2.5 Admins - The Late Night Linux Family

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2.5 Admins 212: WHODIS

Thursday, September 12, 2024 • Duration 29:04

A surprising way to exploit the WHOIS system, Microsoft will force old versions of Windows 11 to update, and the simple way to set up TP-Link Omada gear.

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Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have

Windows 11 users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not

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We were asked about setting up TP-Link Omada gear.

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2.5 Admins 202: Microsoft’s Underwater Again

Thursday, July 4, 2024 • Duration 32:46

Why we didn’t mention pocket fluff when we talked about USB-C charging issues, Microsoft abandons its promising underwater data center experiment and didn’t monitor it’s SSL certs, why you should be careful which WordPress plugins and themes you install,an Australian ISP’s tech debt comes due, and remoting into desktop Linux.

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Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success

Microsoft declares its underwater data center test was a success

Shouting in the Datacenter

Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack

Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach

Microsoft hits snooze again on security certificate renewal

Free Consulting

2.5 Admins 112: Reuse > Recycle

Thursday, October 13, 2022 • Duration 29:22

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

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iX and Klara – The Open Source Era is Upon Us

Your Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD’s rc

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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

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2.5 Admins 111: The Freezer Trick

Thursday, October 6, 2022 • Duration 32:09

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

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the History of Package Management on FreeBSD

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The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Mid-year Review

How Much RAM Do You Need in 2022?

Exploring Swap on FreeBSD

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Fastly

Gcore

Jetpack

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

Paris Traceroute

How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr

2.5 Admins 110: Border Gateway Currency

Thursday, September 29, 2022 • Duration 31:18

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.

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Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud

Allan and Wendell chat about ZFS data recovery

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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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2.5 Admins 109: Selling Technical Debt

Thursday, September 22, 2022 • Duration 32:26

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

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

Tailscale

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Linode

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2.5 Admins 108: dQw4w9WgXcQ

Thursday, September 15, 2022 • Duration 32:33

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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Linode

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2.5 Admins 107: s/smart//g

Thursday, September 8, 2022 • Duration 30:27

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 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.

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

2.5 Admins 106: Wrap Your Deenis

Thursday, September 1, 2022 • Duration 31:35

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

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

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Microsoft adds virtual core licensing to Windows Server

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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