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2.5 Admins 223: Google Juice Abuse

November 28, 2024
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Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be sticking around. Plus mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

 

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Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup

 

News/discussion

Equinix to shutter bare metal IaaS service in 2026

D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage

Google cracks down on “Parasite SEO,” punishing established publishers

Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you

 

Free consulting

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nomad-pot-driver

Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ServerMania

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1Password

Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux Matters 43: Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub

November 26, 2024
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OggCampIn this episode:

  • Alan uses vhs to make a short video
  • Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp
  • Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs

 

 

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Tailscale

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Late Night Linux – Episode 309

November 25, 2024
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Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more.

 

Discoveries

pup

8bitworkshop

20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2

BlinkenLights

European Alternatives

WisBlock Smart Cube Companion

Graham’s cubes

Joe’s battery test data

 

 

 

 

 

Tailscale

Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.

 

Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

 

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Linux After Dark – Episode 83

November 22, 2024
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We all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here was “what would Jim and Allan from 2.5 Admins NOT do”.

Guess who won with this monstrosity.

A disgrace of a RAID array

 

 

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 222: Surprise Upgrade

November 21, 2024
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Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client, restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware.

 

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DKMS vs kmod: The Essential Guide for ZFS on Linux

 

News

Windows Server 2025 takes admins by surprise

No word from Microsoft on shock Windows Server 2025 installs

Windows Server 2025 known issues and notifications

Windows 11 update bug falsely warns of end of support, confusing users

Windows 365 Link—the first Cloud PC device

 

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2.5 Admins 218: TLS TTL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 308

November 19, 2024
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Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely with his WiFi access points.

 

News

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

Mozilla’s Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

KDE does a whole lotta bug fixing & raising funds

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 111

November 17, 2024
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Some of the work-adjacent things that we do including writing code that we shouldn’t like writing Rust in Rust, fun projects that turned into paid work, and career progression. Plus some of our go to resources for learning about development.

 

Some resources we mentioned

Andy’s videos – Rust, General

Lobsters

Amolith’s RSS feeds

Computer inside Terraria

Fasterthanlime

Self-Directed Research Podcast

Jon Gjengset

Jon Gjengset – YouTube

DevConf – YouTube

MEAP Catalog

 

 

 

 

 

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 17

November 15, 2024
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What would be on our cloud tools wishlist to make our lives better? Consistent APIs and IAM across clouds, vulnerability information for dependencies that doesn’t depend on vendor data, more private compute, and more.

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 221: Two Firewalls

November 14, 2024
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Jim and Allan discover modern charging tech and marvel at what’s possible in the USB-C era, more on IPv6 firewalls, using ZFS like Git, and running your own authoritative DNS server.

 

 

 

 

 

Automox

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 18

November 13, 2024
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Our first games systems, whether we wear watches, and the most cringe moments from our youth. With popey from Linux Matters, Will from Late Night Linux, and Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.

 

 

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