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Late Night Linux – Episode 348

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The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably coming to Android, Thunderbird shares more details of their paid services and we are interested, and PuTTY has a great new domain name.

 

News

It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges

these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!

Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

putty.software

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 131

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We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can be real differences between them. Or at least once upon a time there were differences.

 

 

 

Vibe coders are in for a shock. Writing code was never that hard.

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 37

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What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Insta360 Go Ultra

Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO Ultra. To get free Sticky Tabs with it go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud”, available for the first 30 purchases only.

 

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2.5 Admins 261: Worms and Baskets

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Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays.

 

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FreeBSD Summer Roundup: Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure

 

News/discussion

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference

Jim’s AI nightmare

 

 

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We were asked about configuring all-flash arrays.

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux Matters 62: Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles

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In this episode:

  • Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo.
  • Martin sidesteps complexity with Just.
  • Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 347

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Xfce running on Wayland on openSUSE, Canonical laid off the printing guy, Mozilla pisses people off with AI tab groups, and what the post-x86 world will look like for desktop Linux. Plus a handy way to save and run project-specific commands, turning any device into a file server, and a convoluted way to get wind data from planes. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.

 

News/discussion

Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!

OpenPrinting News – 25 years of working full-time for printing with free/open-source-software

OpenPrinting News to stay up-to-date

OpenPrinting on LinkedIn

Till Kamppeter on LInkedIn

Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.16

Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go

 

Discoveries

just

cargo-update

ADS-B Weather Model

copyparty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tailscale

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

 

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Linux After Dark – Episode 102

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It’s our annual episode where we need to talk about Ubuntu. This time most of us are broadly indifferent about the distro itself, so we end up mostly discussing our concerns about Canonical.

 

 

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 260: Watery Email

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AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs.

 

Plugs

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ZFS Summer Roundup: Smart Hardware Advice

 

News

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 vs. Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 9950X3D Linux Performance Review

UK Government says delete old emails to save water

UK government to invest over £2 billion in the UK’s AI ecosystem

 

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 27

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The field of science we find most interesting, the bionic enhancements we’d want, the longest we’ve stayed awake, and the wisdom we’d pass onto the next generation. With Gary from Linux After Dark and Félim from Late Night Linux.

 

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 346

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A new Debian version is out and it’s the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, GitHub is finally fully swallowed into Microsoft (having gone all in on AI), and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.

 

News

Debian 13 “trixie” released

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference

The XP-Pen Artist 22R Pro works on Linux now

KomoDo, my first KDE app

Developers, Reinvented

Let’s properly analyze an AI article for once

Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tailscale

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