2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron

2.5 Admins 309: Orbital Sauron

Author: The Late Night Linux Family July 23, 2026 Duration: 24:01

A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.

 

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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that’s been widely criticized by astronomers

Feels like all of us need to pay way more attention to the new rules affecting EU and US folk, requiring all new cars to include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face

 

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 60 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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Is the industry now better or worse than when we got into it? Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed.
2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:37
Follow-up on rebooting to update, portable power stations, glass storage, and objective news sources. Plus whether to use one ZFS pool per vdev, or just one large pool. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS…
Ask The Hosts – Episode 38 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:18
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Duration: 26:58
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Linux After Dark – Episode 125 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:11
Chris is struggling to decide which distro to install on his new work laptop, and he and Gary want to pick a new distro for the people they support. Plus Joe wonders what moving on from Xfce would look like. Support us o…
2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 28:04
Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building. Plugs Support us o…
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Duration: 27:34
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