
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
All episodes from Late Night Linux, Linux Dev Time, Linux After Dark, 2.5 Admins, Linux Matters, Hybrid Cloud Show, and Ask The Hosts.
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Jun 29, 2025 • 30min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 127
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
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Jun 27, 2025 • 32min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 33
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.
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Jun 26, 2025 • 28min
2.5 Admins 253: ImpossibleFS
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
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ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload
Discussion
Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15
I’m starting to wonder if modern next-gen filesystems are approaching an inherent limit of human ability to mentally model and manage complexity
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We were asked whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.
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Jun 24, 2025 • 30min
Linux Matters 58: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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.
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Jun 23, 2025 • 24min
Late Night Linux – Episode 339
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
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Jun 20, 2025 • 25min
Linux After Dark – Episode 98
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.
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Jun 19, 2025 • 30min
2.5 Admins 252: Nintendon’t Back Up
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.
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Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient, Data-Sure Storage Solution
Klara co-hosted a webinar with TrueNAS about ZFS Fast Dedup
News
Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”
Intellectual Property & Piracy FAQ | Nintendo Support
archived version
Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot
I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives
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We were asked about securing applications on a home server.
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Jun 17, 2025 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 338
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!
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This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
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Jun 15, 2025 • 25min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 126
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.
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Jun 13, 2025 • 24min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 32
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
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