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 310: GPLFreeBSD
Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disagree about how serious OpenAI’s agent hacking Hugging Face is, FreeBSD removes the last bits of GPL software and suffers an embarrassing git flub , and backing up to an encrypted NAS without ZFS.
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Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
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