Late Night Linux All Episodes

Mixed gaming news, Google's AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones DOGWALK Official Release Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access... Read More

What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project.           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

How we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebula) and reverse proxies. Sean introduces us to Pangolin as an open source alternative middle-ground.       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More

Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Microsoft's... Read More

Whether we'd live in the country side or the city, the best Christmas presents we got as kids, and our Christmas movie traditions. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, Martin, Mark and Allan from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.         Patrons got this this in their... Read More

In this episode: Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development. Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop. Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail.   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... Read More

Joe can't decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites.   Discoveries Home Assistant Developer Environment xLights QLC+ Telegram snap issue... Read More

It's part 2 of the £50 Linux machine challenge! This time: actually using them, what upgrades we did, what we'll actually use them for, and more.   Listen to part 1 here.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our... Read More

A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network's firewall.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A... Read More

Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more.   News Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing... Read More

When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it's hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder.   Blog post about the speed of ripgrep hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool Profile-guided optimization Andy benchmarking IndexedDb             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed... Read More

How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo), and how to approach observability without overcomplicating things.       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes      ... Read More

Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Performance Tuning –... Read More

In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips. Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube.   You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you'd like to hang out with... Read More

Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time.   Discoveries Strudel rsyncy Spring IceCream DNS4EU   News/discussion Two city governments in Denmark are... Read More

It's the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to... Read More

Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn't regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient,... Read More

X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more.   News Ubuntu 25.10 drops... Read More

How we deal with complex projects involving non-technical people as well as developers. How to manage expectations about timing, how to deal with issues, why documenting conversations is important, and more.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page... Read More

After over 10 years of using Synology appliances for his backups, Gary has had enough of their shenanigans and needs to rethink his whole setup.   Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives AOOSTAR NAS series UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS Fractal Design Node 304 – Black – Mini Cube... Read More

SharePoint is exploitable by Microsoft's AI, NIST proposes a new metric for exploited vulnerabilities, SBCs that look cool for a mini NAS and a router,  and setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes The Maintainer's Dilemma: Strategies for... Read More

Sports we'd take up if we were less unfit and lazy, whether we listen to our own podcasts, what the best time of day is, and our favourite sci-fi shows. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.         Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.  ... Read More

In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin's blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website. Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your... Read More

Redis finally picks the right licence but it's probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender's... Read More

Some of our hot takes and some from other people. Your OS is a passive gateway to apps and services, OSTree sucks, when you need to reboot Ubuntu is a mystery, stop hiding things from users, Chris needs an “I use Debian by the way” t-shirt, and more.   Zak's post on Mastodon Luke Miani's... Read More

Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta's new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the inside details of a new mixed-disk-size ZFS RAID feature, and moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes The... Read More

Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud's Android app was missing key functionality until they made a public stink about it, WSL is now open source, there's a new open source command-line text editor in Windows, and more.   News Investing in what moves the... Read More

What are the fundamental ideas and components of development and programming?         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

When should you consider using a third-party management tool, rather than just the ones built into your cloud of choice?     Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com         Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the... Read More

Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let's Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More

In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to GoToSocial.     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... Read More

Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more documentation tools, and moving to a new Mastodon instance.   Discoveries entii-for-workcubes Learn C, Coding for Kids Isonzo Material for MkDocs markata mdq Moving to a new Mastodon instance... Read More

We recently talked about the lowest-end hardware we'd be willing to use as a daily desktop machine, but what about headless boxes? It turns out that it depends on what exactly it's doing and to what extent we have to actively interact with it. Ultimately we could probably use slower hardware than we actually do... Read More

TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there's a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn't make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More

It's the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least some positive things about the thing we land on. (It makes sense once we start).           Porkbun.com Go to https://porkbun.com/LNL25 to get $1 off your... Read More

It's another hot questions episode. Tabs vs spaces, whether we have imposter syndrome, why software keeps getting heavier, the correct length of functions and files, and what every programmer should know.   Some things we mentioned: Interesting Characters (UTF-16, utf-8, Unicode, encodings) Software Design is Knowledge Building The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know... Read More

Sean tells us about bootable containers and asks for our opinions on how he plans to use them with Kubernetes. He mentions Talos Linux.         Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com       Insta360 X5 Camera To get a free invisible selfie stick worth US$24.99 with your purchase, go to... Read More

The basic computer science problems that still remain unsolvable, why you shouldn't trust AI to tune ZFS (or answer any admin questions), and setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   Discussion Why You Can't Trust... Read More

Our least favourite fandoms, frivolous things we'd buy, favourite childhood TV shows and movies, and house cleaning hacks. With Amolith, Kevin, and Andy from Linux Dev Time.           Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

In this episode: Mark has been prototyping Bookshelf Buddy devices with Raspberry Pi. See the demo here. Alan has been using bots, to build bots, that pretend not to be bots. Martin fell down a rabbit hole filled with keyswitches and keycaps.   You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If... Read More

The US government is trying to break up Google which sounds like a great idea, but it is potentially catastrophic news for Mozilla and Firefox. Alex from Open Web Advocacy tells us all about it. But first we talk about blocking ads on the web with Pi-hole, uBlock Origin, and AdGuard public DNS.    ... Read More

What Linux and FOSS technology should Joe learn next? Is it a case of waiting for a problem to present itself before even trying?       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.... Read More

Old passwords work for Windows RDP, Broadcom shows why perpetual software licenses aren't really forever, Windows Server is getting hotpatching, and preventing changes to archived files.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS   News/discussion Windows RDP... Read More

Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants you to use the “proper” VS Code, Intel AI chips aren't selling well, yet another open source project has to deal with crawlers, TrueNAS goes Linux-only, and more.   News Trump DOJ goon... Read More

Andy is convinced that functional programming isn't boring. Listen to find out if he's right!   Functional Programming & Haskell Beautiful Racket Functional Programming & Haskell – Computerphile         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get... Read More

Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren't quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane's janky Kubernetes setup, and more.         Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com       Insta360 X5 Camera To... Read More

Crosswalks were comically vulnerable to being hacked, even Google struggles with tiered SSD and HDD storage, some insight into how AI scrapers are using domestic IPs, and creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Inside FreeBSD Netgraph:... Read More

In this episode: Martin switches from traditional mice ️

Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics manipulation, strange old audio archives, and more.   Discoveries  POWKIDDY X55 ROCKNIX undercut-f1 WebTUI Astro Docs Pinta 3.0 python-sh Attention K-Mart Shoppers Techmoan r/LiminalSpace The Conet Project You are listening to... Read More

What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See our contact page for ways to get... Read More

Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn't appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted backups.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Robust & Reliable Backup... Read More