Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
482 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAll 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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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 02
April 19, 2024 14:56 - 25 minutes - 21.2 MBRedis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Shane’s platform engineering newsletter News/discussion... Read More
2.5 Admins 191: Mechanical Turk
April 18, 2024 16:56 - 28 minutes - 23.2 MBWhy updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS... Read More
Linux Matters 27: If I could just interject
April 16, 2024 19:09 - 34 minutes - 28.5 MBIn this episode: Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us. Here are the links to everything we mentioned. Snaps Bucklespring Localsend Snapdrop Hardware Mark’s funky monitor – the LG DualUp 8BitDo Micro Gamepad Security keys and passwords https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 277
April 15, 2024 20:56 - 28 minutes - 23.2 MBHow we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds. Voice of the masses How do you keep your Linux systems secure? News German state ditches... Read More
Linux After Dark – Episode 67
April 12, 2024 14:56 - 26 minutes - 21.7 MBWe are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you... Read More
2.5 Admins 190: twitterz
April 11, 2024 21:21 - 30 minutes - 24.6 MBA backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night... Read More
Ask The Hosts – Episode 11
April 10, 2024 14:55 - 17 minutes - 13.8 MBThe most amused we’ve ever been, how we’d cobble a meal together with limited ingredients, and whether we have an inner monologue. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, and and Jim from 2.5 Admins. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago. Soggy or Hard? ElectroBOOM ... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 276
April 07, 2024 23:06 - 29 minutes - 23.4 MBThere’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
Linux Dev Time – Episode 95
April 07, 2024 10:56 - 26 minutes - 21.8 MBWe are joined by Drew DeVault to discuss his programming language called Hare, which aims for 100 years of forwards compatibility. We mentioned Drew’s blog posts Can I be on your podcast? and It takes a village Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. ... Read More
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 01
April 05, 2024 14:56 - 22 minutes - 18.5 MBThere’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between. In this first episode: the big three public cloud providers have dropped egress fees, four years of lessons and regrets from running a startup, and avoiding surprise fees... Read More
2.5 Admins 189: Too Much Glass
April 04, 2024 16:54 - 32 minutes - 26.3 MBGlassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More
Linux Matters 26: Snappy Snap Snapshots
April 02, 2024 20:06 - 27 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this episode: Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now! Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with Telegram GTK4 Color palette, Fractal and Halloy. Mark is migrating data to his new home server in a very snappy way. You can send your feedback via [email protected]... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 275
April 01, 2024 20:56 - 28 minutes - 22.8 MBThe main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux... Read More
Linux After Dark – Episode 66
March 29, 2024 15:56 - 24 minutes - 19.8 MBUbuntu is nearly 20 years old so we wanted to see how the first versions compare with the upcoming LTS. Unfortunately installing Warty turned out to much harder than we thought it would be. Dalton talks us through his adventure with a turn of the century Mac, Gary had a much easier time with an... Read More
2.5 Admins 188: Farewell to Core
March 28, 2024 20:53 - 28 minutes - 23.3 MBThe FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News TrueNAS CORE 13 is the... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 274
March 26, 2024 02:05 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MBCanonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. News Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet... Read More
Linux Dev Time – Episode 94
March 24, 2024 11:56 - 21 minutes - 17.4 MBHow we first learned to code, and how we learn new technologies now. Snake in Terraform Snake in lots of languages Web server in Sinclair BASIC 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... Read More
2.5 Admins 187: MDK
March 21, 2024 17:56 - 31 minutes - 25.3 MBPrison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost... Read More
Linux Matters 25: The joy of Linux torture
March 19, 2024 20:09 - 31 minutes - 25.4 MBIn this episode: Mark is migrating services between servers Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng Alan is coding for fun in PHP You can send your feedback via [email protected] 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... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 273
March 18, 2024 21:56 - 30 minutes - 24.2 MBWhat pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more. Voice of the masses What’s pulling... Read More
Linux After Dark – Episode 65
March 15, 2024 15:56 - 21 minutes - 17.4 MBWe wonder what old concepts in the Linux and open source world are due for a comeback. 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.
2.5 Admins 186: Jim Defends the CFAA
March 14, 2024 21:57 - 29 minutes - 24.3 MBRoku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News Roku disables players and TVs with... Read More
Ask The Hosts – Episode 10
March 13, 2024 15:56 - 18 minutes - 15.1 MBOur brews of choice, what the minimum wage should enable a person to do, and how long we’d want to live if we stayed healthy. With Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Félim from Late Night Linux, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary, Chris and Dalton from Linux After Dark. Patrons got this... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 272
March 12, 2024 02:51 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MBKDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source Switch emulator, Mozilla does another great thing for the Web, another reason to hate Spotify, and more. News KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community Megarelease Teething Problems This week... Read More
Linux Dev Time – Episode 93
March 10, 2024 11:56 - 21 minutes - 17.4 MBWhat we’ve learned over the years about the interview process for software development jobs, both as the applicant and the interviewer. 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... Read More
2.5 Admins 185: 2.5 Gigabits
March 07, 2024 17:56 - 28 minutes - 23.4 MBThe boss of Nvidia says kids don’t need to code because they can just use AI, companies sell their users’ data to train models, and why 2.5Gbps networking probably isn’t worth bothering with. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Jensen Huang says kids... Read More
Linux Matters 24: A mini swap adventure
March 05, 2024 20:09 - 32 minutes - 26.2 MBIn this episode: Alan has been Driving an electric Mini for two years. Mark is migrating to a new home server. Martin is using a modern version of swap. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 271
March 04, 2024 21:56 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MBIn a “brand new” segment we ask how you keep your kids safe online, and give our own thoughts. Plus Will tells us about a dirt cheap ham radio and the new way he sniffs Bluetooth traffic, Félim loves AI when it’s tracking his head, the open source way to control lighting rigs, a BBS-like... Read More
Linux After Dark – Episode 64
March 01, 2024 15:56 - 22 minutes - 18.7 MBGary’s recent (mostly) good experience with an Arm Chromebook makes us wonder about the current state of proper Linux on Arm laptops. Plus follow up on why the Wyse 5070 has some limitations, but is still a great little x86 box. Chris mentioned a FOSDEM talk Kolide Kolide ensures that if... Read More
2.5 Admins 184: Avast, mateys
February 29, 2024 22:14 - 32 minutes - 26.1 MBMore cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans students’ faces, using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News “So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 270
February 27, 2024 02:31 - 30 minutes - 24.7 MBThe BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of... Read More
Linux Dev Time – Episode 92
February 25, 2024 11:56 - 20 minutes - 17.1 MBThe automation tools we use in our development and why we use them. Plus how to engage with your project’s community – both in real time, and asynchronously. 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.... Read More
2.5 Admins 183: Unbootable Quantum Toothbrushes
February 22, 2024 17:56 - 31 minutes - 25.4 MBWhy it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ... Read More
Linux Matters 23: An Exodus of Bitcoin
February 20, 2024 20:09 - 32 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this episode: bcachefs debuted in Linux 6.7, and Martin has excitedly installed it on everything! Support bcachefs development via Patreon Alan helps someone with an Exodus of Bitcoin Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle Mark has pulled the trigger on a new “home server” You can send your feedback via [email protected]... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 269
February 19, 2024 21:56 - 28 minutes - 23 MBAn open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping, a static site generator for people migrating away from Bandcamp, hello world in every possible language, a synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope, why... Read More
Linux After Dark – Episode 63
February 16, 2024 15:56 - 19 minutes - 15.8 MBGary’s recent trip to FOSDEM made him wonder if the type of Linux user who goes to FOSS events has changed. Has the demographic shifted more towards “normal” people who use Linux as a tool rather than something to tinker with? Plus more on planned obsolescence, and a quick prediction about the Apple Vision Pro.... Read More
2.5 Admins 182: All the Small Things
February 15, 2024 21:36 - 29 minutes - 24.1 MBNginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News announcing freenginx.org Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software OpenZFS Native Encryption Use... Read More
Ask The Hosts – Episode 9
February 14, 2024 15:56 - 17 minutes - 14 MBHow we’d give away a million dollars, the oldest movies we’ve watched enough times to quote, and where and when we’d time travel to. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
Late Night Linux – Episode 268
February 13, 2024 01:57 - 29 minutes - 23.9 MBGreat news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts, the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, Xfce is finally moving towards Wayland, Kubuntu sticks with KDE 5 for the LTS, Mozilla makes changes at the top, and more. News Unattended updates for everyone, F-Droid 1.19 is... Read More
Linux Dev Time – Episode 91
February 11, 2024 11:56 - 20 minutes - 16.5 MBAndy Balaam joins us to talk about accepting contributions from devs with varying levels of experience. When to invest the time to mentor them, why documentation is important, how automated tools fit in, being willing to decline some contributions, dealing with companies vs individuals, and more. Kolide Kolide ensures that if... Read More
2.5 Admins 181: Triangle Fraud
February 08, 2024 17:56 - 29 minutes - 23.6 MBTrying to report a security issue lands a consultant in trouble, a new take on the drop shipping scam, setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, choosing the right disk size, and more. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
Linux Matters 22: Magazines reloaded
February 06, 2024 19:45 - 29 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode: Mark is reading magazines with Libby and Calibre plugins. Alan is building Telegram for Asahi Linux. Martin is virtualising on an M2 Macbook with Lima You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 267
February 05, 2024 21:56 - 35 minutes - 28.3 MBChris from ExplainingComputers joins us to discuss his Promoting Linux: An End-User Manifesto video. We talk about being an advocate and not a gatekeeper, being tolerant of other people’s choices, accepting that not everyone can use Linux, spreading the word that Linux has improved over the years, contributing where you can, and more. Plus why... Read More
Linux After Dark – Episode 62
February 02, 2024 15:56 - 21 minutes - 17.9 MBWe come up with our FOSS extremes. The funniest, the coolest, the cleverest, the most useful, the dullest, the most exciting, the most dangerous and problematic, the [something]est open source software. Projects we mentioned: alsamixer Glow Apache nginx HAProxy Redis VLC Kodi Nextcloud Coreutils Audacity Asahi Immich antennapod UniversalBlue Kolide Kolide... Read More
2.5 Admins 180: Email 777
February 01, 2024 21:31 - 33 minutes - 27 MBMicrosoft’s rudimentary error that allowed an attacker access to its executives’ emails, Pixel phones have another serious storage bug, hidden malware payload found at Ars Technica, and when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes BSDCan 2024 – Call... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 266
January 30, 2024 01:58 - 29 minutes - 23.7 MBApple does the bare minimum required to allow other browser engines and sideloading on iOS, which isn’t the good news for Firefox and open source that we hoped it would be. Plus the Mars helicopter has flown for the last time, Microsoft hands FOSS a great opportunity to stand out on privacy, Ubuntu annoys yet... Read More
Linux Dev Time – Episode 90
January 28, 2024 11:56 - 22 minutes - 18.1 MBHow 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... Read More
2.5 Admins 179: Y2K NotOK
January 25, 2024 17:56 - 32 minutes - 26.3 MBY2K 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... Read More
Linux Matters 21: Fetch is going to happen
January 23, 2024 20:06 - 32 minutes - 26.9 MBIn 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 [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 265
January 22, 2024 21:56 - 31 minutes - 25.6 MBA 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... Read More