Joe – Late Night Linux

2.5 Admins 236: Hybrid Admins Show

February 27, 2025 Joe

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Arm is going to make its own server chips, WordPress is selling “100 year” domain registrations, geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows to Backblaze B2.

Plugs

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Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces

News

Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry

The WordPress.com 100-Year Domain

Free Consulting

We were asked about geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows to Backblaze B2.

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 24

gdnsd

DNSMadeEasy – Failover Service [Allan’s Affiliate Link]

Kopia

snapshot verify | Kopia

RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery

SysCloud

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Late Night Linux – Episode 322

February 25, 2025 Joe

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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 nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin.

News

Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

Passing the torch on Asahi Linux

[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself

On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.) – Theodore Ts’o

Terence Eden on young people in FOSS

Linux Dev Time – Episode 118

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

Amazon Kindles jailbroken

Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning

Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy

Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

Matrix is at a T junction

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 118

February 23, 2025 Joe

All Shows Linux Dev Time

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We dig into the technical details of the Linux Kernel Rust drama.

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 24

February 21, 2025 Joe

All Shows Hybrid Cloud Show

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

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SysCloud

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2.5 Admins 235: XKCD221

February 20, 2025 Joe

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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’ minds and self-replicating, and managing SSH keys at scale.

Plugs

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ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots

News/discussion

How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 from RDRAND

CVEs for End of Life?

OpenAI says its models are more persuasive than 82 percent of Reddit users

AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified

Free Consulting

We were asked about managing SSH keys at scale.

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Linux Matters 49: Mark Down in the Console Caves

February 18, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:05 — 23.0MB)

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 and wizard’s hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud.
Martin switches his console to KMSCON.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 321

February 17, 2025 Joe

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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 Masses.

Voice of the Masses

What are you self-hosting, and what are you relying on others to host for you?

Tailscale

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Linux After Dark – Episode 89

February 14, 2025 Joe

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

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2.5 Admins 234: ChiaFraud

February 13, 2025 Joe

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Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.

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Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS

News

Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dealers swap, Seagate investigates

Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dozens of readers report suspected cases

openSeaChest

Windows 11 on devices that don’t meet minimum system requirements

Free Consulting

We were asked about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.

Klara: Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces

SysCloud

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 21

February 12, 2025 Joe

All Shows Ask The Hosts

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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. With Félim from Late Night Linux, and Gary from Linux After Dark.

Félim’s moon book photo.

Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.

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