

Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
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 10, 2023 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 250
Our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 5 announcement, yet another nail in Xorg’s coffin, why we aren’t convinced by Google’s commitment to 7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8, praise for Mozilla(!), and more.
With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
News
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5
Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support
Incus 0.1 has been released
Gmail unleashes “email emoji reactions” onto an unsuspecting world
The Pixel 8’s best new feature is guaranteed updates
Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet
Kolide
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Oct 8, 2023 • 20min
Linux Downtime – Episode 82
Jim Salter joins us to talk about getting the most out of your open source project. From designing and planning, to attracting contributors, considering the correct scope, building on top of existing software, and more.
Sanoid and Syncoid
Perlpv
Jim’s website
Jim’s social media links
2.5 Admins podcast
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Oct 5, 2023 • 29min
2.5 Admins 163: Two Factors One SPOF
A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution.
Plugs
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News/discussion
How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse
Amolith’s wiki page about passwords
Feedback
Allan’s TV remote control
Free Consulting
We were asked about picking the right external storage solution.
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 4, 2023 • 23min
Ask The Hosts – Episode 5
Whether we’re living in a simulation, our favourite foreign swear words, advertisers we’ve turned down, how we organise recordings and how much gets edited out, how Joe’s role changes on different shows, and if there are any conspiracy theories we believe in.
With Will and Félim from Late Night Linux, popey, Martin, and Mark from Linux Matters, Gary from Linux After Dark, and Amolith from Linux Downtime.
Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.

Oct 3, 2023 • 22min
Linux Matters 13: Um, actually
We go over the feedback from the first 12 episodes.
Website
All the shows in the Late Night Linux Family
TPM
Lots of people recommended YubiKey
TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu
Tang server for remote key delivery
Unlocking with a USB key
Backups
We answer some questions about our backup solutions
Music
SongShift for iOS can migrate your playlists between services.
Cider 2 is available on Itch.io
ZeroTier
Alan and Martin have installed ZeroTier on the Steam Deck.
NixOS
You can set up printing with auto discovering using Martin’s CUPS and Avahi configurations.
Also see the NixOS Wiki about Printing
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Oct 2, 2023 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 249
Simulating logic circuits, cheap router hardware, Snap and Flatpak download metrics, frying hard drives with too many volts, gathering and mapping button presses from random USB devices, protecting your system from rogue USB devices, and making chiptune music with emulated versions of classic gaming hardware.
With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
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Discoveries
BOOLR
HUNSN
Beelink
Snapcraft Metrics
popey’s Snapcraft Metrics blog post
evtest
evtest-qt
USBGuard
bintracker
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Sep 29, 2023 • 20min
Linux After Dark – Episode 53
Something has gone wrong with the timeline and all software is free and open source. What does that world look like? Plus more on biometrics and desktop scaling.
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Sep 28, 2023 • 30min
2.5 Admins 162: Irresponsible Disclosure
Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.
Plugs
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News
Submit your ideas or articles – OpenSource.net
Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters
Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical webp 0-day
Free Consulting
We were asked about setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.
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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Sep 26, 2023 • 27min
Late Night Linux – Episode 248
The Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives people to Godot, Valve is a good open source citizen, an easy way to pay people to work on small KDE features and fixes, and more.
With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
News
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support
Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users
Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work
Jonathan Corbet surprised by the coverage
The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns
A new maintainer will take over
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program
Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding
Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding
Unity’s oldest community announces dissolution
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community
KDE Sponsored Work
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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Sep 24, 2023 • 21min
Linux Downtime – Episode 81
How to get hired for your first development job, more on contributor license agreements, and our thoughts on different immutable OS approaches.
Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) – FSFE
Why the FSF Gets Copyright Assignments from Contributors
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