In this episode:

• Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act.
• Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems.
  • keyshield – A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts.
  • archive-vbulletin-thread – A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums.
• Mark has been flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler.

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What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus a self-hostable workflow automation platform, simple systemd management, and Redshift on Xfce in Discoveries. Then we wonder why there seems to be less in the way of interesting Linux news these days.

Discoveries 

n8n

isd

redshift

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When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t quite enough to avoid going back to the Windows desktop.

Boomstick

Vesktop

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An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.

Plugs

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Klara Webinar, Feb 13th: RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery

News

MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

Free Consulting

We were asked about tricky offsite backups, why Two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.

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We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers.

News

Free Our Feeds

Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone

Plasma 6.3 beta 2 is out! and Season of KDE 2025

Foldable future?

Pixel 9 Pro Fold

Discoveries 

Hugin

Stratoshark

OuterTune

BarCamp Surrey

Laura and popey tell us about BarCamp Surrey

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Where is the balance between efficiency and openness when it comes to saved file formats? If everything was based on plain text it would make the files readable for years to come, but at what cost?

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In this episode we discuss some challenges around using and testing lower environments, how to easily run integration tests using Testcontainers, and some of the pitfalls around using GitOps to deploy your applications.

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Microsoft didn’t control an important domain that it was using and end up red-faced, the dangers of using free VPN apps, a proof of concept exploit is out for last year’s SSH vulnerability, USB is getting slightly less confusing labels, and swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.

News

Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft

VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network

PoC Exploit Released For OpenSSH Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

An updated USB logo will now mark the fastest docking stations

Free Consulting

We were asked about swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.

Entroware

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In this episode:

• Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career.
• Alan is organising BarCamp Surrey at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025.
• Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship.

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Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.

Molly’s personal website

[citation needed] newsletter

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes video

Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes article

Web3 Is Going Great

Best 2024 Discoveries

Thanks Matt for collating our discoveries

Will

Thingino

Motion

Spotify Car Thing

Graham

Osci-render

ink – inkle’s narrative scripting language

An IDE for retro game development 8bitworkshop

Synth of the year, https://github.com/aaronaanderson/Terrain

Felim

Pikchr

AITrack

Klevernotes & a very near taskfinder

Joe

InnerTune

StezStix Fix?

yt-dlp

Linux Mint 22

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We share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating Ubuntu, getting mad at Docker, trying to recover Microsoft passwords, building a PC over a video call, wireless access points that mostly just work, and more.

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