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An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Klara Webinar, Feb 13th: RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery   News MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years   Free Consulting We were asked about tricky offsite backups, why Two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.           ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS   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.  

We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers.   News Free Our Feeds Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone Plasma 6.3 beta 2 is out! and Season of KDE 2025   Foldable future? Pixel 9 Pro Fold   Discoveries  Hugin Stratoshark OuterTune   BarCamp Surrey Laura and popey tell us about BarCamp Surrey             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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.   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.   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

Where is the balance between efficiency and openness when it comes to saved file formats? If everything was based on plain text it would make the files readable for years to come, but at what cost?         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

In this episode we discuss some challenges around using and testing lower environments, how to easily run integration tests using Testcontainers, and some of the pitfalls around using GitOps to deploy your applications.   Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com       SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their SaaS data. Head to SysCloud.com for a 30-day free trial—and for a limited time, use code HCS to get 50% off your first purchase. .     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Microsoft didn’t control an important domain that it was using and end up red-faced, the dangers of using free VPN apps, a proof of concept exploit is out for last year’s SSH vulnerability, USB is getting slightly less confusing labels, and swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.   News Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network PoC Exploit Released For OpenSSH Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability An updated USB logo will now mark the fastest docking stations   Free Consulting We were asked about swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.           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.  

In this episode: Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career. Alan is organising BarCamp Surrey at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025. Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship.     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.           RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.   Molly’s personal website [citation needed] newsletter Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes video Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes article Web3 Is Going Great     Best 2024 Discoveries Thanks Matt for collating our discoveries   Will Thingino Motion Spotify Car Thing   Graham Osci-render ink – inkle’s narrative scripting language An IDE for retro game development 8bitworkshop Synth of the year, https://github.com/aaronaanderson/Terrain   Felim Pikchr AITrack Klevernotes & a very near taskfinder   Joe InnerTune StezStix Fix? yt-dlp Linux Mint 22               ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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.   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.   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

We share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating Ubuntu, getting mad at Docker, trying to recover Microsoft passwords, building a PC over a video call, wireless access points that mostly just work, and 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.

A new version of ZFS is out and we go over the great new features. Plus recovering data after accidentally writing part of an ISO onto a USB drive, how to deal with abuse of your domain, and replacing all the drives in a ZFS pool while keeping the birth date.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Managing and Tracking Storage Performance   News Zfs-2.3.0 Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup   Free Consulting We were asked about recovering data after accidentally writing part of an ISO onto a USB drive, how to deal with abuse of your domain, and replacing all the drives in a ZFS pool while keeping the birth date.           ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 makes no sense to at least one of us (who now owns an N100 mini PC), the Linux Foundation seems to think Chromium-based browsers need a helping hand, we troll Félim, and more.   News Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck Microsoft is combining ‘the best of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress Joost/Karim Fork – WordPress News Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork Why Matt Should Resign (from 2010) 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 New $120 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is for the people who use it like an everyday PC TRIGKEY N100 Mini PC Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers Servo Revival: 2023-2024             ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   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.   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.   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