
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 6, 2025 • 22min
Linux After Dark – Episode 97
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
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Jun 5, 2025 • 32min
2.5 Admins 250: Better RAIDz?
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
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The Overlooked Complexity of Firmware Security in the IoT Era
News/discussion
Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues
Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
Introducing ZFS AnyRaid, Sponsored by Eshtek
Free consulting
We were asked about moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link.
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Jun 3, 2025 • 32min
Late Night Linux – Episode 336
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
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Jun 1, 2025 • 27min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 125
What are the fundamental ideas and components of development and programming?
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May 30, 2025 • 21min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 31
When should you consider using a third-party management tool, rather than just the ones built into your cloud of choice?
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May 29, 2025 • 29min
2.5 Admins 249: Octopodian Nightmare
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
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What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (So You Don’t Have To)
News
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 – Let’s Encrypt
VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
Free consulting
We were asked about connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.
SAS Expanders, Build Your Own JBOD DAS Enclosure and Save – Iteration 1
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May 27, 2025 • 33min
Linux Matters 56: Python a-Go-Go
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.
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May 26, 2025 • 23min
Late Night Linux – Episode 335
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
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May 23, 2025 • 23min
Linux After Dark – Episode 96
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.
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May 22, 2025 • 31min
2.5 Admins 248: NASty Pi
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
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Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter
News/discussion
TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
ZFS raw-send corruption bug fixed
5 things I regret about using my Raspberry Pi as a NAS
Free consulting
We were asked about the zpool checkpoint feature.
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