Late Night Linux – Episode 378

Late Night Linux – Episode 378

Author: The Late Night Linux Family March 24, 2026 Duration: 26:25
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
Technology

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!

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date

When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines?

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.

meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us

This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters

Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Automox Turnkey Results

Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com

 

 

Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes

 

See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here


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.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

Official website RSS
youtubetelegramspotifypatreon
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
Podcast Episodes
Linux After Dark – Episode 109 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:25
How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite location. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes…
2.5 Admins 274: Go Go Gadget Windows [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:15
Windows is becoming an “agentic OS”, some WD SMR drives are dying prematurely, backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted devices on your network. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RS…
Late Night Linux – Episode 360 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:57
We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense. News Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve Say hi to Kit Introducing…
Linux Dev Time – Episode 137 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:12
What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes someti…
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 43 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:08
We dig into the recent major AWS outage, why a misconfiguration in one region called global issues, and whether there’s anything you can do to avoid being affected by a similar incident in the future. Gary mentioned an A…
2.5 Admins 273: Reliability Tracking [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:58
Allan tells us about the recent OpenZFS Summit including inconsistent JBODs, more details about mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard that allows you to keep using partially dead hard drives, Seagate…
Ask The Hosts – Episode 30 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:00
The skills we wish we had (but accept we never will), what we are most scared of and if we’d confront it for money, and whether free will exists. With May, Chris, and Gary from Linux After Dark. Patrons got this this in…
Linux Matters 68: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 29:19
In this episode: Alan dusts off his newsletter. Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-s…
Late Night Linux – Episode 359 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:48
What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bu…
Linux After Dark – Episode 108 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:15
Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use. Su…

«1...5678910»