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. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Seven and a bit years of news Google launches game streaming service called Stadia A message about Sta…

What is it about Linux that draws us to it as a development platform? Plus why we choose the specific distros that we use. 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxdevtime Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes som…

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 Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes som…

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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Malaysia’s plan to block overse…

In this episode: Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android: Tempo GoSonic Ultrasonic Symphonium Martin names a whole new category of “Top-like” tools for monitoring GPUS: nvtop intel_gpu_top nvitop amdgpu_top Alan, who is not a developer, has been writing UncleClive in Python to send Mastodon posts to a Spectrum emulator and back. You ca…

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. Discoveries Signal Processing Course KDE Connect Friture wat HARview 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-…

Is a proprietary games company driving all the innovation on the Linux desktop, and is that OK? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxafterdark See our contact pa…

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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have Windows 11 users still living in t…

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. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.The Late Night Linux Family

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. News A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project The Internet Archive just …

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

We often talk about working with cloud technologies, but how do we have fun with them? Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.The Late Night Linux Family

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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials Debate over “open sou…

In this episode: Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile characters, to make it marginally better to look at. Mark went in search of a self-hosted streaming music solution, and found SubSonic with mobile clients. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatter…

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 Should we try to convert Windows Subsystem for Linux users into “proper” native desktop Linux users? If so, how? 1Pas…

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 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early ep…

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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes N…

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. News OggCamp Linux is 33 years old Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Goog…

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. Andy’s links git-what IGCC Box Stacker Rightwaves Eat Apples Quick! Smolpxl Games Rabbit Escape Android Game element-w…

How much Linux and traditional sysadmin knowledge do you need for a career in cloud computing? Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.The Late Night Linux Family

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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with e…

In this episode: Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin. Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with stream-sprout. Mark plays audio from his Android phone to his Linux desktop speakers. And Martin does the same with an iPad and uses playerctl and bluetoothctl to control the iPad remotely. You can send you…

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. Discoveries IPv6 for IPv4 admins bashsimplecurses Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000 taskfinder OggCamp Gary tells us about the upcoming free cul…

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. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every …

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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News Your victim’s Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and exploit away CVE-2024-38063 – Securi…

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. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.The Late Night Linux Family

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 source myths Open Documentation Academy (GitHub repo) Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS f…

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. git-what Working Effectively with Legacy Code Support us on Patreon and get an ad-fr…

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. Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com Support us on patreon and get an ad-fr…

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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers old and…

In this episode, we discuss: Migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors. Contributing package updates to Void and Apline linux. What happens when you plug a phone’s USB port into TV. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your fee…

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. Discoveries MQTT decode Cloudflare DNS was blocking apps.kde.org…

How we learn, remember, and document new Linux and FOSS technologies. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.The Late Night Linux Family

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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News A closer look at what caused the CrowdStrike Windows crashes Ran…

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 make…

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. 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxdevtime Support us o…

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. Send your questions and feedback to…

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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Inside the ‘Nightmare’ Health …

In this episode: Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter. Mark gets guilt-tripped nerd-sniped into updating the Flutter-based Quickgui project. Martin digs into his pile-o-bits to craft a new home-lab server that is quieter, cooler, harder, faster, better, stronger, and mostly empty. Marti…

Testing the security of your Bluetooth devices, diffing databases, visualising MQTT data, running Linux VMs on an iPad or Iphone, org mode in Kate, and making point and click games. Plus whether we are too negative, or if we are just realistic. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Check out all the great L…

We all customise our phones and computers to one extent or another, but does it make sense to inflict our defaults on other people’s machines when we set them up? Or should we set them up with normal defaults on mainstream distros like Ubuntu? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 1Password Extended Access …

A widely-used login system is still using MD5 which is bad news, miscreants took over some domains when they moved from Google to Squarespace, Linksys’ sloppy app isn’t a huge problem but is a bad sign, and why backing up an Android phone in one go is pretty much impossible without root. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with e…

The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special feature” to interact with Google sites, Mozilla shows that it needs advertising, and openSUSE might be getting a new (terrible) name. News EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encr…

What agile software development is exactly, why planning and being willing to adapt the plan are key, the pros and cons of all the process that’s involved, the role that scrum plays, and why it’s all about communication. Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects Amolith will be at Fossy in August. Support us on Patreon and g…

How best to get started with Kubernetes and whether it is better to start with a low-touch option like MicroK8s/K3s, using a cloud-managed Kubernetes from the outset, or set up everything yourself “the hard way” Kubernetes The Hard Way Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed wit…

We didn’t get to all of your questions for our Episode 200 free consulting special so here is another full episode of your questions and our answers. Our thoughts on a new UK smart devices law, backing up 30TB off-site, how to learn ZFS, SMB vs other ways to share files, and backing up secrets. Smart devices: new law helps citizens to choose secure…

The best TV show of all time, and the future of e-waste and what we can and will do about it. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.The Late Night Linux Family

In this episode, we discuss: Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extension for Firefox. Mark has been composing bass parts for an album using Tux Guitar. Alan has been visualising source code in 4K with Gource. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.…

An incredibly powerful hex editor for reverse engineering binaries, easily searching through snaphots for end users, streaming audio from phones to the Linux desktop, writing interactive fiction games, and how we makes notes and manage tasks. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Check out all the great Lat…

Having been given an Asus Eee PC netbook back, Joe wonders what to do with this ancient 32-bit machine. Plus the oldest machines we currently have in production. Batocera Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.…