The first steps to move away from a “pets” mindset and towards automation and infrastructure as code, why we use a lot of abstraction at home, and how to use your homelab to improve your employment prospects. With guest host Joe Ressington from Late Night Linux.

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McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.

Plug

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News/discussion

How I Hacked McDonald’s

Seagate Uncovers Global Scheme That Sold 1 Million Used Drives as New

# smartctl -l farm /dev/sdx

Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to avenge his firing 

Woman gets 8 years for aiding North Koreans infiltrate 300 US firms

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We were asked about ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.

Introduction to ZFSBootMenu

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What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which Joe has also had for about 7 months, and a quick KDE Korner.

News/disccussion

The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one

‘Ad Blocking is Not Piracy’ Decision Overturned By Top German Court

Foldable phone

Graham has just bought a Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Joe has had his for about 7 months. It’s chunky, fragile, but really cool. Especially for reading, playing old games, and using ssh. Graham mentioned a screenshot of his old phone and Will mentioned a photo that Graham took of the new phone.

KDE Korner

KDE Gear 25.08 & Kdenlive

Karton Update

Getting Ready for Akademy

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It’s the £20 Linux machine challenge! This time the rules are stricter: no adding storage and RAM. It turns out that if you try really hard, you can buy a really nice Linux computer on a seriously low budget.

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Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.

Plugs

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ZFS Basecamp Launch: A Panel with the People Behind ZFS

News/discussion

A new layer of security for certified Android devices

US government takes 10 percent stake in Intel in exchange for money it was already on the hook for

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The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably coming to Android, Thunderbird shares more details of their paid services and we are interested, and PuTTY has a great new domain name.

News

It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges

these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!

Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

putty.software

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We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can be real differences between them. Or at least once upon a time there were differences.

Vibe coders are in for a shock. Writing code was never that hard.

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

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What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps?

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Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays.

Plugs

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FreeBSD Summer Roundup: Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure

News/discussion

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference

Jim’s AI nightmare

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We were asked about configuring all-flash arrays.

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