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There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between.

In this first episode: the big three public cloud providers have dropped egress fees, four years of lessons and regrets from running a startup, and avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers.

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Cloud switching just got easier: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS

Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure

(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup

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We were asked about avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers.

Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:26 — 26.3MB)

Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog.

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Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

Telegram’s Peer-to-Peer Login system is a risky way to save $5 a month

Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users

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We were asked about tuning a low end VPS to host a blog.

Tailscale

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Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/25a to learn more.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:26 — 22.5MB)

In this episode:

• Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now!
• Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with Telegram GTK4 Color palette, Fractal and Halloy.
• Mark is migrating data to his new home server in a very snappy way.

You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:

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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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Ubuntu is nearly 20 years old so we wanted to see how the first versions compare with the upcoming LTS. Unfortunately installing Warty turned out to much harder than we thought it would be. Dalton talks us through his adventure with a turn of the century Mac, Gary had a much easier time with an x86 PC, Joe’s laptop wasn’t quite old enough, and Chris found some surprising aspects of virtualising it.

Dalton’s blog post about installing Warty on an ancient Mac

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The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

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TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version

zVault

Apple’s antitrust fight begins

US DOJ’s blockbuster lawsuit against Apple is headline grabber but poses limited near-term impact

Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted

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We were asked about scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD

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How we first learned to code, and how we learn new technologies now.

Snake in Terraform
Snake in lots of languages
Web server in Sinclair BASIC

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:07 — 25.3MB)

Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images.

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An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices

Devs left with tough choices as Warner Bros. ends all Adult Swim Games downloads

Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”

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We were asked about managing gold images.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:01 — 25.4MB)

In this episode:

• Mark is migrating services between servers
• Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng
• Alan is coding for fun in PHP

You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:

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