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Another example of the downsides of abstraction, whether AI can ever be truly “open source”, and the security benefits and drawbacks of different types of VPN.
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Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials
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To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” Linux, if so how, and if it’s even possible in Voice of the masses.
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We need to talk about Ubuntu (again). The updates situation is a confusing mess, a lot of enthusiast users have had enough and are starting to move to other distros, but ultimately millions of normal users will quietly carry on and not care.
Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess
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AMD will patch some old Ryzens against SinkClose now, but their benchmarking methods for newer CPUs didn’t live up to everyday reality. Plus Bcachefs devs annoy Linus Torvalds, the US government sues a college over compliance issues, and Jim disappoints a patron.
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AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs to get SinkClose patch after all
AMD explains, promises partial fixes for Ryzen 9000 performance problems
Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs
After cybersecurity lab wouldn’t use AV software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud
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Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual boot, Google quietly drops support for Chrome on old Ubuntu, the Apple tax hits Patreon, and an exciting new Raspberry Pi.
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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 235
Chrome dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 but it’ll be back
Patreon warns content makers that Apple wants to be paid
Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
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Kevin and Andy talk about their project extremes: the oldest and newest projects they’ve worked on, the biggest and smallest codebases, the ugliest hack, the most elegant, the most popular, the most trivial, and the most important.
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How much Linux and traditional sysadmin knowledge do you need for a career in cloud computing?
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Insecure SSH implementations and a weak key that let a researcher control 200 MW of electrical capacity reignites the debate about versioned protocols vs pluggable protocols, follow-up on sharing files from your LAN with people on the Internet, and the pros and cons of encrypted backups.
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The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details about OggCamp, and whether FOSS people are all old.
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Are FOSS people all old?
The graying open source community needs fresh blood
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We once recorded an episode about GNOME that was so negative that we decided to delete our recordings and not publish it. Our opinions of GNOME have changed significantly since then so we explain why.
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Forcing Windows to undo updates and a separate IPv6 vulnerability, hardware bugs in AMD and Intel CPUs, and using Samba on Linux with Active Directory.
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Your victim’s Windows PC fully patched? Just force undo its updates and exploit away
Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs: all the news and updates
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What celebrities we look like, what books we are into and how we read them, and whether we can separate an artist’s work from their character. With Aaron from Hybrid Cloud Show, and Mark and Martin from Linux Matters.
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Open source myths, Graham gives us an update on the Open Documentation Academy, and why we don’t really talk about mobile Linux anymore.
Open Documentation Academy (GitHub repo)
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How to deal with a horrible codebase that you’ve inherited. Getting started, breaking the problem into smaller pieces, understanding what’s actually wrong, the importance of testing (as usual), and why technical debt isn’t necessarily the best name for the problem.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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In episode 8 we talked about how to get started with Kubernetes, and this time we cover the next steps: How to set up ingress and east-west networking, options for restricting access, and the best ways to integrate with your favourite cloud provider.
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Secure boot is compromised on hundreds of devices, Amazon’s desperate attempt to make money from Alexa, and how to decide which open source software on GitHub to trust.
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Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices
Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years
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Analysing MQTT data, getting domains unblocked from Cloudflare DNS, making ASCII animations, and why Joe is drawn to Linux Mint. Plus why we don’t talk about Vivaldi even though it’s quite good, why Félim was wrong about right click in PuTTY, and Will doesn’t seem to understand Lemmy.
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How and why the recent huge Windows outage was caused by a bad CrowdStrike update and how it could have been avoided, a hilariously dumb ESXi vulnerability, and using SAS drives with a PCIe card.
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A closer look at what caused the CrowdStrike Windows crashes
Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly ESXi flaw
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NVIDIA makes more of its drivers easier to install, the EU is probably going to redirect FOSS funding to AI, Mark Zuckerberg abuses the term “open source”, Proton jumps the shark, a trio of typical Google stories, and the shortest KDE Korner in history.
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NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules
The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open,” in a specific, quirky way
FOSS funding vanishes from EU’s 2025 Horizon program plans
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
Introducing Proton Wallet – a safer way to hold Bitcoin
Introducing Proton Scribe, a private writing assistant that writes and proofreads emails for you
Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome
Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 just labor exploitation, boffins say
Google’s shortened links will stop working next year
Contribute to KDE with more than just C++
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Developing as part of an in-person team vs working remotely, synchronous vs asynchronous development, how to make a hybrid team work effectively, and how code review fits into it all.
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We talk about infrastructure as code, what it is, what it isn’t, how it differs from configuration management, how to structure it, best practices to stay consistent between Dev/Test and Production, avoiding configuration drift, and some experiences trying to do infrastructure/configuration as code in a home lab.
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How a Bitcoin mine made life in a Texas town absolutely miserable, why paying for extended support for end of life Windows versions is just doubling down on technical debt, and the best way to manage router redundancy.
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Inside the ‘Nightmare’ Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
Enterprises urged to think carefully about Windows 10 extended support options
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Testing the security of your Bluetooth devices, diffing databases, visualising MQTT data, running Linux VMs on an iPad or Iphone, org mode in Kate, and making point and click games. Plus whether we are too negative, or if we are just realistic.
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A widely-used login system is still using MD5 which is bad news, miscreants took over some domains when they moved from Google to Squarespace, Linksys’ sloppy app isn’t a huge problem but is a bad sign, and why backing up an Android phone in one go is pretty much impossible without root.
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New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere
Squarespace migration linked to DNS hijacking, claims report
Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
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We were asked about backing up Android phones.
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The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special feature” to interact with Google sites, Mozilla shows that it needs advertising, and openSUSE might be getting a new (terrible) name.
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EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones
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Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector
Why Chromium tells Google sites about your CPU, GPU usage
Privacy-Preserving Attribution
Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default
Mozilla desperately needs transparency
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What agile software development is exactly, why planning and being willing to adapt the plan are key, the pros and cons of all the process that’s involved, the role that scrum plays, and why it’s all about communication.
Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
Amolith will be at Fossy in August.
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How best to get started with Kubernetes and whether it is better to start with a low-touch option like MicroK8s/K3s, using a cloud-managed Kubernetes from the outset, or set up everything yourself “the hard way”
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We didn’t get to all of your questions for our Episode 200 free consulting special so here is another full episode of your questions and our answers. Our thoughts on a new UK smart devices law, backing up 30TB off-site, how to learn ZFS, SMB vs other ways to share files, and backing up secrets.
Smart devices: new law helps citizens to choose secure products
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The best TV show of all time, and the future of e-waste and what we can and will do about it. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.
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An incredibly powerful hex editor for reverse engineering binaries, easily searching through snaphots for end users, streaming audio from phones to the Linux desktop, writing interactive fiction games, and how we makes notes and manage tasks.
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Having been given an Asus Eee PC netbook back, Joe wonders what to do with this ancient 32-bit machine. Plus the oldest machines we currently have in production.
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Why we didn’t mention pocket fluff when we talked about USB-C charging issues, Microsoft abandons its promising underwater data center experiment and didn’t monitor it’s SSL certs, why you should be careful which WordPress plugins and themes you install,an Australian ISP’s tech debt comes due, and remoting into desktop Linux.
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Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success
Microsoft declares its underwater data center test was a success
Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack
Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach
Microsoft hits snooze again on security certificate renewal
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We were asked about remoting into desktop Linux.
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.
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Andy is annoyed that so much free and open source software is hosted on a proprietary platform that’s owned by Microsoft. There are plenty of alternatives to GitHub, but ultimately the network effect is why so many people host their code there. We dream of a proper federated solution. Maybe one day…
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We get personal and explain our home IT setups, sharing tips on learning new technologies like networking and Kubernetes while keeping the family TV working, and consult on how to secure the root user of your cloud account.
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Vulnerabilities in Asus hardware make us think there should be some regulations about what can be sold as a router, a VPN feature that we hadn’t heard of is removed from Windows, and why we don’t believe that Microsoft will ever take security as seriously as they claim.
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High-severity vulnerabilities affect a wide range of Asus router models
Dear Asus router user: You’ve been pwned, thanks to easily exploited flaw
Microsoft to remove DirectAccess from Windows, recommends switching to Always On VPN
Microsoft fixes hack-me-via-Wi-Fi Windows security hole
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI
Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they’ll make security a priority
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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.
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We are joined by Florian Beijers who is a full time screen reader user to talk about how the accessibility experience differs on various operating systems and Linux desktop environments, and what open source software devs could be doing better.
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It’s our episode 200 free consulting special. Jim and Allan answer your questions about hard drive availability, USB-C robustness, ZFS performance on a VPS, cold storage with a 2.5″ form factor, how we gained our level of knowledge, disk enclosure issues, and monitoring Windows servers.
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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.
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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
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
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
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If you want to be a good developer, how many different programming languages should you learn? Maybe becoming an expert in one specific language is the way to go. Maybe it’s more a case of learning different concepts and paradigms than languages.
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Google Cloud teaches us about eggs and baskets by losing a big customer’s data, and Microsoft’s carbon emissions are up significantly – probably because of AI. Plus compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.
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Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident
Microsoft’s carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI
Costs to inference ChatGPT exceed the training costs on a weekly basis
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How to prepare for your loved ones to have the access they need if the worst unexpectedly happens, Joe’s weird issues with wireless access points, and dealing with email accounts that shouldn’t exist.
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After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo
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Whether self-driving cars are the future, and the skills we would download into our brains (Matrix-style). With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.
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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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Microsoft is tightening up SMB security in Windows which might break access to your old NAS, a Cogent root-server mysteriously goes out of sync without them spotting it, and protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.
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Installing Windows 11 24H2 might mean binning that old NAS
A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why
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We were asked about protecting hard drives from electromagnetic pulses.
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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
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Forks are a fundamental aspect of open source software so we get into the different types of forks, when and why you might want to fork a project, the maintenance burden that comes with a hard fork, the importance of winning mindshare for your fork, what exactly counts as a fork, when it’s not always a great idea to fork, and more.
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We look at OpenShift from an external perspective, including how it works in a multi-cloud environment, how it abstracts cloud resources, when administrators and developers still need to understand what is happening beneath the abstraction, combining OpenShift with cloud-managed services, some of the downsides of OpenShift, and where people should start if they want to learn.
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Linux kernel developers were infected with malware for 2 years, another nail in the coffin of proper federated email as Exchange Server moves to a subscription model, followup on zfsbootmenu and IPv6, and learning unfamiliar topics.
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Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach
Exchange Server SE to debut just before 2019 support ends
Newbie struggling with zfsbootmenu
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We were asked about learning unfamiliar topics.
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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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How we make our Web experiences better with various plugins, websites and services. Plus the ethics of blocking ads, bypassing paywalls, and supporting creators.
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Microsoft’s new Copilot+ feature will record everything you are doing on your computer for some reason, but it will only work on new Arm hardware for now. Plus Apple’s weird iOS bug that restored deleted files and photos, and sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.
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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC
Microsoft’s “Copilot+” AI PC requirements are embarrassing for Intel and AMD
Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos
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We were asked about sharing files over the Internet from a NAS on your LAN.
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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 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
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We are joined by Allan Jude to talk about what it’s like to run a company that develops and maintains open source software with a focus on upstreaming as much code as possible.
November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit – The Value of Upstream First
How to upstream code to open source projects
FiloSottile (Filippo Valsorda)
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Why AWS changed its policy on charging for HTTP errors on S3 buckets, how Bluesky dealt with an explosion in popularity by moving to on-prem, IBM buys Hashicorp, and our thoughts on cloud governance.
News/discussion
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation
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Why Windows 10 might be gaining users at Windows 11’s expense, an old DHCP option is a potential risk for VPN users, we should probably say “renting” rather than “buying”domains, and avoiding tracking when using IPv6.
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Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
Free Consulting
We were asked about avoiding tracking when using IPv6.
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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.
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Is Linux hard to use? It turns out the answer is both “yes, absolutely” and “not at all!”
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Mastodon’s link previews are causing downtime for web servers without properly configured caching, locking down DNS inside Windows networks, why using write-once backup media is a bad idea, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.
Plugs
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News
Mastodon delays firm fix to solve link preview DDoS
Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before
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We were asked about write-once backup media, and increasing the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server with SSDs and ZFS.
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Popular songs we can’t stand, and our biggest regrets in life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.
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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!
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Andy is a huge proponent of test-driven development and explains why – including types of code testing including unit tests and integration tests, when you actually need to run tests, how long they should take, and more.
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What “hybrid cloud” actually means to us. Where it works well, where it creates challenges, where the control plane should live, how to abstract differences between platforms to make workloads more suitable to be used in a hybrid setup, maintaining compliance across clouds, and guarding against security vulnerabilities in containerised dependencies.
Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 1
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How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different TVs, Jim’s alarming theory about AI malware, and encrypting offsite backups.
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Is your PC having trouble? Your smart TV might be to blame
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We were asked about encrypting offsite backups.
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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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What’s the best non-mainstream Linux distro?
Distrowatch is Not a Measure of Popularity
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Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints, P-cores and E-cores, and more. Plus follow-up on the devices and software we trust.
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ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess).
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How to upstream code to open source projects
News
Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption
Seagate makes HDD price hikes, says AI caused demand spike
Free Consulting
We were asked about learning ZFS, and which filesystem to use for a single SSD.
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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 Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed
Entroware
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Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the Linux kernel is written in C, Go vs Rust, and what memory safety means.
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Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability.
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Shane’s platform engineering newsletter
News/discussion
Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in
Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there’s a way out
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Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.
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Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine
Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them
Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive
Free Consulting
We were asked about disk queue schedulers in Linux.
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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
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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We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you to build and deploy anything from the ultimate developer workstation to a basic Chromebook-like experience for a non-technical relative.
Project Bluefin and the future of operating systems
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A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS.
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News
backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance for zvols
X fixes URL blunder that could enable social media phishing
Free Consulting
We were asked about adding SATA ports to a home NAS.
Tailscale
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The most amused we’ve ever been, how we’d cobble a meal together with limited ingredients, and whether we have an inner monologue. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, and Jim from 2.5 Admins.
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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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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
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
OggCamp is happening later this year!
Gary gives us the details.
We are joined by Drew DeVault to discuss his programming language called Hare, which aims for 100 years of forwards compatibility.
We mentioned Drew’s blog posts Can I be on your podcast? and It takes a village
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There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between.
In this first episode: the big three public cloud providers have dropped egress fees, four years of lessons and regrets from running a startup, and avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers.
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Cloud switching just got easier: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud
Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure
Free Consulting
We were asked about avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers.
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Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog.
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Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent
Telegram’s Peer-to-Peer Login system is a risky way to save $5 a month
Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users
Free Consulting
We were asked about tuning a low end VPS to host a blog.
Tailscale
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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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Voice of the masses
What’s the main reason you use open source software?
Discoveries
Ubuntu is nearly 20 years old so we wanted to see how the first versions compare with the upcoming LTS. Unfortunately installing Warty turned out to much harder than we thought it would be. Dalton talks us through his adventure with a turn of the century Mac, Gary had a much easier time with an x86 PC, Joe’s laptop wasn’t quite old enough, and Chris found some surprising aspects of virtualising it.
Dalton’s blog post about installing Warty on an ancient Mac
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The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.
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TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
Apple’s antitrust fight begins
US DOJ’s blockbuster lawsuit against Apple is headline grabber but poses limited near-term impact
Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted
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We were asked about scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.
Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD
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!
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
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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How we first learned to code, and how we learn new technologies now.
Snake in Terraform
Snake in lots of languages
Web server in Sinclair BASIC
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Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images.
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An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices
Devs left with tough choices as Warner Bros. ends all Adult Swim Games downloads
Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”
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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.
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Mirroring Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu
Home assistant remote control from your Garmin watch
Tiny Core Linux is still a thing
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We wonder what old concepts in the Linux and open source world are due for a comeback.
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Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense.
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Roku disables players and TVs with attempt to coerce arbitration agreement
Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware
Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job
Free Consulting
We were asked about using jumbo frames on a network.
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Our brews of choice, what the minimum wage should enable a person to do, and how long we’d want to live if we stayed healthy. With Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Félim from Late Night Linux, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary, Chris and Dalton from Linux After Dark.
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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
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
Hosting your podcast using Spotify is a bad idea
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What we’ve learned over the years about the interview process for software development jobs, both as the applicant and the interviewer.
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The boss of Nvidia says kids don’t need to code because they can just use AI, companies sell their users’ data to train models, and why 2.5Gbps networking probably isn’t worth bothering with.
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Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
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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.
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Open source lighting rig control with QLC+
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Gary’s recent (mostly) good experience with an Arm Chromebook makes us wonder about the current state of proper Linux on Arm laptops. Plus follow up on why the Wyse 5070 has some limitations, but is still a great little x86 box.
Chris mentioned a FOSDEM talk
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More cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans students’ faces, using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.
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“So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to strangers for 2nd time in 5 months
Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students
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We were asked about using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.
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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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The automation tools we use in our development and why we use them. Plus how to engage with your project’s community – both in real time, and asynchronously.
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Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups.
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Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs
Investors threw 50% less money at quantum sector last year
Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true
Google has killed cached results in search
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We were asked about testing your backups.
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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.
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Gary’s recent trip to FOSDEM made him wonder if the type of Linux user who goes to FOSS events has changed. Has the demographic shifted more towards “normal” people who use Linux as a tool rather than something to tinker with? Plus more on planned obsolescence, and a quick prediction about the Apple Vision Pro.
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Nginx is forked, Broadcom/VMware kills ESXi, dedup is finally fixed in ZFS, using multiple network interfaces on a NAS, and more.
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Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software
OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns
Fast Dedup is a Valentines Gift to the OpenZFS and TrueNAS Communities
Free Consulting
We were asked about using multiple network interfaces on a NAS.
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How we’d give away a million dollars, the oldest movies we’ve watched enough times to quote, and where and when we’d time travel to. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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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
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
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Andy Balaam joins us to talk about accepting contributions from devs with varying levels of experience. When to invest the time to mentor them, why documentation is important, how automated tools fit in, being willing to decline some contributions, dealing with companies vs individuals, and more.
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Trying to report a security issue lands a consultant in trouble, a new take on the drop shipping scam, setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, choosing the right disk size, and more.
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IT consultant in Germany fined for exposing shoddy security
Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud
ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain
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We were asked about setting up your first NAS – including the benefits of RAID, picking a distro, and choosing the right disk size.
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS
Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS
3.5″ internal drives sorted by price/TB
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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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We come up with our FOSS extremes. The funniest, the coolest, the cleverest, the most useful, the dullest, the most exciting, the most dangerous and problematic, the [something]est open source software.
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Microsoft’s rudimentary error that allowed an attacker access to its executives’ emails, Pixel phones have another serious storage bug, hidden malware payload found at Ars Technica, and when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.
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In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges
Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug
Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation
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We were asked about when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.
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
Apple, the DMA, and malicious compliance
Understanding Apple’s Response to the DMA
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How we use AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, what they have done to the development industry, what might happen in the future, and the ethics of the whole thing. With guest host Linus.
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Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the experience on the desktop, and what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.
Plugs
OpenZFS Best Practices: Part 2: File Serving and SANs
News/discussion
The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – and how IT squashed it
What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
Free Consulting
We were asked about what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.
How can I use a PC to recover data when my Synology NAS malfunctions?
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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
OpenWRT-based GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (travel wifi router)
Feedback
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How do we decide which devices and which software we trust?
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Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.
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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 1: Snapshots and Backups
News
Seagate unveils 30 TB+ Exos HAMR disk drives – Blocks and Files
Miscreants absolutely love using GitHub to sling malware
Flying Under the Radar: Abusing GitHub for Malicious Infrastructure
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We were asked about spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.
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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
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
How Microsoft found a potential new battery material using AI – The Verge
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We follow up on last episode with some clarifications from Amolith about code collaboration. Plus we get into development workflows in general, code review, the paradigms we couldn’t do without, and more. With guest host Linus.
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What pets we have, the best YouTube videos we’ve ever seen, and our non-Linux or podcasting hobbies. With Félim from Late Night Linux and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
Retro Game Mechanics Explained
Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama
Man Falls on Ice in Dublin On RTE news
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We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2023, and talk about what we want to happen in 2024.
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What does “incognito mode” in Chrome actually mean and whether documenting browser standards in code is a good idea, the serious implications of a fun story about messing with a ChatGPT instance, and maximizing performance when using mixed disk types on ZFS mirrored vdevs.
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When it comes to collaboration workflows, Amolith dislikes the pull request model that GitHub made popular and much prefers the email/patch-based approach. Kevin does his best to get to the bottom of why, and Joe wonders if it might come down to disliking Microsoft.
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Twitch pulls out of Korea thanks to the opposite of Net Neutrality, it’s not clear to what extent smart devices are listening to your conversations, more on water usage in data centers, and our thoughts on mandatory access controls.
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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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The child’s toy that Chris hacked makes us remember the various other proprietary hardware and software that we’ve taken control of using free and open source software. Plus our mixed feelings about doing an accessibility challenge.
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What you need to know about the recent SSH vulnerability, yet another privacy issue with cloud-connected security cameras, why it’s difficult to get to the bottom of an obscure ZFS encryption bug, and more.
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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.
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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
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
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
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Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge
Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI
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
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Google Drive client users lost months of files, a feature of UEFI that has left millions of computers potentially vulnerable to persistent malware, and why you probably shouldn’t buy cheap resold volume Windows licenses.
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How to restore files in Drive for desktop (v84.0.0.0-84.0.4.0)
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack
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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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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
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Backing up my Android photos with rsync
When the Raspberry Pi 5 was announced, we all said that most people would probably be better off repurposing an x86 thin client so we bought some dirt cheap new in box Dell Wyse 5070 machines to see if we were right. Spoiler: we were.
Dalton’s post about trying to break Synology RAID
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Jim and Allan break down the details of the recent ZFS data corruption bug, and give their tips for managing a fleet of 40+ servers.
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The best ever version of Windows, movies that haunted us, distributed computing, and whether we do any exercise ever. With Chris, Dalton, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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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.
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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
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Graham answers our questions about his new Steam Deck OLED
Raspberry Pi 5
Joe answers our questions about his new Raspberry Pi 5
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DigiKam Windows revival and 8.2.0 release
KItinaryAnd two weeks of KDE6 features and fixes
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Kevin joins us to talk about the hype that surrounds some programming languages like Rust and Python, how some languages like Java went out of fashion, and why the likes of PHP never saw much hype at all. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.
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Why a small island nation’s top level domain ended up with such a terrible reputation, an ssh vulnerability that’s not as scary as it sounds, whether software can be “finished”, and using powerline or WiFi for security cameras.
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Passive SSH server private key compromise is real … for some vulnerable gear
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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.
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Our memories of early positive experiences show us how communities have changed over the years, and the best ways to keep the experience positive these days.
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Why and how Allan installed a set of new Power over Ethernet wireless access points, and our hardware recommendations for a media server and NAS in one.
Allan’s new WiFi setup
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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.
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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
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There’s a meme that software developers should be forced to use low end hardware to experience what it’s like to be a real user. So what hardware should devs actually use to test their software? How does this differ for GUI and CLI applications? With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.
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A Cloudflare outage shines a light on sloppy data center practices, and why you shouldn’t run a mail server at home. Plus followup on the Android multi-user bug, package managers on Windows, and Toshiba hard drives.
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Cloudflare claims Flexential data center outage was behind service disruption – DCD
Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
Android 14’s storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone
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Toshiba Consumer Internal Hard Disk Drives
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“Run Your Own Mail Server” chapter 0
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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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Half of us constantly change our hardware and software setups, and the other half like to keep things as constant as possible. Are we changing things to avoid personal technical debt, or are we just bored? Plus more on locking down phones.
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Okta seems to not be taking its security seriously enough, crashing iPhones is far easier than it should be, Jim’s report from the Ubuntu Summit, and what to do when you find a company’s sensitive data on the Internet.
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No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked
Okta October breach affected 134 orgs, biz admits
Okta hit by another breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor
This tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop
Jim went to the Ubuntu Summit
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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.
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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
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We are joined by Roger Light to discuss what it’s like to work for a company that uses the open core model — maintaining an open source project and offering additional paid for proprietary features. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.
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The large water consumption of AI and data centers in general, China’s big push towards IPv6, why we don’t talk about Toshiba hard drives very often, and the implications of poor Bluetooth security on an e-bike.
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The Secret Water Footprint of AI Technology
China requires all new Wi-Fi kit to run IPv6
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Monitor Traffic With Wireless Travel Time Sensors
Bluetooth Pedestrian and Vehicle Tracking
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Our spookiest experiences, singing in public, traveling with a single bag, the languages we’ve tried to learn, and the things we’ve crafted. With Graham from Late Night Linux and Jim from 2.5 Admins.
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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.
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It’s the spinning rust challenge! We try installing and running our operating systems on mechanical hard drives and learn that Linux is much less painful than Windows on a spinning disk.
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What Google should do to prevent malware sites in their ads, why you might want to avoid using multiple profiles on Android devices, a speculative execution vulnerability in Apple Silicon, and the pros and cons of TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti Unifi.
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Clever malvertising attack uses Punycode to look like KeePass’s official website
pixel 6 can’t access storage with multiple profiles after updating to android 14
Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more
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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
Become a Plasma 6 Supporter & KNotifications going on a diet
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We are joined by Marcin Kulik – the creator and maintainer of asciinema. We talk about the project itself, developing on Linux, IDEs, targetting a technical audience, the advantages of writing for a command line interface, why -R is always wrong for the recursive flag, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.
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The nuances of copyrighting AI-generated art, getting the best speeds with Samba, and building an SSD-only NAS.
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Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art
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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.
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Studio One DAW now available for Linux
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The vast majority of desktop computer users in the world use a Windows-like interface, so why do all the major distros ship GNOME which is totally different? It can’t just be because of accessibility and inertia, can it? Plus more on government attacks on end to end encryption.
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Why enabling password autofill isn’t a great idea, Jim’s adventures in network repair, and setting up a home router/WiFi hotspot.
Feedback
Don’t use autofill on your password manager
Story Time
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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
Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support
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
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Jim Salter joins us to talk about getting the most out of your open source project. From designing and planning, to attracting contributors, considering the correct scope, building on top of existing software, and more.
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A network breach teaches us all a valuable lesson about threat models, Allan and Jim’s TV setups, and picking the right external storage solution.
Plugs
News/discussion
How Google Authenticator made one company’s network breach much, much worse
Amolith’s wiki page about passwords
Feedback
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Whether we’re living in a simulation, our favourite foreign swear words, advertisers we’ve turned down, how we organise recordings and how much gets edited out, how Joe’s role changes on different shows, and if there are any conspiracy theories we believe in.
With Will and Félim from Late Night Linux, popey, Martin, and Mark from Linux Matters, Gary from Linux After Dark, and Amolith from Linux Downtime.
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Simulating logic circuits, cheap router hardware, Snap and Flatpak download metrics, frying hard drives with too many volts, gathering and mapping button presses from random USB devices, protecting your system from rogue USB devices, and making chiptune music with emulated versions of classic gaming hardware.
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Something has gone wrong with the timeline and all software is free and open source. What does that world look like? Plus more on biometrics and desktop scaling.
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Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.
Plugs
News
Submit your ideas or articles – OpenSource.net
Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters
Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical webp 0-day
Free Consulting
We were asked about setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.
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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
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How to get hired for your first development job, more on contributor license agreements, and our thoughts on different immutable OS approaches.
Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) – FSFE
Why the FSF Gets Copyright Assignments from Contributors
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The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs.
Plugs
Jim and Allan host Klara’s latest Webinar: OpenZFS Data Replication
News/discussion
Cerabyte roadmaps ceramic nano-memory storage
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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.
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Another Abort Retry Fail
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What hardware we recommend for desktop Linux users in 2023. Is it really as simple as buying a 5 year old ThinkPad?
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Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive problem, how one-off promotional domains can come back to bite you, and picking the hardware and software for a router.
News
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off
Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume
unity_to_godot_converter: An experimental converter from Unity to Godot game engines
Toyota outage caused by servers running out of storage
Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn
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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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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
We are joined by Element developer Andy Balaam to talk about working on open source software after 20 years in the proprietary world. We get into working in public, the realities of accepting code contributions, being part of a distributed team, the pros and cons of working from home, and more.
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The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive to Microsoft’s offerings – it’s a pattern that we’ve seen from numerous companies, even Mozilla. Plus why it’s a bad idea to power your server on and off regularly.
Plugs
News/discussion
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
Free Consulting
We were asked about powering a home server on and off regularly.
How our lives would change if cars ceased to exist, what intellectual property we’d make into a TV show or movie, and our worst cases of buyers’ remorse. With Will and Félim from Late Night Linux, and popey from Linux Matters.
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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.
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Governments around the world are trying to undermine end-to-end encryption. Are they going to get away with forcing in backdoors, and what does it mean for open source? Plus what we stubbornly refuse to use our computers and phones for.
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Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’t really matter), managing ssh keys, setting up data storage for containers, and more on IPMI for Raspberry Pis.
Plugs
News
Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users
Intel doesn’t plan to support Wi-Fi 7 on Windows 10
Wi-Fi 7 is Coming: Here’s What You Need to Know
Feedback
Free Consulting
We were asked about managing ssh keys, and setting up data storage for containers.
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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
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”
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We are all on board with the right to be forgotten but it can cause some tricky problems for open source projects – particularly small ones. Plus why we won’t stop going on about why we take such a dim view of crypto.
Amolith mentioned a toot from the Tor Project.
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CNET’s SEO attempts once again show that nothing lasts forever, why the reports of the death of the mechanical hard drive are greatly exaggerated, and home-made IPMI on the cheap.
News/discussion
The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google
Coughlin: SSDs will not kill disk drives
Samsung Announces 256TB SSDs and Unveils Peta-Byte Scale PBSSDs
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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
The End of Computer Magazines in America
Feedback
35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes
Worker claims they’re unable to use Microsoft Windows OS due to their religion
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The bits of Linux and open source software that we regret putting off trying, and what made us wait. From the security and complexity of containers to the hype of ZFS and WSL. Plus why we still haven’t embraced Nix.
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Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and how and why you should use ECC RAM in your home server if you can.
Plugs
News
Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office
BlueJeans, Verizon’s Google Meet competitor you’ve never heard of, is shutting down
We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD
SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken
Free Consulting
We were asked about ECC RAM in a home server.
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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: 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
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Why Amolith uses Arch, why Gary uses Debian, and why Joe uses Ubuntu.
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Allan and Jim reminisce about the early days of connecting to the Internet, and what inspired them to become sysadmins in the first place. Plus recovering old versions of files, and an exciting announcement about the show.
Plugs
2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon
News/discussion
2.5 Admins in
The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
How To Start An ISP (like it’s 1993)
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What jobs we’d do if we didn’t work in IT, foreign countries we’d live in, the musical genres we are into, and what musical talents (if any) we have. With Amolith from Linux Downtime, Martin and Mark from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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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
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All four of us have been Ubuntu users for a long time but we’ve been dabbling with different distros to see how they compare. Fedora, Debian, and openSUSE all have their appeal, but are we likely to switch permanently?
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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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The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees
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
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Contributor license agreements aren’t very popular, but not having a CLA can cause problems for projects in the future. Gary can’t do things like publishing Pidgin on Apple’s app stores, and Amolith is wrestling with how to keep his options open for the SaaS project he’s working on.
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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.
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David Beazley’s Python Courses
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What ever happened to convergence? The dream of having one computing device just never came true, and we get to the bottom of it. Plus how to avoid drama in open source projects.
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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
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
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We are joined by Chris Waldon to talk about how to get started with coding and software development.
Chris mentioned his blog.
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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.
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Python tools hidden in the Std Lib
Accurate dinosaurs edited with blender
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The things we feel like we are missing in Linux, and what we miss from Linux when we use proprietary platforms.
We mentioned Dalton’s tool called Boomstick.
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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
Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained
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Is there really a renaissance in open communication tools? Does the success of the Fediverse mean that people are finally moving away from the huge companies that lock your data up? Are FOSS people just living in a bubble while the world continues to use the big platforms? How does Meta/Facebook joining the Fediverse fit into the picture? What about Bluesky?
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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.
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The oldest machines we’d be willing to daily drive including a ThinkPad with Libreboot, the ways that old laptops are sometimes better, and why Microsoft’s silly Windows 11 requirements are great for the second hand Linux-friendly laptop market. Plus why we missed the climate change aspect of speculation about the future.
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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
Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: May 2023 Progress Report
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
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Jorge tries to address Félim‘s concerns about immutable desktop distros like Silverblue and Universal Blue.
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Beautiful places we’ve visited, weird coincidences, disconnecting from tech, and what board game we’d play. With popey from Linux Matters, and Gary from Linux After Dark.
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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.
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ALVR: Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi
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Dalton spent 3 hours having fun playing with open source DJ software Mixxx, and wonders if the rest of us have had a similar amount of fun with FOSS. Plus a great idea for a challenge, and one that’s a terrible idea.
Check out the new LNL show called Ask The Hosts. The first episode is available on Patreon now.
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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.
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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
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
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Amolith attempts to argue that avoiding ads using open source software is piracy, and that piracy in this case is good.
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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.
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We try to imagine what the future holds for our young kids, and realise how much the tech world has changed since we were young. Plus building a dirt cheap NAS, and more.
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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.
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The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
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Configure Firefox to reject cookie banners automatically
Bavarder: Chit-chat with an AI
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Part 2 of our chat with Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great. This time we talk about Mastodon and the Fediverse, central bank digital currencies, cashless societies, the hype around AI, corporate surveillance, and more.
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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.
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Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Fedora Program Manager layed off
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
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The times we’ve spent far too long troubleshooting simple problems – from permissions issues to unplugged cables and CDs in the wrong slots. Plus Dalton realises that he’s a happy Btrfs user.
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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.
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We are joined by Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great to talk about the issues with crypto, Bitcoin, the Lightning network, blockchain, NFTs, and “web3”.
Amolith will be at SELF June 9-11 in Charlotte NC.
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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.
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The Free Software Foundation is dying
Discoveries
Félim’s Irish landcape photo upscaled
Feedback
shotwell-site-generator screenshots
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Whether the idea of “lightweight Linux” is outdated, your feedback about taming Windows and workspaces, a quick look at Bodhi, and digital waste – all the useless data that sits on hard disks and is never even accessed.
We mentioned Linux Matters and Linux Lads Episode 100.
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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
PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of them all turns 30
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
What’s new in Fedora Kinoite 38
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Liam from Gaming on Linux joins us to talk about the current state of Linux gaming, the Steam Deck, how things progressed to this point, Valve being the driving force behind it all, whether the lack of native Linux games matters when Proton exists, and loads more.
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There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress (from the old Ubuntu Podcast) have got the band back together for a new podcast called Linux Matters.
In the first episode Alan discusses running Mastodon for a group of friends, Martin is looking for the best Linux-loving laptop to rival the Apple Silicon offerings, and Mark uses the Steam Deck as his primary gaming device.
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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.
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Feedback
KDE Korner
Most plasma widgets ported to 6 & Nate’s weekly updates
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Windows is much better and so much worse than Joe remembers, and it makes him very grateful for desktop Linux. Plus what preparation (if any) we’ve made for our untimely demise.
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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
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
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We are joined by Amolith from Linux Lads and Alan Pope to discuss Generation Z’s view of technology, and whether modern abstraction layers ultimately detract from ideas of software freedom and digital rights.
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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.
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Garmin watch offline sync with Postrunner
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As companies tighten their belts during these uncertain times, could there be a silver lining for open source and self-hosting? Plus our brief thoughts on workspaces.
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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
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
GCompris overview 180+ activities
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
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We are joined by Alex from Self-Hosted to talk about home media setups. Is it a good idea to use a NAS running a desktop while connected to a TV, or does something like an Nvidia Shield make more sense?
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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.
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Autodarts (video of it in action)
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A year on from our episode about Ubuntu, we still have concerns about the direction of the project. Or should we just call it a product at this point? Plus your feedback about challenges, and Raspberry Pi alternatives.
Our previous episode about Ubuntu
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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
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
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What is the right level of customisation for the Linux desktop?
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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.
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device IDs to get steering wheel
Zelda a Link to the Past on Linux
Feedback
Neon AI OS for the Mycroft Mark II
Behringer UMC22 audiophile 2×2 USB audio interface
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We are joined by Jorge Castro to talk about immutable filesystem Linux distros.
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Corrections from Jorge: “I mentioned hyperreal when I really meant to say Hyprland, and one is a person working on a ublue, the other is a wayland compositor.”
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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
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
Nicco looks at theme & shows 6 “hidden” features of Plasma
Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0
How to add flatpaks on Kubuntu/Neon
Two very last minute tools in Neon & two apps in unstable
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Should open source projects use open platforms for their communities, or should they meet people where they are – places like Discord?
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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
Late Night Linux – Discoveries
Github Sponsors stops taking Paypal
TheAirTraffic (ADS-B Exchange replacement)
Félim’s list of ADS-B Exchange alternatives
Feedback
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What counts as a boutique distro, and do we recommend them? Plus Gary tells us about his experiences at the recent Fosdem conference.
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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
It’s not looking good for Mycroft AI
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.27-eve (Frameworks 5.103.0 is just out) Nate has a writeup and help report multi-monitor bugs effectively
A couple of FOSDEM Reports (or ALL the talks!)
Akademy call for proposals is open
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Martin tells us about why he decided to work with Nix and NixOS professionally.
He mentioned Determinate Systems and Zero to Nix
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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.
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Node Red Home Assistant Contrib
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It’s the nested virtualisation challenge! How many levels of VMs can we get running at once? Plus we get the inside story from Lenovo about running Linux on their Arm ThinkPad.
Challenge
Red Hat article about nested virtualisation
Linux on Lenovo’s Arm ThinkPad
Mark Pearson from Lenovo joins us to talk about running Linux on their X13s ThinkPad.
Instructions for flashing and installing the Debian installer on the X13s
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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
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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In the modern world where we run more and more software from outside our distros’ repositories, how do we know what to trust?
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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.
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Feedback
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Who has the most compute cores, how many are we actually using, and how many of them are running Linux? We finally find out who has the biggest stack of laptops in our core index challenge. Plus Dalton tells us about hacking a Wii U with open source software.
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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
Admin
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KDE and Xfce Kornerx
New image for existing flavor: Xubuntu Minimal
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Martin, Gary, and Hayden explain how their regular live streams benefit the open source projects that they work on.
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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.
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Mozilla changes Firefox’s user agent because of Internet Explorer 11
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We look back at what we wanted to happen in 2022, and look forward to what we want to see in 2023.
Episode 8 where we talked about our 2022 hopes
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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
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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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 almost impossible to buy a Raspberry Pi for a reasonable price at the moment so we talk about alternatives, why a lot of Pi users would be better off with a cheap low-power x86 machine, and why sometimes the Pi makes the most sense.
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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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Modding a Game Cube with a Raspberry Pi Pico, writing a book about cross-platform and cross-architecture development, and the struggles of self-hosted security camera footage.
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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.
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Feedback
Firewalld and Podman – Protecting Your DB
docker will happily bypass your firewall
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With the holiday season upon us, we talk about all the tech that we have to have with us when we travel.
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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
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
Finalizing rpm-ostree support in Discover
Plasma Mobile Gear 22.11 is Out
This week in KDE: Humongous UI improvements
This week in KDE: custom tiling
Status of the 15-Minute Bug Initiative
October/November in KDE Itinerary
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Alan Pope (popey) joins us to discuss building and fostering a positive and productive community.
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An application firewall, reverse engineering with a better and scriptable version of Wireshark, getting the most out of webcams on Linux, running the latest kernel on a ten year old phone, moving away from mailing lists, KDE Korner, and the best distro of 2022(?)
Discoveries
Will’s reverse engineering efforts
PostmarketOS on a Samsung Galaxy S III
Mailing lists are on the wane
The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists
KDE Korner
Jonathan Esk-Riddell’s report from Prague and Scarlett’s too
NeoChat E2EE progressingNate’s Update: Welcome in Plasma
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The Linux setups from the past that we miss the most, and why they are all ones that gave us the freedom to tinker and learn.
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Python comes to Arduino, a look at the new version of Fedora Silverblue, Linux helps Windows work with old printers, running your own Mastodon instance, remastering Ubuntu ISOs, and more. With guest host Alan Pope (popey).
News
Arduino Announces Official MicroPython Support
OpenPrinting keeps old printers working, even on Windows
LibreOffice and blockchain: What cool things are possible?
Running your own Mastodon instance
Popey tells us about running ubuntu.social
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Martin has created a new desktop environment and a container tool, Gary has been clustering Raspberry Pis, and Hayden has been playing with the new Microsoft Arm box.
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Some great discoveries including traffic shaping, USB over IP, speech to text, and a funny Firefox extension. Plus Graham talks to Ken VanDine, the engineering manager for Ubuntu Desktop.
Discoveries
USB/IP protocol — The Linux Kernel documentation
Ken VanDine
Graham sits down with the Ken the Ubuntu desktop engineering manager at the Ubuntu Summit to talk about Snaps, desktop, WSL, Steam, and more.
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Why do we stick with Linux and FOSS, even when our faith is tested?
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Mastodon usage explodes in the wake of Musk ruining Twitter, AI training fair use is about to be legally tested, Signal tries to be Snapchat, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress
What happened to signal-desktop? – snap – snapcraft.io
snap automatic updates can now be ‘held’ indefinitely (currently beta/edge)
Mozilla Ventures: Investing in Responsible Tech
SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency-related projects to be removed
KDE Korner
A New ‘KDE Control Centre’ Widget Inspired by iOS
Kate Treats, Outlines & smarter Krunner
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Simon Butcher joins us to talk about how open source AI can be, in theory and in practice.
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Docker firewall issues, Ardour’s major new feature, listening for your neighbours’ garage door openers and tyre pressure monitors, colourising old photos, complaints from new Ubuntu users, KDE Korner, and more.
Discoveries
Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source
Feedback
Unattended upgrades doesn’t upgrade additional repository
KDE Korner
On hiring, and fundraising to make it more biggerer
This Week in KDE: QA pays off & UI Improvements
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It’s our Halloween Spooktacular! What scares us about Linux, what we find spooky, and what seems like witchcraft.
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It’s our 200th episode spectacular! We look back over some of the key events and trends from the last ~5 years that the show has been going. The rise of Arm and RISC-V, the death of 32-bit x86, Mozilla’s decline, the Ubuntu Phone fever dream, gaming wins, and loads more.
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What problems that we are currently facing will be solved with Linux and FOSS in the future, and why does it involve AI/ML?
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Tracking planes that don’t necessarily want to be tracked, the catch 22 of communicating changes to FOSS users, Graham makes another terrible racket, what we do to procrastinate, and more.
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Virtual Smart Home introduce Pro tier
HPR New Year live show and FOSDEM podcast table
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Is FOSS the ultimate lifeboat? If things go wrong with a tech stack, can you always just fall back on FOSS?
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Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RISC-V laptops, KDE Korner, and more.
News
A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy
New games were still being added last month
Canonical launches free personal Ubuntu Pro subscriptions for up to five machines
Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops
The Steam Deck is now available with no reservations required (mostly)
What KDE are doing to improve Steam Deck and desktop mode (shipped over a MILLION!)
Debian Chooses A Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware
KDE Korner
Akademy videos Day 1 & Day 2 (incl. Nate’s Goal)
Akademy BOFs & Translations on UserBase
KDE Neon 22.04 will have Firefox PPA instead of snap
Overhall of Kontact Encryption
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Does it matter where you host your FOSS code? GitHub benefits from the network effect, but other options have their own benefits. Plus Gary explains why he doesn’t use Git.
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Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham makes a dreadful racket, and more.
Discoveries
CIA museum: Inside the world’s most top secret museum
The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice on Apple’s Mac App Store
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Our worst Linux cock-ups, and what we learned from them.
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systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more.
News
Listener Michael sent Joe a LMN 3
Systemd support is now available in WSL
Audacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support
Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers
KDE Korner
Intel Becomes First Krita Development Fund Corporate Gold Patron
This week in KDE: It’s a big one, folks
This week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability
KDE Neon 22.04 Rebase Imminent – Vote Firefox Snap/Other
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What’s the best way to implement telemetry and metrics in open source software, and should it be opt-in or opt-out?
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Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and more.
Discoveries
UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro
AI “art”
Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition
Professional AI whisperers have launched a marketplace for DALL-E prompts
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Where do we draw the line when it comes to our ethics and our ability to put food on the table?
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Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner.
News
NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions
Ubuntu Unity Becoming An Official Flavour With 22.10 Release
github-cli Debian package GPG key expires
LG is bringing NFTs to its smart TVs – The Verge
Feedback
UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files
KDE Korner
Neal Gompa explains why do none of the major distros have KDE Plasma as default
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What F/OSS means to us and why it’s important.
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A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more.
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If we could go back in time, what advice would we give our younger, less experienced counterparts about Linux and FOSS?
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We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner.
News
Introducing multitasking to Arduino
GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash
Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users
GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments
Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
VLC Media Player banned in India, website and VLC download link blocked
Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse
KDE Korner
Nate’s updates: Fewer microscopic bugfixes and weekly updates 1 2 3 4
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It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS.
Make sure to listen to part 1 first.
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Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more.
Discoveries
ChromeOS Flex is now generally available
Discussion
Open source isn’t working for AI
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How efficient are our whole setups – including servers, client machines, and VPSs? Could we be doing more to save energy and money?
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It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop.
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There is a sustainability problem in FOSS. How do we fix it?
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Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.
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Beej’s guide to network programming
LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app
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How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries
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In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line?
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Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more.
News
London Meetup 5th August near The Eye
Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS
Torvalds is using Asahi on an Arm Mac, and the next kernel will be 6.0
Torvalds didn’t expect to run Linux on Arm Macs
Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks
Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade
Official Unreal Engine 5 editor binaries for Linux have been published
Banned from Minecraft, crypto group says it’ll just make a better game
KDE Korner
Kate incremental updates and Itinerary Update
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Hayden explains why he uses Windows Subsystem for Linux on a daily basis, and argues that Microsoft is a very different organisation from the one that was so hostile to FOSS 20+ years ago.
He mentioned his unofficial timeline of Microsoft’s transition towards open source.
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Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot follow-up, and more.
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Our smallest and our biggest FOSS wins.
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Thinkpads that won’t boot Linux by default, Lennart moves to Microsoft, the Firefox Snap is finally a lot faster, Reddit shows its true colours, KDE Korner, and more.
News
London Meetup 5th August near The Eye
Lenovo Secured-core PC unable to boot Linux from a USB stick
Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem
Lennart leaves Red Hat and Goes to Microsoft
Microsoft is a Linux and open source company
Firefox snap performance Part 3: significant startup improvements
KDE Korner
Should Fedora sponsor KDE officially?
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Martin and Hayden explain what it’s actually like to use GitHub Copilot, and why they think it’s going to have a positive impact open source software. Plus Hayden explains the legal nuances.
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A modern alternative to the watch command, automating lights, and hacking routers, using FOSS to make installing Windows easier. Plus our thoughts on VC funding in open source, and more.
Discoveries
Hacking a Netgear router to be a ‘mesh’ satellite
Rufus 3.19 adds bypass for mandatory Windows 11 22H2 Microsoft Account requirement
Raspberry Pi Restores Guitar Amp, Complete With Effects
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Improvements in git 2.37 when resolving conflicts with vimdiff
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We all tried to live with a touch-only experience on x86-64 devices. It turns out that Linux is very close to offering a great experience.
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The community gets angry about GitHub Copilot, Félim gets angry about email, Firefox continues to improve, drawers fill up with more Raspberry Pis, KDE shines as ever, and more.
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London Meetup 5th August near The Eye
Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform
GitHub Copilot and open source laundering
Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer
Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround
Thunderbird 102 Released: A Serious Upgrade To Your Communication
Thunderbird is getting a visual revamp
Lawmakers seek to accelerate asteroid finder and want more Mars helicopters
KDE Korner
Digitally signing PDFs with a hardware token
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Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss the nuances of gatekeeping in the Linux community, and why he thinks we inadvertently engaged in it on the last episode.
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Will buys a cheap mouse, Félim thinks he’s a meteorologist, Graham hacks his TV, and Joe complains about YouTube.
Discoveries
Device/DevMode Manager for webOS TV
LMN 3: An Open-Source DAW-in-a-Box
Doom on coreboot and on a Bluetooth dongle
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Do we use Linux to avoid being locked into proprietary systems and services, or is that just as possible using any OS? Plus we bully Dalton for making us read a very American book.
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Thumbs up for Mozilla and KDE, mixed reaction to mobile Thunderbird and Microsoft, AI definitely isn’t sentient, and more.
News
Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android
Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users worldwide
How to easily switch from Chrome to Firefox
How to set Firefox as your default browser on Windows
Microsoft Store: no astronomical pricing and paid open source or free copycat applications anymore
Ready to transform the enterprise world? We are!
Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient
Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview
What is LaMDA and What Does it Want?
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.25 along with Frameworks 5.95
Goal: Apps & the call for new Goals is open
Platform Calendar Access followup
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Kyle joins us again, along with Hayden Barnes to answer the question: what exactly is a Linux distribution these days? The rise of immutable filesystems, containerisation, virtualisation, hypervisors, and abstraction layers makes this more complex than it might appear.
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Arch is really easy to install now, Graham uses his keyboard as a mouse, replacing expensive security platforms with FOSS, silly AI pictures, and Will baffles us with electronics technobabble. Plus feedback about all sorts, including a chance to hear the noise that sends Joe to sleep.
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Jason’s command: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise band -n 100 20 band -n 50 20 gain +25 fade h 1 864000 1
Joe’s: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise lowpass -1 150 lowpass -1 150 gain +10
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Part 2 of the challenge to do something useful with our lowest-end hardware, and two polar opposite customer support experiences.
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The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel’s new “features”.
News
Alex’s London meetup is going to be a day earlier than originally planned. He’s still working on a venue but stay tuned and watch the meetup page!
Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations
NASA’s 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain
Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot
DuckDuckGo: Why our browsers won’t block Microsoft trackers
DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract
Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion
VMware users are nervous about Broadcom acquisition
Broadcom’s stated strategy ignores most VMware customers
Linux 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New CPU & GPU Features
Intel’s software-defined silicon set to debut in Linux 5.18
KDE Korner
SCAM: Lightmoon IS NOT Kdenlive. Lightmoon is MALWARE
KDE ECO sprint May & Nico Fella
Job vacancy for furthering KDE in app stores
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Martin and Joe are joined by Kyle Fazzari to reimagine the Linux desktop. What we’d do differently if we were starting over today, who we’d aim it at, what packaging system we’d use, what interface, and more.
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FOSS alternatives to TeamViewer and Plex, Alexa automation made easy, Thunderbird is in great health, plus your feedback about all sorts including an amazing weird Linux installation.
Discoveries
Thunderbird is very much alive and it has an RSS reader
Feedback
Geekbench results for Linux on Surface devices
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The first part of our challenge to do something useful with the lowest-end hardware that we own, and whether forking really is as much of an open source benefit as it’s often considered.
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We break with tradition and talk about some of the things we love about Linux and FOSS. Plus overhyped NVIDIA news, Google relents on free custom email accounts, Félim is trolled about Chromebooks, KDE Korner, and a Rust supply-chain attack drags up an old debate.
News
No FOSS Talk Live this year but there’s Alex’s outdoor meetup in August
Nvidia takes first step toward open source Linux GPU drivers
Hector Martin’s Twitter thread about it
Google backtracks on legacy GSuite account shutdown, won’t take user emails
Chromebooks are the perfect place to teach yourself about Linux
KDE Korner
Lars Knoll Leaving The Qt Company, Starting New Chapter Outside Qt
Almost time to pick new goals and end of KDE Goals: “Consistency”
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Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardware.
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The Unity desktop is still alive (as is Trinity)
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A new release of Lineage OS is out and we give it a go. Installing and running it, some of the issues we came across, why it’s getting more complicated to run custom ROMs, and why Gary just uses an iPhone.
LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available
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The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether software can ever be finished, some great discoveries, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Martin Wimpress has joined Linux Downtime as a co-host
Mars helicopter spots wreckage from Perseverance landing
Ingenuity might not last much longer
LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available
More about Lineage on Linux After Dark this Friday
Apple clarifies its controversial app removal emails with policy statement
UK finance minister blames legacy IT for benefits delay
Bad things are going to happen to the Internet in the UK
Discoveries
Charge your laptop off a big external battery over USB-C
KDE Korner
KItinery out of Play
New Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04 with new site
New gestures support in Plasma 5.25
Poppler’s new embedded font support
LinuxAppSummit & video of Q&A with Neil McGovern and Aleix Pol
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Adam tries to sell Fedora to Joe and Martin, two Ubuntu (flavour) users.
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Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more.
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hw-probe
Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less
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Dalton tells us about using a Steam Deck for a month, and Chris has a solution for Joe’s Python problem.
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A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released
Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023
Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak
Sinclair’s 8-bit home computer, ZX Spectrum, turns 40
De-AMP: Cutting Out Google and Enhancing Privacy
Discoveries
New official Mastodon apps for Android and iOS
KDE Korner
iOS KDEConnect getting better Alerts
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Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate. Governance and finances, the benefits of being an official Ubuntu flavour, hardware enablement, and more.
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Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus your feeback about supporting us with crypto nonsense, running Linux on work machines, an esoteric browser, and more.
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Interview with Gavin Freeborn about Nyxt
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We need to talk about Ubuntu. The future, the present, the staff departures, slow snaps, and so much more.
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Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more.
News
Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support
Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers
An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye
Ubuntu gets a new rolling-release remix
GPD are getting quite desperate against the Steam Deck
Her Majesty’s Treasury is working on a new kind of mint: NFTs
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KDE Itinerary has barcodes for the gate/seating and now a barcode reader
This week and the previous update-a-geddon
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Joe is joined by Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast to talk about what and why Alex self-hosts, the hardware and software he uses, and how his approaches have changed over the years.
Alex mentioned his Twitter, his blog, a specific blog post about transcoding video, and Serverbuilds.net.
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A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more.
Discoveries
Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans
FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux
It takes a Mac to save a Mac but there is a FOSS alternative
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Archiving and Digital Preservation
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The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.
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Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying
The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here!
Linux Downtime Episode about Asahi
This was the first step in the interview process at Canonical – I withdrew my application
My Interview Process Experience With Canonical
Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own
KDE Korner
QT6 work progresses with Frameworks+Plasma and now Kate/Kwrite
Some KDE items of interest from Wikidata Data Reuse Days
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Joe and Gary from Linux After Dark talk about installing and running the first alpha of Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini and Macbook Air, as both a desktop and a headless server.
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We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim.
Discoveries
blame Canada for computer translation
Borderlands synth
Computers are really fast, but less exciting now
114 billion transistors, one big meh
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Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy.
News
A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon)
Something is up with elementary
GNOME, Mono, Xamarin founder Miguel de Icaza leaves Microsoft
Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years
Click here to see why the BBC HATES RSS
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New Firmware Security tab coming in Plasma 5.25
Signature support is now Okular in on Android
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Joe is joined by Stuart Langridge to talk about Open Web Advocacy, a group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to advocate for the future of the open web.
Stuart’s consulting company Kryogenix
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A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.
Discoveries
Feedback
GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
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The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever.
News
One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi
Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android
Steam Deck review: it’s not ready
Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad
Qualcomm’s new PC chips are good, but they still can’t match Apple’s M1
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Joe is joined by Adam Pigg, a member of the Sailfish OS Community who has ported the OS to various phones.
A thread with some of Adam’s history
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Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON, Matrix, audio, and an old Mac.
Discoveries
wordle in under 50 lines of bash
Feedback
fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer
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Why Linux operating systems on small Arm devices almost all feel half-finished, and what we can do to improve things.
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Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi’s latest multi-distro demo image
PinePhone: trying out a Linux-based smartphone
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Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review
Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising
Pocket migration to Firefox accounts
Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted, but it might show up in your Peloton
Inside Google’s Plan to Salvage Its Stadia Gaming Service
Early Steam Deck previews are out – and battery life is causing concern
Steam Deck CAD files now available
Twitter thread about the Deck’s size
Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck
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Plasma 5.24 (Nico has a video) & Bug fixes coming with some improvements too
Plasma Mobile Gear 22.01 is out
5.25 starts: Discover redesign begins & Navigate panels with the keyboard
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Joe is joined by Joey Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! to talk about how Ubuntu and its community have changed over the years, snaps, GNOME, Flutter, WSL, and more.
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Why FOSS is unlikely to gain traction in education, what’s great about Discourse, Linux gaming, the uncertain future of Termux, our thoughts on Snap and Flatpak, and more.
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AppImage, Flatpak und Snap in comparison
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At what point is the FOSS solution more hassle and time-consuming than it’s worth? We confess our various compromises with non-free hardware and software.
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The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, and Graham plays a synth. Plus KDE Korner.
News
Steam Deck Deposit – Steam Deck Launching February 25th
The Pains Involved In Moving on from Google Apps for Domains
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
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15 Minute bug initiative and progress (plus some upcoming features)
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Joe is joined by Jorge Castro to talk about distros with immutable filesystems like Fedora Silverblue, and Flatpak and Flathub.
Jorge mentioned:
Setting yourself up for success before trying Fedora Silverblue
Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022
An example command for zoom which will show you what the app sees:
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[This show used to be called Late Night Linux Extra. Don’t worry, the fabric of reality isn’t breaking down.]
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Why some people use Mint instead of Ubuntu, and your feedback. Plus all sorts of discoveries including programming lights, Ceefax, and a FOSS alternative to Sonos.
Discoveries
iPlayer probably runs on 32-bit Linux
Why use Mint over Ubuntu?
Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon released!
New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition
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A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more.
News
JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort
Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won’t ante up
Mozilla backtracks on crypto donations
Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web
Dev of namesake app donates proceeds to charity
Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days
Canon forced to ship ink cartridges without chips
KDE Korner
Gnome App ID in KDE Task Manager
KDE PIM Updates and 4k LOC from Dolphin refactored out
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Adam and Neal return to talk about Google’s mysterious open source operating system Fuchsia.
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A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire.
Discoveries
A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer
Feedback
CalyxOS and a site to check which apps will work with de-Googled Android
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Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Korner, and more.
News/discussion
Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects
UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere
Firefox I Love You, But Can You Shut Up About Mozilla VPN?!
Mozilla begs for crypto & jwz lays some smack down
Canonical Seeks Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
In 2022, security will be priority number one for Linux and open-source developers
Discoveries
ts – Prefix any line with the current timestamp
The Rockstar Language Specification
KDE Korner
Highlights of 2021 and a Roadmap for 2022
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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2021 predictions, and make some new ones for 2022.
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What it’s really like to live with Fedora Silverblue on your main machine. The good, the bad, and why Dalton is still using it.
Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite
Distrobox, a way to use Toolboxes on other distros
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We look back at some of the biggest stories and trends of 2021 including Linux on Mars, gaming, Arm, drama, and NFTs.
2021 Linux year in review
Mars
Linux has made it to Mars [feb]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars [apr]
NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight [apr]
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight [apr]
“Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role [jul]
Mars helicopter has Log4j bug, breaks records all the same [dec]
Gaming
Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years [feb]
Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap [nov]
Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers [dec]
Steam Link now available on Linux [mar]
Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC [jun]
Steam Deck [jul]
EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound [sep]
Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 [nov]
Drama
FSF Adopts New Governance Framework for Board Members [dec]
Audacity 3.0.0 Released [mar]
Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! [may]
Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement [jun]
Audacity privacy notice [jul]
Clarification of Privacy Policy [jul]
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management [may]
Welcome to Libera Chat [may]
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work [jun]
Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon [sep]
Arm
Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 [jan]
Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon [jan]
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 [nov]
Pinephone Pro [oct]
How We Ported Linux to the M1 [jan]
M1 Macs booting from NVMe [jan]
GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 [aug]
The End-Of-Year 2021 State Of Linux On Apple’s M1 SoC [dec]
Asahi Linux looks forward to exciting 2022 on Apple silicon [dec]
NFTs
Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT [jun]
Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it [oct]
Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT [dec]
Stan Lee’s memory defiled [dec]
Brian Eno is not a fan of NFTs [dec]
Existential dread
Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years [aug]
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What’s Up With KDE, And How Was It Implemented!
Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
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Joe is joined by Chris from Linux After Dark and Fedora user Adam Dean to discuss using GNOME and why we shouldn’t bash it so often. Adam wrote a book called the Linux Administration Cookbook.
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Achieving the dream of mobile and desktop convergence turns out to be pretty easy. Plus a serious contender for the best Arch-based distro, and your feedback about hacking and Lineage OS.
First Impressions
We had a look at Garuda Linux, a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux.
Convergence
Graham tells us about running proper Linux on his phone with AnLinux. He mentioned Termux.
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What’s the ideal desktop Linux business model? As a loss-leader for your cloud offerings? Pay what you want? Bundled software? Hardware pre-installations? Something else?
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Nextcloud and friends go after Microsoft, modern packaging comes under fire, whether we should be targeting less advanced users, a new old Raspberry Pi OS, KDE Korner, and more.
News
EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft
Nextcloud boss on Microsoft OneDrive complaint
More about those zero-dot users
“New” old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)
Listing rumours for Raspberry Pi? No ‘urgency’ says Upton
On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication
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KDE Korner
Digital Signatures in Okular – Thanks to NLNet
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Joe is joined by Allan Jude from the 2.5 Admins and BSD Now podcasts to talk about FreeBSD. Allan mentioned his company Klara.
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A Russian distro teaches some of us a valuable lesson, plus the great email client debate, and your thoughts on documenting and discarding collections.
First Impressions
We had a look at Alt Linux, a Russian distro.
Feedback
This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community
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Are distros like Fedora Silverblue with immutable filesystems the future of desktop Linux?
A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops
Silverblue: pretty good family OS
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Mixed news for the Steam Deck, deja vu in Germany, Canonical looks to solve an industry-wide issue, Stadia’s death rattle, Apple’s nod towards right to repair, and KDE Korner.
News
Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022
Here’s some of what we’ve learned about the Steam Deck
German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
Apple announces Self Service Repair
The future of documentation at Canonical
Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap
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KDE Korner
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Joe is joined by Carl George, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, to discuss Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Linux, and CentOS Stream.
Carl is a regular in the Linux Unplugged Mumble room. We mentioned Carl’s Twitter thread about the relationship between Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS.
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How to document a collection in the long-term, and how to get rid of it once it’s a bunch of old crap. Plus your feedback about video players, email clients, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins.
Félim mentioned Camara Education.
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What exactly is desktop Linux? Does Chrome OS count? What about Ubuntu Touch?
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A new cheap Pi and a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, Firefox gets pretty new colours, a management shakeup at GitHub, Red Hat’s new dev hiring policy, KDE Korner, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins.
News
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15
The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi
Bullseye – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS
Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze
Firefox 94 Released with Big Performance Improvements
Introducing new Colorways for Firefox 94
Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson
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KDE Korner
November App Update as well as Kalendar 0.1.0
Nicco gives us a quick run through the new KDE Bugs and accent colours on folders
Updates in KDE PIM
Giant Swarm Site Reliability job
Giant Swarm are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (and other roles)
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Joe and Alex from the Self-Hosted podcast discuss DockerSlim and Slim AI with Martin Wimpress. Martin mentioned SlimDevOps on Twitch.
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We are all impressed by an obscure open source OS. Plus your feedback about duplicated effort by app devs, ignoring the modern web, Flathub confusion, a positive way to view of the FOSS future, and more.
First Impressions
We had a look at Haiku, an open source OS that’s “inspired by BeOS, is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.”
Feedback
We mentioned a couple of Flathub bug reports and a new frontend preview.
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What it means for Linux to “win” and whether we even want that to happen, and why we talk about Arm so much.
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Microsoft upsets the FOSS community, Moxie trolls NFT clowns, Trump’s people don’t seem to understand licences, a 1337 haxx0r tool, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Apple joins Blender Development Fund
Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it
Trump’s Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public License (of Mastodon)
Donald Trump’s new social media SPAC, explained
Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?
Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry
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KDE Korner
Graham to start – KDEConnect for iOS and KDEnlive too
KDE on Touchscreens… not PerfeKt
Finally 5.23.1 is out… and NVidia support is coming
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Joe is joined by Btrfs advocate Neal Gompa and ZFS advocate Jim Salter (from 2.5 Admins) to discuss Jim’s recent criticism of Btrfs.
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The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor, starting a FOSS career, and why we have a Telegram group instead of IRC or Matrix.
First Impressions
We had a look at Regolith, a modern desktop environment that’s built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3. Graham mentioned tiling scripts for kwin.
Feedback
We mentioned Photopea.
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It’s not a great idea to wipe someone’s only laptop, install Linux on it, and then leave them to it. We talk about the responsible ways to get people started with Linux.
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Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE goodness in the Korner.
News
Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them
News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile
Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist
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KDE Korner
Krita 5.0 beta 2 is out and 5 will bring a price bump in the Mac/Windows stores
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Joe is joined by Gary Kramlich, the Pidgin project maintainer. Gary mentioned the contributing page, and the upcoming State of the Bird event which will be streamed on his Twitch channel.
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Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vivaldi in Manjaro, and why we don’t talk about Fedora very often.
First Impressions
We had a look at Xfce, a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems that Joe loves. Félim mentioned Zorin OS.
Graham and the Pinephone
Graham’s phone broke recently so he decided to try using the Pinephone as his main phone. He tells us how it went. He mentioned Waydroid.
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Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, and details of a new show in the LNL family.
News
Linux After Dark has launched!
Ubuntu Podcast after-party live stream
Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap the Default
Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years
Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
BattlEye to support the Steam Deck
Building an Alternative Ecosystem
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KDE Korner
Get Drawing With Krita with this Book
Ever. So. Closer. And a beta test in October
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In the first episode of a brand new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux family, Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe speculate about what will happen to Linux in the next 30 years.
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Joe is joined by Alyssa Rosenzweig, a graphics developer who’s passionate about software freedom and leads the Panfrost and Asahi graphics drivers, about porting Linux to the M1 Macs.
Gary, Chris and Dalton haven’t disappeared. We’ve launched a new show called Linux After Dark.
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What we’d do if we were in charge of the Linux desktop, first impressions of an unusual but frustrating distro, and your feedback about Mastodon and Bodhi Linux.
First Impressions
We had a look at GoboLinux, an alternative Linux distribution which
redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy.
If we were in charge of the Linux desktop
What we’d do if if we were magically in charge of the Desktop teams of Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE.
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Manjaro is shipping a proprietary browser and some people are upset, a win for Firefox on Windows, Proton Mail doesn’t make you magically impervious to the long arm of the law, Bitcoin becomes an official currency in El Salvador, influential friends call it a day, and more.
News
Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users?
Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon
ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy
Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency
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KDE Korner
Killing the dreaded hamburger menu and Tags are nearly there
NERC Space Geodesy Facility featured on Tom Scott
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Dalton gives us his first impressions of the Framework laptop, why we didn’t talk about AMD mobile CPUs when the M1 came up, and what we do when the software we want isn’t in the main repo.
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Félim is trolled about the cloud, our first impressions of elementary OS, your feedback, and more.
First Impressions
We had a look at elementary OS, the “thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS”.
Benefits of the cloud
Gary from LNL Extra joins us to wind Félim up.
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The kernel turns 30, flagship phones get even more locked down, great news for running Linux on M1 Macs, AMP looks to be exactly what we thought it was, KDE Korner, and more.
News
DebConf just wrapped up and there are videos available
Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years
Samsung will let you unlock your Z Fold 3’s bootloader, but at the cost of your cameras
GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1
Resigning from the AMP advisory committee
Admin
Check out Late Night Linux Extra 29
KDE Korner
PineBook / PinePhone Review by Nico
KDE PIM Update especially Kalendar (New ToDo app) and a video of it on a PinePhone
Early days but Tokodon is a KDE mastodon client
WARNING: scam mails about krita and youtube coming from krita.io
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Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe discuss reporting bugs, why we don’t always do it, and why we really should.
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What we all thought about the open and federated Twitter alternative Mastodon, plus your feedback about the new user experience, and why Graham and Joe don’t use Linux for making music.
First Impressions
We had a look at Fostodon, a FOSS-focused Mastodon instance.
Feedback
We mentioned Going Linux.
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New releases from elementary OS and Debian, Apple causes a big privacy stink, KDE Korner, your feedback about Linux grifters, and some mid-summer silliness.
News
Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now
Admin
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KDE Korner
Along with KDEnlive 21.08
Ads for Elisa, Dolphin and Konsole
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AlmaLinux
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Gary, Chris, and Joe are joined by Dalton to discuss whether platforms really matter in an age where they all offer so much choice with Virtualization, WSL, proton, and cloud desktops etc.
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Our first impressions of a relatively unusual distro. Plus your feedback about Syncthing, GitHub Copilot, and advice for a new Linux user.
First Impressions
We had a look at Bodhi Linux, a lightweight distribution featuring the Moksha Desktop.
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Whether GNOME is meant to be used in its default state, why open source doesn’t need to conquer the world to succeed, emulating ancient Windows versions on dirt cheap modern hardware, KDE Korner, and more.
News
My proposal for scaling open source: don’t
Cracking Open the Android/iOS Grip on Smartphones and the Mobile Internet
Emulating The IBM PC On An ESP32
WEB@30 Exhibition – 26th July to 3rd September 2021
Admin
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KDE Korner
KDE Connect is Now Available to Windows 10 Users & work has started on rewrite of Mac version
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Gary, Chris, and Joe cover some of your feedback about why we use traditional GTK desktops rather than Plasma or a tiling window manager, why we don’t use MikroTik network gear, and Joe’s “homelab”.
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Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting joins us to discuss Syncthing, feedback about whether Silverblue is the future, and how the FOSS community might be susceptible to being exploited.
First Impressions
We had a look at Syncthing, a continuous file synchronization program.
An inherent vulnerability in the FOSS community
Is the FOSS community seems to be so susceptible to being taken advantage of?
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The Steam Deck is probably the best news for Linux gaming since Proton, the Mars helicopter has over-delivered, whether Windows 11 is a good opportunity for FOSS, KDE Korner, and more.
News
“Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role
Help us to improve LibreOffice Calc by completing our survey
Why Windows 11 Could Be Good News for Ubuntu
KDE Korner
Lots of new improvements to Tok
New Kalender app coming along nicely
This week in KDE: KDE-powered Steam Deck revealed!
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Joe talks to Chris and Gary about their homelab setups, their use of the cloud, and how it all ties together with WireGuard.
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A quick look at Fedora Silverblue, your feedback including scanning and iOS vs Android, and FOSS devs actually making money with guest Daniel Foré.
First Impressions
We had a look at Fedora Silverblue, an immutable version of Fedora Workstation.
Feedback
Software subscriptions and FOSS
We are joined by Daniel Foré to discuss software subscriptions and monetising FOSS. We mentioned elementary Developer Weekend.
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GitHub might put coders out of a job and piss them off in the process, Audacity’s owners cause more drama, IBM’s surprising management announcement, KDE Korner, and more.
News
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work
Clarification of Privacy Policy
When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos’s £136m contract with NHS England
Admin
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KDE Korner
KDE Search: Tip and Tricks with Krunner and Kickoff!
21.08 is coming with Konsole plugin system and Gwenview 16bit colour support
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Joe is joined by Chris and Gary again to discuss cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and NFTs. Our history, our mistakes, and ultimately why we became jaded about the whole thing.
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Our long-awaited look at RebeccaBlackOS and how it drove us over the edge, and your feedback about Arch, Firefox, and loud dogs. Then a shocking revelation about who Félim trusts, and where we think Linux will be in 10 years.
First Impressions
We had a look at RebeccaBlackOS, a fan-made tribute to the singer that’s based on Debian.
Feedback
Things we mentioned:
Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx: Custom CSS tweaks for Firefox 57+
Firefox: Hide Native Tabs and Titlebar
Josh’s CSS for Tree Style Tabs
FOSS Talk Live leftovers
More questions that we didn’t get round to answering at FOSS Talk Live.
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Tim Berners-Lee jumps the shark, Chrome OS is 10, KDE Korner, good things about all sorts of projects, our Linux frustrations, Android or iOS, and more.
Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show.
News
Microsoft’s Linux repositories were down for 18+ hours
Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT
Admin
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Dev Null and the Kernel Panics
FOSS Talk Live leftovers
The spinning wheel of meh at FOSS Talk Live ended up with loads of leftover questions so we answered a few of them.
Chrome OS at 10
10 years later, Chrome OS starts to look like a proper OS
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.22 Video from the promo team
Bug Triaging Needed – Nate
Akademy is on with day 2 and day 3 reports up and BOFs ongoing this week (Channel)
/u/wael_ch/ made some cool shortcuts for Dolphin, Plasma and Krunner check out /r/kde
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Joe is joined by Chris and Gary to discuss how we got into Linux around a decade ago, and what would be different for someone getting into it these days.
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A replacement for CentOS that seems identical so far, and your feedback about IRC, laptop marketing, Arch, alternatives to Windows terminal servers, loud dogs, and more.
Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show.
First Impressions
We had a look at Rocky Linux, “a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America’s top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction”.
Feedback
Things we mentioned:
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The new Firefox design annoys Félim, more Audacity drama, Fuchsia launches with a whimper, Ardour faces an age-old problem, KDE Korner, and more.
Listen to 2.5 Admins episode 40 for a detailed breakdown of the Freenode drama.
FOSS Talk Live is happening this Saturday, starting at 7pm UK time on YouTube.
News
The Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement
The Ardour The “paywall” and related matters
Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia
Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
Admin
Check out Late Night Linux Extra 23.
KDE Korner
KDE Neon’s QT Built From KDE Git
Mid-Year Update and Plasma 5.22 out… Tuesday hopefully
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Joe is joined by Chris and listener Orlando to talk about why Arch and derivatives like Artix Linux are perfect for some users.
Chris mentioned a talk called The Tragedy of systemd.
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A quick look at a powerful distro that deserves a lot more time, your feedback, and Graham finally tries out a Pinephone.
First Impressions
We had a look at NixOS – a distro with an unusual approach to package management.
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Feedback
Things we mentioned:
Pinephone
Graham finally has his hands on a Pinephone and so we asked him all about it.
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Drama in the IRC world, the Framework modular laptop pre-orders are live, good and bad Android news, rare praise for Mozilla, the usual distaste for the UK government, and KDE korner.
News
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management
Preorders for the modular Framework Laptop are now open, starting at $999
Hands-On with Framework’s Fully Modular Laptop!
Improving Firefox stability on Linux
Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps on their own
Google Play Store will be able to send you compromised Android apps from August
Magisk developer leaves Apple to join Google on the Android security team
How the UK’s Online Safety Bill threatens Matrix
Online abuse: Why management liability isn’t the answer
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KDE Korner
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In this community meetup recording, we discuss what lengths we all go to to protect our privacy.
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The perfect offline distro, and your feedback about WSLg, Plasma issues, our terrible artwork, some app suggestions, and more.
First Impressions
We had a look at Endless OS, “the operating system that comes with everything your family needs”.
Feedback
Things we mentioned:
Clipboard freezes when KVM/QEMU VM window is opened using virt-manager
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Big news for everyone’s favourite audio recorder and editor Audacity, KDE Korner, and the various ways we all follow the news.
News
Audacity & MuseScore Announcement!
Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
Ultimate Guitar launches Muse Group and acquires Audacity
elementary OS 6 Beta Available
KDE Developer tries out ElementaryOS 6 Odin
Linux App Summit 2021 (13-15 May 2021): Timetable
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Where we get our news
RSS feeds, Reddit, Slashdot, Hacker News, Twitter, mainstream news, and more.
KDE Korner
Trinity Desktop R14.0.10 Released
KDE Connect’s Android App Gets a Mini Makeover
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In this community meetup recording, we discuss the realities of using a FOSS-only phone.
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Whether there’s any point trying out random distros, and your feedback about AMD hardware, slow phones, messaging services, cryptocurrencies, and KDE.
First Impressions
Is there anything to be gained from trying new distros? We’ll be pressing the random button on DistroWatch and briefly trying out the distro it picks for us. The first distro will be Endless OS.
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Feedback
The real reason old phones slow down, suggestions for Signal replacements, machine learning with an AMD card, a defence of cryptocurrencies, a weird KDE issue, and where to get help with KDE.
Things we mentioned:
FOSDEM talks on using AMD GPUs
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Linux flies on Mars, a new Ubuntu release, the kernel is the subject of an ill-judged study, Linux GUI apps on Windows, KDE Korner, and more.
News
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars
NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight
Ubuntu Server 21.04: What’s new?
Ubuntu 21.04 Flavours Released, This is What’s New
The Initial Preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment
Reversion of all of the umn.edu commits
An open letter to the Linux community
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KDE Korner
Krita Arrives in the Epic Store
Nico’s video series: Plasma Panel
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In this community meetup recording, we discuss how far we are all willing to go to support people who we switch to Linux.
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We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and more. Plus Joe gives up on KDE.
We mentioned Launcher Manager.
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Check out the Conversations in Code podcast.
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Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out if you’re part of Chrome’s latest experiment, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends
WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
Signal finally updates public server code after months of silence
US Government Sues Decentralized Content Platform LBRY Over $11M in Token Sales
LineageOS 18.1 based on Android 11 is here for nearly 60 devices
Mozilla partners with NVIDIA to democratize and diversify voice technology
Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant program
Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla
Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment
Bad Voltage 3×26: Luminiferous Aether
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Graham was on Linux Unplugged 400 talking about brewing beer with Linux.
KDE Korner
Announcing KDE’s Qt 5 Patch Collection
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Joe is joined by Sean Davis to discuss the his shift from Xfce develpment towards elementary OS, and then we find out that Félim has a lot more tech superstitions than he thought. There is some bad language in this episode.
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The lengths that we’ve all been to for a smooth home media setup, your feedback about SUSE and NFTs, and we hear from some actual young people who use Linux.
Home media setups
MythTV, Pis, x86 boxes, and grown-up solutions like the Firestick
How to Stream Netflix, Disney Plus, and more on raspberry pi 4 widevine
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Feedback
Follow-up on getting young people into FOSS, more on why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, we hear from loads of SUSE users, and a potential use for NFTs.
Will mentioned the openSUSE Virtual Conference 2021.
CBT Nuggets
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Linode
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Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.
News
An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions
An open letter in support of RMS
PHP repository moved to GitHub after malicious code inserted under creator Rasmus Lerdorf’s name
Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support
Admin
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KDE Korner
Linode
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The importance of open source vs open standards, and the best way to move beyond the Linux desktop into servers and headless boxes.
Keep an eye on this page for details of the next community meetup.
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What’s changed about Linux and FOSS in the last crazy year, a new private search engine on the horizon, and your feedback about all sorts.
A new hope for search?
Admin
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A year on from The Event
Almost a year to the day since the UK went into its first lockdown we discuss what this last crazy 12 months has changed about Linux, FOSS, open standards, and privacy.
Feedback
Follow-up on the Framework laptop, KDE offline updates, GNOME’s popularity, getting kids into FOSS, and more.
Linode
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Datadog
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Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more.
News
Steam Link now available on Linux
SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO
Canonical Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps
NASA Mars helicopter lead on Linux Unplugged
Admin
The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 26th March at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 17.
NFTs
Non-fungible tokens: a passing fad, a serious investment opportunity, or a dystopian nightmare?
NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions
Stop this digital ownership madness. NFTs are bullshit. And the stupid makes me angry
The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world
Jack’s first tweet is for sale
The climate controversy swirling around NFTs
KDE Korner
Elisa on the desktop and the phone… you could say… konvergence
Save and load plasma config Nico Love Video Series
Linode
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Datadog
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Entroware
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How do we get the next generation of kids into Linux and FOSS? A question we tried to answer in this recording from a community meetup.
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Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more.
RISC OS with the Pi 400
Will has a new Raspberry Pi 400 and has been trying out RISC OS.
Mint’s update problem
Admin
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Feedback
Follow-up on messaging including Pidgin plugins, why GNOME is such a popular choice for distros, email on Android, and a possible reason for slow Xubuntu shutdowns.
Linode
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Datadog
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Lernard
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Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS projects, Xfce news, and KDE Korner.
News
Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share
Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection
Introducing the Framework Laptop
Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations
Admin
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Xfce Xorner
And Now For Something Completely Different
KDE Korner
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In the latest community meetup recording we discuss the best distros for low end and high end hardware.
Check out the 2.5 Admins podcast.
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Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks.
Messaging Overload
Our thoughts on a recent blog post by popey about all the different messaging apps and services that he uses.
Feedback
Follow-up on Debian, progressive web apps, and supporting Firefox.
Linux on Chrome OS devices
We are joined by Chris Pearse from Hither Green IT to talk about hacking Chromebooks and Chromeboxes to run “proper” Linux distros like GalliumOS and POP!_OS. He mentioned MrChromebox.
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Datadog
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Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and more in the news, plus the usual Kool Kapers in KDE Korner.
News
Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS
Visual Studio Code comes to Raspberry Pi
Patch in this commit
Martin Wimpress, Ubuntu Desktop Lead, is Leaving Canonical
LibreOffice 7.1 “Community” Edition Released
Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police
NewPipe 0.20.10 released: Sepia Search for PeerTube, chapters for YouTube and tabs for everyone!
K-9 Mail is looking for funding k9mail.app
Terraria port for Stadia cancelled after owner locked out of Google
Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years
Admin
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KDE Korner
Make a KDE Theme With No Code & part 2 (Blog)
Kate colour picker & project tools
Linode
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Datadog
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Entroware
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In this recording from the second community meetup we talk about why we use our particular distros including Mint, Manjaro and Solus, and hear from a WSL user who’s relatively new to Linux.
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Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an online FOSS Talk Live, and your feedback.
Using an Android tablet as a portable monitor
All you need is a cheap USB capture device and an app from the Play Store. Full instructions here.
News/discussion
Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward
bluesky on Twitter and a funny reply
Admin
FOSS Talk Live 2021 isn’t happening in person
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Feedback
Some follow-up on mailservers, Ubiquiti alternatives, some top trolling of Félim, and something Joe missed when he spoke to popey about snaps.
We mentioned Mailcow, docker-mailserver, and Omada Enterprise Access Points.
Linode
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Datadog
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Lernard
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Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web standards docs, mixed VR news, a new tablet distro in KDE Korner, and more.
News
Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4
Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon
Element suspended on Google Play Store: now resolved
Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family
Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies
Firefox stops working on progressive web app support
Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project
Admin
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KDE Korner
JingOS, the Linux Tablet Distro, Releases First Alpha Build
Plasma Browser Integration 1.8 with Edge
Linode
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Joe is joined by Alan Pope – Developer Advocate at Canonical working on Snapcraft & Ubuntu to talk about Snaps. The PR problem, the non-free element, security, speed issues, and even some positive stuff. Honest.
Alan posted a transcript of this episode on his blog.
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Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more.
Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up
Admin
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Feedback
Some predictions about Firefox, follow-up on convergence, and home monitoring/automation, email servers, and FOSS we couldn’t live without.
Build an air quality monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker on a Raspberry Pi
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Datadog
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Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS
Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach
BBC educational material about open source
Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future?
Doubling down on open, Part II
Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones
Admin
Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13.
Feedback
We were asked whether we use more VMs or containers.
KDE Korner
Open-source contributors say they’ll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only
Linode
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Datadog
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Entroware
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What’s likely to happen over the next year in open source, how we evaluate the security and privacy of distros, and more in this recording of the first LNL community meetup.
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Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more.
Home monitoring and automation
Will’s links:
Raspberry Pi Heating Controller
Graham’s links:
Félim’s links:
KDE Korner
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Datadog
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Lernard
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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021.
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We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event.
Two big 2020 topics
Arm
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open
Second PinePhone Community edition
postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets
AWS unveils new compute instances, including compute heavy C6gn powered by Graviton2
marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs
Mozilla
Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue
Readying for the Future at Mozilla
Use your voice to #StopHateForProfit
Changing World, Changing Mozilla
Admin
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CentOS
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
Entroware
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Digital Ocean
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Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more.
News
No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report
marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs
Check out the most recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra
Feedback
Thanks to everyone who wrote to us. See the contact page if you want to send in your thoughts.
KDE Korner
Lernard
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Digital Ocean
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Joe is joined by Brent Gervais, a professional photographer who exclusively uses Linux, to discuss the insights he has gained into the open source mindset during his time as host of Brunch with Brent; including a deep sense of collaboration, and the inherent optimism which occasionally causes issues.
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What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine).
News
Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA
We can do better than DuckDuckGo
Admin
Check out a recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra.
Feedback: Trust
We were asked what each of us mean when we talk about trusting an organisation.
Apple responds to privacy concerns over Mac software security process
KDE Korner
KDE Pinephone: The Point
Joe talked about his experiences of using KDE Neon.
Datadog
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Entroware
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Digital Ocean
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Joe is joined by former colleague Drew DeVore to talk about his new job as a sysadmin, the ridiculous lengths he goes to in order to use Linux for everything, Fedora and Silverblue, Flatpak and Snaps, WSL, constantly trying out new software, and much more.
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Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s success, and a packed KDE Korner.
News
Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support
Late Night Linux Extra episode about the PI 400
Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical’s Snap Store
How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
Let’s Encrypt: Standing on Our Own Two Feet
Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store
KDE Korner
New SysMon on the way & Dolphin Feedback
Datadog
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Lernard
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Digital Ocean
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The Raspberry Pi 400 is here!
Joe is joined by Jim Salter from Ars Technica and 2.5 Admins to discuss his initial impressions, and then Martin Wimpress to talk about Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu MATE on the Pi 400 and Pi 4.
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Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the usual KDE goodness.
News
Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice
youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25
New Home-Cloud platform: ODROID-HC4
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.20 and 5.20.1 released
Plasma browser integration on Edge
Inside KDE: leadership and long-term planning
Entroware
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Digital Ocean
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Why Windows isn’t switching to a Linux kernel, Will tells us how he stopped his kids using TikTok with a Raspberry Pi, possible LNL merch, and the usual goodness in KDE Korner.
Linux-based Windows
We discuss a recent post by Hayden Barnes about the ridiculous idea of Windows switching to a Linux kernel that ESR put out there a few weeks ago.
Will’s adventures in DNS
Will has been checking out Pi-hole and AdGuard.
KDE Korner
Plasma Mobile update: September 2020
TrueNAS from iXsystems
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Lernard
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Digital Ocean
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Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more.
News
Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over deal
WireGuard
Félim has been playing with WireGuard, and tells us about how easy it is to set up and use.
KDE Korner
Running PlasmaShell with Vulkan
Datadog
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Entroware
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Digital Ocean
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How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumblings, a packed KDE Korner, and more.
News
NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion
Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal
Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel
Admin
Check out Paddy’s new show Tabs, Not Spaces
Check out Jono Bacon’s book club
Fixing the Internet
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker urges European Commission to seize ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity
EU lawmakers say it’s time to go further on tackling disinformation
Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet
KDE Korner
KDE Plasma 5.20 Will Alert You If Your Disk Is Failing, New Bluetooth page & in 20.12 (while out) Annotations in Spectacle
Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland
Akademy makes the magic happen: Check Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu & Fri / Fri Wrap
Datadog
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Lernard
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Digital Ocean
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Kyle returns again, this time to address some of the feedback we have received from previous episodes, and to talk about his brief experiences with Pop!_OS.
Kyle mentioned f.lux and Winamp.
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Bad news for Mozilla, divided opinion on modular phones, AI takes over aviation, whether Canonical is on the right path, and plenty of great developments in KDE Korner.
News
Joe will be doing Linux Action News again because Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again
Changing World, Changing Mozilla
Sources: Mozilla extends its Google search deal
You can buy Fairphone’s new handset or just its cameras as an upgrade
Last October we talked about FlightGear being used in the AlphaDogfight Trials, well now we’re all doomed as the AI wins 5-0
Admin
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AMA
We were asked whether Canonical is standing on the shoulders of giants, or building castles on the sand.
KDE Korner
KDE neon Rebased on 20.04 (plus all the 20.08 app updates)
Linux Spotlight EP56 – Nate Graham of KDE Plasma
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Kyle returns, this time to talk to Joe about his experiences with Xubuntu.
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How a Windows user views desktop Linux, some ask us anything questions, and Félim’s attempts to solve his RSI problem.
Kyle the Windows user
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Ask us anything sensible
We answered some of your questions about corporations having public political views, and NixOS and Guix.
Félim’s RSI issues
Félim tells us about the new vertical mouse he bought to tackle his shoulder and neck pain. He should have probably bought this cheaper version. Graham mentioned his trackball mouse.
Digital Ocean
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Joe is joined by Kyle, a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but didn’t stick with it. We try to get to the bottom of why that happened.
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A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner.
Lineage Love-in
OnePlus One, Sony Xperia XZ2 series, F(x)tec Pro1 get LineageOS 17.1
Admin
Keep an eye on the Late Night Linux Extra feed
FOSS trends 2020
We take stock on the year in Linux and FOSS so far, and speculate on what we will see over the next few months.
KDE Korner
New Slimbook & here & Nate got one too
KDEnlive Tutorials & Coming in KDEnlive August – Modes
Wayland improvements coming to Plasma 5.20
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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It’s been an unusually busy couple of summer weeks so we dig into the news including Canonical teaming up with Google, more updates from Pine64, and LibreOffice drama. Plus Will came up with a new segment, and KDE Korner.
News
COVID Tracker Ireland app one of Linux Foundation Public Health’s first open source projects
Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter
LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions
Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
What Does the Future Hold for Edge Computing?
KDE Korner
Digital Ocean
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Lernard
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Great mobile Linux news, dispelling myths about desktop market share, the beginning of the end for BIOS booting, KDE Korner, and some more of your ask us anything questions.
News
UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device
Yet more claims that desktop Linux market share is increasing, but those stats aren’t reliable, and Linux Steam usage hasn’t gone up
Fedora Developers Discussing Possibility Of Dropping Legacy BIOS Support
KDE Korner
KDE has completed the move to GitLab
Modern process management on KDE
Ask us anything sensible
We answered some of your questions about interviewing someone from the commercial RISC-V community, what it would take for us to stop using Linux, and what we wish we could do with the terminal but can’t.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Will reminisces about netbooks, Joe has a new Pinebook Pro, Facebook’s complex morals, Bountysource worries the community, and KDE Korner.
News
Facebook did a bad thing to do a good thing
Bountysource was going to change its terms so it could keep unclaimed bounties but then backtracked
Admin
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Linux hardware – old and new
Joe talks about his new Pinebook Pro, and after Will read an article about netbooks, we have a nostalgic look back to those good old days.
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.19: A more Polished Plasma which wasn’t (Updated Wallet… broke it… then later that day fixed it) so they polished it again
KDE Plasma is Switching to a Windows-style Icon-only Task Bar
Krita 4.3 with good features video & overall KDE apps in the Windows store (no Krita numbers)
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Linux audio tips, upgrade vs nuke and pave, smartwatches, a new Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Mint drama, and the shortest KDE Korner ever.
News
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) beta test version
Ubuntu 20.10 desktop might be officially supported on the Pi
Admin
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Ask us anything sensible
We answered some of your questions about upgrading vs reinstalling, smartwatches, and audio on Linux.
KDE Korner
Plasma Mobile Update & How To Try It On Your Desktop
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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The deeper implications of all of Microsoft’s recent announcements, good news for Munich, GNOME, and KDE, and mixed news for VR on Linux.
News
Patent case against GNOME resolved
Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering
OAuth sign-in with Gmail enabled again in KMail and Kontact
Admin
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Microsoft Linux
Having admitted that they were on the wrong side of open source history, MS extends WSL2 Support with DirectX to come (more), embraces the terminal and package manager, and Extinguishes the MauiKit name (like before) but it’s OK “it went through legal”.
Nice article by original bug author
They’ve also open sourced some useless old guff.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Good news for Linux phones and Raspberry Pi users, an embarrassing security incident, Keybase bought by Zoom, KDE Korner, some feedback, and more.
Plugs
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News
postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets
SaltStack authorization bypass
Raspberry Pi announces $50 12-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses
RetroPie 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support
Admin
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Feedback
Ian got in touch to point out that GitLab isn’t quite as open source as we had made out.
KDE Korner
Ubuntu Studio switching to Plasma and are already making progress
Desktop Plasma on an Android Tablet
Digital Ocean
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ScholarPack
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released so we have a good look at the distro that will be around for 10 years. Plus good news for email, relative stability for Debian, GitHub’s power move, and loads of KDE developments in the news.
Two new podcasts
Joe has been busy over the last couple of weeks and has launched The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude.
Ubuntu 20.04
What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Official Flavors Released, Here’s What’s New
Admin
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News
ProtonMail Bridge is now open source
All ProtonMail apps are now open source, as Android joins the list!
Debian Project Leader Election 2020 Results
KDE Korner
Browser plugin update & Brave support coming
New kde.org site and a nice walk through time and the rationale behind it
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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LNL Extra is back! Joe is joined by Michael Hall to talk about his experiences of converting conferences to online events.
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including good news for UBports, changes to Firefox, Microsoft’s new LSM, potentially bad news for KDE, and more.
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News
PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open
PINEPHONE – “Community Edition: UBports” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone
Ubuntu Touch Q&A 72: Foundation & Volla News
Latest Firefox updates address bar, making search easier than ever
Mozilla installs Scheduled Telemetry Task on Windows with Firefox 75
Firefox now 3rd most popular browser behind Chrome and Edge
Mozilla goes back to Mitchell Baker as CEO
Paul Cormier takes over as Red Hat CEO, as Jim Whitehurst moves to IBM
Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android
Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer
Microsoft announce a new Linux Security Module called IPE
KDE Korner
February/March in KDE Itinerary
#1: Qt, Open Source and corona
#2: Qt, Open Source and corona
Digital Ocean
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The impacts of Coronovirus on Linux and open source, KDE Korner, and whether we are seeing the second big split in the FOSS world.
Linux and the virus
We mention that FOSS Talk Live 2020 is cancelled and talk about how Linux and FOSS will be affected by current world events.
KDE Korner
Plasma Video Winner & Apps Winner
Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V. podcast interview
Linux vs the cloud
Prompted by NASA’s recent AWS mistake, Joe asks if we are living through the second big split in the FOSS world.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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We try and lighten the mood with a silly new segment. Meanwhile in the news Microsoft makes another open source move, bad news for VR on Linux, and more.
News
When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests
Pinebook Pro pre-orders start March 18th – will ship with Manjaro KDE
KDE Korner
Frameworks 5.68 is out – and Telegram icons sorted finally
Ikona: utilities for wrangling with icons and an icon preview.
Ask Linux
We try a new segment where we shoehorn Linux into otherwise relatively sensible questions.
Digital Ocean
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Is it time to give up on the Linux desktop and concentrate on open source apps? Plus a conundrum for Félim, Raspberry Pi and GTK in the news, and KDE Korner.
FOSS Talk Live 2020
News
GTK website revamp attempting to stake QT
A birthday gift: 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now only $35
Félim spots OpenOffice on YouTube
Félim grapples with whether to tell strangers to use LibreOffice.
Open source apps vs desktops
Should we be concentrating more on open source applications like Krita and rather than obsessing over the desktop. We mentioned the AppCenter For Everyone crowdfunder again.
KDE Korner
Has Gmail/Google Auth Been Fixed – No (refers to this issue) but updates to PIM coming
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Joe has been playing with a PinePhone for a week and gives an honest appraisal. Plus Will’s simple solution to his Mac woes, switching to Linux and a community crowdfunder in the news, and a packed KDE Korner.
News
South Korea switching to Linux?
Windows 7 users moving to Windows 10
Microsoft shares a roadmap for the new Microsoft Edge
KDE Korner
Updates to Apps, Frameworks & Plasma: Enable User Feedback (if you can)
Acknowledgment it was a bit buggy but plans in place to not repeat that
KItinerary Fosdem Video & Repo for F-Droid!
Admin
Joe’s Podcasting Basics Jupiter Extra
PinePhone
Joe gives his first impressions of the PInePhone.
Digital Ocean
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Lots of news including Pine64, Linux gaming, Thunderbird, and WireGuard. Plus Will is looking to install a decent OS on his Mac, and mixed news in KDE Korner.
FOSS Talk Live 2020 announcement
The date has changed. It will now happen on 20th June at the Harrison near Kings Cross in London. More details here.
News
HardROCK64 single-board computer coming in April for $35 and up
Rocket League will drop support for Mac, Linux versions in March
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop
Thunderbird moves to MZLA Technologies Corporation umbrella
WireGuard will likely ship with the 5.6 kernel
Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft ‘upcycles’ Windows 7… as open source
Linux on Will’s Mac
Will seeks our advice on how to install Ubuntu on his Mac. Graham mentioned rEFInd and the Chameleon bootloader.
KDE Korner
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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The death of Windows 7 presents yet another opportunity for the wide adoption of Linux on the desktop. Is that just wishful thinking? Plus Y2K comes back, bad news for Mozilla, a great new Nexcloud release, and more in the news.
News
Nextcloud Hub now with KItinerary
KDE Korner
KUserFeedback with a bit more detail
Admin
Graham talking about synths on Jupiter Extras
Linux as a replacement for Windows 7
Now that support for Windows 7 has ended, should we be advising people to change to Linux? Are we actually doing that?
Digital Ocean
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It’s officially the future so we look back at our predictions from last year and make some new ones for 2020.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2019 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.
January
Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB
MongoDB removed from major distros
February
Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database
Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again
March
Google launches game streaming service called Stadia
April
UBports Foundation finally created
Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features
May
June
July
August
exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!
September
Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF
Richard Stallman resigns from MIT
Stallman intends to keep leading GNU
October
November
Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support
Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch
December
Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux
Digital Ocean
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Chrome OS is by far the most popular Linux-based desktop OS and we find out if that top spot is deserved. Plus Ubuntu, Zorin, Firefox, Kali, and more in the news.
News
64-bit Ubuntu now works on Pi 4
The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Pre-release Survey
First Ever Release of Ubuntu Cinnamon Distribution is Finally Here!
Zorin OS Responds to Privacy Concerns
Kali Linux 2019.4 released with Xfce by default
KDE Korner
Kontributing to KDE is even easier than you kThink
Chrome OS
Joe has been playing with a “new” Chromebook. We discuss how this hugely popular Linux-based desktop OS compares to proper distros.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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What does a long-term Linux user think of macOS? We ask Will. Plus gaming, Google, the PInephone, and KDE in the news.
News
Google plans to offer bank accounts next year
Steam’s Remote Play Together is out of beta
Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support
PINEPHONE – “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone for early adopters
KDE Korner
KDE looking to hire an experienced project manager (PDF)
Admin
Two weeks with macOS
Will’s new job means that he’s now using a Mac every day. How does macOS compare to Linux?
Digital Ocean
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We find out what Ubuntu 19.10 is like on the Raspberry Pi 4, and then take it too far. Plus plenty of news, Graham channelling Vangelis, and something about KDE.
News
Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites
The downside of Ubiquiti network gear
Linux Foundation introduces telemetry policy
Microsoft to offer Defender for Linux next year
Microsoft confirms new browser is coming to Linux
Ubuntu 19.10 on the Pi 4
Joe and Graham have been playing with Ubuntu on the Pi 4
Install Xubuntu 19.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4
Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4
KDE Korner
Indian Newspaper Switches 100% FOSS
KItinary into the browser a la Google Now
And finally… Getting stuff fixed
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Will tells us why he left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop, KDE Korner, and a mixed bag of news.
News
The BBC has joined the dark web
Startpage bought by an Ad Company
Gitlab planned to introduce telemetry, then changed their minds
KDE Korner
Akademy vids are out, Plasma Mobile catchups, KItinerary extractors again & The cashew is no more
Will leaves Canonical
Will tells us why he has left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop and where he’s going next.
Admin
Digital Ocean
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Blender is one of the flagship professional FOSS tools and we talk to one of its senior devs. Plus the dangers of SaaS, Ubuntu 19.10, RISC-V, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Adobe backtracks, will refund customers after cancelling their accounts
What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?
KDE Korner
HiDPI, Plasma Mobile, Apps apps apps and more Apps, Linux App Summit schedule is out, Speeding up plasma and the road to frameworks 6
Admin
Come to OggCamp!
Campbell Barton from Blender
Blender developer Campbell Barton joins Joe. Check out the Blender news site, the Blender user and developer chat, and their Discourse forum.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Félim’s near death experience leads to a conversation about our home network setups. In the news: rms quits, Linux audio improvements, home directories as a file, KDE Korner, and more.
News
FSF Award Nominations [Guess who’s now eligible to be nominated]
New webpage for Plasma Desktop, Plasma 5.17beta / 5.18 two weeks away, Kate’s External Tools Plugin, Akademy and adopted GitLab, KItinerary Extractor
Admin
Home Networks
Félim recently had to redo his home network so we talk about our various setups.
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It’s been another busy couple of weeks so we talk about the news including new GNOME, Linux on phones, and Windows catching up with us.
News
Kirogi.org, Kate planning & Kate in the Windows Store, POC KDE PIM Online Accounts with some PIM News and KDE Goals
Librem 5 Shipping Announcement
Fairphone 3 gets perfect score from iFixit
Firefox 69 released and looks good
Manjaro is taking the next step
Windows gains major desktop Linux feature
Admin
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We catch up with the news from a busy couple of weeks including KDE, exFAT, Google tracking, a new Fairphone, GIMP controversy, and more.
News
KPeople contacts for Plasma Mobile, KHighlighting Crosses 300, Plasma Browser Integration 1.6 & Akademy kicks off in Milan from the 7th-13th Sept.
Google’s Tracking Protection BS? – EFF Chime in
MS Graciously Allows Us To Use Its Obvious & Non-Novel Patent For exFAT
Chris Beard to step down as Mozilla CEO
Software Developer reconsiders npm command line ad scheme after outcry
Admin
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Graham tells us all about his new 3D printer, and the FOSS that he uses with it. Plus KDE, Xfce, ZFS, and more in the news.
News
Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter
KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code
Discover gets a Snap/Flat/App fix and the end of the U&P sprint…but not really
ZFS on / coming to Ubuntu desktop
Richard Brown steps down as openSUSE chairman
Graham’s 3D printer
Graham recently bought a 3D printer and tells us all about it.
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Entroware
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We enter a parallel universe where Linux doesn’t have a foundation and decide what one should be like. Plus a packed news section including Blender, VR, Xfce, KDE, VLC, and other initialisms.
News
KDE Onboarding Sprint, KDEConnect SMS & well of course there’s a KItinerary update…
More good news for Blender from Ubisoft
VLC is somewhat fed up with security researchers
Xfce 4.14 Inches Closer to Release
Firefox Reality, browser designed for viewing the web in virtual reality
Valve and Colabora backed Xrdesktop Brings Linux Desktop Environments Into VR
Cloudflare terminating Service for 8Chan
8chan’s hardware provider discontinues service
A reimagined foundation for Linux
What would a foundation for Linux look like if we were to start one today?
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When Free Software and free speech clash, controversy ensues. We talk about Mastodon’s recent conundrum. Plus a packed news section including Blender, XPS machines, reproducibility, GNOME malware, and more.
News
KDE Plasma5 is 5, KDE UserBase refresh, iKDE iConnect & Runs Plasma
Epic MegaGrant for Blender while their CEO badmouths Linux users at same time
Like Linux? Then don’t buy Dell’s new XPS 13
New EvilGnome Backdoor Spies on Linux Users, Steals Their Files
Maintainer for gpodder.net needed
Admin
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Free Software and free speech
With Gab recently switching to a Mastodon base, an old debate has emerged. The Mastodon project has taken steps to isolate Gab and F-droid has taken a similar position.
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Entroware
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Graham and Joe managed to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 while they were HOT. Literally. Plus all sorts in the news including KDE, the villain that is Mozilla, Debian 10, and the Pinebook Pro.
News
Test Plasma Easily, KDE PIM Update, U&P Sprint bears fruit again and again
Self congratulating idiots propose Mozilla as Internet Villian Of The Year
Raspberry Pi 4
Graham and Joe have been playing with their new toys
Admin
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It’s a full house for the first time in a while and a lot has been happening so we have a look at all the news including the Ubuntu i386pocalypse, the Raspberry Pi 4, KDE updates, and Facebook’s new “cryptocurrency”.
News
Ubuntu announce that they’ll drop i386 but then backtrack
Plasma 5.16 & 5.16.1, KDE Goals, Updates to KDE.org
Lots of Debian packages being built for RISC-V
Facebook to launch cryptocurrency
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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It’s our show from FOSS Talk Live! After KDE, Firefox, GMail, and Stadia in the news, missed opportunities for FOSS and how we can seize the next one.
News
Google Browser Control via DRM; Use Firefox & block fingerprinting while you’re at it and trackers
GMail Confidential Mode to be on by default for G Suite users
FOSSortunities
We all knew that privacy would be the next big market in computing but once again we have failed to capitalise. Apple has cornered that market now. We keep missing opportunities like Vista and Windows 8. How do we prepare for the next opportunity, spot it early, and strike at the right time?
Digital Ocean
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including ZombieLoad and the Huawei debacle, and Joe tries to convince himself that 32-bit x86 Linux isn’t dead.
News
Plasma 5.16 – Wireguard GUI in NM & Wayland Remote Desktop & KItinerary continues & Elisa 0.4 Released
Google pulls Huawei’s Android license
Félim very smug about buying an AMD CPU
Nextcloud & Nitrokey Join forces for 2FA (and Gentoo)
Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown
Time to ditch 32-bit x86 Linux for good?
Joe was recently given an old Atom netbook that is 32-bit only. What can you actually do with a machine of that age and low specs? Is it time to move on from this legacy architecture?
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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It’s been a month since the last proper episode so we recap the news from the last few weeks including real Linux in WIndows, RHEL 8, Nextcloud, Debian, and more.
News
KDE Apps 19.04 Is out & snapped first (Neon writeup), Next-Gen notifications & Akademy 2019 in Milan in Sept & Gnome&KDE Linux App Summit
RIP In Peace Shadowman Red Hat Blog
Shuttleworth on Desktop Linux Support boom
Judgement Day for Nextcloud – File sharing became self aware on this day
Mozilla certificate fun (Disable Studies again…) update & more updates
The end of Works With Nest could be trouble for smart homes
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It’s a special episode. Joe and Will are joined by Richard Brown from openSUSE and Matthew Miller from Fedora to discuss how their distros work together, what makes them different, and the types of users that they each target.
Distro round table
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Entroware
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Félim is away so Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss news including Chef, VMware, web standards, UBPorts, and more. Then we discuss how Linux has changed over the decades that we’ve been using it.
News
Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit
How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a problem)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey
UBports Foundation finally created
Admin
With Age Comes Wisdom?
If you got into Linux early then you’re about 40 now. There’s a good chance that you’ve compiled your own kernel, written modelines, and literally got the T Shirt (not that it fits any more). Do you have the time and energy to care about such things any more?
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What exactly goes into an LTS release of the most popular desktop distro? We find out from Will after a packed news segment that includes Stadia, video editors, KDE old and new, Ubuntu Studio, and Red Hat raking it in.
News
Google launches game streaming service called Stadia
New version of OpenShot & KDEnlive picking up the pace as well
Trinity Desktop (fork of KDE) R14.0.6 released
KDE Connect removed and reinstated on Google Play
Ubuntu Studio back from the dead
Red Hat crosses $3B revenue mark
Admin
LTS to LTS
Will breaks down exactly what happens in the two years between Ubuntu LTS releases.
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Entroware
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A lot of companies have attempted convergence but none have approached it like Maru OS. We speak to the founder of the project about its major new release. Plus KDE, GNOME, and Debian in the news.
News
Krita: The only graphics app with HDR
Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down Complaining About Old Infrastructure but a partial defence
Maru OS
We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about the recent 0.6 release of Maru OS – a Lineage-based ROM that allows you to run a full Debian desktop with Xfce in a container.
Digital Ocean
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Does the need to fund FOSS explain its complexity? The four of us don’t seem to agree. Plus plenty of news including KDE, MariaDB, Lineage OS, and the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels are at it again.
News
KDE Matrix & Refactored KDEnlive & kPublicTransport
Largest open (and multilingual) voice dataset
MariaDB bossman lays in to AWS & Oracle
Admin
FOSS Complexity
The only real ways to make money from FOSS are support, services and training. So why would anyone make FOSS that’s simple to install, use and maintain, and works perfectly out of the box? Is this why everything is so over-complicated?
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Librem 5 shipping when? Todd from Purism joins us to answer that question, as well as what’s going on with the dev kits. Plus KDE, Red Hat Satellite, and Windows X86 apps on Arm Linux in a brief news segment.
News
Red Hat standardising to Postgres… no Mongo
Wine Developers Release Hangover Alpha To Run Windows x86_64 Programs On 64-Bit ARM
Todd Weaver from Purism
A year on from his last appearance on the show, Todd joins us to discuss the progress of the Librem 5, and how things are going for Purism in general.
Digital Ocean
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Techmeme Ride Home
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Exciting Pine64 devices, no Pi 4 this year, good gaming and firmware news, and more.
News
Pine64 to Launch $79 Linux Tablet, $199 PineBook Pro Laptop
We won’t see a Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019
Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores
Blue Systems hires a QA manager
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim thinks. Plus ZFS is in the news again, the Librem 5 is slowly getting there, another major company joins LVFS, and more.
News
Jezra has a dev kit and isn’t impressed
postmarketOS post which mentions Librem 5
KDE Frameworks Android Integration
ZFS issues with the 5.0 kernel but there’s a workaround
Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB
MongoDB removed from major distros
Cloud vs on prem
Félim and Joe fight it out over whether to roll your own infrastructure or to just submit to AWS and the like.
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A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been happening in the news.
News
Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation
Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Next Kernel
FreeBSD admits that Linux is better (when it comes to ZFS)
Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF To Count Users
Predictions
We look back at our predictions from a year ago and then make some new ones for 2019.
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Entroware
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It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.
January
February
March
The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin
April
Clear focus on cloud and containers
Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch
May
Lots of of Ubuntu flavours decided to drop 32-bit images
The other flavours could follow suit
Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed
Huawei locks down its bootloaders
June
July
August
Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux
September
Kernel Maintainer’s Summit moved continents to accommodate Linus
Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs
October
Linus back in charge of the kernel
November
December
Librem 5 dev kits finally shipping
Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base
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Graham and Joe have been checking out Sailfish OS 3, and there’s a packed news segment including KDE, RISC-V, Fedora, and the FSF.
News
KDE on Necuno Mobile: Has headphone jack and …Maemo!?
FSF gets one miiiiilion dollars
Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed
AMI BIOS updates coming to a fwupdmgr near you!
Digital Ocean
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Reminder that G+ is dead
Entroware
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Sailfish OS 3
Graham was recently sent a Jolla phone by listener Matt, and Joe has been checking out an unofficial Sailfish ROM on the Oneplus One.
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Yet more good KDE news, Ubuntu getting 10 years of support, WiFi improvements, a new Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, is the FOSS community really that toxic, and more.
News
NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland (Relevant email)
Accessibility starting off again in KDE
Ubuntu 18.04 to receive 10 years of support
New mid-range Raspberry Pi launched
New kernels revert Spectre mitigation
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What’s the FOSS community really like?
Is the FOSS community really that toxic or is it full of idealists who wear rose-tinted glasses?
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Joe’s long-awaited Pinebook has finally arrived and we have a good chat about its ups and downs. Plus a packed news section including reproducible builds, ReactOS, mobile news and the usual Plasma love-in.
News
Plasma updates in the pipeline from Nate Here & Here
Lineage OS changing update frequency
Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu
Reproducible Builds gets 300k & joins Conservancy
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Pinebook
Joe recently bought an 11” Pinebook and delivers his verdict on it.
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IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat Looms large over the news but we find time to talk about the latest releases of Ubuntu and elementary OS, an interesting Kickstarter, and the promise of a KDE phone. Plus we ask whether FOSS is finally coming of age.
News
elementary OS 5.0 Juno released
Simone Giertz launches Kickstarter for open hardware calendar
Digital Ocean
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Is FOSS finally growing up?
With everyone from GNU to Samba getting their HR houses in order, and behemoths like Microsoft fully embracing open source, is FOSS finally coming of age? Or is the community destined to always drag itself down with infighting and childish behaviour?
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It’s easy to forget how we all felt when we first discovered how great Linux is. On this episode we get a reminder from Jason Evangelho who tells us about his experiences as a new Linux convert. Plus a packed news section that includes Microsoft’s latest embrace of the FOSS world.
News
GNOME dumps yet another feature
Microsoft joins OIN and the FSF have a take on it
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Admin
We are now on Spotify.
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Jason Evangelho
Jason Evangelho is a recent Linux convert who writes articles for Forbes.com. We spoke to him about the ups and downs of switching to Linux.
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Microsoft showing how much they love FOSS, Sailfish continuing to live, and loads more.
News
KDE Neon rebased on Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu (and flavours) 18.10 beta released
Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier
At least half of Azure is running Linux
Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0
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Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more.
News
Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive
Linux User and Developer magazine to close
The Post-meritocracy Manifesto
Check out User Error
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Do you need to use FOSS to contribute to it?
After finding out last time that VM Brasseur was using a Mac because she had lost her patience with Linux on the desktop, a fierce debate erupted.
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Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source.
News
Digium (makers of Asterisk) being bought by Sangoma?
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CDN77
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VM Brasseur
VM Brasseur joins Joe to talk about her new book Forge Your Future with Open Source.
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It’s the OggCamp 2018 live show!
Joe is joined by Jon Spriggs, Martin Wimpress, Dan Lynch, and Dave Lee at OggCamp.
We spoke about spreading the word about collaboration culture, and how we rationalise using proprietary solutions over open ones.
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Graham is away but Jesse is back! He tells us what he’s been up to over the last few months including thoroughly testing snaps and shouting at his NAS. Plus Joe has been to OggCamp, and a shortish news segment.
News
Lots of updates from Akademy: KDE Itinery & KDE Apps 18.08 (kontact gained Itinery support) / Frameworks 5.49.0, Inline notes in Kate
Trinity Desktop R14.0.5 released
Open Source goes all Hollywood
Entroware
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OggCamp 2018 report
Joe attempts to explain how he managed to go to OggCamp without seeing a single talk.
Jesse’s adventures in dadland
Jesse tells us about switching distro, using snaps in the real world, and why he’s frustrated with his NAS.
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With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution methods.
News
Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS
Slackware dev has financial problems
elementary OS receives large donation
Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects
What’s next, extensions?
Entroware
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Wes mason
Wes Mason joins Joe to discuss the recent malware incidents with npm, and the wider topic of traditional software repositories vs user-submitted ones like the Snap Store.
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Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and RISC-V.
News
KDE Plasma 5.13.3, Frameworks 5.48.0 & applications 18.04.3 & Onboarding
Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader
Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware
Librem 5 update (dev boards delayed)
Entroware
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CDN77
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Android Antitrust
The EU has fined Google $5BN for anti-competitive behaviour with Android. Google responded publicly. Félim found a good write up.
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Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more.
News
Entroware
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20 years of Open Source
With the 20 year anniversaries of Open Source and the Apache licence, we discuss the differences between Free Software and Open Source.
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Small community events
After FOSS Talk Live, Stuart Langridge wrote a blog post about smaller FOSS events and how there should be more of them. We discuss whether he’s right and if so, how we can make them happen.
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It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s been happening recently.
News Catchup
Endless lays off several of its employees
An opportunity to invest in Mycroft
Entroware
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Most of the recordings from FOSS Talk Live are now available, as well as some videos.
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Newer News
Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 RC released
UBports concerned about Article 13
A first look at Ubuntu desktop metrics
Atari’s Ubuntu powered console
Atari’s PR train goes off the rails
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It’s the last episode of LNLE. At least for the time being.
GIMP 2.10
Jehan Pagès spoke about the latest major release of GIMP, but forgot to plug the film that he’s working on called ZeMarmot.
Bad News
This is the last episode of Late Night Linux Extra in its current format.
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It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018!
FOSS Talk Live 2018
Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the next 5-10 years in the FOSS world, and also what we fear could happen.
Entroware
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Asteroid OS 1.0 and openSUSE Leap 15.
Asteroid OS
Florent Revest talks about the recent release of Asteroid OS, the open source operating system for smartwatches.
openSUSE Leap 15
Richard Brown talks about the recent openSUSE Leap 15 release.
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We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great Qt-based releases on the desktop, major systemd news, great news for smartwatch wearers, bad news for Huawei owners, and potentially bad news for SteamOS.
News
Portable Services arrives in systemd
Huawei locks down its bootloaders
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FOSS Talk Live is happening very soon and you should come!
Christoph Zimmermann asked us to mention the OpenRheinRuhr conference which is taking place on 3rd and 4th November in Oberhausen in Germany.
Entroware
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Ubuntu Touch
We talk to Dalton Durst from UBports about Ubuntu Touch.
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The new KDE Plasma beta and the future of Xubuntu.
KDE Plasma 5.13 beta and Berlin Sprint
Jonathan Riddell talks about the recent KDE sprint in Berlin and the recent beta of Plasma 5.13. We also spoke about running KDE Neon on the Pinebook, and also the Slimbook II.
Xubuntu
Sean Davis talks about the future of Joe’s favourite distro, Xubuntu.
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A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is knackered, and do small distros stand a chance of making it big?
News
Red Hat to integrate CoreOS into OpenShift
Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Budgie drop 32-bit
The other flavours could follow suit
Malware found in (and removed from) the Snap store
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Entroware
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Can there ever be another big distro?
With the seeming demise of Void Linux and Korora, we ask whether small distros have any chance of surviving in the long term without an eccentric billionaire backer.
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A new sister show is born! Joe finds out about the recent Fedora 28 release and the upcoming beta of elementary OS 5.
Fedora 28
Matthew Miller talks about the new release of Fedora.
elementary OS 5 beta
Daniel Foré talks about the upcoming beta of Juno.
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Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04.
News
Oracle being lovely netziens again
GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement
Microsoft announces Linux-based OS
German government chooses NextCloud
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Entroware
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
We look at the latest long term support release of Ubuntu.
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With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines.
New hosts
We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke.
News
Elisa: Finally something to replace faltering Amarok?
System76 joins the Gnome foundation advisory board
WebAuthN to “replace” passwords online?
Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site but Valve claim that Steam Machines aren’t dead yet
Entroware
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AMP
Are Accelerated Mobile Pages a great way for publishers to offer a fast and unified experience on mobile browsers? Or is Google forcing content to be centralised in a way that the Web traditionally wasn’t? Or maybe both?
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