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Ask The Hosts – Episode 6

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Our spookiest experiences, singing in public, traveling with a single bag, the languages we’ve tried to learn, and the things we’ve crafted. With Graham from Late Night Linux and Jim from 2.5 Admins.

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Linux Matters 15: Mish Mash Mesh

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In this episode:

  • Alan upgrades the network in a rented student house with TP-Link Deco
  • Mark details the gaming journey of a tiny-handed toddler from button mashing to throwing rocks
  • Martin is building a solid-state NAS with NixOS

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 253

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Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more.

 

Discoveries 

archivebox.io

ia command for the Internet Archive

I, Voyager

Multi-column view in Mastodon

curl supports MQTT

wyrd (amoliths password thing)

WiFi QRCode Format

Cardinal

pdfarranger

 

 

 

 

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 55

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It’s the spinning rust challenge! We try installing and running our operating systems on mechanical hard drives and learn that Linux is much less painful than Windows on a spinning disk.

 

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2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque

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What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi.

 

Plugs

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News

Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to look like KeePass’s official website

pixel 6 can’t access storage with multiple profiles after updating to android 14

Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 252

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A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more.

 

News

Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 release image translation incident – now resolved

Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible

Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers

Unity Announces Leadership Transition

How to download and install Linux

Android will now scan sideloaded apps for malware at install time

Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know!

GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

Holly the shaman artist

Become a Plasma 6 Supporter & KNotifications going on a diet

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 83

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We are joined by Marcin Kulik – the creator and maintainer of asciinema. We talk about the project itself, developing on Linux, IDEs, targetting a technical audience, the advantages of writing for a command line interface, why -R is always wrong for the recursive flag, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.

Marcin on Mastodon

asciinema on Mastodon

asciinema on Matrix

 

 

 

 

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off plus free shipping at hellofresh.com/50ldt using code 50ldt.

 

 

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 165: Big AI

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The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS.

 

News/discussion

Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about building an SSD-only NAS.

 

 

 

 

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 14: One Hundred Percent Colombian

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In this episode:

  • Martin is using Distrobox, via Universal Blue, to run OBS Studio Portable built for Ubuntu on NixOS.
    • You might also like Bazzite, an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck.
  • Alan laments the trials and tribulations of updating dozens of Snaps to current standards, including the wonderful Bombsquad
  • Mark does a spot of J2ME retro-gaming on Android using J2ME Loader and (nearly) RetroDECK

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 251

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Open source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audio workstation releases, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, Joe joins the ThinkPad cult, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

 

Discoveries

LibreSpeed

Raspberry Pi iPad Pro Setup Simplified

elementary OS 7.1

Studio One DAW now available for Linux

bitwig/dawproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

Ardour 8.0 — What’s new

ISS Mimic

ThinkPad X270

 

 

 

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