Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

A recent attack shone a light on some of the problems with GitHub Actions, and CI/CD more generally. As tempting as it might be, going back to shell scripts probably isn’t the answer.



1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack

2.5 Admins 292: Trivyally Infected













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Hitting the limit for hard links, a parent struggles to get back into their teen’s compromised Discord account, the demise of tower PCs and general purpose computing in general, and changing the properties of existing ZFS pools.



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Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS



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How Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke ext4 Hardlinks

Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord

Apple’s last tower topples… and the others will follow



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Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.



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Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one

















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Chris ended up with a managed M4 Macbook Air at work with no sudo or root. So how does a Linux user get on with his first ever Mac? Turns out pretty well, thanks to lots of open source software and a terminal.















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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.



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Do More with Less: Cost-Efficient Storage on the New TrueNAS with Enhanced Fast Dedup

The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware



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Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

Action Required: Account Verification for Windows Hardware Program Begins October 16, 2025

FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn’t explain why

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data



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