2.5 Admins 174: Guess Who’s Watching
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What you need to know about the recent SSH vulnerability, yet another privacy issue with cloud-conne...
2.5 Admins 173: Ghost Files
14 Dec 2023
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Google Drive client users lost months of files, a feature of UEFI that has left millions of computer...
2.5 Admins 172: HOLEy ZFS
07 Dec 2023
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Jim and Allan break down the details of the recent ZFS data corruption bug, and give their tips for ...
2.5 Admins 171: RSA PSA
30 Nov 2023
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Why a small island nation’s top level domain ended up with such a terrible reputation, an ssh vuln...
2.5 Admins 170: Uninterruptible WiFi
23 Nov 2023
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Why and how Allan installed a set of new Power over Ethernet wireless access points, and our hardwar...
2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF
16 Nov 2023
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A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a ma...
2.5 Admins 168: Do The Right Thing
09 Nov 2023
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Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it sh...
2.5 Admins 167: Delayed Flush
02 Nov 2023
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The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why ...
2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque
26 Oct 2023
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What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multi...
2.5 Admins 165: Big AI
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SS...
2.5 Admins 164: Filthy Internet
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setti...
2.5 Admins 163: Two Factors One SPOF
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, ...
2.5 Admins 162: Irresponsible Disclosure
28 Sep 2023
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Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t...
2.5 Admins 161: 5PiB Coffee Mug
21 Sep 2023
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The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on W...
2.5 Admins 160: Diss Unity
14 Sep 2023
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Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive p...
2.5 Admins 159: Dirty Install
07 Sep 2023
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The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom ...
2.5 Admins 158: It Doesn’t Go to 10
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t goi...
2.5 Admins 157: Lincoln’s HDD
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of th...
2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shu...
2.5 Admins 155: Dialup Memories
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them t...
2.5 Admins 154: 8.8.8.8.8.8
03 Aug 2023
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Why the increasing trend of charging for public IPv4 addresses won’t change much, Google trials re...
2.5 Admins 153: Robots.nope
27 Jul 2023
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Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification a...
2.5 Admins 152: AirTags Use CR2032 Batteries
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Intel is giving up on NUCs and Asus is taking over the line, millions of classified US military emai...
2.5 Admins 151: Practical ZFS
13 Jul 2023
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Setting up a self-hosted alternative, what counts as a “removable” battery, and backing up a Win...
2.5 Admins 150: Red Hate
06 Jul 2023
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Red Hat wants to limit redistribution of RHEL source code. We discuss their history with CentOS and ...
2.5 Admins 149: Three Year Warning
29 Jun 2023
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WD disks “warning” that they have been running for 3 years, a modern replacement for IMAP that n...
2.5 Admins 148: API Ultra 7 Pro for Workstations
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reddit fails to see where its true value lies, Intel makes its consumer CPU lines confusing, and Mic...
2.5 Admins 147: EPYC Fail
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement en...
2.5 Admins 146: VisionForge
08 Jun 2023
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We are unimpressed by Apple’s new headset, a particularly bountiful watering hole attack, misdirec...
2.5 Admins 145: Bad Standards
01 Jun 2023
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An unfixable bug shines a light on a fundamental issue with Windows, why M.2 is a terrible connector...
2.5 Admins 144: AMRadio.zip
25 May 2023
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Google’s new TLDs are silly but not as dangerous as some people think, whether we should cling on ...
2.5 Admins 143: Even Stars Die
18 May 2023
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Adobe’s vague threats show why open source is often the pragmatic choice, Russians craft a poor ma...
2.5 Admins 142: Intel Key Party
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s attempt to replace passwords with keys, why Jim thinks IBM is dragging Red Hat in the wro...
2.5 Admins 141: Sysadmin Hunt
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What the challenge of building a web browser from scratch tells us about the state of the modern web...
2.5 Admins 140: /dev/nullvad
27 Apr 2023
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How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be wo...
2.5 Admins 139: Just Abandon Twitter
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drive innovation, A...
2.5 Admins 138: Drive Failure
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud o...
2.5 Admins 137: Schrodinger’s Backup
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the impo...
2.5 Admins 136: Red Scare
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about ...
2.5 Admins 135: Moonshots
23 Mar 2023
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Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos rai...
2.5 Admins 134: 2guys1tesla
16 Mar 2023
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Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesyste...
2.5 Admins 133: ElasticWallet
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Saving millions of dollars by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy is compromised by a sophisticated attacker,...
2.5 Admins 132: 1.5FA
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent L...
2.5 Admins 131: At Least Try
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs,...
2.5 Admins 130: HotBot Topic
16 Feb 2023
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Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering ...
2.5 Admins 129: 2.5aDMiNs.cOm
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A “smart” lighting system goes wrong, mitigating a DNS attack, an unsatisfying update about Eufy...
2.5 Admins 128: Some Value
02 Feb 2023
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Yet another reason to disable voicemail, why so many recent Macs end up as scrap, and setting up a m...
2.5 Admins 127: Public Why-Fi
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why you should still use a VPN with public WiFi, who the new Xeons are aimed at, follow-up on trying...
2.5 Admins 126: Copy on Flight
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A recent outage that grounded thousands of planes, correcting ZFS misreporting, the problem of fake ...
2.5 Admins 125: Into Thin Eir
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaningless, we...
2.5 Admins 124: LastMigration
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LastPass vaults are leaked, ChatGPT is coming to Bing, live migrations, and SSD vs spinning disk pow...
2.5 Admins 123: 4
29 Dec 2022
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It’s the last episode of the year so we look back at a couple of 2022 trends: the explosion of AI/...
2.5 Admins 122: PayAsYouPay
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Buying and renting features in Intel hardware that you’ve already bought, killer robots, a huge nu...
2.5 Admins 121: 2PHA
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saving money by changing the CPU frequency governor on servers, Making unphishable 2FA phishable, ph...
2.5 Admins 120: Certified Malware
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Security cameras that aren’t quite as secure as they claim, why it’s difficult to trust software...
2.5 Admins 119: Six Month Scrub
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The risks of taking your laptop to a repair shop, why DNS has become concentrated to just a few prov...
2.5 Admins 118: Chaos Emerald Wealth
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why the Twitter infrastructure is creaking, Jim’s experiences of the Ubuntu Summit, changing VM re...
2.5 Admins 117: Local Burner
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft’s half-baked Arm machine, why it’s a bad idea to go to the World Cup in Qatar, using W...
2.5 Admins 116: Worst Billionaire
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Android’s controversial VPN settings, the deepfake audio arms race, the Metaverse is even worse th...
2.5 Admins 115: Key Party
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Password spray attacks, the value of certifications vs actual experience, and the best VPN strategy....
2.5 Admins 114: RAID WTF
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An impressive AI pretends to be Linux, Jim gets angry about a RAIDZ calculator, and using a laptop a...
2.5 Admins 113: Eggs and Baskets
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional vs modern backup methods, hiding malware inside innocent-looking files, and power loss p...
2.5 Admins 112: Reuse > Recycle
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A drone-delivered exploit system, why companies destroy perfectly good hardware, and pulling backups...
2.5 Admins 111: The Freezer Trick
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SSDs are probably more reliable than spinning hard drives, how much RAM you actually need, Cloudflar...
2.5 Admins 110: Border Gateway Currency
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How a BGP hijack facilitated the theft of $235k worth of crypto, why we aren’t too excited about C...
2.5 Admins 109: Selling Technical Debt
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why solving network congestion issues is so difficult, our thoughts on DNS privacy, an unwise use ca...
2.5 Admins 108: dQw4w9WgXcQ
15 Sep 2022
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Why modern interfaces suck, the reasons we don’t recommend Cloudflare, and backups for beginners. ...
2.5 Admins 107: s/smart//g
08 Sep 2022
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Why the W3C is struggling to move to HTTPS by default and follow-up on Certbot, monitoring, and Silv...
2.5 Admins 106: Wrap Your Deenis
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A big change is coming to Windows licensing for VMs, Google changes the rules around VPNs on Android...
2.5 Admins 105: Old Men Yell at Cloud
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The pros and cons of using email aliases, an Internet hero scratches his own itch, Jim and Allan y...
2.5 Admins 104: Bathtub Map
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon is acquiring lots of home floor plans, Google will let politicians spam its Gmail users, burn...
2.5 Admins 103: AAD the SQL
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Good and bad from Meta/Facebook, data centres in London are hogging all the power, separating databa...
2.5 Admins 102: Admins After Dark
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The consequences of accrued technical debt and how to avoid it, a serious security issue in Confluen...
2.5 Admins 101: Atomic Database
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jim and Allan’s thoughts on GitHub Copilot, why you can’t take the bar exam on modern Intel hard...
2.5 Admins 100: 💯
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
More on abandoned hardware, central auth, Internet Explorer, Antivirus, monitoring, speed testing, a...
2.5 Admins 99: 00000000
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A PSA about cheap hard drives, a major Internet outage in Canada, Apple’s new Lockdown Mode, and h...
2.5 Admins 98: Lemonade
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Picking the right switch, clustering Raspberry Pis, dynamic DNS, replacing a desktop PC, work-life b...
2.5 Admins 97: Gotta Go Fast
30 Jun 2022
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The best ways to test your Internet speed, more on filesystem caching, monitoring servers at scale, ...
2.5 Admins 96: Skunky Routers
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Internet Explorer is dead, Cisco small business routers that need to be junked, antivirus on Linux s...
2.5 Admins 95: Opened in 45 Seconds
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The finer points of allocating VM resources, Jim is annoyed with the browser situation on Ubuntu des...
2.5 Admins 94: Free IPv4s, Click Here!
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Freeing up millions of IPv4 addresses, WSL 2 comes to Windows Server, why cert renewal should be aut...
2.5 Admins 93: Bhyve Mind
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Linux user tries out FreeBSD’s Bhyve hypervisor, choosing storage for a VMware ESXi server, and ...
2.5 Admins 92: End to End to End
26 May 2022
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End-to-end encryption is under threat again, Broadcom is buying VMware, prison time for an angry DBA...
2.5 Admins 91: The Deenis
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
More on Ubuntu mirrors and DNS, detecting advanced persistent threats, resilient backups, and open s...
2.5 Admins 90: 2 Admins
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Another attempt to replace passwords, trying to solve the problem of write-once storage, and the unu...
2.5 Admins 89: Warm Storage
05 May 2022
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How long optical disks last and why cold storage isn’t usually worth it, VM security, more thought...
2.5 Admins 88: Great Scott
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Musk buys Twitter, Ubuntu’s ZFS on root snapshot tool is put on the back burner, and setting up yo...
2.5 Admins 87: Unplanned Obsolescence
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containe...
2.5 Admins 86: Reluctant Sysadmin
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The new features in OpenSSH, an embarrassing outage, the ugly side of Apple’s AirTags, and securin...
2.5 Admins 85: Textbook Scam
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
CAPTCHAs in phishing attacks, Jim gets angry about Bitcoin propaganda in schools, and packet loss wi...
2.5 Admins 84: Open Source Sabotage
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An open source dev goes rogue, a big single sign-on provider is compromised, self-hosting DNS, and m...
2.5 Admins 83: Solid State Bathtubs
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SSD reliability, a huge potential amplification DDoS attack, and learning how a mail server works. ...
2.5 Admins 82: Oil, Gold, and Firstborn
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our concerns about Google’s latest acquisition, the technical implications of the sanctions on Rus...
2.5 Admins 81: Don’t Pay
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How not to solve some of the problems with filesystems, why backups are only part of defending your ...
2.5 Admins 80: 100 Emoji
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Browser version numbers might break websites, Samsung’s bad crypto implementation, more on Mazda a...
2.5 Admins 79: Flex your disks
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maintaining data long-term, Chrome OS comes to generic PCs, and how to detect intrusions and malware...
2.5 Admins 78: MAZDA~1.BMP
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why Arm was never likely to be acquired by Nvidia, an expensive bug in Mazda cars, and how there isn...
2.5 Admins 77: The Joe Ressington Experience
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What the recent Spotify controversy means for open podcasting standards, why young people increasing...
2.5 Admins 76: Horses for Courses
03 Feb 2022
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The pain of updating Windows, FreeBSD vs Linux, and getting started with ZFS. Plugs FreeBSD Perio...
2.5 Admins 75: Burning Fiber
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Allan has a recent war story for us, Microsoft blocked email from Linode, maximizing performance in ...