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 190: twitterz
A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS.
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backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance for zvols
X fixes URL blunder that could enable social media phishing
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