Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recovering old versions of files, and an exciting announcement about the show.   Plugs 2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon   News/discussion 2.5 Admins in The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president How To Start An ISP (like it’s 1993)   Free Consulting We were asked about recovering old versions of files.           Linux Matters Check out Linux Matters – a show in the Late Night Linux Family hosted by popey, Mark, and Wimpy about all the Linux matters that matter. They did a recent episode about backups (without using ZFS).         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

What jobs we’d do if we didn’t work in IT, foreign countries we’d live in, the musical genres we are into, and what musical talents (if any) we have. With Amolith from Linux Downtime, Martin and Mark from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.   Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.    

In this episode: Alan is backing up with rsnapshot Martin suggests BorgBackup is better Mark is using rclone to keep family photos safe     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.       RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Great news for Linux on RISC-V and open source Nvidia drivers, communicating with devices over serial the easy way, emulating an old calculator, a fully open source flight combat game, a new approach to caching files on your LAN, and an RSS reader for the terminal.   News riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards The next step for NVK: Merging into Mesa!   Discoveries  tio HP-45 calculator emulator Linux Air Combat Passim goread       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           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

All four of us have been Ubuntu users for a long time but we’ve been dabbling with different distros to see how they compare. Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE all have their appeal, but are we likely to switch permanently? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes.     Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/lad50 and use code lad50 to get 50% off.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

We celebrate Slackware’s 30th birthday by trying it out and basking in its classic glory. Plus the BBC joins Mastodon, Google has dystopian plans for the web, the LXD drama rumbles on, and KDE takes a leaf out of GNOME’s book.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes.   News Slackware turns 30 The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees Web-Environment-Integrity Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web Google’s browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites Some Of The Features You Will Find Removed With KDE Plasma 6         HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off and free shipping at hellofresh.com/latenightlinux50 using the promo code latenightlinux50.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Contributor license agreements aren’t very popular, but not having a CLA can cause problems for projects in the future. Gary can’t do things like publishing Pidgin on Apple’s app stores, and Amolith is wrestling with how to keep his options open for the SaaS project he’s working on. Don’t sign a CLA Seriously, don’t sign a CLA       Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/ldt50 and use code ldt50 to get 50% off.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

In this episode: Mark is repairing a Steam Deck Alan is taking digital hoarding too far with Tube Archivist Martin is creating a magical LAN using the Internet with ZeroTier Some pictures of the state inside Mark’s Steam Deck The interior of a Steam Deck showing a PCB with a corroded connector The back of a Steam Deck’s touchpad showing sticky residue The touch pad PCB from a Steam Deck showing sitcky residue coating the sensor 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.       RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

A simple GUI for browsing SQLite databases, a terminal IRC client, some great Python resources, a clone of Task Manager for Linux, decoding data from random satellites, and a slick Mastodon client.   Discoveries SQLite Browser WeeChat 4 David Beazley’s Python Courses Dive Into Systems Mission Center SatDump Decoding BW-3 Scott Tilley on Twitter Ebou Ebou GitHub         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   HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off and free shipping at hellofresh.com/latenightlinux50 using the promo code latenightlinux50.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

What ever happened to convergence? The dream of having one computing device just never came true, and we get to the bottom of it. Plus how to avoid drama in open source projects.         HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep.  Get 50% off and free shipping at hellofresh.com/linuxafterdark50 using the promo code linuxafterdark50     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.