Some of the work-adjacent things that we do including writing code that we shouldn’t like writing Rust in Rust, fun projects that turned into paid work, and career progression. Plus some of our go to resources for learning about development.

Some resources we mentioned

Andy’s videos – Rust, General

Lobsters

Amolith’s RSS feeds

Computer inside Terraria

Fasterthanlime

Self-Directed Research Podcast

Jon Gjengset

Jon Gjengset – YouTube

DevConf – YouTube

MEAP Catalog

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What would be on our cloud tools wishlist to make our lives better? Consistent APIs and IAM across clouds, vulnerability information for dependencies that doesn’t depend on vendor data, more private compute, and more.

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Jim and Allan discover modern charging tech and marvel at what’s possible in the USB-C era, more on IPv6 firewalls, using ZFS like Git, and running your own authoritative DNS server.

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Our first games systems, whether we wear watches, and the most cringe moments from our youth. With popey from Linux Matters, Will from Late Night Linux, and Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.

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In this episode:

• Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus
• Alan has been creating animated gifs of terminal sessions with t-rec.
• Mark picked up a Keybow MINI from the swaps table at OggCamp.

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Will went back to GNOME and made it exactly like Xfce, Félim used an unethical app ethically, and Graham had a great time at the Ubuntu Summit. Plus easily creating a customised Firefox profile, compiling Python, and what Mozilla would have to do for us to move to another browser.

Discoveries 

firebuilder

GNOME

m.uber.com

codon

Ubuntu Summit

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Zen Browser

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Porkbun

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Where do we draw the line when it comes to being made to use software that we don’t want to at work? Plus why only half of us use Linux on the desktop.

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How using a copy-on-write filesystem like ZFS can get systems back online within seconds after ransomeware encrypts all your data, and even warn you more quickly that it’s happening. Plus Jim and Allan’s advice on getting a job as a sysadmin.

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Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open source AI (and we don’t take it very seriously), Hollywood uses loads of FOSS, an easy way to help out Home Assistant, and Thunderbird for Android arrives.

News

Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel’s “Compliance Requirements” Around Russian Sanctions

Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

We’re forking Flutter. This is why.

The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

New ‘Open Source AI Definition’ Criticized for Not Opening Training Data

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy

Help us make voice better in under a minute – Home Assistant

Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight

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Our development hot takes including “rewrite it in Rust”, lack of documentation, single vs multiple monitors, dependency numbers, light vs dark mode, and distro package repos.

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How to be the change you wish to see in the workplace, how application architecture and infrastructure architecture are related, and if there are any real alternatives to Kubernetes for building a hybrid cloud.

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It’s Halloween so Jim and Allan share horrific and spooky stories from their sysadmin careers. Plus picking a UPS for a homelab.

Plugs

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Klara: NAS: Maintenance Best Practices

In this episode:

• Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs.
  • CLI setup:
    • gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets: Create encrypted storage
    • gocryptfs ~/Syncthing/Secrets ~/Vault: Mount the decrypted secrets under ~/Vault
    • fusermount -u ~/Vault: Unmount the decrypted secrets
  • GUI Tools:
    • vaults (Linux, GTK4)
    • SiriKali (cross-platform, Qt)
• Mark wrote, built and released powerline-go-moodle.
• Alan joined the club and bought an LG Dualup monitor.

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Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printed storage, what the death of Windows 10 means for Linux adoption, and more.

Discoveries

Taskfinder

Thingino

YouTube video on how to install it

follow up videoon Neos

Framework 13 DIY edition

Linux After Dark 80

HAL Project

How GFX Cards Work

GridFinity

Videos about a modular shed

WikiHouse

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We revisit our home networking setups including using MoCa (network over coax), Chris searching for a unicorn, and relying on an Apple TV for home automation.

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SSL certificates are likely going to last less time, the latest Windows 11 update leaves a huge chunk of data behind and doesn’t play nicely with some SSDs, picking a modern dhcp server on a homebrew router, and storing encrypted backups on a friend’s NAS with ZFS.

Plugs

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Klara Halloween Webinar: ZFS Horror Stories. Oct 31st 13:00 EDT, 17:00 UTC

News

Sysadmins slam Apple’s SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts

Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can’t delete

As Microsoft rolls out its Windows 11 24H2 update, owners of certain Western Digital SSDs have been greeted with constant Blue Screens of Death

WD releases new firmware to fix Windows 11 24H2 blue screens of death on some SSD

Not just Western Digital – Windows 24H2 BSODs Asus kit

Free consulting

We were asked about picking a modern dhcp server on a homebrew router, and storing encrypted backups on a friend’s NAS with ZFS.

The Ars guide to building a Linux router from scratch

Linux Router Part 1: Routing, NAT, and NFTables

The WordPress drama escalates, a great opportunity for Firefox to gain market share, Android will open up a little bit, the FOSS funding problem is solved, we laugh at WinAmp, a new release of Plasma, AAA gaming on Asahi, 20 years of Ubuntu, and more.

News

WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked

WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources

Google has started automatically disabling uBlock Origin in Chrome

Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

Open Source Pledge

Releasing WinAmp source goes badly – for its owners, anyway

RIP: Ward Christensen, co-developer of the CBSS

Plasma 6.2

AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

20 years of Ubuntu

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You need to be able to write good code to be a successful developer, but how important are other “soft” skills like communication, relating to and motivating others, and time management?

Kevin mentioned a blog post about burnout in the Rust project

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Do we ever consider the environmental impacts of our cloud computing, or do we just like to watch the world burn?

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The difference between monitoring and metrics analysis, the security pros and cons of cloud vs on-prem, why Jim and Allan don’t use Unraid, and cloud storage and email for a small company.

Feedback

Netdata

Nagios

ZFS and Unraid

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In this episode:

• Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more.
• Some links and products mentioned in the show:
  • funkwhale
  • Synergy
  • Elis’ monitors we “forced” them to buy
  • Indoor cameras
  • tvheadendinterruptionchecke
  • homeserver-power-saver
  • dockcheck

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Loads of discoveries including Will’s terrible way of flashing Android phones from a web browser, real-time database analytics, editing audio with text, a great way to deal with log files, and learning about the fundamentals of computer graphics. Plus the best way to manage data and backups, and a reason to add an old laptop to the stack.

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fastboot.js

android-webinstall

dolphie

audapolis

toolong

Topics in computer graphics

OpenZFS

sanoid

Feedback

linux-surface

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Framework sent Joe a 13 DIY edition (for free and to keep) so we do our best to talk about it honestly. It’s a great machine, but you pay a premium for the ability to repair and upgrade it.

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NIST has finally proposed some sensible password standards, why server CPUs with high core counts make sense in a lot of deployments, the .io TLD is probably sticking around, and the best options for a Linux-based router.

Plugs

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Klara Halloween Webinar: ZFS Horror Stories. Oct 31st 13:00 EDT, 17:00 UTC

ZBM 101: Introduction to ZFSBootMenu

News

NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

You’re right not to rush into running AMD, Intel’s new manycore monster CPUs

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

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We were asked about setting up a Linux-based router.

OpenWrt on TP-Link devices

How we remind ourselves of things, what we most and least enjoyed about school, what 3 colours we’d paint the world, which country has the best food, and whether we feel bad about killing mosquitos. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Graham from Late Night Linux, and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.

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How the boss of WordPress spectacularly failed to read the room, why the CUPS vulnerabilities didn’t live up to the hype, Mozilla disappoints once again, great news for home automation, Valve supports Arch, and a Raspberry Pi 500 looks imminent. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.

News

​Know Before You Go – OggCamp 24

Announcing the OggCamp Swap Shop

Get Involved at OggCamp 2024: bring a talk or demo

The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source

Critical Linux bug is CUPS-based remote-code execution hole

Mozilla’s massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer

Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure

David Culley’s post about K9

Aqara joins Works with Home Assistant

Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

We have discussed the need for a signing enclave and proper build service for *years*. They are supporting our priorities

The Raspberry Pi 500 Hints At Its Existence

KDE e.V. and Kdenlive team are looking for contractors

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Campbell Barton joins us to talk about porting Blender, the hugely popular professional 3D software, to Wayland.

Wayland support in blender task

Wayland Support on Linux

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The pros and cons of smaller cloud providers when compared with the huge ones, and security best practices when you’re new to Kubernetes.

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Why cold storage is never as good as keeping your data warm and regularly tested, how the American air traffic control system became so outdated, and isolating your devices from a roommate’s shenanigans.

Plug

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News/discussion

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying 

FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess

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We were asked about isolating your devices from a roommate’s shenanigans.

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In this episode:

• Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools:
  • gpuviewer
  • GreenWithEnvy
    • Which needs a Coolbits bit mask of 28 to enable power and fan control.
  • Linux AMDGPU Configuration Tool or LACT
    • Requires the amdgpu.ppfeaturemask kernel parameter with this value 0xfffd7fff to enable power and fan control.
• Alan, who is still not a developer, has been writing more Python to discover new music via the Spotify APIs.
• Mark created a new Audiobook server using audiobookshelf

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Jason Evangelho tells us about the rosy state of Linux gaming, including a lot of games that perform as well or even better than on Windows. Plus feedback, and discoveries about interacting with GitHub via the command line, a handy DNS testing tool, and playing ancient games with accurate audio.

Discoveries

GitHub CLI

dug

asid-vice

Feedback

Archiveteam

Jason Evangelho

Jason’s Mastodon

Jason’s articles on Forbes

Entroware

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Social media was a mistake that has caused polarisation through the spread of misinformation by grifters. We try to come up with some ideas for what to do about it.

Dalton mentioned cohost to shut down at end of 2024.

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A proposed solution to the WHOIS TLS verification problem gets a surprising amount of pushback. Plus isolating IoT devices, our thoughts on Ubiquiti gear, setting up WiFi in a new house, remote access with WireGuard, and our mini PC recommendations.

Plug

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News

Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications

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We were asked about isolating IoT devices, our thoughts on Ubiquiti gear, setting up WiFi in a new house, remote access with WireGuard, and our mini PC recommendations.

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We look back at the biggest news stories and trends from the last 7+ years and 300 episodes of LNL. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.

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Seven and a bit years of news

Google launches game streaming service called Stadia

A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy

Introducing a new version of Steam Play

Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022

Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)

Ubuntu is abandoning Unity

Canonical starts IPO path

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

IBM to Acquire Red Hat

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained

Mozilla acquires Pocket

Mozilla to shut down their Mastodon instance

Mozilla recently flipped the switch to enable-by-default sponsored weather results from AccuWeather in every new Firefox tab

Microsoft to buy Github

Announcing WSL 2

GitHub and OpenAI launch an AI Copilot tool that generates its own code

Linux has made it to Mars

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more

What is it about Linux that draws us to it as a development platform? Plus why we choose the specific distros that we use.

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What our cloud strategy would be if we were CTOs, how companies should weigh up SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and trade off building vs buying.

Integrating the Ubuntu Snapshot Service into systems management and update tools

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The Malaysian government’s misguided plan to control its citizens’ DNS, the wrong way to deploy underwater servers, a philosophical question about how long a person’s photos will exist, and how we manage our SSH keys.

Plug

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News/discussion

Malaysia’s plan to block overseas DNS dies after a day 

Proposed underwater data center surprises regulators who hadn’t heard about it

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We were asked about how we manage our SSH keys.

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In this episode:

• Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android:
  • Tempo
  • GoSonic
  • Ultrasonic
  • Symphonium
• Martin names a whole new category of “Top-like” tools for monitoring GPUS:
  • nvtop
  • intel_gpu_top
  • nvitop
  • amdgpu_top
• Alan, who is not a developer, has been writing UncleClive in Python to send Mastodon posts to a Spectrum emulator and back.

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Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python objects, viewing HTTP archives, and more on the problem with micropayments.

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Signal Processing Course

KDE Connect

Friture

wat

HARview

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Is a proprietary games company driving all the innovation on the Linux desktop, and is that OK?

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A surprising way to exploit the WHOIS system, Microsoft will force old versions of Windows 11 to update, and the simple way to set up TP-Link Omada gear.

Plug

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Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have

Windows 11 users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not

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We were asked about setting up TP-Link Omada gear.

Whose responsibility it is to check the pockets of laundry before washing it, the biggest mistakes we’ve nearly made, and Joe gets bullied about headphones. With Aaron from Hybrid Cloud Show, and Mark and Martin from Linux Matters.

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Mono moves to the Wine project, the Internet Archive can’t lend books but should have seen it coming, Mozilla adds unpopular AI to Firefox, and KDE asks for donations in Plasma. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.

News

A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project

The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox

Asking for donations in Plasma

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Following on from our episode about dealing with a horrible codebase, Andy argues that completely rewriting a project is almost always a bad idea.

Things You Should Never Do, Part I

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We often talk about working with cloud technologies, but how do we have fun with them?

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Another example of the downsides of abstraction, whether AI can ever be truly “open source”, and the security benefits and drawbacks of different types of VPN.

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Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials

Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition

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We were asked about whether VPNs are a security measure.

In this episode:

• Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement
• Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile characters, to make it marginally better to look at.
• Mark went in search of a self-hosted streaming music solution, and found SubSonic with mobile clients.

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To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” Linux, if so how, and if it’s even possible in Voice of the masses.

Voice of the masses

Should we try to convert Windows Subsystem for Linux users into “proper” native desktop Linux users? If so, how?

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We need to talk about Ubuntu (again). The updates situation is a confusing mess, a lot of enthusiast users have had enough and are starting to move to other distros, but ultimately millions of normal users will quietly carry on and not care.

Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess

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AMD will patch some old Ryzens against SinkClose now, but their benchmarking methods for newer CPUs didn’t live up to everyday reality. Plus Bcachefs devs annoy Linus Torvalds, the US government sues a college over compliance issues, and Jim disappoints a patron.

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AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs to get SinkClose patch after all

AMD explains, promises partial fixes for Ryzen 9000 performance problems

Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs

After cybersecurity lab wouldn’t use AV software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud

Free consulting

We were asked about monitoring your network for new device connections.

Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual boot, Google quietly drops support for Chrome on old Ubuntu, the Apple tax hits Patreon, and an exciting new Raspberry Pi.

News

OggCamp

Linux is 33 years old

Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser

Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131

“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 235

Chrome dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 but it’ll be back

Patreon warns content makers that Apple wants to be paid

Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

Entroware

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Kevin and Andy talk about their project extremes: the oldest and newest projects they’ve worked on, the biggest and smallest codebases, the ugliest hack, the most elegant, the most popular, the most trivial, and the most important.

Andy’s links

git-what

IGCC

Box Stacker

Rightwaves

Eat Apples Quick!

Smolpxl Games

Rabbit Escape Android Game

element-web

matrix-rust-sdk

FreeGuide

i-dunno

Announcing I-DUNNO 1.0 and web-i-dunno

qdsync

Kevin’s links

clap

clog-cli

clog-lib

typed-oid

usbwatch-rs

baseline

iptables_exporter

wireguard_exporter

CLI2048

violin

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How much Linux and traditional sysadmin knowledge do you need for a career in cloud computing?

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Insecure SSH implementations and a weak key that let a researcher control 200 MW of electrical capacity reignites the debate about versioned protocols vs pluggable protocols, follow-up on sharing files from your LAN with people on the Internet, and the pros and cons of encrypted backups.

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Researchers find insecure SSH implementations everywhere

512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant”

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Resilio

Send

OnionShare

Warp

Immich

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In this episode:

• Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin.
• Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with stream-sprout.
• Mark plays audio from his Android phone to his Linux desktop speakers.
  • And Martin does the same with an iPad and uses playerctl and bluetoothctl to control the iPad remotely.

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The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details about OggCamp, and whether FOSS people are all old.

Discoveries

IPv6 for IPv4 admins

bashsimplecurses

Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000

taskfinder

OggCamp

Gary tells us about the upcoming free culture event in Manchester, UK.

Get tickets here, and volunteer to be part of the crew here.

Call for papers

OggCamp on Mastodon

Are FOSS people all old?

The graying open source community needs fresh blood

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We once recorded an episode about GNOME that was so negative that we decided to delete our recordings and not publish it. Our opinions of GNOME have changed significantly since then so we explain why.

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Forcing Windows to undo updates and a separate IPv6 vulnerability, hardware bugs in AMD and Intel CPUs, and using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.

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Your victim’s Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and exploit away

CVE-2024-38063 – Security Update Guide – Microsoft – Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips

SMM LOCK BYPASS

Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs: all the news and updates

Free Consulting

We were asked about using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.

map acl inherit = yes
acl_xattr:ignore system acls = yes
acl_xattr:default acl style = windows

Setting up a Share Using Windows ACLs

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What celebrities we look like, what books we are into and how we read them, and whether we can separate an artist’s work from their character. With Aaron from Hybrid Cloud Show, and Mark and Martin from Linux Matters.

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Open source myths, Graham gives us an update on the Open Documentation Academy, and why we don’t really talk about mobile Linux anymore.

Open source myths

Open Documentation Academy (GitHub repo)

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How to deal with a horrible codebase that you’ve inherited. Getting started, breaking the problem into smaller pieces, understanding what’s actually wrong, the importance of testing (as usual), and why technical debt isn’t necessarily the best name for the problem.

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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In episode 8 we talked about how to get started with Kubernetes, and this time we cover the next steps: How to set up ingress and east-west networking, options for restricting access, and the best ways to integrate with your favourite cloud provider.

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Secure boot is compromised on hundreds of devices, Amazon’s desperate attempt to make money from Alexa, and how to decide which open source software on GitHub to trust.

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Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers

old and related

Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices

Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years

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We were asked about how to decide which open source software on GitHub to trust.

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In this episode, we discuss:

• Migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors.
• Contributing package updates to Void and Apline linux.
• What happens when you plug a phone’s USB port into TV.

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Analysing MQTT data, getting domains unblocked from Cloudflare DNS, making ASCII animations, and why Joe is drawn to Linux Mint. Plus why we don’t talk about Vivaldi even though it’s quite good, why Félim was wrong about right click in PuTTY, and Will doesn’t seem to understand Lemmy.

Discoveries

MQTT decode

Cloudflare DNS was blocking apps.kde.org

Durdraw

Linux Mint 22

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Lemmy

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How we learn, remember, and document new Linux and FOSS technologies.

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How and why the recent huge Windows outage was caused by a bad CrowdStrike update and how it could have been avoided, a hilariously dumb ESXi vulnerability, and using SAS drives with a PCIe card.

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News

A closer look at what caused the CrowdStrike Windows crashes

Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly ESXi flaw

Jake Williams on Twitter

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We were asked about using SAS drives with a PCIe card.

NVIDIA makes more of its drivers easier to install, the EU is probably going to redirect FOSS funding to AI, Mark Zuckerberg abuses the term “open source”, Proton jumps the shark, a trio of typical Google stories, and the shortest KDE Korner in history.

News

NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open,” in a specific, quirky way

FOSS funding vanishes from EU’s 2025 Horizon program plans

Open Source AI Is the Path Forward

The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B

Introducing Proton Wallet – a safer way to hold Bitcoin

Introducing Proton Scribe, a private writing assistant that writes and proofreads emails for you

Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome

Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 just labor exploitation, boffins say

Google’s shortened links will stop working next year 

Contribute to KDE with more than just C++

KDE HIG update

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Developing as part of an in-person team vs working remotely, synchronous vs asynchronous development, how to make a hybrid team work effectively, and how code review fits into it all.

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We talk about infrastructure as code, what it is, what it isn’t, how it differs from configuration management, how to structure it, best practices to stay consistent between Dev/Test and Production, avoiding configuration drift, and some experiences trying to do infrastructure/configuration as code in a home lab.

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How a Bitcoin mine made life in a Texas town absolutely miserable, why paying for extended support for end of life Windows versions is just doubling down on technical debt, and the best way to manage router redundancy.

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Inside the ‘Nightmare’ Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

Enterprises urged to think carefully about Windows 10 extended support options

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We were asked about managing router redundancy.

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In this episode:

• Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter.
• Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sniped into updating the Flutter-based Quickgui project.
• Martin digs into his pile-o-bits to craft a new home-lab server that is quieter, cooler, harder, faster, better, stronger, and mostly empty. Martin mentioned an episode of Ask The Hosts.

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Testing the security of your Bluetooth devices, diffing databases, visualising MQTT data, running Linux VMs on an iPad or Iphone, org mode in Kate, and making point and click games. Plus whether we are too negative, or if we are just realistic.

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BlueSpy

reladiff

MQTT Explorer

You can now run VMs on iOS with UTM

kate-org-mode

Bladecoder Adventure Engine

The Witness

We all customise our phones and computers to one extent or another, but does it make sense to inflict our defaults on other people’s machines when we set them up? Or should we set them up with normal defaults on mainstream distros like Ubuntu?

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A widely-used login system is still using MD5 which is bad news, miscreants took over some domains when they moved from Google to Squarespace, Linksys’ sloppy app isn’t a huge problem but is a bad sign, and why backing up an Android phone in one go is pretty much impossible without root.

Plug

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New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere

Squarespace migration linked to DNS hijacking, claims report

Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers

Free Consulting

We were asked about backing up Android phones.

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The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special feature” to interact with Google sites, Mozilla shows that it needs advertising, and openSUSE might be getting a new (terrible) name.

News

EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones

Take action to stop chat control now!

Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector

Why Chromium tells Google sites about your CPU, GPU usage

Privacy-Preserving Attribution

Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default

Mozilla desperately needs transparency

Rebranding openSUSE?

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What agile software development is exactly, why planning and being willing to adapt the plan are key, the pros and cons of all the process that’s involved, the role that scrum plays, and why it’s all about communication.

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Amolith will be at Fossy in August.

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How best to get started with Kubernetes and whether it is better to start with a low-touch option like MicroK8s/K3s, using a cloud-managed Kubernetes from the outset, or set up everything yourself “the hard way”

Kubernetes The Hard Way

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We didn’t get to all of your questions for our Episode 200 free consulting special so here is another full episode of your questions and our answers. Our thoughts on a new UK smart devices law, backing up 30TB off-site, how to learn ZFS, SMB vs other ways to share files, and backing up secrets.

Smart devices: new law helps citizens to choose secure products

FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS

FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS

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The best TV show of all time, and the future of e-waste and what we can and will do about it. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.

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In this episode, we discuss:

• Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extension for Firefox.
• Mark has been composing bass parts for an album using Tux Guitar.
• Alan has been visualising source code in 4K with Gource.

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An incredibly powerful hex editor for reverse engineering binaries, easily searching through snaphots for end users, streaming audio from phones to the Linux desktop, writing interactive fiction games, and how we makes notes and manage tasks.

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Marknote

Having been given an Asus Eee PC netbook back, Joe wonders what to do with this ancient 32-bit machine. Plus the oldest machines we currently have in production.

Batocera

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Why we didn’t mention pocket fluff when we talked about USB-C charging issues, Microsoft abandons its promising underwater data center experiment and didn’t monitor it’s SSL certs, why you should be careful which WordPress plugins and themes you install,an Australian ISP’s tech debt comes due, and remoting into desktop Linux.

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Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success

Microsoft declares its underwater data center test was a success

Shouting in the Datacenter

Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack

Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach

Microsoft hits snooze again on security certificate renewal

Instead of the news which is all either boring or grim, we’ve come up with a fun Linux-themed game show that’s definitely not completely fixed. Plus a great network tool, and what keeps us on Linux when most apps are available everywhere else.

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IMUNES

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Andy is annoyed that so much free and open source software is hosted on a proprietary platform that’s owned by Microsoft. There are plenty of alternatives to GitHub, but ultimately the network effect is why so many people host their code there. We dream of a proper federated solution. Maybe one day…

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We get personal and explain our home IT setups, sharing tips on learning new technologies like networking and Kubernetes while keeping the family TV working, and consult on how to secure the root user of your cloud account.

Vulnerabilities in Asus hardware make us think there should be some regulations about what can be sold as a router, a VPN feature that we hadn’t heard of is removed from Windows, and why we don’t believe that Microsoft will ever take security as seriously as they claim.

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News/discussion

High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models

Dear Asus router user: You’ve been pwned, thanks to easily exploited flaw

Microsoft to remove DirectAccess from Windows, recommends switching to Always On VPN

Microsoft fixes hack-me-via-Wi-Fi Windows security hole

CVE-2024-30078

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI

Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they’ll make security a priority

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In this episode, we discuss:

• What’s new in quickemu.
• How quickgui came to be.
• Testing with quicktest.

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Unlocking the full potential of Nvidia graphics cards, hacking the otherwise bricked Spotify hardware device, Félim realised that his Borg backups could be significantly smaller, making wiring diagrams using text, silly terminal effects and colours, using a ThinkPad as a WiFi dongle, great lightweight distros for an ancient netbook, better Google searches, and more.

Discoveries

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Hacking the Spotify Car Thing

borg compact

Terminal Text Effects

lolcat

WireViz

BunsenLabs

Batocera

Unsong

udm=14

Gruble

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We are joined by Florian Beijers who is a full time screen reader user to talk about how the accessibility experience differs on various operating systems and Linux desktop environments, and what open source software devs could be doing better.

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YouTube channel

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IC_Null Twitch

LinkedIn

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It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard drive availability, USB-C robustness, ZFS performance on a VPS, cold storage with a 2.5″ form factor, how we gained our level of knowledge, disk enclosure issues, and monitoring Windows servers.

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New RISC-V and Arm Linux laptops are starting to pave the way for an exciting future, Mozilla makes another divisive acquisition, a couple of big anniversaries make us feel old, some quick KDE updates, and more.

News

World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu

Canonical Announce First RISC-V Laptop Running Ubuntu

Video of a Banana Pi with the same SoC

Significantly slower than a Pi 4

TUXEDO on ARM is coming

The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support

Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed

The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years

Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising

25 Years of Krita!

What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal!

KDE e.V. is looking for a contractor to coordinate the KDE Goals process

KDE Apps initiative

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If you want to be a good developer, how many different programming languages should you learn? Maybe becoming an expert in one specific language is the way to go. Maybe it’s more a case of learning different concepts and paradigms than languages.

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Google Cloud teaches us about eggs and baskets by losing a big customer’s data, and Microsoft’s carbon emissions are up significantly – probably because of AI. Plus compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.

News/discussion

Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups

Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident

Microsoft’s carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI

McKinsey report.

Costs to inference ChatGPT exceed the training costs on a weekly basis

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How to prepare for your loved ones to have the access they need if the worst unexpectedly happens, Joe’s weird issues with wireless access points, and dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.

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After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

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Whether self-driving cars are the future, and the skills we would download into our brains (Matrix-style). With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.

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In this episode:

• Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of the old Mycroft AI apope voice.
• Martin has eschewed Google Search to use Kagi instead.
• Mark has been judging a coding contest where students used Scratch to create games, including the use of backpack.

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Your favourite obscure open source software in Voice of the masses. Plus whether AI is a load of old rubbish, and even if it is useful for some things we have to ask ourselves: at what cost?

Voice of the masses

What’s the best open source app or utility that no one else has heard of?

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Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogent root-server mysteriously goes out of sync without them spotting it, and protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.

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Installing Windows 11 24H2 might mean binning that old NAS

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why

A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processing data and CSV files on the command line, controlling cycling workout gear and graphing your progress, and a top tip for following Mastodon accounts in a normal RSS feed reader.

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Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox

Plasma 6.1 Beta out: Triple buffering, Wayland explicit sync & RDP access

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Forks are a fundamental aspect of open source software so we get into the different types of forks, when and why you might want to fork a project, the maintenance burden that comes with a hard fork, the importance of winning mindshare for your fork, what exactly counts as a fork, when it’s not always a great idea to fork, and more.

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We look at OpenShift from an external perspective, including how it works in a multi-cloud environment, how it abstracts cloud resources, when administrators and developers still need to understand what is happening beneath the abstraction, combining OpenShift with cloud-managed services, some of the downsides of OpenShift, and where people should start if they want to learn.

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Linux kernel developers were infected with malware for 2 years, another nail in the coffin of proper federated email as Exchange Server moves to a subscription model, followup on zfsbootmenu and IPv6, and learning unfamiliar topics.

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Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach

Exchange Server SE to debut just before 2019 support ends

Newbie struggling with zfsbootmenu

In this episode:

• Martin has been working on Quickemu, his project to quickly create and run optimised Linux, Windows and macOS virtual machines.
• Alan has a new job at Anchore, and tells us about their open-source vulnerability, SBOM, license scanners, Grype, Syft, and Grant
• Mark explains how he is using ntfy to send push notifications to his phone when servers do interesting things.

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We look back at what Linux and open source was like when we first got into it, and consider some of the ways that things have improved over all these years.