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Late Night Linux – Episode 257

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An improvement to apt, a quick terminal tip, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, an M1 Macbook Asahi update, a self-hosted way to bypass paywalls, making native apps out of web pages, bridging Zigbee devices to MQTT, a terrible way to back up photos and videos from a phone, Félim learns about HDMI standards, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

 

Discoveries

nala

btsnoop logs in Android

zigbee2mqtt

ladder

pake

 

 

 

 

Entroware

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Linux After Dark – Episode 57

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Our memories of early positive experiences show us how communities have changed over the years, and the best ways to keep the experience positive these days.

Late Night Linux Family communities

Practical ZFS

 

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2.5 Admins 170: Uninterruptible WiFi

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Why and how Allan installed a set of new Power over Ethernet wireless access points, and our hardware recommendations for a media server and NAS in one.

 

Allan’s new WiFi setup

Access points

Controller

 

 

Free Consulting

We were asked for hardware recommendations for a media server and NAS in one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get free breakfast for life at hellofresh.com/25adminsfree with code 25adminsfree. (One breakfast item per box while subscription is active).

 

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

 

 

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 256

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A new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for GNOME, Signal tells us how expensive it is to run its service, GitHub goes all in on Copilot, our speculation about the OpenAI drama, and a mini KDE Korner. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

 

News

Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more

Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks

Amazon has begun replacing Android with its own software on some products

GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive

Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot

Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

 

Mini KDE Korner

HDR Support merged in kwin, Breeze overhaul and Presentation mode & LOTS of bugfixes & updates

 

 

 

 

 

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux Downtime – Episode 85

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There’s a meme that software developers should be forced to use low end hardware to experience what it’s like to be a real user. So what hardware should devs actually use to test their software? How does this differ for GUI and CLI applications? With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.

 

 

 

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get free breakfast for life at hellofresh.com/ldtfree using code ldtfree. (One breakfast item per box while subscription is active).

 

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF

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A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android multi-user bug, package managers on Windows, and Toshiba hard drives.

 

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News/discussion

Cloudflare claims Flexential data center outage was behind service disruption – DCD

Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage

Android 14’s storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone

 

Feedback

winget

Toshiba Consumer Internal Hard Disk Drives

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about running a mail server at home.

“Run Your Own Mail Server” chapter 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get free breakfast for life at hellofresh.com/25adminsfree with code 25adminsfree. (One breakfast item per box while subscription is active).

 

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux Matters 16: Blogging to the Fediverse

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Late Night Linux – Episode 255

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Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to get notifications, M1 Macbook Air problems, an epic ThinkPad collection, and more.

 

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Discoveries

Control your Thinkpad light

Octopus Energy Home Assistant addon

ruff now has a formatter

ZSH profiling

pyTelegramBotAPI

ntfy.sh

Beyond Doubt

recent macOS bugs

 

Feedback

Christian’s ThinkPad collection

Fairphone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Linux After Dark – Episode 56

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Half of us constantly change our hardware and software setups, and the other half like to keep things as constant as possible. Are we changing things to avoid personal technical debt, or are we just bored? Plus more on locking down phones.

 

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2.5 Admins 168: Do The Right Thing

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Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it should be, Jim’s report from the Ubuntu Summit, and what to do when you find a company’s sensitive data on the Internet.

 

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News

No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked

Okta October breach affected 134 orgs, biz admits

Okta hit by another breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor

This tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop

Jim went to the Ubuntu Summit

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about what to do when you find a company’s sensitive data on the Internet.

 

 

 

 

The Traceroute Podcast

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Automox

Save time, eliminate risk, and automate the patching, configuration, and control of all your Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints with Automox.

 

 

 

 

 

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