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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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Oct 30, 2023 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 253
Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more.
Discoveries
archivebox.io
ia command for the Internet Archive
I, Voyager
Multi-column view in Mastodon
curl supports MQTT
wyrd (amoliths password thing)
WiFi QRCode Format
Cardinal
pdfarranger
Entroware
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Oct 27, 2023 • 24min
Linux After Dark – Episode 55
It’s the spinning rust challenge! We try installing and running our operating systems on mechanical hard drives and learn that Linux is much less painful than Windows on a spinning disk.
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Oct 26, 2023 • 31min
2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque
What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi.
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News
Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to look like KeePass’s official website
pixel 6 can’t access storage with multiple profiles after updating to android 14
Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more
Free Consulting
We were asked about the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi.
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Oct 24, 2023 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 252
A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more.
News
Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 release image translation incident – now resolved
Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible
Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers
Unity Announces Leadership Transition
How to download and install Linux
Android will now scan sideloaded apps for malware at install time
Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know!
GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director
Holly the shaman artist
Become a Plasma 6 Supporter & KNotifications going on a diet
Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux
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Oct 22, 2023 • 23min
Linux Downtime – Episode 83
We are joined by Marcin Kulik – the creator and maintainer of asciinema. We talk about the project itself, developing on Linux, IDEs, targetting a technical audience, the advantages of writing for a command line interface, why -R is always wrong for the recursive flag, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.
Marcin on Mastodon
asciinema on Mastodon
asciinema on Matrix
HelloFresh
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Oct 19, 2023 • 30min
2.5 Admins 165: Big AI
The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS.
News/discussion
Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art
Free Consulting
We were asked about building an SSD-only NAS.
Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a
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Oct 17, 2023 • 34min
Linux Matters 14: One Hundred Percent Colombian
In this episode:
Martin is using Distrobox, via Universal Blue, to run OBS Studio Portable built for Ubuntu on NixOS.
You might also like Bazzite, an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck.
Alan laments the trials and tribulations of updating dozens of Snaps to current standards, including the wonderful Bombsquad
Mark does a spot of J2ME retro-gaming on Android using J2ME Loader and (nearly) RetroDECK
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Oct 16, 2023 • 27min
Late Night Linux – Episode 251
Open source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audio workstation releases, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, Joe joins the ThinkPad cult, and more.
With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
Discoveries
LibreSpeed
Raspberry Pi iPad Pro Setup Simplified
elementary OS 7.1
Studio One DAW now available for Linux
bitwig/dawproject: Open exchange format for DAWs
Ardour 8.0 — What’s new
ISS Mimic
ThinkPad X270
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Oct 13, 2023 • 23min
Linux After Dark – Episode 54
The vast majority of desktop computer users in the world use a Windows-like interface, so why do all the major distros ship GNOME which is totally different? It can’t just be because of accessibility and inertia, can it? Plus more on government attacks on end to end encryption.
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Oct 12, 2023 • 31min
2.5 Admins 164: Filthy Internet
Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot.
Feedback
Don’t use autofill on your password manager
Story Time
Adventures in network repair
Free Consulting
We were asked about hardware for a home router/Wi-Fi hotspot.
HelloFresh
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