Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins.   ncspot py-spy OggCamp Distrobox BoxBuddy audio-visualizer-python         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out... Read More

Intel’s CEO departs but replacing him won’t magically solve its serious problems, Zipcar wasn’t prepared for an outage and handled it really badly, moving to an email provider that supports DMARC, and picking a NAS distribution.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Ask Me... Read More

We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewhat ambivalent about the new OpenWrt router, understanding about Linux sanctioning the Bcachefs dev, and surprised that Félim is slowly starting to warm up to the idea of atomic distros (because KDE, obvs). With... Read More

More of our development hot takes including excessive energy use, optimising your code, the importance of licences, Matrix and Jabber being on the same side, the myth of secure code, and why self-hosting is hard. watt-wiser         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the... Read More

How worthwhile cloud certifications are, whether they really demonstrate much more than your ability to pass an exam, how they relate to real world experience, actually learning new technologies via certification, and why having too many certs can be a red flag. Plus Sean tells us about his trip to the recent Ubuntu Summit.  ... Read More

Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be sticking around. Plus mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD... Read More

OggCampIn this episode: Alan uses vhs to make a short video Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with... Read More

Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more.   Discoveries pup 8bitworkshop 20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2 BlinkenLights European Alternatives WisBlock Smart Cube Companion Graham’s cubes Joe’s battery test... Read More

We all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here was “what would Jim and Allan from 2.5 Admins NOT do”. Guess who won with this monstrosity.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   1Password... Read More

Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client, restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes DKMS vs kmod: The Essential Guide for ZFS on... Read More