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Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
All episodes from Late Night Linux, Linux Dev Time, Linux After Dark, 2.5 Admins, Hybrid Cloud Show, and Ask The Hosts.
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Linux After Dark – Episode 102
It’s our annual episode where we need to talk about Ubuntu. This time most of us are broadly indifferent about the distro itself, so we end up mostly…
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2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email
AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water…
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 27
The field of science we find most interesting, the bionic enhancements we’d want, the longest we’ve stayed awake, and the wisdom we’d pass…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 346
A new Debian version is out and it’s the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, GitHub…
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 130
Not invented here syndrome is very common in open source. We get into why that is, when it makes sense to start your own project from scratch, and how…
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 36
Shane gives us an update on his janky Kubernetes homelab. The storage is under control with ZFS, he’s got a decent switch, and everything is in Git…
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2.5 Admins 259: New Web?
The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a…
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Linux Matters 61: Coding in my pants
In this episode: Martin has a fancy GitHub profile. Shields.io – Concise, consistent, and legible badges github-readme-stats – Dynamically…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 345
Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports…
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Linux After Dark – Episode 101
Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premium price…
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2.5 Admins 258: Artificial Dirtbag
Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 344
Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding…
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 129
With the recent news of Bcachefs (probably) being removed from the Linux kernel, we are joined by Allan Jude from 2.5 Admins and Klara to discuss some of what…
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 35
What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, available tools…
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2.5 Admins 257: Outage365
Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let’s Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses, and…
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Linux Matters 60: Frankenstein’s Ubuntu Server Framework
In this episode: Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway? Mark upgrades the SSD in his Framework laptop in…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 343
The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops…
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Linux After Dark – Episode 100
It’s our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hardware…
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2.5 Admins 256: Why ZFS
To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 342
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…
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 128
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…
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 34
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…
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2.5 Admins 255: Copyright Your Face
Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the…
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 26
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…
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Linux Matters 59: Old Man Yells At GMail
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…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 341
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…
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Linux After Dark – Episode 99
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…
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2.5 Admins 254: chrudo
A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 340
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…
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 127
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…
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 33
How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Prometheus…
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2.5 Admins 253: ImpossibleFS
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…
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Linux Matters 58: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
In this episode: Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations. Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 339
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…
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Linux After Dark – Episode 98
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…
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2.5 Admins 252: Nintendon’t Back Up
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…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 338
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…
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 126
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…
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 32
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…
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2.5 Admins 251: OversharePoint
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…
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 25
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…
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Linux Matters 57: Nerdy Day Trips
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…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 337
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…
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Linux After Dark – Episode 97
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…
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2.5 Admins 250: Better RAIDz?
Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta’s new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the inside…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 336
Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functionality…
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 125
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…
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 31
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…
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2.5 Admins 249: Octopodian Nightmare
Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime”…
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Linux Matters 56: Python a-Go-Go
In this episode: Alan builds a content pipeline with ALL THE MODELS! Mark switches Bookshelf Buddy Martin completes his Fedi-migration from Fosstodon to…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 335
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…
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Linux After Dark – Episode 96
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…
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2.5 Admins 248: NASty Pi
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…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 334
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…
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 124
It’s another hot questions episode. Tabs vs spaces, whether we have imposter syndrome, why software keeps getting heavier, the correct length of…
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 30
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…
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2.5 Admins 247: MPOF
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…
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 24
Our least favourite fandoms, frivolous things we’d buy, favourite childhood TV shows and movies, and house cleaning hacks. With Amolith, Kevin, and Andy…
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Linux Matters 55: Thoccing Heavy
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…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 333
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…