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? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ... Read More
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. Send your questions and feedback to [email protected] SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their... Read More
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. News Edgio bankruptcy results in... Read More
In this episode: Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career. Alan is organising BarCamp Surrey at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025. Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with... Read More
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. Molly’s personal website [citation needed] newsletter Elon Musk and the right’s war on... Read More...
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. Support us on Patreon and get an... Read More
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. Plugs Support us... Read More
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... Read More
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. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our... Read More
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. Send your questions and feedback to [email protected] Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More
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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Discussion Anker SOLIX C300 Anker SOLIX F3800... Read More
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. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
In this episode: Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter Packs Mark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin. Martin migrates his life to the Fediverse, contributing to Owncast along the way. You can send your feedback... Read More
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025. Sandfly Securitry Sandfly Security’s agentless threat detection identifies Linux threats without requiring software agents, ensuring no performance impact or system risk. ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for... Read More...
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. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to... Read More
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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ... Read More...
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... Read More
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 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS... Read More
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... Read More...
Windows ssh is sending more telemetry than you might think, Let’s Encrypt will offer 6 days certificates, a PSA about domains that don’t send emails, and performance issues in a Synology NAS. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Winter 2024 Roundup: Storage and Network Diagnostics... Read More
In this episode: Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page. Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy. Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely. Alan’s coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like... Read More...
Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser automation, converting Office documents to markdown, markdown in Vim, and why we think Raspberry Pi OS shouldn’t change its default desktop environment. Discoveries motion & frigate Octoprint PSU control with Home Assistant... Read More...
Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early... Read More
Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern RSA or AES encryption, Russian attackers compromised a business via a nearby building’s WiFi, a startup runs out of money and bricks a robot for kids, and hardening Linux systems. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed... Read More
SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more. ... Read More
We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More
The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driven architecture and design, message queuing, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms. Send your questions and feedback to [email protected] Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More...
The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD ... Read More
The most surprising thing about ourselves, alternative computing form factors that we’d like, and whether we can be truly free. With popey from Linux Matters, Will and Graham from Late Night Linux, Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, and Gary from Linux After Dark. Patrons got this this in their feed two... Read More
In this episode: Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype. Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial, and has written a backup tool. Mark is listening to Critical Role with Audiobookshelf. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang... Read More
