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Whether we’ve tried a digital detox, what we’d sing at karaoke, famous singers we’d duet with, and our favourite cheeses. With May from Linux After Dark, and special guest Shane from Linux Lads.
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Mozilla made a silly advert to try and win Firefox users back and has a handy new web dev feature, and HACS is now built into Home Assistant. Plus using Apple Airpods on Linux, a classic Amiga game is updated (and brought to Linux), fixing photos and solving magic eye pics, and making audio sound like it’s on a cassette tape in discoveries.
News/discussion
Firefox reunites meme royalty to ask what happened to the web
Meme Stars Battle It Out – SOUTH PARK
Local Mode — Firefox Source Docs documentation
HACS is now the Home Assistant Marketplace, and you’ll barely notice
Discoveries
Stunt Car Racer and Linux remake
Tailscale
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The first open source software that we used, and the FOSS that we have most recently started using regularly.
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A bug in APT shines a light on a long-standing issue, backing up databases in containers, the pros and cons of using FreeBSD to host Linux VMs, network isolation for VMs, and using another backup technology in addition to ZFS. With guest host Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show.
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News/discussion
APT can merge two different package downloads after an HTTP redirect gives them the same URI
Free Consulting
A modern Proxmox Docker architecture with disposable VMs, VirtIO-FS, and ZFS
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Lots of security news including PHP, comically weak SSL cert keys, and accidental Linux kernel CVE disclosure. Plus Canonical is ramping up development of its immutable version of the Ubuntu desktop, and it (hopefully) won’t just be GNOME.
News
Today’s PHP Security Release, and How We’re Strengthening PHP Security
Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure in MadPot
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
eMudhra to Exit global SSL/TLS Certificate Business
Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List
A kernel bug for last weekend while we are at it
Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
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Why estimating how long it will take to write a piece of software is hard, why using units of time isn’t very helpful, and why breaking the process down into small chunks is ultimately how to do it.
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Is cloud native getting too complex?
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Why you should be watching for SSL certificates that you didn’t issue, Let’s Encrypt is shortening the length of certs to 64 days, Ubuntu tightens up GRUB with secure boot, an Intel driver bug breaks IPv6 for major services, and running websites from a home Internet connection.
Plugs
FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters
News/discussion
Chrome’s Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks
64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027 – Let’s Encrypt
Ubuntu 26.10 drops Btrfs, XFS & ZFS /boot with Secure Boot
A preinstalled Intel driver is silently breaking IPv6, OneNote and Microsoft 365
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Mozilla has a new revenue stream that might actually work, GNOME OS gets closer to a stable release, Raspberry Pi OS for x86 machines returns, and Amazon has expensive new Android tablets that have the Play Store. Plus hacking old Echo Dots to work with Home Assistant, building ad blocking lists, and unbricking an M1 Mac with Linux in discoveries.
News
Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise
Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac
Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever
Discoveries
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Some of our hot Linux takes including software bloat, ChromeOS being the best set and forget system, touch screen Linux still not being quite there, and Xfce being (nearly) dead to us.
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