Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

In this episode: Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career. Alan is organising BarCamp Surrey at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025. Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship.     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

Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.   Molly’s personal website [citation needed] newsletter Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes video Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes article Web3 Is Going Great     Best 2024 Discoveries Thanks Matt for collating our discoveries   Will Thingino Motion Spotify Car Thing   Graham Osci-render ink – inkle’s narrative scripting language An IDE for retro game development 8bitworkshop Synth of the year, https://github.com/aaronaanderson/Terrain   Felim Pikchr AITrack Klevernotes & a very near taskfinder   Joe InnerTune StezStix Fix? yt-dlp Linux Mint 22               ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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.   Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.   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 share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating Ubuntu, getting mad at Docker, trying to recover Microsoft passwords, building a PC over a video call, wireless access points that mostly just work, 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.

A new version of ZFS is out and we go over the great new features. Plus recovering data after accidentally writing part of an ISO onto a USB drive, how to deal with abuse of your domain, and replacing all the drives in a ZFS pool while keeping the birth date.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Managing and Tracking Storage Performance   News Zfs-2.3.0 Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup   Free Consulting We were asked about recovering data after accidentally writing part of an ISO onto a USB drive, how to deal with abuse of your domain, and replacing all the drives in a ZFS pool while keeping the birth date.           ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 makes no sense to at least one of us (who now owns an N100 mini PC), the Linux Foundation seems to think Chromium-based browsers need a helping hand, we troll Félim, and more.   News Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck Microsoft is combining ‘the best of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress Joost/Karim Fork – WordPress News Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork Why Matt Should Resign (from 2010) 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 New $120 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is for the people who use it like an everyday PC TRIGKEY N100 Mini PC Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers Servo Revival: 2023-2024             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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.   Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.   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 dig into SQLite – an interesting and unusual project that is widely used but has an uncommon licence, a proprietary test suite, and doesn’t take external contributions. Plus printf() vs “proper” debugging.           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

We reflect on what we have seen in the public and private cloud world in the last year, and look forward at what we expect to see in 2025.     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.

Jim and Allan explain the benefits of a lithium iron phosphate “UPS”, whether it’s possible to delete every single copy of a file, and using Bluetooth in a Windows 11 VM.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Discussion Anker SOLIX C300 Anker SOLIX F3800   Free Consulting We were asked about using Bluetooth in a Windows 11 VM.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

It’s a Christmas special! Our favourite festive foods and ones we dislike, when we buy presents, and our unusual traditions. With popey, Mark and Martin from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.         Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

In this episode: Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter Packs Mark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin. Martin migrates his life to the Fediverse, contributing to Owncast along the way.     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

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025.         Sandfly Securitry Sandfly Security’s agentless threat detection identifies Linux threats without requiring software agents, ensuring no performance impact or system risk.   ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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 look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2024, and talk about what we want to happen in 2025.       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.

What it would take to reliably store data for a hundred years including Institutional funding and organization, decade-proof redundancy, multiple hot and cold copies,hedging your bets against multiple media, and more. Plus backing up ZFS without normal snapshots.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Discussion Century-Scale Storage     Free Consulting We were asked about backing up ZFS without normal snapshots.           ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPress fiasco, why the idea of decentralised social media started to catch on, Raspberry Pi’s IPO, and the inevitable Mozilla doom and gloom.   2024 Linux News in review NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community Asking for donations in Plasma I think the donation notification works Automattic vs WP Engine: WordPress wars heat up Mullenweg’s WordPress Pause Triggers Unexpected Complications What drama should I create in 2025? Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse Starting today, people using Threads in 100+ countries can turn on sharing to the fediverse Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D Bluesky: An Open Social Web Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7 Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now Raspberry Pi value surges past one billion on US buying Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers Our remedies proposal in DOJ’s search distribution case           ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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 explore the line between developer and sysadmin and come to the conclusion that despite the clear difference between the roles, there is a lot of crossover when it comes to skills and character traits.   The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security       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

Red Hat donates a bunch of container tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and we are broadly positive about it. Plus some of our highlights from the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 conferences.   News/discussion Red Hat to Contribute Comprehensive Container Tools Collection to Cloud Native Computing Foundation KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 day one: keynotes, sessions, announcements, and more KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 2: keynotes, announcements and more KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 3: Keynotes, announcements and more         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.

Windows ssh is sending more telemetry than you might think, Let’s Encrypt will offer 6 days certificates, a PSA about domains that don’t send emails, and performance issues in a Synology NAS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Winter 2024 Roundup: Storage and Network Diagnostics   News/discussion ssh on Windows sends telemetry sshTelemetry.c Let’s Encrypt to offer 6 day certs Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don’t use it for sending email   Free Consulting We were asked about performance issues in a Synology NAS.           ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page. Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy. Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely. Alan’s coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah.     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

Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser automation, converting Office documents to markdown, markdown in Vim, and why we think Raspberry Pi OS shouldn’t change its default desktop environment.   Discoveries motion & frigate Octoprint PSU control with Home Assistant klevernotes zrhythm 1.0 helium vim-medieval markitdown             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   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

Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested.     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.

Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern RSA or AES encryption, Russian attackers compromised a business via a nearby building’s WiFi, a startup runs out of money and bricks a robot for kids, and hardening Linux systems.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Storage Fault Management on Linux   News/discussion No, Chinese quantum computers haven’t hacked military-grade encryption The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds The confusing reality of AI friends   Free consulting We were asked about hardening Linux systems.             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more.   News Send us your predictions for 2025 Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat Halo for PC Uses Ogg Vorbis! Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now £4 more (plus a keyboard) for a LOT more performance New era of slop security reports for open source Xfce 4.20 released Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest   KDE Korner I think the donation notification works This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incomingThis Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! & Better fractional scaling         ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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 sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model.     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

The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driven architecture and design, message queuing, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.   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.

The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD   News/discussion FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts US senators propose mandated MFA, encryption in healthcare QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes   Free consulting We were asked about securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.             Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

The most surprising thing about ourselves, alternative computing form factors that we’d like, and whether we can be truly free. With popey from Linux Matters, Will and Graham from Late Night Linux, Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, and Gary from Linux After Dark.     Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

In this episode: Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype. Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial, and has written a backup tool. Mark is listening to Critical Role with Audiobookshelf.     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.   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxmatters           RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8.   Voice of the Masses Do you dual boot and why?   Feedback The Linux Foundation – Nonprofit Explorer gui-scale-applet gui-scale-application   Discovery Terrain   elementary OS 8 elementary OS 8 Available Now elementary OS             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins.   ncspot py-spy OggCamp Distrobox BoxBuddy audio-visualizer-python         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxafterdark       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Intel’s CEO departs but replacing him won’t magically solve its serious problems, Zipcar wasn’t prepared for an outage and handled it really badly, moving to an email provider that supports DMARC, and picking a NAS distribution.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Ask Me Anything – December 12th Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC   News Intel CEO takes his leave as ambition meets reality What happened to Intel? Zipcar Outage Strands Customers in Random Places   Free consulting We were asked about moving to an email provider that supports DMARC, and picking a NAS distribution.             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewhat ambivalent about the new OpenWrt router, understanding about Linux sanctioning the Bcachefs dev, and surprised that Félim is slowly starting to warm up to the idea of atomic distros (because KDE, obvs). With guest host Amolith from Linux Dev Time and Linux Lads.   News Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Help secure the open source ecosystem for everyone Snarky post about it FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released elementary OS 8 Available Now Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7 First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros             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 sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

More of our development hot takes including excessive energy use, optimising your code, the importance of licences, Matrix and Jabber being on the same side, the myth of secure code, and why self-hosting is hard. watt-wiser         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxdevtime     Support us 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 worthwhile cloud certifications are, whether they really demonstrate much more than your ability to pass an exam, how they relate to real world experience, actually learning new technologies via certification, and why having too many certs can be a red flag. Plus Sean tells us about his trip to the recent Ubuntu Summit.     Sean’s post about the Ubuntu Summit Ultra-small Ubuntu-based distroless containers – chiselled Ubuntu Announcing .NET Chiseled Containers       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.

Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be sticking around. Plus mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup   News/discussion Equinix to shutter bare metal IaaS service in 2026 D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage Google cracks down on “Parasite SEO,” punishing established publishers Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you   Free consulting We were asked about mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.   nomad-pot-driver Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD                 ServerMania Find this year’s Black Friday & Cyber Week deals at servermania.com/blackfriday   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

OggCampIn this episode: Alan uses vhs to make a short video Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs     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

Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more.   Discoveries pup 8bitworkshop 20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2 BlinkenLights European Alternatives WisBlock Smart Cube Companion Graham’s cubes Joe’s battery test data           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.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   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 all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here was “what would Jim and Allan from 2.5 Admins NOT do”. Guess who won with this monstrosity.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxafterdark       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client, restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes DKMS vs kmod: The Essential Guide for ZFS on Linux   News Windows Server 2025 takes admins by surprise No word from Microsoft on shock Windows Server 2025 installs Windows Server 2025 known issues and notifications Windows 11 update bug falsely warns of end of support, confusing users Windows 365 Link—the first Cloud PC device   Free consulting We were asked about restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware. 2.5 Admins 218: TLS TTL                   See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely with his WiFi access points.   News Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Mozilla’s Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter? Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation KDE does a whole lotta bug fixing & raising funds           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 sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Some of the work-adjacent things that we do including writing code that we shouldn’t like writing Rust in Rust, fun projects that turned into paid work, and career progression. Plus some of our go to resources for learning about development.   Some resources we mentioned Andy’s videos – Rust, General Lobsters Amolith’s RSS feeds Computer inside Terraria Fasterthanlime Self-Directed Research Podcast Jon Gjengset Jon Gjengset – YouTube DevConf – YouTube MEAP Catalog           1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxdevtime     Support us 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

What would be on our cloud tools wishlist to make our lives better? Consistent APIs and IAM across clouds, vulnerability information for dependencies that doesn’t depend on vendor data, more private compute, and more.       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.

Jim and Allan discover modern charging tech and marvel at what’s possible in the USB-C era, more on IPv6 firewalls, using ZFS like Git, and running your own authoritative DNS server.           Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.     1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Our first games systems, whether we wear watches, and the most cringe moments from our youth. With popey from Linux Matters, Will from Late Night Linux, and Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.     Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

In this episode: Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus Alan has been creating animated gifs of terminal sessions with t-rec. Mark picked up a Keybow MINI from the swaps table at OggCamp.     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.   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxmatters           RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Will went back to GNOME and made it exactly like Xfce, Félim used an unethical app ethically, and Graham had a great time at the Ubuntu Summit. Plus easily creating a customised Firefox profile, compiling Python, and what Mozilla would have to do for us to move to another browser.   Discoveries firebuilder GNOME m.uber.com codon Ubuntu Summit   Feedback Zen Browser         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.   Porkbun For devs, designers, and anyone in tech. Get .app, .dev, or .foo domains for only $5 for the first year at Porkbun.com/LateNightLinux24         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Where do we draw the line when it comes to being made to use software that we don’t want to at work? Plus why only half of us use Linux on the desktop.           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 using a copy-on-write filesystem like ZFS can get systems back online within seconds after ransomeware encrypts all your data, and even warn you more quickly that it’s happening. Plus Jim and Allan’s advice on getting a job as a sysadmin.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Klara: 5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong   Free consulting We were asked about getting a job as a sysadmin.                   See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open source AI (and we don’t take it very seriously), Hollywood uses loads of FOSS, an easy way to help out Home Assistant, and Thunderbird for Android arrives.   News Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel’s “Compliance Requirements” Around Russian Sanctions Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics We’re forking Flutter. This is why. The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition New ‘Open Source AI Definition’ Criticized for Not Opening Training Data An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy Help us make voice better in under a minute – Home Assistant Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight             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 sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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How to be the change you wish to see in the workplace, how application architecture and infrastructure architecture are related, and if there are any real alternatives to Kubernetes for building a hybrid cloud.       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.