2.5 Admins 130: HotBot Topic Microsoft and Google seem to think that chatbots are the future of search, the problem of filtering spam, and organising data with backups in mind. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-130/

2.5 Admins 131: At Least Try Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast’s false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don’t use Btrfs, and getting notifications for your monitoring. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-131/

2.5 Admins 132: 1.5FA Twitter are going to charge for bad 2 factor authentication, new alarming details about the recent LastPass breach, and setting up a DNS server in the cloud. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-132/

Saving millions by exiting the cloud, GoDaddy compromised, why you shouldn’t use a smart plug to powercycle your router, running SMB and NFS shares on the same host, why private keys should stay private, & using old hardware as a backup server. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-133/

2.5 Admins 134: 2guys1tesla Our take on the collapse of Siicon Valley Bank, an odd case of 2 Teslas with the same key, filesystems in VMs, and self-hosted password managers. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-134/

2.5 Admins 135: Moonshots Why the death of Reader 10 years ago might come back to haunt Google, Samsung’s AI moon photos raise a philisophical question, Jim’s frustrations with Ubuntu, and connecting a POS system. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-135/

2.5 Admins 136: Red Scare Why the RESTRICT Act is about much more than banning Tik Tok, what recent Tesla hacks tell us about the way the security research community is changing, and what server manufacturers we recommend. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-136/

2.5 Admins 137: Schrodinger’s Backup Yet another reason not to plug random USB drives into your laptop, how Reddit learned about the importance of testing your backups, and we brainstorm a sysadmin’s version of a minimal password manager. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-137/

2.5 Admins 138: Drive Failure Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud outage locks some people out of their data, why we don’t talk much about Veeam, and running containers as root. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-138…

2.5 Admins 139: Just Abandon Twitter The new and up and coming tech that we’re excited about including RISC-V, hard drives, Arm servers, and the Fediverse. Plus whether FreeBSD’s license has held it back, and generating SSL certificates on a router. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-139/

2.5 Admins 140: /dev/nullvad How not to practice responsible disclosure, Mulvad proves that its claims stand up, whether to be worried about public phone chargers, an “anti-ransomware” SSD, and monitoring ZFS with Zabbix. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-140/

What building a web browser from scratch tells us about the modern web, some people are frying their AMD CPUs, more on basic password managers and powerscyling network gear, moving from Mercurial to Git, running old applications on modern Ubuntu, & more. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-141/

2.5 Admins 142: Intel Key Party Google’s attempt to replace passwords with keys, why Jim thinks IBM is dragging Red Hat in the wrong direction, Intel breaks a security feature, and protecting your files from other users on your system. 2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-142/