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.
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... Read More
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. ... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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.
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... Read More
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... Read More...
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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.
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More...
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 ... Read More
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. Martin mentioned... Read More...
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More...
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... Read More
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... Read More
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.... Read More
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.
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... Read More
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... Read More...
