Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

2.5 Admins 201: CVEs everywhere

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vulnerabilities in Asus hardware make us think there should be some regulations about what can be sold as a router, a VPN feature that we hadn’t hea...

Linux Matters 32: Quick, quicker, quickest

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we discuss: What’s new in quickemu. How quickgui came to be. Testing with quicktest.   You can send your feedback via show@linuxma...

Late Night Linux – Episode 287

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Unlocking the full potential of Nvidia graphics cards, hacking the otherwise bricked Spotify hardware device, Félim realised that his Borg backups co...

Linux After Dark – Episode 72

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by Florian Beijers who is a full time screen reader user to talk about how the accessibility experience differs on various operating sys...

2.5 Admins 200: Even more free consulting

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard drive availability, USB-C robustness, ZFS performance o...

Late Night Linux – Episode 286

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New RISC-V and Arm Linux laptops are starting to pave the way for an exciting future, Mozilla makes another divisive acquisition, a couple of big anni...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 100

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you want to be a good developer, how many different programming languages should you learn? Maybe becoming an expert in one specific language is th...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 06

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Google Cloud teaches us about eggs and baskets by losing a big customer’s data, and Microsoft’s carbon emissions are up significantly – probably...

2.5 Admins 199: Rest In Parity

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How to prepare for your loved ones to have the access they need if the worst unexpectedly happens, Joe’s weird issues with wireless access points, a...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 13

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether self-driving cars are the future, and the skills we would download into our brains (Matrix-style). With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from...

Linux Matters 31: Searching for a New Voice

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of th...

Late Night Linux – Episode 285

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Your favourite obscure open source software in Voice of the masses. Plus whether AI is a load of old rubbish, and even if it is useful for some things...

Linux After Dark – Episode 71

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gary is organising OggCamp this year, so we wonder what makes the perfect Linux and open source event. Plus why we don’t use multiple partitions for...

2.5 Admins 198: SMB Pulse

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogent root-server mysteriously goes out of sync withou...

Late Night Linux – Episode 284

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processi...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 99

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Forks are a fundamental aspect of open source software so we get into the different types of forks, when and why you might want to fork a project, the...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 05

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We look at OpenShift from an external perspective, including how it works in a multi-cloud environment, how it abstracts cloud resources, when adminis...

2.5 Admins 197: Exchange Money

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Linux kernel developers were infected with malware for 2 years, another nail in the coffin of proper federated email as Exchange Server moves to a sub...

Linux Matters 30: Quickemu rising from the Bashes

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines. Alan ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 283

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We look back at what Linux and open source was like when we first got into it, and consider some of the ways that things have improved over all these ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 70

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How we make our Web experiences better with various plugins, websites and services. Plus the ethics of blocking ads, bypassing paywalls, and supportin...

2.5 Admins 196: Won’tel

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft’s new Copilot+ feature will record everything you are doing on your computer for some reason, but it will only work on new Arm hardware fo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 282

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The whole band is back together for the first time in a while and we’ve got “excellent” news that Raspberry Pi is doing an IPO, another look at ...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 98

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by Allan Jude to talk about what it’s like to run a company that develops and maintains open source software with a focus on upstream...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 04

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why AWS changed its policy on charging for HTTP errors on S3 buckets, how Bluesky dealt with an explosion in popularity by moving to on-prem, IBM buys...

2.5 Admins 195: Execute Option 121

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why Windows 10 might be gaining users at Windows 11’s expense, an old DHCP option is a potential risk for VPN users, we should probably say “renti...

Linux Matters 29: Desktop of the gods

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin has been perfecting the Pantheon desktop environment. Alan has been writing Go, and enjoying it. Mark has been playing Against...

Late Night Linux – Episode 281

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the last ~10 years we’ve seen a lot of changes happen in the Linux and open source world. So what do we think will happen over the next decade? W...

Linux After Dark – Episode 69

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is Linux hard to use? It turns out the answer is both “yes, absolutely” and “not at all!”         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device i...

2.5 Admins 194: Thundering Mastodon

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mastodon’s link previews are causing downtime for web servers without properly configured caching, locking down DNS inside Windows networks, why usi...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 12

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Popular songs we can’t stand, and our biggest regrets in life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Pa...

Late Night Linux – Episode 280

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ubuntu 24.04 is out and we have mixed feelings about it. Plus bad news for RISC-V, a new Linux distro might control safety systems in cars, a classic ...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 97

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andy is a huge proponent of test-driven development and explains why – including types of code testing including unit tests and integration tests, w...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 03

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What “hybrid cloud” actually means to us. Where it works well, where it creates challenges, where the control plane should live, how to abstract d...

2.5 Admins 193: TV DoS

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different TVs, Jim’s alarming theory about AI malware, an...

Linux Matters 28: Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his shiny n...

Late Night Linux – Episode 279

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What we all think counts as a non-mainstream distro, and some great examples of them in Voice of the masses. Plus ASCII maps in the terminal, another ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 68

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints,...

2.5 Admins 192: ZFS Week

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are...

Late Night Linux – Episode 278

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, fur...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 96

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 02

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and clou...

2.5 Admins 191: Mechanical Turk

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary d...

Linux Matters 27: If I could just interject

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 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...

Late Night Linux – Episode 277

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How 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 ...

Linux After Dark – Episode 67

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We 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 ...

2.5 Admins 190: twitterz

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A 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.  ...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 11

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 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 fr...

Late Night Linux – Episode 276

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’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 det...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 95

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by Drew DeVault to discuss his programming language called Hare, which aims for 100 years of forwards compatibility. We mentioned Drew’...

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 01

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and e...

2.5 Admins 189: Too Much Glass

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube...

Linux Matters 26: Snappy Snap Snapshots

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 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 T...

Late Night Linux – Episode 275

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 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...

Linux After Dark – Episode 66

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ubuntu 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 m...

2.5 Admins 188: Farewell to Core

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scali...

Late Night Linux – Episode 274

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubu...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 94

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How 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     ...

2.5 Admins 187: MDK

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and ...

Linux Matters 25: The joy of Linux torture

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 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 sen...

Late Night Linux – Episode 273

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What 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 usag...

Linux After Dark – Episode 65

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We 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...

2.5 Admins 186: Jim Defends the CFAA

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Roku 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...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 10

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our 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...

Late Night Linux – Episode 272

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

KDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source S...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 93

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What we’ve learned over the years about the interview process for software development jobs, both as the applicant and the interviewer.       Kol...

2.5 Admins 185: 2.5 Gigabits

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 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 ne...

Linux Matters 24: A mini swap adventure

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 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 swa...

Late Night Linux – Episode 271

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 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...

Linux After Dark – Episode 64

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gary’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...

2.5 Admins 184: Avast, mateys

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans students’ faces, using a small NVMe drive with ZFS,...

Late Night Linux – Episode 270

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 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, Appl...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 92

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 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 asyn...

2.5 Admins 183: Unbootable Quantum Toothbrushes

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why 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 par...

Linux Matters 23: An Exodus of Bitcoin

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: bcachefs debuted in Linux 6.7, and Martin has excitedly installed it on everything! Support bcachefs development via Patreon Alan hel...

Late Night Linux – Episode 269

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionali...

Linux After Dark – Episode 63

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gary’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...

2.5 Admins 182: All the Small Things

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more.   Plugs Support us ...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 9

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How 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 Amolit...

Late Night Linux – Episode 268

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Great news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts,  the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, ...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 91

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Balaam joins us to talk about accepting contributions from devs with varying levels of experience. When to invest the time to mentor them, why do...

2.5 Admins 181: Triangle Fraud

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Trying 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 ben...

Linux Matters 22: Magazines reloaded

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Mark is reading magazines with Libby and Calibre plugins. Alan is building Telegram for Asahi Linux. Martin is virtualising on an M2 ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 267

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chris from ExplainingComputers joins us to discuss his Promoting Linux: An End-User Manifesto video. We talk about being an advocate and not a gatekee...

Linux After Dark – Episode 62

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We come up with our FOSS extremes. The funniest, the coolest, the cleverest, the most useful, the dullest, the most exciting, the most dangerous and p...

2.5 Admins 180: Email 777

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft’s rudimentary error that allowed an attacker access to its executives’ emails, Pixel phones have another serious storage bug, hidden mal...

Late Night Linux – Episode 266

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Apple 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 th...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 90

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How 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 ...

2.5 Admins 179: Y2K NotOK

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Y2K 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 u...

Linux Matters 21: Fetch is going to happen

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Alan is emulating SoundBlaster cards in FreeDOS on bare metal. Vogons Mark is planning for HP Microserver hardware failure Martin ann...

Late Night Linux – Episode 265

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A 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 fr...

Linux After Dark – Episode 61

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we decide which devices and which software we trust?         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your a...

2.5 Admins 178: LOTS of Storage

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep do...

Late Night Linux – Episode 264

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Félim gets angry about someone criticising desktop Linux, Snaps are going to be better on distros that aren’t Ubuntu, Mozilla wants to lead the way...

Linux Dev Time – Episode 89

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We follow up on last episode with some clarifications from Amolith about code collaboration. Plus we get into development workflows in general, code r...

2.5 Admins 177: Don’t Pay the Dane

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why the problems with open source licenses aren’t quite as easy to fix as some people think, the reasons you should never pay ransomware gangs, and ...

Ask The Hosts – Episode 8

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What pets we have, the best YouTube videos we’ve ever seen, and our non-Linux or podcasting hobbies. With Félim from Late Night Linux and Kevin fro...

Linux Matters 20: Unfold Your Coding Potential

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode: Martin is using the unfold.ai coding assistant to turn the MVP Rust project, ia-get, into a “product”. Alan has impressions of ac...

Late Night Linux – Episode 263

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The easy way to control Home Assistant from anywhere while also supporting the project, running LLMs with a single local file, learning and practising...

Linux After Dark – Episode 60

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2023, and talk about what we want to happen in 2024.       Support us on Pa...