#late-night-linux — Public Fediverse posts
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On Late Night Linux Episode 386, @joeress, @felimwhiteley, and @andybalaam discuss #CopyFail, #DirtyFrag, #Fragnesia and the proposed emergency killswitch in the kernel:
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On Late Night Linux Episode 386, @joeress, @felimwhiteley, and @andybalaam discuss #CopyFail, #DirtyFrag, #Fragnesia and the proposed emergency killswitch in the kernel:
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@felimwhiteley I appreciated the vehemence of your position on AI coding tools as expressed on today's #LateNightLinux: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-383/
Are you aware if @degville and Will (is he on the Fediverse?) have read any of Ed Zitron's exhaustive analysis¹ of the completely insane ways in which the leading LLM coding assistant companies are setting money on fire? For each dollar subscribers spend, the LLM companies are subsidising by up to $15. The business model is unsustainable. We're looking at a scam on a scale similar to FTX.
(Lastly, these arguments aren't pointless, as the shownotes lament. The future is not fixed. We must resist the deskilling of our craft and the inevitability narrative pushed by the deeply unpleasant people behind this technology.)
1: https://www.wheresyoured.at/, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdzuPs5NKvdsBkQnP7Af8w
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@felimwhiteley I appreciated the vehemence of your position on AI coding tools as expressed on today's #LateNightLinux: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-383/
Are you aware if @degville and Will (is he on the Fediverse?) have read any of Ed Zitron's exhaustive analysis¹ of the completely insane ways in which the leading LLM coding assistant companies are setting money on fire? For each dollar subscribers spend, the LLM companies are subsidising by up to $15. The business model is unsustainable. We're looking at a scam on a scale similar to FTX.
(Lastly, these arguments aren't pointless, as the shownotes lament. The future is not fixed. We must resist the deskilling of our craft and the inevitability narrative pushed by the deeply unpleasant people behind this technology.)
1: https://www.wheresyoured.at/, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsdzuPs5NKvdsBkQnP7Af8w
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@degville Just heard the opening of the latest episode of #LateNightLinux and got very curious on the Amiga network card. Which one, for what machine etc?
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@degville Just heard the opening of the latest episode of #LateNightLinux and got very curious on the Amiga network card. Which one, for what machine etc?
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Joe Ressington
online, Saturday, February 14 at 02:00 AM UTC
Special Guest: @[email protected]
13/02/2026 21:00 UTC -5
Head of the Late Night Linux Family of podcasts. I mostly get paid to talk to my friends about computers which is nice. It seems I was radicalised by basic decency.
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The Network Survey tool on my phone has already been useful. Thanks for the tip #latenightlinux!
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The Network Survey tool on my phone has already been useful. Thanks for the tip #latenightlinux!
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Also borrowed some time to shovel snow for an hour. It's actually an activity I enjoy quite a bit (until about mid-March). I'm usually listening to an audiobook but thanks to #LateNightLinux for keeping me company today.
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Also borrowed some time to shovel snow for an hour. It's actually an activity I enjoy quite a bit (until about mid-March). I'm usually listening to an audiobook but thanks to #LateNightLinux for keeping me company today.
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CW: Year-end summary of podcast listening
Average Linux enjoyer:
Also I devours shows from #lateNightLinux and #coolZoneMedia
#AntennaPodEcho #podcast #securityNow #linuxUnplugged #techOverTea #mimirOgMarsdal #twit
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After hearing about https://immich.app/ on the #LateNightLinux podcast several times, I decided last week to set up a server and import the whole "take out" of photos we had on Google Photos.
The task took several days between downloading the whole takeout (around 760 GB) uploading and processing it.
Once downloaded and unzipped, uploading to immich was fine, thanks to the command-line tool.
Two things to keep in mind: (continued)
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After hearing about https://immich.app/ on the #LateNightLinux podcast several times, I decided last week to set up a server and import the whole "take out" of photos we had on Google Photos.
The task took several days between downloading the whole takeout (around 760 GB) uploading and processing it.
Once downloaded and unzipped, uploading to immich was fine, thanks to the command-line tool.
Two things to keep in mind: (continued)
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@plwt Mostly word of mouth of colleagues and friends, via podcasts (specifically the #LateNightLinux family) and then here on Mastodon.
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@plwt Mostly word of mouth of colleagues and friends, via podcasts (specifically the #LateNightLinux family) and then here on Mastodon.
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@jimsalter finally a face with the voice ✌️😏 #LateNightLinux 🫶
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@jimsalter finally a face with the voice ✌️😏 #LateNightLinux 🫶
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Google Extreme Enshitfication 🤬
Hi @JoeRess with regards of the episode 333 of #latenightlinux you should really read this testimony about further #Google #enshitfication through #AI.
Personally this explains why I am not getting any organic search to my personal small business website I launched a couple of months ago.
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@LateNightLinux did episode 332 of #latenightlinux get high-jacked by a MAGA AI at 00:29:45 -
Was #latenightlinux hacked? I listened to the latest episode and at the end there was a long anti British anti Muslim rant in a fake accent. WTF? Episode 332, downloaded with antennapod from the all episodes channel. @joeress
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So so true! #FreeOurFeeds but not based on bsky!
Listen here:
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes: Late Night Linux – Episode 318Episode webpage: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-318/
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/latenightlinux/LNL318.mp3
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Today I must thank @JoeRess, I was listening episode 312 of #LateNightLinux and he talked about this Intel m100 and I found an interesting mini pc same size of an OrangePi 5 ultra I ordered two days ago...
I closed that order and ordered this mini PC that costed lesser than the OrangePi, plus it comes already equipped with the case, the fan, the M2 sata disk, and the power supply, not bad.
And, since it is an X86 machine, the chance to install #FreeBSD or #NetBSD are higher (🤞) and the whole process is lesser convoluted that flashing any ARM image.
I look forward to put the hands on it! 🤓
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As many readers of my blog may know, I’m one-third of a long-running weekly podcast, Games at Work dot Biz (when I’m available to record) – and, I also consume a fair number of other audio shows myself.
The quest for an app
My usual pattern of consumption is during travel: train, plane or car, with the latter being the most frequent over the past couple of years, traveling to and from the maker studio. My daily driver devices are pretty much all Apple1 (iPhone, Mac, iPad, AirPods, Watch, the whole shebang). I’ve mostly been using Apple Podcasts for years, despite knowing that it has had a terrible reputation amongst podcast power consumers. The power of defaults…
It has been… fine… it keeps a list of shows I’m interested in, and mostly seems to get the synchronisation of listening progress correct across my iCloud devices.
The teeth-grinding issue it has, though, is interaction with other apps. I typically use Waze for driving directions, and every time the voice directions cut in, the Podcasts app will pause and then skip back an… indeterminate number of seconds before resuming. I’m not kidding – sometimes it will be 2 seconds, sometimes, as much as two or three minutes and I’m re-listening to a chunk of audio I’ve already consumed.
I decided enough was enough, and went on a hunt for a replacement. Three critical requirements – CarPlay support, good sync between apps and devices, and import from Apple Podcasts – and one nice-to-have, which was a Mac app for listening at my desktop. I was already aware of the names of the three most likely contenders: Castro, Overcast, and Pocket Casts. In fact, I already had the first two of these installed, so I’d obviously toyed with them both in the past.
Apple Podcasts does not offer a way to directly export an OPML file (a list of podcasts you’re subscribed to), but there are a variety of Shortcuts that purport to do this.
To my surprise, I didn’t see a quick way to get my OPML file into Overcast – maybe I was driving it wrong, but when I couldn’t figure that out, I gave up there, and uninstalled it.
Castro seemingly let me import the list of podcasts, but took a really long time to do so and defaulted to trying to download everything. Also uninstalled.
Pocket Casts, then. I’ll say this up-front: I’m presently out of love with Automattic, who own the app, for reasons I may write about another day, but knowing all of that, I am willing to give this a go.
I’m impressed so far. It provides its own Shortcut to automate the export-from-Podcasts, import-to-Pocket Casts process, and that worked flawlessly. I then went through my (lengthy) list and unchecked shows that have ended or that I’m no longer listening to, and got myself back on track with how I want things added to my listening queue. The app has an impressive array of options around managing podcast storage, playback, and more. I’m relatively sure that I don’t need the premium features, so that keeps me at equal cost to the Apple Podcasts option. It performed flawlessly in the car this morning, and looks tremendously similar to my earlier app choice on the CarPlay interface. I think I’ll be using this for the foreseeable future.
Some recent appearances
An update on where I’ve been appearing on other shows. I’ve got a couple of news items here (drop me a line if you’d be interested to talk to me on your podcast).
- I was interviewed for Open Source Stories back in the summer, and that interview has just been published. It’s a discussion of my experiences helping Open Source software projects with their communities and contributions over time. You can read this online, or listen to the conversation as a podcast. I’m a big fan of amanda and julia who make Open Source Stories, and it was an honour to talk with amanda about my career.
- This week, I was a guest on FLOSS Weekly, the long-running Open Source podcast – it was originally on the TWiT network, and early last year moved over to be hosted by Hackaday, which is one of my favourite sites and communities online. I talked all about the new Mastodon 4.3 release, along with a bunch of other things related to the Fediverse. You can watch the show on YouTube (especially if you want to see the Mastodon plushie!), or you can listen to it in your podcast app of choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TH4uKfE0bA
Oh, and a note to end on is that after OggCamp at the weekend, I’m more excited than ever about the various podcast and audio communities that exist in the Open Source space. I’m really grateful to Gary and Joe from the Late Night Linux family of shows for helping to drive OggCamp forward this year. It was also really nice to re-connect with Ken from Hacker Public Radio, and to continue conversations with fans of other free culture podcasts as well.
- FWIW I heavily use a variety of other systems, mostly Linux (MNT Pocket Reform, Framework, various Raspberry Pi servers etc) and Windows as well. Apple stuff is the day-to-day, less fun, though. ↩︎
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https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/10/17/podcasting-updates/
#100DaysToOffload #Apple #apps #audio #carplay #community #fediverse #flossWeekly #hackerPublicRadio #iOS #lateNightLinux #Linux #mastodon #openSource #openSourceStories #pocketCasts #podcast #podcaster #podcasting
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As many readers of my blog may know, I’m one-third of a long-running weekly podcast, Games at Work dot Biz (when I’m available to record) – and, I also consume a fair number of other audio shows myself.
The quest for an app
My usual pattern of consumption is during travel: train, plane or car, with the latter being the most frequent over the past couple of years, traveling to and from the maker studio. My daily driver devices are pretty much all Apple1 (iPhone, Mac, iPad, AirPods, Watch, the whole shebang). I’ve mostly been using Apple Podcasts for years, despite knowing that it has had a terrible reputation amongst podcast power consumers. The power of defaults…
It has been… fine… it keeps a list of shows I’m interested in, and mostly seems to get the synchronisation of listening progress correct across my iCloud devices.
The teeth-grinding issue it has, though, is interaction with other apps. I typically use Waze for driving directions, and every time the voice directions cut in, the Podcasts app will pause and then skip back an… indeterminate number of seconds before resuming. I’m not kidding – sometimes it will be 2 seconds, sometimes, as much as two or three minutes and I’m re-listening to a chunk of audio I’ve already consumed.
I decided enough was enough, and went on a hunt for a replacement. Three critical requirements – CarPlay support, good sync between apps and devices, and import from Apple Podcasts – and one nice-to-have, which was a Mac app for listening at my desktop. I was already aware of the names of the three most likely contenders: Castro, Overcast, and Pocket Casts. In fact, I already had the first two of these installed, so I’d obviously toyed with them both in the past.
Apple Podcasts does not offer a way to directly export an OPML file (a list of podcasts you’re subscribed to), but there are a variety of Shortcuts that purport to do this.
To my surprise, I didn’t see a quick way to get my OPML file into Overcast – maybe I was driving it wrong, but when I couldn’t figure that out, I gave up there, and uninstalled it.
Castro seemingly let me import the list of podcasts, but took a really long time to do so and defaulted to trying to download everything. Also uninstalled.
Pocket Casts, then. I’ll say this up-front: I’m presently out of love with Automattic, who own the app, for reasons I may write about another day, but knowing all of that, I am willing to give this a go.
I’m impressed so far. It provides its own Shortcut to automate the export-from-Podcasts, import-to-Pocket Casts process, and that worked flawlessly. I then went through my (lengthy) list and unchecked shows that have ended or that I’m no longer listening to, and got myself back on track with how I want things added to my listening queue. The app has an impressive array of options around managing podcast storage, playback, and more. I’m relatively sure that I don’t need the premium features, so that keeps me at equal cost to the Apple Podcasts option. It performed flawlessly in the car this morning, and looks tremendously similar to my earlier app choice on the CarPlay interface. I think I’ll be using this for the foreseeable future.
Some recent appearances
An update on where I’ve been appearing on other shows. I’ve got a couple of news items here (drop me a line if you’d be interested to talk to me on your podcast).
- I was interviewed for Open Source Stories back in the summer, and that interview has just been published. It’s a discussion of my experiences helping Open Source software projects with their communities and contributions over time. You can read this online, or listen to the conversation as a podcast. I’m a big fan of amanda and julia who make Open Source Stories, and it was an honour to talk with amanda about my career.
- This week, I was a guest on FLOSS Weekly, the long-running Open Source podcast – it was originally on the TWiT network, and early last year moved over to be hosted by Hackaday, which is one of my favourite sites and communities online. I talked all about the new Mastodon 4.3 release, along with a bunch of other things related to the Fediverse. You can watch the show on YouTube (especially if you want to see the Mastodon plushie!), or you can listen to it in your podcast app of choice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TH4uKfE0bA
Oh, and a note to end on is that after OggCamp at the weekend, I’m more excited than ever about the various podcast and audio communities that exist in the Open Source space. I’m really grateful to Gary and Joe from the Late Night Linux family of shows for helping to drive OggCamp forward this year. It was also really nice to re-connect with Ken from Hacker Public Radio, and to continue conversations with fans of other free culture podcasts as well.
- FWIW I heavily use a variety of other systems, mostly Linux (MNT Pocket Reform, Framework, various Raspberry Pi servers etc) and Windows as well. Apple stuff is the day-to-day, less fun, though. ↩︎
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https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/10/17/podcasting-updates/
#100DaysToOffload #Apple #apps #audio #carplay #community #fediverse #flossWeekly #hackerPublicRadio #iOS #lateNightLinux #Linux #mastodon #openSource #openSourceStories #pocketCasts #podcast #podcaster #podcasting
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Just listened to #LateNightLinux episode 300... I honestly think I'm the only person who misses Google Stadia! What killed it wasn't the lag, it was the bonkers pricing
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Left DOTA to setup on Linux before heading to work.
This after listening to the latest episode of @LateNightLinux on how gaming on Linux has evolved lately.
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Congratulations to @JoeRess and the entire @LateNightLinux team on their 300th episode!
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@shane ooh what are your favourite podcasts Shane?
Mine are mostly political or tech and I assume would bore most people: #LateNightLinux, #BigPicture, #Macrodose, #Deconstructed, #OnTheMedia, #TechPolicyPress, #PoliticsTheoryOther, #factually.
Always looking for more good ones 😊
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One of the #LateNightLinux hosts was into #immich but I don't remember who. They were bought or have funding or something from #FUTO.
Hopefully it keeps going well for them.
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@gisiger
I know I've heard the guys from @LateNightLinux talk about something like on the #latenightlinux podcast, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. -
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Recently I have been listening to plenty of Late Night Linux podcasts. I like them because they’re half an hour long, the adverts are half way through the show, and in general I don’t feel that they’re filling time to fill one and a half hours of podcast time.
Plenty of other podcasts last for an hour and a half or more, which if you listen to one episode a week is okay, but I don’t do that. I find a podcast that I like and I listen to the most recent episodes and then I listen to them in chronological order. This takes a lot of time, but it also provides me with an evolutionary appreciation of how things have changed.
I want to listen to them in chronological order because I feel that they provide me with a timeline of what changed, when, and how people reacted to those challenges, as well as how this made them feel.
There are occasions where I skip episodes, either because I don’t like the topic, especially for Linux Extra. In one case I got annoyed because they spoke about “We weren’t taught A in school” or “we weren’t taught b in school”. I was never taught how to use a computer. I learned by trial and error, after trial and error, after trial and error. I learned by RTFM if I got stuck, but also by experimenting. I only RTFM if I get stuck.
Online Learning
I have paid for Lynda.com which then became Linkedin Learning and I have paid for courses on Udemy and Coursera but that’s courses that I chose to study, rather than formal tuition.
Self Taught Editing
I was never taught how to use Final Cut Pro, or Adobe Premiere, or Avid Media Composer. I learned by having a PC with Adobe Premiere on my computer at home. I learned to edit tape to tape on a DHR-1000 editing deck. I learned to edit with FCP because that’s what we had at uni. I don’t remember whether we had it in Weymouth and Harrow, or just Harrow. It’s two decades ago.
With Avid I spent half a day trying to figure out how to do a simple edit. I eventually figured out that you mark in where you want a video to end and out where you want the next one to start, cut, and then your edit is done. It’s the type of editor where you do everything with keyboard shortcuts so it’s very fast, once you learn how to use it.
That’s why I hate the notion of “I wasn’t taught it at school so I don’t know how it works. I experimented with Linux in the 90s because Windows was constantly getting virused, so I eventually switched to Linux, and then windows, to linux, to mac, and then back to Linux.
Sunset Mac Book Pro
In Autumn of this year my Mac will no longer be supported by Apple. It already isn’t supported for Final Cut Pro X. I can use an older version, but no longer the latest versions.
NixOS and PhotoPrism
Recently I heard plenty of mentions of NixOS in one podcast so I installed and experimented with the OS and it took a while for me to be able to do anything but eventually, yesterday, I got PhotoPrism to work. I installed mysql/MariaDB and PhotoPrism, but I had to setup mariaDB to play nicely with PhotoPrism. I had to do that part manually. Eventually an old HP laptop running NixOS was running PhotoPrism and I was able to transfer photos from my mobile phone to the laptop and it felt extremely fast, compared to the same experiment on a Pi 4 and Pi5.
And Finally
In the past when listening to other podcasts I have found that they are more enjoyable. They’re shorter. They’re edited, and they have fewer adverts. As you get up to date with podcasts adverts become longer, and more intrusive. I stopped listening to a few podcasts just because I got so tired of listening to adverts. I could skip them, but when you’re walking you don’t want to skip the first minute or two.
At the moment I find that I learn a lot from a variety of podcasts about Linux, and if they’re half an hour long then that’s perfect. My walks are one and a half hours long. It’s because they have less time for off topic chatter in short podcasts.
https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/listening-to-podcasts-while-walking/
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@chadmccullough The projects/people I personally support:
#Slackware
#Mastodon
#LateNightLinux
#PhysicsGirl
@dansup
#NeonAI
#OVOS
#HomeAssistantand of course #Fosstodon.
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The #LateNightLinux podcasts are looking for a new host. I think we should get a #BSD person to infiltrate them.
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I need to remember to use https://librespeed.org/ instead of #speedtest next time. Thanks #latenightlinux ;-)
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Switched to the #LateNightLinux ad-free URL.
I will miss @JoeRess reading out some of the ads tho.