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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 55
1 mei 2026 · 24 min
A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer. Lees meer
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected
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2.5 Admins 297: Jraphics
30 april 2026 · 33 min
Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general, and changing the properties of existing ZFS pools. Lees meer
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Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS
News/discussion
How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks
Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord
Apple’s last tower topples… and the others will follow
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Late Night Linux – Episode 383
27 april 2026 · 29 min
Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks. Lees meer
News/discussion
Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one
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Linux After Dark – Episode 120
24 april 2026 · 25 min
Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty well, thanks to lots of open source software and a terminal. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 296: Beware of the Leopard
23 april 2026 · 31 min
Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimited” never means that, and attempting to avoid software that’s written with AI. Lees meer
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Do More with Less: Cost-Efficient Storage on the New TrueNAS with Enhanced Fast Dedup
The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware
News/discussion
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process
Action Required: Account Verification for Windows Hardware Program Begins October 16, 2025
FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn’t explain why
Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data
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Late Night Linux – Episode 382
21 april 2026 · 28 min
The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process
You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing
UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype
Mythos and Cybersecurity
A few notes about the massive hype surrounding Claude Mythos
Breathless parroting of Anthropic’s bullshit from the graun
NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist
KDE Korner
KDE at 30
Tighter KDE Connect Integration
KDE Gear 26.04
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 148
19 april 2026 · 27 min
We get into dependency management. The pros and cons of tools like Dependabot, the varying approaches with different languages and standard library sizes, the times when pinning dependencies makes sense, and more. Lees meer
Turn Dependabot Off
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 54
17 april 2026 · 25 min
Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate some of the problems AI is causing, the sense that Kubernetes is mature and boring in a good way now, and our concerns about scope creep. Lees meer
Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group
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2.5 Admins 295: Orbital Meltdown
16 april 2026 · 28 min
Why putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on really old Dell servers. Lees meer
Plug
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News/discussion
Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right? 11 mins edited
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea
Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website
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Late Night Linux – Episode 381
13 april 2026 · 27 min
Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers. Lees meer
News/discussion
A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash
TDF ejects its core developers
Let’s put an end to the speculation
Memo: Red Hat Global Engineering plans to lean in to AI
If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Interesting GIMP numbers
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Linux After Dark – Episode 119
10 april 2026 · 24 min
May wants to make a space heater out of an old computer, and Joe is thinking about buying a new (used) laptop. The heater will be pretty straightforward but finding the right laptop will be much harder. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 294: Oh, R2
9 april 2026 · 22 min
Arm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a friend’s photos. Lees meer
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FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View
News/discussion
Arm expands compute platform to silicon products in historic company first
Anthropic exposes Claude Code source by accident
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 35
8 april 2026 · 21 min
What we do when we get stressed, cinema vs theatre, our mentors, and if we’ve tried being vegetarian. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 380
7 april 2026 · 20 min
Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers. Lees meer
News
LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April
Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB
Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements
Windows 11 has lower requirements
Ubuntu MATE – seeking maintainers
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 147
5 april 2026 · 24 min
It’s another hot questions episode. Whether we think better on our own or with other people, our non-standard debugging habits, favourite interview questions, coding at night, character encoding, and abolishing time zones. Lees meer
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 53
3 april 2026 · 23 min
The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 293: Reduced Flicker
2 april 2026 · 27 min
Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer’s server is down, and whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS. Lees meer
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Five‑Year Storage Design with OpenZFS: Media Refresh, Rebalancing, and Hardware Independence
News/discussion
Our commitment to Windows quality
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates
Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US
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Late Night Linux – Episode 379
30 maart 2026 · 23 min
Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days. Lees meer
Discoveries
creepy link
Supercell Wx
whosthere
Ultramaster KR-106
AI in FOSS
systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added
New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI
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Linux After Dark – Episode 118
27 maart 2026 · 25 min
We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected
26 maart 2026 · 27 min
The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesystems inside VMs. Lees meer
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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage
News/discussion
US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America
National Security Determination on the Threat Posed by Routers Produced by Foreign Countries (pdf)
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
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Late Night Linux – Episode 378
24 maart 2026 · 26 min
Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more. Lees meer
News
Just over a month until OggCamp!
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late
Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date
When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines?
I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.
meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety
450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters
Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo”
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 146
22 maart 2026 · 25 min
In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more. Lees meer
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 52
20 maart 2026 · 23 min
Gary is concerned that he might have dug himself into a hole of on-prem vendor lock-in, despite using open source software. Plus why you should have PiKVM type device in your toolkit. Lees meer
PiKVM
GL.iNet Comet
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2.5 Admins 291: UPS for LiFePO4
19 maart 2026 · 29 min
Why passkeys aren’t the right solution to everything, Allan tells us why he loves his new Lithium Iron Phosphate UPS, Btrfs vs ZFS on root, and restricting Internet access for IoT devices on your network. Lees meer
Plugs
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Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence
News/discussion
Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
Allan’s new Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station
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We were asked about restricting Internet access for IoT devices on your network.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 377
16 maart 2026 · 24 min
Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more. Lees meer
News/discussion
LibreOffice Online: a fresh start
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic
LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control
Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability
Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C
You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB
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Linux After Dark – Episode 117
13 maart 2026 · 21 min
May has actually been using her stack of laptops and learning that “legacy” distros make more sense, the Firefox flatpak performs better than other packages, Linux Mint is a fine distro, Linux has the best calculators, and GNOME’s scaling is really good now. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 290: Tired of Tracking
12 maart 2026 · 29 min
Microsoft Authenticator will delete Entra credentials on phones that aren’t running stock ROMs, Jim’s nightmare experience trying to get a user back into their MS account, tracking vehicles via tire pressure monitors, using a ZFS pool in a degraded state, and keeping cold ZFS storage dataset snapshots in sync. Lees meer
Plugs
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ZFS Fast Dedup for Proxmox
News/discussion
Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones
Jailbreak/root detection in Microsoft Authenticator
Jim Microsoft MFA rant
Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 34
11 maart 2026 · 18 min
Our favourite smells, whether we use dark mode, and whether there’s any meaning to life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 376
10 maart 2026 · 27 min
Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses. Lees meer
News
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup
I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don’t hate it
Do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack?
Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite – Tuan-Anh Tran
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
No right to relicense this project
Hide from Meta’s spyglasses with this new Android app
Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 145
8 maart 2026 · 24 min
The importance of having and sticking to correct development processes, what can go wrong when you don’t, and how to fix the problems you might end up with. Lees meer
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 51
6 maart 2026 · 24 min
We recently talked about backing up Shane’s homelab, but this time it’s the turn of enterprise backups. Risk management, cloud and hybrid environments, planning for realistic disaster scenarios, convincing the finance people what’s required, and more. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 289: Hunter2
5 maart 2026 · 27 min
An exciting new cold storage technology seems to be getting closer, Nvidia seemingly wants a slice of the laptop hardware action, why you (and your users) should definitely not use LLMs to “generate” passwords , and whistleblowing when sensitive customer data isn’t being taken seriously. Lees meer
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ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox
News/discussion
Data stored in glass could last over 10,000 years, Microsoft says
Nvidia plans a Windows PC SoC, setting up direct competition with Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD
Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design
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Late Night Linux – Episode 375
2 maart 2026 · 25 min
The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries. Lees meer
News/Discussion
The FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and Android will be locked-down in under 200 days
Keep Android Open
Open letter to Google
FLX1s
Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found
Intel Hiring More Linux Developers – Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack
Launching Interop 2026
Discoveries
Creating a Wii U gamepad
Network UPS Tools
NASA eBooks
MapToPoster
maptoposter-docker
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Linux After Dark – Episode 116
27 februari 2026 · 25 min
The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with Linux? Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 288: HDD Tourism
26 februari 2026 · 29 min
Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab. Lees meer
Plugs
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Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads
News/discussion
AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year
Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs
Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
Sorry all this is my fault
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Late Night Linux – Episode 374
24 februari 2026 · 25 min
Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
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Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro
Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
Sorry all this is my fault
Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches
KDE Korner 4
A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk “the KDE is forcing systemd!” hoax
KDE endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles
Plasma 6.6
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 144
22 februari 2026 · 23 min
People often like to talk down Electron, but it is really that bad? There may be better ways to use Web technologies to make desktop apps, but isn’t having Linux versions of apps a good thing no matter how they are made? Lees meer
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 50
20 februari 2026 · 26 min
Sean tells us about a recent catastrophe in his Kubernetes homelab (that’s really home prod). What went wrong, how did he fix it, and how can he avoid it happening again? Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 287: Dual Arguators
19 februari 2026 · 33 min
Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops. Lees meer
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OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability
News/discussion
Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent
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We were asked about how we set up disk encryption on laptops.
A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption – Ars Technica
Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation
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Late Night Linux – Episode 373
16 februari 2026 · 25 min
The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
News/discussion
Ardour 9.0 — What’s new
Linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
AI controls are coming to Firefox
Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source
I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
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Linux After Dark – Episode 115
13 februari 2026 · 22 min
With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice? Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 286: Windows Crashed
12 februari 2026 · 26 min
Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a laptop properly. Lees meer
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ZFS vs Btrfs: Architecture, Features, and Stability
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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fas
Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 33
11 februari 2026 · 15 min
The best museums we’ve been to, the people we admire, and our weirdest train journeys. With Gary from Linux After Dark. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 372
10 februari 2026 · 24 min
Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and friends are cooking up something (but it’s not exactly clear what that is), KDE Linux is progressing nicely, and more. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
News
Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs
Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
Xfwl4 (Xfce’s Wayland Compositor) FAQ
Xubuntu Development Update February 2026
Sudo’s maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated
Ikea’s new Matter smart home devices are having connection problems
Introducing Amutable
Busy months in KDE Linux
Automox Turnkey Results
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 143
8 februari 2026 · 26 min
The career progression options you have as a software engineer, moving from junior to senior dev, other paths you can go down like architecture or tech lead, and why management isn’t for everyone. Lees meer
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 49
6 februari 2026 · 34 min
Why we have doubts about the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, what it would take to build a proper European cloud that could compete with AWS, and why it’s such a difficult undertaking. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 285: example.com.oops
5 februari 2026 · 28 min
Outlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of cloud and on-prem (centralised and local computing), and why you probably shouldn’t use NMVe to SATA adapters. Lees meer
Plugs
ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls
Modern VDI on Proxmox: ZFS Reliability and GPU Acceleration at Lower Cost
News/discussion
Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 371
2 februari 2026 · 27 min
Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environment shows the perils of the older approach. Plus the UK government wants to do more age-gating, and we hear about a project to get kids into Free Software. Lees meer
News
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
Linux Mint user gets Gnomed
It looks like they followed these instructions to install Proton VPN (including selecting gdm)
They aren’t alone
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
UK government rolls back key part of digital ID plans
Lords back UK social media ban for under-16s
Under-16 social media ban would expand age-gating for millions and silence young people
UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
Mission:Libre
Carmen tells us about her project that aims to get kids into Free Software.
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Linux After Dark – Episode 114
30 januari 2026 · 24 min
How do you convince people to stop using unethical technology like generative AI? Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 284: BooTooth
30 januari 2026 · 26 min
Why you might not want your Windows encryption keys to be backed up to Microsoft, some Bluetooth devices are vulnerable to snooping and tracking, a lesson in the need for backups, and the best practices and stack for setting up a mail server. Lees meer
Plugs
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Klara’s Expert Perspective on OpenZFS in 2026 and What to Expect Next
Modern VDI on Proxmox: ZFS Reliability and GPU Acceleration at Lower Cost
News/discussion
Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft
WhisperPair: Hijacking Bluetooth Accessories Using Google Fast Pair
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
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We were asked about the best practices and stack for setting up a mail server.
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