The Late Night Linux Family

In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.

https://linuxdevtime.com/linux-dev-time-episode-146/

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We recently talked about backing up Shane’s homelab, but this time it’s the turn of enterprise backups. Risk management, cloud and hybrid environments, planning for realistic disaster scenarios, convincing the finance people what’s required, and more.

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs51/

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The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-375/

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The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with Linux?

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-116/

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Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-374/

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People often like to talk down Electron, but it is really that bad? There may be better ways to use Web technologies to make desktop apps, but isn’t having Linux versions of apps a good thing no matter how they are made?

https://linuxdevtime.com/linux-dev-time-episode-144/

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Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late. Be there and be square.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Na1SvHYGRYUDDCUP8

Sean tells us about a recent catastrophe in his Kubernetes homelab (that’s really home prod). What went wrong, how did he fix it, and how can he avoid it happening again?

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs50/

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The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time. https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-373/ #podcast

2.5 Admins 286: Windows Crashed

Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a laptop properly.

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-286/

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Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and friends are cooking up something (but it’s not exactly clear what that is), KDE Linux is progressing nicely, and more. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-372/

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The career progression options you have as a software engineer, moving from junior to senior dev, other paths you can go down like architecture or tech lead, and why management isn’t for everyone.

https://linuxdevtime.com/linux-dev-time-episode-143/

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Why we have doubts about the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, what it would take to build a proper European cloud that could compete with AWS, and why it’s such a difficult undertaking.

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs49/

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Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environment shows the perils of the older approach. Plus the UK government wants to do more age-gating, and we hear about a project to get kids into Free Software with @carmenlisandrette@mastodon.social of @missionlibre@social.missionlibre.org

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-371/

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How do you convince people to stop using unethical technology like generative AI?

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-114/

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Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug bounty program is ending, Raspberry Pi has new underwhelming hardware, and European AWS hasn’t won Félim over. Plus a reminder about the upcoming OggCamp event, and a call for participation.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-370/

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Software complexity is a complex topic, so we dig into it.

https://linuxdevtime.com/linux-dev-time-episode-142/

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Shane is worried about backups for his janky Kubernetes homelab. The rest of us advise him on exactly what to back up, how to go about picking an offsite backup location and setting it up, how best to back up databases, and more.

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs48/

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