All episodes from Late Night Linux, Linux Downtime, and Linux After Dark.
2.5 Admins 169: SDCoF
A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android multi-user bug, package managers on Windows, and Toshiba hard drives. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Cloudflare... Read More
Linux Matters 16: Blogging to the Fediverse
In this episode, we discuss: Publishing blog posts to the Fediverse with help from Seb Jambor‘s ActivityPub.academy and Paul Kinlan’s blog. Writing Rust code without knowing Rust. Resurrecting a NextCloud Box and using it for something new. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 255
Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to get notifications, M1 Macbook Air problems,an epic ThinkPad collection, and more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Discoveries Control your Thinkpad... Read More
Linux After Dark – Episode 56
Half of us constantly change our hardware and software setups, and the other half like to keep things as constant as possible. Are we changing things to avoid personal technical debt, or are we just bored? Plus more on locking down phones. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early... Read More
2.5 Admins 168: Do The Right Thing
Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it should be, Jim’s report from the Ubuntu Summit, and what to do when you find a company’s sensitive data on the Internet. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 254
We imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. Plus mixed news in the RISC-V world, a glimmer of hope for desktop Linux on Arm, YouTube’s adblock tracking might be against the GDPR, and a micro KDE Korner.... Read More
Linux Downtime – Episode 84
We are joined by Roger Light to discuss what it’s like to work for a company that uses the open core model — maintaining an open source project and offering additional paid for proprietary features. Mosquitto Cedalo Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all... Read More
2.5 Admins 167: Delayed Flush
The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why we don’t talk about Toshiba hard drives very often, and the implications of poor Bluetooth security on an e-bike. Plugs Support us on patreon Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Solutions for Business Flexibility... Read More
Ask The Hosts – Episode 6
Our spookiest experiences, singing in public, traveling with a single bag, the languages we’ve tried to learn, and the things we’ve crafted. With Graham from Late Night Linux and Jim from 2.5 Admins. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago. Joe’s purple shelves Joe’s purple 1×10″ cab
Linux Matters 15: Mish Mash Mesh
In this episode, we discuss: Upgrading the network in a rented student house with TP-Link Deco The gaming journey of a tiny-handed toddler from button mashing to throwing rocks Building a solid-state NAS with NixOS You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 253
Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more. Discoveries archivebox.io ia command for the Internet Archive I, Voyager Multi-column view in Mastodon curl supports MQTT wyrd... Read More
Linux After Dark – Episode 55
It’s the spinning rust challenge! We try installing and running our operating systems on mechanical hard drives and learn that Linux is much less painful than Windows on a spinning disk. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
2.5 Admins 166: 20 Second Cheque
What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquity Unify. Plugs Support us on patreon News Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 252
A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more. News Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10... Read More
Linux Downtime – Episode 83
We are joined by Marcin Kulik – the creator and maintainer of asciinema. We talk about the project itself, developing on Linux, IDEs, targetting a technical audience, the advantages of writing for a command line interface, why -R is always wrong for the recursive flag, and more. Marcin on Mastodon asciinema on Mastodon asciinema on... Read More