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The Late Night Linux Family
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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Feb 20, 2025 • 31min
2.5 Admins 235: XKCD221
Google found a way to run unofficial microcode on AMD CPUs, whether software should get a CVE when it goes end of life, LLMs changing Redditors’ minds and self-replicating, and managing SSH keys at scale.
Plugs
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ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots
News/discussion
How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 from RDRAND
CVEs for End of Life?
OpenAI says its models are more persuasive than 82 percent of Reddit users
AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified
Free Consulting
We were asked about managing SSH keys at scale.
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Feb 18, 2025 • 28min
Linux Matters 49: Mark Down in the Console Caves
In this episode:
Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD.
Mark puts on his robe and wizard’s hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud.
Martin switches his console to KMSCON.
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Feb 17, 2025 • 24min
Late Night Linux – Episode 321
What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the Masses.
Voice of the Masses
What are you self-hosting, and what are you relying on others to host for you?
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Feb 14, 2025 • 22min
Linux After Dark – Episode 89
The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.
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Feb 13, 2025 • 32min
2.5 Admins 234: ChiaFraud
Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.
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Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS
News
Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dealers swap, Seagate investigates
Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dozens of readers report suspected cases
openSeaChest
Windows 11 on devices that don’t meet minimum system requirements
Free Consulting
We were asked about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.
Klara: Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces
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Feb 12, 2025 • 16min
Ask The Hosts – Episode 21
The furthest north and south we’ve been, art that means something to us, which brand of battery power tools we use, and how we hang our toilet roll. With Félim from Late Night Linux, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
Félim’s moon book photo.
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Feb 11, 2025 • 26min
Late Night Linux – Episode 320
Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more.
News
Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer
Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer
Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: ‘Maybe the problem is you’
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers
Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting
EU OS
The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google
We’re bringing Pebble back!
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant
Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199
Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage
How Blender helped Gints Zilbalodis make Oscar-nominated Flow
Flow – Official Trailer
Plasma 6.3 is out tomorrow
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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.
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Feb 9, 2025 • 25min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 117
Mark from Linux Matters who’s a web developer joins us to talk about working in PHP – a language that’s mature and well established, and how that compares with working with newer “cooler” languages like Rust and Go.
Moodle
Mark’s Bash text adventure
Bash associative array examples
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Feb 7, 2025 • 27min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 23
Is being cloud-first more about the target for your workloads, or more about mindset?
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Feb 6, 2025 • 31min
2.5 Admins 233: 2.005 Admins
We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.
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Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance
News/discussion
Xbox beta tests support for massive amounts of external storage
Migrating away from bcachefs
Free Consulting
We were asked about malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.
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