2.5 Admins

By The Late Night Linux Family

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 week we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.

3 episodes

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Email's Inherent Insecurity Fuels Impersonation Scams Over Technical Weakness

Jan 08, 2026

Email's inherent insecurity allows sophisticated scams to exploit trust, not technical flaws, leading to widespread fraud. Learn how to build defenses beyond technology.

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Expired Domains, LLM Bullshit, and Home Lab Performance Bottlenecks

Jan 01, 2026

Expired government domains become attack vectors, and LLMs generate plausible falsehoods by prioritizing patterns over truth, not deception.

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Iterative Documentation and Re-execution for Deep Sysadmin Skill Development

Dec 25, 2025

Documenting and rebuilding technical tasks from your own instructions builds deep, transferable sysadmin skills and creates a powerful portfolio for job interviews.

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