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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion 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 h...
Sep 04, 2025•29 min
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 . 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 ...
Sep 02, 2025•37 min
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...
Sep 01, 2025•32 min
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. Check out part 1 and part 2 of the £50 challenge that we did previously. 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 ....
Aug 29, 2025•25 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes 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 Fr...
Aug 28, 2025•29 min
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...
Aug 26, 2025•21 min
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 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...
Aug 24, 2025•26 min
What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps? Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO Ultra. To get free Sticky Tabs with it go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud”, available for the first 30 purchases only. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Aug 22, 2025•31 min
Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes FreeBSD Summer Roundup: Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure News/discussion 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 Free consulting We were asked about configuring all-flash arrays. Se...
Aug 21, 2025•24 min
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. 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 the show, please consider support...
Aug 19, 2025•36 min
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 . News/discussion Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC Urgen...
Aug 18, 2025•33 min
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. 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 ....
Aug 15, 2025•24 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Summer Roundup: Smart Hardware Advice News AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 vs. Ryzen 9 9950X vs. Ryzen 9 9950X3D Linux Performance Review UK Government says delete old emails to save wa...
Aug 14, 2025•27 min
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 . Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago....
Aug 13, 2025•19 min
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 Th...
Aug 12, 2025•25 min
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. 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...
Aug 10, 2025•21 min
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. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Aug 08, 2025•25 min
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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Free consulting We were asked about setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening. See our contact page for ways to get in touch....
Aug 07, 2025•25 min
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 pus...
Aug 05, 2025•32 min
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. News/discussion 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 PuT...
Aug 04, 2025•32 min
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? 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 ....
Aug 01, 2025•27 min
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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Discussion It’s a mistake to over anthropomorphize LLMs, but it’s equally a mistake to *under* anthropomorphize them Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI Free...
Jul 31, 2025•24 min
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 ‘W...
Jul 28, 2025•22 min
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. 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 27, 2025•30 min
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. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Jul 25, 2025•29 min
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. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion 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 Free consulting We were...
Jul 24, 2025•29 min
In this episode: 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. 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...
Jul 22, 2025•34 min
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 Hos...
Jul 21, 2025•30 min
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. 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 18, 2025•24 min
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. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS Practical ZFS See our contact page for ways to get in touch....
Jul 17, 2025•32 min
