Late Night Linux – Episode 310

Windows ssh is sending more telemetry than you might think, Let’s Encrypt will offer 6 days certificates, a PSA about domains that don’t send emails, and performance issues in a Synology NAS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Winter 2024 Roundup: Storage and Network Diagnostics... Read More

In this episode: Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page. Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy. Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely. Alan’s coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah.     You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like... Read More

Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser automation, converting Office documents to markdown, markdown in Vim, and why we think Raspberry Pi OS shouldn’t change its default desktop environment.   Discoveries  motion & frigate Octoprint PSU control with Home Assistant... Read More

Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested.     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early... Read More

Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern RSA or AES encryption, Russian attackers compromised a business via a nearby building’s WiFi, a startup runs out of money and bricks a robot for kids, and hardening Linux systems.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed... Read More

SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more.  ... Read More

We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model.     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More

The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driven architecture and design, message queuing, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.   Send your questions and feedback to [email protected]       Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More

The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD  ... Read More

The most surprising thing about ourselves, alternative computing form factors that we’d like, and whether we can be truly free. With popey from Linux Matters, Will and Graham from Late Night Linux, Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, and Gary from Linux After Dark.     Patrons got this this in their feed two... Read More