Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested.

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Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern RSA or AES encryption, Russian attackers compromised a business via a nearby building’s WiFi, a startup runs out of money and bricks a robot for kids, and hardening Linux systems.

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ZFS Storage Fault Management on Linux

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No, Chinese quantum computers haven’t hacked military-grade encryption

The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access

Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

The confusing reality of AI friends

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SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more.

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Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus

Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld

Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat

Halo for PC Uses Ogg Vorbis!

Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now

£4 more (plus a keyboard) for a LOT more performance

New era of slop security reports for open source

Xfce 4.20 released

Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch

The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest

KDE Korner

I think the donation notification works

This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incomingThis Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! & Better fractional scaling

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We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model.

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The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driven architecture and design, message queuing, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.

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The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.

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Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD

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FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts

US senators propose mandated MFA, encryption in healthcare

QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes

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The most surprising thing about ourselves, alternative computing form factors that we’d like, and whether we can be truly free. With popey from Linux Matters, Will and Graham from Late Night Linux, Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, and Gary from Linux After Dark.

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Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8.

Voice of the Masses

Do you dual boot and why?

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The Linux Foundation – Nonprofit Explorer

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Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins.

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