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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.
Episodes
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Jan 23, 2024 • 33min
Linux Matters 21: Fetch is going to happen
In this episode:
Alan is emulating SoundBlaster cards in FreeDOS on bare metal. Vogons
Mark is planning for HP Microserver hardware failure
Martin announces NeoFetch is dead, long live fastfetch, cpufetch, ramfetch, and onefetch,
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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.
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.
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Jan 22, 2024 • 32min
Late Night Linux – Episode 265
A Pi-hole PSA, an open source release of a classic game, making flow charts with markdown, resizing loads of animated gifs, writing a script to get free electricity, a dirt cheap travel router, a simple game exposes an issue with Firefox’s extreme privacy settings, rock solid proof that Linux market share is doing well, and more.
Discoveries
Update your Pi-hole lists
Amazon Fire TV block list
pioneer
pikchr
OpenWRT-based GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (travel wifi router)
pipeinstall
Gifsicle
Scraping gmail messages
1D Pacman
Feedback
KonstKang
PH stats
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/latenightlinux to learn more.
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.
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Jan 19, 2024 • 24min
Linux After Dark – Episode 61
How do we decide which devices and which software we trust?
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.
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Jan 18, 2024 • 31min
2.5 Admins 178: LOTS of Storage
Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.
Plugs
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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 1: Snapshots and Backups
News
Hard disk drives are next in line to become mostly enterprise hardware — as Nvidia (and AMD) could be planning to focus on AI, leaving consumers as second-class citizens
Seagate unveils 30 TB+ Exos HAMR disk drives – Blocks and Files
Miscreants absolutely love using GitHub to sling malware
Flying Under the Radar: Abusing GitHub for Malicious Infrastructure
Free Consulting
We were asked about spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.
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.

Jan 15, 2024 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 264
Félim gets angry about someone criticising desktop Linux, Snaps are going to be better on distros that aren’t Ubuntu, Mozilla wants to lead the way in making AI open, OpenAI admits it doesn’t have a legal business model, and Plasma 6 is almost here.
News
Dublin Linux Install fest Sat Feb 3
What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions
The World Of Web Browsers Is In A Bad Way
What’s next for Mozilla?
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
How Microsoft found a potential new battery material using AI – The Verge
Plasma 6 RC1
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.
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Jan 14, 2024 • 20min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 89
We follow up on last episode with some clarifications from Amolith about code collaboration. Plus we get into development workflows in general, code review, the paradigms we couldn’t do without, and more. With guest host Linus.
Amolith mentioned a Low energy game jam.
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Jan 11, 2024 • 29min
2.5 Admins 177: Don’t Pay the Dane
Why the problems with open source licenses aren’t quite as easy to fix as some people think, the reasons you should never pay ransomware gangs, and running a Nagios distro on a Raspberry Pi.
Plug
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News/discussion
What comes after open source? Bruce Perens is working on it
A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not
The State of Ransomware in the U.S.: Report and Statistics 2023
Free Consulting
We were asked about running a Nagios distro on a Raspberry Pi.
NEMS Linux
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.

Jan 10, 2024 • 18min
Ask The Hosts – Episode 8
What pets we have, the best YouTube videos we’ve ever seen, and our non-Linux or podcasting hobbies. With Félim from Late Night Linux and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
Retro Game Mechanics Explained
Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama
Man Falls on Ice in Dublin On RTE news
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Jan 9, 2024 • 32min
Linux Matters 20: Unfold Your Coding Potential
In this episode:
Martin is using the unfold.ai coding assistant to turn the MVP Rust project, ia-get, into a “product”.
Alan has impressions of actually using NextCloud.
Mark is listening to audiobooks on Linux with Cozy and on Android with Voice.
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.
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Jan 8, 2024 • 27min
Late Night Linux – Episode 263
The easy way to control Home Assistant from anywhere while also supporting the project, running LLMs with a single local file, learning and practising security and admin concepts in a fun game, giving in and using an Amazon stick to watch TV, getting the most out of Bash, and how we host the show’s website and MP3s.
Discoveries
Nabu Casa
llamafile
OverTheWire Wargames
Fire TV Stick 4K Max with VLC and Jellyfin
SmartTube
oh-my-bash
Feedback
WordPress
Libsyn
PowerPress
Hugo
castanet
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.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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