Late Night Linux – Episode 298

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.     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the... Read More

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... Read More

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.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes      ... Read More

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.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early... Read More

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... Read More

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.     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to... Read More

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.       Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free... Read More

It’s Halloween so Jim and Allan share horrific and spooky stories from their sysadmin careers. Plus picking a UPS for a homelab.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Klara: NAS: Maintenance Best Practices                   See our contact... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More