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Late Night Linux – Episode 379

Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.   Discoveries creepy link [https://creepylink.com/] Supercell Wx [https://github.com/dpaulat/supercell-wx] whosthere [https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere] Ultramaster KR-106 [https://kayrock.org/kr106/]   AI in FOSS systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added [https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc3] New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI [https://i.ibb.co/qYzhFhX5/Untitled.jpg]                     Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com [https://www.automox.com/]     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes [https://www.patreon.com/LateNightLinux]   See our contact page [https://latenightlinux.com/contact/] for ways to get in touch. [https://latenightlinux.com/wp-content/uploads/latenightlinux-sm.jpg] RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here [https://latenightlinux.com/feeds/]

Linux After Dark – Episode 118

We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest.                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes [https://www.patreon.com/LateNightLinux]         See our contact page [https://linuxafterdark.net/contact/] for ways to get in touch. [https://linuxafterdark.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LAD-moon-1-300x300.jpg] Subscribe to the RSS feed [https://linuxafterdark.net/feed/podcast].

2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected

The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesystems inside VMs.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes [https://www.patreon.com/LateNightLinux] The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage [https://klarasystems.com/articles/the-real-cost-of-technology-dependence-building-independence-with-open-source-storage/]   News/discussion US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America [https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/fcc_foreign_routers/] National Security Determination on the Threat Posed by Routers Produced by Foreign Countries [https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/NSD-Routers0326.pdf] (pdf) 1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack [https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/1k_cloud_environments_infected_following/] Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines [https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/self-propagating-malware-poisons-open-source-software-and-wipes-iran-based-machines/]   Free consulting We were asked about the safety of filesystems inside VMs.                 Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com [https://www.automox.com/]       See our contact page [https://2.5admins.com/contact/] for ways to get in touch.   [https://2.5admins.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2.5admins-sm.png]

Late Night Linux – Episode 378

Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.   News Just over a month until OggCamp [https://www.oggcamp.org/]! Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late [https://mastodon.social/@latenightlinux/116109857128287902] Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems [https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/16/opinon_column_age_verification/] The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux [https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/] A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date [https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593] When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines? [https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/116250765623660340] I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills. [https://web.archive.org/web/20260313143853/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/] meta-lobbying-and-other-findings [https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings] Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety [https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html?m=1] 450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us [https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html] This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters [https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/14/this-week-in-plasma-press-and-hold-for-alternative-characters/] Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo” [https://release.gnome.org/50/]                 Automox Turnkey Results Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com [https://www.automox.com/]     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes [https://www.patreon.com/LateNightLinux]   See our contact page [https://latenightlinux.com/contact/] for ways to get in touch. [https://latenightlinux.com/wp-content/uploads/latenightlinux-sm.jpg] RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here [https://latenightlinux.com/feeds/]

Linux Dev Time – Episode 146

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.   Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late [https://mastodon.social/@latenightlinux/116109857128287902]         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes [https://www.patreon.com/LateNightLinux]   See our contact page [https://www.linuxdevtime.com/contact/] for ways to get in touch. [https://www.linuxdevtime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/linuxdevtime-300.png] Subscribe to the RSS feed [https://latenightlinux.com/feed/extra]