Joe Ressington

Head of the Late Night Linux Family of podcasts https://latenightlinux.com/about/
The Late Night Linux Family (npub1ft3…0lyw)

I mostly get paid to talk to my friends about computers which is nice.

Website: https://joeress.com/about
My music on Bandcamp: https://joeressington.bandcamp.com/

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2025-04-24 17:58:03 UTC

Great job, AI. Great job.
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2025-04-21 22:41:24 UTC

I know some educators follow me and I have a question for you: what are you doing about the use of LLMs for essays and assignments? In a world of "plagiarism checkers" and "humanizers", presumably it's very hard to prove that students haven't done the work that they are handing in. It must be fairly obvious though. Are there moves to change how students are assessed? Or have you all just given up? Have you started using LLMs to read and mark the "work" that students claim to have done?

2025-04-17 17:21:14 UTC

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2025-03-26 03:39:35 UTC

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My original post is sponsored by the second mistake in 2 days that I've just found by doing a full listen back.

2025-03-25 00:52:38 UTC

There are many reasons why I've managed to get into the absurd situation where I get paid to talk to my friends about computers, but one of the most important ones (I think) is that I take the time to listen back to every episode before it is published. This adds time to the process, but it's worth it for so many reasons.
If you make a podcast and can't be bothered to listen to it, why on earth would you expect anyone else to listen to it?

2025-03-19 05:11:24 UTC

It's a bit weird that the everything device ended up being named after the one function that most people dread using.

2025-03-07 16:14:17 UTC

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yeah we were planning to cover it.

2025-02-23 23:23:10 UTC

@npub1d62…rhjw your site is on this list but it's not blocked for me on Virgin or Three. Do you know anything about it?
https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/

2025-02-19 05:32:47 UTC

Do you ever get the feeling that you're on the wrong side of the moment, but on the right side of history?

2025-02-03 02:03:28 UTC

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2025-02-01 06:37:43 UTC

This an absolutely fascinating and compelling explanation of why 4:3 is becoming a more and more popular aspect ratio for videos on the Internet. We lost a decade to 9:16 vertical video that should have been 3:4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBTc7eZ-Pyc

2025-01-27 17:16:37 UTC

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you're worried that politics might be creeping into a show about FOSS which is an inherently political movement within tech? The divisive nature? Well I'm happy to be divided from people doing Nazi salutes on national TV and the idiots following them.
Did the brexit jokes we've been making since the beginning somehow go over your head?

2024-12-05 16:29:00 UTC

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people aren't going to just throw them away the second security updates stop appearing. They'll use Windows 10 for months or years beyond the deadline in blissful ignorance. Then when their machine "breaks" they'll go and buy a Windows 11 machine.

2024-11-22 01:30:34 UTC

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you accidentally the word app

2024-11-17 01:21:22 UTC

Techbros who believe (or more likely just claim as part of the grift) that their "AI" will become sentient AGI real soon now™ are the equivalent of idiots like me claiming that my podcasts are works of art that can rival Shakespeare or Mozart.
(my shows are mostly just a bunch of friends talking about computers and making dumb jokes)

2024-11-06 19:36:19 UTC

The Large Hadron Collider first went live on 10 September 2008. 5 days later Lehman Brothers collapsed, we had a full-blown financial crisis, and all this started. It all goes back to the LHC. It's the only explanation for this darkest of all timelines.

2024-11-06 06:31:23 UTC

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echo "Trump is going to win. I don't want it to happen and it sucks, but it's what will happen. Sorry." | sha256sum
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I really didn't want to be right about this. :(

2024-11-05 22:13:42 UTC

A good day to bury bad news. 😬
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/

2024-10-24 23:36:24 UTC

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2024-10-13 22:47:57 UTC

So @npub1kp3…pqjs is well and truly over for this year, but I'm pretty sure I'll be back next time. It's been great to catch up with old friends, and to meet loads of new ones. It means so much to me when people I don't know thank me for making the podcasts, even if I'm bad at showing that appreciation.
We all showed up, the speakers shared valuable knowledge and sparked new ideas, and the crew made it all run without friction. But @npub1vyd…wkgn made this happen by stepping up and taking charge. ❤️

2024-09-10 19:01:30 UTC

We've moved the Late Night Linux Family Mastodon account to @npub1ft3…0lyw
If you were following the old account you should be following the new one and no action should be needed.
If this worked then it was remarkably easy. It's a shame that it's not possible to move the old posts over but the otherwise it was very smooth. All the benefits of open and federated platforms. 👍

2024-08-02 07:33:07 UTC

🤡🤡🤡
https://community.frame.work/t/framework-is-looking-for-linux-community-ambassadors/55344