Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

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.   Discoveries Home Assistant Developer Environment xLights QLC+ Telegram snap issue faff PrivacyPlease Jacob Collier           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. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.   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. Learn more at 1password.com/latenightlinux       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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.   Listen to part 1 here.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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   Free consulting We were asked about how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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.   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 Go to https://porkbun.com/LNL25 to get $1 off your next desired domain name at Porkbun!     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.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it’s hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder.   Blog post about the speed of ripgrep hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool Profile-guided optimization Andy benchmarking IndexedDb             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

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.       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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   Free consulting We were asked whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: 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.   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.   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.          

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.   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           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.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

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.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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.   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 This episode is sponsored by Tailscale. It’s 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.   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.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

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.   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       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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.         Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

In this episode: 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.     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.   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.          

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.   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 Go to https://porkbun.com/LNL25 to get $1 off your next desired domain name at Porkbun!     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.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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.   Zak’s post on Mastodon Luke Miani’s video           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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.   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 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.   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. Learn more at 1password.com/latenightlinux       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

What are the fundamental ideas and components of development and programming?         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

When should you consider using a third-party management tool, rather than just the ones built into your cloud of choice?     Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]         Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial.     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.   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.          

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.   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 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.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

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.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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).           Porkbun.com Go to https://porkbun.com/LNL25 to get $1 off your next desired domain name at Porkbun!     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.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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.   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!)         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Sean tells us about bootable containers and asks for our opinions on how he plans to use them with Kubernetes. He mentions Talos Linux.         Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Insta360 X5 Camera To get a free invisible selfie stick worth US$24.99 with your purchase, go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud”, available for the first 30 standard package purchases only.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

The basic computer science problems that still remain unsolvable, why you shouldn’t trust AI to tune ZFS (or answer any admin questions), and setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   Discussion Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS   Free consulting We were asked about setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Our least favourite fandoms, frivolous things we’d buy, favourite childhood TV shows and movies, and house cleaning hacks. With Amolith, Kevin, and Andy from Linux Dev Time.           Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

In this episode: Mark has been prototyping Bookshelf Buddy devices with Raspberry Pi. See the demo here. Alan has been using bots, to build bots, that pretend not to be bots. Martin fell down a rabbit hole filled with keyswitches and keycaps.   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.   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.          

The US government is trying to break up Google which sounds like a great idea, but it is potentially catastrophic news for Mozilla and Firefox. Alex from Open Web Advocacy tells us all about it. But first we talk about blocking ads on the web with Pi-hole, uBlock Origin, and AdGuard public DNS.           Tailscale This episode is sponsored by Tailscale. It’s 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.   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.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

What Linux and FOSS technology should Joe learn next? Is it a case of waiting for a problem to present itself before even trying?       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Old passwords work for Windows RDP, Broadcom shows why perpetual software licenses aren’t really forever, Windows Server is getting hotpatching, and preventing changes to archived files.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS   News/discussion Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that Broadcom sends cease-and-desist letters to subscription-less VMware users Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025   Free consulting We were asked about preventing changes to archived files.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants you to use the “proper” VS Code, Intel AI chips aren’t selling well, yet another open source project has to deal with crawlers, TrueNAS goes Linux-only, and more.   News Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure Windows isn’t an OS, it’s a bad habit bordering on addiction Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks Intel’s AI PC chips aren’t selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base Fangtooth Unifies the TrueNAS Community         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.   1Password Extended Access Management Secure every app, device, and identity – even the unmanaged ones, at 1password.com/latenightlinux     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Andy is convinced that functional programming isn’t boring. Listen to find out if he’s right!   Functional Programming & Haskell Beautiful Racket Functional Programming & Haskell – Computerphile         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren’t quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane’s janky Kubernetes setup, and more.         Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Insta360 X5 Camera To get a free invisible selfie stick worth US$24.99 with your purchase, go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud“, available for the first 30 standard package purchases only.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Crosswalks were comically vulnerable to being hacked, even Google struggles with tiered SSD and HDD storage, some insight into how AI scrapers are using domestic IPs, and creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking   News/discussion Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234 Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks How Colossus optimizes data placement for performance The web is broken, IMHO   Free consulting We were asked about creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: Martin switches from traditional mice to trackball and gets a bit carried away with customising them L-Trac Trackball L-Trac Trackball Kensingston SlimBlade Pro Trackball input-remapper: An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices. Alan refines his contribution workflow to Savannah and brings it bang up to date. Mark self-hosts an ONLYOFFICE integrated with Nextcloud.     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.   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.          

Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics manipulation, strange old audio archives, and more.   Discoveries POWKIDDY X55 ROCKNIX undercut-f1 WebTUI Astro Docs Pinta 3.0 python-sh Attention K-Mart Shoppers Techmoan r/LiminalSpace The Conet Project You are listening to             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.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn’t appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted backups.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS   News Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun   Free consulting We were asked about backing up the keys for encrypted backups.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution – Phoronix The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin What’s new in APT 3.0 Getting Forked by Microsoft The Day AppGet Died   KDE Korner This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore KWallet Now A Wrapper For Secret Service Akademy Registration Now Open             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.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We’ve done hot takes episodes in the past but this is different, it’s hot questions. Would we rather have bad managers who can code or good managers who can’t? Too many comments or none? 80 columns or as long as you like? What editor do we use and why?   Vim for Fun or PeerTube version       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges of major cloud migrations.       Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]         Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

IPv4 addresses are worth an awful lot of money, the serious dangers of a seemingly sensible deepfake law, Microsoft is 50 years old, and our thoughts on antivirus on Linux and Windows.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Accurate and Effective Storage Benchmarking   News Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans Congress close to passing deepfake law—Trump said he wants to use it himself Microsoft is now 50 years old   Free consulting We were asked about antivirus on Linux and Windows.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025 Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players. Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources   You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.   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.           RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here