Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPress fiasco, why the idea of decentralised social media started to catch on, Raspberry Pi’s IPO, and the inevitable Mozilla doom and gloom.   2024 Linux News in review NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community Asking for donations in Plasma I think the donation notification works Automattic vs WP Engine: WordPress wars heat up Mullenweg’s WordPress Pause Triggers Unexpected Complications What drama should I create in 2025? Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse Starting today, people using Threads in 100+ countries can turn on sharing to the fediverse Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D Bluesky: An Open Social Web Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7 Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now Raspberry Pi value surges past one billion on US buying Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers Our remedies proposal in DOJ’s search distribution case           ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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

We explore the line between developer and sysadmin and come to the conclusion that despite the clear difference between the roles, there is a lot of crossover when it comes to skills and character traits.   The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security       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

Red Hat donates a bunch of container tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and we are broadly positive about it. Plus some of our highlights from the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 conferences.   News/discussion Red Hat to Contribute Comprehensive Container Tools Collection to Cloud Native Computing Foundation KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 day one: keynotes, sessions, announcements, and more KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 2: keynotes, announcements and more KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 3: Keynotes, announcements and more         Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Windows ssh is sending more telemetry than you might think, Let’s Encrypt will offer 6 days certificates, a PSA about domains that don’t send emails, and performance issues in a Synology NAS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Winter 2024 Roundup: Storage and Network Diagnostics   News/discussion ssh on Windows sends telemetry sshTelemetry.c Let’s Encrypt to offer 6 day certs Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don’t use it for sending email   Free Consulting We were asked about performance issues in a Synology NAS.           ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page. Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy. Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely. Alan’s coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah.     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.           RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser automation, converting Office documents to markdown, markdown in Vim, and why we think Raspberry Pi OS shouldn’t change its default desktop environment.   Discoveries  motion & frigate Octoprint PSU control with Home Assistant klevernotes zrhythm 1.0 helium vim-medieval markitdown             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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.   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.   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 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.     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.

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 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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.             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS   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         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

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         ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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.   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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.     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