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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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Dec 25, 2023 • 21min
Late Night Linux – Episode 261
What would we do to make the Internet and the Web better? Various hosts from the Late Night Linux Family shows offer their answers. With guest hosts Gary and Chris from Linux After Dark, Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.
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Dec 22, 2023 • 20min
Linux After Dark – Episode 59
The child’s toy that Chris hacked makes us remember the various other proprietary hardware and software that we’ve taken control of using free and open source software. Plus our mixed feelings about doing an accessibility challenge.
Lunii
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Dec 21, 2023 • 32min
2.5 Admins 174: Guess Who’s Watching
What you need to know about the recent SSH vulnerability, yet another privacy issue with cloud-connected security cameras, why it’s difficult to get to the bottom of an obscure ZFS encryption bug, and more.
Plug
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News
SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker
UniFi devices broadcasted private video to other users’ accounts
Free Consulting
We were asked about the state of ZFS encryption, and Syncoid snapshots.
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Dec 19, 2023 • 28min
Late Night Linux – Episode 260
It’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, and some tough love for Mozilla.
Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time!
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Will’s post that made it to Hacker News etc
2023 News
Good news
Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight
Maverick Mars chopper has survived way past its warranty – now it’s time for a sequel
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible
Gaming
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community
Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more
Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks
Graham talked about his Steam Deck OLED on LNL258
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November
Enshittification
Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees
Incus 0.1 has been released
LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA
Incorrect license information for the LXD snap
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know
We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.
We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
Fedora Program Manager layed off (what that role was)
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future
What Reddit Got Wrong
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program
Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law
Fediverse
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration
Mozilla
Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge
Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI
A quarter century of Mozilla
Firefox’s protection against fingerprinting
Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet
New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android
Introducing Solo, an AI website builder for solopreneurs
Kolide
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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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Dec 17, 2023 • 18min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 87
Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time!
In this first episode we talk about “sharpening our tools” – changing your dev tools, trying out new languages, using existing code vs writing something new, how to get over creative blocks, and more.
How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools?
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Dec 14, 2023 • 29min
2.5 Admins 173: Ghost Files
Google Drive client users lost months of files, a feature of UEFI that has left millions of computers potentially vulnerable to persistent malware, and why you probably shouldn’t buy cheap resold volume Windows licenses.
Plugs
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News/discussion
Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating
How to restore files in Drive for desktop (v84.0.0.0-84.0.4.0)
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack
Free Consulting
We were asked about using cheap resold volume Windows licenses.
Kolide
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Dec 12, 2023 • 29min
Linux Matters 18: Snap, Crackle and Desktop
In this episode:
Alan stumbles upon Ubuntu Core Desktop Preview and gives it a shake on a SteamDeck.
Mark further continues his adventures in the Fediverse, by developing AWS Lambdas on his desktop.
Martin creates an Open-Source Apple AirDrop-alike for sending files around the aether with LocalSend
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Dec 11, 2023 • 26min
Late Night Linux – Episode 259
Google’s war on ad-blockers is potentially really good news for Firefox, and so are mobile extensions. Plus another quick terminal tip, a VM advent calendar, extreme synth geekery, your feedback on backing up photos, a plea to stop telling us about syncthing, and more.
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Discoveries
tail -F
QEMU advent Calendar
CS80 interactive diagram
Most followed Mastodon accounts
News
Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google’s war on ad blockers
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
privacy not included | Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
Open extensions on Firefox for Android debut December 14 (but you can get a sneak peek today
Feedback
syncthing
Syncopoli
Backing up my Android photos with rsync
Immich
FolderSync
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Dec 8, 2023 • 23min
Linux After Dark – Episode 58
When the Raspberry Pi 5 was announced, we all said that most people would probably be better off repurposing an x86 thin client so we bought some dirt cheap new in box Dell Wyse 5070 machines to see if we were right. Spoiler: we were.
Dalton’s post about trying to break Synology RAID
Parky Towers
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Dec 7, 2023 • 32min
2.5 Admins 172: HOLEy ZFS
Jim and Allan break down the details of the recent ZFS data corruption bug, and give their tips for managing a fleet of 40+ servers.
Plug
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News
Two new versions of OpenZFS fix long-hidden corruption bug
Free Consulting
We were asked about managing 40+ servers.
Automox
Save time, eliminate risk, and automate the patching, configuration, and control of all your Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints with Automox.
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