Category: All Shows

Linux After Dark – Episode 116

Play

The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with Linux?

 

 

 

 

 

Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes

 

 

 

 

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

Subscribe to the RSS feed.


2.5 Admins 288: HDD Tourism

Play

Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab.

 

Plugs

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads

 

News/discussion

AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs

Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

Sorry all this is my fault

 

Free consulting

We were asked about ZFS and VMs in the homelab.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

 


Late Night Linux – Episode 374

Play

Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.

 

News

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

Sorry all this is my fault

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches

 

KDE Korner 4

A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk “the KDE is forcing systemd!” hoax

KDE endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles

Plasma 6.6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Automox Turnkey Results

Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com

 

 

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes

 

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here


Linux Dev Time – Episode 144

Play

People often like to talk down Electron, but it is really that bad? There may be better ways to use Web technologies to make desktop apps, but isn’t having Linux versions of apps a good thing no matter how they are made?

 

We mentioned Tauri and Wails.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes

 

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

Subscribe to the RSS feed


Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 50

Play

Sean tells us about a recent catastrophe in his Kubernetes homelab (that’s really home prod). What went wrong, how did he fix it, and how can he avoid it happening again?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HelloFresh

Go to HelloFresh.com/hcs10fm to Get 10 free meals + a FREE Zwilling Knife (a $144.99 value) on your third box. Offer valid while supplies last. Free meals applied as discount on first box, new subscribers only, varies by plan.

 

 

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes

 

 

 

 

 

Subscribe to the RSS feed.


2.5 Admins 287: Dual Arguators

Play

Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops.

 

Plugs

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes

OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability

 

News/discussion

Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent

 

Free consulting

We were asked about how we set up disk encryption on laptops.

A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption – Ars Technica

Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

 


Late Night Linux – Episode 373

Play

The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.

 

News/discussion

Ardour 9.0 — What’s new

Linkedin-extension-fingerprinting

AI controls are coming to Firefox

Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Automox Turnkey Results

Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com

 

 

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes

 

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here


Linux After Dark – Episode 115

Play

With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes

 

 

 

 

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

Subscribe to the RSS feed.


2.5 Admins 286: Windows Crashed

Play

Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a laptop properly.

 

Plugs

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes

ZFS vs Btrfs: Architecture, Features, and Stability

 

News/discussion

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fas

Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys

 

Free consulting

We were asked about backing up a laptop properly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

 


Ask The Hosts – Episode 33

Play

The best museums we’ve been to, the people we admire, and our weirdest train journeys. With Gary from Linux After Dark.

 

 

 

 

Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.