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2.5 Admins 263: Seagate RAID

September 4, 2025 Joe

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:41 — 23.3MB)

McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.

Plug

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News/discussion

How I Hacked McDonald’s

Seagate Uncovers Global Scheme That Sold 1 Million Used Drives as New

# smartctl -l farm /dev/sdx

Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing

Woman gets 8 years for aiding North Koreans infiltrate 300 US firms

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We were asked about ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.

Introduction to ZFSBootMenu

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Linux Matters 63: Running Linux on an iPad

September 2, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 37:15 — 30.4MB)

In this episode:

Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty.
Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl. If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you.
Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 349

September 1, 2025 Joe

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What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which Joe has also had for about 7 months, and a quick KDE Korner.

News/disccussion

The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one

‘Ad Blocking is Not Piracy’ Decision Overturned By Top German Court

Foldable phone

Graham has just bought a Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Joe has had his for about 7 months. It’s chunky, fragile, but really cool. Especially for reading, playing old games, and using ssh. Graham mentioned a screenshot of his old phone and Will mentioned a photo that Graham took of the new phone.

KDE Korner

KDE 🌞 Gear 25.08 & Kdenlive

Karton Update

Getting Ready for Akademy

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu 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 103

August 29, 2025 Joe

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It’s the £20 Linux machine challenge! This time the rules are stricter: no adding storage and RAM. It turns out that if you try really hard, you can buy a really nice Linux computer on a seriously low budget.

Check out part 1 and part 2 of the £50 challenge that we did previously.

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2.5 Admins 262: It’s About Control

August 28, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:51 — 23.4MB)

Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.

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ZFS Basecamp Launch: A Panel with the People Behind ZFS

News/discussion

A new layer of security for certified Android devices

US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for

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We were asked about minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 348

August 26, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 21:06 — 17.0MB)

The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably coming to Android, Thunderbird shares more details of their paid services and we are interested, and PuTTY has a great new domain name.

News

It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges

these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!

Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

putty.software

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 131

August 24, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 26:03 — 21.1MB)

We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can be real differences between them. Or at least once upon a time there were differences.

Vibe coders are in for a shock. Writing code was never that hard.

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 37

August 22, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:36 — 25.1MB)

What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps?

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2.5 Admins 261: Worms and Baskets

August 21, 2025 Joe

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Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays.

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FreeBSD Summer Roundup: Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure

News/discussion

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference

Jim’s AI nightmare

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We were asked about configuring all-flash arrays.

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Linux Matters 62: Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles

August 19, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 36:06 — 29.4MB)

In this episode:

Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo.
Martin sidesteps complexity with Just.
Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.

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