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2.5 Admins 176: Sudo Cognito
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does “incognito mode” in Chrome actually mean and whether documenting browser standards in code is a good idea, the serious implications of a...
Late Night Linux – Episode 262
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2023 predictions, and make some new ones for 2024. Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deplo...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 88
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to collaboration workflows, Amolith dislikes the pull request model that GitHub made popular and much prefers the email/patch-based appr...
2.5 Admins 175: Guess Who’s Listening
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Twitch pulls out of Korea thanks to the opposite of Net Neutrality, it’s not clear to what extent smart devices are listening to your conversations,...
Linux Matters 19: This is how I roll
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Mark is playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Alan is going LoCo in Ubuntu – You can contribute to the UK LoCo website on GitHub. Martin is bu...
Late Night Linux – Episode 261
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would we do to make the Internet and the Web better? Various hosts from the Late Night Linux Family shows offer their answers. With guest hosts G...
Linux After Dark – Episode 59
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The child’s toy that Chris hacked makes us remember the various other proprietary hardware and software that we’ve taken control of using free and...
2.5 Admins 174: Guess Who’s Watching
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What you need to know about the recent SSH vulnerability, yet another privacy issue with cloud-connected security cameras, why it’s difficult to get...
Late Night Linux – Episode 260
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, an...
Linux Dev Time – Episode 87
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time! In this first episode we talk about “sharpening our tools” – changing your dev tools, trying out new langu...
2.5 Admins 173: Ghost Files
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google Drive client users lost months of files, a feature of UEFI that has left millions of computers potentially vulnerable to persistent malware, an...
Linux Matters 18: Snap, Crackle and Desktop
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan stumbles upon Ubuntu Core Desktop Preview and gives it a shake on a SteamDeck. Mark further continues his adventures in the Fedi...
Late Night Linux – Episode 259
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s war on ad-blockers is potentially really good news for Firefox, and so are mobile extensions. Plus another quick terminal tip, a VM advent ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 58
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the Raspberry Pi 5 was announced, we all said that most people would probably be better off repurposing an x86 thin client so we bought some dirt...
2.5 Admins 172: HOLEy ZFS
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jim and Allan break down the details of the recent ZFS data corruption bug, and give their tips for managing a fleet of 40+ servers. Plug Support u...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 7
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The best ever version of Windows, movies that haunted us, distributed computing, and whether we do any exercise ever. With Chris, Dalton, and Gary fro...
Late Night Linux – Episode 258
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our first impressions of two new hot bits of hardware – the Steam Deck OLED, and the Raspberry Pi 5. Plus great news for self-hosted webmail, a call...
Linux Downtime – Episode 86
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin joins us to talk about the hype that surrounds some programming languages like Rust and Python, how some languages like Java went out of fashion...
2.5 Admins 171: RSA PSA
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why a small island nation’s top level domain ended up with such a terrible reputation, an ssh vulnerability that’s not as scary as it sounds, whet...
Linux Matters 17: Bottom is the new Top
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: B is for Bottom in Martin’s A-Z of Modern Unix. Alan takes Asahi Linux for a test drive on an M1 Macbook using Ubuntu Asahi. Mark c...
Late Night Linux – Episode 257
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An improvement to apt, a quick terminal tip, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, an M1 Macbook Asahi update, a self-hosted way to bypa...
Linux After Dark – Episode 57
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our memories of early positive experiences show us how communities have changed over the years, and the best ways to keep the experience positive thes...
2.5 Admins 170: Uninterruptible WiFi
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why and how Allan installed a set of new Power over Ethernet wireless access points, and our hardware recommendations for a media server and NAS in on...
Late Night Linux – Episode 256
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for...
Linux Downtime – Episode 85
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a meme that software developers should be forced to use low end hardware to experience what it’s like to be a real user. So what hardware ...
2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android mu...
Linux Matters 16: Blogging to the Fediverse
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Mark is publishing blog posts to the Fediverse with help from Seb Jambor’s ActivityPub.academy and Paul Kinlan’s blog. Martin is ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 255
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to...
Linux After Dark – Episode 56
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Half of us constantly change our hardware and software setups, and the other half like to keep things as constant as possible. Are we changing things ...
2.5 Admins 168: Do The Right Thing
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it should be, Jim’s report from the Ubuntu Summit, an...
Late Night Linux – Episode 254
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. P...
Linux Downtime – Episode 84
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Roger Light to discuss what it’s like to work for a company that uses the open core model — maintaining an open source project an...
2.5 Admins 167: Delayed Flush
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why we don’t talk about Toshiba hard drives very oft...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 6
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our spookiest experiences, singing in public, traveling with a single bag, the languages we’ve tried to learn, and the things we’ve crafted. With ...
Linux Matters 15: Mish Mash Mesh
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan upgrades the network in a rented student house with TP-Link Deco Mark details the gaming journey of a tiny-handed toddler from b...
Late Night Linux – Episode 253
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials...
Linux After Dark – Episode 55
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the spinning rust challenge! We try installing and running our operating systems on mechanical hard drives and learn that Linux is much less pa...
2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative exe...
Late Night Linux – Episode 252
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft tea...
Linux Downtime – Episode 83
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Marcin Kulik – the creator and maintainer of asciinema. We talk about the project itself, developing on Linux, IDEs, targetting a t...
2.5 Admins 165: Big AI
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS. News/discussion Opinion: The Copyri...
Linux Matters 14: One Hundred Percent Colombian
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Martin is using Distrobox, via Universal Blue, to run OBS Studio Portable built for Ubuntu on NixOS. You might also like Bazzite, an ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 251
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Open source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audi...
Linux After Dark – Episode 54
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of desktop computer users in the world use a Windows-like interface, so why do all the major distros ship GNOME which is totally dif...
2.5 Admins 164: Filthy Internet
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot. Feedback Don’...
Late Night Linux – Episode 250
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 5 announcement, yet another nail in Xorg’s coffin, why we aren’t convinced by Google’s commitment to 7 years of...
Linux Downtime – Episode 82
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Salter joins us to talk about getting the most out of your open source project. From designing and planning, to attracting contributors, consideri...
2.5 Admins 163: Two Factors One SPOF
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution. ...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 5
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whether we’re living in a simulation, our favourite foreign swear words, advertisers we’ve turned down, how we organise recordings and how much ge...
Linux Matters 13: Um, actually
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We go over the feedback from the first 12 episodes. Website All the shows in the Late Night Linux Family TPM Lots of people recommended YubiKey TPM-ba...
Late Night Linux – Episode 249
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Simulating logic circuits, cheap router hardware, Snap and Flatpak download metrics, frying hard drives with too many volts, gathering and mapping but...
Linux After Dark – Episode 53
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Something has gone wrong with the timeline and all software is free and open source. What does that world look like? Plus more on biometrics and deskt...
2.5 Admins 162: Irresponsible Disclosure
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed b...
Late Night Linux – Episode 248
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives peopl...
Linux Downtime – Episode 81
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How to get hired for your first development job, more on contributor license agreements, and our thoughts on different immutable OS approaches. Fid...
2.5 Admins 161: 5PiB Coffee Mug
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs....
Linux Matters 12: Steam Deck Emulation Done Right
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan is consolidating multiple services onto a dedicated server Mark is contributing to a large open source project Martin is retro g...
Late Night Linux – Episode 247
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sorting Python imports, searching open tabs and history etc in Firefox, configuring proprietary headsets on the command line, Fedora on an M1 Mac, dig...
Linux After Dark – Episode 52
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What hardware we recommend for desktop Linux users in 2023. Is it really as simple as buying a 5 year old ThinkPad? HelloFresh With HelloF...
2.5 Admins 160: Diss Unity
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive problem, how one-off promotional domains can come b...
Late Night Linux – Episode 246
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Steam Deck pushes Linux gaming stats over a small but significant threshold, why you should definitely switch from Chrome to Firefox, Microsoft th...
Linux Downtime – Episode 80
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Element developer Andy Balaam to talk about working on open source software after 20 years in the proprietary world. We get into work...
2.5 Admins 159: Dirty Install
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 4
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How our lives would change if cars ceased to exist, what intellectual property we’d make into a TV show or movie, and our worst cases of buyers’ r...
Linux Matters 11: Using Two GPUs at Once
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Mark has been exploring the secrets of the TPM Martin is running Radeon and NVIDIA GPUs in one PC. Alan is getting ongoing data from ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 245
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hacking 2-way radios, upgrading Debian from 10 to 12, sshing into the Ubuntu Server installer, a new version of a minimal keyboard-focused browser, es...
Linux After Dark – Episode 51
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Governments around the world are trying to undermine end-to-end encryption. Are they going to get away with forcing in backdoors, and what does it mea...
2.5 Admins 158: It Doesn’t Go to 10
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’...
Late Night Linux – Episode 244
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We can’t believe Proton has been around for 5 years, a bad sign for the Linux desktop long-term, the dilemma of whether to support your software on ...
Linux Downtime – Episode 79
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are all on board with the right to be forgotten but it can cause some tricky problems for open source projects – particularly small ones. Plus wh...
2.5 Admins 157: Lincoln’s HDD
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, a...
Linux Matters 10: History All The Way Down
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Martin is creating a magical shell history with Atuin Alan is using Axiom to visualise a “data takeout” of a Mini EV Mark is goin...
Late Night Linux – Episode 243
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 50
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The bits of Linux and open source software that we regret putting off trying, and what made us wait. From the security and complexity of containers to...
2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and ho...
Late Night Linux – Episode 242
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rare praise for Mozilla as more extensions come to Firefox on Android, Fedora is coming to Arm Macs, a rolling version of “Ubuntu” appears, an unw...
Linux Downtime – Episode 78
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why Amolith uses Arch, why Gary uses Debian, and why Joe uses Ubuntu. Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minute...
2.5 Admins 155: Dialup Memories
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recove...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 3
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What jobs we’d do if we didn’t work in IT, foreign countries we’d live in, the musical genres we are into, and what musical talents (if any) we ...
Linux Matters 9: Big Backup Bonanza
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan is backing up with rsnapshot Martin suggests BorgBackup is better Mark is using rclone to keep family photos safe You can ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 241
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Great news for Linux on RISC-V and open source Nvidia drivers, communicating with devices over serial the easy way, emulating an old calculator, a ful...
Linux After Dark – Episode 49
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All four of us have been Ubuntu users for a long time but we’ve been dabbling with different distros to see how they compare. Fedora, Debian, and op...
Late Night Linux – Episode 240
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We celebrate Slackware’s 30th birthday by trying it out and basking in its classic glory. Plus the BBC joins Mastodon, Google has dystopian plans fo...
Linux Downtime – Episode 77
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor license agreements aren’t very popular, but not having a CLA can cause problems for projects in the future. Gary can’t do things like ...
Linux Matters 8: Picking Apart the Steam Deck
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Mark is repairing a Steam Deck Alan is taking digital hoarding too far with Tube Archivist Martin is creating a magical LAN using the...
Late Night Linux – Episode 239
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A simple GUI for browsing SQLite databases, a terminal IRC client, some great Python resources, a clone of Task Manager for Linux, decoding data from ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 48
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What ever happened to convergence? The dream of having one computing device just never came true, and we get to the bottom of it. Plus how to avoid dr...
Late Night Linux – Episode 238
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Canonical takes control of LXD and it’s a little bit messy, Fedora might implement opt-out telemetry, and Félim sneaks in a mini KDE Korner. Plus m...
Linux Downtime – Episode 76
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are joined by Chris Waldon to talk about how to get started with coding and software development. Chris mentioned his blog. Factor Factor’...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 2
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our worst mistakes with a soldering iron, explaining the way we end most LNL episodes, how we vote with our money, and avoiding echo chambers. With Fé...
Linux Matters 7: Immutable Desktop Linux for Anyone
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Martin makes a NixOS configuration for non-technical family members Alan takes a Steam Deck on an aeroplane Mark is publishing a GNOM...
Late Night Linux – Episode 237
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will finds a domain registrar with a terrible name, Graham baffles us with 3D graphics, Félim discovers hidden python tools, and Joe does some maths ...
Linux After Dark – Episode 47
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The things we feel like we are missing in Linux, and what we miss from Linux when we use proprietary platforms. We mentioned Dalton’s tool called Bo...
Late Night Linux – Episode 236
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There’s only one news story this week, and it’s a big one. Red Hat dropped a bombshell on the RHEL rebuild communities by announcing that they wil...
Linux Downtime – Episode 75
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is there really a renaissance in open communication tools? Does the success of the Fediverse mean that people are finally moving away from the huge co...
Linux Matters 6: Writing A Game For Linux
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode: Alan is extending the range of ADSB receivers and sending data to additional places Mark is “hacking” a washing machine Martin is...
Late Night Linux – Episode 235
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The pros and cons of working on open source software, streaming your Android screen to desktop Linux, a Hacker News alternative, stabilizing video, an...
Linux After Dark – Episode 46
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The oldest machines we’d be willing to daily drive including a ThinkPad with Libreboot, the ways that old laptops are sometimes better, and why Micr...
Late Night Linux – Episode 234
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A victory against the dystopian nightmare of facial recognition, Reddit drama might be good news long term, Google kills yet another service so muckyj...
Linux Downtime – Episode 74
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jorge tries to address Félim‘s concerns about immutable desktop distros like Silverblue and Universal Blue. Factor Factor’s fresh, never fr...