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Late Night Linux – Episode 304

The WordPress drama escalates, a great opportunity for Firefox to gain market share, Android will open up a little bit, the FOSS funding problem is solved, we laugh at WinAmp, a new release of Plasma, AAA gaming on Asahi, 20 years of Ubuntu, and more.   News WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly... Read More
10/22/202431 minutes, 3 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 109

You need to be able to write good code to be a successful developer, but how important are other “soft” skills like communication, relating to and motivating others, and time management? Kevin mentioned a blog post about burnout in the Rust project         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every... Read More
10/20/202425 minutes, 33 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 15

Do we ever consider the environmental impacts of our cloud computing, or do we just like to watch the world burn?           Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes          ... Read More
10/18/202425 minutes, 58 seconds
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2.5 Admins 217: Drive Scavenging

The difference between monitoring and metrics analysis, the security pros and cons of cloud vs on-prem, why Jim and Allan don’t use Unraid, and cloud storage and email for a small company.   Feedback Netdata Nagios ZFS and Unraid   Free consulting We were asked about cloud storage and email for a small company.  ... Read More
10/17/202432 minutes, 19 seconds
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Linux Matters 40: The Reply Guys

In this episode: Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more. Some links and products mentioned in the show: funkwhale Synergy Elis’ monitors we “forced” them to buy Indoor cameras tvheadendinterruptionchecke homeserver-power-saver dockcheck     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or... Read More
10/15/202421 minutes, 37 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 303

Loads of discoveries including Will’s terrible way of flashing Android phones from a web browser, real-time database analytics, editing audio with text, a great way to deal with log files, and learning about the fundamentals of computer graphics. Plus the best way to manage data and backups, and a reason to add an old laptop... Read More
10/14/202423 minutes, 45 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 80

Framework sent Joe a 13 DIY edition (for free and to keep) so we do our best to talk about it honestly. It’s a great machine, but you pay a premium for the ability to repair and upgrade it.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
10/11/202425 minutes, 30 seconds
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2.5 Admins 216: Pa55w0rd%

NIST has finally proposed some sensible password standards, why server CPUs with high core counts make sense in a lot of deployments, the .io TLD is probably sticking around, and the best options for a Linux-based router.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Klara Halloween... Read More
10/10/202430 minutes, 1 second
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 17

How we remind ourselves of things, what we most and least enjoyed about school, what 3 colours we’d paint the world, which country has the best food, and whether we feel bad about killing mosquitos. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Graham from Late Night Linux, and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.     Patrons... Read More
10/9/202420 minutes, 27 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 302

How the boss of WordPress spectacularly failed to read the room, why the CUPS vulnerabilities didn’t live up to the hype, Mozilla disappoints once again, great news for home automation, Valve supports Arch, and a Raspberry Pi 500 looks imminent. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.   News ​Know Before You Go –... Read More
10/8/202431 minutes
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 108

Campbell Barton joins us to talk about porting Blender, the hugely popular professional 3D software, to Wayland.   Wayland support in blender task Wayland Support on Linux         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in... Read More
10/6/202426 minutes, 15 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 14

The pros and cons of smaller cloud providers when compared with the huge ones, and security best practices when you’re new to Kubernetes.         Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes        ... Read More
10/4/202424 minutes, 30 seconds
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2.5 Admins 215: Still no VLANs

Why cold storage is never as good as keeping your data warm and regularly tested, how the American air traffic control system became so outdated, and isolating your devices from a roommate’s shenanigans.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Music industry’s 1990s hard... Read More
10/3/202430 minutes, 3 seconds
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Linux Matters 39: Rock around the underclock

In this episode: Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools: gpuviewer GreenWithEnvy Which needs a Coolbits bit mask of 28 to enable power and fan control. Linux AMDGPU Configuration Tool or LACT Requires the amdgpu.ppfeaturemask kernel parameter with this value 0xfffd7fff to enable power and fan control. Alan, who is still... Read More
10/1/202430 minutes, 8 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 301

Jason Evangelho tells us about the rosy state of Linux gaming, including a lot of games that perform as well or even better than on Windows. Plus feedback, and discoveries about interacting with GitHub via the command line, a handy DNS testing tool, and playing ancient games with accurate audio.   Discoveries GitHub CLI dug... Read More
9/30/202424 minutes, 39 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 79

Social media was a mistake that has caused polarisation through the spread of misinformation by grifters. We try to come up with some ideas for what to do about it. Dalton mentioned cohost to shut down at end of 2024.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with... Read More
9/27/202422 minutes, 43 seconds
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2.5 Admins 214: No VLANs

A proposed solution to the WHOIS TLS verification problem gets a surprising amount of pushback. Plus isolating IoT devices, our thoughts on Ubiquiti gear, setting up WiFi in a new house, remote access with WireGuard, and our mini PC recommendations.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
9/26/202430 minutes, 27 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 300

We look back at the biggest news stories and trends from the last 7+ years and 300 episodes of LNL. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Seven and a bit years of news Google... Read More
9/23/202429 minutes, 23 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 107

What is it about Linux that draws us to it as a development platform? Plus why we choose the specific distros that we use.           1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxdevtime     Support us... Read More
9/22/202426 minutes, 27 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 13

What our cloud strategy would be if we were CTOs, how companies should weigh up SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and trade off building vs buying. Integrating the Ubuntu Snapshot Service into systems management and update tools       Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on patreon and get... Read More
9/20/202426 minutes, 25 seconds
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2.5 Admins 213: Photo Philosophy

The Malaysian government’s misguided plan to control its citizens’ DNS, the wrong way to deploy underwater servers, a philosophical question about how long a person’s photos will exist, and how we manage our SSH keys.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Malaysia’s plan... Read More
9/19/202430 minutes, 4 seconds
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Linux Matters 38: A pair of comfortable GPUs

In this episode: Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android: Tempo GoSonic Ultrasonic Symphonium Martin names a whole new category of “Top-like” tools for monitoring GPUS: nvtop intel_gpu_top nvitop amdgpu_top Alan, who is not a developer, has been writing UncleClive in Python to send Mastodon posts to a Spectrum emulator and back.... Read More
9/17/202434 minutes, 17 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 299

Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python objects, viewing HTTP archives, and more on the problem with micropayments.   Discoveries Signal Processing Course KDE Connect Friture wat HARview               1Password Extended Access Management:... Read More
9/16/202423 minutes, 12 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 78

Is a proprietary games company driving all the innovation on the Linux desktop, and is that OK?       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out... Read More
9/13/202423 minutes, 42 seconds
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2.5 Admins 212: WHODIS

A surprising way to exploit the WHOIS system, Microsoft will force old versions of Windows 11 to update, and the simple way to set up TP-Link Omada gear.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should... Read More
9/12/202429 minutes, 4 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 16

Whose responsibility it is to check the pockets of laundry before washing it, the biggest mistakes we’ve nearly made, and Joe gets bullied about headphones. With Aaron from Hybrid Cloud Show, and Mark and Martin from Linux Matters.     Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          
9/11/202420 minutes, 43 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 298

Mono moves to the Wine project, the Internet Archive can’t lend books but should have seen it coming, Mozilla adds unpopular AI to Firefox, and KDE asks for donations in Plasma. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.   News A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to... Read More
9/9/202425 minutes, 59 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 106

Following on from our episode about dealing with a horrible codebase, Andy argues that completely rewriting a project is almost always a bad idea. Things You Should Never Do, Part I         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for... Read More
9/8/202424 minutes, 42 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 12

We often talk about working with cloud technologies, but how do we have fun with them?         Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.
9/6/202424 minutes, 49 seconds
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2.5 Admins 211: Open Sourceless

Another example of the downsides of abstraction, whether AI can ever be truly “open source”, and the security benefits and drawbacks of different types of VPN.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials Debate over... Read More
9/5/202430 minutes, 20 seconds
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Linux Matters 37: Lipstick on a font

In this episode: Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile characters, to make it marginally better to look at. Mark went in search of a self-hosted streaming music solution, and found SubSonic with mobile clients.     You can send your... Read More
9/3/202432 minutes, 26 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 297

To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” Linux, if so how, and if it’s even possible in Voice of the masses.   Voice of the masses Should we try to convert Windows Subsystem for Linux users... Read More
9/2/202422 minutes, 6 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 77

We need to talk about Ubuntu (again). The updates situation is a confusing mess, a lot of enthusiast users have had enough and are starting to move to other distros, but ultimately millions of normal users will quietly carry on and not care. Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess       Support us... Read More
8/30/202423 minutes, 30 seconds
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2.5 Admins 210: Ryzen Up

AMD will patch some old Ryzens against SinkClose now, but their benchmarking methods for newer CPUs didn’t live up to everyday reality. Plus Bcachefs devs annoy Linus Torvalds, the US government sues a college over compliance issues, and Jim disappoints a patron.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with... Read More
8/29/202430 minutes, 34 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 296

Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual boot, Google quietly drops support for Chrome on old Ubuntu, the Apple tax hits Patreon, and an exciting new Raspberry Pi.   News OggCamp Linux is 33 years... Read More
8/27/202425 minutes, 16 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 105

Kevin and Andy talk about their project extremes: the oldest and newest projects they’ve worked on, the biggest and smallest codebases, the ugliest hack, the most elegant, the most popular, the most trivial, and the most important.   Andy’s links git-what IGCC Box Stacker Rightwaves Eat Apples Quick! Smolpxl Games Rabbit Escape Android Game element-web... Read More
8/25/202424 minutes, 54 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 11

How much Linux and traditional sysadmin knowledge do you need for a career in cloud computing?       Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.
8/23/202426 minutes, 57 seconds
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2.5 Admins 209: Faulty Defaults

Insecure SSH implementations and a weak key that let a researcher control 200 MW of electrical capacity reignites the debate about versioned protocols vs pluggable protocols, follow-up on sharing files from your LAN with people on the Internet, and the pros and cons of encrypted backups.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an... Read More
8/22/202430 minutes, 25 seconds
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Linux Matters 36: Themes, Streams and Audio Machines

In this episode: Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin. Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with stream-sprout. Mark plays audio from his Android phone to his Linux desktop speakers. And Martin does the same with an iPad and uses playerctl and bluetoothctl to control the iPad remotely.  ... Read More
8/20/202429 minutes, 4 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 295

The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details about OggCamp, and whether FOSS people are all old.   Discoveries IPv6 for IPv4 admins bashsimplecurses Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000 taskfinder   OggCamp Gary tells us about... Read More
8/19/202422 minutes, 47 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 76

We once recorded an episode about GNOME that was so negative that we decided to delete our recordings and not publish it. Our opinions of GNOME have changed significantly since then so we explain why.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password... Read More
8/16/202424 minutes, 29 seconds
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2.5 Admins 208: All CPUs suck

Forcing Windows to undo updates and a separate IPv6 vulnerability, hardware bugs in AMD and Intel CPUs, and using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News Your victim’s Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and... Read More
8/15/202430 minutes, 10 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 15

What celebrities we look like, what books we are into and how we read them, and whether we can separate an artist’s work from their character. With Aaron from Hybrid Cloud Show, and Mark and Martin from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          
8/14/202420 minutes, 8 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 294

Open source myths, Graham gives us an update on the Open Documentation Academy, and why we don’t really talk about mobile Linux anymore.   Open source myths Open Documentation Academy (GitHub repo)       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our... Read More
8/12/202422 minutes, 52 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 104

How to deal with a horrible codebase that you’ve inherited. Getting started, breaking the problem into smaller pieces, understanding what’s actually wrong, the importance of testing (as usual), and why technical debt isn’t necessarily the best name for the problem.   git-what Working Effectively with Legacy Code         Support us on Patreon... Read More
8/11/202423 minutes, 32 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 10

In episode 8 we talked about how to get started with Kubernetes, and this time we cover the next steps: How to set up ingress and east-west networking, options for restricting access, and the best ways to integrate with your favourite cloud provider.   Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support... Read More
8/9/202421 minutes, 35 seconds
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2.5 Admins 207: Insecure Boot

Secure boot is compromised on hundreds of devices, Amazon’s desperate attempt to make money from Alexa, and how to decide which open source software on GitHub to trust.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from... Read More
8/8/202429 minutes, 55 seconds
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Linux Matters 35: Mark was right, twice

In this episode, we discuss: Migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors. Contributing package updates to Void and Apline linux. What happens when you plug a phone’s USB port into TV.     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out... Read More
8/6/202435 minutes, 8 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 293

Analysing MQTT data, getting domains unblocked from Cloudflare DNS, making ASCII animations, and why Joe is drawn to Linux Mint. Plus why we don’t talk about Vivaldi even though it’s quite good, why Félim was wrong about right click in PuTTY, and Will doesn’t seem to understand Lemmy.   Discoveries MQTT decode Cloudflare DNS was... Read More
8/5/202422 minutes, 31 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 75

How we learn, remember, and document new Linux and FOSS technologies.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
8/2/202421 minutes, 4 seconds
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2.5 Admins 206: CrowdStruck

How and why the recent huge Windows outage was caused by a bad CrowdStrike update and how it could have been avoided, a hilariously dumb ESXi vulnerability, and using SAS drives with a PCIe card.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News A closer... Read More
8/1/202430 minutes, 36 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 292

NVIDIA makes more of its drivers easier to install, the EU is probably going to redirect FOSS funding to AI, Mark Zuckerberg abuses the term “open source”, Proton jumps the shark, a trio of typical Google stories, and the shortest KDE Korner in history.   News NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules The... Read More
7/30/202423 minutes, 27 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 103

Developing as part of an in-person team vs working remotely, synchronous vs asynchronous development, how to make a hybrid team work effectively, and how code review fits into it all.         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at... Read More
7/28/202425 minutes, 39 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 09

We talk about infrastructure as code, what it is, what it isn’t, how it differs from configuration management, how to structure it, best practices to stay consistent between Dev/Test and Production, avoiding configuration drift, and some experiences trying to do infrastructure/configuration as code in a home lab.     Send your questions and feedback to... Read More
7/26/202427 minutes, 8 seconds
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2.5 Admins 205: Dogs Hate BTC

How a Bitcoin mine made life in a Texas town absolutely miserable, why paying for extended support for end of life Windows versions is just doubling down on technical debt, and the best way to manage router redundancy.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes  ... Read More
7/25/202430 minutes, 24 seconds
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Linux Matters 34: All of a Flutter

In this episode: Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter. Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sniped into updating the Flutter-based Quickgui project. Martin digs into his pile-o-bits to craft a new home-lab server that is quieter, cooler, harder, faster, better, stronger, and mostly empty. Martin mentioned... Read More
7/23/202433 minutes
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Late Night Linux – Episode 291

Testing the security of your Bluetooth devices, diffing databases, visualising MQTT data, running Linux VMs on an iPad or Iphone, org mode in Kate, and making point and click games. Plus whether we are too negative, or if we are just realistic.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early... Read More
7/22/202423 minutes, 39 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 74

We all customise our phones and computers to one extent or another, but does it make sense to inflict our defaults on other people’s machines when we set them up? Or should we set them up with normal defaults on mainstream distros like Ubuntu?       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free... Read More
7/19/202424 minutes, 26 seconds
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2.5 Admins 204: Maybe Don’t 5

A widely-used login system is still using MD5 which is bad news, miscreants took over some domains when they moved from Google to Squarespace, Linksys’ sloppy app isn’t a huge problem but is a bad sign, and why backing up an Android phone in one go is pretty much impossible without root.   Plug Support... Read More
7/18/202429 minutes
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Late Night Linux – Episode 290

The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special feature” to interact with Google sites, Mozilla shows that it needs advertising, and openSUSE might be getting a new (terrible) name.   News EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages... Read More
7/16/202428 minutes, 24 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 102

What agile software development is exactly, why planning and being willing to adapt the plan are key, the pros and cons of all the process that’s involved, the role that scrum plays, and why it’s all about communication.   Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects Amolith will be at Fossy in... Read More
7/14/202422 minutes, 13 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 08

How best to get started with Kubernetes and whether it is better to start with a low-touch option like MicroK8s/K3s, using a cloud-managed Kubernetes from the outset, or set up everything yourself “the hard way”   Kubernetes The Hard Way   Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on patreon... Read More
7/12/202424 minutes, 43 seconds
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2.5 Admins 203: Yet more free consulting

We didn’t get to all of your questions for our Episode 200 free consulting special so here is another full episode of your questions and our answers. Our thoughts on a new UK smart devices law, backing up 30TB off-site, how to learn ZFS, SMB vs other ways to share files, and backing up secrets.... Read More
7/11/202431 minutes, 38 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 14

The best TV show of all time, and the future of e-waste and what we can and will do about it. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          
7/10/202418 minutes, 17 seconds
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Linux Matters 33: Welcome Homepage

In this episode, we discuss: Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extension for Firefox. Mark has been composing bass parts for an album using Tux Guitar. Alan has been visualising source code in 4K with Gource.       You can send your... Read More
7/9/202430 minutes, 48 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 289

An incredibly powerful hex editor for reverse engineering binaries, easily searching through snaphots for end users, streaming audio from phones to the Linux desktop, writing interactive fiction games, and how we makes notes and manage tasks.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Check out all the... Read More
7/8/202424 minutes, 13 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 73

Having been given an Asus Eee PC netbook back, Joe wonders what to do with this ancient 32-bit machine. Plus the oldest machines we currently have in production. Batocera       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for... Read More
7/5/202420 minutes, 47 seconds
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2.5 Admins 202: Microsoft’s Underwater Again

Why we didn’t mention pocket fluff when we talked about USB-C charging issues, Microsoft abandons its promising underwater data center experiment and didn’t monitor it’s SSL certs, why you should be careful which WordPress plugins and themes you install,an Australian ISP’s tech debt comes due, and remoting into desktop Linux.   Plug Support us on... Read More
7/4/202432 minutes, 46 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 288

Instead of the news which is all either boring or grim, we’ve come up with a fun Linux-themed game show that’s definitely not completely fixed. Plus a great network tool, and what keeps us on Linux when most apps are available everywhere else.   Feedback IMUNES           1Password Extended Access Management:... Read More
7/2/202423 minutes, 49 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 101

Andy is annoyed that so much free and open source software is hosted on a proprietary platform that’s owned by Microsoft. There are plenty of alternatives to GitHub, but ultimately the network effect is why so many people host their code there. We dream of a proper federated solution. Maybe one day…      ... Read More
6/30/202424 minutes, 19 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 07

We get personal and explain our home IT setups, sharing tips on learning new technologies like networking and Kubernetes while keeping the family TV working, and consult on how to secure the root user of your cloud account.         Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on... Read More
6/28/202425 minutes, 45 seconds
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2.5 Admins 201: CVEs everywhere

Vulnerabilities in Asus hardware make us think there should be some regulations about what can be sold as a router, a VPN feature that we hadn’t heard of is removed from Windows, and why we don’t believe that Microsoft will ever take security as seriously as they claim.   Plug Support us on patreon and... Read More
6/27/202431 minutes, 51 seconds
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Linux Matters 32: Quick, quicker, quickest

In this episode, we discuss: What’s new in quickemu. How quickgui came to be. Testing with quicktest.   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The... Read More
6/25/202434 minutes, 7 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 287

Unlocking the full potential of Nvidia graphics cards, hacking the otherwise bricked Spotify hardware device, Félim realised that his Borg backups could be significantly smaller, making wiring diagrams using text, silly terminal effects and colours, using a ThinkPad as a WiFi dongle, great lightweight distros for an ancient netbook, better Google searches, and more.  ... Read More
6/24/202423 minutes, 57 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 72

We are joined by Florian Beijers who is a full time screen reader user to talk about how the accessibility experience differs on various operating systems and Linux desktop environments, and what open source software devs could be doing better.   Florian’s links: Mastodon YouTube channel Twitch IC_Null Twitch LinkedIn       Support us... Read More
6/21/202426 minutes, 8 seconds
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2.5 Admins 200: Even more free consulting

It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard drive availability, USB-C robustness, ZFS performance on a VPS, cold storage with a 2.5″ form factor, how we gained our level of knowledge, disk enclosure issues, and monitoring Windows servers.             Tailscale Tailscale is an... Read More
6/20/202432 minutes, 34 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 286

New RISC-V and Arm Linux laptops are starting to pave the way for an exciting future, Mozilla makes another divisive acquisition, a couple of big anniversaries make us feel old, some quick KDE updates, and more.   News World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu Canonical Announce First RISC-V Laptop... Read More
6/18/202424 minutes, 34 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 100

If you want to be a good developer, how many different programming languages should you learn? Maybe becoming an expert in one specific language is the way to go. Maybe it’s more a case of learning different concepts and paradigms than languages.         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every... Read More
6/16/20240
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 06

Google Cloud teaches us about eggs and baskets by losing a big customer’s data, and Microsoft’s carbon emissions are up significantly – probably because of AI. Plus compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.   News/discussion Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event... Read More
6/14/202425 minutes
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2.5 Admins 199: Rest In Parity

How to prepare for your loved ones to have the access they need if the worst unexpectedly happens, Joe’s weird issues with wireless access points, and dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion After you die, your... Read More
6/13/20240
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 13

Whether self-driving cars are the future, and the skills we would download into our brains (Matrix-style). With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.        ... Read More
6/12/202418 minutes, 1 second
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Linux Matters 31: Searching for a New Voice

In this episode: Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of the old Mycroft AI apope voice. Martin has eschewed Google Search to use Kagi instead. Mark has been judging a coding contest where students used Scratch to create... Read More
6/11/20240
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Late Night Linux – Episode 285

Your favourite obscure open source software in Voice of the masses. Plus whether AI is a load of old rubbish, and even if it is useful for some things we have to ask ourselves: at what cost?   Voice of the masses What’s the best open source app or utility that no one else has... Read More
6/10/20240
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Linux After Dark – Episode 71

Gary is organising OggCamp this year, so we wonder what makes the perfect Linux and open source event. Plus why we don’t use multiple partitions for home and swap etc. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to... Read More
6/7/20240
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2.5 Admins 198: SMB Pulse

Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogent root-server mysteriously goes out of sync without them spotting it, and protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News Installing Windows... Read More
6/6/20240
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Late Night Linux – Episode 284

A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processing data and CSV files on the command line, controlling cycling workout gear and graphing your progress, and a top tip for following Mastodon accounts in a normal RSS feed reader.   News... Read More
6/3/20240
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 99

Forks are a fundamental aspect of open source software so we get into the different types of forks, when and why you might want to fork a project, the maintenance burden that comes with a hard fork, the importance of winning mindshare for your fork, what exactly counts as a fork, when it’s not always... Read More
6/2/20240
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 05

We look at OpenShift from an external perspective, including how it works in a multi-cloud environment, how it abstracts cloud resources, when administrators and developers still need to understand what is happening beneath the abstraction, combining OpenShift with cloud-managed services, some of the downsides of OpenShift, and where people should start if they want to... Read More
5/31/20240
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2.5 Admins 197: Exchange Money

Linux kernel developers were infected with malware for 2 years, another nail in the coffin of proper federated email as Exchange Server moves to a subscription model, followup on zfsbootmenu and IPv6, and learning unfamiliar topics.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Linux... Read More
5/30/20240
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Linux Matters 30: Quickemu rising from the Bashes

In this episode: Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines. Alan has a new job at Anchore, and tells us about their open-source vulnerability, SBOM, license scanners, Grype, Syft, and Grant Mark explains how he is using ntfy to send push notifications... Read More
5/28/20240
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Late Night Linux – Episode 283

We look back at what Linux and open source was like when we first got into it, and consider some of the ways that things have improved over all these years.           Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu... Read More
5/27/20240
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Linux After Dark – Episode 70

How we make our Web experiences better with various plugins, websites and services. Plus the ethics of blocking ads, bypassing paywalls, and supporting creators.   uBlock Origin archive.is Better Twitter Shut Up DF YouTube Youtube-shorts block Consent-O-Matic Privacy Guides Pi-hole Quad9 SponsorBlock         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure... Read More
5/24/20240
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2.5 Admins 196: Won’tel

Microsoft’s new Copilot+ feature will record everything you are doing on your computer for some reason, but it will only work on new Arm hardware for now. Plus Apple’s weird iOS bug that restored deleted files and photos, and sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.   Plugs Support us on... Read More
5/23/20240
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Late Night Linux – Episode 282

The whole band is back together for the first time in a while and we’ve got “excellent” news that Raspberry Pi is doing an IPO, another look at the Pi 5 after 6 months, our positive thoughts about Mozilla’s new Executive Director, Félim’s doubts about OSI’s attempt to define open source AI, a very quick... Read More
5/21/202423 minutes, 7 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 98

We are joined by Allan Jude to talk about what it’s like to run a company that develops and maintains open source software with a focus on upstreaming as much code as possible.   Klara November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit – The Value of Upstream First How to upstream code to open source projects FiloSottile (Filippo... Read More
5/19/202426 minutes, 33 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 04

Why AWS changed its policy on charging for HTTP errors on S3 buckets, how Bluesky dealt with an explosion in popularity by moving to on-prem, IBM buys Hashicorp, and our thoughts on cloud governance.   News/discussion How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode Jeff Barr responds on Twitter Update: S3 engineers... Read More
5/17/202422 minutes, 57 seconds
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2.5 Admins 195: Execute Option 121

Why Windows 10 might be gaining users at Windows 11’s expense, an old DHCP option is a potential risk for VPN users, we should probably say “renting” rather than “buying”domains, and avoiding tracking when using IPv6.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Jim was on... Read More
5/16/202431 minutes, 28 seconds
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Linux Matters 29: Desktop of the gods

In this episode: Martin has been perfecting the Pantheon desktop environment. Alan has been writing Go, and enjoying it. Mark has been playing Against the Storm, a town-builder with rogue-like elements.   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your... Read More
5/14/202432 minutes, 12 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 281

In the last ~10 years we’ve seen a lot of changes happen in the Linux and open source world. So what do we think will happen over the next decade? What about the future of the web? With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.   We can have a different web        ... Read More
5/13/202425 minutes, 19 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 69

Is Linux hard to use? It turns out the answer is both “yes, absolutely” and “not at all!”         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more.       Support us on Patreon and get... Read More
5/10/202423 minutes, 55 seconds
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2.5 Admins 194: Thundering Mastodon

Mastodon’s link previews are causing downtime for web servers without properly configured caching, locking down DNS inside Windows networks, why using write-once backup media is a bad idea, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early... Read More
5/9/202430 minutes, 14 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 12

Popular songs we can’t stand, and our biggest regrets in life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          
5/8/202418 minutes, 49 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 280

Ubuntu 24.04 is out and we have mixed feelings about it. Plus bad news for RISC-V, a new Linux distro might control safety systems in cars, a classic media player is back from the dead, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.   News Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful... Read More
5/7/202424 minutes, 55 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 97

Andy is a huge proponent of test-driven development and explains why – including types of code testing including unit tests and integration tests, when you actually need to run tests, how long they should take, and more.   Emily Bache cyber‑dojo Test with Go         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device... Read More
5/5/202425 minutes, 39 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 03

What “hybrid cloud” actually means to us. Where it works well, where it creates challenges, where the control plane should live, how to abstract differences between platforms to make workloads more suitable to be used in a hybrid setup, maintaining compliance across clouds, and guarding against security vulnerabilities in containerised dependencies.   Ubuntu Explained: How... Read More
5/3/202427 minutes, 26 seconds
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2.5 Admins 193: TV DoS

How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different TVs, Jim’s alarming theory about AI malware, and encrypting offsite backups.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Is your PC having trouble? Your smart... Read More
5/2/202430 minutes, 45 seconds
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Linux Matters 28: Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers

In this episode: Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his shiny new server Martin flies to the end of the alphabet to talk about Zoxide   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to... Read More
4/30/202426 minutes, 56 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 279

What we all think counts as a non-mainstream distro, and some great examples of them in Voice of the masses. Plus ASCII maps in the terminal, another classic game is now open source, Arch on easy mode, a trip report from a nuclear power station, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.  ... Read More
4/29/202425 minutes, 14 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 68

Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints, P-cores and E-cores, and more. Plus follow-up on the devices and software we trust.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s... Read More
4/26/202421 minutes, 42 seconds
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2.5 Admins 192: ZFS Week

ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess).   Plugs... Read More
4/25/202431 minutes, 7 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 278

More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space.   News Discord... Read More
4/22/202424 minutes, 51 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 96

Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the Linux kernel is written in C, Go vs Rust, and what memory safety means.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device... Read More
4/21/202428 minutes, 10 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 02

Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Shane’s platform engineering newsletter   News/discussion... Read More
4/19/202425 minutes, 44 seconds
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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.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS... Read More
4/18/202428 minutes, 31 seconds
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Linux Matters 27: If I could just interject

In this episode: Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us. Here are the links to everything we mentioned. Snaps Bucklespring   Localsend Snapdrop Hardware Mark’s funky monitor – the LG DualUp 8BitDo Micro Gamepad   Security keys and passwords https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1... Read More
4/16/202434 minutes, 54 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 277

How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds.   Voice of the masses How do you keep your Linux systems secure?   News German state ditches... Read More
4/15/202428 minutes, 51 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 67

We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you... Read More
4/12/202426 minutes, 41 seconds
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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.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night... Read More
4/11/202430 minutes, 17 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 11

The most amused we’ve ever been, how we’d cobble a meal together with limited ingredients, and whether we have an inner monologue. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, and and Jim from 2.5 Admins. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.   Soggy or Hard? ElectroBOOM  ... Read More
4/10/202417 minutes, 5 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 276

There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
4/7/202429 minutes, 7 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 95

We are joined by Drew DeVault to discuss his programming language called Hare, which aims for 100 years of forwards compatibility. We mentioned Drew’s blog posts Can I be on your podcast? and It takes a village         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. ... Read More
4/7/202426 minutes, 51 seconds
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 01

There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between. In this first episode: the big three public cloud providers have dropped egress fees, four years of lessons and regrets from running a startup, and avoiding surprise fees... Read More
4/5/202422 minutes, 28 seconds
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2.5 Admins 189: Too Much Glass

Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More
4/4/202432 minutes, 26 seconds
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Linux Matters 26: Snappy Snap Snapshots

In this episode: Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now! Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with Telegram GTK4 Color palette, Fractal and Halloy. Mark is migrating data to his new home server in a very snappy way.   You can send your feedback via [email protected]... Read More
4/2/202427 minutes, 26 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 275

The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux... Read More
4/1/202428 minutes, 19 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 66

Ubuntu is nearly 20 years old so we wanted to see how the first versions compare with the upcoming LTS. Unfortunately installing Warty turned out to much harder than we thought it would be. Dalton talks us through his adventure with a turn of the century Mac, Gary had a much easier time with an... Read More
3/29/202424 minutes, 18 seconds
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2.5 Admins 188: Farewell to Core

The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News TrueNAS CORE 13 is the... Read More
3/28/202428 minutes, 40 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 274

Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.   News Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet... Read More
3/26/202434 minutes, 36 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 94

How we first learned to code, and how we learn new technologies now. Snake in Terraform Snake in lots of languages Web server in Sinclair BASIC       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   Support... Read More
3/24/202421 minutes, 24 seconds
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2.5 Admins 187: MDK

Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost... Read More
3/21/202431 minutes, 7 seconds
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Linux Matters 25: The joy of Linux torture

In this episode: Mark is migrating services between servers Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng Alan is coding for fun in PHP   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux... Read More
3/19/202431 minutes, 1 second
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Late Night Linux – Episode 273

What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more.   Voice of the masses What’s pulling... Read More
3/18/202430 minutes, 9 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 65

We wonder what old concepts in the Linux and open source world are due for a comeback.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
3/15/202421 minutes, 21 seconds
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2.5 Admins 186: Jim Defends the CFAA

Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News Roku disables players and TVs with... Read More
3/14/202429 minutes, 55 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 10

Our brews of choice, what the minimum wage should enable a person to do, and how long we’d want to live if we stayed healthy. With Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Félim from Late Night Linux, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary, Chris and Dalton from Linux After Dark.   Patrons got this... Read More
3/13/202418 minutes, 48 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 272

KDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source Switch emulator, Mozilla does another great thing for the Web, another reason to hate Spotify, and more.   News KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community Megarelease Teething Problems This week... Read More
3/12/202431 minutes, 22 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 93

What we’ve learned over the years about the interview process for software development jobs, both as the applicant and the interviewer.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   Support us on Patreon and get... Read More
3/10/202421 minutes, 26 seconds
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2.5 Admins 185: 2.5 Gigabits

The boss of Nvidia says kids don’t need to code because they can just use AI, companies sell their users’ data to train models, and why 2.5Gbps networking probably isn’t worth bothering with.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Jensen Huang says kids... Read More
3/7/202428 minutes, 48 seconds
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Linux Matters 24: A mini swap adventure

In this episode, we discuss: Driving an electric Mini for two years. Migrating to a new home server. Using a modern version of swap.     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can... Read More
3/5/202432 minutes, 4 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 271

In a “brand new” segment we ask how you keep your kids safe online, and give our own thoughts. Plus Will tells us about a dirt cheap ham radio and the new way he sniffs Bluetooth traffic, Félim loves AI when it’s tracking his head, the open source way to control lighting rigs, a BBS-like... Read More
3/4/202431 minutes, 26 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 64

Gary’s recent (mostly) good experience with an Arm Chromebook makes us wonder about the current state of proper Linux on Arm laptops. Plus follow up on why the Wyse 5070 has some limitations, but is still a great little x86 box. Chris mentioned a FOSDEM talk         Kolide Kolide ensures that if... Read More
3/1/202422 minutes, 57 seconds
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2.5 Admins 184: Avast, mateys

More cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans students’ faces, using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News “So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to... Read More
2/29/202432 minutes, 8 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 270

The BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of... Read More
2/27/202430 minutes, 43 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 92

The automation tools we use in our development and why we use them. Plus how to engage with your project’s community – both in real time, and asynchronously.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.... Read More
2/25/202420 minutes, 57 seconds
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2.5 Admins 183: Unbootable Quantum Toothbrushes

Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes  ... Read More
2/22/202431 minutes, 18 seconds
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Linux Matters 23: An Exodus of Bitcoin

In this episode, we discuss: bcachefs debuted in Linux 6.7, and Martin has excitedly installed it on everything! Support bcachefs development via Patreon Alan helps someone with an Exodus of Bitcoin Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle Mark has pulled the trigger on a new “home server”       You can send your feedback via... Read More
2/20/202432 minutes, 48 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 269

An open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping, a static site generator for people migrating away from Bandcamp, hello world in every possible language, a synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope, why... Read More
2/19/202428 minutes, 41 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 63

Gary’s recent trip to FOSDEM made him wonder if the type of Linux user who goes to FOSS events has changed. Has the demographic shifted more towards “normal” people who use Linux as a tool rather than something to tinker with? Plus more on planned obsolescence, and a quick prediction about the Apple Vision Pro.... Read More
2/16/202419 minutes, 24 seconds
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2.5 Admins 182: All the Small Things

Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News announcing freenginx.org Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software OpenZFS Native Encryption Use... Read More
2/15/202429 minutes, 40 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 9

How we’d give away a million dollars, the oldest movies we’ve watched enough times to quote, and where and when we’d time travel to. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.       Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.    
2/14/202417 minutes, 21 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 268

Great news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts,  the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, Xfce is finally moving towards Wayland, Kubuntu sticks with KDE 5 for the LTS, Mozilla makes changes at the top, and more.   News Unattended updates for everyone, F-Droid 1.19 is... Read More
2/13/202429 minutes, 43 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 91

Andy Balaam joins us to talk about accepting contributions from devs with varying levels of experience. When to invest the time to mentor them, why documentation is important, how automated tools fit in, being willing to decline some contributions, dealing with companies vs individuals, and more.         Kolide Kolide ensures that if... Read More
2/11/202420 minutes, 13 seconds
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2.5 Admins 181: Triangle Fraud

Trying to report a security issue lands a consultant in trouble, a new take on the drop shipping scam, setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, choosing the right disk size, and more.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
2/8/202429 minutes, 5 seconds
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Linux Matters 22: Magazines reloaded

In this episode, we discuss: Reading magazines with Libby and Calibre plugins. Building Telegram for Asahi Linux. Virtualising on an M2 Macbook with Lima     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can... Read More
2/6/202429 minutes, 8 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 267

Chris from ExplainingComputers joins us to discuss his Promoting Linux: An End-User Manifesto video. We talk about being an advocate and not a gatekeeper, being tolerant of other people’s choices, accepting that not everyone can use Linux, spreading the word that Linux has improved over the years, contributing where you can, and more. Plus why... Read More
2/5/202435 minutes, 18 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 62

We come up with our FOSS extremes. The funniest, the coolest, the cleverest, the most useful, the dullest, the most exciting, the most dangerous and problematic, the [something]est open source software.     Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to... Read More
2/2/202421 minutes, 57 seconds
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2.5 Admins 180: Email 777

Microsoft’s rudimentary error that allowed an attacker access to its executives’ emails, Pixel phones have another serious storage bug, hidden malware payload found at Ars Technica, and when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes BSDCan 2024 – Call... Read More
2/1/202433 minutes, 18 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 266

Apple does the bare minimum required to allow other browser engines and sideloading on iOS, which isn’t the good news for Firefox and open source that we hoped it would be. Plus the Mars helicopter has flown for the last time, Microsoft hands FOSS a great opportunity to stand out on privacy, Ubuntu annoys yet... Read More
1/30/202429 minutes, 27 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 90

How we use AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, what they have done to the development industry, what might happen in the future, and the ethics of the whole thing. With guest host Linus.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for... Read More
1/28/202422 minutes, 18 seconds
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2.5 Admins 179: Y2K NotOK

Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the experience on the desktop, and what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.   Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS Best Practices: Part 2: File Serving and SANs   News/discussion The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – and... Read More
1/25/202432 minutes, 23 seconds
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Linux Matters 21: Fetch is going to happen

In this episode, we discuss: Emulating SoundBlaster cards in FreeDOS on bare metal. Vogons Planning for HP Microserver hardware failure NeoFetch is dead, long live fastfetch, cpufetch, ramfetch, and onefetch,   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback... Read More
1/23/202432 minutes, 59 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 265

A Pi-hole PSA, an open source release of a classic game, making flow charts with markdown, resizing loads of animated gifs, writing a script to get free electricity, a dirt cheap travel router, a simple game exposes an issue with Firefox’s extreme privacy settings, rock solid proof that Linux market share is doing well, and... Read More
1/22/202431 minutes, 52 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 61

How do we decide which devices and which software we trust?         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
1/19/202423 minutes, 49 seconds
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2.5 Admins 178: LOTS of Storage

Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 1: Snapshots and Backups  ... Read More
1/18/202430 minutes, 31 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 264

Félim gets angry about someone criticising desktop Linux, Snaps are going to be better on distros that aren’t Ubuntu, Mozilla wants to lead the way in making AI open, OpenAI admits it doesn’t have a legal business model, and Plasma 6 is almost here.   News Dublin Linux Install fest Sat Feb 3 What I... Read More
1/15/202429 minutes, 19 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 89

We follow up on last episode with some clarifications from Amolith about code collaboration. Plus we get into development workflows in general, code review, the paradigms we couldn’t do without, and more. With guest host Linus.   Amolith mentioned a Low energy game jam.     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS... Read More
1/14/202420 minutes, 25 seconds
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2.5 Admins 177: Don’t Pay the Dane

Why the problems with open source licenses aren’t quite as easy to fix as some people think, the reasons you should never pay ransomware gangs, and running a Nagios distro on a Raspberry Pi.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion What comes after... Read More
1/11/202429 minutes, 16 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 8

What pets we have, the best YouTube videos we’ve ever seen, and our non-Linux or podcasting hobbies. With Félim from Late Night Linux and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.   Retro Game Mechanics Explained Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama Man Falls on Ice in Dublin On RTE news       Patrons got this this... Read More
1/10/202417 minutes, 52 seconds
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Linux Matters 20: Unfold Your Coding Potential

In this episode, we discuss: Using the unfold.ai coding assistant to turn the MVP Rust project, ia-get, into a “product”. Impressions of actually using NextCloud. Listening to audiobooks on Linux with Cozy and on Android with Voice.   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out... Read More
1/9/202431 minutes, 34 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 263

The easy way to control Home Assistant from anywhere while also supporting the project, running LLMs with a single local file, learning and practising security and admin concepts in a fun game, giving in and using an Amazon stick to watch TV, getting the most out of Bash, and how we host the show’s website... Read More
1/8/202426 minutes, 56 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 60

We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2023, and talk about what we want to happen in 2024.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to... Read More
1/5/202422 minutes, 42 seconds
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2.5 Admins 176: Sudo Cognito

What does “incognito mode” in Chrome actually mean and whether documenting browser standards in code is a good idea, the serious implications of a fun story about messing with a ChatGPT instance, and maximizing performance when using mixed disk types on ZFS mirrored vdevs.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS... Read More
1/4/202430 minutes, 23 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 262

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2023 predictions, and make some new ones for 2024.       Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to... Read More
1/1/202429 minutes, 50 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 88

When it comes to collaboration workflows, Amolith dislikes the pull request model that GitHub made popular and much prefers the email/patch-based approach. Kevin does his best to get to the bottom of why, and Joe wonders if it might come down to disliking Microsoft.   Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down Graphite... Read More
12/31/202323 minutes, 1 second
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2.5 Admins 175: Guess Who’s Listening

Twitch pulls out of Korea thanks to the opposite of Net Neutrality, it’s not clear to what extent smart devices are listening to your conversations, more on water usage in data centers, and our thoughts on mandatory access controls.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More
12/28/202329 minutes, 6 seconds
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Linux Matters 19: This is how I roll

In this episode, we discuss: Playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Going LoCo in Ubuntu – You can contribute to the UK LoCo website on GitHub. Building and running Snaps on NixOS.   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback... Read More
12/26/202326 minutes, 45 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 261

What would we do to make the Internet and the Web better? Various hosts from the Late Night Linux Family shows offer their answers. With guest hosts Gary and Chris from Linux After Dark, Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.     Support us on Patreon and get an... Read More
12/25/202320 minutes, 54 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 59

The child’s toy that Chris hacked makes us remember the various other proprietary hardware and software that we’ve taken control of using free and open source software. Plus our mixed feelings about doing an accessibility challenge. Lunii       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
12/22/202320 minutes, 21 seconds
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2.5 Admins 174: Guess Who’s Watching

What you need to know about the recent SSH vulnerability, yet another privacy issue with cloud-connected security cameras, why it’s difficult to get to the bottom of an obscure ZFS encryption bug, and more.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News SSH protects the... Read More
12/21/202331 minutes, 31 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 260

It’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, and some tough love for Mozilla.   Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time! Subscribe to the Late Night Linux Family All Episodes Feed Will’s post that made it to Hacker... Read More
12/19/202327 minutes, 38 seconds
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 87

Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time! In this first episode we talk about “sharpening our tools” – changing your dev tools, trying out new languages, using existing code vs writing something new, how to get over creative blocks, and more.   How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools?       See our contact... Read More
12/17/202317 minutes, 39 seconds
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2.5 Admins 173: Ghost Files

Google Drive client users lost months of files, a feature of UEFI that has left millions of computers potentially vulnerable to persistent malware, and why you probably shouldn’t buy cheap resold volume Windows licenses.   Plugs Support us on patreon to get ad-free episodes that are sometimes a day or so early.   News/discussion Google... Read More
12/14/202329 minutes, 18 seconds
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Linux Matters 18: Snap, Crackle and Desktop

In this episode, we discuss: Alan stumbles upon Ubuntu Core Desktop Preview and gives it a shake on a SteamDeck. Mark further continues his adventures in the Fediverse, by developing AWS Lambdas on his desktop. Martin creates an Open-Source Apple AirDrop-alike for sending files around the aether.     You can send your feedback via... Read More
12/12/202329 minutes, 1 second
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Late Night Linux – Episode 259

Google’s war on ad-blockers is potentially really good news for Firefox, and so are mobile extensions. Plus another quick terminal tip, a VM advent calendar, extreme synth geekery, your feedback on backing up photos, a plea to stop telling us about syncthing, and more.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed... Read More
12/11/202326 minutes, 11 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 58

When the Raspberry Pi 5 was announced, we all said that most people would probably be better off repurposing an x86 thin client so we bought some dirt cheap new in box Dell Wyse 5070 machines to see if we were right. Spoiler: we were. Dalton’s post about trying to break Synology RAID Parky Towers... Read More
12/8/202323 minutes, 15 seconds
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2.5 Admins 172: HOLEy ZFS

Jim and Allan break down the details of the recent ZFS data corruption bug, and give their tips for managing a fleet of 40+ servers.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News Two new versions of OpenZFS fix long-hidden corruption bug   Free Consulting... Read More
12/7/202331 minutes, 32 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 7

The best ever version of Windows, movies that haunted us, distributed computing, and whether we do any exercise ever. With Chris, Dalton, and Gary from Linux After Dark.   Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.    
12/6/202321 minutes, 9 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 258

Our first impressions of two new hot bits of hardware – the Steam Deck OLED, and the Raspberry Pi 5. Plus great news for self-hosted webmail, a call to support open source AI/ML image processing, and a mini KDE Korner.   News Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family Vulns expose ownCloud admin... Read More
12/5/202325 minutes, 48 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 86

Kevin joins us to talk about the hype that surrounds some programming languages like Rust and Python, how some languages like Java went out of fashion, and why the likes of PHP never saw much hype at all. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.   Kevin’s Twitter Kevin’s Mastodon Clap        ... Read More
12/3/202323 minutes, 46 seconds
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2.5 Admins 171: RSA PSA

Why a small island nation’s top level domain ended up with such a terrible reputation, an ssh vulnerability that’s not as scary as it sounds, whether software can be “finished”, and using powerline or WiFi for security cameras.     Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More
11/30/202330 minutes, 19 seconds
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Linux Matters 17: Bottom is the new Top

In this episode, we discuss: B is for Bottom in Martin’s A-Z of Modern Unix. Alan takes Asahi Linux for a test drive on an M1 Macbook using Ubuntu Asahi. Mark continues his adventures integrating his static blog with the Fediverse. We also mentioned owncast for self-hosting live streams, which also has deep Fediverse integration.... Read More
11/28/202329 minutes, 41 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 257

An improvement to apt, a quick terminal tip, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, an M1 Macbook Asahi update, a self-hosted way to bypass paywalls, making native apps out of web pages, bridging Zigbee devices to MQTT, a terrible way to back up photos and videos from a phone, Félim learns about HDMI standards, and more.... Read More
11/27/202329 minutes, 19 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 57

Our memories of early positive experiences show us how communities have changed over the years, and the best ways to keep the experience positive these days. Late Night Linux Family communities Practical ZFS   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact... Read More
11/24/202319 minutes, 53 seconds
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2.5 Admins 170: Uninterruptible WiFi

Why and how Allan installed a set of new Power over Ethernet wireless access points, and our hardware recommendations for a media server and NAS in one.   Allan’s new WiFi setup Access points Controller     Free Consulting We were asked for hardware recommendations for a media server and NAS in one.    ... Read More
11/23/202329 minutes, 29 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 256

A new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for GNOME, Signal tells us how expensive it is to run its service, GitHub goes all in on Copilot, our speculation about the OpenAI drama, and a mini... Read More
11/21/202329 minutes
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Linux Downtime – Episode 85

There’s a meme that software developers should be forced to use low end hardware to experience what it’s like to be a real user. So what hardware should devs actually use to test their software? How does this differ for GUI and CLI applications? With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.       HelloFresh... Read More
11/19/202321 minutes, 41 seconds
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2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF

A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android multi-user bug, package managers on Windows, and Toshiba hard drives.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Cloudflare... Read More
11/16/202331 minutes, 12 seconds
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Linux Matters 16: Blogging to the Fediverse

In this episode, we discuss: Publishing blog posts to the Fediverse with help from Seb Jambor‘s ActivityPub.academy and Paul Kinlan’s blog. Writing Rust code without knowing Rust. Resurrecting a NextCloud Box and using it for something new.   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out... Read More
11/14/202330 minutes, 12 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 255

Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to get notifications, M1 Macbook Air problems, an epic ThinkPad collection, and more.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Discoveries Control your... Read More
11/13/202327 minutes, 3 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 56

Half of us constantly change our hardware and software setups, and the other half like to keep things as constant as possible. Are we changing things to avoid personal technical debt, or are we just bored? Plus more on locking down phones.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early... Read More
11/10/202320 minutes, 22 seconds
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2.5 Admins 168: Do The Right Thing

Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it should be, Jim’s report from the Ubuntu Summit, and what to do when you find a company’s sensitive data on the Internet.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More
11/9/202330 minutes, 18 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 254

We imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. Plus mixed news in the RISC-V world, a glimmer of hope for desktop Linux on Arm, YouTube’s adblock tracking might be against the GDPR, and a micro KDE Korner.... Read More
11/7/202329 minutes, 1 second
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Linux Downtime – Episode 84

We are joined by Roger Light to discuss what it’s like to work for a company that uses the open core model — maintaining an open source project and offering additional paid for proprietary features.   Mosquitto Cedalo       Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all... Read More
11/5/202321 minutes, 16 seconds
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2.5 Admins 167: Delayed Flush

The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why we don’t talk about Toshiba hard drives very often, and the implications of poor Bluetooth security on an e-bike.   Plugs Support us on patreon Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Solutions for Business Flexibility... Read More
11/2/202331 minutes, 45 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 6

Our spookiest experiences, singing in public, traveling with a single bag, the languages we’ve tried to learn, and the things we’ve crafted. With Graham from Late Night Linux and Jim from 2.5 Admins. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.   Joe’s purple shelves Joe’s purple 1×10″ cab    
11/1/202321 minutes, 55 seconds
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Linux Matters 15: Mish Mash Mesh

In this episode, we discuss: Upgrading the network in a rented student house with TP-Link Deco The gaming journey of a tiny-handed toddler from button mashing to throwing rocks Building a solid-state NAS with NixOS     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with... Read More
10/31/202330 minutes, 9 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 253

Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more.   Discoveries  archivebox.io ia command for the Internet Archive I, Voyager Multi-column view in Mastodon curl supports MQTT wyrd... Read More
10/30/202329 minutes, 1 second
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Linux After Dark – Episode 55

It’s the spinning rust challenge! We try installing and running our operating systems on mechanical hard drives and learn that Linux is much less painful than Windows on a spinning disk.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
10/27/202323 minutes, 41 seconds
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2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque

What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi.   Plugs Support us on patreon   News Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to... Read More
10/26/202330 minutes, 40 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 252

A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more.   News Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10... Read More
10/24/202328 minutes, 50 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 83

We are joined by Marcin Kulik – the creator and maintainer of asciinema. We talk about the project itself, developing on Linux, IDEs, targetting a technical audience, the advantages of writing for a command line interface, why -R is always wrong for the recursive flag, and more. Marcin on Mastodon asciinema on Mastodon asciinema on... Read More
10/22/202322 minutes, 47 seconds
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2.5 Admins 165: Big AI

The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS.   News/discussion Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art   Free Consulting We were asked about building an SSD-only NAS.         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it... Read More
10/19/202330 minutes, 14 seconds
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Linux Matters 14: One Hundred Percent Colombian

In this episode we discuss: Using Distrobox, via Universal Blue, to run OBS Studio Portable built for Ubuntu on NixOS. You might also like Bazzite, an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck. The trials and tribulations of updating dozens of Snaps to current standards, including the wonderful Bombsquad... Read More
10/17/202333 minutes, 56 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 251

Open source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audio workstation releases, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, Joe joins the ThinkPad cult, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.   Discoveries... Read More
10/16/202326 minutes, 35 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 54

The vast majority of desktop computer users in the world use a Windows-like interface, so why do all the major distros ship GNOME which is totally different? It can’t just be because of accessibility and inertia, can it? Plus more on government attacks on end to end encryption.     HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get... Read More
10/13/202322 minutes, 36 seconds
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2.5 Admins 164: Filthy Internet

Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot.   Feedback Don’t use autofill on your password manager   Story Time Adventures in network repair   Free Consulting We were asked about hardware for a home router/Wi-Fi hotspot.         HelloFresh With... Read More
10/12/202330 minutes, 44 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 250

Our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 5 announcement, yet another nail in Xorg’s coffin, why we aren’t convinced by Google’s commitment to 7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8, praise for Mozilla(!), and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.   News Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 Testing PCIe on the Raspberry... Read More
10/10/202329 minutes, 31 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 82

Jim Salter joins us to talk about getting the most out of your open source project. From designing and planning, to attracting contributors, considering the correct scope, building on top of existing software, and more.   Sanoid and Syncoid Perlpv Jim’s website Jim’s social media links 2.5 Admins podcast       Factor Factor’s fresh,... Read More
10/8/202320 minutes, 22 seconds
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2.5 Admins 163: Two Factors One SPOF

A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution.   Plugs Support us on patreon   News/discussion How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse Amolith’s wiki page about passwords   Feedback Allan’s TV remote control  ... Read More
10/5/202328 minutes, 30 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 5

Whether we’re living in a simulation, our favourite foreign swear words, advertisers we’ve turned down, how we organise recordings and how much gets edited out, how Joe’s role changes on different shows, and if there are any conspiracy theories we believe in. With Will and Félim from Late Night Linux,  popey, Martin, and Mark from... Read More
10/4/202322 minutes, 55 seconds
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Linux Matters 13: Um, actually

We go over the feedback from the first 12 episodes. Website All the shows in the Late Night Linux Family TPM Lots of people recommended YubiKey TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu Tang server for remote key delivery Unlocking with a USB key Backups We answer some questions about our backup solutions Music... Read More
10/3/202321 minutes, 43 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 249

Simulating logic circuits, cheap router hardware, Snap and Flatpak download metrics, frying hard drives with too many volts, gathering and mapping button presses from random USB devices, protecting your system from rogue USB devices, and making chiptune music with emulated versions of classic gaming hardware. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.   Support us... Read More
10/2/202328 minutes, 42 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 53

Something has gone wrong with the timeline and all software is free and open source. What does that world look like? Plus more on biometrics and desktop scaling.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.... Read More
9/29/202319 minutes, 42 seconds
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2.5 Admins 162: Irresponsible Disclosure

Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.   Plugs Support us on patreon   News Submit your ideas or articles – OpenSource.net Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot”... Read More
9/28/202329 minutes, 35 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 248

The Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives people to Godot, Valve is a good open source citizen, an easy way to pay people to work on small KDE features and fixes, and more. With guest host popey from... Read More
9/26/202326 minutes, 41 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 81

How to get hired for your first development job, more on contributor license agreements, and our thoughts on different immutable OS approaches.   Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) – FSFE Why the FSF Gets Copyright Assignments from Contributors         HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to... Read More
9/24/202320 minutes, 57 seconds
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2.5 Admins 161: 5PiB Coffee Mug

The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs.   Plugs Support us on patreon Jim and Allan host Klara’s latest Webinar: OpenZFS Data Replication   News/discussion Cerabyte roadmaps ceramic nano-memory storage   Feedback Archivy ArchiveBox   Free Consulting We... Read More
9/21/202326 minutes, 19 seconds
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Linux Matters 12: Steam Deck Emulation Done Right

In this episode, we discuss: Consolidating multiple services onto a dedicated server Contributing to a large open source project Retro gaming on a refurbished Steam Deck with RetroDECK, ScreenScraper, and ZeroTier     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The... Read More
9/19/202335 minutes, 54 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 247

Sorting Python imports, searching open tabs and history etc in Firefox, configuring proprietary headsets on the command line, Fedora on an M1 Mac, digital archaeology, Slackware on easy mode, Félim fails at Linux, and loads more.   Discoveries isort Firefox search hints HeadSetControl Asahi Fedora Abort Retry Fail Another Abort Retry Fail Webhook.site Regolith 3.0... Read More
9/18/202332 minutes, 32 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 52

What hardware we recommend for desktop Linux users in 2023. Is it really as simple as buying a 5 year old ThinkPad?         HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep.  Get 50% off plus 15% off the next 2 months at hellofresh.com/50linuxafterdark using... Read More
9/15/202324 minutes, 58 seconds
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2.5 Admins 160: Diss Unity

Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive problem, how one-off promotional domains can come back to bite you, and picking the hardware and software for a router.   News Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off Unity rushes to... Read More
9/14/202331 minutes, 41 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 246

The Steam Deck pushes Linux gaming stats over a small but significant threshold, why you should definitely switch from Chrome to Firefox, Microsoft throws its legal weight behind its generative AI, a quick KDE Xorner, and more.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News Steam... Read More
9/12/202328 minutes, 44 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 80

We are joined by Element developer Andy Balaam to talk about working on open source software after 20 years in the proprietary world. We get into working in public, the realities of accepting code contributions, being part of a distributed team, the pros and cons of working from home, and more.   Andy’s links: Live... Read More
9/10/202322 minutes, 2 seconds
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2.5 Admins 159: Dirty Install

The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive to Microsoft’s offerings – it’s a pattern that we’ve seen from numerous companies, even Mozilla. Plus why it’s a bad idea to power your server on and off regularly.  ... Read More
9/7/202330 minutes, 31 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 4

How our lives would change if cars ceased to exist, what intellectual property we’d make into a TV show or movie, and our worst cases of buyers’ remorse. With Will and Félim from Late Night Linux, and popey from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.        ... Read More
9/6/202319 minutes, 48 seconds
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Linux Matters 11: Using Two GPUs at Once

In this episode, we discuss: Exploring the secrets of the TPM Running Radeon and NVIDIA GPUs in one PC. Getting ongoing data from an EV.   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can... Read More
9/5/202329 minutes, 3 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 245

Hacking 2-way radios, upgrading Debian from 10 to 12, sshing into the Ubuntu Server installer, a new version of a minimal keyboard-focused browser, establishing the true health of your laptop battery, playing Wipeout in the browser, RSS aggregators, and more.   Discoveries UVMOD Antennapod qutebrowser 3.0 acpi Rewriting wipEout Bash scripting cheatsheet   Feedback FreshRSS... Read More
9/4/202329 minutes, 41 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 51

Governments around the world are trying to undermine end-to-end encryption. Are they going to get away with forcing in backdoors, and what does it mean for open source? Plus what we stubbornly refuse to use our computers and phones for. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes.  ... Read More
9/1/202323 minutes, 10 seconds
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2.5 Admins 158: It Doesn’t Go to 10

Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’t really matter), managing ssh keys, setting up data storage for containers, and more on IPMI for Raspberry Pis.   Plugs Support us on patreon   News Dropbox limits ‘all... Read More
8/31/202328 minutes, 57 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 244

We can’t believe Proton has been around for 5 years, a bad sign for the Linux desktop long-term, the dilemma of whether to support your software on outdated operating systems, a laughable plan from WordPress to host your website for 100 years, and Félim shoehorns in some KDE nonsense.   News 5 years ago Valve... Read More
8/29/202322 minutes, 16 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 79

We are all on board with the right to be forgotten but it can cause some tricky problems for open source projects – particularly small ones. Plus why we won’t stop going on about why we take such a dim view of crypto. Amolith mentioned a toot from the Tor Project.       HelloFresh... Read More
8/27/202320 minutes, 14 seconds
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2.5 Admins 157: Lincoln’s HDD

CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap.   Plugs Support us on Patreon   News/discussion The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google Coughlin: SSDs will... Read More
8/24/202326 minutes, 45 seconds
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Linux Matters 10: History All The Way Down

In this episode, we discuss: Creating a magical shell history with Atuin Using Axiom to visualise a “data takeout” of a Mini EV Going maximum Google with a previously owned Pixel 6a purchased via Mozillion   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other... Read More
8/22/202329 minutes, 38 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 243

Rooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines and why Linux ones are among the last remaining, another Pocket alternative, making shell scripts look prettier, a novel approach to IT training, and more.   Discoveries  Echo Root... Read More
8/21/202325 minutes, 9 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 50

The bits of Linux and open source software that we regret putting off trying, and what made us wait. From the security and complexity of containers to the hype of ZFS and WSL. Plus why we still haven’t embraced Nix. Support us on Patreon for ad-free episodes that are sometimes a day or so early.... Read More
8/18/202323 minutes, 24 seconds
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2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail

Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and how and why you should use ECC RAM in your home server if you can.   Plugs Support us on Patreon   News Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,”... Read More
8/17/202325 minutes, 12 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 242

Rare praise for Mozilla as more extensions come to Firefox on Android, Fedora is coming to Arm Macs, a rolling version of “Ubuntu” appears, an unwise solution to the problem of funding open source, SUSE might be the baddies, LXD is forked, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.   News 2.5 Admins... Read More
8/15/202326 minutes, 53 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 78

Why Amolith uses Arch, why Gary uses Debian, and why Joe uses Ubuntu.       Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/ldt50 and use code ldt50 to get 50% off.       See... Read More
8/13/202323 minutes, 3 seconds
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2.5 Admins 155: Dialup Memories

Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recovering old versions of files, and an exciting announcement about the show.   Plugs 2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon  ... Read More
8/10/202328 minutes, 3 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 3

What jobs we’d do if we didn’t work in IT, foreign countries we’d live in, the musical genres we are into, and what musical talents (if any) we have. With Amolith from Linux Downtime, Martin and Mark from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.   Patrons got this this in their feed two... Read More
8/9/202321 minutes, 7 seconds
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Linux Matters 9: Big Backup Bonanza

In this episode, we discuss: Backing up with rsnapshot BorgBackup is better Using rclone to keep family photos safe   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on... Read More
8/8/202329 minutes, 42 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 241

Great news for Linux on RISC-V and open source Nvidia drivers, communicating with devices over serial the easy way, emulating an old calculator, a fully open source flight combat game, a new approach to caching files on your LAN, and an RSS reader for the terminal.   News riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture... Read More
8/7/202325 minutes, 22 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 49

All four of us have been Ubuntu users for a long time but we’ve been dabbling with different distros to see how they compare. Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE all have their appeal, but are we likely to switch permanently? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes.    ... Read More
8/4/202325 minutes, 43 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 240

We celebrate Slackware’s 30th birthday by trying it out and basking in its classic glory. Plus the BBC joins Mastodon, Google has dystopian plans for the web, the LXD drama rumbles on, and KDE takes a leaf out of GNOME’s book.   News Slackware turns 30 The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised... Read More
8/1/202326 minutes, 21 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 77

Contributor license agreements aren’t very popular, but not having a CLA can cause problems for projects in the future. Gary can’t do things like publishing Pidgin on Apple’s app stores, and Amolith is wrestling with how to keep his options open for the SaaS project he’s working on. Don’t sign a CLA Seriously, don’t sign... Read More
7/30/202317 minutes, 41 seconds
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Linux Matters 8: Picking Apart the Steam Deck

In this episode we discuss: Repairing a Steam Deck Taking digital hoarding too far with Tube Archivist Creating a magical LAN using the Internet with ZeroTier Some pictures of the state inside Mark’s Steam Deck The interior of a Steam Deck showing a PCB with a corroded connector The back of a Steam Deck’s touchpad... Read More
7/25/202333 minutes, 4 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 239

A simple GUI for browsing SQLite databases, a terminal IRC client, some great Python resources, a clone of Task Manager for Linux, decoding data from random satellites, and a slick Mastodon client.   Discoveries SQLite Browser WeeChat 4 David Beazley’s Python Courses Dive Into Systems Mission Center SatDump Decoding BW-3 Scott Tilley on Twitter Ebou... Read More
7/24/202332 minutes, 2 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 48

What ever happened to convergence? The dream of having one computing device just never came true, and we get to the bottom of it. Plus how to avoid drama in open source projects.         HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep.  Get 50%... Read More
7/21/202322 minutes, 51 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 238

Canonical takes control of LXD and it’s a little bit messy, Fedora might implement opt-out telemetry, and Félim sneaks in a mini KDE Korner. Plus more fallout from the RHEL source code restriction drama including surprising moves from SUSE and Oracle, and a sensible submissive solution from Alma.   News Monica Madon’s Mastodon and LinkedIn... Read More
7/18/202329 minutes, 17 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 76

We are joined by Chris Waldon to talk about how to get started with coding and software development. Chris mentioned his blog.       Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/ldt50 and use code... Read More
7/16/202319 minutes, 35 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 2

Our worst mistakes with a soldering iron, explaining the way we end most LNL episodes, how we vote with our money, and avoiding echo chambers. With Félim from Late night Linux, Dalton from Linux After Dark, and Gary from Linux Downtime.    
7/12/202317 minutes, 55 seconds
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Linux Matters 7: Immutable Desktop Linux for Anyone

In this episode we discuss: Making a NixOS configuration for non-technical family members Taking a Steam Deck on an aeroplane Publishing a GNOME extension   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:... Read More
7/11/202332 minutes, 59 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 237

Will finds a domain registrar with a terrible name, Graham baffles us with 3D graphics, Félim discovers hidden python tools, and Joe does some maths to reveal how many Linux users there are on Steam. Plus bulletin boards, free hot water, music from /dev/urandom, and more.   Discoveries Python tools hidden in the Std Lib... Read More
7/10/202331 minutes, 11 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 47

The things we feel like we are missing in Linux, and what we miss from Linux when we use proprietary platforms. We mentioned Dalton’s tool called Boomstick.     HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep.  Get 50% off and free shipping at hellofresh.com/linuxafterdark50 using the... Read More
7/7/202319 minutes, 46 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 236

There’s only one news story this week, and it’s a big one. Red Hat dropped a bombshell on the RHEL rebuild communities by announcing that they will restrict source code releases to paying customers only.   Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes Keeping... Read More
7/4/202330 minutes, 36 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 75

Is there really a renaissance in open communication tools? Does the success of the Fediverse mean that people are finally moving away from the huge companies that lock your data up? Are FOSS people just living in a bubble while the world continues to use the big platforms? How does Meta/Facebook joining the Fediverse fit... Read More
7/2/202317 minutes, 10 seconds
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Linux Matters 6: Writing A Game For Linux

In this episode we discuss: Extending the range of ADSB receivers and sending data to additional places “Hacking” a washing machine Entering Linux Game Jam 2023 in a not very Linux-y way with Antsy Alien Attack Pico     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang... Read More
6/27/202332 minutes, 12 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 235

The pros and cons of working on open source software, streaming your Android screen to desktop Linux, a Hacker News alternative, stabilizing video, an ESP32-based open hardware watch, a ludicrously expensive router, quickly cropping and rotating videos, Joe and Félim troll each other, and more.   Discoveries  Scrcpy lobste.rs Watchy  Turris Omnia Footage chatGPT-shell-cli  ... Read More
6/26/202333 minutes, 12 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 46

The oldest machines we’d be willing to daily drive including a ThinkPad with Libreboot, the ways that old laptops are sometimes better, and why Microsoft’s silly Windows 11 requirements are great for the second hand Linux-friendly laptop market. Plus why we missed the climate change aspect of speculation about the future.       HelloFresh... Read More
6/23/202325 minutes, 24 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 234

A victory against the dystopian nightmare of facial recognition, Reddit drama might be good news long term, Google kills yet another service so muckyjpegs.com needs a new home, great KDE news, and more.   News Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him Thunderbird for Android... Read More
6/20/202336 minutes, 30 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 74

Jorge tries to address Félim‘s concerns about immutable desktop distros like Silverblue and Universal Blue.     Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/ldt50 and use code ldt50 to get 50% off your first box.... Read More
6/18/202325 minutes, 19 seconds
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 1

It’s a new show where we answer your questions about everything except Linux and open source. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago. Beautiful places we’ve visited, weird coincidences, disconnecting from tech, and what board game we’d play. With popey from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.    
6/14/202322 minutes, 18 seconds
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Linux Matters 5: Extending GNOME is hard

In this episode we discuss: Writing a GNOME Extension Editing without nano What we learned from AskUbuntu     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.... Read More
6/13/202333 minutes, 50 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 233

A great way to access documentation offline, moving Windows installations to new disks without breaking them, streaming VR games from a PC, replacing Pocket with a proper open source solution, living with Google’s flagship phone for a few months, and more.   Discoveries Zeal Clonezilla Wallabag ALVR: Stream VR games from your PC to your... Read More
6/12/202332 minutes, 8 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 45

Dalton spent 3 hours having fun playing with open source DJ software Mixxx, and wonders if the rest of us have had a similar amount of fun with FOSS. Plus a great idea for a challenge, and one that’s a terrible idea.   Check out the new LNL show called Ask The Hosts. The first... Read More
6/9/202319 minutes, 59 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 232

The future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio production, open source voice assistants suddenly seem possible, and more.   News Check out Ask The Hosts. Episode 1 is available on Patreon. Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to... Read More
6/6/202333 minutes, 25 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 73

Amolith attempts to argue that avoiding ads using open source software is piracy, and that piracy in this case is good.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
6/4/202316 minutes, 53 seconds
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Linux Matters 4: Automatic for the people

In this episode we discuss: RSS is alive and well, and powering Mastodon bots The best mouse for desktop Linux. Possibly. Using the Stream Deck to automate desktop Linux   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with... Read More
5/30/202332 minutes, 25 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 231

What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to getting more young people involved. Plus what a long-standing bug with Snaps shows us about the open source ecosystem.         Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN... Read More
5/29/202331 minutes, 33 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 44

We try to imagine what the future holds for our young kids, and realise how much the tech world has changed since we were young. Plus building a dirt cheap NAS, and more.     ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully customizable dedicated, cloud, colocation, and IP Transit services, and free initial consultations.... Read More
5/26/202333 minutes, 5 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 230

Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping your FOSS Android apps bang up to date, whether programming students should be using Linux, and loads more.   Discoveries  gping Chiaki image stabilised Apollo 15 Apollo 11 VR HD on Steam The Linux... Read More
5/22/202333 minutes, 20 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 72

Part 2 of our chat with Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great. This time we talk about Mastodon and the Fediverse, central bank digital currencies, cashless societies, the hype around AI, corporate surveillance, and more. Check out part 1 here Molly’s Mastodon       ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully... Read More
5/21/202324 minutes, 21 seconds
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Linux Matters 3: Soaking up the Cider

In this episode we discuss: Switching to Apple Music on Desktop Linux Sideloading Homebrew on Steam Deck Finding note-taking nirvana   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters... Read More
5/16/202329 minutes, 25 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 229

Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows on handhelds, Roblox stops working for us, a peek at the upcoming Plasma 6 release, and... Read More
5/16/202333 minutes, 28 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 43

The times we’ve spent far too long troubleshooting simple problems – from permissions issues to unplugged cables and CDs in the wrong slots. Plus Dalton realises that he’s a happy Btrfs user.       ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully customizable dedicated, cloud, colocation, and IP Transit services, and free initial consultations.... Read More
5/12/202329 minutes, 43 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 228

We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for virtualising Linux on M1 Macs, more on DNS and Yubikeys, and more.   Discoveries CEMU       TrueNAS from iXsystems To learn more... Read More
5/8/202332 minutes, 36 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 71

We are joined by Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great to talk about the issues with crypto, Bitcoin, the Lightning network, blockchain, NFTs, and “web3”.   Molly’s Mastodon     Amolith will be at SELF June 9-11 in Charlotte NC.       ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully customizable dedicated,... Read More
5/7/202321 minutes, 50 seconds
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Linux Matters 2: Lawful evil monitor alignment

In this episode we discuss: Choosing a D&D alignment based on your monitor layout Building an ADB-S receiver to send flight data to FlightRadar24 Unfathomably playing video games on Linux without a Steam Deck   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners... Read More
5/2/202333 minutes, 7 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 227

How and why the Free Software Foundation should be reformed, checking your Python code incredibly quickly, Will’s Telegram bot, FOSS surround sound, upscaling photos, and loads more.   Discussion The Free Software Foundation is dying   Discoveries ruff by Astral LNL Telegram Bot IEM Plugin Suite Graham’s audio demo Upscayl Félim’s Irish landcape photo Félim’s... Read More
5/1/202333 minutes, 46 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 42

Whether the idea of “lightweight Linux” is outdated, your feedback about taming Windows and workspaces, a quick look at Bodhi, and digital waste – all the useless data that sits on hard disks and is never even accessed. We mentioned Linux Matters and Linux Lads Episode 100.         ServerMania ServerMania offers offer... Read More
4/28/202331 minutes, 54 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 226

Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE Korner.   News Linux Matters has launched Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically Resist Fingerprinting PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of... Read More
4/25/202330 minutes, 49 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 70

Liam from Gaming on Linux joins us to talk about the current state of Linux gaming, the Steam Deck, how things progressed to this point, Valve being the driving force behind it all, whether the lack of native Linux games matters when Proton exists, and loads more.   Gaming on Linux YouTube channel   Check... Read More
4/23/202322 minutes, 53 seconds
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Linux Matters 1: Mastodon on my résumé

There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress (from the old Ubuntu Podcast) have got the band back together for a new podcast called Linux Matters.   In the first episode they discuss, running your own Mastodon instance for a group of friends, looking for the... Read More
4/18/202337 minutes, 15 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 225

A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KDE Korner, and loads more.   Discoveries Logitech Media Server (LMS) First Universal Blue image Mission – Universal Blue Scope – Universal Blue CLARK sniffnet Yubikey Manager  ... Read More
4/17/202330 minutes, 5 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 41

Windows is much better and so much worse than Joe remembers, and it makes him very grateful for desktop Linux. Plus what preparation (if any) we’ve made for our untimely demise. simplewall         Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world,... Read More
4/14/202320 minutes, 17 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 224

25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two (more) potential ways to help solve the FOSS funding problem.   News A quarter century of Mozilla Making the impossible possible — again A new era of transparency for Twitter Twitter... Read More
4/11/202329 minutes, 29 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 69

We are joined by Amolith from Linux Lads and Alan Pope to discuss Generation Z’s view of technology, and whether modern abstraction layers ultimately detract from ideas of software freedom and digital rights.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
4/9/202318 minutes, 36 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 223

Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom. Plus a novel way to solve the FOSS funding problem, and Proton as... Read More
4/3/202332 minutes, 50 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 40

As companies tighten their belts during these uncertain times, could there be a silver lining for open source and self-hosting? Plus our brief thoughts on workspaces.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
3/31/202316 minutes, 52 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 222

Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto, Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more.   News Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder... Read More
3/28/202332 minutes, 23 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 68

We are joined by Alex from Self-Hosted to talk about home media setups. Is it a good idea to use a NAS running a desktop while connected to a TV, or does something like an Nvidia Shield make more sense?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe... Read More
3/26/202321 minutes, 23 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 221

Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the maths. Plus your feedback about robot vacuums, guitar cables, Arch, why we don’t talk about Fedora, KDE wins, and more.   Discoveries  qalculate NiceGUI Entropy Piano Tuner Autodarts (video... Read More
3/20/202329 minutes, 39 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 39

A year on from our episode about Ubuntu, we still have concerns about the direction of the project. Or should we just call it a product at this point? Plus your feedback about challenges, and Raspberry Pi alternatives.   Our previous episode about Ubuntu zimaboard         Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service... Read More
3/17/202321 minutes, 24 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 220

Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android users, a lengthy quest to stream DRM-restricted media on Arm Macs, KDE Korner, and more.   News Flathub in 2023 The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later NewF-Droid  repository format... Read More
3/13/202332 minutes, 38 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 67

What is the right level of customisation for the Linux desktop?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
3/12/202320 minutes, 14 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 219

Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guitar with Linux, keeping kids safe online, and more.   Discoveries mqttshark device IDs to get steering wheel nim Turrican II AGA Zelda a Link to the Past on Linux   Feedback Timeshift Kopia Grsync Cronopete UrBackup... Read More
3/6/202334 minutes, 44 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 38

We are joined by Jorge Castro to talk about immutable filesystem Linux distros. Check out his project uBlue and his YouTube Channel.   Corrections from Jorge: “I mentioned hyperreal when I really meant to say Hyprland, and one is a person working on a ublue, the other is a wayland compositor.”         Tailscale... Read More
3/3/202324 minutes, 7 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 218

Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner.   News Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults NASA... Read More
2/28/202331 minutes, 16 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 66

Should open source projects use open platforms for their communities, or should they meet people where they are – places like Discord? Join the Discord server, Telegram group, Matrix room, or IRC channel.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
2/26/202321 minutes, 7 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 217

More reverse-engineering, free tech books, a handy tool for fixing things you’ve aCCIDENTALLY CAPITALISED, Chromium in the terminal, putting apps and config files in a “box”, more on aviation tracking, GUI vs CLI backups on Linux, and loads more.   Discoveries reveng lurk GoalKicker.com books Late Night Linux – Discoveries Convert Case carbonyl Github Sponsors... Read More
2/20/202331 minutes, 24 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 37

What counts as a boutique distro, and do we recommend them? Plus Gary tells us about his experiences at the recent Fosdem conference.           Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try... Read More
2/17/202323 minutes, 51 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 216

Canonical’s latest Ubuntu PR blunder, Mastodon and the fediverse are doing a lot better than some journalists seem to think, yet another telemetry row, the company behind Mycroft is struggling, KDE Korner, and more.   News We now have a Discord server (as well as the Telegram group, Matrix room, and IRC channel). Links to... Read More
2/14/202331 minutes, 58 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 65

Martin tells us about why he decided to work with Nix and NixOS professionally.   He mentioned Determinate Systems and Zero to Nix         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
2/12/202321 minutes, 44 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 215

Making Home Assistant easier to configure, scoring music with FOSS, protecting yourself against phishing, 3 very different distro releases, traffic shaping and QoS, and more.   Discoveries  MuseScore 4 Node Red Home Assistant Contrib No Homo Graphs Phish-protect Awesome-privacy blendOS helloSystem elementary OS 7   Feedback Buster SQM (Smart Queue Management) Getting SQM Running Right... Read More
2/6/202332 minutes, 43 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 36

It’s the nested virtualisation challenge! How many levels of VMs can we get running at once? Plus we get the inside story from Lenovo about running Linux on their Arm ThinkPad.   Challenge Red Hat article about nested virtualisation   Linux on Lenovo’s Arm ThinkPad Mark Pearson from Lenovo joins us to talk about running... Read More
2/3/202327 minutes, 4 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 214

The Mars Helicopter continues to amaze, aviation nerds get burned, Google lays off loads of open source people, running a Mastodon instance isn’t for everyone, KDE Korner, and more.   News Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight JETNET Acquires ADS-B Exchange Feeding to adsb.fi Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit... Read More
1/31/202328 minutes, 55 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 64

In the modern world where we run more and more software from outside our distros’ repositories, how do we know what to trust?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
1/29/202319 minutes, 5 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 213

Recovering data from a broken SSD, configuring the lights on a new keyboard, trying stock Android on a Pixel 7, easily blocking ads with DNS, playing with 3D models of ancient museum pieces, and more.   Discoveries testdisk Félim’s new keyboard g810-led Pixel 7 Public AdGuard DNS server Nefertiti statue 3D model   Feedback Lotus... Read More
1/23/202330 minutes, 22 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 35

Who has the most compute cores, how many are we actually using, and how many of them are running Linux? We finally find out who has the biggest stack of laptops in our core index challenge. Plus Dalton tells us about hacking a Wii U with open source software.       Tailscale Tailscale is... Read More
1/20/202322 minutes, 21 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 212

The rise of RISC-V continues apace, we bust a recent ZFS myth, hybrid tiling in Plasma, Stadia departs with a nice gift for people, Joe draws an old skool mucky jpeg and ruins KDE Korner, and more.   News Google’s Stadia Controller is getting Bluetooth support Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture... Read More
1/17/202329 minutes, 46 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 63

Martin, Gary, and Hayden explain how their regular live streams benefit the open source projects that they work on.   Martin’s Twitch and YouTube Gary’s Twitch Hayden’s YouTube       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
1/15/202318 minutes, 5 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 211

The ultimate ESP system, VoIP & RTC capture and troubleshooting, overpriced keyboards, making arcade cabinets even more fun, some notable distro releases, avoiding CAPTCHAs, and more.   Discoveries ESPhome Homer/Sipcapture solaar logitech G PRO BGFX The Great Crypto Scam Vanilla OS EndeavourOS Cassini Mozilla changes Firefox’s user agent because of Internet Explorer 11 useragents.me  ... Read More
1/9/202329 minutes, 10 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 34

We look back at what we wanted to happen in 2022, and look forward to what we want to see in 2023.   Episode 8 where we talked about our 2022 hopes             Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in... Read More
1/6/202322 minutes, 52 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 210

Real hope for a local-only voice assistant, Matrix learns an age-old lesson about funding FOSS, 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop, Mozilla is about to catch up to the Mastodon trend, there definitely won’t be a Raspberry Pi 5 this year (honest), and KDE Korner.   News With voice assistants in trouble,... Read More
1/3/202333 minutes, 1 second
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Late Night Linux – Episode 209

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2022 predictions, and make some new ones for 2023.         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit... Read More
12/26/202231 minutes, 2 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 33

It’s almost impossible to buy a Raspberry Pi for a reasonable price at the moment so we talk about alternatives, why a lot of Pi users would be better off with a cheap low-power x86 machine, and why sometimes the Pi makes the most sense.       See our contact page for ways to... Read More
12/23/202216 minutes, 23 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 208

It’s our 2022 in review episode which features Linux in space, gaming wins and fails, Raspberry Pi drama, the year of user-facing AI, Canonical and Microsoft, the rise of Mastodon, and more.           Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications... Read More
12/20/202231 minutes, 36 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 62

Modding a Game Cube with a Raspberry Pi Pico, writing a book about cross-platform and cross-architecture development, and the struggles of self-hosted security camera footage.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
12/18/202219 minutes, 56 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 207

Loads of discoveries including picking the best DNS server for your connection, Telnet on the Amiga, some synth thing, markdown notes, and fixing downloaded Twitter data. Plus your feedback about Red Hat and IBM, containers and firewalls, Signal alternatives, and more.   Discoveries dnsdiag ZiModem KnobKraft twitter-archive-parser silverbullet One Thing Well   Feedback ksuperkey Firewalld... Read More
12/12/202230 minutes, 54 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 32

With the holiday season upon us, we talk about all the tech that we have to have with us when we travel.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
12/9/202217 minutes, 56 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 206

Particle physics depends on software that’s maintained by one retiree, another argument about AI, YouTube disrespects Creative Commons, we find an excuse to laugh at Musk, KDE Korner, and more.   News Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence FORM (symbolic manipulation system) – Wikipedia GPT-3 Business Email Generator by Danny Richman... Read More
12/6/202232 minutes, 8 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 61

Alan Pope (popey) joins us to discuss building and fostering a positive and productive community.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
12/4/202219 minutes, 28 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 205

An application firewall, reverse engineering with a better and scriptable version of Wireshark, getting the most out of webcams on Linux, running the latest kernel on a ten year old phone, moving away from mailing lists, KDE Korner, and the best distro of 2022(?)   Discoveries  Portmaster tshark Will’s reverse engineering efforts cameractrls PostmarketOS on... Read More
11/28/202230 minutes, 53 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 31

The Linux setups from the past that we miss the most, and why they are all ones that gave us the freedom to tinker and learn.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
11/25/202223 minutes, 5 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 204

Python comes to Arduino, a look at the new version of Fedora Silverblue, Linux helps Windows work with old printers, running your own Mastodon instance, remastering Ubuntu ISOs, and more. With guest host Alan Pope (popey).   News Arduino Announces Official MicroPython Support Announcing Fedora Linux 37 OpenPrinting keeps old printers working, even on Windows... Read More
11/22/202230 minutes, 37 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 60

Martin has created a new desktop environment and a container tool, Gary has been clustering Raspberry Pis, and Hayden has been playing with the new Microsoft Arm box.   Butterfly Turing Pi Windows Dev Kit 2023 machinespawn       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS... Read More
11/20/202222 minutes, 29 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 203

Some great discoveries including traffic shaping, USB over IP, speech to text, and a funny Firefox extension. Plus Graham talks to Ken VanDine, the engineering manager for Ubuntu Desktop.   Discoveries  Sad Servers Really Awful OSS Incidents AI to BS USB/IP protocol — The Linux Kernel documentation USB/IP Project Wondershaper Nerd Dictation nerd-dictation on GitHub... Read More
11/14/202233 minutes, 9 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 30

Why do we stick with Linux and FOSS, even when our faith is tested?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
11/11/202221 minutes, 22 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 202

Mastodon usage explodes in the wake of Musk ruining Twitter, AI training fair use is about to be legally tested, Signal tries to be Snapchat, KDE Korner, and more.   News Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them Twitodon Pick an Instance Helper GitHub Copilot litigation The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens... Read More
11/8/202232 minutes, 50 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 59

Simon Butcher joins us to talk about how open source AI can be, in theory and in practice.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
11/6/202219 minutes, 56 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 201

Docker firewall issues, Ardour’s major new feature, listening for your neighbours’ garage door openers and tyre pressure monitors, colourising old photos, complaints from new Ubuntu users, KDE Korner, and more.   Discoveries rtl_433 Ardour 7 Palette.fm Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source Santa Circles   Feedback Unattended upgrades doesn’t upgrade additional repository  ... Read More
10/31/202228 minutes, 46 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 29

It’s our Halloween Spooktacular! What scares us about Linux, what we find spooky, and what seems like witchcraft.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
10/28/202217 minutes, 10 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 200

It’s our 200th episode spectacular! We look back over some of the key events and trends from the last ~5 years that the show has been going. The rise of Arm and RISC-V, the death of 32-bit x86, Mozilla’s decline, the Ubuntu Phone fever dream, gaming wins, and loads more.       Linode Simplify... Read More
10/25/202230 minutes, 32 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 58

What problems that we are currently facing will be solved with Linux and FOSS in the future, and why does it involve AI/ML?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
10/23/202218 minutes, 24 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 199

Tracking planes that don’t necessarily want to be tracked, the catch 22 of communicating changes to FOSS users, Graham makes another terrible racket, what we do to procrastinate, and more.   Discoveries ADS-B Exchange Virtual Smart Home introduce Pro tier tuning-workbench-synth tune CLI HPR New Year live show and FOSDEM podcast table      ... Read More
10/17/202231 minutes, 42 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 28

Is FOSS the ultimate lifeboat? If things go wrong with a tech stack, can you always just fall back on FOSS?     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
10/14/202218 minutes, 14 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 198

Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RISC-V laptops, KDE Korner, and more.   News A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy New games were still being added last month Canonical launches free personal... Read More
10/11/202232 minutes, 11 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 57

Does it matter where you host your FOSS code? GitHub benefits from the network effect, but other options have their own benefits. Plus Gary explains why he doesn’t use Git.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
10/9/202221 minutes, 37 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 197

Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham makes a dreadful racket, and more.   Discoveries  The CIA has a podcast CIA museum: Inside the world’s most top secret museum The Fuck OPNsense samplebrain Mutable... Read More
10/3/202228 minutes, 21 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 27

Our worst Linux cock-ups, and what we learned from them.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
9/30/202217 minutes, 40 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 196

systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more.   News Listener Michael sent Joe a LMN 3 Systemd support is now available in WSL Systemd support lands in WSL Audacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over... Read More
9/27/202229 minutes, 30 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 56

What’s the best way to implement telemetry and metrics in open source software, and should it be opt-in or opt-out?         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
9/25/202220 minutes, 33 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 195

Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and more.   Discoveries Navidrome ImHex Moonlight UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro   AI “art” Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition Professional AI... Read More
9/19/202230 minutes, 31 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 26

Where do we draw the line when it comes to our ethics and our ability to put food on the table?         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
9/16/202216 minutes, 51 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 194

Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner.   News NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions... Read More
9/13/202229 minutes, 45 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 55

What F/OSS means to us and why it’s important.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
9/11/202220 minutes, 1 second
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Late Night Linux – Episode 193

A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more.   Discoveries TTS audible-activator Furnace   Feedback Gadgetbridge LNL-Discoveries LNL-Discoveries – GitHub         Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security... Read More
9/5/202229 minutes, 42 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 25

If we could go back in time, what advice would we give our younger, less experienced counterparts about Linux and FOSS?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
9/2/202217 minutes, 15 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 192

We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner.   News Introducing multitasking to Arduino GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users... Read More
8/30/202231 minutes, 35 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 54

It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS. Make sure to listen to part 1 first.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
8/28/202220 minutes, 48 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 191

Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more.   Discoveries Tauno Serial Plotter kdb-audio ChromeOS Flex is now generally available   Discussion Open source isn’t working for AI       Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy.... Read More
8/22/202229 minutes, 35 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 24

How efficient are our whole setups – including servers, client machines, and VPSs? Could we be doing more to save energy and money?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
8/19/202219 minutes, 41 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 190

It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster... Read More
8/15/202230 minutes, 21 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 53

There is a sustainability problem in FOSS. How do we fix it?         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.
8/14/202222 minutes, 19 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 189

Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.   Discoveries bat Beej’s guide to network programming LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app Galaxy Buds Client Lineage problems battop   Feedback Late Night Linux Discoveries code Joe’s RSS Thingy Bismuth How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries GoatCounter        ... Read More
8/8/202230 minutes, 16 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 23

In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
8/5/202220 minutes, 38 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 188

Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more.   News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS Torvalds is using Asahi... Read More
8/2/202230 minutes, 37 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 52

Hayden explains why he uses Windows Subsystem for Linux on a daily basis, and argues that Microsoft is a very different organisation from the one that was so hostile to FOSS 20+ years ago. He mentioned his unofficial timeline of Microsoft’s transition towards open source.     See our contact page for ways to get... Read More
7/31/202221 minutes, 44 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 187

Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot follow-up, and more.   Discoveries Firefox xdg-ninja Steam Deck inxi coconutBattery   Feedback lnl-discoveries LanguageTool Linux Downtime 51     Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee... Read More
7/25/202230 minutes, 16 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 22

Our smallest and our biggest FOSS wins.   Things we mentioned: Homebridge FOG Project boringtun vnStat EasyTAG HAProxy       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
7/22/202219 minutes, 11 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 186

Thinkpads that won’t boot Linux by default, Lennart moves to Microsoft, the Firefox Snap is finally a lot faster, Reddit shows its true colours, KDE Korner, and more.   News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Lenovo Secured-core PC unable to boot Linux from a USB stick Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot... Read More
7/18/202229 minutes, 31 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 51

Martin and Hayden explain what it’s actually like to use GitHub Copilot, and why they think it’s going to have a positive impact open source software. Plus Hayden explains the legal nuances.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe... Read More
7/17/202221 minutes, 25 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 185

A modern alternative to the watch command, automating lights, and hacking routers, using FOSS to make installing Windows easier. Plus our thoughts on VC funding in open source, and more.   Discoveries viddy Cheerlights & cheerlights-hid Hacking a Netgear router to be a ‘mesh’ satellite Vita3K Rufus 3.19 adds bypass for mandatory Windows 11 22H2... Read More
7/11/202229 minutes, 21 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 21

We all tried to live with a touch-only experience on x86-64 devices. It turns out that Linux is very close to offering a great experience.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
7/8/202219 minutes, 58 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 184

The community gets angry about GitHub Copilot, Félim gets angry about email, Firefox continues to improve, drawers fill up with more Raspberry Pis, KDE shines as ever, and more.   News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform GitHub Copilot and open source laundering Chris Green on... Read More
7/5/202228 minutes, 48 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 50

Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss the nuances of gatekeeping in the Linux community, and why he thinks we inadvertently engaged in it on the last episode.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.
7/3/202218 minutes, 54 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 183

Will buys a cheap mouse, Félim thinks he’s a meteorologist, Graham hacks his TV, and Joe complains about YouTube.   Discoveries libratbag & piper WeeWX Device/DevMode Manager for webOS TV LMN 3: An Open-Source DAW-in-a-Box Doom on coreboot and on a Bluetooth dongle OBS   Feedback Deskreen       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure... Read More
6/27/202229 minutes, 51 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 20

Do we use Linux to avoid being locked into proprietary systems and services, or is that just as possible using any OS? Plus we bully Dalton for making us read a very American book.   Digital Minimalism book       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the... Read More
6/24/202231 minutes, 39 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 182

Thumbs up for Mozilla and KDE, mixed reaction to mobile Thunderbird and Microsoft, AI definitely isn’t sentient, and more.   News Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users worldwide How to easily switch from Chrome to Firefox... Read More
6/21/202229 minutes, 26 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 49

Kyle joins us again, along with Hayden Barnes to answer the question: what exactly is a Linux distribution these days? The rise of immutable filesystems, containerisation, virtualisation, hypervisors, and abstraction layers makes this more complex than it might appear.   Buy Hayden’s book about WSL.         Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal,... Read More
6/19/202231 minutes, 7 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 181

Arch is really easy to install now, Graham uses his keyboard as a mouse, replacing expensive security platforms with FOSS, silly AI pictures, and Will baffles us with electronics technobabble. Plus feedback about all sorts, including a chance to hear the noise that sends Joe to sleep.   Discoveries Wazuh cheat Sigrok (better write up... Read More
6/13/202228 minutes, 47 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 19

Part 2 of the challenge to do something useful with our lowest-end hardware, and two polar opposite customer support experiences.       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.  ... Read More
6/10/202230 minutes, 31 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 180

The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel’s new “features”.   News Alex’s London meetup is going to be a day earlier than originally planned. He’s still working on a venue but stay tuned and... Read More
6/7/202229 minutes, 22 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 48

Martin and Joe are joined by Kyle Fazzari to reimagine the Linux desktop. What we’d do differently if we were starting over today, who we’d aim it at, what packaging system we’d use, what interface, and more.   Kyle’s Twitter thread       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations... Read More
6/5/202233 minutes, 26 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 179

FOSS alternatives to TeamViewer and Plex, Alexa automation made easy, Thunderbird is in great health, plus your feedback about all sorts including an amazing weird Linux installation.   Discoveries RustDesk Virtual Smart Home Jellyfin Thunderbird is very much alive and it has an RSS reader   Feedback Geekbench results for Linux on Surface devices barrier... Read More
5/30/202229 minutes, 4 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 18

The first part of our challenge to do something useful with the lowest-end hardware that we own, and whether forking really is as much of an open source benefit as it’s often considered.   Links MorphOS Maru OS       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the... Read More
5/27/202230 minutes, 14 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 178

We break with tradition and talk about some of the things we love about Linux and FOSS. Plus overhyped NVIDIA news, Google relents on free custom email accounts, Félim is trolled about Chromebooks, KDE Korner, and a Rust supply-chain attack drags up an old debate.   News No FOSS Talk Live this year but there’s... Read More
5/24/202230 minutes, 8 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 47

How do you progress your career as a FOSS enthusiast?     Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free... Read More
5/22/202229 minutes, 50 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 177

Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardware.   Discoveries Surge XT synth The Unity desktop is still alive (as is Trinity) 10 hours of a hairdryer noise Star Trek TNG bridge noise   Feedback Cloudfree.shop... Read More
5/16/202230 minutes, 33 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 17

A new release of Lineage OS is out and we give it a go. Installing and running it, some of the issues we came across, why it’s getting more complicated to run custom ROMs, and why Gary just uses an iPhone. LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available     Vultr High-performance... Read More
5/13/202230 minutes, 56 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 176

The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether software can ever be finished, some great discoveries, KDE Korner, and more.   News Martin Wimpress has joined Linux Downtime as a co-host Mars helicopter spots wreckage... Read More
5/10/202229 minutes, 23 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 46

Adam tries to sell Fedora to Joe and Martin, two Ubuntu (flavour) users.       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack... Read More
5/8/202229 minutes, 13 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 175

Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more.   Discoveries Tuya Convert entr hw-probe Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less Parallel Disk Usage psst   Feedback Touristic Guide — DebConf 22 adblock · PyPI      ... Read More
5/2/202231 minutes, 40 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 16

Dalton tells us about using a Steam Deck for a month, and Chris has a solution for Joe’s Python problem.   audio-visualizer-python distrobox       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to... Read More
4/29/202227 minutes, 44 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 174

A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more.   News Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023 Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak Sinclair’s... Read More
4/26/202230 minutes, 45 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 45

Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate. Governance and finances, the benefits of being an official Ubuntu flavour, hardware enablement, and more.     Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go... Read More
4/24/202227 minutes, 23 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 173

Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus your feeback about supporting us with crypto nonsense, running Linux on work machines, an esoteric browser, and more.   Discoveries  Saltstack linter difftastic Xournalpp navi qddcswitch unsnap asciinema   Feedback... Read More
4/18/202230 minutes, 15 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 15

We need to talk about Ubuntu. The future, the present, the staff departures, slow snaps, and so much more.     Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.  ... Read More
4/15/202221 minutes, 32 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 172

Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more.   News Work with Will writing Go Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers... Read More
4/12/202229 minutes, 29 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 44

Joe is joined by Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast to talk about what and why Alex self-hosts, the hardware and software he uses, and how his approaches have changed over the years.   Alex mentioned his Twitter, his blog, a specific blog post about transcoding video, and Serverbuilds.net.         Vultr High-performance... Read More
4/10/202221 minutes, 2 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 171

A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more.   Discoveries Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans Telegraf FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux It takes a Mac to... Read More
4/4/202230 minutes, 38 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 14

Dalton tells us about daily driving the Framework Laptop for the last 6 months.       Subscribe to the RSS feed.
4/1/202219 minutes, 36 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 170

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.   News You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! Linux Downtime... Read More
3/29/202230 minutes, 41 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 43

Joe and Gary from Linux After Dark talk about installing and running the first alpha of Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini and Macbook Air, as both a desktop and a headless server.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to... Read More
3/27/202217 minutes, 49 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 169

We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim.   Discoveries aha blame Canada for computer translation Chirp vimwiki Open Collidoscope (video) Borderlands synth   Computers are really fast,... Read More
3/21/202230 minutes
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Linux After Dark – Episode 13

If you’re going to use proprietary software, why not just run it on a proprietary OS?       Subscribe to the RSS feed.
3/18/202220 minutes, 21 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 168

Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy.   News Arch is 20 years old The Web is 33 years old A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon) Something is up... Read More
3/15/202229 minutes, 34 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 42

Joe is joined by Stuart Langridge to talk about Open Web Advocacy, a group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to advocate for the future of the open web.   Stuart’s consulting company Kryogenix @sil on Twitter         See our contact page for ways to get... Read More
3/13/202221 minutes, 40 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 167

A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.   Discoveries Pandas (10mins to pandas) WLED XSuspender subnetcalc Quickemu and Quickgui     Feedback French Keyboard bug in KDE asus-linux.org GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom protondb... Read More
3/7/202229 minutes, 37 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 12

Where is the gate for the “Real Linux User”, and who’s keeping it?       Subscribe to the RSS feed.
3/4/202219 minutes, 22 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 166

The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever.   News One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android Steam Deck review: it’s... Read More
3/1/202228 minutes, 40 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 41

Joe is joined by Adam Pigg, a member of the Sailfish OS Community who has ported the OS to various phones.   A thread with some of Adam’s history Jolla forum post about Russia Twitter reply about Russia       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds... Read More
2/27/202215 minutes, 43 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 165

Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON, Matrix, audio, and an old Mac.   Discoveries Python Rich Sweethome 3D react-wordle wordle in under 50 lines of bash Bismuth Kröhnkite KWin-Tiling Mandelbulber2   Feedback fx: Command-line tool and terminal... Read More
2/21/202229 minutes, 49 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 11

Why Linux operating systems on small Arm devices almost all feel half-finished, and what we can do to improve things.   Links mentioned: Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi’s latest multi-distro demo image PinePhone: trying out a Linux-based smartphone         Subscribe to the RSS... Read More
2/18/202219 minutes, 15 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 164

Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.   News Slackware 15 released Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review Network install beta test Update on Firefox Reality Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising Pocket migration to Firefox... Read More
2/15/202229 minutes, 48 seconds
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Linux Downtime – Episode 40

Joe is joined by Joey Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! to talk about how Ubuntu and its community have changed over the years, snaps, GNOME, Flutter, WSL, and more. You can follow OMG! on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page... Read More
2/13/202218 minutes, 38 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 163

Why FOSS is unlikely to gain traction in education, what’s great about Discourse, Linux gaming, the uncertain future of Termux, our thoughts on Snap and Flatpak, and more.   Links mentioned: Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store Termux and Android 10 AppImage, Flatpak und Snap in comparison    ... Read More
2/7/202229 minutes, 31 seconds
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Linux After Dark – Episode 10

At what point is the FOSS solution more hassle and time-consuming than it’s worth? We confess our various compromises with non-free hardware and software.       Subscribe to the RSS feed.
2/4/202221 minutes, 11 seconds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 162

The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, and Graham plays a synth. Plus KDE Korner.   News Steam Deck Deposit – Steam Deck Launching February 25th Farewell, G-Suite Legacy The Pains Involved In Moving on from... Read More
2/1/202229 minutes, 49 seconds