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Gary’s recent (mostly) good experience with an Arm Chromebook makes us wonder about the current state of proper Linux on Arm laptops. Plus follow up on why the Wyse 5070 has some limitations, but is still a great little x86 box. Chris mentioned a FOSDEM talk         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more.       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.

More cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans students’ faces, using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News “So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to strangers for 2nd time in 5 months Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students   Free Consulting We were asked about using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.       Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

The BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of Plasma 6 we let Félim do a short KDE Korner.   News Stepping back into the refreshingly free world of Linux – The Irish Times Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s Mercedes-Benz AG – FOSS Manifesto It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo Anthony: “Not commenting the Mozilla lay…” – Indieweb.Social Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy New krita.org website launched Kubuntu Graphic Design Contest Wayland fake session restore and 805/500 supporters           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.   Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The automation tools we use in our development and why we use them. Plus how to engage with your project’s community – both in real time, and asynchronously.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   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

Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs Investors threw 50% less money at quantum sector last year Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true Google has killed cached results in search   Free Consulting We were asked about testing your backups.         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/25a to learn more.   Automox Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: bcachefs debuted in Linux 6.7, and Martin has excitedly installed it on everything! Support bcachefs development via Patreon Alan helps someone with an Exodus of Bitcoin Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle Mark has pulled the trigger on a new “home server”         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.   Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxmatters to learn more.         RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

An open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping, a static site generator for people migrating away from Bandcamp, hello world in every possible language, a synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope, why we are pretty down on macOS, and more.   Discoveries  spotube AudioTube Nuclear Reactor Simulator trippy Faircamp Joe’s music hello world osci-render       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.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Gary’s recent trip to FOSDEM made him wonder if the type of Linux user who goes to FOSS events has changed. Has the demographic shifted more towards “normal” people who use Linux as a tool rather than something to tinker with? Plus more on planned obsolescence, and a quick prediction about the Apple Vision Pro.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more.       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.

Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News announcing freenginx.org Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns Fast Dedup is a Valentines Gift to the OpenZFS and TrueNAS Communities   Free Consulting We were asked about using multiple network interfaces on a NAS.         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/25a to learn more.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

How we’d give away a million dollars, the oldest movies we’ve watched enough times to quote, and where and when we’d time travel to. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.       Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.