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2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected

March 26, 2026 Joe

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The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesystems inside VMs.

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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage

News/discussion

US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America

National Security Determination on the Threat Posed by Routers Produced by Foreign Countries (pdf)

1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines

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Late Night Linux – Episode 378

March 24, 2026 Joe

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Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.

News

Just over a month until OggCamp!

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Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date

When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines?

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.

meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us

This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters

Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo”

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 146

March 22, 2026 Joe

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In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 52

March 20, 2026 Joe

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Gary is concerned that he might have dug himself into a hole of on-prem vendor lock-in, despite using open source software. Plus why you should have PiKVM type device in your toolkit.

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2.5 Admins 291: UPS for LiFePO4

March 19, 2026 Joe

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Why passkeys aren’t the right solution to everything, Allan tells us why he loves his new Lithium Iron Phosphate UPS, Btrfs vs ZFS on root, and restricting Internet access for IoT devices on your network.

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Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence

News/discussion

Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data

Allan’s new Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station

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Late Night Linux – Episode 377

March 16, 2026 Joe

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Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more.

News/discussion

LibreOffice Online: a fresh start

LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic

LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control

Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability

Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C

You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB

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Linux After Dark – Episode 117

March 13, 2026 Joe

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May has actually been using her stack of laptops and learning that “legacy” distros make more sense, the Firefox flatpak performs better than other packages, Linux Mint is a fine distro, Linux has the best calculators, and GNOME’s scaling is really good now.

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2.5 Admins 290: Tired of Tracking

March 12, 2026 Joe

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Microsoft Authenticator will delete Entra credentials on phones that aren’t running stock ROMs, Jim’s nightmare experience trying to get a user back into their MS account, tracking vehicles via tire pressure monitors, using a ZFS pool in a degraded state, and keeping cold ZFS storage dataset snapshots in sync.

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ZFS Fast Dedup for Proxmox

News/discussion

Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones

Jailbreak/root detection in Microsoft Authenticator

Jim Microsoft MFA rant

Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 34

March 11, 2026 Joe

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Our favourite smells, whether we use dark mode, and whether there’s any meaning to life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 376

March 10, 2026 Joe

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Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses.

News

Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don’t hate it

Do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack?

Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite – Tuan-Anh Tran

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

No right to relicense this project

Hide from Meta’s spyglasses with this new Android app

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too

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