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 ar...
Jul 15, 2025•25 min
What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project. 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
Jul 13, 2025•23 min
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. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Jul 11, 2025•23 min
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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion 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 ...
Jul 10, 2025•30 min
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 . Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago....
Jul 09, 2025•15 min
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 . 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 Discord server. If you enjoy...
Jul 08, 2025•35 min
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. Discoveries Home Assistant Developer Environment xLights QLC+ Telegram snap issue faff PrivacyPlease Jacob Collier Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple net...
Jul 07, 2025•30 min
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. Listen to part 1 here . 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 ....
Jul 04, 2025•29 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide News/discussion Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom...
Jul 03, 2025•29 min
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...
Jul 01, 2025•30 min
When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it’s hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder. Blog post about the speed of ripgrep hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool Profile-guided optimization Andy benchmarking IndexedDb 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...
Jun 29, 2025•30 min
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. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Jun 27, 2025•32 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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 ...
Jun 26, 2025•28 min
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 . 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...
Jun 24, 2025•30 min
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. Discoveries Strudel rsyncy Spring IceCream DNS4EU News/discussion 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 Tailscale Ta...
Jun 23, 2025•24 min
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. 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 ....
Jun 20, 2025•25 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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 “bac...
Jun 19, 2025•30 min
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 Lo...
Jun 17, 2025•29 min
How we deal with complex projects involving non-technical people as well as developers. How to manage expectations about timing, how to deal with issues, why documenting conversations is important, and more. 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...
Jun 15, 2025•25 min
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 TrueNAS Mini Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Jun 13, 2025•24 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes The Maintainer’s Dilemma: Strategies for Supporting Legacy Drivers Across Decades of Hardware Evolution News/discussion Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities ODRO...
Jun 12, 2025•32 min
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 . Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
Jun 11, 2025•17 min
In this episode: Martin has been brutally reclaiming GitHub runner disk space using Nothing but Nix This technique can be applied to other purposes. Get the technical details from Martin’s blog: The Nix Space Heist: Reclaiming 130GB in GitHub Actions Alan has resurrected a very nerdy website. Go to Nerdy Day Trips² and submit your favourite fascinating places to visit around the world – science museums, observatories, maker spaces, research facilities, and other spots that’ll scratch a curiosity...
Jun 10, 2025•37 min
Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s new audio workstation is released for Linux. News Redis is now available under the the OSI-approved AGPLv3 open source license. Supercharging Ubuntu Releases: Monthly Snap...
Jun 09, 2025•32 min
Some of our hot takes and some from other people. Your OS is a passive gateway to apps and services, OSTree sucks, when you need to reboot Ubuntu is a mystery, stop hiding things from users, Chris needs an “I use Debian by the way” t-shirt, and more. Zak’s post on Mastodon Luke Miani’s video 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 ....
Jun 06, 2025•22 min
Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta’s new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the inside details of a new mixed-disk-size ZFS RAID feature, and moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes The Overlooked Complexity of Firmware Security in the IoT Era News/discussion Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues Meta pa...
Jun 05, 2025•32 min
Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functionality until they made a public stink about it, WSL is now open source, there’s a new open source command-line text editor in Windows, and more. News Investing in what moves the internet forward Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub Firefox Security Response to pwn2own 2025 When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chr...
Jun 03, 2025•32 min
What are the fundamental ideas and components of development and programming? 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
Jun 01, 2025•27 min
When should you consider using a third-party management tool, rather than just the ones built into your cloud of choice? 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 ....
May 30, 2025•21 min
Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (So You Don’t Have To) News O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call Ending TLS Client Authentication Certific...
May 29, 2025•29 min
