Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Not invented here syndrome is very common in open source. We get into why that is, when it makes sense to start your own project from scratch, and how contributing to existing software can sometimes be better for everyone.             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

Shane gives us an update on his janky Kubernetes homelab. The storage is under control with ZFS, he’s got a decent switch, and everything is in Git – so maybe it isn’t that janky anymore.           Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.  

The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Free consulting We were asked about setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: Martin has a fancy GitHub profile. Shields.io – Concise, consistent, and legible badges github-readme-stats – Dynamically generated GitHub stats. readme-scribe – Automatically generates & updates markdown content, like your README.md Latest blog posts, podcasts, live streams, YouTube videos from RSS Latest release, starred repos. Thank and mention sponsors. Uses git-auto-commit-action to automatically commit and push changed files and push-files-to-another-repository to push the rendered README.md to my wimpysworld GitHub org. snk – GitHub user contributions graph as animated snake game Uses ghaction-github-pages to update a branch everynight Alan is busy maintaing lots of Snaps. Mark retired Advanced Volume Control for GNOME.     You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh 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. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.          

Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports, PuTTY’s confusing website confusion, a cool new game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News/discussion Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS Save 20% on Look Mum No Computer on Steam How we Made A Game With An Interactive Sound Track Death by a thousand slops A nudge to fund our future Controversy over PUTTY.ORG website growing fast PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client   KDE Korner KDE’s Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI Talking FOSS on Daft Code             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

Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premium price he paid for 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.

Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Discussion It’s a mistake to over anthropomorphize LLMs, but it’s equally a mistake to *under* anthropomorphize them Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI   Free consulting We were asked about how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE’s new immutable arch-based distro, and more.   News All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box UK to lead crackdown on cyber criminals with ransomware measures Hacker Plants Computer ‘Wiping’ Commands in Amazon’s AI Coding Agent Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database Terribly edited video KDE Linux               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

With the recent news of Bcachefs (probably) being removed from the Linux kernel, we are joined by Allan Jude from 2.5 Admins and Klara to discuss some of what we think went wrong, how to manage and maintain multiple releases of a project at once, and why release engineering is an important concept.         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 to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, available tools, small clouds vs the big three, hiring people with experience of particular cloud platforms, support, compliance, ease of repatriation, and more.         Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.