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2.5 Admins

The Late Night Linux Family

2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we g...

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Listen to 2.5 Admins, a Technology podcast by The Late Night Linux Family. Stream 310 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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2.5 Admins 310: GPLFreeBSD

Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disa...

29:11Jul 30, 2026

2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron

A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will...

24:01Jul 23, 2026

2.5 Admins 308: Sloppy Shims

Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusO...

27:37Jul 16, 2026

2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool

Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per v...

26:37Jul 9, 2026

2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable

Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtu...

28:04Jul 2, 2026

2.5 Admins 305: Short Two

The one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break. See our contact page...

7:17Jun 25, 2026

2.5 Admins 304: Wiring a House

Wiring up a house for networking including cables, access points, connectors, and racks. Plus Google is found liable for what its AI overvie...

30:21Jun 18, 2026

2.5 Admins 303: Denial of Secrets

People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, an...

29:30Jun 11, 2026

2.5 Admins 302: ClawPilot

Microsoft threatens a security researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities publicly, bricks old versions of Office, and announces their versio...

32:44Jun 4, 2026

2.5 Admins 301: F(OSS) Consulting

It looks like Bitlocker had a back door in it, how a listener accidentally broke Gitea for users of the snap version, Google accidentally pu...

29:17May 28, 2026

2.5 Admins 300: IPvWot?

Why a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn’t want you to run Exchange Server on-prem,...

28:24May 21, 2026

2.5 Admins 299: RMAggravation

People trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave...

27:41May 14, 2026

2.5 Admins 298: Windows Postdate

Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of th...

May 7, 2026

2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics

Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PC...

32:43Apr 30, 2026

2.5 Admins 296: Beware of the Leopard

Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimite...

30:32Apr 23, 2026

2.5 Admins 295: Orbital Meltdown

Why putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on reall...

28:19Apr 16, 2026

2.5 Admins 294: Oh, R2

Arm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a...

22:24Apr 9, 2026

2.5 Admins 293: Reduced Flicker

Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manuf...

27:20Apr 2, 2026

2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected

The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety o...

27:12Mar 26, 2026

2.5 Admins 291: UPS for LiFePO4

Why passkeys aren’t the right solution to everything, Allan tells us why he loves his new Lithium Iron Phosphate UPS, Btrfs vs ZFS on...

28:43Mar 19, 2026