Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Linux After Dark – Episode 96

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

2.5 Admins 248: NASty Pi

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there’s a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why t...

Late Night Linux – Episode 334

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 124

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s another hot questions episode. Tabs vs spaces, whether we have imposter syndrome, why software keeps getting heavier, the correct length of fun...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 30

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sean tells us about bootable containers and asks for our opinions on how he plans to use them with Kubernetes. He mentions Talos Linux.         Se...

2.5 Admins 247: MPOF

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The basic computer science problems that still remain unsolvable, why you shouldn’t trust AI to tune ZFS (or answer any admin questions), and settin...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 24

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our least favourite fandoms, frivolous things we’d buy, favourite childhood TV shows and movies, and house cleaning hacks. With Amolith, Kevin, and ...

Linux Matters 55: Thoccing Heavy

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Late Night Linux – Episode 333

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

Linux After Dark – Episode 95

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

2.5 Admins 246: Perpetual Hotpatch

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Old passwords work for Windows RDP, Broadcom shows why perpetual software licenses aren’t really forever, Windows Server is getting hotpatching, and...

Late Night Linux – Episode 332

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants ...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 123

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andy is convinced that functional programming isn’t boring. Listen to find out if he’s right!   Functional Programming & Haskell Beautiful Racket...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 29

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 c...

2.5 Admins 245: IPaaS

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Crosswalks were comically vulnerable to being hacked, even Google struggles with tiered SSD and HDD storage, some insight into how AI scrapers are usi...

Linux Matters 54: High Precision Solid Metal Balls

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin switches from traditional mice ️🖱️ to trackball ️🖲️ and gets a bit carried away with customising them 🪩 L-Tra...

Late Night Linux – Episode 331

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics...

Linux After Dark – Episode 94

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.  ...

2.5 Admins 244: Branded and Splintered

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 sh...

Late Night Linux – Episode 330

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and mor...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 122

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve done hot takes episodes in the past but this is different, it’s hot questions. Would we rather have bad managers who can code or good manage...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 28

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges o...

2.5 Admins 243: 0.5 Centuries

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

IPv4 addresses are worth an awful lot of money, the serious dangers of a seemingly sensible deepfake law, Microsoft is 50 years old, and our thoughts ...

Linux Matters 53: Crafting Bookshelf Buddy

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025 Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacem...

Late Night Linux – Episode 329

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phone...

Linux After Dark – Episode 93

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thre...

2.5 Admins 242: Malscraping

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jim’s server is getting hammered by AI scrapers and he’s big mad about it, why RCS doesn’t work on Android without Google apps, a complex Google...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 23

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our weirdest collections, food we’ve eaten as a dare, and the nicest thing someone has done for us. With Félim from Late Night Linux, Gary from Lin...

Late Night Linux – Episode 328

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI crawlers are causing serious problems for open source projects, an example of disclosure by vagueposting, Zorin does something good and something b...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 121

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joe accidentally tried vibe coding and it was as much of a disaster as you’d imagine. Amolith has also tried it, and does his best to defend the use...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 27

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The best way to cope with a huge spike in traffic on a product launch day, and the most important public and private cloud technologies to learn.   S...

2.5 Admins 241: Anecdatum

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Whether tech debt is inevitable and where the blame lies, how to properly organise ZFS datasets, and selectively managing updates.   Plugs Support us...

Linux Matters 52: Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits!

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark has started developing a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players. Alan has taken a look at Docs, but did...

Late Night Linux – Episode 327

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if Google hadn’t come along in the late 90s? What would search, mobile devices, and the web in general look like? Plus a musical discovery, and...

Linux After Dark – Episode 92

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We look at postmarketOS on various devices old and new, Arm and x86, and are impressed.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS fe...

2.5 Admins 240: 30 DVI Cables

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The key differences between throughput and latency – and when they matter, the tech that we’d keep if we stopped working in IT, and avoiding bitro...

Late Night Linux – Episode 326

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye t...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 120

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our advice on how to move into a career in software development including making and contributing to projects, advocating for your work, collaborating...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 26

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shane tells us about the janky Kubernetes homelab that he’s building, and we all laugh at him.           Send your questions and feedback to sh...

2.5 Admins 239: Collective Power

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

RISC-V is on the rise in China, why Power CPUs aren’t as promising, the dystopian nightmare of surveillance tech at work, and  decrypting ZFS at bo...

Linux Matters 51: Moodling Myself Silly

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has created smiti18n (pronounced smitten) – A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support 🌕💕...

Late Night Linux – Episode 325

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forci...

Linux After Dark – Episode 91

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more import...

2.5 Admins 238: Hyperbranded Nonsense

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ten-year-old Chromecasts stop working, movie DVDs start rotting, Skype is finally dying, using ZFS on VM guests and hosts.   Plugs Support us on patr...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 22

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our first jobs, how we balance staying informed and staying sane, and the best time of year. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and popey from Linux Matte...

Late Night Linux – Episode 324

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 119

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Andy is only publishing his games on F-Droid and not the Google Play Store from now on, and he tells us why.   Rabbit Escape Box Stacker Smolpxl Game...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 25

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What the new Docker pull limits really mean and how to deal with them, and whether paying for 12 years of support for Kubernetes is a good idea.   Do...

2.5 Admins 237: Kafkaesque

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

HP was forcing people to wait on hold for 15 minutes to get support, the DOGE site was embarrassingly insecure, setting up encrypted offsite backups, ...

Linux Matters 50: Syfting Through a LÖVEly Rack

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable. Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance. ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 323

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is...

Linux After Dark – Episode 90

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana, Joe got ReactOS, Gary got GhostBSD, and Chris got Haiku.   Haiku Package Manage...

2.5 Admins 236: Hybrid Admins Show

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Arm is going to make its own server chips, WordPress is selling “100 year” domain registrations, geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows t...

Late Night Linux – Episode 322

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very n...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 118

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We dig into the technical details of the Linux Kernel Rust drama.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes somet...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 24

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The best ways to implement geo-redundancy for containers and VMs using load balancers and Kubernetes, and moving 5TB of storage to the cloud.      ...

2.5 Admins 235: XKCD221

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google found a way to run unofficial microcode on AMD CPUs, whether software should get a CVE when it goes end of life, LLMs changing Redditors’ min...

Linux Matters 49: Mark Down in the Console Caves

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD. Mark puts on his robe...

Late Night Linux – Episode 321

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the M...

Linux After Dark – Episode 89

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.           Support...

2.5 Admins 234: ChiaFraud

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block stora...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 21

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The furthest north and south we’ve been, art that means something to us, which brand of battery power tools we use, and how we hang our toilet roll....

Late Night Linux – Episode 320

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 117

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark from Linux Matters who’s a web developer joins us to talk about working in PHP – a language that’s mature and well established, and how tha...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 23

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is being cloud-first more about the target for your workloads, or more about mindset?   Send your questions and feedback to [email protected] ...

2.5 Admins 233: 2.005 Admins

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s n...

Linux Matters 48: Algorithms, Actions, and GitHub Adventures

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act. Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skil...

Late Night Linux – Episode 319

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus...

Linux After Dark – Episode 88

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t...

2.5 Admins 232: S:

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication ov...

Late Night Linux – Episode 318

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not th...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 116

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Where is the balance between efficiency and openness when it comes to saved file formats? If everything was based on plain text it would make the file...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 22

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we discuss some challenges around using and testing lower environments, how to easily run integration tests using Testcontainers, and ...

2.5 Admins 231: USB 3.2.2-ubuntu2

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft didn’t control an important domain that it was using and end up red-faced, the dangers of using free VPN apps, a proof of concept exploit ...

Linux Matters 47: Not a Bar or a Camp

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career. Alan is organising BarCamp Surrey at Godalming College...

Late Night Linux – Episode 317

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sourc...

Linux After Dark – Episode 87

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating Ubuntu, getting mad at Docker, trying to recover Mi...

2.5 Admins 230: Pool of Theseus

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new version of ZFS is out and we go over the great new features. Plus recovering data after accidentally writing part of an ISO onto a USB drive, ho...

Late Night Linux – Episode 316

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi ...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 115

12 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We dig into SQLite – an interesting and unusual project that is widely used but has an uncommon licence, a proprietary test suite, and doesn’t tak...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 21

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We reflect on what we have seen in the public and private cloud world in the last year, and look forward at what we expect to see in 2025.     Send ...

2.5 Admins 229: LiFePo4Life

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jim and Allan explain the benefits of a lithium iron phosphate “UPS”, whether it’s possible to delete every single copy of a file, and using Blu...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 20

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a Christmas special! Our favourite festive foods and ones we dislike, when we buy presents, and our unusual traditions. With popey, Mark and Ma...

Linux Matters 46: Streaming your way to freedom

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter Packs Mark migra...

Late Night Linux – Episode 315

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025.         Sandfly Securitry Sandfly Security’...

Linux After Dark – Episode 86

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2024, and talk about what we want to happen in 2025.       Support us on Pa...

2.5 Admins 228: Century-Scale Storage

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What it would take to reliably store data for a hundred years including Institutional funding and organization, decade-proof redundancy, multiple hot ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 314

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPres...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 114

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We explore the line between developer and sysadmin and come to the conclusion that despite the clear difference between the roles, there is a lot of c...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 20

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Red Hat donates a bunch of container tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and we are broadly positive about it. Plus some of our highlights ...

2.5 Admins 227: Six Day Certs

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Windows ssh is sending more telemetry than you might think, Let’s Encrypt will offer 6 days certificates, a PSA about domains that don’t send emai...

Linux Matters 45: Working remotely on the Savannah

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page. Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are autom...

Late Night Linux – Episode 313

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser aut...

Linux After Dark – Episode 85

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to ...

2.5 Admins 226: Quantum Toddle

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern RSA or AES encryption, Russian attackers compromised a...

Late Night Linux – Episode 312

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 113

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, contain...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 19

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driv...

2.5 Admins 225: Kinetic Response

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware up...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 19

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The most surprising thing about ourselves, alternative computing form factors that we’d like, and whether we can be truly free. With popey from Linu...