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Light bulb colour temperatures, doing nice things for ourselves, pulling faces while playing guitar, and surreal experiences. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, May from Linux After Dark, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.
Discoveries
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
News/discussion
I wanted to reply with some clarifications
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies
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How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly with Pi-hole.
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Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of the best features you’ll get in the version of ZFS that ships with the new Ubuntu LTS, and backing up data from cloud services.
Plugs
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Extending ZFS Performance Without Hardware Upgrades
News/discussion
Your Windows update experience just got updated
Free consulting
We were asked about backing up data from cloud services.
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There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.
Plugs
SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations
News
Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04?
Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up
Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
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It’s yet another hot questions episode. Colour schemes, syntax highlighting, code patterns, fonts, and keyboards.
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A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer.
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected
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Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general, and changing the properties of existing ZFS pools.
Plugs
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Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS
News/discussion
How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks
Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord
Apple’s last tower topples… and the others will follow
Free consulting
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Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.
News/discussion
Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one
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Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty well, thanks to lots of open source software and a terminal.
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