Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more.

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Frigate

Coral TPUs

daylight

RPi Improved Pan Tilt Module

The Visible Zorker

Flightgear new LTS

Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker

Pixel 9 desktop mode

pinchflat

fixing locale

KIOT

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Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thresholds have gone up significantly. We channel our inner Linux Luddites, but don’t really come up with any solutions.

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Jim’s server is getting hammered by AI scrapers and he’s big mad about it, why RCS doesn’t work on Android without Google apps, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.

Plugs

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Network Offload and Socket Splicing (SO_SPLICE) in FreeBSD

News

Jim hit by AI scrapers

Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

80% of Web Traffic Is Bots — The Hidden Cost of AI Scraping

Threat Spotlight: The good, the bad, and the ‘gray bots’ – the Gen AI scraper bots targeting your web apps

An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic

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We were asked about RCS on AOSP, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.

wg-admin

Our weirdest collections, food we’ve eaten as a dare, and the nicest thing someone has done for us. With Félim from Late Night Linux, Gary from Linux After Dark,  Andy from Linux Dev Time, and popey from Linux Matters.

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AI crawlers are causing serious problems for open source projects, an example of disclosure by vagueposting, Zorin does something good and something bad, LibreOffice downloads are doing well, Thunderbird is planning new services, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

News

Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden

It might be a good time to temporarily uninstall atop

Panic averted: It was just a bug in Atop after all

Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship

Zorin OS 17.3 takes Brave step of changing default browser

Stop using Brave Browser

Look Mum No Computer on Steam

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs 

Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail

Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro Services

KDE Korner

Roadmap for a modern Plasma Login Manager

Akademy 2025

1Password Extended Access Management

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Joe accidentally tried vibe coding and it was as much of a disaster as you’d imagine. Amolith has also tried it, and does his best to defend the use of LLMs with development. Kevin and Andy are mostly bemused. We all have concerns about the ethics and environmental issues.

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The best way to cope with a huge spike in traffic on a product launch day, and the most important public and private cloud technologies to learn.

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Whether tech debt is inevitable and where the blame lies, how to properly organise ZFS datasets, and selectively managing updates.

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ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication

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In this episode:

• Mark has started developing a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.
• Alan has taken a look at Docs, but didn’t use it.
• Martin has upgraded his home networking with Deco and YuanLey devices.

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What if Google hadn’t come along in the late 90s? What would search, mobile devices, and the web in general look like? Plus a musical discovery, and why moving to a new distro just means moving to new little problems to fix.

Discovery

Wilsonic MTS-ESP

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We look at postmarketOS on various devices old and new, Arm and x86, and are impressed.

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The key differences between throughput and latency – and when they matter, the tech that we’d keep if we stopped working in IT, and avoiding bitrot with rsync backups.

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Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP

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Parchive

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Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon.

News

Home Assistant officially Matters

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive 

Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management

Announcing Techpaladin Software

Fedora 42 Beta now available

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

GIMP 3.0 Released

The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year

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Our advice on how to move into a career in software development including making and contributing to projects, advocating for your work, collaborating, avoiding exploitation, learning Git, and loads more.

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Shane tells us about the janky Kubernetes homelab that he’s building, and we all laugh at him.

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RISC-V is on the rise in China, why Power CPUs aren’t as promising, the dystopian nightmare of surveillance tech at work, and  decrypting ZFS at boot.

Plugs

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Understanding ZFS in the Real World: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned & Future Plans

News/discussion

Alibaba launches server-grade RISC-V CPU design

Raptor Computing Systems

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral

Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You

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In this episode:

• Martin has created smiti18n (pronounced smitten) – A very complete internationalization library for Lua with LÖVE support
• Mark has been hard at work Moodling himself silly on the run up to the Moodle 5.0 release
• Alan has been wrangling with Django and has worries about contributing large patches to SavannahHQ

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Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more.

Discoveries

espargos and demo video

OSM2GoogleMaps Bookmarklet

Cyd

twitter-defollower

Cross Views

About apt upgrade and phased updates

Feedback

Rapid Photo Downloader

Become a sponsor to Damon Lynch

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Entroware

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A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more important battles to fight than advocating for FOSS.

2.5 Admins episode where Joe talks about his ZFS setup

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Ten-year-old Chromecasts stop working, movie DVDs start rotting, Skype is finally dying, using ZFS on VM guests and hosts.

Plugs

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ZFS Space Accounting Explained

News

Google apologizes for Chromecast outage in email to users

“They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases

Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams

Free consulting

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Our first jobs, how we balance staying informed and staying sane, and the best time of year. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and popey from Linux Matters.

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Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command & Conquer games, the EFF releases a tool to detect cellular spying, an official Debian VM on Pixel devices, a brief foldable update, and more.

News

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

An update on our Terms of Use

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

Firefox 136.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

‘Flow’ wins best animated feature film Oscar

“thank you Blender”

Godot 4.4, a unified experience

EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Android’s native Linux Terminal app is live in Google’s latest update

Porkbun.com

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Andy is only publishing his games on F-Droid and not the Google Play Store from now on, and he tells us why.

Rabbit Escape

Box Stacker

Smolpxl Games

Adresilo

Sepia Search

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What the new Docker pull limits really mean and how to deal with them, and whether paying for 12 years of support for Kubernetes is a good idea.

Docker Hub pull usage and limits

Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS

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HP was forcing people to wait on hold for 15 minutes to get support, the DOGE site was embarrassingly insecure, setting up encrypted offsite backups, and mixing SATA and NVMe in a server.

Plugs

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Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices

News/discusison

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to ‘feedback’

Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website (archive.is)

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We were asked about mixing SATA and NVMe in a server.

Factor

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In this episode:

• Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable.
• Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance.
• Martin created a template for LÖVE games.

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Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is a touch buggy, and more.

Discoveries

Guacamole

Lumon Industries (Macrodata-Refinement)

Skies-ADSB

Home Assistant Voice PE

Casio F91W to 5000m underwater

Pi-hole v6

gammastep

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It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana, Joe got ReactOS, Gary got GhostBSD, and Chris got Haiku.

Haiku Package Management

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Arm is going to make its own server chips, WordPress is selling “100 year” domain registrations, geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows to Backblaze B2.

Plugs

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Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces

News

Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry

The WordPress.com 100-Year Domain

Free Consulting

We were asked about geo-redundancy for VPSs, and backing up Windows to Backblaze B2.

Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 24

gdnsd

DNSMadeEasy – Failover Service [Allan’s Affiliate Link]

Kopia

snapshot verify | Kopia

RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery

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The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin.

News

Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

Passing the torch on Asahi Linux

[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself

On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.) – Theodore Ts’o

Terence Eden on young people in FOSS

Linux Dev Time – Episode 118

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

Amazon Kindles jailbroken

Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning

Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy

Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

Matrix is at a T junction

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We dig into the technical details of the Linux Kernel Rust drama.

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The best ways to implement geo-redundancy for containers and VMs using load balancers and Kubernetes, and moving 5TB of storage to the cloud.

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Google found a way to run unofficial microcode on AMD CPUs, whether software should get a CVE when it goes end of life, LLMs changing Redditors’ minds and self-replicating, and managing SSH keys at scale.

Plugs

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ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots

News/discussion

How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 from RDRAND

CVEs for End of Life?

OpenAI says its models are more persuasive than 82 percent of Reddit users

AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified

Free Consulting

We were asked about managing SSH keys at scale.

In this episode:

• Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD.
• Mark puts on his robe and wizard’s hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud.
• Martin switches his console to KMSCON.

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What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the Masses.

Voice of the Masses

What are you self-hosting, and what are you relying on others to host for you?

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The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.

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Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.

Plugs

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Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS

News

Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dealers swap, Seagate investigates

Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dozens of readers report suspected cases

openSeaChest

Windows 11 on devices that don’t meet minimum system requirements

Free Consulting

We were asked about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.

Klara: Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces

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The furthest north and south we’ve been, art that means something to us, which brand of battery power tools we use, and how we hang our toilet roll. With Félim from Late Night Linux, and Gary from Linux After Dark.

Félim’s moon book photo.

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Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more.

News

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer

Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: ‘Maybe the problem is you’

New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel

Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers

Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting

EU OS

The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google

We’re bringing Pebble back!

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant

Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199

Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage

How Blender helped Gints Zilbalodis make Oscar-nominated Flow

Flow – Official Trailer

Plasma 6.3 is out tomorrow

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Entroware

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Mark from Linux Matters who’s a web developer joins us to talk about working in PHP – a language that’s mature and well established, and how that compares with working with newer “cooler” languages like Rust and Go.

Moodle

Mark’s Bash text adventure

Bash associative array examples

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Is being cloud-first more about the target for your workloads, or more about mindset?

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We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.

Plugs

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Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance

News/discussion

Xbox beta tests support for massive amounts of external storage

Migrating away from bcachefs

Free Consulting

We were asked about malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.

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Factor

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In this episode:

• Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act.
• Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems.
  • keyshield – A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts.
  • archive-vbulletin-thread – A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums.
• Mark has been flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler.

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What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus a self-hostable workflow automation platform, simple systemd management, and Redshift on Xfce in Discoveries. Then we wonder why there seems to be less in the way of interesting Linux news these days.

Discoveries 

n8n

isd

redshift

Tailscale

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When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t quite enough to avoid going back to the Windows desktop.

Boomstick

Vesktop

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An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.

Plugs

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Klara Webinar, Feb 13th: RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery

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MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

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We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers.

News

Free Our Feeds

Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone

Plasma 6.3 beta 2 is out! and Season of KDE 2025

Foldable future?

Pixel 9 Pro Fold

Discoveries 

Hugin

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BarCamp Surrey

Laura and popey tell us about BarCamp Surrey

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Where is the balance between efficiency and openness when it comes to saved file formats? If everything was based on plain text it would make the files readable for years to come, but at what cost?

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In this episode we discuss some challenges around using and testing lower environments, how to easily run integration tests using Testcontainers, and some of the pitfalls around using GitOps to deploy your applications.

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SysCloud

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Microsoft didn’t control an important domain that it was using and end up red-faced, the dangers of using free VPN apps, a proof of concept exploit is out for last year’s SSH vulnerability, USB is getting slightly less confusing labels, and swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.

News

Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft

VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network

PoC Exploit Released For OpenSSH Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

An updated USB logo will now mark the fastest docking stations

Free Consulting

We were asked about swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.

Entroware

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In this episode:

• Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career.
• Alan is organising BarCamp Surrey at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025.
• Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship.

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Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.

Molly’s personal website

[citation needed] newsletter

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes video

Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes article

Web3 Is Going Great

Best 2024 Discoveries

Thanks Matt for collating our discoveries

Will

Thingino

Motion

Spotify Car Thing

Graham

Osci-render

ink – inkle’s narrative scripting language

An IDE for retro game development 8bitworkshop

Synth of the year, https://github.com/aaronaanderson/Terrain

Felim

Pikchr

AITrack

Klevernotes & a very near taskfinder

Joe

InnerTune

StezStix Fix?

yt-dlp

Linux Mint 22

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We share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating Ubuntu, getting mad at Docker, trying to recover Microsoft passwords, building a PC over a video call, wireless access points that mostly just work, and more.

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A new version of ZFS is out and we go over the great new features. Plus recovering data after accidentally writing part of an ISO onto a USB drive, how to deal with abuse of your domain, and replacing all the drives in a ZFS pool while keeping the birth date.

Plugs

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Managing and Tracking Storage Performance

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Zfs-2.3.0

Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup

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SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 makes no sense to at least one of us (who now owns an N100 mini PC), the Linux Foundation seems to think Chromium-based browsers need a helping hand, we troll Félim, and more.

News

Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld

Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April

SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck

Microsoft is combining ‘the best of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds

VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek

Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress

Joost/Karim Fork – WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork

Why Matt Should Resign (from 2010)

16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120

New $120 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is for the people who use it like an everyday PC

TRIGKEY N100 Mini PC

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers

Servo Revival: 2023-2024

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We dig into SQLite – an interesting and unusual project that is widely used but has an uncommon licence, a proprietary test suite, and doesn’t take external contributions. Plus printf() vs “proper” debugging.

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We reflect on what we have seen in the public and private cloud world in the last year, and look forward at what we expect to see in 2025.

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Jim and Allan explain the benefits of a lithium iron phosphate “UPS”, whether it’s possible to delete every single copy of a file, and using Bluetooth in a Windows 11 VM.

Plug

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Discussion

Anker SOLIX C300

Anker SOLIX F3800

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It’s a Christmas special! Our favourite festive foods and ones we dislike, when we buy presents, and our unusual traditions. With popey, Mark and Martin from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.

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In this episode:

• Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter Packs
• Mark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin.
• Martin migrates his life to the Fediverse, contributing to Owncast along the way.

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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025.

Sandfly Securitry

Sandfly Security’s agentless threat detection identifies Linux threats without requiring software agents, ensuring no performance impact or system risk.

We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2024, and talk about what we want to happen in 2025.

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What it would take to reliably store data for a hundred years including Institutional funding and organization, decade-proof redundancy, multiple hot and cold copies,hedging your bets against multiple media, and more. Plus backing up ZFS without normal snapshots.

Plug

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Century-Scale Storage

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It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPress fiasco, why the idea of decentralised social media started to catch on, Raspberry Pi’s IPO, and the inevitable Mozilla doom and gloom.

2024 Linux News in review

NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World

How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide

Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy

GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes

KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community

Asking for donations in Plasma

I think the donation notification works

Automattic vs WP Engine: WordPress wars heat up

Mullenweg’s WordPress Pause Triggers Unexpected Complications

What drama should I create in 2025?

Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse

Starting today, people using Threads in 100+ countries can turn on sharing to the fediverse

Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D

Bluesky: An Open Social Web

Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media

Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7

Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now

Raspberry Pi value surges past one billion on US buying

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo

Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers

Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers

Our remedies proposal in DOJ’s search distribution case

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We explore the line between developer and sysadmin and come to the conclusion that despite the clear difference between the roles, there is a lot of crossover when it comes to skills and character traits.

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

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Red Hat donates a bunch of container tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and we are broadly positive about it. Plus some of our highlights from the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 conferences.

News/discussion

Red Hat to Contribute Comprehensive Container Tools Collection to Cloud Native Computing Foundation

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 day one: keynotes, sessions, announcements, and more

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 2: keynotes, announcements and more

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 3: Keynotes, announcements and more

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Windows ssh is sending more telemetry than you might think, Let’s Encrypt will offer 6 days certificates, a PSA about domains that don’t send emails, and performance issues in a Synology NAS.

Plugs

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Winter 2024 Roundup: Storage and Network Diagnostics

News/discussion

ssh on Windows sends telemetry

sshTelemetry.c

Let’s Encrypt to offer 6 day certs

Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don’t use it for sending email

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In this episode:

• Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page.
  • Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy.
• Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely.
• Alan’s coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah.

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Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser automation, converting Office documents to markdown, markdown in Vim, and why we think Raspberry Pi OS shouldn’t change its default desktop environment.

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Octoprint PSU control with Home Assistant

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Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested.

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Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern RSA or AES encryption, Russian attackers compromised a business via a nearby building’s WiFi, a startup runs out of money and bricks a robot for kids, and hardening Linux systems.

Plugs

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ZFS Storage Fault Management on Linux

News/discussion

No, Chinese quantum computers haven’t hacked military-grade encryption

The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access

Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

The confusing reality of AI friends

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SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more.

News

Send us your predictions for 2025

Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus

Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld

Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat

Halo for PC Uses Ogg Vorbis!

Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now

£4 more (plus a keyboard) for a LOT more performance

New era of slop security reports for open source

Xfce 4.20 released

Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch

The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest

KDE Korner

I think the donation notification works

This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incomingThis Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! & Better fractional scaling

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We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model.

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The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driven architecture and design, message queuing, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.

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The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.

Plugs

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Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD

News/discussion

FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts

US senators propose mandated MFA, encryption in healthcare

QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes

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The most surprising thing about ourselves, alternative computing form factors that we’d like, and whether we can be truly free. With popey from Linux Matters, Will and Graham from Late Night Linux, Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, and Gary from Linux After Dark.

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• Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype.
• Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial, and has written a backup tool.
• Mark is listening to Critical Role with Audiobookshelf.

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Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8.

Voice of the Masses

Do you dual boot and why?

Feedback

The Linux Foundation – Nonprofit Explorer

gui-scale-applet

gui-scale-application

Discovery

Terrain

elementary OS 8

elementary OS 8 Available Now

elementary OS

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Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins.

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OggCamp

Distrobox

BoxBuddy

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Intel’s CEO departs but replacing him won’t magically solve its serious problems, Zipcar wasn’t prepared for an outage and handled it really badly, moving to an email provider that supports DMARC, and picking a NAS distribution.

Plugs

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ZFS Ask Me Anything – December 12th

Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC

News

Intel CEO takes his leave as ambition meets reality

What happened to Intel?

Zipcar Outage Strands Customers in Random Places

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We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewhat ambivalent about the new OpenWrt router, understanding about Linux sanctioning the Bcachefs dev, and surprised that Félim is slowly starting to warm up to the idea of atomic distros (because KDE, obvs).

With guest host Amolith from Linux Dev Time and Linux Lads.

News

Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Help secure the open source ecosystem for everyone

Snarky post about it

FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released

elementary OS 8 Available Now

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7

First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released

Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

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More of our development hot takes including excessive energy use, optimising your code, the importance of licences, Matrix and Jabber being on the same side, the myth of secure code, and why self-hosting is hard.

watt-wiser

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How worthwhile cloud certifications are, whether they really demonstrate much more than your ability to pass an exam, how they relate to real world experience, actually learning new technologies via certification, and why having too many certs can be a red flag. Plus Sean tells us about his trip to the recent Ubuntu Summit.

Sean’s post about the Ubuntu Summit

Ultra-small Ubuntu-based distroless containers – chiselled Ubuntu

Announcing .NET Chiseled Containers

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Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be sticking around. Plus mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

Plug

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Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup

News/discussion

Equinix to shutter bare metal IaaS service in 2026

D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage

Google cracks down on “Parasite SEO,” punishing established publishers

Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you

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We were asked about mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.

nomad-pot-driver

Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD

ServerMania

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1Password

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OggCampIn this episode:

• Alan uses vhs to make a short video
• Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp
• Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs

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Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more.

Discoveries

pup

8bitworkshop

20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2

BlinkenLights

European Alternatives

WisBlock Smart Cube Companion

Graham’s cubes

Joe’s battery test data

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Entroware

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We all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here was “what would Jim and Allan from 2.5 Admins NOT do”.

Guess who won with this monstrosity.

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Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client, restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware.

Plugs

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DKMS vs kmod: The Essential Guide for ZFS on Linux

News

Windows Server 2025 takes admins by surprise

No word from Microsoft on shock Windows Server 2025 installs

Windows Server 2025 known issues and notifications

Windows 11 update bug falsely warns of end of support, confusing users

Windows 365 Link—the first Cloud PC device

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We were asked about restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware.

2.5 Admins 218: TLS TTL

Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely with his WiFi access points.

News

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

Mozilla’s Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

KDE does a whole lotta bug fixing & raising funds

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Some of the work-adjacent things that we do including writing code that we shouldn’t like writing Rust in Rust, fun projects that turned into paid work, and career progression. Plus some of our go to resources for learning about development.

Some resources we mentioned

Andy’s videos – Rust, General

Lobsters

Amolith’s RSS feeds

Computer inside Terraria

Fasterthanlime

Self-Directed Research Podcast

Jon Gjengset

Jon Gjengset – YouTube

DevConf – YouTube

MEAP Catalog

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What would be on our cloud tools wishlist to make our lives better? Consistent APIs and IAM across clouds, vulnerability information for dependencies that doesn’t depend on vendor data, more private compute, and more.

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Jim and Allan discover modern charging tech and marvel at what’s possible in the USB-C era, more on IPv6 firewalls, using ZFS like Git, and running your own authoritative DNS server.

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Our first games systems, whether we wear watches, and the most cringe moments from our youth. With popey from Linux Matters, Will from Late Night Linux, and Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.

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In this episode:

• Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus
• Alan has been creating animated gifs of terminal sessions with t-rec.
• Mark picked up a Keybow MINI from the swaps table at OggCamp.

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Will went back to GNOME and made it exactly like Xfce, Félim used an unethical app ethically, and Graham had a great time at the Ubuntu Summit. Plus easily creating a customised Firefox profile, compiling Python, and what Mozilla would have to do for us to move to another browser.

Discoveries 

firebuilder

GNOME

m.uber.com

codon

Ubuntu Summit

Feedback

Zen Browser

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Where do we draw the line when it comes to being made to use software that we don’t want to at work? Plus why only half of us use Linux on the desktop.

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How using a copy-on-write filesystem like ZFS can get systems back online within seconds after ransomeware encrypts all your data, and even warn you more quickly that it’s happening. Plus Jim and Allan’s advice on getting a job as a sysadmin.

Plug

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Klara: 5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong

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We were asked about getting a job as a sysadmin.

Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open source AI (and we don’t take it very seriously), Hollywood uses loads of FOSS, an easy way to help out Home Assistant, and Thunderbird for Android arrives.

News

Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel’s “Compliance Requirements” Around Russian Sanctions

Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

We’re forking Flutter. This is why.

The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

New ‘Open Source AI Definition’ Criticized for Not Opening Training Data

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy

Help us make voice better in under a minute – Home Assistant

Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight

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Our development hot takes including “rewrite it in Rust”, lack of documentation, single vs multiple monitors, dependency numbers, light vs dark mode, and distro package repos.

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How to be the change you wish to see in the workplace, how application architecture and infrastructure architecture are related, and if there are any real alternatives to Kubernetes for building a hybrid cloud.

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It’s Halloween so Jim and Allan share horrific and spooky stories from their sysadmin careers. Plus picking a UPS for a homelab.

Plugs

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Klara: NAS: Maintenance Best Practices

In this episode:

• Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs.
  • CLI setup:
    • gocryptfs -init ~/Syncthing/Secrets: Create encrypted storage
    • gocryptfs ~/Syncthing/Secrets ~/Vault: Mount the decrypted secrets under ~/Vault
    • fusermount -u ~/Vault: Unmount the decrypted secrets
  • GUI Tools:
    • vaults (Linux, GTK4)
    • SiriKali (cross-platform, Qt)
• Mark wrote, built and released powerline-go-moodle.
• Alan joined the club and bought an LG Dualup monitor.

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Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printed storage, what the death of Windows 10 means for Linux adoption, and more.

Discoveries

Taskfinder

Thingino

YouTube video on how to install it

follow up videoon Neos

Framework 13 DIY edition

Linux After Dark 80

HAL Project

How GFX Cards Work

GridFinity

Videos about a modular shed

WikiHouse

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

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