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%

GeForce NOW coming to Linux

Stack Overflow graph

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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Please STOP trusting email

 

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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

 

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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

FSF calls Anubis malware

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

An update on our Terms of Use

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

Investing in what moves the internet forward

When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why

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

Wayback 0.3 released!

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

KDE Highlights from 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

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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

Better History

Operese

commodore64 is back!?

Making History: Signing the Commodore Contract + C64 Ultimate Production Update

PiFinder

Fullscreen Clock

Clasp

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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?

 

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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

Tech Force

Trump administration launches Tech Force hiring push

 

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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

AI and GNOME Shell Extensions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

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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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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

Migrating Dillo from GitHub

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

Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware

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

 

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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

Introducing Blender Lab

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

 

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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

Say hi to Kit

Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it

Mozilla Connect thread

End of Japanese community

Web API for AI Agents

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

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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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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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In this episode:

• Alan dusts off his newsletter.
• Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
• Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode.

 

 

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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

Jim’s M.2 NVMe nightmare

 

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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

Linux Matters

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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Discussion

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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In this episode:

• Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole.
• Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications.
• Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey.

 

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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

Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino

Arduino’s got a new job: selling chips for its new owner

Happy Birthday to KDE

Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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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

 

Discussion

Expect HDD, SSD shortages as AI rewrites the rules of storage hierarchy — multiple companies announce price hikes, too

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

 

Free consulting

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

WireGuard bug

Xubuntu website got hacked and is serving malware (trojan)

Confirmation from Sean

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.

 

Plugs

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What the Future Brings – ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations

 

News/discussion

Major backtrack as Microsoft makes Windows 10 extended security updates FREE for an extra year — but only in certain markets

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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• Mark has been debugging his car charger.
• Alan swapped from Plex to Jellyfin.

 

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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.

 

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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

Open Home Foundation Jobs

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

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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

Discontinuation Notice for HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264), and VC-1 Transcoding on DSM and BeeStation OS Platforms

 

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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

AI helped curl

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.

 

Plugs

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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 added additional diagnostics to ZFS to help investigate this issue, that shipped as part of 2.3.4

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)

 

 

 

 

 

In this episode:

• Alan has been manifesting Snaps.
• Martin has snapped and switched from MacOS to Linux with a Framework.
• Mark used Immich to find family favourite fotos.

 

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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.

 

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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

 

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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

OggCamp 2026

OggCamp tickets

OggCamp CfP 

Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE

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

Music video Chris mentioned

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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• Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral.
• Alan created an MCP server for Grype.

 

 

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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.

 

Discoveries

Clonezilla

Kobo Clara Colour

Just a QR Code

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libqrencode

Nallely-midi

pico-rv32ima

typr

Epistory

 

KDE Korner

2024 KDE e.V. Report

We’ve formally sent a proposal to the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. leadership for a unified Linux App Summit (LAS) that would merge GUADEC, Akademy, and the current LAS into a single event

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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We were asked about using S3 object storage outside of the cloud.

MinIO

 

 

 

 

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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How I Hacked McDonald’s

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.

Introduction to ZFSBootMenu

 

 

 

 

In this episode:

• Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty.
• Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl. If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you.
• Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a.

 

 

 

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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

KDE Gear 25.08 & Kdenlive

Karton Update

Getting Ready for Akademy

On screen keyboard feedback wanted

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Entroware

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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.

 

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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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We were asked about minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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!

putty.software

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

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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

Jim’s AI nightmare

 

 

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In this episode:

• Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo.
• Martin sidesteps complexity with Just.
• Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.

 

 

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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.

 

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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

OpenPrinting on LinkedIn

Till Kamppeter on LInkedIn

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

 

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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.

 

News

Debian 13 “trixie” released

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

KomoDo, my first KDE app

Developers, Reinvented

Let’s properly analyze an AI article for once

Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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In this episode:

• Martin has a fancy GitHub profile.
  • Shields.io – Concise, consistent, and legible badges
  • github-readme-stats – Dynamically generated GitHub stats.
  • readme-scribe – Automatically generates & updates markdown content, like your README.md
    • Latest blog posts, podcasts, live streams, YouTube videos from RSS
    • Latest release, starred repos.
    • Thank and mention sponsors.
    • Uses git-auto-commit-action to automatically commit and push changed files and push-files-to-another-repository to push the rendered README.md to my wimpysworld GitHub org.
  • snk – GitHub user contributions graph as animated snake game
    • Uses ghaction-github-pages to update a branch everynight
• Alan is busy maintaing lots of Snaps.
• Mark retired Advanced Volume Control for GNOME.

 

 

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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

Death by a thousand slops

A nudge to fund our future

Controversy over PUTTY.ORG website growing fast

PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client

 

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KDE’s Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI

Talking FOSS on Daft Code

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

News

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

Terribly edited video

KDE Linux

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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• Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway?
• Mark upgrades the SSD in his Framework laptop in the most elaborate way, e-v-e-r!
• Alan masters 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.

 

News/discussion

Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

FSF calls Anubis malware

Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org

Two weeks of wayback

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

Practical 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

DOGWALK Official Release

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

Plasma Keyboard

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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We were asked about getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.

 

 

 

 

 

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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In this episode:

• Alan has continued his Nerdy Day Trips journey into cloud-native software development.
• Mark fulfills his years-long dream of buying a new Laptop.
• Martin has junked GMail for Fastmail.

 

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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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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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We were asked about how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.

 

 

 

 

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

maintenance-terms

I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for having worked so hard to convince the world that the City of Munich failed with their Linux migration

Accepting donations on OpenCollective – FlightGear

Donate Less

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

 

 

 

 

 

Porkbun.com

 

 

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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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• hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool
• Profile-guided optimization
• Andy benchmarking IndexedDb

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

 

Discussion

Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15

I’m starting to wonder if modern next-gen filesystems are approaching an inherent limit of human ability to mentally model and manage complexity

 

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We were asked whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.

 

 

 

 

In this episode:

• Martin has replaced his coreutils, findutils, diffutils and sudo with Rust reimplementations.
• Alan has continued working on Nerdy Day Trips.
• Mark made a timelapse with Velocity lapse and Youcut. See it on Makertube.

 

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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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Strudel

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Spring

IceCream

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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

 

News

Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”

Intellectual Property & Piracy FAQ | Nintendo Support

archived version

Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot

I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives

 

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We were asked about securing applications on a home server.

 

 

 

 

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

apple/container

Plasma 6.4 is nearly out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Entroware

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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

AOOSTAR NAS series

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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The Maintainer’s Dilemma: Strategies for Supporting Legacy Drivers Across Decades of Hardware Evolution

 

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Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint

NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities

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Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro is a versatile router board with WiFi 7, 10 Gb and 2.5 Gb LAN, and multiple M.2 connectors

 

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We were asked about setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.

 

 

 

 

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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