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.

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MQTT decode

Cloudflare DNS was blocking apps.kde.org

Durdraw

Linux Mint 22

Feedback

fedditt.uk

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.

Plug

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A closer look at what caused the CrowdStrike Windows crashes

Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly ESXi flaw

Jake Williams on Twitter

Free Consulting

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

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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.

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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.

Automox

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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?

Automox

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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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News

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.

Feedback

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.

Plug

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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

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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

Free Consulting

We were asked about compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.

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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.

Plug

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

EAP225 AC1350 wireless access point

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?

Kolide

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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.

Plug

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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.

News

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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GoldenCheetah

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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.

OpenShift

OKD

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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.

Plug

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News/discussion

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.

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Consent-O-Matic

Privacy Guides

Pi-hole

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SponsorBlock

Microsoft’s new Copilot+ feature will record everything you are doing on your computer for some reason, but it will only work on new Arm hardware for now. Plus Apple’s weird iOS bug that restored deleted files and photos, and sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.

Plugs

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Allan was on Linux Dev Time

News

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

Microsoft’s “Copilot+” AI PC requirements are embarrassing for Intel and AMD

Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos

Free Consulting

We were asked about sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.

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The whole band is back together for the first time in a while and we’ve got “excellent” news that Raspberry Pi is doing an IPO, another look at the Pi 5 after 6 months, our positive thoughts about Mozilla’s new Executive Director, Félim’s doubts about OSI’s attempt to define open source AI, a very quick bit of KDE news, and more.

News

Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers

Raspberry Pi Connect

M.2 HAT+ on sale now at $12

Raspberry Pi 5 Network OS Installer

Growing Our Movement — and Growing Mozilla — to Shape the AI Era

Mozilla Foundation Welcomes Nabiha Syed as Executive Director

Why I’m Joining Mozilla as Executive Director

The Open Source AI Definition gets closer to reality with a global workshop series

The Open Source AI Definition – draft v. 0.0.8

‘Openwashing’

HDR & Gamescope

Kolide

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We are joined by Allan Jude to talk about what it’s like to run a company that develops and maintains open source software with a focus on upstreaming as much code as possible.

Klara

November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit – The Value of Upstream First

How to upstream code to open source projects

FiloSottile (Filippo Valsorda)

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Why AWS changed its policy on charging for HTTP errors on S3 buckets, how Bluesky dealt with an explosion in popularity by moving to on-prem, IBM buys Hashicorp, and our thoughts on cloud governance.

News/discussion

How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode

Jeff Barr responds on Twitter

Update: S3 engineers are working to make unauthorized requests that customers did not initiate free of charge

Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes

Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation

IBM Press Release

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Why Windows 10 might be gaining users at Windows 11’s expense, an old DHCP option is a potential risk for VPN users, we should probably say “renting” rather than “buying”domains, and avoiding tracking when using IPv6.

Plugs

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Jim was on Late Night Linux again

News

Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

In this episode:

• Martin has been perfecting the Pantheon desktop environment.
• Alan has been writing Go, and enjoying it.
• Mark has been playing Against the Storm, a town-builder with rogue-like elements.

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In the last ~10 years we’ve seen a lot of changes happen in the Linux and open source world. So what do we think will happen over the next decade? What about the future of the web? With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.

We can have a different web

Automox

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Is Linux hard to use? It turns out the answer is both “yes, absolutely” and “not at all!”

Mastodon’s link previews are causing downtime for web servers without properly configured caching, locking down DNS inside Windows networks, why using write-once backup media is a bad idea, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.

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News

Mastodon delays firm fix to solve link preview DDoS

Mastodon Is DDoSing Me 

Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before

Free Consulting

We were asked about write-once backup media, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.

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Popular songs we can’t stand, and our biggest regrets in life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.

Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.

Ubuntu 24.04 is out and we have mixed feelings about it. Plus bad news for RISC-V, a new Linux distro might control safety systems in cars, a classic media player is back from the dead, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.

News

Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade

Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat

Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that really means it

Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers

RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback

US government reportedly ponders crimping China’s use of RISC-V

Amarok 3.0 “Castaway” released!

Akademy 2024, Würzburg and Online from Saturday 7th September to Thursday 12th September, Registration Open!

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Andy is a huge proponent of test-driven development and explains why – including types of code testing including unit tests and integration tests, when you actually need to run tests, how long they should take, and more.

Emily Bache

cyber‑dojo

Test with Go

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What “hybrid cloud” actually means to us. Where it works well, where it creates challenges, where the control plane should live, how to abstract differences between platforms to make workloads more suitable to be used in a hybrid setup, maintaining compliance across clouds, and guarding against security vulnerabilities in containerised dependencies.

Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 1

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How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different TVs, Jim’s alarming theory about AI malware, and encrypting offsite backups.

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News/discussion

Is your PC having trouble? Your smart TV might be to blame

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We were asked about encrypting offsite backups.

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In this episode:

• Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down
• Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his shiny new server
• Martin flies to the end of the alphabet to talk about Zoxide

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What we all think counts as a non-mainstream distro, and some great examples of them in Voice of the masses. Plus ASCII maps in the terminal, another classic game is now open source, Arch on easy mode, a trip report from a nuclear power station, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

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Voice of the masses

What’s the best non-mainstream Linux distro?

Distrowatch is Not a Measure of Popularity

Discoveries

mapscii

Descent 3

Sizewell B

EndeavourOS

StezStix Fix?

Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints, P-cores and E-cores, and more. Plus follow-up on the devices and software we trust.

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ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess).

Plugs

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How to upstream code to open source projects

News

Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption

After years of testing, Seagate claims its heat-assisted HAMR drives are as reliable as traditional PMR storage

Seagate makes HDD price hikes, says AI caused demand spike

Free Consulting

We were asked about learning ZFS, and which filesystem to use for a single SSD.

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More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

Announcing the Open Home Foundation

tea.xyz causes open source software spam problems, again

A thread about people who need to run Windows

Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

How Japan’s space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon

NASA’s downed Ingenuity helicopter has a ‘last gift’ for humanity — but we’ll have to go to Mars to get it

NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed

Entroware

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Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the Linux kernel is written in C, Go vs Rust, and what memory safety means.

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Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability.

Plugs

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Shane’s platform engineering newsletter

News/discussion

Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing

Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork

Why AWS Supports Valkey

OpenTofu not being good fork

IAM Is The Worst

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there’s a way out

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Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.

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Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine

Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive

Free Consulting

We were asked about disk queue schedulers in Linux.

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In this episode:

• Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us.

Here are the links to everything we mentioned.

• Bucklespring

• Snapdrop

• Mark’s funky monitor – the LG DualUp
• 8BitDo Micro Gamepad

• https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1
• https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/04/fido2-hardware-passwordsecret-management.html
• https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/26/more-fido2-hardware-authkey-uses-on-a-linux-machine-and-their-quirks.html

• Introduction to Virtualization
• systemd-nspawn containers

• A guide to a good docked gaming experience on Steam Deck

• StyleTTS2
• Pied

• Calibre Companion
• Calibre Web
• FBReader
• CDisplayEx
• Komga
• BorrowBox
• Audiobookshelf
• Booksonic

• N100 upgrade

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How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds.

Voice of the masses

How do you keep your Linux systems secure?

News

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

Discoveries

rembg

Photopea

nvtop

Giada

OMG! Ubuntu article about login sound

Joe’s video of the laptop booting with the sound (play -v 0.9 –magic startup.ogg)

Kolide

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We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you to build and deploy anything from the ultimate developer workstation to a basic Chromebook-like experience for a non-technical relative.

Bazzite

Universal Blue

Project Bluefin

Install Collector on Linux

Project Bluefin and the future of operating systems

CNCF Landscape

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A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS.

Plug

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News

backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance for zvols

X fixes URL blunder that could enable social media phishing

Free Consulting

We were asked about adding SATA ports to a home NAS.

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The most amused we’ve ever been, how we’d cobble a meal together with limited ingredients, and whether we have an inner monologue. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, and Jim from 2.5 Admins.

Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.

Soggy or Hard?

ElectroBOOM

There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year.

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How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide

backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

Everything I know about the XZ backdoor

research!rsc: Timeline of the xz open source attack

XZ threat actor Jia Tan’s change to libarchive which introduced an exploitable situation made it into Windows

New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary

The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind

Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update)

Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 224

I am not a supplier

OggCamp is happening later this year!

Gary gives us the details.

We are joined by Drew DeVault to discuss his programming language called Hare, which aims for 100 years of forwards compatibility.

We mentioned Drew’s blog posts Can I be on your podcast? and It takes a village

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There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between.

In this first episode: the big three public cloud providers have dropped egress fees, four years of lessons and regrets from running a startup, and avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers.

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News/discussion

Cloud switching just got easier: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS

Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure

(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup

Free Consulting

We were asked about avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers.

Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]

Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog.

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News/discussion

Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

Telegram’s Peer-to-Peer Login system is a risky way to save $5 a month

Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users

Free Consulting

We were asked about tuning a low end VPS to host a blog.

Tailscale

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Kolide

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In this episode:

• Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now!
• Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with Telegram GTK4 Color palette, Fractal and Halloy.
• Mark is migrating data to his new home server in a very snappy way.

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The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

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Voice of the masses

What’s the main reason you use open source software?

Discoveries 

PiKVM

Kitty

Pro-54 (live link here

cmajor

The Arch wiki knows all

Ubuntu is nearly 20 years old so we wanted to see how the first versions compare with the upcoming LTS. Unfortunately installing Warty turned out to much harder than we thought it would be. Dalton talks us through his adventure with a turn of the century Mac, Gary had a much easier time with an x86 PC, Joe’s laptop wasn’t quite old enough, and Chris found some surprising aspects of virtualising it.

Dalton’s blog post about installing Warty on an ancient Mac

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The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

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News

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version

zVault

Apple’s antitrust fight begins

US DOJ’s blockbuster lawsuit against Apple is headline grabber but poses limited near-term impact

Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted

Free Consulting

We were asked about scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD

Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

News

Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!

Stop the line?

Manual review of all new snap name registrations

KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user’s files

CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms – Krebs on Security

Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers

Introducing Didthis: A New App For Hobbyists

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

Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one

Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis

Apache Kvrocks

Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse

Threads has entered the fediverse

Fedi.Tips urges admins to defederate Threads

Switch emulator Suyu hit by GitLab DMCA, project lives on through self-hosting

World Server Throwing Championship (WSTC) 2024

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Kolide

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Entroware

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How we first learned to code, and how we learn new technologies now.

Snake in Terraform
Snake in lots of languages
Web server in Sinclair BASIC

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Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images.

Plug

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News/discussion

An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices

Devs left with tough choices as Warner Bros. ends all Adult Swim Games downloads

Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”

Free Consulting

We were asked about managing gold images.

In this episode:

• Mark is migrating services between servers
• Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng
• Alan is coding for fun in PHP

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What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more.

Voice of the masses

What’s pulling you away from open source, and what will pull you back?

Follow us on Mastodon and you can reply to future questions.

Discoveries 

Telstar

ps_mem

cookiecutter

GPlates

Mirroring Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu

Home assistant remote control from your Garmin watch

Tiny Core Linux is still a thing

screenshot-to-code

Tailscale

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Kolide

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We wonder what old concepts in the Linux and open source world are due for a comeback.

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Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense.

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News

Roku disables players and TVs with attempt to coerce arbitration agreement

Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware

Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job

Free Consulting

We were asked about using jumbo frames on a network.

Kolide

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Our brews of choice, what the minimum wage should enable a person to do, and how long we’d want to live if we stayed healthy. With Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Félim from Late Night Linux, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary, Chris and Dalton from Linux After Dark.

Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.

KDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source Switch emulator, Mozilla does another great thing for the Web, another reason to hate Spotify, and more.

News

KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community

Megarelease Teething Problems

This week in KDE: a smooth release

Critical Plasma 6 piece on the Register

Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0

Nintendo’s Yuzu Lawsuit is All But Done. Price: $2.4m. Cost to Emulation: TBD

Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued

MDN Curriculum

Hosting your podcast using Spotify is a bad idea

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Kolide

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What we’ve learned over the years about the interview process for software development jobs, both as the applicant and the interviewer.

Kolide

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The boss of Nvidia says kids don’t need to code because they can just use AI, companies sell their users’ data to train models, and why 2.5Gbps networking probably isn’t worth bothering with.

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News/discussion

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI

Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Free Consulting

We were asked about adding 2.5Gbps gear to your network.

Kolide

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In this episode:

• Alan has been Driving an electric Mini for two years.
• Mark is migrating to a new home server.
• Martin is using a modern version of swap.

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In a “brand new” segment we ask how you keep your kids safe online, and give our own thoughts. Plus Will tells us about a dirt cheap ham radio and the new way he sniffs Bluetooth traffic, Félim loves AI when it’s tracking his head, the open source way to control lighting rigs, a BBS-like interface to sites like Hacker News, yet another Spotify replacement, Damn Small Linux returns, and more.

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Discoveries

Quansheng UVK5

AITrack

Neon Modem Overdrive

Open source lighting rig control with QLC+

envio

InnerTune

Damn Small Linux 2024

nRF Sniffer

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Automox

Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Gary’s recent (mostly) good experience with an Arm Chromebook makes us wonder about the current state of proper Linux on Arm laptops. Plus follow up on why the Wyse 5070 has some limitations, but is still a great little x86 box.

Chris mentioned a FOSDEM talk

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More cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans students’ faces, using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.

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“So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to strangers for 2nd time in 5 months

Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data

Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students

Free Consulting

We were asked about using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.

Automox

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The BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of Plasma 6 we let Félim do a short KDE Korner.

News

Stepping back into the refreshingly free world of Linux – The Irish Times

Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D

Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s

Mercedes-Benz AG – FOSS Manifesto

It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU

EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo

Anthony: “Not commenting the Mozilla lay…” – Indieweb.Social

Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy

New krita.org website launched

Kubuntu Graphic Design Contest

Wayland fake session restore and 805/500 supporters

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Automox

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The automation tools we use in our development and why we use them. Plus how to engage with your project’s community – both in real time, and asynchronously.

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Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups.

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News/discussion

Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs

Investors threw 50% less money at quantum sector last year

Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true

Google has killed cached results in search

Free Consulting

We were asked about testing your backups.

Kolide

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Automox

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In this episode:

• bcachefs debuted in Linux 6.7, and Martin has excitedly installed it on everything!
  • Support bcachefs development via Patreon
• Alan helps someone with an Exodus of Bitcoin
  • Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490K Swindle
• Mark has pulled the trigger on a new “home server”

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An open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping, a static site generator for people migrating away from Bandcamp, hello world in every possible language, a synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope, why we are pretty down on macOS, and more.

Discoveries 

spotube

AudioTube

Nuclear Reactor Simulator

trippy

Faircamp

Joe’s music

hello world

osci-render

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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.

Gary’s recent trip to FOSDEM made him wonder if the type of Linux user who goes to FOSS events has changed. Has the demographic shifted more towards “normal” people who use Linux as a tool rather than something to tinker with? Plus more on planned obsolescence, and a quick prediction about the Apple Vision Pro.

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Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more.

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News

announcing freenginx.org

Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software

OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns

Fast Dedup is a Valentines Gift to the OpenZFS and TrueNAS Communities

Free Consulting

We were asked about using multiple network interfaces on a NAS.

Kolide

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How we’d give away a million dollars, the oldest movies we’ve watched enough times to quote, and where and when we’d time travel to. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.

Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.

Great news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts,  the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, Xfce is finally moving towards Wayland, Kubuntu sticks with KDE 5 for the LTS, Mozilla makes changes at the top, and more.

News

Unattended updates for everyone, F-Droid 1.19 is here

The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement

Introducing Sudo for Windows!

Ubuntu Core Desktop Debut No Longer Planned for April

Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites [it’s white labelled like the VPN thing]

A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future

Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility

KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04

Frameworks 5.115.0

KDE 6 is so close!

15 min bug update

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Andy Balaam joins us to talk about accepting contributions from devs with varying levels of experience. When to invest the time to mentor them, why documentation is important, how automated tools fit in, being willing to decline some contributions, dealing with companies vs individuals, and more.

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Trying to report a security issue lands a consultant in trouble, a new take on the drop shipping scam, setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, choosing the right disk size, and more.

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News/discussion

IT consultant in Germany fined for exposing shoddy security

Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain

Free Consulting

We were asked about setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, and choosing the right disk size.

Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS

Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS

3.5″ internal drives sorted by price/TB