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How we use AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, what they have done to the development industry, what might happen in the future, and the ethics of the whole thing. With guest host Linus.       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  

Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the experience on the desktop, and what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.   Plugs Support us on patreon OpenZFS Best Practices: Part 2: File Serving and SANs   News/discussion The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – and how IT squashed it What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks   Free Consulting We were asked about what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS. Xpenology How can I use a PC to recover data when my Synology NAS malfunctions?           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: 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,     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.       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.       RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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.     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. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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.       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.

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 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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.  

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.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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.     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 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 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   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.  

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       Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.