Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.

Plus community news, first impressons of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber.

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• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Trying out @GoogleStadia before today’s @LinuxUnplugged.

Brent sits down with Jacob Roecker, long-time Jupiter Broadcasting community member and Bronze Star Medal decorated United States Army veteran. Jacob shares his journey from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan through to dealing with PTSD, and how Jupiter Broadcasting and it's community was integral throughout.

Special Guest: Jacob Roecker.

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• Brunch with Brent: Allan Jude
• Linux Action Show (LAS) - Archive
• The Computer Chronicles Archive
• Jupiter@Nite - Archive
• SciByte - Archive
• System76 Desktops - Meerkat
• Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Wikipedia
• Ubuntu MATE
• Martin Wimpress (Wimpy) - @mwimpress on Twitter
• Microsoft Bob - Wikipedia
• Plex Media Server
• TechSNAP
• CoderRadio
• Chris Fisher - @ChrisLAS on Twitter
• Angela - @Angerz on Twitter
• The J. R. Simplot Company
• Linux Academy
• Jupiter Extras
• Ubuntu Podcast
• Ell - @Ello_Punk on Twitter
• Theory of Constraints - Wikipedia
• User Error
• Jacob Roecker - @parkingthought on Twitter
• Jacob's Blog: ParkingThought - Curiosity, Meet Gratitude
• Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Google, Mozilla, and GitLab make serious upgrades to their bug bounty programs, insights into Debian's renewed systemd debate, and how Microsoft and IBM are working together to fight patent trolls.

Plus our thoughts on LVFS for Chromebooks, and the recent Monero hack.

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• Updates to the Mozilla Web Security Bounty Program — To celebrate the 15 years of the 1.0 release of Firefox, we are making significant enhancements to the web bug bounty program.
• GitLab: We are increasing bounties in our bug bounty program — Since we opened our bug bounty program to the public in December 2018, our community of external security researchers submitted 1,282 reports and we paid out $515,899 in bounties.
• Expanding the Android Security Rewards Program
• Google will pay $1.5 million for the most severe Android exploits
• Google and fwupd sitting in a tree
• Google To Require "Designed For Chromebook" Devices Support Fwupd Firmware Updates
• Debian init systems - what, another GR ? — Sam Hartman, the Debian Project Leader, has proposed a General Resolution (a plebiscite of the whole project) about init systems. In this posting I am going to try to summarise the situation. This will necessarily be a personal view but I will try to be fair. Also, sorry that it's so long but there is a lot of ground to cover.
• General Resolution: Init systems and systemd
• Open Invention Network Teams with IBM, Linux Foundation and Microsoft to Further Protect Open Source from Patent Trolls — Open Invention Network announced today it is partnering with IBM, the Linux Foundation and Microsoft to further protect open source software (OSS) from Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) leveraging low quality patents, also called patent trolls.
• IBM, Microsoft and Linux Foundation link arms to fight patent trolls with 'multimillion' scheme
• Official Monero website is hacked to deliver currency-stealing malware — GetMonero.org delivers Linux and Windows binaries that steal users' funds.

Chz sits down with Alan Pope (Popey) to discuss his thoughts about Thinkpads, and why they might be the perfect Linux laptop.

Find out what those model numbers really mean, plus our tips for picking which one is right for you.

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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• ThinkWiki
• Thinkpad Hardware Maintenance Manuals
• ThinkPad Subreddit

Disposing of hard drives, what a TV really is, and the veganism of software.

Plus the serious business of coffee, why modern music sucks, and making Popey feel bad.

00:00:48 With better technology, why don’t we necessarily see better art?

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