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2.5 Admins 188: Farewell to Core
28 maart 2024 · 29 min
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. Lees meer
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News
TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
zVault
Apple’s antitrust fight begins
US DOJ’s blockbuster lawsuit against Apple is headline grabber but poses limited near-term impact
Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted
Free Consulting
We were asked about scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.
Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD
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Late Night Linux – Episode 274
26 maart 2024 · 35 min
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. Lees meer
News
Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!
Stop the line?
Manual review of all new snap name registrations
KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user’s files
CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms – Krebs on Security
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers
Introducing Didthis: A New App For Hobbyists
Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one
Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis
Apache Kvrocks
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse
Threads has entered the fediverse
Fedi.Tips urges admins to defederate Threads
Switch emulator Suyu hit by GitLab DMCA, project lives on through self-hosting
World Server Throwing Championship (WSTC) 2024
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Kolide
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Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 94
24 maart 2024 · 21 min
How we first learned to code, and how we learn new technologies now. Lees meer
Snake in Terraform
Snake in lots of languages
Web server in Sinclair BASIC
Kolide
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2.5 Admins 187: MDK
21 maart 2024 · 31 min
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. Lees meer
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News/discussion
An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices
Devs left with tough choices as Warner Bros. ends all Adult Swim Games downloads
Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”
Free Consulting
We were asked about managing gold images.
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Linux Matters 25: The joy of Linux torture
19 maart 2024 · 31 min
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Mark is migrating services between servers
Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng
Alan is coding for fun in PHP
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Late Night Linux – Episode 273
18 maart 2024 · 30 min
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. Lees meer
Voice of the masses
What’s pulling you away from open source, and what will pull you back?
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Discoveries
Telstar
ps_mem
cookiecutter
GPlates
Mirroring Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu
Home assistant remote control from your Garmin watch
Tiny Core Linux is still a thing
screenshot-to-code
Tailscale
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Kolide
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Linux After Dark – Episode 65
15 maart 2024 · 21 min
We wonder what old concepts in the Linux and open source world are due for a comeback. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 186: Jim Defends the CFAA
14 maart 2024 · 30 min
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. Lees meer
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News
Roku disables players and TVs with attempt to coerce arbitration agreement
Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware
Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job
Free Consulting
We were asked about using jumbo frames on a network.
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/25a to learn more.
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 10
13 maart 2024 · 19 min
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. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 272
12 maart 2024 · 31 min
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. Lees meer
News
KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community
Megarelease Teething Problems
This week in KDE: a smooth release
Critical Plasma 6 piece on the Register
Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0
Nintendo’s Yuzu Lawsuit is All But Done. Price: $2.4m. Cost to Emulation: TBD
Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued
MDN Curriculum
Hosting your podcast using Spotify is a bad idea
Tailscale
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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/latenightlinux to learn more.
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 93
10 maart 2024 · 21 min
What we’ve learned over the years about the interview process for software development jobs, both as the applicant and the interviewer. Lees meer
Kolide
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2.5 Admins 185: 2.5 Gigabits
7 maart 2024 · 29 min
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. Lees meer
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News/discussion
Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Free Consulting
We were asked about adding 2.5Gbps gear to your network.
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/25a to learn more.
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Linux Matters 24: A mini swap adventure
5 maart 2024 · 32 min
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Alan has been Driving an electric Mini for two years.
Mark is migrating to a new home server.
Martin is using a modern version of swap.
You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
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Tailscale
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Kolide
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Late Night Linux – Episode 271
4 maart 2024 · 31 min
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 interface to sites like Hacker News, yet another Spotify replacement, Damn Small Linux returns, and more. Lees meer
Voice of the masses
How do you keep your kids safe online?
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Discoveries
Quansheng UVK5
AITrack
Neon Modem Overdrive
Open source lighting rig control with QLC+
envio
InnerTune
Damn Small Linux 2024
nRF Sniffer
Tailscale
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Automox
Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Linux After Dark – Episode 64
1 maart 2024 · 23 min
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. Lees meer
Chris mentioned a FOSDEM talk
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.
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2.5 Admins 184: Avast, mateys
29 februari 2024 · 32 min
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. Lees meer
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News
“So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to strangers for 2nd time in 5 months
Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students
Free Consulting
We were asked about using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.
Automox
Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 270
27 februari 2024 · 31 min
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 Plasma 6 we let Félim do a short KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Stepping back into the refreshingly free world of Linux – The Irish Times
Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D
Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s
Mercedes-Benz AG – FOSS Manifesto
It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo
Anthony: “Not commenting the Mozilla lay…” – Indieweb.Social
Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy
New krita.org website launched
Kubuntu Graphic Design Contest
Wayland fake session restore and 805/500 supporters
Tailscale
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Automox
Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 92
25 februari 2024 · 21 min
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. Lees meer
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.
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2.5 Admins 183: Unbootable Quantum Toothbrushes
22 februari 2024 · 31 min
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. Lees meer
Plugs
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News/discussion
Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs
Investors threw 50% less money at quantum sector last year
Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true
Google has killed cached results in search
Free Consulting
We were asked about testing your backups.
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/25a to learn more.
Automox
Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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Linux Matters 23: An Exodus of Bitcoin
20 februari 2024 · 33 min
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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 show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
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Tailscale
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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/linuxmatters to learn more.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 269
19 februari 2024 · 29 min
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 we are pretty down on macOS, and more. Lees meer
Discoveries
spotube
AudioTube
Nuclear Reactor Simulator
trippy
Faircamp
Joe’s music
hello world
osci-render
Tailscale
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Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
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Linux After Dark – Episode 63
16 februari 2024 · 19 min
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. Lees meer
Kolide
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2.5 Admins 182: All the Small Things
15 februari 2024 · 30 min
Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more. Lees meer
Plugs
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News
announcing freenginx.org
Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software
OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns
Fast Dedup is a Valentines Gift to the OpenZFS and TrueNAS Communities
Free Consulting
We were asked about using multiple network interfaces on a NAS.
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/25a to learn more.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 9
14 februari 2024 · 17 min
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. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 268
13 februari 2024 · 30 min
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. Lees meer
News
Unattended updates for everyone, F-Droid 1.19 is here
The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
Introducing Sudo for Windows!
Ubuntu Core Desktop Debut No Longer Planned for April
Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites [it’s white labelled like the VPN thing]
A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility
KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04
Frameworks 5.115.0
KDE 6 is so close!
15 min bug update
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 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 91
11 februari 2024 · 20 min
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. Lees meer
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.
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2.5 Admins 181: Triangle Fraud
8 februari 2024 · 29 min
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. Lees meer
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News/discussion
IT consultant in Germany fined for exposing shoddy security
Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud
ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain
Free Consulting
We were asked about setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, and choosing the right disk size.
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS
Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS
3.5″ internal drives sorted by price/TB
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Linux Matters 22: Magazines reloaded
6 februari 2024 · 29 min
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Mark is reading magazines with Libby and Calibre plugins.
Alan is building Telegram for Asahi Linux.
Martin is virtualising on an M2 Macbook with Lima
You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
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If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.
Tailscale
Tailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices. Go to tailscale.com/linuxmatters and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.
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/linuxmatters to learn more.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 267
5 februari 2024 · 35 min
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 the Raspberry Pi bubble has burst, and the present and future of RISC-V. Lees meer
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 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.
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/latenightlinux to learn more.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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Linux After Dark – Episode 62
2 februari 2024 · 22 min
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. Lees meer
Projects we mentioned:
alsamixer
Glow
Apache
nginx
HAProxy
Redis
VLC
Kodi
Nextcloud
Coreutils
Audacity
Asahi
Immich
antennapod
UniversalBlue
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.
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2.5 Admins 180: Email 777
1 februari 2024 · 33 min
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. Lees meer
Plugs
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BSDCan 2024 – Call for papers
News
In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug
Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation
Free Consulting
We were asked about when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 266
30 januari 2024 · 29 min
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 more users, the mystery of the new Firefox package, and more. Lees meer
News
RAWRLAB Games – Announcement of free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more
It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew
Ubuntu Pro Packages in ‘Software Updater’ Garner Criticism
Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 90
28 januari 2024 · 22 min
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. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 179: Y2K NotOK
25 januari 2024 · 32 min
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. Lees meer
Plugs
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OpenZFS Best Practices: Part 2: File Serving and SANs
News/discussion
The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – and how IT squashed it
What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
Free Consulting
We were asked about what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.
Xpenology
How can I use a PC to recover data when my Synology NAS malfunctions?
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Linux Matters 21: Fetch is going to happen
23 januari 2024 · 33 min
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Alan is emulating SoundBlaster cards in FreeDOS on bare metal. Vogons
Mark is planning for HP Microserver hardware failure
Martin announces NeoFetch is dead, long live fastfetch, cpufetch, ramfetch, and onefetch,
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Late Night Linux – Episode 265
22 januari 2024 · 32 min
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 more. Lees meer
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Update your Pi-hole lists
Amazon Fire TV block list
pioneer
pikchr
OpenWRT-based GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (travel wifi router)
pipeinstall
Gifsicle
Scraping gmail messages
1D Pacman
Feedback
KonstKang
PH stats
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Linux After Dark – Episode 61
19 januari 2024 · 24 min
How do we decide which devices and which software we trust? Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 178: LOTS of Storage
18 januari 2024 · 31 min
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. Lees meer
Plugs
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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 1: Snapshots and Backups
News
Hard disk drives are next in line to become mostly enterprise hardware — as Nvidia (and AMD) could be planning to focus on AI, leaving consumers as second-class citizens
Seagate unveils 30 TB+ Exos HAMR disk drives – Blocks and Files
Miscreants absolutely love using GitHub to sling malware
Flying Under the Radar: Abusing GitHub for Malicious Infrastructure
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Late Night Linux – Episode 264
15 januari 2024 · 29 min
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. Lees meer
News
Dublin Linux Install fest Sat Feb 3
What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions
The World Of Web Browsers Is In A Bad Way
What’s next for Mozilla?
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
How Microsoft found a potential new battery material using AI – The Verge
Plasma 6 RC1
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 89
14 januari 2024 · 20 min
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. Lees meer
Amolith mentioned a Low energy game jam.
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2.5 Admins 177: Don’t Pay the Dane
11 januari 2024 · 29 min
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. Lees meer
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News/discussion
What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it
A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not
The State of Ransomware in the U.S.: Report and Statistics 2023
Free Consulting
We were asked about running a Nagios distro on a Raspberry Pi.
NEMS Linux
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 8
10 januari 2024 · 18 min
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. Lees meer
Retro Game Mechanics Explained
Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama
Man Falls on Ice in Dublin On RTE news
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Linux Matters 20: Unfold Your Coding Potential
9 januari 2024 · 32 min
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Martin is using the unfold.ai coding assistant to turn the MVP Rust project, ia-get, into a “product”.
Alan has impressions of actually using NextCloud.
Mark is listening to audiobooks on Linux with Cozy and on Android with Voice.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 263
8 januari 2024 · 27 min
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 and MP3s. Lees meer
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Nabu Casa
llamafile
OverTheWire Wargames
Fire TV Stick 4K Max with VLC and Jellyfin
SmartTube
oh-my-bash
Feedback
WordPress
Libsyn
PowerPress
Hugo
castanet
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Linux After Dark – Episode 60
5 januari 2024 · 23 min
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. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 176: Sudo Cognito
4 januari 2024 · 30 min
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. Lees meer
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Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit
I’d Buy That for a Dollar: Chevy Dealership’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue
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Late Night Linux – Episode 262
1 januari 2024 · 30 min
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2023 predictions, and make some new ones for 2024. Lees meer
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 88
31 december 2023 · 23 min
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. Lees meer
Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down
Graphite
git-branchless
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2.5 Admins 175: Guess Who’s Listening
28 december 2023 · 29 min
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. Lees meer
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Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees
Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people
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Linux Matters 19: This is how I roll
26 december 2023 · 27 min
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Mark is playing Baldur’s Gate 3.
Alan is going LoCo in Ubuntu – You can contribute to the UK LoCo website on GitHub.
Martin is building and running Snaps on NixOS.
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