Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
Episodes
Linux Matters 44: A textual rummage with Jason
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype. Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial, ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 311
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about...
Linux After Dark – Episode 84
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins. ncspot py-spy OggCamp Distrobox BoxBuddy audio-visualizer-python Support us...
2.5 Admins 224: ZipLocked
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Intel’s CEO departs but replacing him won’t magically solve its serious problems, Zipcar wasn’t prepared for an outage and handled it really bad...
Late Night Linux – Episode 310
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewha...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 112
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More of our development hot takes including excessive energy use, optimising your code, the importance of licences, Matrix and Jabber being on the sam...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 18
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How worthwhile cloud certifications are, whether they really demonstrate much more than your ability to pass an exam, how they relate to real world ex...
2.5 Admins 223: Google Juice Abuse
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affil...
Linux Matters 43: Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OggCampIn this episode: Alan uses vhs to make a short video Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp Martin ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 309
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use...
Linux After Dark – Episode 83
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here was “what would Jim and Allan from 2.5 Admins NOT...
2.5 Admins 222: Surprise Upgrade
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client, restricting a friend’s access to just their back...
Late Night Linux – Episode 308
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE ...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 111
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the work-adjacent things that we do including writing code that we shouldn’t like writing Rust in Rust, fun projects that turned into paid w...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 17
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What would be on our cloud tools wishlist to make our lives better? Consistent APIs and IAM across clouds, vulnerability information for dependencies ...
2.5 Admins 221: Two Firewalls
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jim and Allan discover modern charging tech and marvel at what’s possible in the USB-C era, more on IPv6 firewalls, using ZFS like Git, and running ...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 18
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our first games systems, whether we wear watches, and the most cringe moments from our youth. With popey from Linux Matters, Will from Late Night Linu...
Linux Matters 42: Somewhere over the Keybow
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus Alan has been creating ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 307
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will went back to GNOME and made it exactly like Xfce, Félim used an unethical app ethically, and Graham had a great time at the Ubuntu Summit. Plus ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 82
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Where do we draw the line when it comes to being made to use software that we don’t want to at work? Plus why only half of us use Linux on the deskt...
2.5 Admins 220: Get a Job
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How using a copy-on-write filesystem like ZFS can get systems back online within seconds after ransomeware encrypts all your data, and even warn you m...
Late Night Linux – Episode 306
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open ...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 110
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our development hot takes including “rewrite it in Rust”, lack of documentation, single vs multiple monitors, dependency numbers, light vs dark mo...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 16
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How to be the change you wish to see in the workplace, how application architecture and infrastructure architecture are related, and if there are any ...
2.5 Admins 219: Spooky Stories
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Halloween so Jim and Allan share horrific and spooky stories from their sysadmin careers. Plus picking a UPS for a homelab. Plugs Support us...
Linux Matters 41: Punch up in the garden
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs. CLI setup: gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets: Create encrypted storage goc...
Late Night Linux – Episode 305
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printe...
Linux After Dark – Episode 81
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We revisit our home networking setups including using MoCa (network over coax), Chris searching for a unicorn, and relying on an Apple TV for home aut...
2.5 Admins 218: TLS TTL
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SSL certificates are likely going to last less time, the latest Windows 11 update leaves a huge chunk of data behind and doesn’t play nicely with so...
Late Night Linux – Episode 304
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The WordPress drama escalates, a great opportunity for Firefox to gain market share, Android will open up a little bit, the FOSS funding problem is so...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 109
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You need to be able to write good code to be a successful developer, but how important are other “soft” skills like communication, relating to and...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 15
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do we ever consider the environmental impacts of our cloud computing, or do we just like to watch the world burn? Send your questions a...
2.5 Admins 217: Drive Scavenging
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The difference between monitoring and metrics analysis, the security pros and cons of cloud vs on-prem, why Jim and Allan don’t use Unraid, and clou...
Linux Matters 40: The Reply Guys
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more. Som...
Late Night Linux – Episode 303
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Loads of discoveries including Will’s terrible way of flashing Android phones from a web browser, real-time database analytics, editing audio with t...
Linux After Dark – Episode 80
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Framework sent Joe a 13 DIY edition (for free and to keep) so we do our best to talk about it honestly. It’s a great machine, but you pay a premium ...
2.5 Admins 216: Pa55w0rd%
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NIST has finally proposed some sensible password standards, why server CPUs with high core counts make sense in a lot of deployments, the .io TLD is p...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 17
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How we remind ourselves of things, what we most and least enjoyed about school, what 3 colours we’d paint the world, which country has the best food...
Late Night Linux – Episode 302
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How the boss of WordPress spectacularly failed to read the room, why the CUPS vulnerabilities didn’t live up to the hype, Mozilla disappoints once a...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 108
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Campbell Barton joins us to talk about porting Blender, the hugely popular professional 3D software, to Wayland. Wayland support in blender task Wa...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 14
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The pros and cons of smaller cloud providers when compared with the huge ones, and security best practices when you’re new to Kubernetes. ...
2.5 Admins 215: Still no VLANs
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why cold storage is never as good as keeping your data warm and regularly tested, how the American air traffic control system became so outdated, and ...
Linux Matters 39: Rock around the underclock
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools: gpuviewer GreenWithEnvy Which needs a Coolbits bit mask of...
Late Night Linux – Episode 301
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Evangelho tells us about the rosy state of Linux gaming, including a lot of games that perform as well or even better than on Windows. Plus feed...
Linux After Dark – Episode 79
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Social media was a mistake that has caused polarisation through the spread of misinformation by grifters. We try to come up with some ideas for what t...
2.5 Admins 214: No VLANs
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A proposed solution to the WHOIS TLS verification problem gets a surprising amount of pushback. Plus isolating IoT devices, our thoughts on Ubiquiti g...
Late Night Linux – Episode 300
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We look back at the biggest news stories and trends from the last 7+ years and 300 episodes of LNL. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check ou...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 107
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is it about Linux that draws us to it as a development platform? Plus why we choose the specific distros that we use. 1Password Ex...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 13
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What our cloud strategy would be if we were CTOs, how companies should weigh up SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and trade off building vs buying. Integrating the...
2.5 Admins 213: Photo Philosophy
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Malaysian government’s misguided plan to control its citizens’ DNS, the wrong way to deploy underwater servers, a philosophical question about...
Linux Matters 38: A pair of comfortable GPUs
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android: Tempo GoSonic Ultrasonic Symphonium Martin names a whole new category of “Top...
Late Night Linux – Episode 299
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python o...
Linux After Dark – Episode 78
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is a proprietary games company driving all the innovation on the Linux desktop, and is that OK? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS ...
2.5 Admins 212: WHODIS
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A surprising way to exploit the WHOIS system, Microsoft will force old versions of Windows 11 to update, and the simple way to set up TP-Link Omada ge...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 16
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whose responsibility it is to check the pockets of laundry before washing it, the biggest mistakes we’ve nearly made, and Joe gets bullied about hea...
Late Night Linux – Episode 298
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mono moves to the Wine project, the Internet Archive can’t lend books but should have seen it coming, Mozilla adds unpopular AI to Firefox, and KDE ...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 106
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following on from our episode about dealing with a horrible codebase, Andy argues that completely rewriting a project is almost always a bad idea. Thi...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 12
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We often talk about working with cloud technologies, but how do we have fun with them? Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridclou...
2.5 Admins 211: Open Sourceless
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another example of the downsides of abstraction, whether AI can ever be truly “open source”, and the security benefits and drawbacks of different ...
Linux Matters 37: Lipstick on a font
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile cha...
Late Night Linux – Episode 297
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” L...
Linux After Dark – Episode 77
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We need to talk about Ubuntu (again). The updates situation is a confusing mess, a lot of enthusiast users have had enough and are starting to move to...
2.5 Admins 210: Ryzen Up
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AMD will patch some old Ryzens against SinkClose now, but their benchmarking methods for newer CPUs didn’t live up to everyday reality. Plus Bcachef...
Late Night Linux – Episode 296
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual b...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 105
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin and Andy talk about their project extremes: the oldest and newest projects they’ve worked on, the biggest and smallest codebases, the ugliest ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 11
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How much Linux and traditional sysadmin knowledge do you need for a career in cloud computing? Send your questions and feedback to show@hybri...
2.5 Admins 209: Faulty Defaults
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Insecure SSH implementations and a weak key that let a researcher control 200 MW of electrical capacity reignites the debate about versioned protocols...
Linux Matters 36: Themes, Streams and Audio Machines
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin. Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with stream...
Late Night Linux – Episode 295
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details abo...
Linux After Dark – Episode 76
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We once recorded an episode about GNOME that was so negative that we decided to delete our recordings and not publish it. Our opinions of GNOME have c...
2.5 Admins 208: All CPUs suck
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Forcing Windows to undo updates and a separate IPv6 vulnerability, hardware bugs in AMD and Intel CPUs, and using Samba on Linux with Active Directory...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 15
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What celebrities we look like, what books we are into and how we read them, and whether we can separate an artist’s work from their character. With ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 294
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Open source myths, Graham gives us an update on the Open Documentation Academy, and why we don’t really talk about mobile Linux anymore. Open sou...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 104
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How to deal with a horrible codebase that you’ve inherited. Getting started, breaking the problem into smaller pieces, understanding what’s actual...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 10
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 8 we talked about how to get started with Kubernetes, and this time we cover the next steps: How to set up ingress and east-west networking...
2.5 Admins 207: Insecure Boot
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Secure boot is compromised on hundreds of devices, Amazon’s desperate attempt to make money from Alexa, and how to decide which open source software...
Linux Matters 35: Mark was right, twice
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss: Migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors. Contributing package updates to Void and Apline ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 293
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Analysing MQTT data, getting domains unblocked from Cloudflare DNS, making ASCII animations, and why Joe is drawn to Linux Mint. Plus why we don’t t...
Linux After Dark – Episode 75
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How we learn, remember, and document new Linux and FOSS technologies. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes s...
2.5 Admins 206: CrowdStruck
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How and why the recent huge Windows outage was caused by a bad CrowdStrike update and how it could have been avoided, a hilariously dumb ESXi vulnerab...
Late Night Linux – Episode 292
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NVIDIA makes more of its drivers easier to install, the EU is probably going to redirect FOSS funding to AI, Mark Zuckerberg abuses the term “open s...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 103
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Developing as part of an in-person team vs working remotely, synchronous vs asynchronous development, how to make a hybrid team work effectively, and ...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 09
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about infrastructure as code, what it is, what it isn’t, how it differs from configuration management, how to structure it, best practices t...
2.5 Admins 205: Dogs Hate BTC
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How a Bitcoin mine made life in a Texas town absolutely miserable, why paying for extended support for end of life Windows versions is just doubling d...
Linux Matters 34: All of a Flutter
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter. Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sni...
Late Night Linux – Episode 291
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Testing the security of your Bluetooth devices, diffing databases, visualising MQTT data, running Linux VMs on an iPad or Iphone, org mode in Kate, an...
Linux After Dark – Episode 74
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all customise our phones and computers to one extent or another, but does it make sense to inflict our defaults on other people’s machines when w...
2.5 Admins 204: Maybe Don’t 5
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A widely-used login system is still using MD5 which is bad news, miscreants took over some domains when they moved from Google to Squarespace, Linksys...
Late Night Linux – Episode 290
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special ...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 102
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What agile software development is exactly, why planning and being willing to adapt the plan are key, the pros and cons of all the process that’s in...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 08
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How best to get started with Kubernetes and whether it is better to start with a low-touch option like MicroK8s/K3s, using a cloud-managed Kubernetes ...
2.5 Admins 203: Yet more free consulting
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We didn’t get to all of your questions for our Episode 200 free consulting special so here is another full episode of your questions and our answers...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 14
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The best TV show of all time, and the future of e-waste and what we can and will do about it. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and ...
Linux Matters 33: Welcome Homepage
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss: Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Over...
Late Night Linux – Episode 289
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An incredibly powerful hex editor for reverse engineering binaries, easily searching through snaphots for end users, streaming audio from phones to th...
Linux After Dark – Episode 73
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Having been given an Asus Eee PC netbook back, Joe wonders what to do with this ancient 32-bit machine. Plus the oldest machines we currently have in ...
2.5 Admins 202: Microsoft’s Underwater Again
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why we didn’t mention pocket fluff when we talked about USB-C charging issues, Microsoft abandons its promising underwater data center experiment an...
Late Night Linux – Episode 288
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Instead of the news which is all either boring or grim, we’ve come up with a fun Linux-themed game show that’s definitely not completely fixed. Pl...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 101
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andy is annoyed that so much free and open source software is hosted on a proprietary platform that’s owned by Microsoft. There are plenty of altern...
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 07
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We get personal and explain our home IT setups, sharing tips on learning new technologies like networking and Kubernetes while keeping the family TV w...