Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.



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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that’s been widely criticized by astronomers

Feels like all of us need to pay way more attention to the new rules affecting EU and US folk, requiring all new cars to include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face



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Having seen some technologies come to a definite end, Chris wonders if we should be willing to draw a line under open source software sometimes.



















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Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.



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Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right



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Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you’re in the EU

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

IncusOS

Incus



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Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.





News

Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date

OpenMandriva Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

KDE at 30

















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With an increase in the number of security bugs being disclosed irresponsibly, we dig into how the process should work, the differences between normal bugs and security bugs, the complexities of coordinating patches, the human issues involved, and more.











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