Episodios

  • 2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email

    2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email
    Aug 14 2025
    AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS […]
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    27 m
  • 2.5 Admins 259: New Web?

    2.5 Admins 259: New Web?
    Aug 7 2025
    The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes […]
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    25 m
  • 2.5 Admins 258: Artificial Dirtbag

    2.5 Admins 258: Artificial Dirtbag
    Jul 31 2025
    Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Discussion It’s a mistake to over […]
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    24 m
  • 2.5 Admins 257: Outage365

    2.5 Admins 257: Outage365
    Jul 24 2025
    Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let’s Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses, and the differences between backup and production systems. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Microsoft’s 19-hour Outlook outage exposes fragility in cloud […]
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    29 m
  • 2.5 Admins 256: Why ZFS

    2.5 Admins 256: Why ZFS
    Jul 17 2025
    To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS Practical […]
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    32 m
  • 2.5 Admins 255: Copyright Your Face

    2.5 Admins 255: Copyright Your Face
    Jul 10 2025
    Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Microsoft’s […]
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    30 m
  • 2.5 Admins 254: chrudo

    2.5 Admins 254: chrudo
    Jul 3 2025
    A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A […]
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    29 m
  • 2.5 Admins 253: ImpossibleFS

    2.5 Admins 253: ImpossibleFS
    Jun 26 2025
    Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Performance Tuning – […]
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    28 m