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Linux After Dark – Episode 94

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What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.

 

 

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 244: Branded and Splintered

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Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn’t appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted backups.

 

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Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS

 

News

Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives

CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 330

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Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

 

News

Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds

Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution – Phoronix

The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is

Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download

Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

What’s new in APT 3.0

Getting Forked by Microsoft

The Day AppGet Died

 

KDE Korner

This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore

KWallet Now A Wrapper For Secret Service

Akademy Registration Now Open

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tailscale

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 122

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We’ve done hot takes episodes in the past but this is different, it’s hot questions. Would we rather have bad managers who can code or good managers who can’t? Too many comments or none? 80 columns or as long as you like? What editor do we use and why?

 

Vim for Fun or PeerTube version

 

 

 

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 28

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With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges of major cloud migrations.

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 243: 0.5 Centuries

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IPv4 addresses are worth an awful lot of money, the serious dangers of a seemingly sensible deepfake law, Microsoft is 50 years old, and our thoughts on antivirus on Linux and Windows.

 

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Accurate and Effective Storage Benchmarking

 

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Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans

Congress close to passing deepfake law—Trump said he wants to use it himself

Microsoft is now 50 years old

 

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Linux Matters 53: Crafting Bookshelf Buddy

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In this episode:

  • Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025
  • Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.
  • Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources

 

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Tailscale

Tailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices. Go to tailscale.com/linuxmatters and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.

 

 

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 329

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Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more.

 

Discoveries

Frigate

Coral TPUs

daylight

RPi Improved Pan Tilt Module

The Visible Zorker

Flightgear new LTS

Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker

Pixel 9 desktop mode

pinchflat

fixing locale

KIOT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tailscale

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE 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 93

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Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thresholds have gone up significantly. We channel our inner Linux Luddites, but don’t really come up with any solutions.

 

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 242: Malscraping

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Jim’s server is getting hammered by AI scrapers and he’s big mad about it, why RCS doesn’t work on Android without Google apps, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.

 

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Network Offload and Socket Splicing (SO_SPLICE) in FreeBSD

 

News

Jim hit by AI scrapers

Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

80% of Web Traffic Is Bots — The Hidden Cost of AI Scraping

Threat Spotlight: The good, the bad, and the ‘gray bots’ – the Gen AI scraper bots targeting your web apps

An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic

 

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We were asked about RCS on AOSP, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.

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