fire ZFS FAQ. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:37 2.5 Admins 122: PayAsYouPay https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-122/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:56:39 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=715 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-122/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-122/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Buying and renting features in Intel hardware that you’ve already bought, killer robots, a huge nuclear fusion breakthrough, and the pros and cons of parallel rsync jobs. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS: Choosing between FreeBSD and Linux News/discussion Intel On Demand Driver Ready To Activate Your Licensed CPU Features With Linux 6.2 […] <![CDATA[

Buying and renting features in Intel hardware that you’ve already bought, killer robots, a huge nuclear fusion breakthrough, and the pros and cons of parallel rsync jobs.

Plugs

OpenZFS: Choosing between FreeBSD and Linux

News/discussion

Intel On Demand Driver Ready To Activate Your Licensed CPU Features With Linux 6.2

Intel On Demand

VICTORY! San Francisco Bans Killer Robots…For Now

Nuclear fusion power research passes milestone with ‘fusion ignition’

Free Consulting

We were asked about running parallel rsync jobs

Fpsync

Linode

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]]> Buying and renting features in Intel hardware that you’ve already bought, killer robots, a huge nuclear fusion breakthrough, and the pros and cons of parallel rsync jobs. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS: Choosing between FreeBSD and Linux News/...

Buying and renting features in Intel hardware that you’ve already bought, killer robots, a huge nuclear fusion breakthrough, and the pros and cons of parallel rsync jobs. Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS: Choosing between FreeBSD and Linux News/discussion Intel On Demand Driver Ready To Activate Your Licensed CPU Features With Linux 6.2 […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:50 2.5 Admins 121: 2PHA https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-121/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:56:27 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=710 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-121/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-121/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Saving money by changing the CPU frequency governor on servers, Making unphishable 2FA phishable, phishing with Google Docs, monitoring at scale, and using ZFS with a single disk. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux – Networking Discussion Can You Save Money By Changing the CPU Frequency Governor on Your Servers? Making […] <![CDATA[

Saving money by changing the CPU frequency governor on servers, Making unphishable 2FA phishable, phishing with Google Docs, monitoring at scale, and using ZFS with a single disk.

Plugs

FreeBSD vs Linux – Networking

Discussion

Can You Save Money By Changing the CPU Frequency Governor on Your Servers?

Making unphishable 2FA phishable

Phishing links with Google Docs

Free Consulting

We were asked about monitoring at scale, and using ZFS with a single disk.

Linode

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

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]]> Saving money by changing the CPU frequency governor on servers, Making unphishable 2FA phishable, phishing with Google Docs, monitoring at scale, and using ZFS with a single disk. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux – Networking Discussion...

Saving money by changing the CPU frequency governor on servers, Making unphishable 2FA phishable, phishing with Google Docs, monitoring at scale, and using ZFS with a single disk. Plugs Support us on patreon FreeBSD vs Linux – Networking Discussion Can You Save Money By Changing the CPU Frequency Governor on Your Servers? Making […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:23 2.5 Admins 120: Certified Malware https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-120/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:02:59 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=705 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-120/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-120/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Security cameras that aren’t quite as secure as they claim, why it’s difficult to trust software “from Samsung”, getting started with offsite backups, and ZFS on root on Ubuntu. Plugs Support us on patreon the Role of Operating Systems in IoT News Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security […] <![CDATA[

Security cameras that aren’t quite as secure as they claim, why it’s difficult to trust software “from Samsung”, getting started with offsite backups, and ZFS on root on Ubuntu.

Plugs

the Role of Operating Systems in IoT

News

Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras

Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware

Free Consulting

We were asked about getting started with offsite backups, and ZFS on root on Ubuntu.

Linode

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Security cameras that aren’t quite as secure as they claim, why it’s difficult to trust software “from Samsung”, getting started with offsite backups, and ZFS on root on Ubuntu. Plugs Support us on patreon the Role of Operating Systems in IoT News ...

Security cameras that aren’t quite as secure as they claim, why it’s difficult to trust software “from Samsung”, getting started with offsite backups, and ZFS on root on Ubuntu. Plugs Support us on patreon the Role of Operating Systems in IoT News Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:08 2.5 Admins 119: Six Month Scrub https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-119/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:56:44 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=699 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-119/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-119/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The risks of taking your laptop to a repair shop, why DNS has become concentrated to just a few providers, and powering down drives periodically. Plugs Support us on patreon Virtualization Showdown: FreeBSD bhyve vs Linux KVM Discussion Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid DNS concentration […] <![CDATA[

The risks of taking your laptop to a repair shop, why DNS has become concentrated to just a few providers, and powering down drives periodically.

Plugs

Virtualization Showdown: FreeBSD bhyve vs Linux KVM

Discussion

Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid

DNS concentration

Free Consulting

We were asked about periodically shutting down a server.

Linode

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

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]]> The risks of taking your laptop to a repair shop, why DNS has become concentrated to just a few providers, and powering down drives periodically. Plugs Support us on patreon Virtualization Showdown: FreeBSD bhyve vs Linux KVM Discussion Thinking ab...

The risks of taking your laptop to a repair shop, why DNS has become concentrated to just a few providers, and powering down drives periodically. Plugs Support us on patreon Virtualization Showdown: FreeBSD bhyve vs Linux KVM Discussion Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid DNS concentration […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:34 2.5 Admins 118: Chaos Emerald Wealth https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-118/ Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:15:59 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=697 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-118/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-118/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why the Twitter infrastructure is creaking, Jim’s experiences of the Ubuntu Summit, changing VM resources without rebooting, and more. News/discussion Why Twitter will fail shortly Twitter mayhem, staff cuts have advertisers bailing on the platform Jim tells us about his experiences at the Ubuntu Summit Free Consulting We were asked about WireGuard on […] <![CDATA[

Why the Twitter infrastructure is creaking, Jim’s experiences of the Ubuntu Summit, changing VM resources without rebooting, and more.

News/discussion

Why Twitter will fail shortly

Twitter mayhem, staff cuts have advertisers bailing on the platform

Jim tells us about his experiences at the Ubuntu Summit

Free Consulting

We were asked about WireGuard on OPNsense, and changing VM resources without rebooting.

Tailscale

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]]> Why the Twitter infrastructure is creaking, Jim’s experiences of the Ubuntu Summit, changing VM resources without rebooting, and more. News/discussion Why Twitter will fail shortly Twitter mayhem, staff cuts have advertisers bailing on the platform J...

Why the Twitter infrastructure is creaking, Jim’s experiences of the Ubuntu Summit, changing VM resources without rebooting, and more. News/discussion Why Twitter will fail shortly Twitter mayhem, staff cuts have advertisers bailing on the platform Jim tells us about his experiences at the Ubuntu Summit Free Consulting We were asked about WireGuard on […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:17 2.5 Admins 117: Local Burner https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-117/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:56:22 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=688 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-117/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-117/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Microsoft’s half-baked Arm machine, why it’s a bad idea to go to the World Cup in Qatar, using WireGuard to punch through double NAT, and the best filesystem for removable storage. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from Self-Hosted. News/discussion Microsoft’s new $599 Mac Mini-like PC is designed to improve Windows on Arm How many […] <![CDATA[

News/discussion

Microsoft’s new $599 Mac Mini-like PC is designed to improve Windows on Arm

How many major upgrade cycles with your main work machine do you expect to go through before you transition to an Arm machine?

Everyone going to the World Cup must have this app – experts are now sounding the alarm

Qatar Spyware – Schneier on Security

Free Consulting

We were asked about WireGuard and double NAT, and the best filesystem for removable storage.

NetBird

nebula

headscale

Kolide

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]]> Microsoft’s half-baked Arm machine, why it’s a bad idea to go to the World Cup in Qatar, using WireGuard to punch through double NAT, and the best filesystem for removable storage. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from Self-Hosted.

Microsoft’s half-baked Arm machine, why it’s a bad idea to go to the World Cup in Qatar, using WireGuard to punch through double NAT, and the best filesystem for removable storage. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from Self-Hosted. News/discussion Microsoft’s new $599 Mac Mini-like PC is designed to improve Windows on Arm How many […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:14 2.5 Admins 116: Worst Billionaire https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-116/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:56:05 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=685 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-116/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-116/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Android’s controversial VPN settings, the deepfake audio arms race, the Metaverse is even worse than we thought, and why you shouldn’t use external cables for server storage. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from Self-Hosted. News Android leaks connectivity check traffic Meta’s New Headset Will Track Your Eyes for Targeted Ads Deepfake audio has a […] <![CDATA[

News

Android leaks connectivity check traffic

Meta’s New Headset Will Track Your Eyes for Targeted Ads

Deepfake audio has a tell – researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices

Free Consulting

We were asked about usuing Thunderbolt storage with a server, and how PINs relate to encryption.

ODROID-H3

Tailscale

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]]> Android’s controversial VPN settings, the deepfake audio arms race, the Metaverse is even worse than we thought, and why you shouldn’t use external cables for server storage. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from Self-Hosted.

Android’s controversial VPN settings, the deepfake audio arms race, the Metaverse is even worse than we thought, and why you shouldn’t use external cables for server storage. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from Self-Hosted. News Android leaks connectivity check traffic Meta’s New Headset Will Track Your Eyes for Targeted Ads Deepfake audio has a […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:20 2.5 Admins 115: Key Party https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-115/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:56:10 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=682 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-115/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-115/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Password spray attacks, the value of certifications vs actual experience, and the best VPN strategy. News/discussion Use Authentication Policies to Fight Password Spray Attacks Free Consulting We were asked about certifications, and VPN strategy. Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you […] <![CDATA[

Password spray attacks, the value of certifications vs actual experience, and the best VPN strategy.

News/discussion

Use Authentication Policies to Fight Password Spray Attacks

Free Consulting

We were asked about certifications, and VPN strategy.

Kolide

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Linode

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]]> Password spray attacks, the value of certifications vs actual experience, and the best VPN strategy. News/discussion Use Authentication Policies to Fight Password Spray Attacks Free Consulting We were asked about certifications, and VPN strategy.

Password spray attacks, the value of certifications vs actual experience, and the best VPN strategy. News/discussion Use Authentication Policies to Fight Password Spray Attacks Free Consulting We were asked about certifications, and VPN strategy. Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 33:08 2.5 Admins 114: RAID WTF https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-114/ Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:56:45 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=680 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-114/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-114/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> An impressive AI pretends to be Linux, Jim gets angry about a RAIDZ calculator, and using a laptop as a server. News/discussion We interviewed Linux OS through an AI bot to discover its secrets Free Consulting We were asked about using a laptop as a server. Tailscale Tailscale is […] <![CDATA[

An impressive AI pretends to be Linux, Jim gets angry about a RAIDZ calculator, and using a laptop as a server.

News/discussion

We interviewed Linux OS through an AI bot to discover its secrets

Free Consulting

We were asked about using a laptop as a server.

Tailscale

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]]> An impressive AI pretends to be Linux, Jim gets angry about a RAIDZ calculator, and using a laptop as a server. News/discussion We interviewed Linux OS through an AI bot to discover its secrets Free Consulting We were asked about using a laptop as ...

An impressive AI pretends to be Linux, Jim gets angry about a RAIDZ calculator, and using a laptop as a server. News/discussion We interviewed Linux OS through an AI bot to discover its secrets Free Consulting We were asked about using a laptop as a server. Tailscale Tailscale is […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:47 2.5 Admins 113: Eggs and Baskets https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-113/ Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:56:10 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=678 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-113/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-113/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Traditional vs modern backup methods, hiding malware inside innocent-looking files, and power loss protection in SSDs. News/discussion Steganography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft logo Free Consulting We were asked about power loss protection in SSDs Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can […] <![CDATA[

Traditional vs modern backup methods, hiding malware inside innocent-looking files, and power loss protection in SSDs.

News/discussion

Steganography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft logo

Free Consulting

We were asked about power loss protection in SSDs

Kolide

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Linode

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]]> Traditional vs modern backup methods, hiding malware inside innocent-looking files, and power loss protection in SSDs. News/discussion Steganography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft logo Free Consulting We were asked about power loss pr...

Traditional vs modern backup methods, hiding malware inside innocent-looking files, and power loss protection in SSDs. News/discussion Steganography alert: Backdoor spyware stashed in Microsoft logo Free Consulting We were asked about power loss protection in SSDs Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:55 2.5 Admins 112: Reuse > Recycle https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-112/ Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:17:22 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=673 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-112/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-112/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups from a Windows machine. Plugs Support us on patreon iX and Klara – The Open Source Era is Upon Us Your Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD’s rc News Drone attack Twitter thread Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it […] <![CDATA[

A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups from a Windows machine.

Plugs

iX and Klara – The Open Source Era is Upon Us

Your Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD’s rc

News

Drone attack Twitter thread

Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

Free Consulting

We were asked about pulling backups from a Windows machine.

cwRsync

Acrosync

Tailscale

Linode

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]]> A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups from a Windows machine. Plugs Support us on patreon iX and Klara – The Open Source Era is Upon Us Your Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD’s rc News Dro...

A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups from a Windows machine. Plugs Support us on patreon iX and Klara – The Open Source Era is Upon Us Your Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD’s rc News Drone attack Twitter thread Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:22 2.5 Admins 111: The Freezer Trick https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-111/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:56:23 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=663 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-111/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-111/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more. Plugs Support us on patreon the History of Package Management on FreeBSD News/discussion The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Mid-year Review How Much RAM Do You Need in 2022? Exploring Swap […] <![CDATA[

SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more.

Plugs

the History of Package Management on FreeBSD

News/discussion

The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Mid-year Review

How Much RAM Do You Need in 2022?

Exploring Swap on FreeBSD

Feedback

Fastly

Gcore

Jetpack

A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute (pdf)

Paris Traceroute

How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr

TRex

Free Consulting

We were asked about sudo password security.

BorgBase

Manage all your Borg backup repositories in one place via web interface or API. Use promo code 25A to get 30% off your first year at BorgBase.com

Kolide

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Linode

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]]> SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more. Plugs Support us on patreon the History of Package Management on FreeBSD News/discussion The SSD E...

SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflare alternatives, sudo password security, and more. Plugs Support us on patreon the History of Package Management on FreeBSD News/discussion The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Mid-year Review How Much RAM Do You Need in 2022? Exploring Swap […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:09 2.5 Admins 110: Border Gateway Currency https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-110/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:26:20 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=659 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-110/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-110/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS on Proxmox. Plugs Support us on patreon Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud Allan and Wendell chat about ZFS data recovery News How 3 hours of inaction from […] <![CDATA[

How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS on Proxmox.

Plugs

Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud

Allan and Wendell chat about ZFS data recovery

News

How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000

Announcing Turnstile, a user-friendly, privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA

Free Consulting

We were asked about ZFS on Proxmox.

Klara Article: Jim on tuning ZFS recordsize

Jim’s Proxmox bug

Kolide

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Linode

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]]> How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS on Proxmox. Plugs Support us on patreon Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud Allan and Wendell chat about...

How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about Cloudflare’s new CAPTCHA, and how to configure ZFS on Proxmox. Plugs Support us on patreon Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud Allan and Wendell chat about ZFS data recovery News How 3 hours of inaction from […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:18 2.5 Admins 109: Selling Technical Debt https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-109/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:56:55 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=653 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-109/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-109/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches. Discussion The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable Free Consulting We were asked about Power over Ethernet injectors vs PoE switches. Tailscale Tailscale is […] <![CDATA[

Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches.

Discussion

The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable

Free Consulting

We were asked about Power over Ethernet injectors vs PoE switches.

Tailscale

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]]> Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches. Discussion The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable Free Consulting We were asked abo...

Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use case for 32-bit Linux, and PoE injectors vs switches. Discussion The Math Proves It—Network Congestion Is Inevitable Free Consulting We were asked about Power over Ethernet injectors vs PoE switches. Tailscale Tailscale is […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:26 2.5 Admins 108: dQw4w9WgXcQ https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-108/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 22:47:41 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=647 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-108/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-108/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners. With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin). News/discussion Blocking Kiwifarms The modern OS desktop is a crime against humanity Rick Astley has done more to prevent folks clicking on unknown links than all cyber security training combined […] <![CDATA[

Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners.

With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin).

News/discussion

Blocking Kiwifarms

The modern OS desktop is a crime against humanity

Rick Astley has done more to prevent folks clicking on unknown links than all cyber security training combined

Free Consulting

We were asked for advice about backups for beginners.

IDrive

rsnapshot

Kolide

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]]> Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners. With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin). News/discussion Blocking Kiwifarms The modern OS desktop is a crime against humanity Rick Astley ...

Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners. With guest host Gary from Linux Downtime (and Pidgin). News/discussion Blocking Kiwifarms The modern OS desktop is a crime against humanity Rick Astley has done more to prevent folks clicking on unknown links than all cyber security training combined […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:33 2.5 Admins 107: s/smart//g https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-107/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:56:30 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=644 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-107/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-107/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches. News/discussion W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards Free Consulting We were asked what switches we recommend for enterprise. Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service […] <![CDATA[

Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches.

News/discussion

W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards

Free Consulting

We were asked what switches we recommend for enterprise.

Tailscale

Linode

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]]> Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches. News/discussion W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards Free Consulting We were asked...

Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silverlight. Plus buying enterprise switches. News/discussion W3C’s planned transition to HTTPS stymied by legacy laggards Free Consulting We were asked what switches we recommend for enterprise. Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:27 2.5 Admins 106: Wrap Your Deenis https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-106/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:32:15 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=640 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-106/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-106/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe News Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server […] <![CDATA[

A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem.

Plugs

Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server

EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe

News

Microsoft EU cloud revisions just so happen to exclude Google, Amazon

Google Play rule change disallows ad-blocking VPN apps

Free Consulting

We were asked about solving a DNS over HTTPS problem.

Kolide

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Linode

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]]> A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVM...

A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android, and solving a DoH problem. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe News Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:35 2.5 Admins 105: Old Men Yell at Cloud https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-105/ Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:56:37 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=634 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-105/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-105/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The pros and cons of using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro. News/discussion The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes Feedback A […] <![CDATA[

The pros and cons of using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro.

News/discussion

The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

Feedback

A few people wanted Allan and Jim to answer the same question that was discussed on Linux After Dark 23:

In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line?

Free Consulting

We were asked about firewall distros.

Configure CARP

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Linode

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]]> The pros and cons of using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro. News/discussion The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases Man who built ISP instead of paying...

The pros and cons of using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan yell at the cloud, and choosing a firewall distro. News/discussion The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes Feedback A […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:29 2.5 Admins 104: Bathtub Map https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-104/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:04:35 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=632 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-104/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-104/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe News Amazon to acquire Roomba robot vacuum […] <![CDATA[

Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises.

Plugs

Amazon to acquire Roomba robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion

EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe

News

Gmail is now officially allowed to spam-proof politicians’ emails

Free Consulting

We were asked about commissioning new drives, and ZFS scrubs.

Kolide

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Linode

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]]> Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna,

Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burning in new drives, and ZFS scrub best practises. Plugs Support us on patreon EuroBSDCon Sept 15-18 Vienna, Austria – Allan will be speaking about making ZFS scale for NVMe News Amazon to acquire Roomba robot vacuum […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:37 2.5 Admins 103: AAD the SQL https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-103/ Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:56:12 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=628 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-103/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-103/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plugs Support us on patreon News It’s time to leave the leap second in the past Meta thinks Facebook may need more […] <![CDATA[

Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

Plugs

It’s time to leave the leap second in the past

News

Meta thinks Facebook may need more “harmful health misinformation”

Electronics are built with death dates. Let’s not keep them a secret

Too Many Servers Could Mean No New Homes in Parts of the UK

Free Consulting

We were asked about separating databases from applications, and how to pick a DB in the first place.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plugs Support us on patreon News It’s time to leave the l...

Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databases from applications, picking a DB, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plugs Support us on patreon News It’s time to leave the leap second in the past Meta thinks Facebook may need more […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:10 2.5 Admins 102: Admins After Dark https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-102/ Thu, 04 Aug 2022 18:45:52 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=625 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-102/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-102/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plugs Support us on patreon News Linux x86 32-bit Is Vulnerable To Retbleed But Don’t Expect It To Get Fixed Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade […] <![CDATA[

The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

Plugs

Linux x86 32-bit Is Vulnerable To Retbleed But Don’t Expect It To Get Fixed

News

Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade

Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter

Atlassian reveals critical flaws across its product line

Free Consulting

We were asked about ZFS snapshots, and Proxmox performance.

Jim’s Twitter thread about ZFS config in Proxmox

Kolide

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Linode

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]]> The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plugs Support us on patreon News Linux x86 32-bit Is Vulnerable...

The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluence, Proxmox’s poor ZFS config, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Plugs Support us on patreon News Linux x86 32-bit Is Vulnerable To Retbleed But Don’t Expect It To Get Fixed Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:26 2.5 Admins 101: Atomic Database https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-101/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:54:28 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=621 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-101/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-101/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency. Plugs Contributing to Open Source: Beyond Software Development Support us on patreon News/discussion GitHub Copilot Linux Downtime – Episode 51 Why can’t Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs pass the bar exam? Blame […] <![CDATA[

Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency.

Plugs

Contributing to Open Source: Beyond Software Development

Linux Downtime – Episode 51

News/discussion

GitHub Copilot

Why can’t Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs pass the bar exam? Blame the E-cores

Free Consulting

We were asked about database VM snapshot consistency.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency. Plugs Contributing to Open Source: Beyond Software Development Support us on patreon News/discussion GitHub ...

Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hardware, and database VM snapshot consistency. Plugs Contributing to Open Source: Beyond Software Development Support us on patreon News/discussion GitHub Copilot Linux Downtime – Episode 51 Why can’t Intel’s 12th-gen CPUs pass the bar exam? Blame […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:20 2.5 Admins 100: 💯 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-100/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:36:40 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=616 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-100/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-100/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more. Plugs Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting started with bhyve Support us on patreon Things mentioned: End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (selected models) Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers FreeIPA Sophos Icinga […] <![CDATA[

More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more.

Plugs

Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting started with bhyve

End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (selected models)

Things mentioned:

Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers

Bufferbloat Test by Waveform

A review of Monitor-IO

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more. Plugs Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting started with bhyve Support us on patreon Things mentioned: End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announc...

More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, and more. Plugs Watch Jim and Allan’s webinar: Getting started with bhyve Support us on patreon Things mentioned: End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers (selected models) Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers FreeIPA Sophos Icinga […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:25 2.5 Admins 99: 00000000 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-99/ Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:56:27 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=612 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-99/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-99/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS. Plugs From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1 Support us on patreon News PSA: buyer beware on “WaterPanther” drives Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones Rogers restores […] <![CDATA[

A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS.

Plugs

From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1

PSA: buyer beware on “WaterPanther” drives

News

Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones

Rogers restores service for ‘vast majority’ of customers after massive outage

Rogers outage points to need for greater oversight of critical industry
After massive Rogers outage, Government of Canada to force telecoms to help each other in emergencies

Apple expands commitment to protect users from mercenary spyware

Why Lockdown mode from Apple is one of the coolest security ideas ever

Free Consulting

We were asked about hostnames and DNS.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS. Plugs From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1 Support us on patreon News PSA: buyer beware on “WaterPanther” drives Canadian ISP Rogers fal...

A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and hostnames and DNS. Plugs From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1 Support us on patreon News PSA: buyer beware on “WaterPanther” drives Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones Rogers restores […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:56 2.5 Admins 98: Lemonade https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-98/ Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:56:10 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=609 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-98/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-98/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more. Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines […] <![CDATA[

Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more.

Kolide

Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more. Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business.

Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life balance, and more. Kolide Kolide is a fleet visibility solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux that can help you securely scale your business. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3HB8xUv Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:45 2.5 Admins 97: Gotta Go Fast https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-97/ Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:58:31 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=604 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-97/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-97/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve Support us on patreon Discussion Public iPerf3 servers DSLReports MTR fast.com Feedback OpenZFS on Windows Free Consulting We were asked about […] <![CDATA[

The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more.

Plugs

Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve

Discussion

Public iPerf3 servers

Feedback

Free Consulting

We were asked about monitoring servers at scale.

Nagios

Zabbix

LibreNMS

Linode

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]]> The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve Support us on patreon Discussion Publi...

The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve Support us on patreon Discussion Public iPerf3 servers DSLReports MTR fast.com Feedback OpenZFS on Windows Free Consulting We were asked about […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:31 2.5 Admins 96: Skunky Routers https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-96/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:56:20 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=599 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-96/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-96/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux servers, and you’ll never guess what Jim and Allan recommend for easily rolling back updates. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve Support us on patreon News Internet Explorer 11 has retired […] <![CDATA[

Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux servers, and you’ll never guess what Jim and Allan recommend for easily rolling back updates.

Plugs

Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve

Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support—what you need to know

News

If you’re using older, vulnerable Cisco small biz routers, throw them out

Free Consulting

We were asked about antivirus on Linux servers, and easily rolling back updates.

Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux

Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools for Linux best practices

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint

Linode

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]]> Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux servers, and you’ll never guess what Jim and Allan recommend for easily rolling back updates. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Webinar: Open-source ...

Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux servers, and you’ll never guess what Jim and Allan recommend for easily rolling back updates. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting Started with Bhyve Support us on patreon News Internet Explorer 11 has retired […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:40 2.5 Admins 95: Opened in 45 Seconds https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-95/ Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:56:04 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=595 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-95/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-95/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu desktop, and when you should have passwords on your SSH keys. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Support us on patreon News/discussion How are we improving Firefox snap performance? Part 1 Free Consulting We were asked about […] <![CDATA[

The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu desktop, and when you should have passwords on your SSH keys.

Plugs

How are we improving Firefox snap performance? Part 1

News/discussion

Free Consulting

We were asked about passwords on SSH keys.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu desktop, and when you should have passwords on your SSH keys. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Support us on patreon News/discussion How are we impr...

The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu desktop, and when you should have passwords on your SSH keys. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Support us on patreon News/discussion How are we improving Firefox snap performance? Part 1 Free Consulting We were asked about […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:33 2.5 Admins 94: Free IPv4s, Click Here! https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-94/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 20:04:42 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=591 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-94/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-94/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be automated, what to do with SMR drives, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Support us on patreon News Freeing up of hundreds of millions of IPv4 addresses proposed Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 splashes down […] <![CDATA[

Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be automated, what to do with SMR drives, and more.

Plugs

Freeing up of hundreds of millions of IPv4 addresses proposed

News

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 splashes down on Win Server 2022

Massive podcast outage caused by Spotify’s failure to renew security certificate

Free Consulting

We were asked about making use of SMR drives, and tuning ZFS

Kolide

Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3LpQbqk

Linode

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]]> Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be automated, what to do with SMR drives, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Support us on patreon News Freeing up of hundreds of millions of I...

Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be automated, what to do with SMR drives, and more. Plugs ZFS Developer job description Support us on patreon News Freeing up of hundreds of millions of IPv4 addresses proposed Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 splashes down […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:34 2.5 Admins 93: Bhyve Mind https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-93/ Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:56:54 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=586 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-93/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-93/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and perfect use case for WireGuard. Discussion Jim has been testing Bhyve Free Consulting We were asked about connecting home and small business networks, and choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server. Linode Simplify your […] <![CDATA[

A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and perfect use case for WireGuard.

Discussion

Jim has been testing Bhyve

Free Consulting

We were asked about connecting home and small business networks, and choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and perfect use case for WireGuard. Discussion Jim has been testing Bhyve Free Consulting We were asked about connecting home and small business networks,...

A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and perfect use case for WireGuard. Discussion Jim has been testing Bhyve Free Consulting We were asked about connecting home and small business networks, and choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server. Linode Simplify your […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:56 2.5 Admins 92: End to End to End https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-92/ Thu, 26 May 2022 18:28:43 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=580 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-92/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-92/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA, and backing up your photos with encryption. Plugs Evaluating FreeBSD-CURRENT for Production Use BSDCan 2022 – Online June 1-4th Support us on patreon News “War upon end-to-end encryption”: EU wants Big Tech to scan private messages Broadcom […] <![CDATA[

End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA, and backing up your photos with encryption.

Plugs

Evaluating FreeBSD-CURRENT for Production Use

BSDCan 2022 – Online June 1-4th

“War upon end-to-end encryption”: EU wants Big Tech to scan private messages

News

Broadcom to buy VMware on Thursday for ‘$60 billion’

Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison

Free Consulting

We were asked about backing up photos with encryption.

Stingle is a privacy-focused open source photo backup application

Google Photos is so 2020—welcome to the world of self-hosted photo management

Kolide

Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3LpQbqk

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA, and backing up your photos with encryption. Plugs Evaluating FreeBSD-CURRENT for Production Use BSDCan 2022 – Online June 1-4th Support us on patreo...

End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA, and backing up your photos with encryption. Plugs Evaluating FreeBSD-CURRENT for Production Use BSDCan 2022 – Online June 1-4th Support us on patreon News “War upon end-to-end encryption”: EU wants Big Tech to scan private messages Broadcom […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:24 2.5 Admins 91: The Deenis https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-91/ Thu, 19 May 2022 16:56:36 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=576 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-91/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-91/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives. Plugs bhyve: the BSD hypervisor Support us on patreon Feedback ubuntu/pool/main/b/bash Damaged ZFS filesystems can be more or less unrepairable Free Consulting We were asked about open source Active Directory alternatives. Linode […] <![CDATA[

More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives.

Plugs

bhyve: the BSD hypervisor

Damaged ZFS filesystems can be more or less unrepairable

Feedback

ubuntu/pool/main/b/bash

Free Consulting

We were asked about open source Active Directory alternatives.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives. Plugs bhyve: the BSD hypervisor Support us on patreon Feedback ubuntu/pool/main/b/bash Damaged ZFS filesystems ...

More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open source Active Directory alternatives. Plugs bhyve: the BSD hypervisor Support us on patreon Feedback ubuntu/pool/main/b/bash Damaged ZFS filesystems can be more or less unrepairable Free Consulting We were asked about open source Active Directory alternatives. Linode […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:24 2.5 Admins 90: 2 Admins https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-90/ Thu, 12 May 2022 19:56:35 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=572 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-90/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-90/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard How Apple, […] <![CDATA[

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

Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard

News

How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke

Verbatim Launches Write-Once External SSD With 10-Year Warranty

Free Consulting

We were asked about open source invoice software.

Kolide

Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3LpQbqk

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard How Apple, […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:07 2.5 Admins 89: Warm Storage https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-89/ Thu, 05 May 2022 16:56:46 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=568 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-89/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-89/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thoughts on crypto nonsense, and more. Plugs Learning the Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell Support us on patreon Feedback Twitter thread about optical media longevity Qubes OS Free Consulting We were asked about exporting VMs. […] <![CDATA[

How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thoughts on crypto nonsense, and more.

Plugs

Learning the Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell

Twitter thread about optical media longevity

Feedback

Qubes OS

Free Consulting

We were asked about exporting VMs.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thoughts on crypto nonsense, and more. Plugs Learning the Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell Support us on patreon Feedback Twitter thread about optical media...

How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thoughts on crypto nonsense, and more. Plugs Learning the Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell Support us on patreon Feedback Twitter thread about optical media longevity Qubes OS Free Consulting We were asked about exporting VMs. […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:15 2.5 Admins 88: Great Scott https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-88/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 22:20:25 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=565 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-88/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-88/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror. Plugs Build your own NAS, Part 2: Tuning Support us on patreon News Elon Musk strikes deal to buy Twitter for $44bn Tweet from Rik Mills (Ubuntu & Kubuntu developer) Launchpad […] <![CDATA[

Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror.

Plugs

Build your own NAS, Part 2: Tuning

Elon Musk strikes deal to buy Twitter for $44bn

News

Tweet from Rik Mills (Ubuntu & Kubuntu developer)

Launchpad bug to remove ZFS-on-root from Ubiquity installer

zsys removed from the 22.04 installer

Free Consulting

We were asked about running setting up your own apt mirror.

Kolide

Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3LpQbqk

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror. Plugs Build your own NAS, Part 2: Tuning Support us on patreon News Elon Musk strikes deal to buy Twitter for $44bn Tweet from Rik ...

Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up your own apt mirror. Plugs Build your own NAS, Part 2: Tuning Support us on patreon News Elon Musk strikes deal to buy Twitter for $44bn Tweet from Rik Mills (Ubuntu & Kubuntu developer) Launchpad […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:15 2.5 Admins 87: Unplanned Obsolescence https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-87/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:56:21 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=560 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-87/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-87/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containers, and cloud storage that isn’t quite as good as it sounds. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast. Plugs Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Support us on patreon News Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart […] <![CDATA[

Plugs

Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS

Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart homes

News

Feedback

Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need

Jottacloud

Free Consulting

We were asked about ZFS and multipath, and running Postgres with containers.

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containers, and cloud storage that isn’t quite as good as it sounds. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast.

Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containers, and cloud storage that isn’t quite as good as it sounds. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast. Plugs Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Support us on patreon News Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:05 2.5 Admins 86: Reluctant Sysadmin https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-86/ Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:21:04 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=554 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-86/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-86/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securing SSH keys when using Git. With guest host Dalton Durst from Linux After Dark. Plugs Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation Support us on patreon News OpenSSH 9.0 released At last, Atlassian sees an end to its […] <![CDATA[

The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securing SSH keys when using Git. With guest host Dalton Durst from Linux After Dark.

Plugs

Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation

At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage – in two weeks

News

OpenSSH 9.0 released

Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country

Apple: What to do if you get an alert that an AirTag is with you

AirGuard – AirTag protection

Tom Scott video

Free Consulting

We were asked about securing SSH keys when using Git.

Kolide

Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3LpQbqk

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securing SSH keys when using Git. With guest host Dalton Durst from Linux After Dark. Plugs Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation Support us o...

The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securing SSH keys when using Git. With guest host Dalton Durst from Linux After Dark. Plugs Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation Support us on patreon News OpenSSH 9.0 released At last, Atlassian sees an end to its […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:30 2.5 Admins 85: Textbook Scam https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-85/ Thu, 07 Apr 2022 16:56:22 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=550 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-85/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-85/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 crypto propaganda in schools Free Consulting We were asked about packet loss […] <![CDATA[

CAPTCHAs in phishing attacks, Jim gets angry about Bitcoin propaganda in schools, and packet loss with UDP.

Plugs

Tuning OpenZFS Record size

How CAPTCHA puzzles cloak phishing page URLs in emails

Discussion

Jim gets mad about crypto propaganda in schools

Free Consulting

We were asked about packet loss with UDP.

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]]> 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 ...

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 crypto propaganda in schools Free Consulting We were asked about packet loss […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:24 2.5 Admins 84: Open Source Sabotage https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-84/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:27:32 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=546 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-84/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-84/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more. Plugs Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1? Support us on patreon News BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war The Fragile Open Source Ecosystem Isn’t Ready for ‘Protestware’ Okta Hack Exposes A […] <![CDATA[

An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more.

Plugs

Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?

BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war

News

The Fragile Open Source Ecosystem Isn’t Ready for ‘Protestware’

Okta Hack Exposes A Huge Hole In Tech Giant Security: Their Call Centers

Microsoft: Lapsus$ Used Employee Account to Steal Source Code

Lapsus$ found a spreadsheet of passwords as they breached Okta, documents show

Free Consulting

We were asked about switches, and self-hosting DNS.

Allan’s DNS Made easy affiliate link

Linode

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]]> An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more. Plugs Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1? Support us on patreon News BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war The Fra...

An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and more. Plugs Should I upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1? Support us on patreon News BIG sabotage: Famous npm package deletes files to protest Ukraine war The Fragile Open Source Ecosystem Isn’t Ready for ‘Protestware’ Okta Hack Exposes A […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:23 2.5 Admins 83: Solid State Bathtubs https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-83/ Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:56:57 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=541 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-83/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-83/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works. Plugs Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS Support us on patreon News Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong? Free Consulting We were asked […] <![CDATA[

SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works.

Plugs

Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS

Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs

News

New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?

Free Consulting

We were asked how to learn the inner workings of a mail server.

Postfix, Virtual Domain Setup

Linode

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]]> SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works. Plugs Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS Support us on patreon News Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs New method that ...

SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works. Plugs Webinar: Improving Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS Support us on patreon News Backblaze report finds SSDs as reliable as HDDs New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong? Free Consulting We were asked […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:49 2.5 Admins 82: Oil, Gold, and Firstborn https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-82/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:46:56 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=537 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-82/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-82/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid. Plugs Controlling Resource Limits with RCTL in FreeBSD Support us on patreon News Google makes second-largest acquisition ever: $5.4 billion for Mandiant Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity […] <![CDATA[

Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid.

Plugs

Controlling Resource Limits with RCTL in FreeBSD

Google makes second-largest acquisition ever: $5.4 billion for Mandiant

News

Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity

Internet backbone provider Lumen quits Russia

Another Step Towards The Russian Splinternet

Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left

Cloudflare, Akamai defend decision to stay in Russia

Free Consulting

We were asked about using Nagios with Sanoid.

Reddit thread

Linode

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]]> Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid. Plugs Controlling Resource Limits with RCTL in FreeBSD Support us on patreo...

Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Russia, more on VPNs and filesystem replacements, and using Nagios with Sanoid. Plugs Controlling Resource Limits with RCTL in FreeBSD Support us on patreon News Google makes second-largest acquisition ever: $5.4 billion for Mandiant Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:24 2.5 Admins 81: Don’t Pay https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-81/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:56:31 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=533 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-81/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-81/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Plugs NFS Sharing with ZFS Support us on patreon Discussion Backups ‘no longer effective’ for stopping ransomware attacks Where Did I Put That […] <![CDATA[

How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Plugs

NFS Sharing with ZFS

Backups ‘no longer effective’ for stopping ransomware attacks

Discussion

Where Did I Put That File?

Free Consulting

We were asked about the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Linode

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]]> How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Plugs NFS Sharing with ZFS Support us on patreon Discussion Backups ‘no...

How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your data, and Allan finally tells us the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Plugs NFS Sharing with ZFS Support us on patreon Discussion Backups ‘no longer effective’ for stopping ransomware attacks Where Did I Put That […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:33 2.5 Admins 80: 100 Emoji https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-80/ Thu, 03 Mar 2022 23:53:04 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=528 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-80/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-80/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS Support us on patreon News Three major browsers are about to […] <![CDATA[

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 Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS

Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope?

News

Samsung shipped ‘100m’ Android phones with flawed encryption

Free Consulting

We were asked about the FreeBSD init system, and VMs in sync between the two physical hosts.

The FreeBSD Boot Process

reboot -r on untrusted system

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 Recovery Objectives with OpenZFS Support us on patreon News Three major browsers are about to […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:56 2.5 Admins 79: Flex your disks https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-79/ Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:56:02 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=524 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-79/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-79/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware on servers and networks. Plugs The FreeBSD Boot Process Support us on patreon News/discussion Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five years. Have you checked yours lately? Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs […] <![CDATA[

Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware on servers and networks.

Plugs

The FreeBSD Boot Process

Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five years. Have you checked yours lately?

News/discussion

Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs and Macs

Free Consulting

We were asked about detecting intrusions or malware on servers and networks.

Linode

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]]> Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware on servers and networks. Plugs The FreeBSD Boot Process Support us on patreon News/discussion Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five yea...

Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware on servers and networks. Plugs The FreeBSD Boot Process Support us on patreon News/discussion Most hard drives have a lifespan of three to five years. Have you checked yours lately? Google is bringing Chrome OS to PCs […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:32 2.5 Admins 78: MAZDA~1.BMP https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-78/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:45:49 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=517 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-78/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-78/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn’t always a technical solution to a policy problem. Plugs Unix: On the path to BSD Support us on patreon News Arm’s $66bn sale to Nvidia collapses Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape […] <![CDATA[

Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn’t always a technical solution to a policy problem.

Plugs

Unix: On the path to BSD

Arm’s $66bn sale to Nvidia collapses

News

Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape with bet on RISC-V

Radio station snafu in Seattle bricks some Mazda infotainment systems

Free Consulting

We were asked about solving a policy problem with a technical solution.

Linode

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]]> Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn’t always a technical solution to a policy problem. Plugs Unix: On the path to BSD Support us on patreon News Arm’s $66bn sale to Nvidia collapses I...

Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn’t always a technical solution to a policy problem. Plugs Unix: On the path to BSD Support us on patreon News Arm’s $66bn sale to Nvidia collapses Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:36 2.5 Admins 77: The Joe Ressington Experience https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-77/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:56:53 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=514 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-77/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-77/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Discussion Joe Rogan Podcast is staying on Spotify says boss Students who grew up with search engines might […] <![CDATA[

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

Joe Rogan Podcast is staying on Spotify says boss

Discussion

Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever

Free Consulting

We were asked about our update practices.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 Discussion Joe Rogan Podcast is staying on Spotify says boss Students who grew up with search engines might […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:21 2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-76/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:43:11 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=509 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-76/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-76/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 servers from Linux to FreeBSD Counterpoint to “FreeBSD’s network stack is better” Free […] <![CDATA[

The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS.

Plugs

FreeBSD Periodic Scripts

Microsoft: Windows needs at least 8 hours online to update reliably

News/discussion

Why we’re migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD

Counterpoint to “FreeBSD’s network stack is better”

Free Consulting

We were asked about getting started with ZFS.

What Makes a Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog and When Should You Avoid It

Choosing the right ZFS pool layout

OpenZFS: All about the cache vdev or L2ARC

ZFS 101—Understanding ZFS storage and performance

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 servers from Linux to FreeBSD Counterpoint to “FreeBSD’s network stack is better” Free […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:27 2.5 Admins 75: Burning Fiber https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-75/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 17:56:45 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=503 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-75/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-75/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Microsoft blocking email from Linode Allan’s recent war story Photos Free Consulting We […] <![CDATA[

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

ZFS RAIDZ stripe width, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ

Feedback

Allan’s recent war story

Photos

Free Consulting

We were asked about maximizing performance in a large capacity storage server.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 Microsoft blocking email from Linode Allan’s recent war story Photos Free Consulting We […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:32 2.5 Admins 74: Virtual Pointless Network https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-74/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:24:27 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=499 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-74/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-74/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch. Plugs Support us on patreon The Birth of Unix News/discussion EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities Free Consulting We were […] <![CDATA[

A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch.

Plugs

EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities

The Birth of Unix

News/discussion

Free Consulting

We were asked about how we set up machines from scratch.

Linode

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]]> A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch. Plugs Support us on patreon The Birth of Unix News/discussion EU wants to build its own DNS infrastruc...

A potential new European recursive DNS, why VPNs aren’t the silver bullet some people think they are, and how we set up new systems from scratch. Plugs Support us on patreon The Birth of Unix News/discussion EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities Free Consulting We were […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:28 2.5 Admins 73: QR Choad https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-73/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:56:03 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=495 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-73/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-73/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Caddy web server Free Consulting We were asked about optimising and maintaining […] <![CDATA[

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

Jim’s review of the Caddy web server

News/Discussion

Pay to park scam

Feedback

Free Consulting

We were asked about optimising and maintaining an old database.

Linode

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]]> 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 ...

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 Caddy web server Free Consulting We were asked about optimising and maintaining […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:15 2.5 Admins 72: Email Cartel https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-72/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 21:28:40 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=490 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-72/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-72/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 releases emergency fix for Exchange year 2022 bug Gloomy sysadmin take on running […] <![CDATA[

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

Microsoft releases emergency fix for Exchange year 2022 bug

News/discussion

Gloomy sysadmin take on running your own email infrastructure

Free Consulting

We were asked about using Syncoid for backups.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 releases emergency fix for Exchange year 2022 bug Gloomy sysadmin take on running […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:24 2.5 Admins 71: Recover Calmly https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-71/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:56:26 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=486 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-71/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-71/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 affect how employers issue paychecks and track hours How We Saved Millions in SSD Costs […] <![CDATA[

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

Kronos hack will likely affect how employers issue paychecks and track hours

News/Discussion

How We Saved Millions in SSD Costs by Upgrading Our Filesystem

Feedback

SpinRite

Free Consulting

We were asked about moving a QNAP NAS out of an office.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 affect how employers issue paychecks and track hours How We Saved Millions in SSD Costs […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:01 2.5 Admins 70: Xmas AMA https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-70/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:56:42 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=482 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-70/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-70/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern […] <![CDATA[

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

Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to investigate known security issues

Linode

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This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/25admins and sign up for a 7-day free trial.

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]]> 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...

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 your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:06 2.5 Admins 69: Nice https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-69/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:56:57 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=477 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-69/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-69/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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/Discussion Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j 2, a popular Java logging package […] <![CDATA[

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

Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j 2, a popular Java logging package

News/Discussion

The Internet’s biggest players are all affected by critical Log4Shell 0-day

Canada Revenue Agency and other government departments take some services offline due to security vulnerability

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Free Consulting

We were asked about web servers for static sites, VLANS and interfaces, and certifications.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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/Discussion Log4Shell: RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j 2, a popular Java logging package […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:37 2.5 Admins 68: Shuckchain https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-68/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 23:50:16 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=472 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-68/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-68/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 FreeBSD. BSDCan 2022 – Call for papers Support us on patreon News It’s […] <![CDATA[

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 FreeBSD.

BSDCan 2022 – Call for papers

It’s long past time for cost-benefit analysis on blockchain

News

Funny tweet

A mysterious threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays

Free Consulting

We were asked about using configuring passwords with Ansible, and burning in new disks.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 FreeBSD. BSDCan 2022 – Call for papers Support us on patreon News It’s […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:45 2.5 Admins 67: Haitch https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-67/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 17:56:00 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=466 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-67/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-67/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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. Plugs Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0 Support us on patreon News/Discussion Google’s server life extension delivers $1.7bn revenue boost in nine months […] <![CDATA[

Plugs

Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0

Google’s server life extension delivers $1.7bn revenue boost in nine months

News/Discussion

Google to make its own custom server chips as well

Seagate demos hard disk drive with an NVMe interface

Cryptographers are not happy with how you’re using the word ‘crypto’

Free Consulting

We were asked about using WireGuard with multi-factor authentication, and testing network quality.

netburn

FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting: Understanding Network Performance

RIPE Atlas

Linode

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]]> 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.

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. Plugs Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0 Support us on patreon News/Discussion Google’s server life extension delivers $1.7bn revenue boost in nine months […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:42 2.5 Admins 66: Lack of Entropy https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-66/ Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:13:38 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=462 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-66/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-66/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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. Support us on patreon News Tesla drivers left unable to start […] <![CDATA[

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.

Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage

News

Server errors hit Tesla remote-control app

Linux has a serious security problem that once again enables DNS cache poisoning

Free Consulting

We were asked about why Jim doesn’t use Proxmox, and accessing KVM hosts from Windows.

Linode

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]]> 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.

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. Support us on patreon News Tesla drivers left unable to start […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:30 2.5 Admins 65: Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-65/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:56:58 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=457 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-65/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-65/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Stacks Support us on patreon News/Discussion These Parents Built a School […] <![CDATA[

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 Stacks

These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops

News/Discussion

Free Consulting

We were asked about monitoring, how junior admins can introduce new workflows in the face of resistance, and Samba security.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 Stacks Support us on patreon News/Discussion These Parents Built a School […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:36 2.5 Admins 64: Augmented Dystopia https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-64/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:10:41 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=452 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-64/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-64/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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.little CPU design, tested: It’s a barn burner OpenZFS Developer Summit Free Consulting We were […] <![CDATA[

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

Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: It’s a barn burner

News

Welcome to Meta

OpenZFS Developer Summit

Free Consulting

We were asked about managing and revoking SSH keys, and remote management of Windows machines.

Linode

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]]> 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.

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.little CPU design, tested: It’s a barn burner OpenZFS Developer Summit Free Consulting We were […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:44 2.5 Admins 63: Unlocking the Future https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-63/ Thu, 04 Nov 2021 17:56:56 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=446 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-63/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-63/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The Oculus Go is opened up, a potential addition to HTTPS, Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, testing ZFS backups, virtualising a firewall, and more. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online Advanced ZFS Snapshots – Holds and Clones Support us on patreon News/Discussion John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus […] <![CDATA[

The Oculus Go is opened up, a potential addition to HTTPS, Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, testing ZFS backups, virtualising a firewall, and more.

Plugs

OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online

Advanced ZFS Snapshots – Holds and Clones

John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

News/Discussion

HTTPS Attestable: Remote, secure, verified enclaves proposed

Intel Announces 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake” CPUs

Free Consulting

We were asked about testing ZFS backups, and virtualising a firewall.

Linode

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]]> The Oculus Go is opened up, a potential addition to HTTPS, Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, testing ZFS backups, virtualising a firewall, and more. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online Advanced ZFS Snapshots – Holds and Clones Support us on ...

The Oculus Go is opened up, a potential addition to HTTPS, Intel’s new Alder Lake CPUs, testing ZFS backups, virtualising a firewall, and more. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit – Nov 8-9th Online Advanced ZFS Snapshots – Holds and Clones Support us on patreon News/Discussion John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:06 2.5 Admins 62: Top Notch https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-62/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:50:14 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=439 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-62/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-62/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 and Microsoft release fixes for Ryzen slowdowns in Windows 11 Apple’s […] <![CDATA[

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

AMD and Microsoft release fixes for Ryzen slowdowns in Windows 11

News

Apple’s MacBook Pro is a GPU-shaped warning to Nvidia and AMD

Free Consulting

We were asked about hibernation, and whether there’s a distro with a Linux kernel and a BSD userland.

Linode

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]]> 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 ...

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 and Microsoft release fixes for Ryzen slowdowns in Windows 11 Apple’s […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:03 2.5 Admins 61: Alice and Bob https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-61/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:54:02 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=433 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-61/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-61/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Workstation Setup Support us on patreon News/Discussion FBI Arrests Navy Nuclear Engineer, Wife […] <![CDATA[

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 Workstation Setup

FBI Arrests Navy Nuclear Engineer, Wife Accused of Selling Submarine Secrets

News/Discussion

S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from ‘Squid Game’

Free Consulting

We were asked about setting up wireless access points to avoid lag-spikes.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 Workstation Setup Support us on patreon News/Discussion FBI Arrests Navy Nuclear Engineer, Wife […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:32 2.5 Admins 60: Butter Fingers https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-60/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 20:20:17 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=428 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-60/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-60/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 ET All Things Open Manipulating a ZFS Pool from the Rescue System Support […] <![CDATA[

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 ET

All Things Open

Manipulating a ZFS Pool from the Rescue System

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know

News

Update about the October 4th outage

Animated graphic of Facebook BGP routes disappearing

The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux

A preview of WSL in the Microsoft Store is now available

Free Consulting

We were asked about expanding the storage in large capacity server.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 ET All Things Open Manipulating a ZFS Pool from the Rescue System Support […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:43 2.5 Admins 59: Megaphone in the Middle https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-59/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:56:00 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=423 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-59/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-59/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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/Discussion Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate […] <![CDATA[

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

Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification

News/Discussion

Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate HTTPS Everywhere plugin

Free Consulting

We were asked about SSH tarpits.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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/Discussion Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification Electronic Frontier Foundation will deprecate […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:11 2.5 Admins 58: Autocompromised https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-58/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:38:05 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=417 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-58/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-58/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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, and when not to Support us on patreon News Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover bug leaks hundreds of […] <![CDATA[

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, and when not to

Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover bug leaks hundreds of thousands of domain credentials

News

Microsoft knew of Exchange Autodiscover flaw five years ago

Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem

Free Consulting

We were asked about the best hardware for a low-powered NAS.

Linode

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]]> 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,

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, and when not to Support us on patreon News Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover bug leaks hundreds of […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:54 2.5 Admins 57: Spherical Chickens https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-57/ Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:56:07 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=412 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-57/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-57/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all Free Consulting We were asked about Optane in servers, and what […] <![CDATA[

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

WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all

News/Discussion

Free Consulting

We were asked about Optane in servers, and what sysadmins actually do.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all Free Consulting We were asked about Optane in servers, and what […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:52 2.5 Admins 56: OMIGOD root https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-56/ Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:14:01 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=407 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-56/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-56/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 another major Azure vulnerability Timeline Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right […] <![CDATA[

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

Security researchers at Wiz discover another major Azure vulnerability

News

Timeline

Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik

Free Consulting

We were asked about ZFS sends to TrueNAS, running a dektop in a VM, and SSH keys with a Yubikey.

Linode

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]]> 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...

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 another major Azure vulnerability Timeline Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right […]

The Late Night Linux Family 56 56 2.5 Admins 56: OMIGOD root full false 29:55 2.5 Admins 55: WiFi in the Woods https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-55/ Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:56:00 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=401 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-55/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-55/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A surprisingly cheap and easy way to connect 2 buildings wirelessly, your feedback about Samba, and the realities of parental Internet controls. Plugs Choosing the right ZFS pool layout Support us on patreon News/Discussion Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy way Free Consulting We were asked about restricting access to […] <![CDATA[

A surprisingly cheap and easy way to connect 2 buildings wirelessly, your feedback about Samba, and the realities of parental Internet controls.

Plugs

Choosing the right ZFS pool layout

Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy way

News/Discussion

Free Consulting

We were asked about restricting access to YouTube at certain times of day.

Linode

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]]> A surprisingly cheap and easy way to connect 2 buildings wirelessly, your feedback about Samba, and the realities of parental Internet controls. Plugs Choosing the right ZFS pool layout Support us on patreon News/Discussion Point-to-point Wi-Fi bri...

A surprisingly cheap and easy way to connect 2 buildings wirelessly, your feedback about Samba, and the realities of parental Internet controls. Plugs Choosing the right ZFS pool layout Support us on patreon News/Discussion Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy way Free Consulting We were asked about restricting access to […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:27 2.5 Admins 54: Bait and Switch https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-54/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:52:36 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=396 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-54/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-54/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> SSD manufacturers quietly switching out components, 20TB non-SMR HDDs, the surprising side effects of killing the landline, ZFS snapshots when space is limited, and how Jim and Allan set up their systems and monitoring. Plugs History of ZFS: Part 3 Support us on patreon News After quietly switching to slower NAND in an […] <![CDATA[

Plugs

History of ZFS: Part 3

After quietly switching to slower NAND in an NVMe SSD, Western Digital promises to be a bit louder next time

News

Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs

Western Digital introduces new non-SMR 20TB HDDs with onboard NAND

Internet revamp for the humble landline

Free Consulting

We were asked about how Jim and Allan set up their systems and monitoring, and how to deal with ZFS snapshots when space is limited.

Linode

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]]> SSD manufacturers quietly switching out components, 20TB non-SMR HDDs, the surprising side effects of killing the landline, ZFS snapshots when space is limited, and how Jim and Allan set up their systems and monitoring.

SSD manufacturers quietly switching out components, 20TB non-SMR HDDs, the surprising side effects of killing the landline, ZFS snapshots when space is limited, and how Jim and Allan set up their systems and monitoring. Plugs History of ZFS: Part 3 Support us on patreon News After quietly switching to slower NAND in an […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:48 2.5 Admins 53: Unexpected Root https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-53/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:56:05 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=391 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-53/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-53/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> How getting root might be easier for attackers than you think, what a new OS can teach us about open source development, and why you probably shouldn’t buy enterprise drives for your NAS. Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 is Online, September 17-19, 2021 Support us on patreon News/Discussion Asking nicely for root command execution (and […] <![CDATA[

How getting root might be easier for attackers than you think, what a new OS can teach us about open source development, and why you probably shouldn’t buy enterprise drives for your NAS.

Plugs

EuroBSDCon 2021 is Online, September 17-19, 2021

Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it)

News/Discussion

SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s

Free Consulting

We were asked about enterprise and NAS drives.

Linode

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]]> How getting root might be easier for attackers than you think, what a new OS can teach us about open source development, and why you probably shouldn’t buy enterprise drives for your NAS. Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 is Online, September 17-19,

How getting root might be easier for attackers than you think, what a new OS can teach us about open source development, and why you probably shouldn’t buy enterprise drives for your NAS. Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 is Online, September 17-19, 2021 Support us on patreon News/Discussion Asking nicely for root command execution (and […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:37 2.5 Admins 52: Notflix https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-52/ Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:17:15 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=387 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-52/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-52/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Netflix blocking residential IPs, Intel’s upcoming discrete graphics cards, and the finer points of connecting disks to a RAID controller. Plugs Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 2 Jim was a guest on Linux Unplugged 418 discussing WireGuardNT Support us on patreon News Netflix is adding residential IP addresses to its VPN […] <![CDATA[

Netflix blocking residential IPs, Intel’s upcoming discrete graphics cards, and the finer points of connecting disks to a RAID controller.

Plugs

Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 2

Jim was a guest on Linux Unplugged 418 discussing WireGuardNT

Netflix is adding residential IP addresses to its VPN blocklists

News

Intel Introduces New High-Performance Graphics Brand: Intel Arc

Free Consulting

We were asked about RAID controllers.

Linode

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]]> Netflix blocking residential IPs, Intel’s upcoming discrete graphics cards, and the finer points of connecting disks to a RAID controller. Plugs Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 2 Jim was a guest on Linux Unplugged 418 discussing WireGuar...

Netflix blocking residential IPs, Intel’s upcoming discrete graphics cards, and the finer points of connecting disks to a RAID controller. Plugs Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 2 Jim was a guest on Linux Unplugged 418 discussing WireGuardNT Support us on patreon News Netflix is adding residential IP addresses to its VPN […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:09 2.5 Admins 51: Goodbye LISA https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-51/ Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:56:43 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=379 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-51/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-51/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why a large sysadmin conference shut down and what it means, roaming between multiple wireless access points, sending ZFS snapshots to the cloud, best practice for tunnelling between home and the cloud, and a novel use for old hard disks. Plugs Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 1 Support us on patreon […] <![CDATA[

Why a large sysadmin conference shut down and what it means, roaming between multiple wireless access points, sending ZFS snapshots to the cloud, best practice for tunnelling between home and the cloud, and a novel use for old hard disks.

Plugs

Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 1

Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots

News/Discussion

LISA Community Message

Feedback

We mentioned Spinning Rust Records who are on Twitter and Bandcamp.

Checkmk

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]]> Why a large sysadmin conference shut down and what it means, roaming between multiple wireless access points, sending ZFS snapshots to the cloud, best practice for tunnelling between home and the cloud, and a novel use for old hard disks.

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:56 2.5 Admins 50: Optimal Airtime https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-50/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:03:35 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=373 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-50/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-50/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Huge improvements for WireGuard on Windows, and a brief update on the Framework Laptop. Plus why RAID is not a backup, when to use bare metal vs VMs, choosing database types, and more. Plugs Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots Support us on patreon News New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows Framework’s lightweight modular […] <![CDATA[

Huge improvements for WireGuard on Windows, and a brief update on the Framework Laptop. Plus why RAID is not a backup, when to use bare metal vs VMs, choosing database types, and more.

Plugs

New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows

News

Framework’s lightweight modular laptop is a winner

Free Consulting

We were asked about RAID and whether similar disks die at the same time, Samba speed differences, VMs vs bare metal, and databases.

Checkmk

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Linode

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]]> Huge improvements for WireGuard on Windows, and a brief update on the Framework Laptop. Plus why RAID is not a backup, when to use bare metal vs VMs, choosing database types, and more. Plugs Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots Support us on patreon News N...

Huge improvements for WireGuard on Windows, and a brief update on the Framework Laptop. Plus why RAID is not a backup, when to use bare metal vs VMs, choosing database types, and more. Plugs Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots Support us on patreon News New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows Framework’s lightweight modular […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:27 2.5 Admins 49: Cuddle the Pegasus https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-49/ Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:56:39 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=363 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-49/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-49/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why the Pegasus spyware isn’t really anything new, a Windows vulnerability sends Jim and Allan down memory lane, what to do with old hard disks, your feedback, and more. Plugs FreeBSD TCP performance system controls Support us on patreon News Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon This World of Ours New Windows […] <![CDATA[

Why the Pegasus spyware isn’t really anything new, a Windows vulnerability sends Jim and Allan down memory lane, what to do with old hard disks, your feedback, and more.

Plugs

FreeBSD TCP performance system controls

Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

News

This World of Ours

New Windows 10 vulnerability allows anyone to get admin privileges

Free Consulting

We were asked about paying for password leak notifications, and what to do with old small hard disks.

Checkmk

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Linode

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]]> Why the Pegasus spyware isn’t really anything new, a Windows vulnerability sends Jim and Allan down memory lane, what to do with old hard disks, your feedback, and more. Plugs FreeBSD TCP performance system controls Support us on patreon News Leak ...

Why the Pegasus spyware isn’t really anything new, a Windows vulnerability sends Jim and Allan down memory lane, what to do with old hard disks, your feedback, and more. Plugs FreeBSD TCP performance system controls Support us on patreon News Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon This World of Ours New Windows […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:20 2.5 Admins 48: PR Problem https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-48/ Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:14:20 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=355 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-48/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-48/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Jim’s hands-on with the modular and upgradeable Framework laptop, the details of Muse Group’s latest controversy, and when backing up to a Pi in your friend’s basement sometimes makes sense. Plugs Managing Boot Environments Support us on patreon News Framework Laptop Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community […] <![CDATA[

Jim’s hands-on with the modular and upgradeable Framework laptop, the details of Muse Group’s latest controversy, and when backing up to a Pi in your friend’s basement sometimes makes sense.

Plugs

Managing Boot Environments

Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community

News

Framework Laptop

Free Consulting

We were asked about off-site backups.

Linode

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]]> Jim’s hands-on with the modular and upgradeable Framework laptop, the details of Muse Group’s latest controversy, and when backing up to a Pi in your friend’s basement sometimes makes sense. Plugs Managing Boot Environments Support us on patreon Ne...

Jim’s hands-on with the modular and upgradeable Framework laptop, the details of Muse Group’s latest controversy, and when backing up to a Pi in your friend’s basement sometimes makes sense. Plugs Managing Boot Environments Support us on patreon News Framework Laptop Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:36 2.5 Admins 47: ZFS Rules, LTO Drools https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-47/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:56:54 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=348 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-47/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-47/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The current and future states of system performance across the whole stack, and backing up to tapes. Plus your feedback about clustered filesystems, a ZFS success story, and IPv6 devices. News/Discussion Computing Performance: On the Horizon Free Consulting We were asked about backing up to magnetic tape. Linode Simplify your […] <![CDATA[

The current and future states of system performance across the whole stack, and backing up to tapes. Plus your feedback about clustered filesystems, a ZFS success story, and IPv6 devices.

News/Discussion

Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Free Consulting

We were asked about backing up to magnetic tape.

Linode

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]]> The current and future states of system performance across the whole stack, and backing up to tapes. Plus your feedback about clustered filesystems, a ZFS success story, and IPv6 devices. News/Discussion Computing Performance: On the Horizon Free C...

The current and future states of system performance across the whole stack, and backing up to tapes. Plus your feedback about clustered filesystems, a ZFS success story, and IPv6 devices. News/Discussion Computing Performance: On the Horizon Free Consulting We were asked about backing up to magnetic tape. Linode Simplify your […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:47 2.5 Admins 46: Not Actively Supported https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-46/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:28:29 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=344 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-46/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-46/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Windows 11 has been announced but some key details are still unknown, why you shouldn’t connect consumer-grade network storage devices to the Internet, optimizing Windows guests on KVM hosts, and how to get started with Sanoid. Plugs History of FreeBSD: Net/1 and Net/2: Path to Freedom Support us on patreon News WD My […] <![CDATA[

Windows 11 has been announced but some key details are still unknown, why you shouldn’t connect consumer-grade network storage devices to the Internet, optimizing Windows guests on KVM hosts, and how to get started with Sanoid.

Plugs

History of FreeBSD: Net/1 and Net/2: Path to Freedom

WD My Book NAS devices are being remotely wiped clean worldwide Western Digital My Book NAS

News

Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices

Western Digital Users Face Another RCE

Windows 11 is much more than a new theme slapped onto Windows 10

Free Consulting

We were asked about optimizing Windows guests on KVM hosts, and how to get started with Sanoid.

Linode

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]]> Windows 11 has been announced but some key details are still unknown, why you shouldn’t connect consumer-grade network storage devices to the Internet, optimizing Windows guests on KVM hosts, and how to get started with Sanoid.

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:50 2.5 Admins 45: Weapons grade insecurity https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-45/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:56:51 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=336 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-45/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-45/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Potentially serious vulnerabilities in military systems, a new ZFS feature that’s mostly for home users, and IPv6 on your LAN. Plugs FreeBSD Performance Observability Support us on patreon News/Discussion Vulnerabilities in Weapons Systems ZFS fans, rejoice—RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon Free Consulting We were asked about identifying devices with […] <![CDATA[

Potentially serious vulnerabilities in military systems, a new ZFS feature that’s mostly for home users, and IPv6 on your LAN.

Plugs

FreeBSD Performance Observability

Vulnerabilities in Weapons Systems

News/Discussion

ZFS fans, rejoice—RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon

Free Consulting

We were asked about identifying devices with IPv6 addresses on a local network.

Linode

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]]> Potentially serious vulnerabilities in military systems, a new ZFS feature that’s mostly for home users, and IPv6 on your LAN. Plugs FreeBSD Performance Observability Support us on patreon News/Discussion Vulnerabilities in Weapons Systems ZFS fans...

Potentially serious vulnerabilities in military systems, a new ZFS feature that’s mostly for home users, and IPv6 on your LAN. Plugs FreeBSD Performance Observability Support us on patreon News/Discussion Vulnerabilities in Weapons Systems ZFS fans, rejoice—RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon Free Consulting We were asked about identifying devices with […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:48 2.5 Admins 44: ZF yes! https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-44/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:53:55 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=331 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-44/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-44/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Supply chain problems causing a rise in counterfeit chips, busting the myth about ZFS and RAM, gold VM images, and x86 routers. Plugs Introduction to ZFS replication Support us on patreon News Chip shortages lead to more counterfeit chips and devices Free Consulting We were asked about how much RAM ZFS needs, […] <![CDATA[

Supply chain problems causing a rise in counterfeit chips, busting the myth about ZFS and RAM, gold VM images, and x86 routers.

Plugs

Introduction to ZFS replication

Chip shortages lead to more counterfeit chips and devices

News

Free Consulting

We were asked about how much RAM ZFS needs, gold VM images, and homebrew x86 routers.

CBT Nuggets

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]]> Supply chain problems causing a rise in counterfeit chips, busting the myth about ZFS and RAM, gold VM images, and x86 routers. Plugs Introduction to ZFS replication Support us on patreon News Chip shortages lead to more counterfeit chips and devic...

Supply chain problems causing a rise in counterfeit chips, busting the myth about ZFS and RAM, gold VM images, and x86 routers. Plugs Introduction to ZFS replication Support us on patreon News Chip shortages lead to more counterfeit chips and devices Free Consulting We were asked about how much RAM ZFS needs, […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:49 2.5 Admins 43: Find my bandwidth https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-43/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:56:53 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=319 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-43/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-43/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A potential order of magnitude increase in HDD sizes, Amazon Sidewalk, dying SSDs, planning new systems, ssh vs VPN logins, and more. Plugs History of ZFS: Part 2: Exploding in Popularity Support us on patreon News/Discussion Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data Amazon devices will soon automatically share […] <![CDATA[

A potential order of magnitude increase in HDD sizes, Amazon Sidewalk, dying SSDs, planning new systems, ssh vs VPN logins, and more.

Plugs

History of ZFS: Part 2: Exploding in Popularity

Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data

News/Discussion

Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

Free Consulting

We were asked about dying SSDs, push and pull backups with third-party hosting, ssh and VPN logins, and planning new systems.

Linode

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]]> A potential order of magnitude increase in HDD sizes, Amazon Sidewalk, dying SSDs, planning new systems, ssh vs VPN logins, and more. Plugs History of ZFS: Part 2: Exploding in Popularity Support us on patreon News/Discussion Ultra-high-density har...

A potential order of magnitude increase in HDD sizes, Amazon Sidewalk, dying SSDs, planning new systems, ssh vs VPN logins, and more. Plugs History of ZFS: Part 2: Exploding in Popularity Support us on patreon News/Discussion Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data Amazon devices will soon automatically share […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:21 2.5 Admins 42: Guru Medication https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-42/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:33:53 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=312 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-42/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-42/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Fastly’s recent outage, how attackers probably breached the Colonial Pipeline’s network, crypto mining in anti-virus software, and setting up a box at your friend’s house to watch Netflix while abroad. News Fastly broke the Internet for an hour The 503’s heard around the world Fastly Summary of June 8 outage Colonial Pipeline Chief Says […] <![CDATA[

News

Fastly broke the Internet for an hour

The 503’s heard around the world

Fastly Summary of June 8 outage

Colonial Pipeline Chief Says Recovery From Ransomware Hack Not Complete

Uncle Sam recovers 63.7 of 75 Bitcoins Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware crew

NortonLifeLock Unveils Norton Crypto

Free Consulting

We were asked about encrypted off-site backups, and getting around geo-restrictions with a VPN.

Linode

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]]> Fastly’s recent outage, how attackers probably breached the Colonial Pipeline’s network, crypto mining in anti-virus software, and setting up a box at your friend’s house to watch Netflix while abroad. News Fastly broke the Internet for an hour The 5...

Fastly’s recent outage, how attackers probably breached the Colonial Pipeline’s network, crypto mining in anti-virus software, and setting up a box at your friend’s house to watch Netflix while abroad. News Fastly broke the Internet for an hour The 503’s heard around the world Fastly Summary of June 8 outage Colonial Pipeline Chief Says […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:37 2.5 Admins 41: Swiss cheese security https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-41/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:56:49 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=306 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-41/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-41/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Synology and Btrfs, backing up low-end Linux laptops, vulnerability management, FreeBSD hypervisors, and more. Plugs Building Customized FreeBSD Images Support us on patreon Feedback Things we mentioned: Barracuda I couldn’t break Synology SHR+btrfs (yet) Our subreddit Free Consulting We were asked about AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting), backing up low-end Linux laptops, […] <![CDATA[

Synology and Btrfs, backing up low-end Linux laptops, vulnerability management, FreeBSD hypervisors, and more.

Plugs

Building Customized FreeBSD Images

I couldn’t break Synology SHR+btrfs (yet)

Feedback

Things we mentioned:

Barracuda

Our subreddit

Free Consulting

We were asked about AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting), backing up low-end Linux laptops, FreeBSD hypervisors, and vulnerability management.

Linode

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]]> Synology and Btrfs, backing up low-end Linux laptops, vulnerability management, FreeBSD hypervisors, and more. Plugs Building Customized FreeBSD Images Support us on patreon Feedback Things we mentioned: Barracuda I couldn’t break Synology SHR+btrf...

Synology and Btrfs, backing up low-end Linux laptops, vulnerability management, FreeBSD hypervisors, and more. Plugs Building Customized FreeBSD Images Support us on patreon Feedback Things we mentioned: Barracuda I couldn’t break Synology SHR+btrfs (yet) Our subreddit Free Consulting We were asked about AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting), backing up low-end Linux laptops, […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:07 2.5 Admins 40: Crown Prince of Freenode https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-40/ Thu, 27 May 2021 19:42:58 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=301 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-40/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-40/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The complex tale of the recent IRC drama, Microsoft kills Windows 10X, and why we think a WordPress site was pwned. News Microsoft puts Windows 10X variant on the back burner Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince” Free Consulting We were asked why a WordPress site had […] <![CDATA[

The complex tale of the recent IRC drama, Microsoft kills Windows 10X, and why we think a WordPress site was pwned.

News

Microsoft puts Windows 10X variant on the back burner

Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince”

Free Consulting

We were asked why a WordPress site had been compromised.

Linode

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]]> The complex tale of the recent IRC drama, Microsoft kills Windows 10X, and why we think a WordPress site was pwned. News Microsoft puts Windows 10X variant on the back burner Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince”...

The complex tale of the recent IRC drama, Microsoft kills Windows 10X, and why we think a WordPress site was pwned. News Microsoft puts Windows 10X variant on the back burner Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince” Free Consulting We were asked why a WordPress site had […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:54 2.5 Admins 39: Cacophony of starts https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-39/ Thu, 20 May 2021 16:54:13 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=291 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-39/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-39/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Testing failing disks and why they don’t work over a certain altitude, and your feedback about ZFS snapshots, authentication, community discussion platforms, Docker and ZFS, and more. Plugs Basics of ZFS Snapshot Management Klara articles RSS feed Support us on patreon Feedback Things we mentioned: zrepl authelia r/25admins Using bind mounts docker-vackup […] <![CDATA[

Testing failing disks and why they don’t work over a certain altitude, and your feedback about ZFS snapshots, authentication, community discussion platforms, Docker and ZFS, and more.

Plugs

Basics of ZFS Snapshot Management

Klara articles RSS feed

Dell HDD Warranty void above 10,000 ft

Feedback

Things we mentioned:

Discussion

Poor Disk Performance

CBT Nuggets

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]]> Testing failing disks and why they don’t work over a certain altitude, and your feedback about ZFS snapshots, authentication, community discussion platforms, Docker and ZFS, and more. Plugs Basics of ZFS Snapshot Management Klara articles RSS feed Su...

Testing failing disks and why they don’t work over a certain altitude, and your feedback about ZFS snapshots, authentication, community discussion platforms, Docker and ZFS, and more. Plugs Basics of ZFS Snapshot Management Klara articles RSS feed Support us on patreon Feedback Things we mentioned: zrepl authelia r/25admins Using bind mounts docker-vackup […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:56 2.5 Admins 38: Wires FTW https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-38/ Thu, 13 May 2021 19:21:16 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=285 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-38/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-38/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The importance of VPNs when using Wi-Fi, the complexities of chip node size, and whether appliance NAS devices make any sense. Plugs Getting the most out of ARM64 Support us on patreon News FragAttacks: Security flaws in all Wi-Fi devices IBM creates the world’s first 2 nm chip Free Consulting We were […] <![CDATA[

The importance of VPNs when using Wi-Fi, the complexities of chip node size, and whether appliance NAS devices make any sense.

Plugs

Getting the most out of ARM64

FragAttacks: Security flaws in all Wi-Fi devices

News

IBM creates the world’s first 2 nm chip

Free Consulting

We were asked about off-the-shelf network storage devices.

Linode

CBT Nuggets

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]]> The importance of VPNs when using Wi-Fi, the complexities of chip node size, and whether appliance NAS devices make any sense. Plugs Getting the most out of ARM64 Support us on patreon News FragAttacks: Security flaws in all Wi-Fi devices IBM creat...

The importance of VPNs when using Wi-Fi, the complexities of chip node size, and whether appliance NAS devices make any sense. Plugs Getting the most out of ARM64 Support us on patreon News FragAttacks: Security flaws in all Wi-Fi devices IBM creates the world’s first 2 nm chip Free Consulting We were […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:45 2.5 Admins 37: Exchanging shells https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-37/ Thu, 06 May 2021 16:56:57 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=279 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-37/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-37/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Authorities trying to remove malware from people’s servers, turning your sysadmin hobby into a career, cloud backups, config management, and more. Plugs Why you should consider the BSD license Support us on patreon Feedback Cloud backups with Rclone and alternatives, MikroTik network gear, server security, and config management. News Brit authorities could […] <![CDATA[

Authorities trying to remove malware from people’s servers, turning your sysadmin hobby into a career, cloud backups, config management, and more.

Plugs

Why you should consider the BSD license

Brit authorities could legally do an FBI and scrub malware from compromised boxen without your knowledge

Feedback

Cloud backups with Rclone and alternatives, MikroTik network gear, server security, and config management.

News

Free Consulting

We were asked about the best way to turn your sysadmin hobby into a career.

CBT Nuggets

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]]> Authorities trying to remove malware from people’s servers, turning your sysadmin hobby into a career, cloud backups, config management, and more. Plugs Why you should consider the BSD license Support us on patreon Feedback Cloud backups with Rclon...

Authorities trying to remove malware from people’s servers, turning your sysadmin hobby into a career, cloud backups, config management, and more. Plugs Why you should consider the BSD license Support us on patreon Feedback Cloud backups with Rclone and alternatives, MikroTik network gear, server security, and config management. News Brit authorities could […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:05 2.5 Admins 36: Minnesota shower https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-36/ Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:39:39 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=275 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-36/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-36/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> GUI Linux apps on Windows, Linux kernel development is pen-tested, ZFS and Docker, and converting a Windows installation to a VM. Plugs FreeBSD IOStat EuroBSDCon 2021 CfP Support us on patreon News Graphical Linux apps are coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology “Full disclosure” […] <![CDATA[

GUI Linux apps on Windows, Linux kernel development is pen-tested, ZFS and Docker, and converting a Windows installation to a VM.

Plugs

FreeBSD IOStat

EuroBSDCon 2021 CfP

Graphical Linux apps are coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux

News

Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology

“Full disclosure” from the University of Minnesota

Free Consulting

We were asked about using ZFS with Docker, and visualizing a physical Windows installation.

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]]> GUI Linux apps on Windows, Linux kernel development is pen-tested, ZFS and Docker, and converting a Windows installation to a VM. Plugs FreeBSD IOStat EuroBSDCon 2021 CfP Support us on patreon News Graphical Linux apps are coming to Windows Subsyst...

GUI Linux apps on Windows, Linux kernel development is pen-tested, ZFS and Docker, and converting a Windows installation to a VM. Plugs FreeBSD IOStat EuroBSDCon 2021 CfP Support us on patreon News Graphical Linux apps are coming to Windows Subsystem for Linux Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology “Full disclosure” […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:41 2.5 Admins 35: More free consulting https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-35/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:56:49 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=271 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-35/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-35/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> We answer a bunch of your questions about server hardening, managing ZFS snapshots, Docusign, SSL certs in air-gapped networks, and automating updates. Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers Support us on patreon CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT […] <![CDATA[

We answer a bunch of your questions about server hardening, managing ZFS snapshots, Docusign, SSL certs in air-gapped networks, and automating updates.

Plugs

EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers

Allan’s FreeBSD Journal Article

CBT Nuggets

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]]> We answer a bunch of your questions about server hardening, managing ZFS snapshots, Docusign, SSL certs in air-gapped networks, and automating updates. Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers Support us on patreon CBT Nuggets This episode is sponso...

We answer a bunch of your questions about server hardening, managing ZFS snapshots, Docusign, SSL certs in air-gapped networks, and automating updates. Plugs EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers Support us on patreon CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:17 2.5 Admins 34: Free consulting https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-34/ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:37:41 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=268 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-34/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-34/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> We answer a bunch of your questions about firewalls, best practices for backups, learning ZFS, QoS, SSH key management, backing up Google Drive, and more. Links to things mentioned Unix Haters Handbook Allan’s FreeBSD Journal Article Dummynet: The Better Way to Build FreeBSD Networks Jim’s ZFS 101 Allan’s book Plugs Customizing FreeBSD Ports […] <![CDATA[

We answer a bunch of your questions about firewalls, best practices for backups, learning ZFS, QoS, SSH key management, backing up Google Drive, and more.

Links to things mentioned

Unix Haters Handbook

Dummynet: The Better Way to Build FreeBSD Networks

Jim’s ZFS 101

Allan’s book

Plugs

Customizing FreeBSD Ports and Packages

All Things Open

Victoria University of Wellington accidentally nukes files on all desktop PCs

CBT Nuggets

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]]> We answer a bunch of your questions about firewalls, best practices for backups, learning ZFS, QoS, SSH key management, backing up Google Drive, and more. Links to things mentioned Unix Haters Handbook Allan’s FreeBSD Journal Article Dummynet: The Be...

We answer a bunch of your questions about firewalls, best practices for backups, learning ZFS, QoS, SSH key management, backing up Google Drive, and more. Links to things mentioned Unix Haters Handbook Allan’s FreeBSD Journal Article Dummynet: The Better Way to Build FreeBSD Networks Jim’s ZFS 101 Allan’s book Plugs Customizing FreeBSD Ports […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:26 2.5 Admins 33: Delete C: https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-33/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:54:37 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=262 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-33/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-33/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Thousands of students learn about backups the hard way, why securing all of DNS isn’t practical, and how to protect Internet-facing services running at home. News Victoria University of Wellington accidentally nukes files on all desktop PCs Root Server Operators’ Statement on DNS Encryption [pdf] Free Consulting We were asked about the best […] <![CDATA[

Thousands of students learn about backups the hard way, why securing all of DNS isn’t practical, and how to protect Internet-facing services running at home.

News

Root Server Operators’ Statement on DNS Encryption [pdf]

Free Consulting

We were asked about the best way to secure Internet-facing services running at home.

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]]> Thousands of students learn about backups the hard way, why securing all of DNS isn’t practical, and how to protect Internet-facing services running at home. News Victoria University of Wellington accidentally nukes files on all desktop PCs Root Serv...

Thousands of students learn about backups the hard way, why securing all of DNS isn’t practical, and how to protect Internet-facing services running at home. News Victoria University of Wellington accidentally nukes files on all desktop PCs Root Server Operators’ Statement on DNS Encryption [pdf] Free Consulting We were asked about the best […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:07 2.5 Admins 32: Unifail https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-32/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:21:51 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=254 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-32/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-32/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Our first look at the next generation of Arm, alarming claims about a recent Ubiquiti breach, and setting up a FreeBSD file server. Plugs Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel Check out Joe’s albums Support us on patreon News Containerize all the things! Arm v9 takes security seriously ARM Morello Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” […] <![CDATA[

Our first look at the next generation of Arm, alarming claims about a recent Ubiquiti breach, and setting up a FreeBSD file server.

Plugs

Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel

Check out Joe’s albums

Containerize all the things! Arm v9 takes security seriously

News

ARM Morello

Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

Free consulting

We were asked about setting up a first FreeBSD file server.

CBT Nuggets

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]]> Our first look at the next generation of Arm, alarming claims about a recent Ubiquiti breach, and setting up a FreeBSD file server. Plugs Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel Check out Joe’s albums Support us on patreon News Containerize all the things!

Our first look at the next generation of Arm, alarming claims about a recent Ubiquiti breach, and setting up a FreeBSD file server. Plugs Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel Check out Joe’s albums Support us on patreon News Containerize all the things! Arm v9 takes security seriously ARM Morello Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:16 2.5 Admins 31: HD bit flips https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-31/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:56:40 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=247 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-31/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-31/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> How we’ll get to 100TB hard disks by the end of the decade, the potential dangers of flipped bits in network traffic, how to organize multiple copies of your backups, and managing dynamic DNS. Plugs Understanding Network Performance Support us on patreon News Seagate: 100TB HDDs Due in 2030, Multi-Actuator Drives to Become […] <![CDATA[

How we’ll get to 100TB hard disks by the end of the decade, the potential dangers of flipped bits in network traffic, how to organize multiple copies of your backups, and managing dynamic DNS.

Plugs

Understanding Network Performance

Seagate: 100TB HDDs Due in 2030, Multi-Actuator Drives to Become Common

News

Toshiba’s disk drive: WTF is the flux control effect?

Bitflips when PCs try to reach windows.com: What could possibly go wrong?

Free consulting

We were asked about how to ensure data integrity on multiple backups, and managing dynamic DNS.

Linode

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]]> How we’ll get to 100TB hard disks by the end of the decade, the potential dangers of flipped bits in network traffic, how to organize multiple copies of your backups, and managing dynamic DNS. Plugs Understanding Network Performance Support us on pat...

How we’ll get to 100TB hard disks by the end of the decade, the potential dangers of flipped bits in network traffic, how to organize multiple copies of your backups, and managing dynamic DNS. Plugs Understanding Network Performance Support us on patreon News Seagate: 100TB HDDs Due in 2030, Multi-Actuator Drives to Become […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:21 2.5 Admins 30: Hot storage https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-30/ Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:49:04 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=241 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-30/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-30/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more. News OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect […] <![CDATA[

The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more.

News

OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg

OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder

OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction

Hard lessons learned from the OVH datacenter blaze

In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router

Painful Lessons Learned in Security and Community

FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

Feedback

Mitigating bitrot with checksums, and why flash isn’t any good as cold storage.

Linode

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]]> The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more. News OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder...

The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more. News OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:33 2.5 Admins 29: Supply pain https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-29/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:56:06 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=231 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-29/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-29/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why it’s so hard to build a PC these days, finding help for ZFS issues, getting started with a homebrew router, and more. Plugs The history of ARM and FreeBSD Support us on patreon Discussion We talk about why it’s so hard to find PC parts and peripherals at the moment. Jim wrote […] <![CDATA[

Why it’s so hard to build a PC these days, finding help for ZFS issues, getting started with a homebrew router, and more.

Plugs

The history of ARM and FreeBSD

Discussion

We talk about why it’s so hard to find PC parts and peripherals at the moment. Jim wrote an article about buying a gaming PC.

Free consulting

We were asked about how to get help with ZFS issues, encrypting the root partition on ZFS, and how to get started with a homebrew router.

Linode

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]]> Why it’s so hard to build a PC these days, finding help for ZFS issues, getting started with a homebrew router, and more. Plugs The history of ARM and FreeBSD Support us on patreon Discussion We talk about why it’s so hard to find PC parts and peri...

Why it’s so hard to build a PC these days, finding help for ZFS issues, getting started with a homebrew router, and more. Plugs The history of ARM and FreeBSD Support us on patreon Discussion We talk about why it’s so hard to find PC parts and peripherals at the moment. Jim wrote […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:53 2.5 Admins 28: Cluster fsck https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-28/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:00:57 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=224 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-28/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-28/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why hard disks will be around for ever, bad news for VR, slowdown from disk I/O, and when clustering isn’t necessarily the best solution. Plugs Register for Open Source 101 OpenZFS: dRAID is coming Support us on patreon News Seagate: Why SSDs will not kill disk drives Google Cardboard is no longer for […] <![CDATA[

Why hard disks will be around for ever, bad news for VR, slowdown from disk I/O, and when clustering isn’t necessarily the best solution.

Plugs

OpenZFS: dRAID is coming

Seagate: Why SSDs will not kill disk drives

News

Google Cardboard is no longer for sale

Free consulting

We were asked about I/O wait on Linux, and clustering Linux machines.

Linode

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]]> Why hard disks will be around for ever, bad news for VR, slowdown from disk I/O, and when clustering isn’t necessarily the best solution. Plugs Register for Open Source 101 OpenZFS: dRAID is coming Support us on patreon News Seagate: Why SSDs will ...

Why hard disks will be around for ever, bad news for VR, slowdown from disk I/O, and when clustering isn’t necessarily the best solution. Plugs Register for Open Source 101 OpenZFS: dRAID is coming Support us on patreon News Seagate: Why SSDs will not kill disk drives Google Cardboard is no longer for […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:25 2.5 Admins 27: Learning to say no https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-27/ Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:56:23 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=218 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-27/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-27/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Where we draw the line when supporting friends and family, monitoring SSL certs, ZFS on single drives, Chromium finally cleans up its act, and more in this feedback-filled episode. Feedback Chromium finally fixes its DNS issue, a Samba AD server called Zentyal, firewalls, Unraid and SnapRAID, xCloud, and Nagios plugins. Free consulting We […] <![CDATA[

Where we draw the line when supporting friends and family, monitoring SSL certs, ZFS on single drives, Chromium finally cleans up its act, and more in this feedback-filled episode.

Feedback

Chromium finally fixes its DNS issue, a Samba AD server called Zentyal, firewalls, Unraid and SnapRAID, xCloud, and Nagios plugins.

Free consulting

We were asked about ZFS on single drives, and how best to support enthusiastic amateur friends. Jim mentioned Sanoid.

Linode

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]]> Where we draw the line when supporting friends and family, monitoring SSL certs, ZFS on single drives, Chromium finally cleans up its act, and more in this feedback-filled episode. Feedback Chromium finally fixes its DNS issue,

Where we draw the line when supporting friends and family, monitoring SSL certs, ZFS on single drives, Chromium finally cleans up its act, and more in this feedback-filled episode. Feedback Chromium finally fixes its DNS issue, a Samba AD server called Zentyal, firewalls, Unraid and SnapRAID, xCloud, and Nagios plugins. Free consulting We […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:34 2.5 Admins 26: RISCy acquisition https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-26/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:08:17 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=214 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-26/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-26/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Bad news for LastPass users, why Nvidia probably won’t buy Arm, what happens to our servers if we disappear, and using the cloud to avoid bottlenecks. Plugs FreeBSD Jails – The beginning of Containers Support us on patreon News Changes to LastPass Free Nvidia wants to buy CPU designer Arm—Qualcomm is not happy […] <![CDATA[

Bad news for LastPass users, why Nvidia probably won’t buy Arm, what happens to our servers if we disappear, and using the cloud to avoid bottlenecks.

Plugs

FreeBSD Jails – The beginning of Containers

Nvidia wants to buy CPU designer Arm—Qualcomm is not happy about it

News

Changes to LastPass Free

Free Consulting

We were asked about bus factor mitigation, and caching data from a home server in the cloud.

Linode

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]]> Bad news for LastPass users, why Nvidia probably won’t buy Arm, what happens to our servers if we disappear, and using the cloud to avoid bottlenecks. Plugs FreeBSD Jails – The beginning of Containers Support us on patreon News Changes to LastPass ...

Bad news for LastPass users, why Nvidia probably won’t buy Arm, what happens to our servers if we disappear, and using the cloud to avoid bottlenecks. Plugs FreeBSD Jails – The beginning of Containers Support us on patreon News Changes to LastPass Free Nvidia wants to buy CPU designer Arm—Qualcomm is not happy […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:03 2.5 Admins 25: Fiat gaming https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-25/ Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:56:11 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=208 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-25/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-25/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Stadia and game streaming, Bitcoin and Linux quirks in your feedback, and building a home server for more than just storage. Plugs Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD – Introducing WireGuard Support us on patreon News/discussion Focusing on Stadia’s future as a platform, and winding down SG&E Feedback Follow-up on Bitcoin, and […] <![CDATA[

Stadia and game streaming, Bitcoin and Linux quirks in your feedback, and building a home server for more than just storage.

Plugs

Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD – Introducing WireGuard

Focusing on Stadia’s future as a platform, and winding down SG&E

News/discussion

Feedback

Follow-up on Bitcoin, and historical quirks of Linux.

Free Consulting

We were asked about the best way to build a genral-purpose home server.

Linode

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]]> Stadia and game streaming, Bitcoin and Linux quirks in your feedback, and building a home server for more than just storage. Plugs Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD – Introducing WireGuard Support us on patreon News/discussion Focusing on Stadia’s f...

Stadia and game streaming, Bitcoin and Linux quirks in your feedback, and building a home server for more than just storage. Plugs Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD – Introducing WireGuard Support us on patreon News/discussion Focusing on Stadia’s future as a platform, and winding down SG&E Feedback Follow-up on Bitcoin, and […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:58 2.5 Admins 24: Stonk amplification https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-24/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 20:16:59 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=202 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-24/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-24/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Reddit trolls Wall Street, bad news for Parler’s new host, why you should learn iptables, and backing up S3-compatible buckets. Plugs History of FreeBSD Part 4: BSD and TCP/IP Support us on patreon News Understanding /r/wallstreetbets DDoS-Guard To Forfeit Internet Space Occupied by Parler Free Consulting We were asked about firewall managers […] <![CDATA[

Reddit trolls Wall Street, bad news for Parler’s new host, why you should learn iptables, and backing up S3-compatible buckets.

Plugs

History of FreeBSD Part 4: BSD and TCP/IP

Understanding /r/wallstreetbets

News

DDoS-Guard To Forfeit Internet Space Occupied by Parler

Free Consulting

We were asked about firewall managers and backing up S3-compatible buckets.

Linode

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]]> Reddit trolls Wall Street, bad news for Parler’s new host, why you should learn iptables, and backing up S3-compatible buckets. Plugs History of FreeBSD Part 4: BSD and TCP/IP Support us on patreon News Understanding /r/wallstreetbets DDoS-Guard To...

Reddit trolls Wall Street, bad news for Parler’s new host, why you should learn iptables, and backing up S3-compatible buckets. Plugs History of FreeBSD Part 4: BSD and TCP/IP Support us on patreon News Understanding /r/wallstreetbets DDoS-Guard To Forfeit Internet Space Occupied by Parler Free Consulting We were asked about firewall managers […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:12 2.5 Admins 23: Bitcoin hundredaire https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-23/ Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:56:31 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=193 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-23/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-23/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The Bitcoin price is booming again so we take the chance to laugh at Allan for selling too early, then we discuss some of your emails including Arm/x86 combos, switching to Ubuntu, and the importance of using a UPS. Discussion The world’s cryptocurrency is now worth more than $1 trillion Feedback Reproducibility, Arm […] <![CDATA[

Discussion

The world’s cryptocurrency is now worth more than $1 trillion

Feedback

Reproducibility, Arm and x86 in one machine, managing Ubuntu servers as a Red Hat user, and attracting more devs to FreeBSD.

Free Consulting

We were asked about redundant, and uninterruptible power supplies.

Linode

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]]> The Bitcoin price is booming again so we take the chance to laugh at Allan for selling too early, then we discuss some of your emails including Arm/x86 combos, switching to Ubuntu, and the importance of using a UPS.

The Bitcoin price is booming again so we take the chance to laugh at Allan for selling too early, then we discuss some of your emails including Arm/x86 combos, switching to Ubuntu, and the importance of using a UPS. Discussion The world’s cryptocurrency is now worth more than $1 trillion Feedback Reproducibility, Arm […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:39 2.5 Admins 22: Unexpected migrations https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-22/ Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:00:19 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=187 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-22/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-22/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why Parler is unlikely to come back any time soon, free RHEL, and using a VPS to subvert VPN limits. Plugs Exploring Swap on FreeBSD Support us on patreon News Amazon cuts off Parler’s Web hosting following Apple, Google bans CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers […] <![CDATA[

Why Parler is unlikely to come back any time soon, free RHEL, and using a VPS to subvert VPN limits.

Plugs

Exploring Swap on FreeBSD

Amazon cuts off Parler’s Web hosting following Apple, Google bans

News

CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers

Free Consulting

We were asked about using a VPS to avoid limits on the number of devices connected to a VPN.

Linode

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]]> Why Parler is unlikely to come back any time soon, free RHEL, and using a VPS to subvert VPN limits. Plugs Exploring Swap on FreeBSD Support us on patreon News Amazon cuts off Parler’s Web hosting following Apple,

Why Parler is unlikely to come back any time soon, free RHEL, and using a VPS to subvert VPN limits. Plugs Exploring Swap on FreeBSD Support us on patreon News Amazon cuts off Parler’s Web hosting following Apple, Google bans CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:28 2.5 Admins 21: Reproducible errors https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-21/ Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:56:03 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=179 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-21/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-21/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> The merits of ECC RAM, why reproducible builds are a good idea, and where to buy used equipment. Plugs Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Support us on patreon News/Discussion Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for ‘killing’ the ECC industry Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus You don’t need reproducible […] <![CDATA[

The merits of ECC RAM, why reproducible builds are a good idea, and where to buy used equipment.

Plugs

Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0

Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for ‘killing’ the ECC industry

News/Discussion

Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus

You don’t need reproducible builds

Free consulting

We were asked about the best places to buy used equipment.

Linode

Datadog

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]]> The merits of ECC RAM, why reproducible builds are a good idea, and where to buy used equipment. Plugs Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Support us on patreon News/Discussion Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for ‘killing’ the ECC industry Why don’t PCs...

The merits of ECC RAM, why reproducible builds are a good idea, and where to buy used equipment. Plugs Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Support us on patreon News/Discussion Linus Torvalds rails at Intel for ‘killing’ the ECC industry Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus You don’t need reproducible […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:45 2.5 Admins 20: Free money, claim it now! https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-20/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:28:43 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=172 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-20/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-20/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> A cruel but necessary phishing test, ancient standards in brand new legislation, using Windows when it makes sense, and commissioning and decommissioning servers. Plugs Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Klara: Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD Support us on patreon News GoDaddy Employees Were Told They Were Getting a Holiday Bonus. It Was Actually […] <![CDATA[

A cruel but necessary phishing test, ancient standards in brand new legislation, using Windows when it makes sense, and commissioning and decommissioning servers.

Plugs

Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0

Klara: Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD

GoDaddy Employees Were Told They Were Getting a Holiday Bonus. It Was Actually a Phishing Test

News

Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It’s all in the DNA

Free consulting

We were asked about Active Directory solutions, and the server commissioning and decommissioning process.

Linode

Datadog

TrueNAS from iXsystems

This episode is sponsored by TrueNAS from iXsystems, the number one Open Storage OS. See how TrueNAS can support your next storage project, whether it’s just a few terabytes, all the way up to multiple petabytes.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> A cruel but necessary phishing test, ancient standards in brand new legislation, using Windows when it makes sense, and commissioning and decommissioning servers. Plugs Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Klara: Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBS...

A cruel but necessary phishing test, ancient standards in brand new legislation, using Windows when it makes sense, and commissioning and decommissioning servers. Plugs Webinar: Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Klara: Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD Support us on patreon News GoDaddy Employees Were Told They Were Getting a Holiday Bonus. It Was Actually […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:23 2.5 Admins 19: nOauth? No gmail! https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-19/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 03:25:00 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=165 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-19/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-19/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Why Google services like Gmail went down recently, the potentially promising future for RISC-V, and using ZFS for home and root. News Google Mail outage Google incident report New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt Seagate working on RISC-V SoCs Free consulting We were asked about using ZFS for root and […] <![CDATA[

Why Google services like Gmail went down recently, the potentially promising future for RISC-V, and using ZFS for home and root.

News

Google Mail outage

Google incident report

New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt

Seagate working on RISC-V SoCs

Free consulting

We were asked about using ZFS for root and home partitions.

Linode

Lernard

This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code admins to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Why Google services like Gmail went down recently, the potentially promising future for RISC-V, and using ZFS for home and root. News Google Mail outage Google incident report New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt Seagate working...

Why Google services like Gmail went down recently, the potentially promising future for RISC-V, and using ZFS for home and root. News Google Mail outage Google incident report New RISC-V CPU claims record breaking performance per watt Seagate working on RISC-V SoCs Free consulting We were asked about using ZFS for root and […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:27 2.5 Admins 18: False sense of privacy https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-18/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:57:49 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=152 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-18/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-18/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Potentially improving DNS privacy, the big new ZFS release, and the best way to automate Linux installations. Plugs Webinar – Best Practices For Optimizing ZFS – Part 1 Support us on patreon News Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1 OpenZFS 2.0 release unifies Linux, BSD and adds tons of new features […] <![CDATA[

Potentially improving DNS privacy, the big new ZFS release, and the best way to automate Linux installations.

Plugs

Webinar – Best Practices For Optimizing ZFS – Part 1

Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1

News

OpenZFS 2.0 release unifies Linux, BSD and adds tons of new features

Free consulting

We were asked about the best way to automate Linux installations.

TrueNAS from iXsystems

Linode

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Potentially improving DNS privacy, the big new ZFS release, and the best way to automate Linux installations. Plugs Webinar – Best Practices For Optimizing ZFS – Part 1 Support us on patreon News Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.

Potentially improving DNS privacy, the big new ZFS release, and the best way to automate Linux installations. Plugs Webinar – Best Practices For Optimizing ZFS – Part 1 Support us on patreon News Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH in 1.1.1.1 OpenZFS 2.0 release unifies Linux, BSD and adds tons of new features […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:01 2.5 Admins 17: CPU change https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-17/ Thu, 26 Nov 2020 19:09:28 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=147 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-17/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-17/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> How Intel and AMD have fought it out over the years, Apple changes the industry with their M1 SoC, and we repeat the mantra that RAID is not a backup. Plugs Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly. News A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with […] <![CDATA[

How Intel and AMD have fought it out over the years, Apple changes the industry with their M1 SoC, and we repeat the mantra that RAID is not a backup.

Plugs

Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly.

News

A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with CPU charts galore

Hands-on with the Apple M1—a seriously fast x86 competitor

Intel’s Disruption is Now Complete

Free consulting

A question about drive failures is answered with a basic lesson in backups.

We mentioned this article.

Linode

Datadog

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> How Intel and AMD have fought it out over the years, Apple changes the industry with their M1 SoC, and we repeat the mantra that RAID is not a backup. Plugs Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly. News A history of Intel vs.

How Intel and AMD have fought it out over the years, Apple changes the industry with their M1 SoC, and we repeat the mantra that RAID is not a backup. Plugs Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly. News A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 34:39 2.5 Admins 16: TANSTAAFL https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-16/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:48:46 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=139 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-16/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-16/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Google proves that “unlimited” anything doesn’t exist, GitHub shenanigans, Apple’s new Arm computers, and which distro to start with as a sysadmin. Plugs Allan’s ZFS Webinar – Nov 18th, signup soon Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly. News Arm Macs announced Google Photos is the latest “Unlimited” […] <![CDATA[

Google proves that “unlimited” anything doesn’t exist, GitHub shenanigans, Apple’s new Arm computers, and which distro to start with as a sysadmin.

Plugs

Allan’s ZFS Webinar – Nov 18th, signup soon

Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly.

News

Arm Macs announced

Google Photos is the latest “Unlimited” plan to impose hard limits

GitHub’s source code was leaked on GitHub last night… sort of

Allan trolls Greg K-H

Free consulting

We were asked whether someone starting out as a sysadmin should master Debian or CentOS.

Datadog

TrueNAS from iXsystems

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Google proves that “unlimited” anything doesn’t exist, GitHub shenanigans, Apple’s new Arm computers, and which distro to start with as a sysadmin. Plugs Allan’s ZFS Webinar – Nov 18th, signup soon Support us on patreon. If enough people do,

Google proves that “unlimited” anything doesn’t exist, GitHub shenanigans, Apple’s new Arm computers, and which distro to start with as a sysadmin. Plugs Allan’s ZFS Webinar – Nov 18th, signup soon Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly. News Arm Macs announced Google Photos is the latest “Unlimited” […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:51 2.5 Admins 15: Fixed it for ya https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-15/ Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:30:42 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=133 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-15/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-15/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> We wade through Cloudfare’s marketing fluff, forced WordPress plugin updates, a bunch of your questions, and the shocking revelation that FreeBSD actually has graphics drivers. Plugs History of FreeBSD, Part 2 News Introducing Cloudflare One Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation beta WordPress deploys forced security update for dangerous bug in popular plugin Free […] <![CDATA[

We wade through Cloudfare’s marketing fluff, forced WordPress plugin updates, a bunch of your questions, and the shocking revelation that FreeBSD actually has graphics drivers.

Plugs

History of FreeBSD, Part 2

News

Introducing Cloudflare One

Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation beta

WordPress deploys forced security update for dangerous bug in popular plugin

Free consulting

We answered a big batch of questions about managing bandwidth quotas, tape backups, preventing users from rebooting, and DKMS issues.

We mentioned Firehol, ntopng, and Bacula.

Datadog

Lernard

This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code admins to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> We wade through Cloudfare’s marketing fluff, forced WordPress plugin updates, a bunch of your questions, and the shocking revelation that FreeBSD actually has graphics drivers. Plugs History of FreeBSD, Part 2 News Introducing Cloudflare One Introd...

We wade through Cloudfare’s marketing fluff, forced WordPress plugin updates, a bunch of your questions, and the shocking revelation that FreeBSD actually has graphics drivers. Plugs History of FreeBSD, Part 2 News Introducing Cloudflare One Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation beta WordPress deploys forced security update for dangerous bug in popular plugin Free […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:13 2.5 Admins 14: Not a database https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-14/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:10:40 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=127 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-14/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-14/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> How not to store test results, AMD firmly on top of the desktop space, what moving to remote work means for corporate networks, and deduplication of disorganized data. Plugs Allan’s summary of the OpenZFS Devsummit 2020 All Things Open Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly. News Why […] <![CDATA[

How not to store test results, AMD firmly on top of the desktop space, what moving to remote work means for corporate networks, and deduplication of disorganized data.

Plugs

Allan’s summary of the OpenZFS Devsummit 2020

All Things Open

Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly.

News

Why using Microsoft’s tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost

AMD’s new Zen 3 Ryzen desktop CPUs arrive November 5

Yesterday’s corporate network design isn’t working for working from home

Free consulting

Joe asked for advice on deduplicating some old disorganized data.

Datadog

TrueNAS from iXsystems

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> How not to store test results, AMD firmly on top of the desktop space, what moving to remote work means for corporate networks, and deduplication of disorganized data. Plugs Allan’s summary of the OpenZFS Devsummit 2020 All Things Open Support us on ...

How not to store test results, AMD firmly on top of the desktop space, what moving to remote work means for corporate networks, and deduplication of disorganized data. Plugs Allan’s summary of the OpenZFS Devsummit 2020 All Things Open Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly. News Why […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 34:35 2.5 Admins 13: bs=1mebibyte https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-13/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:25:20 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=120 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-13/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-13/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit All Things Open 2020 Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly. News Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop Intel’s run at the GPU […] <![CDATA[

Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd.

Plugs

OpenZFS Developer Summit

All Things Open 2020

Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly.

News

Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop

Intel’s run at the GPU market begins with Tiger Lake onboard graphics

What the hell is going on with .uk?

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

.uk overlord Nominet tells everyone not to worry about ‘distorted’ vote allocations in its board elections

Free consulting

We were asked about block size while using dd. Jim mentioned his blog post about iostat.

Datadog

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit All Things Open 2020 Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly.

Intel almost catching up to AMD with Tiger Lake, the .uk fiasco, and why you shouldn’t be using dd. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit All Things Open 2020 Support us on patreon. If enough people do, we will go weekly. News Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop Intel’s run at the GPU […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:53 2.5 Admins 12: 5400 cyber RPMs https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-12/ Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:13:57 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=113 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-12/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-12/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Cyber insurance for ransomware, more confusing WD specs, the truth behind the return of the Gateway brand, and managing config files. News Ransomware accounted for 41% of all cyber insurance claims in H1 2020 Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” We found out who makes Walmart’s new Gateway laptops, and it’s […] <![CDATA[

Cyber insurance for ransomware, more confusing WD specs, the truth behind the return of the Gateway brand, and managing config files.

News

Ransomware accounted for 41% of all cyber insurance claims in H1 2020

Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”

We found out who makes Walmart’s new Gateway laptops, and it’s bad news

Free consulting

We were asked about managing config files when updating.

TrueNAS from iXsystems

Datadog

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Cyber insurance for ransomware, more confusing WD specs, the truth behind the return of the Gateway brand, and managing config files. News Ransomware accounted for 41% of all cyber insurance claims in H1 2020 Western Digital is trying to redefine the...

Cyber insurance for ransomware, more confusing WD specs, the truth behind the return of the Gateway brand, and managing config files. News Ransomware accounted for 41% of all cyber insurance claims in H1 2020 Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM” We found out who makes Walmart’s new Gateway laptops, and it’s […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 32:25 2.5 Admins 11: Monitoring the Internet https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-11/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:52:28 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=108 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-11/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-11/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> How Internet standards are decided, what a new one means for the Web, a surprising “feature” of Chrome, and the best ways to monitor your systems. News WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Security Tools, and the Open Web RFC8890: The Internet is for End Users A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global […] <![CDATA[

How Internet standards are decided, what a new one means for the Web, a surprising “feature” of Chrome, and the best ways to monitor your systems.

News

WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Security Tools, and the Open Web

RFC8890: The Internet is for End Users

A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS servers

Free consulting

We were asked about monitoring backups and systems in general.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> How Internet standards are decided, what a new one means for the Web, a surprising “feature” of Chrome, and the best ways to monitor your systems. News WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Security Tools,

How Internet standards are decided, what a new one means for the Web, a surprising “feature” of Chrome, and the best ways to monitor your systems. News WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Security Tools, and the Open Web RFC8890: The Internet is for End Users A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:41 2.5 Admins 10: Mini-PCs and HDDs https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-10/ Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:10:56 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=101 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-10/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-10/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Low power x86 vs Arm boards, hard disk failure rates, and the intricacies of ZFS snapshots. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit Support the podcast on Patreon News Seeed Studio’s Odyssey is a mini-PC for big projects and small wallets Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020 Free consulting We were asked about ZFS on […] <![CDATA[

Low power x86 vs Arm boards, hard disk failure rates, and the intricacies of ZFS snapshots.

Plugs

OpenZFS Developer Summit

Seeed Studio’s Odyssey is a mini-PC for big projects and small wallets

News

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020

Free consulting

We were asked about ZFS on root, snapshots, and Jim’s project called Sanoid.

TrueNAS from iXsystems

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Low power x86 vs Arm boards, hard disk failure rates, and the intricacies of ZFS snapshots. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit Support the podcast on Patreon News Seeed Studio’s Odyssey is a mini-PC for big projects and small wallets Backblaze Hard Dri...

Low power x86 vs Arm boards, hard disk failure rates, and the intricacies of ZFS snapshots. Plugs OpenZFS Developer Summit Support the podcast on Patreon News Seeed Studio’s Odyssey is a mini-PC for big projects and small wallets Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2020 Free consulting We were asked about ZFS on […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:37 2.5 Admins 09: Horrible hosts https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-09/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 19:02:00 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=95 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-09/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-09/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> Intel’s 7nm woes, hosts files, Mozilla’s VPN service, and automating ssh between remote hosts. News Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay Intel’s 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super AMD is now following Moore’s Law: More chips, more money, more […] <![CDATA[

Intel’s 7nm woes, hosts files, Mozilla’s VPN service, and automating ssh between remote hosts.

News

Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay

Intel’s 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super

AMD is now following Moore’s Law: More chips, more money, more pressure on Intel, more competition in the x86 space

AMD Says Zen 3 Consumer CPUs Will Launch This Year

Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk

We test Mozilla’s new Wireguard-based $5/mo VPN service

Free consulting

We were asked about automating ssh between remote hosts. Allan mentioned SSH Mastery.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> Intel’s 7nm woes, hosts files, Mozilla’s VPN service, and automating ssh between remote hosts. News Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay Intel’s 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super A...

Intel’s 7nm woes, hosts files, Mozilla’s VPN service, and automating ssh between remote hosts. News Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay Intel’s 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super AMD is now following Moore’s Law: More chips, more money, more […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:18 2.5 Admins 08: Energy assisted drive recovery https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-08/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:52:56 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=91 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-08/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-08/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> New types of hard disks, recovering data from dying drives, AMD makes Jim reach for the calculator, and what to do with obscure software that you need. Plugs FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Classes Joe’s podcast consulting News Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives Tales From The Sysadmin: Impending Hard […] <![CDATA[

New types of hard disks, recovering data from dying drives, AMD makes Jim reach for the calculator, and what to do with obscure software that you need.

Plugs

FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Classes

Joe’s podcast consulting

News

Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives

Tales From The Sysadmin: Impending Hard Drive Doom

AMD Ryzen 4000 desktop CPUs will be here in Q3 2020

Free consulting

We were asked how to deal with updates for software that isn’t in repos and needs to be compiled.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> New types of hard disks, recovering data from dying drives, AMD makes Jim reach for the calculator, and what to do with obscure software that you need. Plugs FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Classes Joe’s podcast consulting News Western Digital rel...

New types of hard disks, recovering data from dying drives, AMD makes Jim reach for the calculator, and what to do with obscure software that you need. Plugs FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Classes Joe’s podcast consulting News Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives Tales From The Sysadmin: Impending Hard […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 31:18 2.5 Admins 07: Fail dumpster fire https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-07/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 20:03:25 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=85 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-07/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-07/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Developer Transition Kit UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster Free […] <![CDATA[

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

First benchmarks surface for Apple’s ARM-based Developer Transition Kit

News

UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster

Free Consulting

We were asked about our home network setups.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> 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...

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 Developer Transition Kit UASP makes Raspberry Pi 4 disk IO 50% faster Free […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 30:56 2.5 Admins 06: BFYTW https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-06/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:47:56 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=78 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-06/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-06/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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. Western Digital wants to end any use of SMR in NAS […] <![CDATA[

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

We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to

News

Lawsuit vs. Western Digital wants to end any use of SMR in NAS drives

Western Digital adds “Red Plus” branding for non-SMR hard drives

Free Consulting

We were asked about the best ways to start with ZFS, and Shlomi asked about updating air-gapped Ubuntu machines with various VMs.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> 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.

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. Western Digital wants to end any use of SMR in NAS […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 28:48 2.5 Admins 05: IPv6 when? https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-05/ Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:22:14 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=72 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-05/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-05/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Digital’s dreaded SMR Red drive […] <![CDATA[

When the world will move to IPv6, WD SMR drives put to the test, raw vs qcow2 on ZFS, and erasing SSDs.

Plug

It could be ‘five to ten years’ before the world finally drags itself away from IPv4

News

We put Western Digital’s dreaded SMR Red drive to the test

Free consulting

Michael asked for advice about whether to use raw or qcow2 on ZFS, and Joe had a question about giving SSDs away.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

]]> 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...

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 Digital’s dreaded SMR Red drive […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:10 2.5 Admins 04: Zooming from pets to cattle https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-04/ Thu, 28 May 2020 19:12:21 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=65 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-04/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-04/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 Spotify Free consulting Eduardo asked us to dive […] <![CDATA[

Zoom’s new encryption, podcasts in walled gardens, and servers as pets vs cattle.

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Zoom to require users to upgrade to 5.0 after May 30th

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Zoom bought Keybase in early May

Joe Rogan will move his podcast to Spotify

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Eduardo asked us to dive a little deeper into how to move from being an admin who treats their servers like pets to being an admin who treats their servers like cattle.

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]]> 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...

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 Spotify Free consulting Eduardo asked us to dive […]

The Late Night Linux Family full false 29:32 2.5 Admins 03: Apache’s Btr than you think https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-03/ Thu, 14 May 2020 18:49:06 +0000 https://2.5admins.com/?p=57 https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-03/#respond https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-03/feed/ 0 <![CDATA[podcast]]> 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 asked us to discuss the differences between ZFS and Btrfs. Jim recently wrote […] <![CDATA[

Why Apache is still relevant in 2020, and the differences between ZFS and Btrfs.

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Allan’s BSDCan Homelab panel

Allan on setns.live