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 get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 147: EPYC Fail
Sloppy practises by Gigabyte reveal one of the problems with UEFI, why Slack refuses to implement end to end encryption, a familiar bug ruins people’s uptime, and XFS vs ext4.
Plugs
FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars
News/discussion
Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What’s the actual score?
90+ orgs tell Slack to stop slacking when it comes to full encryption
AMD’s EPYC Rome Chips Crash After 1,044 Days of Uptime
Free Consulting
We were asked about using XFS vs ext4.
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