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Late Night Linux – Episode 275

April 1, 2024 Joe

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:19 — 22.8MB)

The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

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Voice of the masses

What’s the main reason you use open source software?

Discoveries

PiKVM

Kitty

Pro-54 (live link here

cmajor

The Arch wiki knows all

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Linux After Dark – Episode 66

March 29, 2024 Joe

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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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2.5 Admins 188: Farewell to Core

March 28, 2024 Joe

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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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News

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

Free Consulting

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

Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD

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Late Night Linux – Episode 274

March 26, 2024 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 34:36 — 27.8MB)

Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

News

Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!

Stop the line?

Manual review of all new snap name registrations

KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user’s files

CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms – Krebs on Security

Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers

Introducing Didthis: A New App For Hobbyists

Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one

Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis

Apache Kvrocks

Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse

Threads has entered the fediverse

Fedi.Tips urges admins to defederate Threads

Switch emulator Suyu hit by GitLab DMCA, project lives on through self-hosting

World Server Throwing Championship (WSTC) 2024

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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 Dev Time – Episode 94

March 24, 2024 Joe

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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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2.5 Admins 187: MDK

March 21, 2024 Joe

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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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News/discussion

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”

Free Consulting

We were asked about managing gold images.

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Linux Matters 25: The joy of Linux torture

March 19, 2024 Joe

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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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 273

March 18, 2024 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:09 — 24.2MB)

What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more.

Voice of the masses

What’s pulling you away from open source, and what will pull you back?

Discoveries

Mirroring Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu

Home assistant remote control from your Garmin watch

Tiny Core Linux is still a thing

screenshot-to-code

Tailscale

Kolide

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Linux After Dark – Episode 65

March 15, 2024 Joe

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We wonder what old concepts in the Linux and open source world are due for a comeback.

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2.5 Admins 186: Jim Defends the CFAA

March 14, 2024 Joe

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Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense.

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News

Roku disables players and TVs with attempt to coerce arbitration agreement

Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware

Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job

Free Consulting

We were asked about using jumbo frames on a network.

Kolide

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