Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.



News/discussion

Ardour 9.0 — What’s new

Linkedin-extension-fingerprinting

AI controls are coming to Firefox

Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

















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With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice?















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Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a laptop properly.



Plugs

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ZFS vs Btrfs: Architecture, Features, and Stability



News/discussion

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fas

Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys



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We were asked about backing up a laptop properly.



















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The best museums we’ve been to, the people we admire, and our weirdest train journeys. With Gary from Linux After Dark.









Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.

Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and friends are cooking up something (but it’s not exactly clear what that is), KDE Linux is progressing nicely, and more. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.



News

Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

Xfwl4 (Xfce’s Wayland Compositor) FAQ

Xubuntu Development Update February 2026

Sudo’s maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated

Ikea’s new Matter smart home devices are having connection problems

Introducing Amutable

Busy months in KDE Linux















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