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. Voice of the Masses What are you self-hosting, and what are you relying on others to host for you? Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card...
Feb 17, 2025•24 min
The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux. 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 ....
Feb 14, 2025•22 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS News Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dealers swap, Seagate investigates Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dozens of readers report suspected cases openSeaChes...
Feb 13, 2025•32 min
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 . Félim’s moon book photo . Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago....
Feb 12, 2025•16 min
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. News 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 U...
Feb 11, 2025•26 min
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. Moodle Mark’s Bash text adventure Bash associative array examples 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...
Feb 09, 2025•25 min
Is being cloud-first more about the target for your workloads, or more about mindset? Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their SaaS data. Head to SysCloud.com for a 30-day free trial—and for a limited time, use code HCS to get 50% off your first purchase. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Feb 07, 2025•27 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance News/discussion Xbox beta tests support for massive amounts of external storage Migrating away fro...
Feb 06, 2025•31 min
In this episode: Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act . Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems . keyshield – A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts. archive-vbulletin-thread – A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums. Mark has been flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler . Y...
Feb 04, 2025•31 min
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. Discoveries n8n isd redshift Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across comple...
Feb 03, 2025•31 min
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. Boomstick Vesktop 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 ....
Jan 31, 2025•24 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Klara Webinar, Feb 13th: RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery News MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years Free Consulting We were asked about tricky offsite backups, why Tw...
Jan 30, 2025•30 min
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. News Free Our Feeds Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone Plasma 6.3 beta 2 is out! and Season of KDE 2...
Jan 28, 2025•37 min
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 See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed...
Jan 26, 2025•21 min
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 show@hybridcloudshow.com SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their SaaS data. Head to SysCloud.com for a 30-day free trial—and for a limited time, use code HCS to get 50% off your first purchase. . Support us on pat...
Jan 24, 2025•26 min
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 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 ...
Jan 23, 2025•29 min
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 show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux...
Jan 21, 2025•29 min
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 Wikipedia Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes video Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes article Web3 Is Going Great Best 2024 Discoveries Thanks Matt for collatin...
Jan 20, 2025•40 min
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 ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Jan 17, 2025•23 min
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 on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Managing and Tracking Storage Performance News Zfs-2.3.0 Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup Free Consulting We were asked about recovering data after accident...
Jan 16, 2025•28 min
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. News 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 th...
Jan 14, 2025•34 min
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 contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed...
Jan 12, 2025•22 min
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 show@hybridcloudshow.com Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Jan 10, 2025•24 min
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 Free Consulting We were asked about using Bluetooth in a Windows 11 VM. See our contact page for ways to get in touch....
Jan 09, 2025•29 min
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.
Jan 08, 2025•20 min
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 via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters o...
Jan 07, 2025•33 min
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 Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across co...
Jan 06, 2025•37 min
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 get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Jan 03, 2025•23 min
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 Discussion Century-Scale Storage Free Consulting We were asked about backing up ZFS without normal snapshots. ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers...
Jan 02, 2025•30 min
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 Ac...
Dec 31, 2024•32 min
