Having recently moved house, Gary wonders how to reconfigure his homelab and network setup. Plus Shane is fed up with GitHub’s outages and formulates a plan to move away… somewhere…
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People were locked out of their password managers to stop a brute force attack, Coreutils come to Windows, a FreeBSD PR effort backfires, and the best simple consumer WiFi gear.
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Why ZFS Is the Ideal Filesystem for Multi-User/Department Media Production
Webinar: June 30th @ 11am EDT: FreeBSD After Hours AMA
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Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks
Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils
FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop
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A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.
News/discussion
Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
Ubuntu Summit
We revisit the topic of the dire situation with hardware prices, this time with a focus on getting the most out of machines with limited resources.
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Microsoft threatens a security researcher for disclosing vulnerabilities publicly, bricks old versions of Office, and announces their version of OpenClaw. Plus keeping up with the latest technology.
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Which ZFS Storage Metrics Matter for Database Performance
Webinar: June 25th @ 11am EDT: Understanding AnyRAID with Jon from HexOS
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Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation
The researcher is a former MS employee says Krebs
Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher
Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations
Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent
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Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028.
News
Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing
The golden age of handheld gaming is already over [archived]
Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
We’re Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations – Software Freedom Conservancy
‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing [archived]
Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [21st Dec 2022]
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! [28th Sep 2023]
What makes a good library?
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It’s a Linux Dev Time style hot questions episode. Is “cloud native” more about where the workload is going or how you deploy it? What is a skill that is really important in your job that may surprise people? Is the cloud more or less secure than a company-controlled data centre or on-prem? Would you recommend what you do to your kids/nephews etc?
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It looks like Bitlocker had a back door in it, how a listener accidentally broke Gitea for users of the snap version, Google accidentally published an unpatched exploit for Chromium-based browsers, why people are starting to ditch Bitwarden, and moving a tech stack away from large corporations.
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How Klara and TrueNAS fixed ZFS’s longest standing limitation
Webinar: June 25th @ 11am EDT: Understanding AnyRAID with Jon from HexOS
News/discussion
YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability
Microsoft shares mitigation for YellowKey Windows zero-day
How I Broke Gitea for Everyone
Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users
The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
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Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion
Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages
EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox’s way
We all seem to be moving away from Ubuntu, but there are still quite a few reasons to keep using it.
Charlie’s OggCamp talk about infrastructure as code
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Why a proposal for an alternative to IPv6 is unlikely to be viable, Microsoft really doesn’t want you to run Exchange Server on-prem, Google will finally stop being a proper search engine, setting up an email server for internal use, and mitigating DDoS attacks without Cloudflare.
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Webinar: May 27th at 11am EDT: Database Performance on ZFS with Tom Lawrence
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Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6
Exchange Server zero-day vulnerability can be triggered by opening a malicious email
Google Search as you know it is over
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Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
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Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own
Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit
Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access
Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
Andy has been taking the One Billion Row Challenge, and has been thinking about the broader question of what makes software fast.
Andy’s videos on Peertube and YouTube.
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We get into some homelab updates. Sean has been consolidating hardware, Gary has been implementing high availability with Proxmox, and Shane has been working hard to get Home Assistant working with Kubernetes, as well as downloading YouTube videos.
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People trying to return defective hard drives and RAM are finding out why consumer protection laws would be good, GoDaddy accidentally gave someone’s domain name away, and when and how to fix ZFS fragmentation.
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Fast Dedup Economics: When Deduplication Beats Buying New Disks
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GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation
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Light bulb colour temperatures, doing nice things for ourselves, pulling faces while playing guitar, and surreal experiences. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, May from Linux After Dark, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.
Discoveries
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
News/discussion
I wanted to reply with some clarifications
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies
How we get back to our home LANs when we are away travelling etc. It mostly involves WireGuard and Tailscale. We also get into blocking ads, mostly with Pi-hole.
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Microsoft is encouraging employees with the most experience to leave the company and letting users pause Windows updates forever, some of the best features you’ll get in the version of ZFS that ships with the new Ubuntu LTS, and backing up data from cloud services.
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Extending ZFS Performance Without Hardware Upgrades
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Your Windows update experience just got updated
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There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.
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SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations
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Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04?
Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up
Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
It’s yet another hot questions episode. Colour schemes, syntax highlighting, code patterns, fonts, and keyboards.
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A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer.
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected
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Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general, and changing the properties of existing ZFS pools.
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Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS
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How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks
Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord
Apple’s last tower topples… and the others will follow
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Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.
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Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one
Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty well, thanks to lots of open source software and a terminal.
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Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimited” never means that, and attempting to avoid software that’s written with AI.
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Do More with Less: Cost-Efficient Storage on the New TrueNAS with Enhanced Fast Dedup
The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware
News/discussion
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process
Action Required: Account Verification for Windows Hardware Program Begins October 16, 2025
FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn’t explain why
Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data
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The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News
France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process
You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing
UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype
A few notes about the massive hype surrounding Claude Mythos
Breathless parroting of Anthropic’s bullshit from the graun
NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist
KDE Korner
Tighter KDE Connect Integration
We get into dependency management. The pros and cons of tools like Dependabot, the varying approaches with different languages and standard library sizes, the times when pinning dependencies makes sense, and more.
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Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate some of the problems AI is causing, the sense that Kubernetes is mature and boring in a good way now, and our concerns about scope creep.
Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group
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Why putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on really old Dell servers.
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Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right? 11 mins edited
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea
Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website
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Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers.
News/discussion
A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash
TDF ejects its core developers
Let’s put an end to the speculation
Memo: Red Hat Global Engineering plans to lean in to AI
If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
May wants to make a space heater out of an old computer, and Joe is thinking about buying a new (used) laptop. The heater will be pretty straightforward but finding the right laptop will be much harder.
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Arm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a friend’s photos.
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FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View
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Arm expands compute platform to silicon products in historic company first
Anthropic exposes Claude Code source by accident
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What we do when we get stressed, cinema vs theatre, our mentors, and if we’ve tried being vegetarian. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.
News
LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April
Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB
Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements
Windows 11 has lower requirements
Ubuntu MATE – seeking maintainers
It’s another hot questions episode. Whether we think better on our own or with other people, our non-standard debugging habits, favourite interview questions, coding at night, character encoding, and abolishing time zones.
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The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with.
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Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer’s server is down, and whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS.
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Five‑Year Storage Design with OpenZFS: Media Refresh, Rebalancing, and Hardware Independence
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Our commitment to Windows quality
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates
Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US
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Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.
Discoveries
AI in FOSS
systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added
New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI
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We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest.
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The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesystems inside VMs.
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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage
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US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America
National Security Determination on the Threat Posed by Routers Produced by Foreign Countries (pdf)
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
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Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.
News
Just over a month until OggCamp!
Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety
450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters
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In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.
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Gary is concerned that he might have dug himself into a hole of on-prem vendor lock-in, despite using open source software. Plus why you should have PiKVM type device in your toolkit.
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Why passkeys aren’t the right solution to everything, Allan tells us why he loves his new Lithium Iron Phosphate UPS, Btrfs vs ZFS on root, and restricting Internet access for IoT devices on your network.
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Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence
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Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
Allan’s new Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station
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Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more.
News/discussion
LibreOffice Online: a fresh start
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic
LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control
Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability
Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C
You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB
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May has actually been using her stack of laptops and learning that “legacy” distros make more sense, the Firefox flatpak performs better than other packages, Linux Mint is a fine distro, Linux has the best calculators, and GNOME’s scaling is really good now.
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Microsoft Authenticator will delete Entra credentials on phones that aren’t running stock ROMs, Jim’s nightmare experience trying to get a user back into their MS account, tracking vehicles via tire pressure monitors, using a ZFS pool in a degraded state, and keeping cold ZFS storage dataset snapshots in sync.
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Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones
Jailbreak/root detection in Microsoft Authenticator
Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking
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Our favourite smells, whether we use dark mode, and whether there’s any meaning to life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses.
News
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don’t hate it
Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite – Tuan-Anh Tran
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
No right to relicense this project
Hide from Meta’s spyglasses with this new Android app
Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
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The importance of having and sticking to correct development processes, what can go wrong when you don’t, and how to fix the problems you might end up with.
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The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with Linux?
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Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab.
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Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads
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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year
Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
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Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.
News
Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro
Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches
KDE Korner 4
A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk “the KDE is forcing systemd!” hoax
KDE endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles
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People often like to talk down Electron, but it is really that bad? There may be better ways to use Web technologies to make desktop apps, but isn’t having Linux versions of apps a good thing no matter how they are made?
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Sean tells us about a recent catastrophe in his Kubernetes homelab (that’s really home prod). What went wrong, how did he fix it, and how can he avoid it happening again?
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Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops.
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OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability
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A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption – Ars Technica
Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation
The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion
Linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
AI controls are coming to Firefox
Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source
I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
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With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice?
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Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a laptop properly.
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ZFS vs Btrfs: Architecture, Features, and Stability
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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fas
Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys
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The best museums we’ve been to, the people we admire, and our weirdest train journeys. With Gary from Linux After Dark.
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Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and friends are cooking up something (but it’s not exactly clear what that is), KDE Linux is progressing nicely, and more. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
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Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs
Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
Xfwl4 (Xfce’s Wayland Compositor) FAQ
Xubuntu Development Update February 2026
Sudo’s maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated
Ikea’s new Matter smart home devices are having connection problems
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The career progression options you have as a software engineer, moving from junior to senior dev, other paths you can go down like architecture or tech lead, and why management isn’t for everyone.
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Why we have doubts about the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, what it would take to build a proper European cloud that could compete with AWS, and why it’s such a difficult undertaking.
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Outlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of cloud and on-prem (centralised and local computing), and why you probably shouldn’t use NMVe to SATA adapters.
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ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls
Modern VDI on Proxmox: ZFS Reliability and GPU Acceleration at Lower Cost
News/discussion
Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
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We were asked about SATA to PCIe adapters.
Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environment shows the perils of the older approach. Plus the UK government wants to do more age-gating, and we hear about a project to get kids into Free Software.
News
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
It looks like they followed these instructions to install Proton VPN (including selecting gdm)
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
UK government rolls back key part of digital ID plans
Lords back UK social media ban for under-16s
Under-16 social media ban would expand age-gating for millions and silence young people
UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
Mission:Libre
Carmen tells us about her project that aims to get kids into Free Software.
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Why you might not want your Windows encryption keys to be backed up to Microsoft, some Bluetooth devices are vulnerable to snooping and tracking, a lesson in the need for backups, and the best practices and stack for setting up a mail server.
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Klara’s Expert Perspective on OpenZFS in 2026 and What to Expect Next
Modern VDI on Proxmox: ZFS Reliability and GPU Acceleration at Lower Cost
News/discussion
Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft
WhisperPair: Hijacking Bluetooth Accessories Using Google Fast Pair
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
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Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug bounty program is ending, Raspberry Pi has new underwhelming hardware, and European AWS hasn’t won Félim over. Plus a reminder about the upcoming OggCamp event, and a call for participation.
News
Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best (and does deals with more AI companies)
Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
The end of the curl bug-bounty
Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: Generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5
Raspberry Pi Flash Drive available now from $30: a high-quality essential accessory
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
OggCamp 2026
OggCamp crew lead Andy Piper tells us about the upcoming unconference.
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Software complexity is a complex topic, so we dig into it.
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Shane is worried about backups for his janky Kubernetes homelab. The rest of us advise him on exactly what to back up, how to go about picking an offsite backup location and setting it up, how best to back up databases, and more.
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The last method to activate Windows without the Internet has gone away, malware that tricks users with a fake blue screen of death, and recovering from bad RAM with ZFS.
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Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity
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Windows activation by phone is seemingly dead
How Fake BSODs and Trusted Build Tools Are Used to Construct a Malware Infection
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We cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS isometric diagrams, a powerful network analysis tool for Android, and some cool ambient music in discoveries.
Discoveries
We follow up on episode 104 from September last year when we promised to tackle some Linux projects including moving to Immich and Jellyfin, learning about Docker Compose and Python, and ditching Synology.
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Cisco network gear fell over when it shouldn’t have, yet another security flaw is found in Microsoft Copilot, the US military is letting Grok into all its networks, and managing LVM snapshots.
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Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community
A New Year, A New ZFS: What 2.4 Brings to the Table
News
Cisco routers knocked out due to Cloudflare DNS change
Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack that Silently Steals Your Personal Data
Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says
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The normal things we’ve never done. With Andy and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
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Hype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like Félim don’t want to lose middle click paste, our optimism about Google continuing to release Android source code was misplaced, and Bose demonstrates how to kill a product.
News
The Steam Machine’s Price Might Have Just Leaked And It’s Not What We Hoped For
Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX
Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%
GNOME dev gives fans of Linux’s middle-click paste the middle finger
Google will now only release Android source code twice a year
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
Dealing with a crisis as a developer, how to keep everyone in the loop while you fix systems and code, why pointing the blame isn’t useful, some of our horror stories, and more.
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What to consider when making a big move to a new technology for your on-prem or private cloud estate, for example when a provider suddenly hikes their subscription or license prices.
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The many reasons why email shouldn’t be trusted. Plus how to stop your kids accessing inappropriate content online, and why the answer probably isn’t a technical one.
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What We Built: Top ZFS Capabilities Delivered by Klara in 2025
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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026.
Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Crisis and an article about solar panels.
We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2025, and talk about what we want to happen in 2026.
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Why you should probably keep paying for your old domains, the perpetual problem of typo squatting, a machine learning expert’s take on BS from LLMs, and whether to separate compute and storage in a home setup.
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Can You Have Too Many VDEVs? A Practical Guide to ZFS Scaling
News/discussion
Digital Trust in Danger: When Authorities Forget Their Old Domains
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn’t mean they’re not useful
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It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel’s lack of interest, and wins for KDE.
Gaming
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Steam Deck LCD production is ending
AI bullshit
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden
ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
Mozilla
Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Investing in what moves the internet forward
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox
Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
Wayland
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS
Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org
GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”
KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future
Politics
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy
PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
Intel
All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS
Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source
The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025
KDE
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What we are likely to be doing when you hear this, and why it’s unlikely to involve much in the way of development. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.
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What we love most about the cloud and cloud native technologies. This is a short episode because (producer) Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.
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The one bit of advice we’d give to someone wanting to become a professional sysadmin. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.
Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more.
News
Good news for custom ROMs: Google just released the Android 16 QPR2
The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment
New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay
Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
Discoveries
Making History: Signing the Commodore Contract + C64 Ultimate Production Update
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We tell stories from some of the tech support nightmares we’ve found ourselves in. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.
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Apple deletes a person’s entire digital life, PornHub Premium user data is leaked, Mozilla’s new CEO wants to ruin Firefox, Tech Force in the USA is alarming, and fine tuning storage for databases.
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Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?
News/discussion
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
Rest assured, Firefox will always remain a browser built around user control
Trump administration launches Tech Force hiring push
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We were asked about fine tuning storage for databases.
The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM.
News
Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama
Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
Remember Google Stadia? Steam finally made its gamepad worth rescuing
Talk to your Fedora system with the linux-mcp-server!
Calibre adds AI “discussion” feature
Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage it has *already* been forked
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How far you can go with eliminating global variables, forcing everything you ever need to be passed in as arguments.
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How to connect your public environments across clouds and into your datacenter infrastructure – using official options, VPNs and new ideas like mTLS. Plus container networking, CNIs and other ways to plug extras into Kubernetes.
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The Crucial brand of consumer SSDs and RAM is going away, AMD and Intel memory encryption can be bypassed with cheap hardware, more AI buffoonery, and monitoring users’ usage on a network.
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When RAID Isn’t Enough: ZFS Redundancy Done Right
News/discussion
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
Cheap Hardware Module Bypasses AMD, Intel Memory Encryption
Google’s vibe coding platform deletes entire drive
One day, AI might be better than you at surfing the web. That day isn’t today
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We were asked about monitoring users’ usage on a network.
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How many jobs we’ve had, how seriously we take our Christmas decorations, whether we like pineapple on pizza, and memorable romantic dates. With Andy and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
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Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because of RAM costs, great news for OpenPrinting, old text adventure games get open source, and Joe’s foldable phone breaks in an unexpected way.
News
Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises
Sovereign Tech Agency is investing in OpenPrinting
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
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Some of the Linux and open source tech from our past that inspired where we are today.
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What a government crackdown on VPNs would look like, malware groups play the long game with browser extensions, a new major version of FreeBSD is released, and using a single database vs one DB per application or VM.
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ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization
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The VPN panic is only getting started
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement
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KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope.
News
Going all-in on a Wayland future
Help us reach the inflection point
Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
Linux Device Trees For Cancelled Products? Don’t “Waste Time”
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web
Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself?
Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine
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When the right time to make a big change to your software is, how you get users to test pre-release versions, how long you keep old features around, when that’s not possible, and more.
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Cloud security basics, some of the technical and compliance aspects, and why it ultimately comes down to a people problem.
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Google kept collecting sensor data even after bricking Nest thermostats, FreeBSD’s container support gets serious, and where to find cheap (or even dirt cheap) used hardware.
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How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI
December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats
News/discussion
Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats
FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3
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Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA launches a range of Matter IoS gear, and more.
News
Canonical expands total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1’s source code is now available on AOSP
Google will let expert Android users to sideload all apps
GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”
PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
Ikea’s new smart home collection is entirely Matter-compatible
KDE Korner
Help us reach the inflection point
Google Summer of Code 2025 Conclusion – KDE Mentorship
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How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite location.
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Windows is becoming an “agentic OS”, some WD SMR drives are dying prematurely, backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted devices on your network.
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Understanding Storage Performance Metrics
December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats
News/discussion
Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar
Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
WD launches investigation into problems with its controversial SMR hard drives
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We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense.
News
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
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What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects.
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We dig into the recent major AWS outage, why a misconfiguration in one region called global issues, and whether there’s anything you can do to avoid being affected by a similar incident in the future.
Gary mentioned an AWS whitepaper.
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Allan tells us about the recent OpenZFS Summit including inconsistent JBODs, more details about mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard that allows you to keep using partially dead hard drives, Seagate’s roadmap for 50 and 100 TB drives, and NVMe connected mechanical drives. Plus using a separate mini PC for work.
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Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS
December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats
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We were asked about using a separate mini PC for work.
The skills we wish we had (but accept we never will), what we are most scared of and if we’d confront it for money, and whether free will exists. With May, Chris, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bubble will probably look like, and more.
We mentioned the Rubik Pi 3.
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Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use.
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Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.
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Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks
November Webinar: ZFS Mastery: The Bits They Don’t Put in the Man Pages
News/discussion
Do Refurbished Hard Disks Make Sense For Your Home NAS Server?
Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve
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Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive, the Python Software Foundation turns down a large government grant, Fedora allows AI contributions, SUSE goes all in on AI, and KDE hits its fundraising goal.
News
Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for help
The Python Software Foundation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 – AI-Ready, Long-Term Support
SUSE Goes Agentic: The First Linux That Thinks for Itself
Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!
Mark Shuttleworth
Joe sat down with Mark at the recent Ubuntu Summit to discuss what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, what we should look forward to in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and more.
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Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest!
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Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rolling distros.
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Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster.
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Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware
When a decompression ZIP bomb meets ZFS: 19 PB written on a 15 TB disk
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We were asked about building a small home server cluster.
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Intel is contributing less to open source and it could easily backfire, Qualcomm buys Arduino and we have concerns, KDE turns 29, Germans are doing excellent work moving towards Linux, and good news for those running Linux on an Amiga.
News
Intel rethinking how it contributes to open source community
Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source
Arduino’s got a new job: selling chips for its new owner
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000
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We’ve done various challenges in the past where we’ve bought Linux machines on a seriously low budget, but what if we had an unlimited budget? What would we buy in this hypothetical situation? It turns out we all struggled to come up with anything and are pretty satisfied with the machines we already have.
Note that this episode was recorded before we found out that Framework supports problematic projects.
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It looks like the storage companies aren’t betting on the AI bubble lasting much longer, the arguments against self-hosting, and setting up a server for virtualization and containers.
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ZFS Performance Tuning in the Real World: ARC, L2ARC, and SLOG
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We were asked about setting up a server for virtualization and containers.
An AWS outage takes down a lot more sites and services than it should have, the new Ubuntu release has some surprisingly bad bugs, the Xubuntu website is compromised, Discord proves that uploading IDs is a bad idea, and Framework disappoints by sponsoring the baddies.
News
Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet
Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken
Xubuntu website got hacked and is serving malware (trojan)
Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy
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With constant news stories about security issues with developer-published software in package managers like npm, we weigh up the pros and cons of this approach to distributing open source software.
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Some examples of the technical debt we’ve seen in the cloud world, how to pay it back, avoiding it in the first place, and why a certain amount of tech debt is inevitable.
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Windows 10 is officially end of life but Microsoft extends free updates for Windows 10 in Europe, it gets even harder to use a local account in Windows 11, and whether repurposing old server hardware is worth it.
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What the Future Brings – ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations
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Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
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We were asked about repurposing old server hardware.
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The Google Photos clone Immich finally has a stable release and Joe is impressed with it, we hope an open source printer crowdfunder works out, Amazon launches a Linux-based OS to replace Android on its streaming devices, Graham gives us an update on his Home Assistant hardware, and more.
News/discussion
v2.0.0 – Stable Release of Immich #22546
This open-source printer you can repair yourself is powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero W
Amazon launches Vega OS, its Android replacement for Fire TV with no sideloading
Amazon’s Vega OS launch trick: cloud-streamed apps
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition
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Florian Beijers joins us again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke.
Accessible gaming Twitch streams
fireborn’s blog posts about accessibility in Linux
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A Red Hat breach leads to a leak of lots of sensitive customer data, Synology backs down on allowing third-party drives but they are removing features, and managing ZFS properties during replication.
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Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads
News
Red Hat fesses up to GitLab breach after attackers brag of data theft
Red Hat breach escalates as Crimson Collective recruits help
International Cyber Digest Twitter thread
Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models
Synology Removes Graphics Drivers and HEVC & H.264 HW Transcoding Support
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We were asked about managing ZFS properties during replication.
Our desert island disks, retirement plans, and the worst gifts people have brought back from holiday for us. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Félim from Late Night Linux, and Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters.
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The most expensive Raspberry Pi ever might appeal to kids and a new OS version looks somewhat more modern, AI does something Félim can’t complain about, F-Droid might be doomed, ChromeOS is probably being replaced by Android, the UK government wants to implement a disastrous digital ID scheme, and more.
News
Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200
$5–$10 price increases for some 4GB and 8GB products
Trixie — the new version of Raspberry Pi OS
F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree
Let’s talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification
Google confirms Android dev verification will have free and paid tiers, no public list of devs
We finally know how Android’s new app verification rules will actually work
Google reveals its Android for PC is coming next year
Baldur’s Gate 3 | Steam Deck – Native Version
New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK
ID cards: UK risks sleeping walking into pre-crime state
“It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for some applications”
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What makes a good commit, the tools we use to help us produce good commits, and why we care about this.
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How we got started in our tech careers, how and why we moved into the cloud, and why the cloud often makes more sense than on-prem.
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The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import.
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Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation
News/discussion
Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation
TikTok video pre-loads cause ‘massive data wastage’
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We were asked about dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import.
Importing corrupted pool causes PANIC
Klara also has a work-around to get past the errors, but it is likely to result in data loss if there are overlapping segments, or the leaking of free space when segments are not entirely removed (not to be attempted without a developer present)
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The entrenched Linux or tech habits, workflows, and ideas we think we’ll move away from in the next few years and how we see ourselves doing it.
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We cover some of your emails, questions, and comments. A challenge suggestion of not using a package manager, donating old hardware, why we don’t use custom ROMs on our phones, whether low end laptops with soldered eMMC storage are worth buying (they aren’t), and tips for using Home Assistant with Apple gear and Jellyfin on Android.
The terrible laptop we mentioned
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Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data centers and use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren’t going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in production.
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Troubleshooting ZFS – Common Issues and How to Fix Them
News
Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal
Nvidia and Intel’s $5 billion deal is apparently about eating AMD’s lunch
OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B AI plan will require power equal to 10 nuclear reactors
Nvidia adds more air to the AI bubble with vague $100B OpenAI deal
The AI-energy apocalypse might be a little overblown
OpenAI’s Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
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Drama in KDE land, more worries about Android source code, Ubuntu’s transition away from GNU coreutils hits a slight speed bump, Mastodon adds a serious potential revenue stream, and a glimpse of a Blade Runner style dystopian tech future. With guest hosts Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Chris from Linux After Dark.
News
A few corrections about the transition from Blue Systems to Techpaladin
The move from Blue Systems to TechPaladin
Android 16 QPR1’s source code is nowhere to be found, but Google swears it’s coming
Ubuntu 25.10’s Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings
Service offerings from Mastodon
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
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Some of the alternatives to GitHub that we use, why we use them, and how they differ in terms of features and workflows.
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SMTP relays and observability, why we didn’t recommend Podman over Docker to a newcomer, and Gary gives us an update on his homelab.
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Joe set up a FreeBSD box to serve as a replication target and it was surprisingly straightforward, if rather different from Linux. Plus the lies that storage tells us.
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Cloning disks (again), Félim’s new colour e-reader, 3 ways to make a QR code, improving your typing with a TUI and a game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
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KDE Korner
Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux
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Summer is officially over. As the nights draw in it’s time to hunker down and work on our technical debt. We all have Linuxy projects that we are planning, so we commit to doing them by Christmas – when we will record a follow-up episode. Docker Compose, Immich, Jellyfin, learning Python, moving away from Synology, Home Assistant, and more.
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Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn’t seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting provider thinks they are better than Cloudflare at blocking malicious traffic, a viral app turns out to be written by an enthusiastic dev who doesn’t understand best practices, and using S3 object storage outside of the cloud. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown
Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet
The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows
Mythic Beasts will block Cloudflare IPs on shared hosting if abusive traffic gets through
Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way
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Historic musical performances that we’d go back and watch, and our scariest travel experiences. With Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters.
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Android becomes more like iOS, another key dev leaves the Asahi Linux project, Mozilla will probably keep their Google search deal, we troll Félim with some AI bollocks, GNOME can’t keep an executive director, Microsoft releases the source for an ancient BASIC implementation, friend of the show Connor is snubbed by an Irish newspaper, a brief review of a classic Bond movie, and more.
News
A new layer of security for certified Android devices
With Apple M1/M2 Graphics Driver Code Working, Alyssa Rosenzweig Stepping Away From Asahi Linux
Consultation on the review of the DMA
Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly orders modest remedies
Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds
Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 – Future Releases
Firefox ESR won’t quit Windows 7 until March 2026
AI Is Now Being Used To Help Determine Patches For Backporting In The Linux Kernel
Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the ‘Antithesis of Wikipedia’
Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for Publishers
Vivaldi browser capo doubles down on generative AI ban
Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald
So short, and thanks for all the flinch
Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC
Windows 10 support shutdown offers window of opportunity for a Linux OS developed in Dublin
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A lot of key open source software is paid for by large companies. That has some advantages, but it can also cause some issues. Maybe it would be better if more FOSS development was paid for by smaller companies and contributions from users.
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The first steps to move away from a “pets” mindset and towards automation and infrastructure as code, why we use a lot of abstraction at home, and how to use your homelab to improve your employment prospects. With guest host Joe Ressington from Late Night Linux.
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McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.
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Seagate Uncovers Global Scheme That Sold 1 Million Used Drives as New
# smartctl -l farm /dev/sdx
Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing
Woman gets 8 years for aiding North Koreans infiltrate 300 US firms
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We were asked about ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.
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What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which Joe has also had for about 7 months, and a quick KDE Korner.
News/disccussion
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one
‘Ad Blocking is Not Piracy’ Decision Overturned By Top German Court
Foldable phone
Graham has just bought a Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Joe has had his for about 7 months. It’s chunky, fragile, but really cool. Especially for reading, playing old games, and using ssh. Graham mentioned a screenshot of his old phone and Will mentioned a photo that Graham took of the new phone.
KDE Korner
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It’s the £20 Linux machine challenge! This time the rules are stricter: no adding storage and RAM. It turns out that if you try really hard, you can buy a really nice Linux computer on a seriously low budget.
Check out part 1 and part 2 of the £50 challenge that we did previously.
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Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.
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ZFS Basecamp Launch: A Panel with the People Behind ZFS
News/discussion
A new layer of security for certified Android devices
US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for
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The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably coming to Android, Thunderbird shares more details of their paid services and we are interested, and PuTTY has a great new domain name.
News
It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
these sham community engagement exercises piss me off
Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!
Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!
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We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can be real differences between them. Or at least once upon a time there were differences.
Vibe coders are in for a shock. Writing code was never that hard.
Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
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What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps?
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Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays.
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FreeBSD Summer Roundup: Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure
News/discussion
AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
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We were asked about configuring all-flash arrays.
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Xfce running on Wayland on openSUSE, Canonical laid off the printing guy, Mozilla pisses people off with AI tab groups, and what the post-x86 world will look like for desktop Linux. Plus a handy way to save and run project-specific commands, turning any device into a file server, and a convoluted way to get wind data from planes. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion
Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC
Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!
OpenPrinting News – 25 years of working full-time for printing with free/open-source-software
OpenPrinting News to stay up-to-date
Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.16
Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs
Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go
Discoveries
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It’s our annual episode where we need to talk about Ubuntu. This time most of us are broadly indifferent about the distro itself, so we end up mostly discussing our concerns about Canonical.
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AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs.
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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 vs. Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 9950X3D Linux Performance Review
UK Government says delete old emails to save water
UK government to invest over £2 billion in the UK’s AI ecosystem
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The field of science we find most interesting, the bionic enhancements we’d want, the longest we’ve stayed awake, and the wisdom we’d pass onto the next generation. With Gary from Linux After Dark and Félim from Late Night Linux.
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A new Debian version is out and it’s the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, GitHub is finally fully swallowed into Microsoft (having gone all in on AI), and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
The XP-Pen Artist 22R Pro works on Linux now
Let’s properly analyze an AI article for once
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Not invented here syndrome is very common in open source. We get into why that is, when it makes sense to start your own project from scratch, and how contributing to existing software can sometimes be better for everyone.
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Shane gives us an update on his janky Kubernetes homelab. The storage is under control with ZFS, he’s got a decent switch, and everything is in Git – so maybe it isn’t that janky anymore.
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The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening.
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Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports, PuTTY’s confusing website confusion, a cool new game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
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Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
Save 20% on Look Mum No Computer on Steam
How we Made A Game With An Interactive Sound Track
Controversy over PUTTY.ORG website growing fast
PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client
KDE Korner
KDE’s Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI
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Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premium price he paid for it?
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Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs.
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Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI
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Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE’s new immutable arch-based distro, and more.
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All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS
Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat
Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box
UK to lead crackdown on cyber criminals with ransomware measures
Hacker Plants Computer ‘Wiping’ Commands in Amazon’s AI Coding Agent
Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database
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With the recent news of Bcachefs (probably) being removed from the Linux kernel, we are joined by Allan Jude from 2.5 Admins and Klara to discuss some of what we think went wrong, how to manage and maintain multiple releases of a project at once, and why release engineering is an important concept.
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What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, available tools, small clouds vs the big three, hiring people with experience of particular cloud platforms, support, compliance, ease of repatriation, and more.
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Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let’s Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses, and the differences between backup and production systems.
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Microsoft’s 19-hour Outlook outage exposes fragility in cloud infrastructure
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on July 14, 2025
We’ve Issued Our First IP Address Certificate
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gh to build reports and automate GitHub operations.
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The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and an update on Joe’s KDE experiment.
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Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
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It’s our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hardware, our silly challenges, our move away from custom phone ROMs, our disappointment with Arm desktop Linux, composable/immutable distros, how we’ve changed as people, and more.
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To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration.
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Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS
Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News
Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
SUSE to roll out Sovereign Premium Support
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
KDE Korner
This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
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What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project.
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How we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebula) and reverse proxies. Sean introduces us to Pangolin as an open source alternative middle-ground.
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Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.
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Microsoft’s free updates for Windows 10 draw criticism
Denmark plans to thwart deepfakers by giving everyone copyright over their own features
Why I Stopped Using RAID on My Plex Media Server
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Whether we’d live in the country side or the city, the best Christmas presents we got as kids, and our Christmas movie traditions. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites.
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Home Assistant Developer Environment
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It’s part 2 of the £50 Linux machine challenge! This time: actually using them, what upgrades we did, what we’ll actually use them for, and more.
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A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.
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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide
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Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege
VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
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Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more.
News
Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – potentially bad news for Steam gamers
Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit
Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
Proposal to drop 32-bit in Fedora 44 withdrawn
Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: “We’ll Be Parting Ways”
Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy
A bug caused some major websites to break and this guy has quite a take on it
Accepting donations on OpenCollective – FlightGear
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Plasma 6.4 is much juicier than I remembered
This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore
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When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it’s hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder.
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How much observability and monitoring is really needed, the tooling people actually use (from Datadog and Grafana Cloud to open source options like Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo), and how to approach observability without overcomplicating things.
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Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.
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ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload
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Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15
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Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time.
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Two city governments in Denmark are moving away from Microsoft amid Trump and US Big Tech concerns
‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
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It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux.
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Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server.
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Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient, Data-Sure Storage Solution
Klara co-hosted a webinar with TrueNAS about ZFS Fast Dedup
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Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”
Intellectual Property & Piracy FAQ | Nintendo Support
I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives
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X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more.
News
Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal
Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver
The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts
Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in WordPress spat
Android 16 is here, but the cool stuff is coming later
AOSP isn’t dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers
Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues
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How we deal with complex projects involving non-technical people as well as developers. How to manage expectations about timing, how to deal with issues, why documenting conversations is important, and more.
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After over 10 years of using Synology appliances for his backups, Gary has had enough of their shenanigans and needs to rethink his whole setup.
Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives
UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS
Fractal Design Node 304 – Black – Mini Cube Compact Computer Case
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SharePoint is exploitable by Microsoft’s AI, NIST proposes a new metric for exploited vulnerabilities, SBCs that look cool for a mini NAS and a router, and setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.
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Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint
NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities
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Sports we’d take up if we were less unfit and lazy, whether we listen to our own podcasts, what the best time of day is, and our favourite sci-fi shows. With Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.
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Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s new audio workstation is released for Linux.
News
Redis is now available under the the OSI-approved AGPLv3 open source license.
Supercharging Ubuntu Releases: Monthly Snapshots & Automation
Canonical + thanks.dev = giving back to open source developers
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS
The GNOME Foundation has a new executive director
Google teases an Android desktop mode, made with Samsung’s help
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
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Some of our hot takes and some from other people. Your OS is a passive gateway to apps and services, OSTree sucks, when you need to reboot Ubuntu is a mystery, stop hiding things from users, Chris needs an “I use Debian by the way” t-shirt, and more.
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Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta’s new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the inside details of a new mixed-disk-size ZFS RAID feature, and moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link.
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The Overlooked Complexity of Firmware Security in the IoT Era
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Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues
Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
Introducing ZFS AnyRaid, Sponsored by Eshtek
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Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functionality until they made a public stink about it, WSL is now open source, there’s a new open source command-line text editor in Windows, and more.
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Investing in what moves the internet forward
Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub
Firefox Security Response to pwn2own 2025
Servo Browser Engine Now Rendering Gmail & Google Chat, Decides Against AI Contributions
Valve’s huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds
SteamOS 3.7.8: Go Country – Steam News
Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux
Edit is now open source – Windows Command Line
Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories
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What are the fundamental ideas and components of development and programming?
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Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.
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What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (So You Don’t Have To)
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O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 – Let’s Encrypt
VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
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We were asked about connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.
SAS Expanders, Build Your Own JBOD DAS Enclosure and Save – Iteration 1
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Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more documentation tools, and moving to a new Mastodon instance.
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Moving to a new Mastodon instance is very easy
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We recently talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to use as a daily desktop machine, but what about headless boxes? It turns out that it depends on what exactly it’s doing and to what extent we have to actively interact with it. Ultimately we could probably use slower hardware than we actually do if it came to it.
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TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there’s a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn’t make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature.
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Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter
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TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
ZFS raw-send corruption bug fixed
5 things I regret about using my Raspberry Pi as a NAS
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It’s the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least some positive things about the thing we land on. (It makes sense once we start).
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It’s another hot questions episode. Tabs vs spaces, whether we have imposter syndrome, why software keeps getting heavier, the correct length of functions and files, and what every programmer should know.
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The basic computer science problems that still remain unsolvable, why you shouldn’t trust AI to tune ZFS (or answer any admin questions), and setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.
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Our least favourite fandoms, frivolous things we’d buy, favourite childhood TV shows and movies, and house cleaning hacks. With Amolith, Kevin, and Andy from Linux Dev Time.
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The US government is trying to break up Google which sounds like a great idea, but it is potentially catastrophic news for Mozilla and Firefox. Alex from Open Web Advocacy tells us all about it. But first we talk about blocking ads on the web with Pi-hole, uBlock Origin, and AdGuard public DNS.
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What Linux and FOSS technology should Joe learn next? Is it a case of waiting for a problem to present itself before even trying?
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Old passwords work for Windows RDP, Broadcom shows why perpetual software licenses aren’t really forever, Windows Server is getting hotpatching, and preventing changes to archived files.
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Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025
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Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants you to use the “proper” VS Code, Intel AI chips aren’t selling well, yet another open source project has to deal with crawlers, TrueNAS goes Linux-only, and more.
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Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure
Windows isn’t an OS, it’s a bad habit bordering on addiction
Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
Intel’s AI PC chips aren’t selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom
ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository
TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base
Fangtooth Unifies the TrueNAS Community
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Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren’t quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane’s janky Kubernetes setup, and more.
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Crosswalks were comically vulnerable to being hacked, even Google struggles with tiered SSD and HDD storage, some insight into how AI scrapers are using domestic IPs, and creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.
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Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
How Colossus optimizes data placement for performance
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Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics manipulation, strange old audio archives, and more.
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What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.
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Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn’t appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted backups.
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CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun
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Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
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Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds
Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution – Phoronix
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Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download
Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
KDE Korner
This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore
KWallet Now A Wrapper For Secret Service
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We’ve done hot takes episodes in the past but this is different, it’s hot questions. Would we rather have bad managers who can code or good managers who can’t? Too many comments or none? 80 columns or as long as you like? What editor do we use and why?
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With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges of major cloud migrations.
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IPv4 addresses are worth an awful lot of money, the serious dangers of a seemingly sensible deepfake law, Microsoft is 50 years old, and our thoughts on antivirus on Linux and Windows.
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Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans
Congress close to passing deepfake law—Trump said he wants to use it himself
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Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more.
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Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thresholds have gone up significantly. We channel our inner Linux Luddites, but don’t really come up with any solutions.
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Jim’s server is getting hammered by AI scrapers and he’s big mad about it, why RCS doesn’t work on Android without Google apps, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.
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Network Offload and Socket Splicing (SO_SPLICE) in FreeBSD
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Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
80% of Web Traffic Is Bots — The Hidden Cost of AI Scraping
An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic
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Our weirdest collections, food we’ve eaten as a dare, and the nicest thing someone has done for us. With Félim from Late Night Linux, Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, and popey from Linux Matters.
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AI crawlers are causing serious problems for open source projects, an example of disclosure by vagueposting, Zorin does something good and something bad, LibreOffice downloads are doing well, Thunderbird is planning new services, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
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Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden
It might be a good time to temporarily uninstall atop
Panic averted: It was just a bug in Atop after all
Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship
Zorin OS 17.3 takes Brave step of changing default browser
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail
Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro Services
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Roadmap for a modern Plasma Login Manager
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Joe accidentally tried vibe coding and it was as much of a disaster as you’d imagine. Amolith has also tried it, and does his best to defend the use of LLMs with development. Kevin and Andy are mostly bemused. We all have concerns about the ethics and environmental issues.
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The best way to cope with a huge spike in traffic on a product launch day, and the most important public and private cloud technologies to learn.
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Whether tech debt is inevitable and where the blame lies, how to properly organise ZFS datasets, and selectively managing updates.
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ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication
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What if Google hadn’t come along in the late 90s? What would search, mobile devices, and the web in general look like? Plus a musical discovery, and why moving to a new distro just means moving to new little problems to fix.
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We look at postmarketOS on various devices old and new, Arm and x86, and are impressed.
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The key differences between throughput and latency – and when they matter, the tech that we’d keep if we stopped working in IT, and avoiding bitrot with rsync backups.
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Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP
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Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon.
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Home Assistant officially Matters
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive
Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management
Announcing Techpaladin Software
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust
Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year
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Our advice on how to move into a career in software development including making and contributing to projects, advocating for your work, collaborating, avoiding exploitation, learning Git, and loads more.
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Shane tells us about the janky Kubernetes homelab that he’s building, and we all laugh at him.
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RISC-V is on the rise in China, why Power CPUs aren’t as promising, the dystopian nightmare of surveillance tech at work, and decrypting ZFS at boot.
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Understanding ZFS in the Real World: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned & Future Plans
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Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU design
Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral
Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You
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Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more.
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A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more important battles to fight than advocating for FOSS.
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Ten-year-old Chromecasts stop working, movie DVDs start rotting, Skype is finally dying, using ZFS on VM guests and hosts.
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ZFS Space Accounting Explained
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Google apologizes for Chromecast outage in email to users
“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases
Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams
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Our first jobs, how we balance staying informed and staying sane, and the best time of year. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and popey from Linux Matters.
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Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command & Conquer games, the EFF releases a tool to detect cellular spying, an official Debian VM on Pixel devices, a brief foldable update, and more.
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Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Firefox 136.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
‘Flow’ wins best animated feature film Oscar
Godot 4.4, a unified experience
EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Android’s native Linux Terminal app is live in Google’s latest update
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Andy is only publishing his games on F-Droid and not the Google Play Store from now on, and he tells us why.
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What the new Docker pull limits really mean and how to deal with them, and whether paying for 12 years of support for Kubernetes is a good idea.
Docker Hub pull usage and limits
Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS
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HP was forcing people to wait on hold for 15 minutes to get support, the DOGE site was embarrassingly insecure, setting up encrypted offsite backups, and mixing SATA and NVMe in a server.
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Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices
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HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to ‘feedback’
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website (archive.is)
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Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is a touch buggy, and more.
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Lumon Industries (Macrodata-Refinement)
Casio F91W to 5000m underwater
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It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana, Joe got ReactOS, Gary got GhostBSD, and Chris got Haiku.
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Arm is going to make its own server chips, WordPress is selling “100 year” domain registrations, geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows to Backblaze B2.
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Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces
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Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry
The WordPress.com 100-Year Domain
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 24
DNSMadeEasy – Failover Service [Allan’s Affiliate Link]
RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery
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The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin.
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Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code
Passing the torch on Asahi Linux
[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself
Terence Eden on young people in FOSS
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning
Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy
Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands
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Google found a way to run unofficial microcode on AMD CPUs, whether software should get a CVE when it goes end of life, LLMs changing Redditors’ minds and self-replicating, and managing SSH keys at scale.
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OpenAI says its models are more persuasive than 82 percent of Reddit users
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What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the Masses.
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The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.
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Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.
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Windows 11 on devices that don’t meet minimum system requirements
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Klara: Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces
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The furthest north and south we’ve been, art that means something to us, which brand of battery power tools we use, and how we hang our toilet roll. With Félim from Late Night Linux, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more.
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Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer
Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer
Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: ‘Maybe the problem is you’
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers
Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting
The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant
Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199
Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage
How Blender helped Gints Zilbalodis make Oscar-nominated Flow
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Mark from Linux Matters who’s a web developer joins us to talk about working in PHP – a language that’s mature and well established, and how that compares with working with newer “cooler” languages like Rust and Go.
Bash associative array examples
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We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.
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What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus a self-hostable workflow automation platform, simple systemd management, and Redshift on Xfce in Discoveries. Then we wonder why there seems to be less in the way of interesting Linux news these days.
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When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t quite enough to avoid going back to the Windows desktop.
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An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.
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MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years
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We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers.
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Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone
Plasma 6.3 beta 2 is out! and Season of KDE 2025
Foldable future?
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Where is the balance between efficiency and openness when it comes to saved file formats? If everything was based on plain text it would make the files readable for years to come, but at what cost?
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In this episode we discuss some challenges around using and testing lower environments, how to easily run integration tests using Testcontainers, and some of the pitfalls around using GitOps to deploy your applications.
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Microsoft didn’t control an important domain that it was using and end up red-faced, the dangers of using free VPN apps, a proof of concept exploit is out for last year’s SSH vulnerability, USB is getting slightly less confusing labels, and swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.
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Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft
VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network
PoC Exploit Released For OpenSSH Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
An updated USB logo will now mark the fastest docking stations
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Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes video
Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes article
Best 2024 Discoveries
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Will
Graham
ink – inkle’s narrative scripting language
An IDE for retro game development 8bitworkshop
Synth of the year, https://github.com/aaronaanderson/Terrain
Felim
Klevernotes & a very near taskfinder
Joe
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We share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating Ubuntu, getting mad at Docker, trying to recover Microsoft passwords, building a PC over a video call, wireless access points that mostly just work, and more.
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A new version of ZFS is out and we go over the great new features. Plus recovering data after accidentally writing part of an ISO onto a USB drive, how to deal with abuse of your domain, and replacing all the drives in a ZFS pool while keeping the birth date.
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Managing and Tracking Storage Performance
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Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup
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SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 makes no sense to at least one of us (who now owns an N100 mini PC), the Linux Foundation seems to think Chromium-based browsers need a helping hand, we troll Félim, and more.
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Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld
Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April
SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck
Microsoft is combining ‘the best of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds
VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos
Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek
Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress
Joost/Karim Fork – WordPress News
Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
Why Matt Should Resign (from 2010)
16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
New $120 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is for the people who use it like an everyday PC
Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers
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We dig into SQLite – an interesting and unusual project that is widely used but has an uncommon licence, a proprietary test suite, and doesn’t take external contributions. Plus printf() vs “proper” debugging.
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We reflect on what we have seen in the public and private cloud world in the last year, and look forward at what we expect to see in 2025.
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Jim and Allan explain the benefits of a lithium iron phosphate “UPS”, whether it’s possible to delete every single copy of a file, and using Bluetooth in a Windows 11 VM.
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It’s a Christmas special! Our favourite festive foods and ones we dislike, when we buy presents, and our unusual traditions. With popey, Mark and Martin from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025.
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We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2024, and talk about what we want to happen in 2025.
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What it would take to reliably store data for a hundred years including Institutional funding and organization, decade-proof redundancy, multiple hot and cold copies,hedging your bets against multiple media, and more. Plus backing up ZFS without normal snapshots.
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It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPress fiasco, why the idea of decentralised social media started to catch on, Raspberry Pi’s IPO, and the inevitable Mozilla doom and gloom.
2024 Linux News in review
NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World
How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide
Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy
GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes
KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community
Asking for donations in Plasma
I think the donation notification works
Automattic vs WP Engine: WordPress wars heat up
Mullenweg’s WordPress Pause Triggers Unexpected Complications
What drama should I create in 2025?
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse
Starting today, people using Threads in 100+ countries can turn on sharing to the fediverse
Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D
Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media
Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7
Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now
Raspberry Pi value surges past one billion on US buying
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers
Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers
Our remedies proposal in DOJ’s search distribution case
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We explore the line between developer and sysadmin and come to the conclusion that despite the clear difference between the roles, there is a lot of crossover when it comes to skills and character traits.
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
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Red Hat donates a bunch of container tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and we are broadly positive about it. Plus some of our highlights from the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 conferences.
News/discussion
Red Hat to Contribute Comprehensive Container Tools Collection to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 day one: keynotes, sessions, announcements, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 2: keynotes, announcements and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 3: Keynotes, announcements and more
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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.
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Winter 2024 Roundup: Storage and Network Diagnostics
News/discussion
ssh on Windows sends telemetry
Let’s Encrypt to offer 6 day certs
Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don’t use it for sending email
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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.
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Octoprint PSU control with Home Assistant
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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.
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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.
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ZFS Storage Fault Management on Linux
News/discussion
No, Chinese quantum computers haven’t hacked military-grade encryption
The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access
Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
The confusing reality of AI friends
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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.
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Send us your predictions for 2025
Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus
Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld
Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat
Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now
£4 more (plus a keyboard) for a LOT more performance
New era of slop security reports for open source
Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch
The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest
KDE Korner
I think the donation notification works
This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incomingThis Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! & Better fractional scaling
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8.
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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.
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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).
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7
First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released
Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama
Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
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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.
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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.
Sean’s post about the Ubuntu Summit
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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 hosts with jails.
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Google cracks down on “Parasite SEO,” punishing established publishers
Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you
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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.
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20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2
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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”.
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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.
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Windows Server 2025 known issues and notifications
Windows 11 update bug falsely warns of end of support, confusing users
Windows 365 Link—the first Cloud PC device
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Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely with his WiFi access points.
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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
Mozilla’s Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?
Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation
KDE does a whole lotta bug fixing & raising funds
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sysadmins slam Apple’s SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts
Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can’t delete
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
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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.
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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
Releasing WinAmp source goes badly – for its owners, anyway
RIP: Ward Christensen, co-developer of the CBSS
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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.
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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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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.
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ZBM 101: Introduction to ZFSBootMenu
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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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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.
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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
Aqara joins Works with Home Assistant
Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration
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
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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.
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Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess
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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.
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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.
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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)
Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained
Mozilla to shut down their Mastodon instance
GitHub and OpenAI launch an AI Copilot tool that generates its own code
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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Announcing I-DUNNO 1.0 and web-i-dunno
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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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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.
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Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000
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Gary tells us about the upcoming free culture event in Manchester, UK.
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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
Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs: all the news and updates
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We were asked about using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.
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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 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
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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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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Cloudflare DNS was blocking apps.kde.org
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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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A closer look at what caused the CrowdStrike Windows crashes
Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly ESXi flaw
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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++
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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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