

Late Night Linux
The Late Night Linux Family
Late Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry. Every week, Joe, Félim, Graham and Will discuss the latest news and releases, and the broader issues and trends in the world of free and open source software. Expect drinking, swearing, strong opinions, and Félim being trolled about AI and the cloud.
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Apr 25, 2023 • 31min
Late Night Linux – Episode 226
Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE Korner.
News
Linux Matters has launched
Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
Resist Fingerprinting
PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of them all turns 30
More layoffs at Red Hat
Fedora 38 released
Ubuntu 23.04 released
Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04
KDE Korner
KDE Gear 23.04, Nanonote 1.4.0, Announcing Arianna 1.0 & digiKam 8.0.0 is released
The road to KDE Connect 2.0
40 Snaps & a HowTo
Plasma Products / Not a DE
What’s new in Fedora Kinoite 38
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Apr 17, 2023 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 225
A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KDE Korner, and loads more.
Discoveries
Logitech Media Server (LMS)
First Universal Blue image
Mission – Universal Blue
Scope – Universal Blue
CLARK
sniffnet
Yubikey Manager
Feedback
ngrep
rsyncy
KDE Korner
Plasma Mobile catchup
ktechlab
isoimagewriter
a pile of snaps
Krita Yearly report
Most plasma widgets ported to 6 & Nate’s weekly updates
Linode
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Apr 11, 2023 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 224
25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two (more) potential ways to help solve the FOSS funding problem.
News
A quarter century of Mozilla
Making the impossible possible — again
A new era of transparency for Twitter
Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why
Twitter’s Open Source Algorithm Is a Red Herring
Welcome to open source, Elon. Your Twitter code just got a CVE for shadow ban bug
The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023 – Original Prusa 3D Printers
A reply to Josef Průša – Stargirl (Thea) Flowers
Help us fund equipment – Armbian
Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects
thanks.dev
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Apr 3, 2023 • 33min
Late Night Linux – Episode 223
Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom. Plus a novel way to solve the FOSS funding problem, and Proton as the ultimate Linux gaming platform.
Discoveries
chob
Chirp plant alarm
Garmin watch offline sync with Postrunner
ntopng
DoomLinux
Kolide
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Linode
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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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Mar 28, 2023 • 32min
Late Night Linux – Episode 222
Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto, Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more.
News
Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore’s Law, has died
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know
We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.
We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
The Fight Continues
We updated our RSA SSH host key
We need better support for SSH host certificates
Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, dbt and BigQuery
Microsoft is building a cryptocurrency wallet into its Edge browser
Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge
Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI
KDE Korner
Testing QT6 Begins
Xwayland Screen Casting
GCompris overview 180+ activities
Labplot 2.10
This week in KDE: “More Wayland fixes”
This week in KDE: Distro upgrades for Fedora KDE in Discover
My experience taking part in Season of KDE
Adapting Standard Usage Scenario Scripts For KDE Applications: My Journey As A Season Of KDE Mentee – KDE Eco
Linode
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Kolide
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Tailscale
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Mar 20, 2023 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 221
Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the maths. Plus your feedback about robot vacuums, guitar cables, Arch, why we don’t talk about Fedora, KDE wins, and more.
Discoveries
qalculate
NiceGUI
Entropy Piano Tuner
Autodarts (video of it in action)
Feedback
Quinny
DustBuilder
Valetudo
Material for MkDocs
Linode
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Mar 13, 2023 • 33min
Late Night Linux – Episode 220
Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android users, a lengthy quest to stream DRM-restricted media on Arm Macs, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Flathub in 2023
The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later
NewF-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
KDE Korner
Plasma 6 kick off and outline fixes & Wayland zooming
Apps in MS Store Tutorial
Plasma codemap
Kubuntu Manual
KDE for Scientists
PIM Update
Krita Tutorial Video
Akademy Talks Reminder!
Linode
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Kolide
Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux
Tailscale
Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.
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Mar 6, 2023 • 35min
Late Night Linux – Episode 219
Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guitar with Linux, keeping kids safe online, and more.
Discoveries
mqttshark
device IDs to get steering wheel
nim
Turrican II AGA
Zelda a Link to the Past on Linux
Feedback
Timeshift
Kopia
Grsync
Cronopete
UrBackup
Neon AI OS for the Mycroft Mark II
Nextcloud localization
Behringer UMC22 audiophile 2×2 USB audio interface
Linode
Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.
Kolide
Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux
Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
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Feb 28, 2023 • 31min
Late Night Linux – Episode 218
Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner.
News
Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults
NASA and open-source software
10 years ago Steam released for Linux
M$ Edge inserts ads on Chrome download page
My daughter’s school took over my personal Microsoft account
KDE Korner
KDE Switches to QT6
Nicco looks at theme & shows 6 “hidden” features of Plasma
Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0
Stop shouting
How to add flatpaks on Kubuntu/Neon
Nate’s regular updates
Two very last minute tools in Neon & two apps in unstable
Linode
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Tailscale
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Feb 20, 2023 • 31min
Late Night Linux – Episode 217
More reverse-engineering, free tech books, a handy tool for fixing things you’ve aCCIDENTALLY CAPITALISED, Chromium in the terminal, putting apps and config files in a “box”, more on aviation tracking, GUI vs CLI backups on Linux, and loads more.
Discoveries
reveng
lurk
GoalKicker.com books
Late Night Linux – Discoveries
Convert Case
carbonyl
Github Sponsors stops taking Paypal
boxxy
TheAirTraffic (ADS-B Exchange replacement)
Félim’s list of ADS-B Exchange alternatives
Feedback
BorgBackup
Sanoid and Syncoid
Linode
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Kolide
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