Head of the Late Night Linux Family of podcasts https://latenightlinux.com/about/
I mostly get paid to talk to my friends about computers which is nice.
It seems I was radicalised by basic decency. 🤷‍♂️
Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028.
What makes a good library?
It’s a Linux Dev Time style hot questions episode. Is “cloud native” more about where the workload is going or how you deploy it? What is a skill that is really important in your job that may surprise people? Is the cloud more or less secure than a company-controlled data centre or on-prem? Would you recommend what you do to your kids/nephews etc?
2.5 Admins 301: F(OSS) Consulting
It looks like Bitlocker had a back door in it, how a listener accidentally broke Gitea for users of the snap version, Google accidentally published an unpatched exploit for Chromium-based browsers, why people are starting to ditch Bitwarden, and moving a tech stack away from large corporations.
"Raspberry Pi 6 won't arrive before 2028" say the headlines. "Bullshit" says this jaded Linux podcast guy.
Exhibit A and B
Yesterday the UK saw the hottest May day ever. Today there's a decent chance the record will be broken again.
Last night the BBC news broadcast vox pops with idiot members of the public gushing about how lovely the hot weather was. Producers and execs needs to wake the fuck up and start telling people how fucked up this is. Record temperatures should be reported in a sombre way like the death of a beloved public figure, not like the birth of one of their cute new babies.
I absolutely love learning about and listening to the songs that massive hits sampled. I've known about this particular one for ages but it still blows my mind that a young Chas & Dave were session musicians on the recording that would ultimately end up launching Eminem's career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4JWkW0oROg
(2 mins ish)
Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host @andybalaam from Linux Dev Time.
"Mastodon sucks." Every last bit of Fedi is built by members of your community trying to provide a space to people for free, often at great expense to themselves. This isn't some social network we just rolled up and started using, we built it. I wish more people understood that before they slam it. 
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If you run a peertube instance and have not patched in the past 4 hours, you are way behind and likely have been compromised. The latest patch will help clean up the mess. See here: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v8.1.8
The Late Night Linux Family
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