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Linux Matters 64: Ethical Retro Gaming

September 16, 2025 Joe

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:46 — 25.2MB)

In this episode:

Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade.
Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral.
Alan created an MCP server for Grype.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 351

September 15, 2025 Joe

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Cloning disks (again), Félim’s new colour e-reader, 3 ways to make a QR code, improving your typing with a TUI and a game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

Discoveries

KDE Korner

We’ve formally sent a proposal to the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. leadership for a unified Linux App Summit (LAS) that would merge GUADEC, Akademy, and the current LAS into a single event

Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux

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Linux After Dark – Episode 104

September 12, 2025 Joe

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Summer is officially over. As the nights draw in it’s time to hunker down and work on our technical debt. We all have Linuxy projects that we planning, so we commit to doing them by Christmas – when we will record a follow-up episode. Docker Compose, Immich, Jellyfin, learning Python, moving away from Synology, Home Assistant, and more.

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2.5 Admins 264: A Question of Trust

September 11, 2025 Joe

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Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn’t seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting provider thinks they are better than Cloudflare at blocking malicious traffic, a viral app turns out to be written by an enthusiastic dev who doesn’t understand best practices, and using S3 object storage outside of the cloud. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.

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News/discussion

Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown

Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet

The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows

Mythic Beasts will block Cloudflare IPs on shared hosting if abusive traffic gets through

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way

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We were asked about using S3 object storage outside of the cloud.

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 28

September 10, 2025 Joe

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Historic musical performances that we’d go back and watch, and our scariest travel experiences. With Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 350

September 9, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:41 — 25.4MB)

Android becomes more like iOS, another key dev leaves the Asahi Linux project, Mozilla will probably keep their Google search deal, we troll Félim with some AI bollocks, GNOME can’t keep an executive director, Microsoft releases the source for an ancient BASIC implementation, friend of the show Connor is snubbed by an Irish newspaper, a brief review of a classic Bond movie, and more.

News

A new layer of security for certified Android devices

With Apple M1/M2 Graphics Driver Code Working, Alyssa Rosenzweig Stepping Away From Asahi Linux

Consultation on the review of the DMA

Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly orders modest remedies

Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds

Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 – Future Releases

Firefox ESR won’t quit Windows 7 until March 2026

AI Is Now Being Used To Help Determine Patches For Backporting In The Linux Kernel

Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the ‘Antithesis of Wikipedia’

Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for Publishers

Vivaldi browser capo doubles down on generative AI ban

Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald

So short, and thanks for all the flinch

Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC

Windows 10 support shutdown offers window of opportunity for a Linux OS developed in Dublin

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 132

September 7, 2025 Joe

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A lot of key open source software is paid for by large companies. That has some advantages, but it can also cause some issues. Maybe it would be better if more FOSS development was paid for by smaller companies and contributions from users.

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 38

September 5, 2025 Joe

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The first steps to move away from a “pets” mindset and towards automation and infrastructure as code, why we use a lot of abstraction at home, and how to use your homelab to improve your employment prospects. With guest host Joe Ressington from Late Night Linux.

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2.5 Admins 263: Seagate RAID

September 4, 2025 Joe

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McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.

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News/discussion

How I Hacked McDonald’s

Seagate Uncovers Global Scheme That Sold 1 Million Used Drives as New

# smartctl -l farm /dev/sdx

Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing

Woman gets 8 years for aiding North Koreans infiltrate 300 US firms

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We were asked about ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.

Introduction to ZFSBootMenu

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Linux Matters 63: Running Linux on an iPad

September 2, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 37:15 — 30.4MB)

In this episode:

Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty.
Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl. If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you.
Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a.

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