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What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project.           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 we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebula) and reverse proxies. Sean introduces us to Pangolin as an open source alternative middle-ground.       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Microsoft’s free updates for Windows 10 draw criticism Denmark plans to thwart deepfakers by giving everyone copyright over their own features Why I Stopped Using RAID on My Plex Media Server   Free consulting We were asked about getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Whether we’d live in the country side or the city, the best Christmas presents we got as kids, and our Christmas movie traditions. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.         Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

In this episode: Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development. Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop. Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail.   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.          

Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites.   Discoveries Home Assistant Developer Environment xLights QLC+ Telegram snap issue faff PrivacyPlease Jacob Collier           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

It’s part 2 of the £50 Linux machine challenge! This time: actually using them, what upgrades we did, what we’ll actually use them for, and more.   Listen to part 1 here.       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.

A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide   News/discussion Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom   Free consulting We were asked about how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more.   News Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – potentially bad news for Steam gamers Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit Proposal to drop 32-bit in Fedora 44 withdrawn Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: “We’ll Be Parting Ways” Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy A bug caused some major websites to break and this guy has quite a take on it maintenance-terms I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for having worked so hard to convince the world that the City of Munich failed with their Linux migration Accepting donations on OpenCollective – FlightGear Donate Less Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling Plasma 6.4 is much juicier than I remembered This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore           Porkbun.com Go to https://porkbun.com/LNL25 to get $1 off your next desired domain name at Porkbun!       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

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             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