Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

In episode 8 we talked about how to get started with Kubernetes, and this time we cover the next steps: How to set up ingress and east-west networking, options for restricting access, and the best ways to integrate with your favourite cloud provider.   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.

Secure boot is compromised on hundreds of devices, Amazon’s desperate attempt to make money from Alexa, and how to decide which open source software on GitHub to trust.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers old and related Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years   Free consulting We were asked about how to decide which open source software on GitHub to trust.           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.  

In this episode, we discuss: Migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors. Contributing package updates to Void and Apline linux. What happens when you plug a phone’s USB port into TV.     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.         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   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

Analysing MQTT data, getting domains unblocked from Cloudflare DNS, making ASCII animations, and why Joe is drawn to Linux Mint. Plus why we don’t talk about Vivaldi even though it’s quite good, why Félim was wrong about right click in PuTTY, and Will doesn’t seem to understand Lemmy.   Discoveries MQTT decode Cloudflare DNS was blocking apps.kde.org Durdraw Linux Mint 22   Feedback fedditt.uk Lemmy       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

How we learn, remember, and document new Linux and FOSS technologies.       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 and why the recent huge Windows outage was caused by a bad CrowdStrike update and how it could have been avoided, a hilariously dumb ESXi vulnerability, and using SAS drives with a PCIe card.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News A closer look at what caused the CrowdStrike Windows crashes Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly ESXi flaw Jake Williams on Twitter   Free Consulting We were asked about using SAS drives with a PCIe card.                     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

NVIDIA makes more of its drivers easier to install, the EU is probably going to redirect FOSS funding to AI, Mark Zuckerberg abuses the term “open source”, Proton jumps the shark, a trio of typical Google stories, and the shortest KDE Korner in history.   News NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open,” in a specific, quirky way FOSS funding vanishes from EU’s 2025 Horizon program plans Open Source AI Is the Path Forward The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B Introducing Proton Wallet – a safer way to hold Bitcoin Introducing Proton Scribe, a private writing assistant that writes and proofreads emails for you Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 just labor exploitation, boffins say Google’s shortened links will stop working next year Contribute to KDE with more than just C++ KDE HIG update         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

Developing as part of an in-person team vs working remotely, synchronous vs asynchronous development, how to make a hybrid team work effectively, and how code review fits into it all.         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

We talk about infrastructure as code, what it is, what it isn’t, how it differs from configuration management, how to structure it, best practices to stay consistent between Dev/Test and Production, avoiding configuration drift, and some experiences trying to do infrastructure/configuration as code in a home lab.     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.

How a Bitcoin mine made life in a Texas town absolutely miserable, why paying for extended support for end of life Windows versions is just doubling down on technical debt, and the best way to manage router redundancy.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Inside the ‘Nightmare’ Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town Enterprises urged to think carefully about Windows 10 extended support options   Free Consulting We were asked about managing router redundancy.           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.  

In this episode: Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter. Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sniped into updating the Flutter-based Quickgui project. Martin digs into his pile-o-bits to craft a new home-lab server that is quieter, cooler, harder, faster, better, stronger, and mostly empty. Martin mentioned an episode of Ask The Hosts.     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

Testing the security of your Bluetooth devices, diffing databases, visualising MQTT data, running Linux VMs on an iPad or Iphone, org mode in Kate, and making point and click games. Plus whether we are too negative, or if we are just realistic.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Check out all the great Late Night Linux Family shows   Discoveries BlueSpy reladiff MQTT Explorer You can now run VMs on iOS with UTM kate-org-mode Bladecoder Adventure Engine The Witness             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We all customise our phones and computers to one extent or another, but does it make sense to inflict our defaults on other people’s machines when we set them up? Or should we set them up with normal defaults on mainstream distros like Ubuntu?       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.

A widely-used login system is still using MD5 which is bad news, miscreants took over some domains when they moved from Google to Squarespace, Linksys’ sloppy app isn’t a huge problem but is a bad sign, and why backing up an Android phone in one go is pretty much impossible without root.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere Squarespace migration linked to DNS hijacking, claims report Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers   Free Consulting We were asked about backing up Android phones.       Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special feature” to interact with Google sites, Mozilla shows that it needs advertising, and openSUSE might be getting a new (terrible) name.   News EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones Take action to stop chat control now! Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector Why Chromium tells Google sites about your CPU, GPU usage Privacy-Preserving Attribution Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default Mozilla desperately needs transparency Rebranding openSUSE?           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/latenightlinux         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

What agile software development is exactly, why planning and being willing to adapt the plan are key, the pros and cons of all the process that’s involved, the role that scrum plays, and why it’s all about communication.   Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects Amolith will be at Fossy in August.         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 best to get started with Kubernetes and whether it is better to start with a low-touch option like MicroK8s/K3s, using a cloud-managed Kubernetes from the outset, or set up everything yourself “the hard way”   Kubernetes The Hard Way   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.

We didn’t get to all of your questions for our Episode 200 free consulting special so here is another full episode of your questions and our answers. Our thoughts on a new UK smart devices law, backing up 30TB off-site, how to learn ZFS, SMB vs other ways to share files, and backing up secrets.   Smart devices: new law helps citizens to choose secure products FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS           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   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.  

The best TV show of all time, and the future of e-waste and what we can and will do about it. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

In this episode, we discuss: Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extension for Firefox. Mark has been composing bass parts for an album using Tux Guitar. Alan has been visualising source code in 4K with Gource.       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.         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   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

An incredibly powerful hex editor for reverse engineering binaries, easily searching through snaphots for end users, streaming audio from phones to the Linux desktop, writing interactive fiction games, and how we makes notes and manage tasks.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Check out all the great Late Night Linux Family shows   Discoveries ImHex vfs_shadow_copy2 ink   Feedback vimwiki nanonote Marknote           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Having been given an Asus Eee PC netbook back, Joe wonders what to do with this ancient 32-bit machine. Plus the oldest machines we currently have in production. Batocera       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.

Why we didn’t mention pocket fluff when we talked about USB-C charging issues, Microsoft abandons its promising underwater data center experiment and didn’t monitor it’s SSL certs, why you should be careful which WordPress plugins and themes you install,an Australian ISP’s tech debt comes due, and remoting into desktop Linux.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes     News Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success Microsoft declares its underwater data center test was a success Shouting in the Datacenter Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach Microsoft hits snooze again on security certificate renewal     Free Consulting We were asked about remoting into desktop Linux. NoMachine                   See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Instead of the news which is all either boring or grim, we’ve come up with a fun Linux-themed game show that’s definitely not completely fixed. Plus a great network tool, and what keeps us on Linux when most apps are available everywhere else.   Feedback IMUNES           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

Andy is annoyed that so much free and open source software is hosted on a proprietary platform that’s owned by Microsoft. There are plenty of alternatives to GitHub, but ultimately the network effect is why so many people host their code there. We dream of a proper federated solution. Maybe one day…         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

We get personal and explain our home IT setups, sharing tips on learning new technologies like networking and Kubernetes while keeping the family TV working, and consult on how to secure the root user of your cloud account.         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.

Vulnerabilities in Asus hardware make us think there should be some regulations about what can be sold as a router, a VPN feature that we hadn’t heard of is removed from Windows, and why we don’t believe that Microsoft will ever take security as seriously as they claim.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models Dear Asus router user: You’ve been pwned, thanks to easily exploited flaw Microsoft to remove DirectAccess from Windows, recommends switching to Always On VPN Microsoft fixes hack-me-via-Wi-Fi Windows security hole CVE-2024-30078 Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they’ll make security a priority             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/25a 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.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode, we discuss: What’s new in quickemu. How quickgui came to be. Testing with quicktest.   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.         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   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

Unlocking the full potential of Nvidia graphics cards, hacking the otherwise bricked Spotify hardware device, Félim realised that his Borg backups could be significantly smaller, making wiring diagrams using text, silly terminal effects and colours, using a ThinkPad as a WiFi dongle, great lightweight distros for an ancient netbook, better Google searches, and more.   Discoveries nvidia-patch Hacking the Spotify Car Thing borg compact Terminal Text Effects lolcat WireViz BunsenLabs Batocera Unsong udm=14 Gruble             Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We are joined by Florian Beijers who is a full time screen reader user to talk about how the accessibility experience differs on various operating systems and Linux desktop environments, and what open source software devs could be doing better.   Florian’s links: Mastodon YouTube channel Twitch IC_Null Twitch LinkedIn       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.

It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard drive availability, USB-C robustness, ZFS performance on a VPS, cold storage with a 2.5″ form factor, how we gained our level of knowledge, disk enclosure issues, and monitoring Windows servers.             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/25a 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/25a               See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

New RISC-V and Arm Linux laptops are starting to pave the way for an exciting future, Mozilla makes another divisive acquisition, a couple of big anniversaries make us feel old, some quick KDE updates, and more.   News World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu Canonical Announce First RISC-V Laptop Running Ubuntu Video of a Banana Pi with the same SoC Significantly slower than a Pi 4 TUXEDO on ARM is coming The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising 25 Years of Krita! What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! KDE e.V. is looking for a contractor to coordinate the KDE Goals process KDE Apps initiative             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.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

If you want to be a good developer, how many different programming languages should you learn? Maybe becoming an expert in one specific language is the way to go. Maybe it’s more a case of learning different concepts and paradigms than languages.         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

Google Cloud teaches us about eggs and baskets by losing a big customer’s data, and Microsoft’s carbon emissions are up significantly – probably because of AI. Plus compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.   News/discussion Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident Microsoft’s carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI McKinsey report. Costs to inference ChatGPT exceed the training costs on a weekly basis   Free Consulting We were asked about compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.   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.

How to prepare for your loved ones to have the access they need if the worst unexpectedly happens, Joe’s weird issues with wireless access points, and dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo EAP225 AC1350 wireless access point   Free Consulting We were asked about dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.           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/25a 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/25a         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Whether self-driving cars are the future, and the skills we would download into our brains (Matrix-style). With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

In this episode: Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of the old Mycroft AI apope voice. Martin has eschewed Google Search to use Kagi instead. Mark has been judging a coding contest where students used Scratch to create games, including the use of backpack.     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.           Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxmatters to learn more.   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

Your favourite obscure open source software in Voice of the masses. Plus whether AI is a load of old rubbish, and even if it is useful for some things we have to ask ourselves: at what cost?   Voice of the masses What’s the best open source app or utility that no one else has heard of?           Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/latenightlinux to learn more.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Gary is organising OggCamp this year, so we wonder what makes the perfect Linux and open source event. Plus why we don’t use multiple partitions for home and swap etc. 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.

Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogent root-server mysteriously goes out of sync without them spotting it, and protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News Installing Windows 11 24H2 might mean binning that old NAS A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why   Free Consulting We were asked about protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.             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/25a 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.  

A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processing data and CSV files on the command line, controlling cycling workout gear and graphing your progress, and a top tip for following Mastodon accounts in a normal RSS feed reader.   News Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox Plasma 6.1 Beta out: Triple buffering, Wayland explicit sync & RDP access   Discoveries yt-dlp miller csvlens GoldenCheetah Flux           Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/latenightlinux to learn more.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Forks are a fundamental aspect of open source software so we get into the different types of forks, when and why you might want to fork a project, the maintenance burden that comes with a hard fork, the importance of winning mindshare for your fork, what exactly counts as a fork, when it’s not always a great idea to fork, 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

We look at OpenShift from an external perspective, including how it works in a multi-cloud environment, how it abstracts cloud resources, when administrators and developers still need to understand what is happening beneath the abstraction, combining OpenShift with cloud-managed services, some of the downsides of OpenShift, and where people should start if they want to learn.   OpenShift OKD         Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Linux kernel developers were infected with malware for 2 years, another nail in the coffin of proper federated email as Exchange Server moves to a subscription model, followup on zfsbootmenu and IPv6, and learning unfamiliar topics.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach Exchange Server SE to debut just before 2019 support ends Newbie struggling with zfsbootmenu   Free Consulting We were asked about learning unfamiliar topics.             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/25a 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.  

In this episode: Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines. Alan has a new job at Anchore, and tells us about their open-source vulnerability, SBOM, license scanners, Grype, Syft, and Grant Mark explains how he is using ntfy to send push notifications to his phone when servers do interesting things.     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.           Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxmatters to learn more.   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

We look back at what Linux and open source was like when we first got into it, and consider some of the ways that things have improved over all these years.           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.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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Microsoft’s new Copilot+ feature will record everything you are doing on your computer for some reason, but it will only work on new Arm hardware for now. Plus Apple’s weird iOS bug that restored deleted files and photos, and sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Allan was on Linux Dev Time   News New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC Microsoft’s “Copilot+” AI PC requirements are embarrassing for Intel and AMD Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos   Free Consulting We were asked about sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.             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/25a 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.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

The whole band is back together for the first time in a while and we’ve got “excellent” news that Raspberry Pi is doing an IPO, another look at the Pi 5 after 6 months, our positive thoughts about Mozilla’s new Executive Director, Félim’s doubts about OSI’s attempt to define open source AI, a very quick bit of KDE news, and more.   News Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers Raspberry Pi Connect M.2 HAT+ on sale now at $12 Raspberry Pi 5 Network OS Installer Growing Our Movement — and Growing Mozilla — to Shape the AI Era Mozilla Foundation Welcomes Nabiha Syed as Executive Director Why I’m Joining Mozilla as Executive Director The Open Source AI Definition gets closer to reality with a global workshop series The Open Source AI Definition – draft v. 0.0.8 ‘Openwashing’ HDR & Gamescope           Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/latenightlinux to learn more.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We are joined by Allan Jude to talk about what it’s like to run a company that develops and maintains open source software with a focus on upstreaming as much code as possible.   Klara November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit – The Value of Upstream First How to upstream code to open source projects FiloSottile (Filippo Valsorda)           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