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 191: Mechanical Turk
Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.
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Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine
Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them
Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive
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We were asked about disk queue schedulers in Linux.
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