Displaying all 5 Episode of LINUX Unplugged with the tag “xz”.
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647: Plausibly Postulated Prophecies
December 28th, 2025 | 1 hr 35 mins
2025 prediction, 2026 prediction, adhd is awesome, aeon, audio visualizer, bcachefs, bridge, butane, cava, cavalier, config confessions, damn small linux, debian, declarative configuration, eilmeldung, hyprvibe, i switched to linux, ignition, jupiter broadcasting, kalpa, kubernetes, lightspeed, linux foundation, linux kernel 7, linux market share, linux podcast, linux predictions, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, llm, medium term listener, molly, nas, nixos, nvidia, open source, opensuse, oss vulnerability, pewdiepie, predictions, proton, proton 10.0, red hat, refurbushed hardware, risc-v, rss, rss reader, rust, signal, steam, steam deck, steam harware survey, texas cyber summit, tui interface, tui rss reader, ubuntu, ubuntu core desktop, ubuntu desktop, used hardware, valve, wayland, wine, xz, youtube distro, zbridge
We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.
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568: All Your Silos are Broken
June 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 21 mins
amethyst, awesome-nostr, blogstack, btc prague, commercial identity, cryptography, decentralized web, distrobox, distrobox-assemble, ditto, gathio, gnupg, highlighter, hivetalk, id, jia tan, jupiter broadcasting, ladybird, lightning, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nips, nix drinking game, nixos, nosta, nostr, nostr nook, notes and other stuff transmitted by relays, open source zealot, openpgp, ostrgit, pgp, piper, primal, relays, relevance glue, satlantis, squid, starship, stirling-pdf, sudo flame war, systemd, systemd run0, text to speech, tts, web of trust, wikifreedia, world coin, xz, xz backdoor, xz utils, yana, zap.stream, zsh, ⚡
Online identity is a ticking time bomb. Are trustworthy, open-source solutions ready to disarm it? Or will we be stuck with lackluster, proprietary systems?
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567: So Long sudo
June 16th, 2024 | 1 hr 31 mins
256, arm, beelink, berlin meetup, berlin with brent, bitfocus companion, cgroups, doas, father's day, homed-managed, importctl, iotas, ipod, jupiter broadcasting, lenovo thinkpad x13s, liblzma, linux arm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nextcloud conference, nextcloud notes, nix drinking game, nix-darwin, nix-direnv, norwich meetup, ntp challenge, omakub, portable service, qualcomm, rockbox os, run0, snapdragon, spokane meetup, squid, ssh, sudo, suid, system v, systemd, systemd sleep, systemd-nspawn, systemd-run0, systemd-vmspawn, systemd-vpick, the tragedy of systemd, ubuntu, v2⁸, xscreensaver for android, xz
Your Linux box is a-changin'. systemd has a huge new release; we'll get into the most impressive features, including the new sudo replacement. Plus, our thoughts on the new Linux Arm laptops that are just around the corner.
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557: Crouching kexec, Hidden Linux
April 7th, 2024 | 59 mins 17 secs
btrfs, core rope memory, dns, encryption, floppy disk, hiddenvm, home assistant, homekit, jupiter broadcasting, kexec, lightning network, lightspark, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos, nostr, nvdimm, persistent memory, plausible deniability, pmem, ram disk, security, shufflecake, subvolumes, tails, truecrypt, veracrypt, virtualbox, xz
We're building a completely hidden Linux OS inside an existing system—with no trace left behind.
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556: The xz Backdoor Exposed 🚨
March 31st, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
alpine, arch linux, backdoor, burnout, compression libraries, debian, fedora, gentoo, humint, jia tan, jupiter broadcasting, kali linux, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos, open source, openssh, opensuse, remote code execution, systemd, transparency, trust model, ubuntu, xz
We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker.