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2.5 Admins 259: New Web?
7 augustus 2025 · 25 min
The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening. Lees meer
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Linux Matters 61: Coding in my pants
5 augustus 2025 · 32 min
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Martin has a fancy GitHub profile.
Shields.io – Concise, consistent, and legible badges
github-readme-stats – Dynamically generated GitHub stats.
readme-scribe – Automatically generates & updates markdown content, like your README.md
Latest blog posts, podcasts, live streams, YouTube videos from RSS
Latest release, starred repos.
Thank and mention sponsors.
Uses git-auto-commit-action to automatically commit and push changed files and push-files-to-another-repository to push the rendered README.md to my wimpysworld GitHub org.
snk – GitHub user contributions graph as animated snake game
Uses ghaction-github-pages to update a branch everynight
Alan is busy maintaing lots of Snaps.
Mark retired Advanced Volume Control for GNOME.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 345
4 augustus 2025 · 32 min
Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports, PuTTY’s confusing website confusion, a cool new game, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News/discussion
Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
Save 20% on Look Mum No Computer on Steam
How we Made A Game With An Interactive Sound Track
Death by a thousand slops
A nudge to fund our future
Controversy over PUTTY.ORG website growing fast
PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client
KDE Korner
KDE’s Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI
Talking FOSS on Daft Code
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1Password Extended Access Management
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Linux After Dark – Episode 101
1 augustus 2025 · 27 min
Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premium price he paid for it? Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 258: Artificial Dirtbag
31 juli 2025 · 24 min
Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs. Lees meer
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It’s a mistake to over anthropomorphize LLMs, but it’s equally a mistake to *under* anthropomorphize them
Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI
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Late Night Linux – Episode 344
28 juli 2025 · 22 min
Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE’s new immutable arch-based distro, and more. Lees meer
News
All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS
Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat
Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box
UK to lead crackdown on cyber criminals with ransomware measures
Hacker Plants Computer ‘Wiping’ Commands in Amazon’s AI Coding Agent
Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database
Terribly edited video
KDE Linux
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 129
27 juli 2025 · 30 min
With the recent news of Bcachefs (probably) being removed from the Linux kernel, we are joined by Allan Jude from 2.5 Admins and Klara to discuss some of what we think went wrong, how to manage and maintain multiple releases of a project at once, and why release engineering is an important concept. Lees meer
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 35
25 juli 2025 · 29 min
What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, available tools, small clouds vs the big three, hiring people with experience of particular cloud platforms, support, compliance, ease of repatriation, and more. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 257: Outage365
24 juli 2025 · 29 min
Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let’s Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses, and the differences between backup and production systems. Lees meer
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News/discussion
Microsoft’s 19-hour Outlook outage exposes fragility in cloud infrastructure
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on July 14, 2025
We’ve Issued Our First IP Address Certificate
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We were asked about the differences between backup and production systems.
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Linux Matters 60: Frankenstein’s Ubuntu Server Framework
22 juli 2025 · 34 min
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Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway?
Mark upgrades the SSD in his Framework laptop in the most elaborate way, e-v-e-r!
Alan masters gh to build reports and automate GitHub operations.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 343
21 juli 2025 · 30 min
The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and an update on Joe’s KDE experiment. Lees meer
News/discussion
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
FSF calls Anubis malware
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org
Two weeks of wayback
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Discoveries
smegcli
Flagsmith
cheatsheets
privacy-redirect
CPU-X
Tailscale
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Entroware
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Linux After Dark – Episode 100
18 juli 2025 · 24 min
It’s our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hardware, our silly challenges, our move away from custom phone ROMs, our disappointment with Arm desktop Linux, composable/immutable distros, how we’ve changed as people, and more. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 256: Why ZFS
17 juli 2025 · 32 min
To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration. Lees meer
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Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS
Practical ZFS
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Late Night Linux – Episode 342
15 juli 2025 · 25 min
Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
DOGWALK Official Release
Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
SUSE to roll out Sovereign Premium Support
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
KDE Korner
Plasma Keyboard
This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 128
13 juli 2025 · 23 min
What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project. Lees meer
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 34
11 juli 2025 · 23 min
How we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebula) and reverse proxies. Sean introduces us to Pangolin as an open source alternative middle-ground. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 255: Copyright Your Face
10 juli 2025 · 30 min
Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s. Lees meer
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News/discussion
Microsoft’s free updates for Windows 10 draw criticism
Denmark plans to thwart deepfakers by giving everyone copyright over their own features
Why I Stopped Using RAID on My Plex Media Server
Free consulting
We were asked about getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 26
9 juli 2025 · 15 min
Whether we’d live in the country side or the city, the best Christmas presents we got as kids, and our Christmas movie traditions. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show. Lees meer
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Linux Matters 59: Old Man Yells At GMail
8 juli 2025 · 35 min
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Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development.
Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop.
Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 341
7 juli 2025 · 30 min
Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites. Lees meer
Discoveries
Home Assistant Developer Environment
xLights
QLC+
Telegram snap issue
faff
PrivacyPlease
Jacob Collier
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1Password Extended Access Management
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Linux After Dark – Episode 99
4 juli 2025 · 29 min
It’s part 2 of the £50 Linux machine challenge! This time: actually using them, what upgrades we did, what we’ll actually use them for, and more. Lees meer
Listen to part 1 here.
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2.5 Admins 254: chrudo
3 juli 2025 · 29 min
A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall. Lees meer
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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide
News/discussion
Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege
VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
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Late Night Linux – Episode 340
1 juli 2025 · 30 min
Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more. Lees meer
News
Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – potentially bad news for Steam gamers
Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit
Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
Proposal to drop 32-bit in Fedora 44 withdrawn
Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: “We’ll Be Parting Ways”
Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy
A bug caused some major websites to break and this guy has quite a take on it
maintenance-terms
I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for having worked so hard to convince the world that the City of Munich failed with their Linux migration
Accepting donations on OpenCollective – FlightGear
Donate Less
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Plasma 6.4 is much juicier than I remembered
This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore
Porkbun.com
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Tailscale
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 127
29 juni 2025 · 30 min
When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it’s hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder. Lees meer
Blog post about the speed of ripgrep
hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool
Profile-guided optimization
Andy benchmarking IndexedDb
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 33
27 juni 2025 · 32 min
How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo), and how to approach observability without overcomplicating things. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 253: ImpossibleFS
26 juni 2025 · 28 min
Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router. Lees meer
Plugs
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ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload
Discussion
Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15
I’m starting to wonder if modern next-gen filesystems are approaching an inherent limit of human ability to mentally model and manage complexity
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We were asked whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.
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Linux Matters 58: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
24 juni 2025 · 30 min
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Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations.
Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips.
Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 339
23 juni 2025 · 24 min
Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time. Lees meer
Discoveries
Strudel
rsyncy
Spring
IceCream
DNS4EU
News/discussion
Two city governments in Denmark are moving away from Microsoft amid Trump and US Big Tech concerns
‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
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Linux After Dark – Episode 98
20 juni 2025 · 25 min
It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 252: Nintendon’t Back Up
20 juni 2025 · 30 min
Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server. Lees meer
Plugs
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Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient, Data-Sure Storage Solution
Klara co-hosted a webinar with TrueNAS about ZFS Fast Dedup
News
Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”
Intellectual Property & Piracy FAQ | Nintendo Support
archived version
Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot
I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives
Free consulting
We were asked about securing applications on a home server.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 338
17 juni 2025 · 29 min
X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more. Lees meer
News
Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal
Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver
The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts
Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in WordPress spat
Android 16 is here, but the cool stuff is coming later
AOSP isn’t dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers
Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues
apple/container
Plasma 6.4 is nearly out!
Tailscale
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Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu 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 126
15 juni 2025 · 25 min
How we deal with complex projects involving non-technical people as well as developers. How to manage expectations about timing, how to deal with issues, why documenting conversations is important, and more. Lees meer
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 32
13 juni 2025 · 24 min
After over 10 years of using Synology appliances for his backups, Gary has had enough of their shenanigans and needs to rethink his whole setup. Lees meer
Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives
AOOSTAR NAS series
UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS
Fractal Design Node 304 – Black – Mini Cube Compact Computer Case
TrueNAS Mini
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2.5 Admins 251: OversharePoint
12 juni 2025 · 32 min
SharePoint is exploitable by Microsoft’s AI, NIST proposes a new metric for exploited vulnerabilities, SBCs that look cool for a mini NAS and a router, and setting up a first NAS with 4 disks. Lees meer
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The Maintainer’s Dilemma: Strategies for Supporting Legacy Drivers Across Decades of Hardware Evolution
News/discussion
Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint
NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities
ODROID-H4 PLUS
ODROID-H4 ULTRA
H4 Mini-ITX Kit
Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro is a versatile router board with WiFi 7, 10 Gb and 2.5 Gb LAN, and multiple M.2 connectors
Free consulting
We were asked about setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 25
11 juni 2025 · 17 min
Sports we’d take up if we were less unfit and lazy, whether we listen to our own podcasts, what the best time of day is, and our favourite sci-fi shows. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Lees meer
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Linux Matters 57: Nerdy Day Trips
10 juni 2025 · 37 min
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Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix
This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions
Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website.
Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascinating places to visit around the world – science museums, observatories, maker spaces, research facilities, and other spots that’ll scratch a curiosity itch.
Mark has been pushing the limits of his Steam Deck playing Avowed.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 337
9 juni 2025 · 32 min
Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s new audio workstation is released for Linux. Lees meer
News
Redis is now available under the the OSI-approved AGPLv3 open source license.
Supercharging Ubuntu Releases: Monthly Snapshots & Automation
Canonical + thanks.dev = giving back to open source developers
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS
The GNOME Foundation has a new executive director
Google teases an Android desktop mode, made with Samsung’s help
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
Discoveries
Frigate 0.16 Beta 3
Auto dark mode in Plasma
Fender Studio
Porkbun.com
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Tailscale
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Linux After Dark – Episode 97
6 juni 2025 · 22 min
Some of our hot takes and some from other people. Your OS is a passive gateway to apps and services, OSTree sucks, when you need to reboot Ubuntu is a mystery, stop hiding things from users, Chris needs an “I use Debian by the way” t-shirt, and more. Lees meer
Zak’s post on Mastodon
Luke Miani’s video
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2.5 Admins 250: Better RAIDz?
6 juni 2025 · 32 min
Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta’s new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the inside details of a new mixed-disk-size ZFS RAID feature, and moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link. Lees meer
Plugs
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The Overlooked Complexity of Firmware Security in the IoT Era
News/discussion
Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues
Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
Introducing ZFS AnyRaid, Sponsored by Eshtek
Free consulting
We were asked about moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 336
3 juni 2025 · 32 min
Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functionality until they made a public stink about it, WSL is now open source, there’s a new open source command-line text editor in Windows, and more. Lees meer
News
Investing in what moves the internet forward
Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub
Firefox Security Response to pwn2own 2025
When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why
Servo Browser Engine Now Rendering Gmail & Google Chat, Decides Against AI Contributions
Valve’s huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds
SteamOS 3.7.8: Go Country – Steam News
SteamOS
Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain.
Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux
Edit is now open source – Windows Command Line
Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories
Tailscale
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1Password Extended Access Management
Take the first step to better security for your team by securing credentials and protecting every application — even unmanaged shadow IT.
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 125
1 juni 2025 · 27 min
What are the fundamental ideas and components of development and programming? Lees meer
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 31
30 mei 2025 · 21 min
When should you consider using a third-party management tool, rather than just the ones built into your cloud of choice? Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 249: Octopodian Nightmare
29 mei 2025 · 29 min
Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP. Lees meer
Plugs
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What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (So You Don’t Have To)
News
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 – Let’s Encrypt
VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
Free consulting
We were asked about connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.
SAS Expanders, Build Your Own JBOD DAS Enclosure and Save – Iteration 1
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Linux Matters 56: Python a-Go-Go
27 mei 2025 · 33 min
In this episode: Lees meer
Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS!
Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy
Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial.
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Tailscale
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Late Night Linux – Episode 335
26 mei 2025 · 23 min
Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more documentation tools, and moving to a new Mastodon instance. Lees meer
Discoveries
entii-for-workcubes
Learn C, Coding for Kids
Isonzo
Material for MkDocs
markata
mdq
Moving to a new Mastodon instance is very easy
Tailscale
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Linux After Dark – Episode 96
23 mei 2025 · 23 min
We recently talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to use as a daily desktop machine, but what about headless boxes? It turns out that it depends on what exactly it’s doing and to what extent we have to actively interact with it. Ultimately we could probably use slower hardware than we actually do if it came to it. Lees meer
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2.5 Admins 248: NASty Pi
22 mei 2025 · 31 min
TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there’s a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn’t make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature. Lees meer
Plugs
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Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter
News/discussion
TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
ZFS raw-send corruption bug fixed
5 things I regret about using my Raspberry Pi as a NAS
Free consulting
We were asked about the zpool checkpoint feature.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 334
20 mei 2025 · 33 min
It’s the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least some positive things about the thing we land on. (It makes sense once we start). Lees meer
Porkbun.com
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Tailscale
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 124
18 mei 2025 · 21 min
It’s another hot questions episode. Tabs vs spaces, whether we have imposter syndrome, why software keeps getting heavier, the correct length of functions and files, and what every programmer should know. Lees meer
Some things we mentioned:
Interesting Characters (UTF-16, utf-8, Unicode, encodings)
Software Design is Knowledge Building
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 30
16 mei 2025 · 25 min
Sean tells us about bootable containers and asks for our opinions on how he plans to use them with Kubernetes. He mentions Talos Linux. Lees meer
Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com
Insta360 X5 Camera
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