Instead of the news which is all either boring or grim, we’ve come up with a fun Linux-themed game show that’s definitely not completely fixed. Plus a great network tool, and what keeps us on Linux when most apps are available everywhere else.

Feedback

IMUNES

1Password

Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux

Unlocking the full potential of Nvidia graphics cards, hacking the otherwise bricked Spotify hardware device, Félim realised that his Borg backups could be significantly smaller, making wiring diagrams using text, silly terminal effects and colours, using a ThinkPad as a WiFi dongle, great lightweight distros for an ancient netbook, better Google searches, and more.

Discoveries

nvidia-patch

Hacking the Spotify Car Thing

borg compact

Terminal Text Effects

lolcat

WireViz

BunsenLabs

Batocera

Unsong

udm=14

Gruble

Automox

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New RISC-V and Arm Linux laptops are starting to pave the way for an exciting future, Mozilla makes another divisive acquisition, a couple of big anniversaries make us feel old, some quick KDE updates, and more.

News

World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu

Canonical Announce First RISC-V Laptop Running Ubuntu

Video of a Banana Pi with the same SoC

Significantly slower than a Pi 4

TUXEDO on ARM is coming

The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support

Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed

The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years

Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising

25 Years of Krita!

What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal!

KDE e.V. is looking for a contractor to coordinate the KDE Goals process

KDE Apps initiative

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Your favourite obscure open source software in Voice of the masses. Plus whether AI is a load of old rubbish, and even if it is useful for some things we have to ask ourselves: at what cost?

Voice of the masses

What’s the best open source app or utility that no one else has heard of?

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A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processing data and CSV files on the command line, controlling cycling workout gear and graphing your progress, and a top tip for following Mastodon accounts in a normal RSS feed reader.

News

Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox

Plasma 6.1 Beta out: Triple buffering, Wayland explicit sync & RDP access

Discoveries 

yt-dlp

miller

csvlens

GoldenCheetah

Flux

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We look back at what Linux and open source was like when we first got into it, and consider some of the ways that things have improved over all these years.

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The whole band is back together for the first time in a while and we’ve got “excellent” news that Raspberry Pi is doing an IPO, another look at the Pi 5 after 6 months, our positive thoughts about Mozilla’s new Executive Director, Félim’s doubts about OSI’s attempt to define open source AI, a very quick bit of KDE news, and more.

News

Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers

Raspberry Pi Connect

M.2 HAT+ on sale now at $12

Raspberry Pi 5 Network OS Installer

Growing Our Movement — and Growing Mozilla — to Shape the AI Era

Mozilla Foundation Welcomes Nabiha Syed as Executive Director

Why I’m Joining Mozilla as Executive Director

The Open Source AI Definition gets closer to reality with a global workshop series

The Open Source AI Definition – draft v. 0.0.8

‘Openwashing’

HDR & Gamescope

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In the last ~10 years we’ve seen a lot of changes happen in the Linux and open source world. So what do we think will happen over the next decade? What about the future of the web? With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.

We can have a different web

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Ubuntu 24.04 is out and we have mixed feelings about it. Plus bad news for RISC-V, a new Linux distro might control safety systems in cars, a classic media player is back from the dead, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.

News

Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade

Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat

Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that really means it

Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers

RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback

US government reportedly ponders crimping China’s use of RISC-V

Amarok 3.0 “Castaway” released!

Akademy 2024, Würzburg and Online from Saturday 7th September to Thursday 12th September, Registration Open!

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What we all think counts as a non-mainstream distro, and some great examples of them in Voice of the masses. Plus ASCII maps in the terminal, another classic game is now open source, Arch on easy mode, a trip report from a nuclear power station, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

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Voice of the masses

What’s the best non-mainstream Linux distro?

Distrowatch is Not a Measure of Popularity

Discoveries

mapscii

Descent 3

Sizewell B

EndeavourOS

StezStix Fix?

More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers

Announcing the Open Home Foundation

tea.xyz causes open source software spam problems, again

A thread about people who need to run Windows

Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

How Japan’s space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon

NASA’s downed Ingenuity helicopter has a ‘last gift’ for humanity — but we’ll have to go to Mars to get it

NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed

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How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds.

Voice of the masses

How do you keep your Linux systems secure?

News

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

Discoveries

rembg

Photopea

nvtop

Giada

OMG! Ubuntu article about login sound

Joe’s video of the laptop booting with the sound (play -v 0.9 –magic startup.ogg)

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There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year.

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Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux Family!

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How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide

backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

Everything I know about the XZ backdoor

research!rsc: Timeline of the xz open source attack

XZ threat actor Jia Tan’s change to libarchive which introduced an exploitable situation made it into Windows

New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary

The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind

Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update)

Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 224

I am not a supplier

OggCamp is happening later this year!

Gary gives us the details.

The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

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What’s the main reason you use open source software?

Discoveries 

PiKVM

Kitty

Pro-54 (live link here

cmajor

The Arch wiki knows all

Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

News

Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!

Stop the line?

Manual review of all new snap name registrations

KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user’s files

CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms – Krebs on Security

Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers

Introducing Didthis: A New App For Hobbyists

Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one

Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis

Apache Kvrocks

Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse

Threads has entered the fediverse

Fedi.Tips urges admins to defederate Threads

Switch emulator Suyu hit by GitLab DMCA, project lives on through self-hosting

World Server Throwing Championship (WSTC) 2024

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Entroware

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What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more.

Voice of the masses

What’s pulling you away from open source, and what will pull you back?

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Discoveries 

Telstar

ps_mem

cookiecutter

GPlates

Mirroring Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu

Home assistant remote control from your Garmin watch

Tiny Core Linux is still a thing

screenshot-to-code

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Kolide

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KDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source Switch emulator, Mozilla does another great thing for the Web, another reason to hate Spotify, and more.

News

KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community

Megarelease Teething Problems

This week in KDE: a smooth release

Critical Plasma 6 piece on the Register

Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0

Nintendo’s Yuzu Lawsuit is All But Done. Price: $2.4m. Cost to Emulation: TBD

Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued

MDN Curriculum

Hosting your podcast using Spotify is a bad idea

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In a “brand new” segment we ask how you keep your kids safe online, and give our own thoughts. Plus Will tells us about a dirt cheap ham radio and the new way he sniffs Bluetooth traffic, Félim loves AI when it’s tracking his head, the open source way to control lighting rigs, a BBS-like interface to sites like Hacker News, yet another Spotify replacement, Damn Small Linux returns, and more.

Voice of the masses

How do you keep your kids safe online?

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Discoveries

Quansheng UVK5

AITrack

Neon Modem Overdrive

Open source lighting rig control with QLC+

envio

InnerTune

Damn Small Linux 2024

nRF Sniffer

Tailscale

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Automox

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The BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of Plasma 6 we let Félim do a short KDE Korner.

News

Stepping back into the refreshingly free world of Linux – The Irish Times

Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D

Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s

Mercedes-Benz AG – FOSS Manifesto

It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU

EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo

Anthony: “Not commenting the Mozilla lay…” – Indieweb.Social

Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy

New krita.org website launched

Kubuntu Graphic Design Contest

Wayland fake session restore and 805/500 supporters

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Automox

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An open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping, a static site generator for people migrating away from Bandcamp, hello world in every possible language, a synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope, why we are pretty down on macOS, and more.

Discoveries 

spotube

AudioTube

Nuclear Reactor Simulator

trippy

Faircamp

Joe’s music

hello world

osci-render

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Great news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts,  the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, Xfce is finally moving towards Wayland, Kubuntu sticks with KDE 5 for the LTS, Mozilla makes changes at the top, and more.

News

Unattended updates for everyone, F-Droid 1.19 is here

The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement

Introducing Sudo for Windows!

Ubuntu Core Desktop Debut No Longer Planned for April

Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites [it’s white labelled like the VPN thing]

A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future

Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility

KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04

Frameworks 5.115.0

KDE 6 is so close!

15 min bug update

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Chris from ExplainingComputers joins us to discuss his Promoting Linux: An End-User Manifesto video. We talk about being an advocate and not a gatekeeper, being tolerant of other people’s choices, accepting that not everyone can use Linux, spreading the word that Linux has improved over the years, contributing where you can, and more. Plus why the Raspberry Pi bubble has burst, and the present and future of RISC-V.

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Apple does the bare minimum required to allow other browser engines and sideloading on iOS, which isn’t the good news for Firefox and open source that we hoped it would be. Plus the Mars helicopter has flown for the last time, Microsoft hands FOSS a great opportunity to stand out on privacy, Ubuntu annoys yet more users, the mystery of the new Firefox package, and more.

News

RAWRLAB Games – Announcement of free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more

It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew

Ubuntu Pro Packages in ‘Software Updater’ Garner Criticism

Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service

4 reasons to try Mozilla’s new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives

Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox – Open Policy & Advocacy

Apple, the DMA, and malicious compliance

Understanding Apple’s Response to the DMA

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A Pi-hole PSA, an open source release of a classic game, making flow charts with markdown, resizing loads of animated gifs, writing a script to get free electricity, a dirt cheap travel router, a simple game exposes an issue with Firefox’s extreme privacy settings, rock solid proof that Linux market share is doing well, and more.

Discoveries

Update your Pi-hole lists

Amazon Fire TV block list

pioneer

pikchr

OpenWRT-based GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (travel wifi router)

pipeinstall

Gifsicle

Scraping gmail messages

1D Pacman

Feedback

KonstKang

PH stats

Kolide

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Félim gets angry about someone criticising desktop Linux, Snaps are going to be better on distros that aren’t Ubuntu, Mozilla wants to lead the way in making AI open, OpenAI admits it doesn’t have a legal business model, and Plasma 6 is almost here.

News

Dublin Linux Install fest Sat Feb 3

What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks

Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions

The World Of Web Browsers Is In A Bad Way

What’s next for Mozilla?

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

How Microsoft found a potential new battery material using AI – The Verge

Plasma 6 RC1

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The easy way to control Home Assistant from anywhere while also supporting the project, running LLMs with a single local file, learning and practising security and admin concepts in a fun game, giving in and using an Amazon stick to watch TV, getting the most out of Bash, and how we host the show’s website and MP3s.

Discoveries

Nabu Casa

llamafile

OverTheWire Wargames

Fire TV Stick 4K Max with VLC and Jellyfin

SmartTube

oh-my-bash

Feedback

WordPress

Libsyn

PowerPress

Hugo

castanet

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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2023 predictions, and make some new ones for 2024.

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What would we do to make the Internet and the Web better? Various hosts from the Late Night Linux Family shows offer their answers. With guest hosts Gary and Chris from Linux After Dark, Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.

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It’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, and some tough love for Mozilla.

Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time!

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Will’s post that made it to Hacker News etc

2023 News

Good news

Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight

Maverick Mars chopper has survived way past its warranty – now it’s time for a sequel

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible

Gaming

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS

Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community

Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more

Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks

Graham talked about his Steam Deck OLED on LNL258

Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November

Enshittification

Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD

LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

Incus 0.1 has been released

LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA

Incorrect license information for the LXD snap

Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know

We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.

We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan

Fedora Program Manager layed off (what that role was)

Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future

What Reddit Got Wrong

Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program

Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

Fediverse

Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

Mozilla

Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge

Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI

A quarter century of Mozilla

Firefox’s protection against fingerprinting

Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup

Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet

New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android

Introducing Solo, an AI website builder for solopreneurs

Kolide

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Google’s war on ad-blockers is potentially really good news for Firefox, and so are mobile extensions. Plus another quick terminal tip, a VM advent calendar, extreme synth geekery, your feedback on backing up photos, a plea to stop telling us about syncthing, and more.

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Discoveries

tail -F

QEMU advent Calendar

CS80 interactive diagram

Most followed Mastodon accounts

News

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google’s war on ad blockers

Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

privacy not included | Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter

Open extensions on Firefox for Android debut December 14 (but you can get a sneak peek today

Feedback

syncthing

Syncopoli

Backing up my Android photos with rsync

Immich

FolderSync

Our first impressions of two new hot bits of hardware – the Steam Deck OLED, and the Raspberry Pi 5. Plus great news for self-hosted webmail, a call to support open source AI/ML image processing, and a mini KDE Korner.

News

Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family

Vulns expose ownCloud admin passwords, sensitive data

ownCloud vulnerability with maximum 10 severity score comes under “mass” exploitation

Where Is OpenCV 5?

Steam Deck OLED

Graham answers our questions about his new Steam Deck OLED

Raspberry Pi 5

Joe answers our questions about his new Raspberry Pi 5

Mini KDE Korner

Could have been Graham

Freezing in Style

DigiKam Windows revival and 8.2.0 release

KItinaryAnd two weeks of KDE6 features and fixes

Kolide

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An improvement to apt, a quick terminal tip, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, an M1 Macbook Asahi update, a self-hosted way to bypass paywalls, making native apps out of web pages, bridging Zigbee devices to MQTT, a terrible way to back up photos and videos from a phone, Félim learns about HDMI standards, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

Discoveries

nala

btsnoop logs in Android

zigbee2mqtt

ladder

pake

Entroware

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A new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for GNOME, Signal tells us how expensive it is to run its service, GitHub goes all in on Copilot, our speculation about the OpenAI drama, and a mini KDE Korner. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more

Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks

Amazon has begun replacing Android with its own software on some products

GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive

Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot

Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Mini KDE Korner

HDR Support merged in kwin, Breeze overhaul and Presentation mode & LOTS of bugfixes & updates

Kolide

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Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to get notifications, M1 Macbook Air problems, an epic ThinkPad collection, and more.

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Discoveries

Control your Thinkpad light

Octopus Energy Home Assistant addon

ruff now has a formatter

ZSH profiling

pyTelegramBotAPI

ntfy.sh

Beyond Doubt

recent macOS bugs

Feedback

Christian’s ThinkPad collection

Fairphone

We imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. Plus mixed news in the RISC-V world, a glimmer of hope for desktop Linux on Arm, YouTube’s adblock tracking might be against the GDPR, and a micro KDE Korner.

Jim’s post about the empty WSL talk at the Ubuntu Summit.

News

The Risk of RISC-V: What’s Going on at SiFive?

Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What’s to Come

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

KDE 6 Funding Drive

KDE 6 Alpha approaches

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries 

archivebox.io

ia command for the Internet Archive

I, Voyager

Multi-column view in Mastodon

curl supports MQTT

wyrd (amoliths password thing)

WiFi QRCode Format

Cardinal

pdfarranger

Entroware

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A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more.

News

Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 release image translation incident – now resolved

Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible

Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers

Unity Announces Leadership Transition

How to download and install Linux

Android will now scan sideloaded apps for malware at install time

Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know!

GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

Holly the shaman artist

Become a Plasma 6 Supporter & KNotifications going on a diet

Kolide

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Open source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audio workstation releases, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, Joe joins the ThinkPad cult, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

Discoveries

LibreSpeed

Raspberry Pi iPad Pro Setup Simplified

elementary OS 7.1

Studio One DAW now available for Linux

bitwig/dawproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

Ardour 8.0 — What’s new

ISS Mimic

ThinkPad X270

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Our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 5 announcement, yet another nail in Xorg’s coffin, why we aren’t convinced by Google’s commitment to 7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8, praise for Mozilla(!), and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

News

Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5

Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5

GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support

Incus 0.1 has been released

Gmail unleashes “email emoji reactions” onto an unsuspecting world

The Pixel 8’s best new feature is guaranteed updates

Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless

Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

The Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives people to Godot, Valve is a good open source citizen, an easy way to pay people to work on small KDE features and fixes, and more.

With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support

Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users 

Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work

Jonathan Corbet surprised by the coverage

The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

A new maintainer will take over

Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program

Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding

Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding

Unity’s oldest community announces dissolution 

Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community

KDE Sponsored Work

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Sorting Python imports, searching open tabs and history etc in Firefox, configuring proprietary headsets on the command line, Fedora on an M1 Mac, digital archaeology, Slackware on easy mode, Félim fails at Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries

isort

Firefox search hints

HeadSetControl

Asahi Fedora

Abort Retry Fail

Another Abort Retry Fail

Webhook.site

Regolith 3.0

Feedback

Salix

Factor

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Kolide

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The Steam Deck pushes Linux gaming stats over a small but significant threshold, why you should definitely switch from Chrome to Firefox, Microsoft throws its legal weight behind its generative AI, a quick KDE Xorner, and more.

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News

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS 

Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting 

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 

Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers 

Xubuntu Development Update September 2023

Plasma 6 coming in February 2024

Hacking 2-way radios, upgrading Debian from 10 to 12, sshing into the Ubuntu Server installer, a new version of a minimal keyboard-focused browser, establishing the true health of your laptop battery, playing Wipeout in the browser, RSS aggregators, and more.

Discoveries

UVMOD

Antennapod

qutebrowser 3.0

acpi

Rewriting wipEout

Bash scripting cheatsheet

Feedback

FreshRSS

Nextcloud News

NewsFlash

Feedly

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Factor

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We can’t believe Proton has been around for 5 years, a bad sign for the Linux desktop long-term, the dilemma of whether to support your software on outdated operating systems, a laughable plan from WordPress to host your website for 100 years, and Félim shoehorns in some KDE nonsense.

News

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

Roblox is back on Linux

Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers

Firefox to drop support for old macOS and Windows versions

The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com

Merkuro Explainer & comparison to Kontact : also “Qt 6.6, to be released end of September, Qt apps will survive a restart of the Wayland compositor”

Entroware

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Rooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines and why Linux ones are among the last remaining, another Pocket alternative, making shell scripts look prettier, a novel approach to IT training, and more.

Discoveries

Echo Root

Kyber

The End of Computer Magazines in America

Feedback

linkding

gum

35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes

exercism.org

Worker claims they’re unable to use Microsoft Windows OS due to their religion

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Rare praise for Mozilla as more extensions come to Firefox on Android, Fedora is coming to Arm Macs, a rolling version of “Ubuntu” appears, an unwise solution to the problem of funding open source, SUSE might be the baddies, LXD is forked, and more.

With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers

Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

Neal Gompa says KDE will be the flagship version

Rhino Linux Makes Rolling-Release Ubuntu Reality

Incus – Introduction

Incus: A new fork of Canonical’s LXD ‘containervisor’

Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20

Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data

CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future

Factor

Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/latenightlinux50 and use code latenightlinux50 to get 50% off.

Great news for Linux on RISC-V and open source Nvidia drivers, communicating with devices over serial the easy way, emulating an old calculator, a fully open source flight combat game, a new approach to caching files on your LAN, and an RSS reader for the terminal.

News

riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture

Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards

The next step for NVK: Merging into Mesa!

Discoveries 

tio

HP-45 calculator emulator

Linux Air Combat

Passim

goread

Kolide

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We celebrate Slackware’s 30th birthday by trying it out and basking in its classic glory. Plus the BBC joins Mastodon, Google has dystopian plans for the web, the LXD drama rumbles on, and KDE takes a leaf out of GNOME’s book.

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News

Slackware turns 30

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

Web-Environment-Integrity

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

Google’s browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

Some Of The Features You Will Find Removed With KDE Plasma 6

HelloFresh

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A simple GUI for browsing SQLite databases, a terminal IRC client, some great Python resources, a clone of Task Manager for Linux, decoding data from random satellites, and a slick Mastodon client.

Discoveries

SQLite Browser

WeeChat 4

David Beazley’s Python Courses

Dive Into Systems

Mission Center

SatDump

Decoding BW-3

Scott Tilley on Twitter

Ebou

Ebou GitHub

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

HelloFresh

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Canonical takes control of LXD and it’s a little bit messy, Fedora might implement opt-out telemetry, and Félim sneaks in a mini KDE Korner. Plus more fallout from the RHEL source code restriction drama including surprising moves from SUSE and Oracle, and a sensible submissive solution from Alma.

News

Monica Madon’s Mastodon and LinkedIn

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD

Time to move on

Christian Brauner on Mastodon

Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry

Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment

SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro… again

The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright2022 KDE e.V. Report & Akademy is on right now! Raw videos are available

Entroware

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Will finds a domain registrar with a terrible name, Graham baffles us with 3D graphics, Félim discovers hidden python tools, and Joe does some maths to reveal how many Linux users there are on Steam. Plus bulletin boards, free hot water, music from /dev/urandom, and more.

Discoveries

Python tools hidden in the Std Lib

Blender 3.6 LTS

Accurate dinosaurs edited with blender

Qodem

Telnet BBS Guide

Zimodem

2.5M Steam users on Linux?

ESP Home iBoost

linuxwave

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Factor

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There’s only one news story this week, and it’s a big one. Red Hat dropped a bombshell on the RHEL rebuild communities by announcing that they will restrict source code releases to paying customers only.

Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes

Keeping Open Source Open

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained

HelloFresh

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The pros and cons of working on open source software, streaming your Android screen to desktop Linux, a Hacker News alternative, stabilizing video, an ESP32-based open hardware watch, a ludicrously expensive router, quickly cropping and rotating videos, Joe and Félim troll each other, and more.

Discoveries 

Scrcpy

lobste.rs

Watchy 

Turris Omnia

Footage

chatGPT-shell-cli

TrueNAS from iXsystems

To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.

A victory against the dystopian nightmare of facial recognition, Reddit drama might be good news long term, Google kills yet another service so muckyjpegs.com needs a new home, great KDE news, and more.

News

Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him

Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: May 2023 Progress Report

What Reddit Got Wrong

Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

Reddit CEO felt ‘reaffirmed’ by Musk’s handling of Twitter

Google Domains is yet another useful service to get the axe in favor of “focus”

Kdenlive news and fundraising report

This week in KDE: major plumbing work in Plasma 6

HelloFresh

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Kolide

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A great way to access documentation offline, moving Windows installations to new disks without breaking them, streaming VR games from a PC, replacing Pocket with a proper open source solution, living with Google’s flagship phone for a few months, and more.

Discoveries

Zeal

Clonezilla

Wallabag

ALVR: Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi

TrueNAS from iXsystems

To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.

The future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio production, open source voice assistants suddenly seem possible, and more.

News

Check out Ask The Hosts. Episode 1 is available on Patreon.

Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to Snap

All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year

Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base

Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement

Carl George’s take

The distribution model is changing

Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak

Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”

Push – a standalone expressive instrument

Willow could be the $50 hardware piece of the DIY voice assistant puzzle

Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup

Pocket’s new features make it even easier to discover and organize content

Linux On Desktop In 2023

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Entroware

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What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to getting more young people involved. Plus what a long-standing bug with Snaps shows us about the open source ecosystem.

Tailscale

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Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping your FOSS Android apps bang up to date, whether programming students should be using Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries 

gping

Chiaki

image stabilised Apollo 15

Apollo 11 VR HD on Steam

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

Nosey Parker

Joe’s Mastodon thread

Obtainium

GCompris

Feedback

Configure Firefox to reject cookie banners automatically

Bavarder: Chit-chat with an AI

TrueNAS from iXsystems

To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl

HelloFresh

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Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows on handhelds, Roblox stops working for us, a peek at the upcoming Plasma 6 release, and more.

News

Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report

Fedora Program Manager layed off

(what that role was)

Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation

A new onboarding experience on Mastodon

Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking

Asus ROG Ally review: it’s time to stop pretending Windows is the answer

Nintendo, ticked by Zelda leaks, does a DMCA run on Switch emulation tools

Plasma 6: “Better defaults”

Plasma 6 Sprint 2023

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.

We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for virtualising Linux on M1 Macs, more on DNS and Yubikeys, and more.

Discoveries

CEMU

TrueNAS from iXsystems

To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl

How and why the Free Software Foundation should be reformed, checking your Python code incredibly quickly, Will’s Telegram bot, FOSS surround sound, upscaling photos, and loads more.

Discussion

The Free Software Foundation is dying

Discoveries

ruff by Astral

LNL Telegram Bot

IEM Plugin Suite

Graham’s audio demo

Upscayl

Félim’s Irish landcape photo

Félim’s Irish landcape photo upscaled

Feedback

shotwell-site-generator

shotwell-site-generator screenshots

Entroware

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Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE Korner.

News

Linux Matters has launched

Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically

Resist Fingerprinting

PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of them all turns 30

More layoffs at Red Hat

Fedora 38 released

Ubuntu 23.04 released

Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04

KDE Korner

KDE Gear 23.04, Nanonote 1.4.0, Announcing Arianna 1.0 & digiKam 8.0.0 is released

The road to KDE Connect 2.0

40 Snaps & a HowTo

Plasma Products / Not a DE

What’s new in Fedora Kinoite 38

Tailscale

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Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.

A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KDE Korner, and loads more.

Discoveries

Logitech Media Server (LMS)

First Universal Blue image

Mission – Universal Blue

Scope – Universal Blue

CLARK

sniffnet

Yubikey Manager

Feedback

ngrep

rsyncy

KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile catchup

ktechlab

isoimagewriter

a pile of snaps

Krita Yearly report

Most plasma widgets ported to 6 & Nate’s weekly updates

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two (more) potential ways to help solve the FOSS funding problem.

News

A quarter century of Mozilla

Making the impossible possible — again

A new era of transparency for Twitter

Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why

Twitter’s Open Source Algorithm Is a Red Herring

Welcome to open source, Elon. Your Twitter code just got a CVE for shadow ban bug

The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023 – Original Prusa 3D Printers

A reply to Josef Průša – Stargirl (Thea) Flowers

Help us fund equipment – Armbian

Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects

thanks.dev

Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom. Plus a novel way to solve the FOSS funding problem, and Proton as the ultimate Linux gaming platform.

Discoveries

chob

Chirp plant alarm

Garmin watch offline sync with Postrunner

ntopng

DoomLinux

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.

Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto, Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more.

News

Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore’s Law, has died

Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know

We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.

We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan

The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library

The Fight Continues

We updated our RSA SSH host key

We need better support for SSH host certificates

Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, dbt and BigQuery

Microsoft is building a cryptocurrency wallet into its Edge browser

Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge

Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI

KDE Korner

Testing QT6 Begins

Xwayland Screen Casting

GCompris overview 180+ activities

Labplot 2.10

This week in KDE: “More Wayland fixes”

This week in KDE: Distro upgrades for Fedora KDE in Discover

My experience taking part in Season of KDE

Adapting Standard Usage Scenario Scripts For KDE Applications: My Journey As A Season Of KDE Mentee – KDE Eco

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Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the maths. Plus your feedback about robot vacuums, guitar cables, Arch, why we don’t talk about Fedora, KDE wins, and more.

Discoveries 

qalculate

NiceGUI

Entropy Piano Tuner

Autodarts (video of it in action)

Feedback

Quinny

DustBuilder

Valetudo

Material for MkDocs

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Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android users, a lengthy quest to stream DRM-restricted media on Arm Macs, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Flathub in 2023

The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later

NewF-Droid  repository format for faster and smaller updates

The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

KDE Korner

Plasma 6 kick off and outline fixes & Wayland zooming

Apps in MS Store Tutorial

Plasma codemap

Kubuntu Manual

KDE for Scientists

PIM Update

Krita Tutorial Video

Akademy Talks Reminder!

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Tailscale

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Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guitar with Linux, keeping kids safe online, and more.

Discoveries

mqttshark

device IDs to get steering wheel

nim

Turrican II AGA

Zelda a Link to the Past on Linux

Feedback

Timeshift

Kopia

Grsync

Cronopete

UrBackup

Neon AI OS for the Mycroft Mark II

Nextcloud localization

Behringer UMC22 audiophile 2×2 USB audio interface

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Entroware

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Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner.

News

Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults

NASA and open-source software

10 years ago Steam released for Linux

M$ Edge inserts ads on Chrome download page

My daughter’s school took over my personal Microsoft account

KDE Korner

KDE Switches to QT6

Nicco looks at theme & shows 6 “hidden” features of Plasma

Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0

Stop shouting

How to add flatpaks on Kubuntu/Neon

Nate’s regular updates

Two very last minute tools in Neon & two apps in unstable

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More reverse-engineering, free tech books, a handy tool for fixing things you’ve aCCIDENTALLY CAPITALISED, Chromium in the terminal, putting apps and config files in a “box”, more on aviation tracking, GUI vs CLI backups on Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries

reveng

lurk

GoalKicker.com books

Late Night Linux – Discoveries

Convert Case

carbonyl

Github Sponsors stops taking Paypal

boxxy

TheAirTraffic (ADS-B Exchange replacement)

Félim’s list of ADS-B Exchange alternatives

Feedback

BorgBackup

Sanoid and Syncoid

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Canonical’s latest Ubuntu PR blunder, Mastodon and the fediverse are doing a lot better than some journalists seem to think, yet another telemetry row, the company behind Mycroft is struggling, KDE Korner, and more.

News

We now have a Discord server (as well as the Telegram group, Matrix room, and IRC channel). Links to everything on our community page

What are ESM Apps, and how do they relate to Ubuntu Pro?

Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage

Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article

Google’s Go may add telemetry that’s on by default

telemetry in the Go toolchain

It’s not looking good for Mycroft AI

The End of the Campaign

Mycroft patent troll case

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.27-eve (Frameworks 5.103.0 is just out) Nate has a writeup and help report multi-monitor bugs effectively

Kate’s git features

A couple of FOSDEM Reports (or ALL the talks!)

KDE packaging recommendations

Akademy call for proposals is open

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Making Home Assistant easier to configure, scoring music with FOSS, protecting yourself against phishing, 3 very different distro releases, traffic shaping and QoS, and more.

Discoveries 

MuseScore 4

Node Red Home Assistant Contrib

No Homo Graphs

Phish-protect

Awesome-privacy

blendOS

helloSystem

elementary OS 7

Feedback

Buster

SQM (Smart Queue Management)

Getting SQM Running Right

SQM scripts traffic shaper

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The Mars Helicopter continues to amaze, aviation nerds get burned, Google lays off loads of open source people, running a Mastodon instance isn’t for everyone, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight

JETNET Acquires ADS-B Exchange

Feeding to adsb.fi

Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week’s layoffs

What is Google doing with its open source teams?

We tried to run a social media site and it was awful

KDE Korner

Example of KDEnlive & Glaxinate

Plasma 5.27 Beta is here & KFrameworks Branched

New Skrooge site & XRechnungViewer (not related to each other)

Best Plasma 5 and Major bugfixes

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Entroware

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Recovering data from a broken SSD, configuring the lights on a new keyboard, trying stock Android on a Pixel 7, easily blocking ads with DNS, playing with 3D models of ancient museum pieces, and more.

Discoveries

testdisk

Félim’s new keyboard

g810-led

Pixel 7

Public AdGuard DNS server

Nefertiti statue 3D model

Feedback

Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux

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The rise of RISC-V continues apace, we bust a recent ZFS myth, hybrid tiling in Plasma, Stadia departs with a nice gift for people, Joe draws an old skool mucky jpeg and ruins KDE Korner, and more.

News

Google’s Stadia Controller is getting Bluetooth support

Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture

RISC-V Summit Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V

ESP32-C6 WiFi 6, BLE, and 802.15.4 module and development board launched!

The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good

ZFSBootMenu

Admin

Follow Joe on Mastodon

Discoveries

KZones

Archimedes Live

KDE and Xfce Kornerx

New image for existing flavor: Xubuntu Minimal

KDE PIM Nov/Dec

Big UI Improvements and Fixes

Plasma on the VisionFive2

Akademy 2023 in Greece

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The ultimate ESP system, VoIP & RTC capture and troubleshooting, overpriced keyboards, making arcade cabinets even more fun, some notable distro releases, avoiding CAPTCHAs, and more.

Discoveries

ESPhome

Homer/Sipcapture

solaar

logitech G PRO

BGFX

The Great Crypto Scam

Vanilla OS

EndeavourOS Cassini

Mozilla changes Firefox’s user agent because of Internet Explorer 11

useragents.me

Feedback

Snikket

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Real hope for a local-only voice assistant, Matrix learns an age-old lesson about funding FOSS, 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop, Mozilla is about to catch up to the Mastodon trend, there definitely won’t be a Raspberry Pi 5 this year (honest), and KDE Korner.

News

With voice assistants in trouble, Home Assistant starts a local alternative

LineageOS 20 released

The Matrix Holiday Update 2022

Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton

[Feb 2019 – Upton: “I don’t have a route to do something this year”]

[Jun 2019 – Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35]

2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022

Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative

KDE Korner

Gear 22.12  (Gwenview has a new docs page), KDEnlive 22.1, Tokodon 23.01

Rewritten Spectacle in 23.04 & Fractional wayland + multiscreen fixes

& some holiday updates  & end of year goodies and finally a 2022 overview

Kraft v1.0 & it can be run on WSL

KDE Fundraiser & KDEnlive Funraisers successes!

Linux App Summit Brno April 21-23 2023

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Entroware

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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2022 predictions, and make some new ones for 2023.

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It’s our 2022 in review episode which features Linux in space, gaming wins and fails, Raspberry Pi drama, the year of user-facing AI, Canonical and Microsoft, the rise of Mastodon, and more.

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Loads of discoveries including picking the best DNS server for your connection, Telnet on the Amiga, some synth thing, markdown notes, and fixing downloaded Twitter data. Plus your feedback about Red Hat and IBM, containers and firewalls, Signal alternatives, and more.

Discoveries

dnsdiag

ZiModem

KnobKraft

twitter-archive-parser

silverbullet

One Thing Well

Feedback

ksuperkey

Firewalld and Podman – Protecting Your DB

docker will happily bypass your firewall

Session

Signal issue

Prosody IM

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Particle physics depends on software that’s maintained by one retiree, another argument about AI, YouTube disrespects Creative Commons, we find an excuse to laugh at Musk, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence

FORM (symbolic manipulation system) – Wikipedia

GPT-3 Business Email Generator by Danny Richman

AI writes Terraform

Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

Twitter turns its back on open-source development

KDE and Xfce Kornerx

Xubuntu Development Update December 2022

Xfce 4.18 Looks Exciting

Finalizing rpm-ostree support in Discover