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Late Night Linux – Episode 326

March 24, 2025 Joe

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Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon™.

News

Home Assistant officially Matters

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive

Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management

Announcing Techpaladin Software

Fedora 42 Beta now available

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

GIMP 3.0 Released

The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 120

March 23, 2025 Joe

All Shows Linux Dev Time

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:50 — 23.4MB)

Our advice on how to move into a career in software development including making and contributing to projects, advocating for your work, collaborating, avoiding exploitation, learning Git, and loads more.

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 26

March 21, 2025 Joe

All Shows Hybrid Cloud Show

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Shane tells us about the janky Kubernetes homelab that he’s building, and we all laugh at him.

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SysCloud

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2.5 Admins 239: Collective Power

March 20, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:55 — 23.5MB)

RISC-V is on the rise in China, why Power CPUs aren’t as promising, the dystopian nightmare of surveillance tech at work, and decrypting ZFS at boot.

Plugs

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Understanding ZFS in the Real World: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned & Future Plans

News/discussion

Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU design

Raptor Computing Systems

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral

Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You

Free consulting

We were asked about automatically decrypting ZFS at boot.

SysCloud

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Linux Matters 51: Moodling Myself Silly

March 18, 2025 Joe

All Shows Linux Matters

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 34:12 — 27.9MB)

In this episode:

Martin has created smiti18n (pronounced smitten) – A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support 🌕💕
Mark has been hard at work Moodling himself silly on the run up to the Moodle 5.0 release
Alan has been wrangling with Django and has worries about contributing large patches to SavannahHQ

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Late Night Linux – Episode 325

March 17, 2025 Joe

All Shows Late Night Linux

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:08 — 21.8MB)

Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more.

Discoveries

espargos and demo video

OSM2GoogleMaps Bookmarklet

Cyd

twitter-defollower

Cross Views

About apt upgrade and phased updates

Feedback

Rapid Photo Downloader

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scc

Tailscale

Entroware

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Linux After Dark – Episode 91

March 14, 2025 Joe

All Shows Linux After Dark

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 20:20 — 16.6MB)

A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more important battles to fight than advocating for FOSS.

2.5 Admins episode where Joe talks about his ZFS setup

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2.5 Admins 238: Hyperbranded Nonsense

March 13, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:23 — 23.1MB)

Ten-year-old Chromecasts stop working, movie DVDs start rotting, Skype is finally dying, using ZFS on VM guests and hosts.

Plugs

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ZFS Space Accounting Explained

News

Google apologizes for Chromecast outage in email to users

“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases

Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams

Free consulting

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 22

March 12, 2025 Joe

All Shows Ask The Hosts

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 19:06 — 15.4MB)

Our first jobs, how we balance staying informed and staying sane, and the best time of year. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and popey from Linux Matters.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 324

March 11, 2025 Joe

All Shows Late Night Linux

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:30 — 23.7MB)

Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command & Conquer games, the EFF releases a tool to detect cellular spying, an official Debian VM on Pixel devices, a brief foldable update, and more.

News

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

An update on our Terms of Use

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

Firefox 136.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

‘Flow’ wins best animated feature film Oscar

“thank you Blender”

Godot 4.4, a unified experience

EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Android’s native Linux Terminal app is live in Google’s latest update

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