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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Discoveries
Control your Thinkpad light
Octopus Energy Home Assistant addon
ruff now has a formatter
ZSH profiling
pyTelegramBotAPI
ntfy.sh
Beyond Doubt
recent macOS bugs
 
Feedback
Christian’s ThinkPad collection
Fairphone
 
 
 
 
 




 




 




 
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Late Night Linux – Episode 255

Late Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry. Every week, Joe, Félim, Graham and Will discuss the latest news and releases, and the broader issues and trends in the world of free and open source software. Expect drinking, swearing, strong opinions, and Félim being trolled about AI and the cloud.

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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?
 
 
 
 
 
Kolide
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Late Night Linux – Episode 285

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 
yt-dlp
miller
csvlens
GoldenCheetah
Flux
 
 
 
 
 
Kolide
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Late Night Linux – Episode 284

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.
 
 
 
 
 
Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 283

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 Connect
M.2 HAT+ on sale now at $12
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
‘Openwashing’
HDR & Gamescope
 
 
 
 
 
Kolide
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Late Night Linux – Episode 282

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.
 
We can have a different web
 
 
 
 
 
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Late Night Linux – Episode 255

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