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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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Apr 22, 2024 • 25min
Late Night Linux – Episode 278
More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
News
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
Announcing the Open Home Foundation
tea.xyz causes open source software spam problems, again
A thread about people who need to run Windows
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
How Japan’s space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon
NASA’s downed Ingenuity helicopter has a ‘last gift’ for humanity — but we’ll have to go to Mars to get it
NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed
Entroware
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Apr 21, 2024 • 28min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 96
Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the Linux kernel is written in C, Go vs Rust, and what memory safety means.
Kolide
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Apr 19, 2024 • 26min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 02
Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability.
Plugs
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Shane’s platform engineering newsletter
News/discussion
Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
Why AWS Supports Valkey
OpenTofu not being good fork
IAM Is The Worst
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in
Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there’s a way out
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Apr 18, 2024 • 29min
2.5 Admins 191: Mechanical Turk
Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.
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News/discussion
Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine
Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them
Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive
Free Consulting
We were asked about disk queue schedulers in Linux.
Tailscale
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Apr 16, 2024 • 35min
Linux Matters 27: If I could just interject
In this episode:
Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us.
Here are the links to everything we mentioned.
Snaps
Bucklespring
Localsend
Snapdrop
Hardware
Mark’s funky monitor – the LG DualUp
8BitDo Micro Gamepad
Security keys and passwords
https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1
https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/04/fido2-hardware-passwordsecret-management.html
https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/26/more-fido2-hardware-authkey-uses-on-a-linux-machine-and-their-quirks.html
Virtualization & Containers
Introduction to Virtualization
systemd-nspawn containers
Gaming
A guide to a good docked gaming experience on Steam Deck
Voice assistant topics
StyleTTS2
Pied
Comic and ebook reading topics
Calibre Companion
Calibre Web
FBReader
CDisplayEx
Komga
BorrowBox
Audiobookshelf
Booksonic
Microserver topics
N100 upgrade
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Kolide
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Apr 15, 2024 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 277
How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds.
Voice of the masses
How do you keep your Linux systems secure?
News
German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice
German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating
Discoveries
rembg
Photopea
nvtop
Giada
OMG! Ubuntu article about login sound
Joe’s video of the laptop booting with the sound (play -v 0.9 –magic startup.ogg)
Kolide
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Apr 12, 2024 • 27min
Linux After Dark – Episode 67
We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you to build and deploy anything from the ultimate developer workstation to a basic Chromebook-like experience for a non-technical relative.
Bazzite
Universal Blue
Project Bluefin
Install Collector on Linux
Project Bluefin and the future of operating systems
CNCF Landscape
Kolide
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Apr 11, 2024 • 30min
2.5 Admins 190: twitterz
A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS.
Plug
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News
backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance for zvols
X fixes URL blunder that could enable social media phishing
Free Consulting
We were asked about adding SATA ports to a home NAS.
Tailscale
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Apr 10, 2024 • 17min
Ask The Hosts – Episode 11
The most amused we’ve ever been, how we’d cobble a meal together with limited ingredients, and whether we have an inner monologue. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, and Jim from 2.5 Admins.
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Soggy or Hard?
ElectroBOOM

Apr 7, 2024 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 276
There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year.
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News
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How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide
backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
research!rsc: Timeline of the xz open source attack
XZ threat actor Jia Tan’s change to libarchive which introduced an exploitable situation made it into Windows
New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update)
Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 224
I am not a supplier
OggCamp is happening later this year!
Gary gives us the details.
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