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2.5 Admins 266: Jiggawatts of Hallucinations

September 25, 2025 Joe

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Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data centers and use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in production.

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Troubleshooting ZFS – Common Issues and How to Fix Them

News

Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal

Nvidia and Intel’s $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch

OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors

Nvidia adds more air to the AI bubble with vague $100B OpenAI deal

The AI-energy apocalypse might be a little overblown

OpenAI’s Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

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Late Night Linux – Episode 352

September 23, 2025 Joe

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Drama in KDE land, more worries about Android source code, Ubuntu’s transition away from GNU coreutils hits a slight speed bump, Mastodon adds a serious potential revenue stream, and a glimpse of a Blade Runner style dystopian tech future. With guest hosts Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Chris from Linux After Dark.

News

OggCamp 2026

OggCamp tickets

OggCamp CfP

Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

A few corrections about the transition from Blue Systems to Techpaladin

The move from Blue Systems to TechPaladin

Android 16 QPR1’s source code is nowhere to be found, but Google swears it’s coming

Music video Chris mentioned

Ubuntu 25.10’s Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings

Service offerings from Mastodon

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 133

September 21, 2025 Joe

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Some of the alternatives to GitHub that we use, why we use them, and how they differ in terms of features and workflows.

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 39

September 19, 2025 Joe

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SMTP relays and observability, why we didn’t recommend Podman over Docker to a newcomer, and Gary gives us an update on his homelab.

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2.5 Admins 265: Storage Lies

September 18, 2025 Joe

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Joe set up a FreeBSD box to serve as a replication target and it was surprisingly straightforward, if rather different from Linux. Plus the lies that storage tells us.

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Linux Matters 64: Ethical Retro Gaming

September 16, 2025 Joe

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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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Entroware

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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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