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| Late Night Linux – Episode 296 | 27 Aug 2024 | 00:25:16 | |
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 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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 295 | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:22:47 | |
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 Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000
OggCamp Gary tells us about the upcoming free culture event in Manchester, UK. Get tickets here, and volunteer to be part of the crew here.
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 286 | 18 Jun 2024 | 00:24:34 | |
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 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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 196 | 27 Sep 2022 | 00:29:30 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 195 | 19 Sep 2022 | 00:30:31 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 194 | 13 Sep 2022 | 00:29:45 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 193 | 05 Sep 2022 | 00:29:42 | |
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
Feedback
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 192 | 30 Aug 2022 | 00:31:35 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 191 | 22 Aug 2022 | 00:29:35 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 190 | 15 Aug 2022 | 00:30:21 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 189 | 08 Aug 2022 | 00:30:16 | |
Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.
Discoveries Beej’s guide to network programming LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app
Feedback How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 188 | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:30:37 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 187 | 25 Jul 2022 | 00:30:16 | |
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.
Discoveries
Feedback
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 285 | 10 Jun 2024 | 00:25:50 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 186 | 18 Jul 2022 | 00:29:31 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 185 | 11 Jul 2022 | 00:29:21 | |
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
Feedback Improvements in git 2.37 when resolving conflicts with vimdiff
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 184 | 05 Jul 2022 | 00:28:48 | |
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.
News 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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 183 | 27 Jun 2022 | 00:29:51 | |
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
Feedback
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 182 | 21 Jun 2022 | 00:29:26 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 181 | 13 Jun 2022 | 00:28:47 | |
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.
Discoveries
Feedback 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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 180 | 07 Jun 2022 | 00:29:22 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 179 | 30 May 2022 | 00:29:04 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 178 | 24 May 2022 | 00:30:08 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 177 | 16 May 2022 | 00:30:33 | |
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.
Discoveries The Unity desktop is still alive (as is Trinity)
Feedback
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 284 | 03 Jun 2024 | 00:22:20 | |
A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processing data and CSV files on the command line, controlling cycling workout gear and graphing your progress, and a top tip for following Mastodon accounts in a normal RSS feed reader.
News Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox Plasma 6.1 Beta out: Triple buffering, Wayland explicit sync & RDP access
Discoveries
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 176 | 10 May 2022 | 00:29:23 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 175 | 02 May 2022 | 00:31:40 | |
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.
Discoveries hw-probe Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less
Feedback
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 174 | 26 Apr 2022 | 00:30:45 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 173 | 18 Apr 2022 | 00:30:15 | |
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.
Discoveries
Feedback Interview with Gavin Freeborn about Nyxt
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 172 | 12 Apr 2022 | 00:29:29 | |
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
Admin Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark
KDE Korner 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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 171 | 04 Apr 2022 | 00:30:38 | |
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
Feedback Archiving and Digital Preservation
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 170 | 29 Mar 2022 | 00:30:41 | |
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.
News You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay 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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 169 | 21 Mar 2022 | 00:30:00 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 168 | 15 Mar 2022 | 00:29:34 | |
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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KDE Korner New Firmware Security tab coming in Plasma 5.25 Signature support is now Okular in on Android
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 167 | 07 Mar 2022 | 00:29:37 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 283 | 27 May 2024 | 00:24:53 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 166 | 01 Mar 2022 | 00:28:40 | |
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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KDE Korner
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 165 | 21 Feb 2022 | 00:29:49 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 164 | 15 Feb 2022 | 00:29:48 | |
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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KDE Korner 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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 163 | 07 Feb 2022 | 00:29:31 | |
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.
Links mentioned: Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store AppImage, Flatpak und Snap in comparison
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 162 | 01 Feb 2022 | 00:29:49 | |
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
Discoveries
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KDE Korner 15 Minute bug initiative and progress (plus some upcoming features)
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 161 | 24 Jan 2022 | 00:29:11 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 160 | 18 Jan 2022 | 00:29:51 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 159 | 10 Jan 2022 | 00:29:11 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 158 | 04 Jan 2022 | 00:30:16 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 157 | 27 Dec 2021 | 00:30:48 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 282 | 21 May 2024 | 00:23:07 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 156 | 21 Dec 2021 | 00:29:56 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 155 | 13 Dec 2021 | 00:29:55 | |
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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| Late Night Linux – Episode 154 | 07 Dec 2021 | 00:31:57 | |
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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