Late Night Linux – Details, episodes & analysis

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.

News

OggCamp

Linux is 33 years old

Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser

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

Entroware

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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.

Discoveries

IPv6 for IPv4 admins

bashsimplecurses

Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000

taskfinder

OggCamp

Gary tells us about the upcoming free culture event in Manchester, UK.

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Call for papers

OggCamp on Mastodon

Are FOSS people all old?

The graying open source community needs fresh blood

1Password

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

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

News

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

Canonical Announce First RISC-V Laptop Running Ubuntu

Video of a Banana Pi with the same SoC

Significantly slower than a Pi 4

TUXEDO on ARM is coming

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

Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed

The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years

Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising

25 Years of Krita!

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

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

KDE Apps initiative

Entroware

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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

Systemd support lands 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

Kdenlive Fundraiser

This week in KDE: It’s a big one, folks

This week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability

Plasma Bigscreen

KDE Neon 22.04 Rebase Imminent – Vote Firefox Snap/Other

Official ppa

Kolide

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Linode

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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

Navidrome

ImHex

Moonlight

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

Kolide

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Linode

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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

NFT shit-list

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 

KDE Promo Sprint

Kaidan 0.9 E2E & ATM

These Weeks in KDE

Linode

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Entroware

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

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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.

Discoveries

TTS

audible-activator

Furnace

Feedback

Gadgetbridge

LNL-Discoveries

LNL-Discoveries – GitHub

Kolide

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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

Kate macro recording

Krita 5.1 & KDEnlive 22.08

KDE Snap Packages

Neon 22.04 Docker Images

Akademy Talk Schedule Live

Tailscale

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Linode

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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

Tauno Serial Plotter

kdb-audio

ChromeOS Flex is now generally available

Discussion

Open source isn’t working for AI

Kolide

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Linode

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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.

Linode

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Entroware

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

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