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 153: Robots.nope
Updating the robots.txt standard for the AI era, the US government implements an IoT certification and labeling system, and the issues with fully encrypting a server.
Plugs
3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System
News/discussion
Google suggests updating the robots.txt standard
Robots.txt is not the answer: Proposing a new meta tag for LLM/AI
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The Biden administration is tackling smart devices with a new cybersecurity label
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We were asked about fully encrypting a server.
The Klara article that Allan mentioned
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