Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.   News/discussion Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it” Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian                   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Does language choice actually matter?               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

It’s another hot questions episode! Tech we’d use if we rebuilt everything from scratch, career advice to our past selves, how much of our jobs we could do from our phone, and the qualities we’ve seen in great managers.               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   News/discussion HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that’s been widely criticized by astronomers Feels like all of us need to pay way more attention to the new rules affecting EU and US folk, requiring all new cars to include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face   Free consulting We were asked about picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Having seen some technologies come to a definite end, Chris wonders if we should be willing to draw a line under open source software sometimes.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right   News/discussion Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you’re in the EU Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now IncusOS Incus   Free consulting We were asked about configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.     News Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date OpenMandriva Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage KDE at 30                 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

With an increase in the number of security bugs being disclosed irresponsibly, we dig into how the process should work, the differences between normal bugs and security bugs, the complexities of coordinating patches, the human issues involved, and more.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Is the industry now better or worse than when we got into it?               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Native inotify in FreeBSD   Feedback Anker SOLIX EV Charger Adapter (For F3000, J1722 only) EcoFlow EV Charger to Portable Power Station Adaptor (SAE J1772 to 5P8 Port, 50A) WattCycle First-to-Market: WattLINK – EcoFlow Delta 2/3 Series PPS E     Free consulting We were asked about whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

The condiment we’d pick if we could only have one. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, May from Linux After Dark, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

A great example of accessibility features benefitting more than the target audience, a new version of the classic game Nethack, checking for bufferbloat, and Windows 10 limps on in discoveries. Then Félim’s question about the perceived value of open source goes in unexpected directions.   Discoveries quick drag Nethack 5 check your bufferbloat opnsense help Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Chris is struggling to decide which distro to install on his new work laptop, and he and Gary want to pick a new distro for the people they support. Plus Joe wonders what moving on from Xfce would look like.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS   Discussion Jeff Moss explains why setting up private email and VPN services are so difficult   Feedback XigmaNAS   Free consulting We were asked about bridging WiFi to an external building. Point-to-point Wi-Fi bridging between buildings—the cheap and easy way                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.   News Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yet Gamers Nexus long review Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop [archived] $100 Steam Machine GPU Unlocked! PS5 APU (ASRock BC-250) Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop   KDE Korner KDE e.V. COMMUNITY REPORT Plasma 6.7 Get started with Union, Plasma’s new theming engine, in 2 minutes or less: a FAQ               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The bit of code we admire most and why. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

The one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because producer Joe is having a summer break.                 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

The one tool in our IT tool belt that we value the most. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The most precious machine in our stack of laptops and PCs, excluding anything we actually use regularly. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Wiring up a house for networking including cables, access points, connectors, and racks. Plus Google is found liable for what its AI overviews say.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Managing Cache and DirectIO for Databases on ZFS Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA   News/discussion Landmark German ruling declares Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words and makes it liable for false answers   Free consulting We were asked about wiring up a house for access points etc. Jim’s guide to Wi-Fi AP placement Monoprice 24-port Cat5e Patch Panel                   See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.   Plugs Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late Graham’s talk Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   News Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day [archived] 2 Arch Linux’s AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware 4.5 Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits curl summer of bliss   Retro gaming handhelds R36S Fakes R36H                       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Having recently moved house, Gary wonders how to reconfigure his homelab and network setup. Plus Shane is fed up with GitHub’s outages and formulates a plan to move away… somewhere…                 Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, and the best simple consumer WiFi gear.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Why ZFS Is the Ideal Filesystem for Multi-User/Department Media Production Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA   News/discussion Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils Coreutils for Windows FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop   Free consulting We were asked about the best simple consumer WiFi gear.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Late night snacks, and the books we love and hate. With Félim, Gary, Jim, and special guest Shane from Linux Lads. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.   News/discussion Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing Kagi Shelly Wall Display   Ubuntu Summit Ubuntu Summit 26.04 Timetable Ubuntu Summit videos                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We revisit the topic of the dire situation with hardware prices, this time with a focus on getting the most out of machines with limited resources.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Microsoft threatens a security researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities publicly, bricks old versions of Office, and announces their version of OpenClaw. Plus keeping up with the latest technology.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Which ZFS Storage Metrics Matter for Database Performance Webinar: June 25th @ 11am EDT: Understanding AnyRAID with Jon from HexOS   News/discussion Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation The researcher is a former MS employee says Krebs Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent   Free consulting We were asked about keeping up with the latest technology.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028.   News Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing The golden age of handheld gaming is already over [archived] Lenovo pulls its controversial G02 retro handheld from sale – starting a chain reaction that could decimate the retro gaming market Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia We’re Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations – Software Freedom Conservancy ‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing [archived] No Raspberry Pi 6 before 2028 Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [21st Dec 2022] Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! [28th Sep 2023]                       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

What makes a good library?               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

It’s a Linux Dev Time style hot questions episode. Is “cloud native” more about where the workload is going or how you deploy it? What is a skill that is really important in your job that may surprise people? Is the cloud more or less secure than a company-controlled data centre or on-prem?  Would you recommend what you do to your kids/nephews etc?             Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

It looks like Bitlocker had a back door in it, how a listener accidentally broke Gitea for users of the snap version, Google accidentally published an unpatched exploit for Chromium-based browsers, why people are starting to ditch Bitwarden, and moving a tech stack away from large corporations.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes How Klara and TrueNAS fixed ZFS’s longest standing limitation Webinar: June 25th @ 11am EDT: Understanding AnyRAID with Jon from HexOS   News/discussion YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability Microsoft shares mitigation for YellowKey Windows zero-day How I Broke Gitea for Everyone Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden   Free consulting We were asked about moving a tech stack away from large corporations.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.   News/discussion Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox’s way Opera GX Lands on Linux Steam Controller and Puck CAD files officially released under a Creative Commons license — Valve encourages users to create accessories for the device Steam Frame coming soon?                     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We all seem to be moving away from Ubuntu, but there are still quite a few reasons to keep using it.   WG Tunnel PiVPN Charlie’s OggCamp talk about infrastructure as code                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Why a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn’t want you to run Exchange Server on-prem, Google will finally stop being a proper search engine, setting up an email server for internal use, and mitigating DDoS attacks without Cloudflare.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Tuning ZFS for Databases Webinar: May 27th at 11am EDT: Database Performance on ZFS with Tom Lawrence   News/discussion Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6 Exchange Server zero-day vulnerability can be triggered by opening a malicious email Google Search as you know it is over   Free consulting We were asked about setting up an email server for internal use, and mitigating DDoS attacks without Cloudflare.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.   News LVFS Sponsorship Announcement Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? ‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos DirtyCBC: When Linux Kernel Decrypt-Before-MAC Turns Authenticated Encryption Into a Page-Cache Write                   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Andy has been taking the One Billion Row Challenge, and has been thinking about the broader question of what makes software fast.   Andy’s videos on Peertube and YouTube.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

We get into some homelab updates. Sean has been consolidating hardware, Gary has been implementing high availability with Proxmox, and Shane has been working hard to get Home Assistant working with Kubernetes, as well as downloading YouTube videos.   Shane’s homelab           Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

People trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave someone’s domain name away, and when and how to fix ZFS fragmentation.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Fast Dedup Economics: When Deduplication Beats Buying New Disks   News/discussion Toshiba refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty — company offers refund at the purchase price, not the higher current retail price GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation   Free consulting We were asked about when and how to fix ZFS fragmentation.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Light bulb colour temperatures, doing nice things for ourselves,  pulling faces while playing guitar, and surreal experiences. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, May from Linux After Dark, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.   Discoveries VoxType Tennis tooler SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2 Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator   News/discussion The future of AI in Ubuntu I wanted to reply with some clarifications The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next? Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly with Pi-hole.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of the best features you’ll get in the version of ZFS that ships with the new Ubuntu LTS, and backing up data from cloud services.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Extending ZFS Performance Without Hardware Upgrades   News/discussion Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it’s encouraging experienced workers to leave Your Windows update experience just got updated zfs-2.3.0 zfs-2.4.0   Free consulting We were asked about backing up data from cloud services.               See our contact page for ways to get in touch.    

There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.   Plugs Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   News Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04? An update on rust-coreutils Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review                     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

It’s yet another hot questions episode. Colour schemes, syntax highlighting, code patterns, fonts, and keyboards.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer.   1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack 2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected             Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general, and changing the properties of existing ZFS pools.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS   News/discussion How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord Apple’s last tower topples… and the others will follow   Free consulting We were asked about changing the properties of existing ZFS pools.               See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty well, thanks to lots of open source software and a terminal.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimited” never means that, and attempting to avoid software that’s written with AI.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Do More with Less: Cost-Efficient Storage on the New TrueNAS with Enhanced Fast Dedup The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware   News/discussion Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process Action Required: Account Verification for Windows Hardware Program Begins October 16, 2025 FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn’t explain why Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data   Free consulting We were asked about avoiding software that’s written with AI.               See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate some of the problems AI is causing, the sense that Kubernetes is mature and boring in a good way now, and our concerns about scope creep.   Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group             Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.