2.5 Admins 278: XXXfil

2.5 Admins 278: XXXfil

Author: The Late Night Linux Family December 18, 2025 Duration: 26:06

Apple deletes a person’s entire digital life, PornHub Premium user data is leaked, Mozilla’s new CEO wants to ruin Firefox, Tech Force in the USA is alarming, and fine tuning storage for databases.

 

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20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data

Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company

Rest assured, Firefox will always remain a browser built around user control

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The Late Night Linux Family All Episodes podcast is your comprehensive archive for a whole ecosystem of shows dedicated to the open-source world. This feed bundles every episode from the network's distinct voices into one convenient stream. You'll hear the flagship Late Night Linux with its broad discussions on desktop Linux, software, and community news, alongside more focused sister shows. Dive into the developer-centric conversations of Linux Dev Time, explore the deeper technical and philosophical layers on Linux After Dark, and get practical sysadmin insights from 2.5 Admins. The network also branches into infrastructure with the Hybrid Cloud Show and offers a direct line to the creators with Ask The Hosts. Listening to this podcast means having the entire spectrum of the Late Night Linux perspective at your fingertips, from casual chatter to deep dives, all united by a genuine passion for technology and the Linux platform. It's the definitive collection for enthusiasts who want every angle covered.
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2.5 Admins 296: Beware of the Leopard [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:32
Microsoft locks devs out of important accounts, the foreign router ban exemptions make even less sense, Backblaze shows that “unlimited” never means that, and attempting to avoid software that’s written with AI. Plugs Su…
Late Night Linux – Episode 382 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:24
The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nons…
Linux Dev Time – Episode 148 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:59
We get into dependency management. The pros and cons of tools like Dependabot, the varying approaches with different languages and standard library sizes, the times when pinning dependencies makes sense, and more. Turn D…
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 54 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:37
Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate some of the problems AI is causing, the sense that Kubernetes is matur…
2.5 Admins 295: Orbital Meltdown [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:19
Why putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on really old Dell servers. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with…
Late Night Linux – Episode 381 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:20
Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interes…
Linux After Dark – Episode 119 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:32
May wants to make a space heater out of an old computer, and Joe is thinking about buying a new (used) laptop. The heater will be pretty straightforward but finding the right laptop will be much harder. Support us on Pat…
2.5 Admins 294: Oh, R2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:24
Arm announces its first CPU, Anthropic accidentally leaks the source for Claude Code and it’s terrible, and setting up a backup for a friend’s photos. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some ear…
Ask The Hosts – Episode 35 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:08
What we do when we get stressed, cinema vs theatre, our mentors, and if we’ve tried being vegetarian. With Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Patrons got this this in…
Late Night Linux – Episode 380 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:14
Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requiremen…