Nvidia continues to amaze, Thunderbird is getting rusty, and Proton is about to go 9.0. Then there's a Flathub redesign, a shiny new QEMU release, and maybe the year of Linux in the car. For tips we have awk, the number and string wrangling do-all tool, more spring cleaning with dpkg, how to get tmux set up just right on a new install, and ydiff for much better diff highlighting. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/3xZHa60 and thanks for coming! 
Host: Jonathan Bennett 
Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie, Ken McDonald, and David Ruggles 
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Broadcom makes an offer to give us vmware for free, with an asterisk. Ubuntu is already looking at how to polish the 24.10 release, The Raspberry Pi Foundation releases the official NVMe hat, and Winamp has an announcement. A Debian maintainer made a questionable call regarding KerPassXC, and CIQ makes the case that all vendor kernels are insecure. Then, for tips we have uxplay for airplay on Linux, cd - for quick directory flipping, more spring cleaning, and pkg-config for a scriptable way to check for dependencies. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/3V9CCmI and enjoy the show! 
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Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and Ken McDonald 
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OpenAI and Reddit, Signal Smear Campaign 
GPT-4o (omni) + new "Her"-style AI assistant (it's nuts)  
It's Time to Believe the AI Hype  
The panel discusses their experiences with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude  
OpenAI strikes deal to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT  
OpenAI Superalignment team is gone  
2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds  
Taiwan, on China's Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way  
French TikTok block in overseas territory sets 'dangerous precedent,' critics warn  
Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments 
Vermont's data privacy law sparks state lawmaker alliance against tech lobbyists  
How a smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal  
Biden Order to Halt China-Tied Bitcoin Mine Beside Nuke Base Came as U.S. Firm Just Bought it  
Robert Dennard, IBM Inventor Whose Chip Changed Computing, Dies at 91 
Host: Leo Laporte 
Guests: Ben Parr, Dan Patterson, and Iain Thomson 
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This week is Bitcoin Pizza Day, celebrating the anniversary of someone paying 10,000 bitcoin for two pizzas in the first Bitcoin transaction. What's the best way to manage multiple email accounts? Are there simple remote controllers one can use with an iPad? Plus, Rod Pyle talks about the recent Blue Origin flight, and Chris Marquardt goes over the Tough assignment. 
Bitcoin Pizza Day is this week. 
Mikah and Leo got their new iPad Pro's 
Is there a screen protector for my 15-inch laptop that can reduce glare and block blue light from the screen? 
Rod Pyle & the Blue Origin flight. 
What's a good point-and-shoot camera to take on a safari trip? 
What's going on with various companies & even states handling the privacy of their users? 
Can you merge Google Workspace emails with a personal Gmail account? What's the best way to manage multiple email addresses from one central location? 
Chris Marquardt & the 'tough' assignment. The next assignment is 'minimalist.' 
A previous caller recommends some new books for Leo and Mikah. 
Are there remote controllers you can use with an iPad? 
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent 
Guests: Rod Pyle and Chris Marquardt 
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Ask The Tech Guys 2025: Bitcoin Pizza

Welcome to the Big Glass Wars! That's right, just when you thought you'd heard it all, turns out there's hot competition among a few countries to stay on the cutting edge of optical astronomy, and to do that, you need a great big hunk of glass to gather light from distant galaxies and stellar systems. Enter the Carnegie Observatories and their partners on the Thirty Meter Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope. Both are currently under construction, and both are threatened by budget parsimony from the U.S. Congress. Dr. John Mulchaey, Director of the Carnegie Observatories, joins us to discuss what's happening, why it matters, and what you can do to help maintain U.S. leadership in astronomy, cosmology, and other STEM-related fields. 
Headlines: 
Boeing's Starliner launch to the ISS delayed again, this time due to a helium leak in the service module. The launch is now targeted for no earlier than May 21st. 
Blue Origin plans to conduct its first crewed suborbital flight since August 2022 on May 19th, carrying six passengers including the first Black astronaut candidate Ed Dwight. 
A massive sunspot caused spectacular auroras visible as far south as Alabama and turned skies purple and orange. More solar activity is expected as another large sunspot emerges. 
 
Main Topic: The Big Glass Wars with Dr. John Mulchaey 
Dr. Mulchaey provides an overview of the Carnegie Observatories, founded in 1904, and their historic telescopes at Mount Wilson that helped launch modern astronomy. 
He discusses the need for extremely large next-generation ground-based telescopes, the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), to study earth-like exoplanets and the early universe. 
These ambitious segmented mirror telescopes will be 5-10 times larger than today's biggest telescopes and cost billions of dollars to construct. 
While substantial private funding has been raised, the projects need investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. government to be completed. However, the NSF has proposed only partial funding. 
Dr. Mulchaey emphasizes the importance of the U.S. having both telescope projects to provide full-sky coverage, double the observation time, and maintain the nation's leadership in astronomy research or risk losing top talent to competing projects in Europe and China. 
He notes that delaying a decision on full funding is causing the estimated costs to escalate as the projects are forced to wait. 
Dr. Mulchaey argues passionately that inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers by investing in these telescopes is critical for the country's future productivity and innovation. 
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Guest: Dr. John Mulchaey 
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This Week in Space 111: The Big Glass Wars

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent this week! Jennifer talks about Matter 1.3 being released by the Connectivity Standards Alliance. Mikah is excited by the new accessibility features Apple recently announced. What Google announced at its Google I/O 2024 event. And finally, OpenAI announces GPT-4o. 
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy talks about Matter 1.3 being released, which brings further support to smart appliances and new features, but laments the fact that most major platforms have yet to adopt even Matter 1.2. 
Mikah Sargent is ecstatic about Apple's new accessible features, including Eye Tracking and Vehicle Motion Cues. 
Jason Howell attended Google I/O 2024 this past week and gives his recap and thoughts on what was announced at the event. 
Finally, Pranav Dixit of Engadget stops by to talk about OpenAI's announcement of the next iteration of its generative AI model, GPT-4o, and how it differs from the previous model. 
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 
Guests: Jason Howell and Pranav Dixit 
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Untitled Linux Show 149: 585 Pages of AWK

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