Episodes

  • 2.5 Admins 193: TV DoS

    2.5 Admins 193: TV DoS
    May 2 2024
    How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different TVs, Jim’s alarming theory about AI malware, and encrypting offsite backups. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Is your PC having trouble? Your smart […]
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    31 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 192: ZFS Week

    2.5 Admins 192: ZFS Week
    Apr 25 2024
    ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess). Plugs […]
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    31 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 191: Mechanical Turk

    2.5 Admins 191: Mechanical Turk
    Apr 18 2024
    Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS […]
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    29 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 190: twitterz

    2.5 Admins 190: twitterz
    Apr 11 2024
    A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night […]
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    30 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 189: Too Much Glass

    2.5 Admins 189: Too Much Glass
    Apr 4 2024
    Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes […]
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    32 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 188: Farewell to Core

    2.5 Admins 188: Farewell to Core
    Mar 28 2024
    The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News TrueNAS CORE 13 is the […]
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    29 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 187: MDK

    2.5 Admins 187: MDK
    Mar 21 2024
    Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost […]
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    31 mins
  • 2.5 Admins 186: Jim Defends the CFAA

    2.5 Admins 186: Jim Defends the CFAA
    Mar 14 2024
    Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News Roku disables players and TVs with […]
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    30 mins