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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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Dec 20, 2024 • 24min
Linux After Dark – Episode 85
Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested.
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Dec 19, 2024 • 35min
2.5 Admins 226: Quantum Toddle
Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern RSA or AES encryption, Russian attackers compromised a business via a nearby building’s WiFi, a startup runs out of money and bricks a robot for kids, and hardening Linux systems.
Plugs
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ZFS Storage Fault Management on Linux
News/discussion
No, Chinese quantum computers haven’t hacked military-grade encryption
The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access
Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
The confusing reality of AI friends
Free consulting
We were asked about hardening Linux systems.
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1Password
Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/25a
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Dec 17, 2024 • 36min
Late Night Linux – Episode 312
SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more.
News
Send us your predictions for 2025
Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus
Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld
Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat
Halo for PC Uses Ogg Vorbis!
Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now
£4 more (plus a keyboard) for a LOT more performance
New era of slop security reports for open source
Xfce 4.20 released
Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch
The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest
KDE Korner
I think the donation notification works
This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incomingThis Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! & Better fractional scaling
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Dec 15, 2024 • 29min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 113
We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model.
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Dec 13, 2024 • 21min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 19
The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driven architecture and design, message queuing, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.
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Dec 12, 2024 • 30min
2.5 Admins 225: Kinetic Response
The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.
Plugs
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Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD
News/discussion
FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts
US senators propose mandated MFA, encryption in healthcare
QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes
Free consulting
We were asked about securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.
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Dec 11, 2024 • 22min
Ask The Hosts – Episode 19
The most surprising thing about ourselves, alternative computing form factors that we’d like, and whether we can be truly free. With popey from Linux Matters, Will and Graham from Late Night Linux, Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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Dec 10, 2024 • 28min
Linux Matters 44: A textual rummage with Jason
In this episode:
Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype.
Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial, and has written a backup tool.
Mark is listening to Critical Role with Audiobookshelf.
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Dec 9, 2024 • 34min
Late Night Linux – Episode 311
Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8.
Voice of the Masses
Do you dual boot and why?
Feedback
The Linux Foundation – Nonprofit Explorer
gui-scale-applet
gui-scale-application
Discovery
Terrain
elementary OS 8
elementary OS 8 Available Now
elementary OS
ServerMania
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Tailscale
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Dec 6, 2024 • 28min
Linux After Dark – Episode 84
Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins.
ncspot
py-spy
OggCamp
Distrobox
BoxBuddy
audio-visualizer-python
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1Password
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