We come up with our FOSS extremes. The funniest, the coolest, the cleverest, the most useful, the dullest, the most exciting, the most dangerous and problematic, the [something]est open source software.

Projects we mentioned:

alsamixer

Glow

Apache

nginx

HAProxy

Redis

VLC

Kodi

Nextcloud

Coreutils

Audacity

Asahi

Immich

antennapod

UniversalBlue

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Microsoft’s rudimentary error that allowed an attacker access to its executives’ emails, Pixel phones have another serious storage bug, hidden malware payload found at Ars Technica, and when to upgrade your hardware for Windows 11.

Plugs

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BSDCan 2024 – Call for papers

News

In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug

Ars Technica used in malware campaign with never-before-seen obfuscation

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Apple does the bare minimum required to allow other browser engines and sideloading on iOS, which isn’t the good news for Firefox and open source that we hoped it would be. Plus the Mars helicopter has flown for the last time, Microsoft hands FOSS a great opportunity to stand out on privacy, Ubuntu annoys yet more users, the mystery of the new Firefox package, and more.

News

RAWRLAB Games – Announcement of free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more

It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew

Ubuntu Pro Packages in ‘Software Updater’ Garner Criticism

Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service

4 reasons to try Mozilla’s new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives

Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox – Open Policy & Advocacy

Apple, the DMA, and malicious compliance

Understanding Apple’s Response to the DMA

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How we use AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, what they have done to the development industry, what might happen in the future, and the ethics of the whole thing. With guest host Linus.

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Y2K was a pretty serious problem and 2038 is coming soon, work on Arm servers is improving the experience on the desktop, and what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.

Plugs

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OpenZFS Best Practices: Part 2: File Serving and SANs

News/discussion

The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – and how IT squashed it

What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks

Free Consulting

We were asked about what to do with an old unsupported Synology NAS.

Xpenology

How can I use a PC to recover data when my Synology NAS malfunctions?

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A Pi-hole PSA, an open source release of a classic game, making flow charts with markdown, resizing loads of animated gifs, writing a script to get free electricity, a dirt cheap travel router, a simple game exposes an issue with Firefox’s extreme privacy settings, rock solid proof that Linux market share is doing well, and more.

Discoveries

Update your Pi-hole lists

Amazon Fire TV block list

pioneer

pikchr

OpenWRT-based GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (travel wifi router)

pipeinstall

Gifsicle

Scraping gmail messages

1D Pacman

Feedback

KonstKang

PH stats

Kolide

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Tailscale

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How do we decide which devices and which software we trust?

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Hard drives are pretty much an enterprise product now, GitHub’s malware problem, and spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.

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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 1: Snapshots and Backups

News

Hard disk drives are next in line to become mostly enterprise hardware — as Nvidia (and AMD) could be planning to focus on AI, leaving consumers as second-class citizens

Seagate unveils 30 TB+ Exos HAMR disk drives – Blocks and Files

Miscreants absolutely love using GitHub to sling malware

Flying Under the Radar: Abusing GitHub for Malicious Infrastructure

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We were asked about spreading services across different machines and VMs to keep downtime to a minimum.

Kolide

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Félim gets angry about someone criticising desktop Linux, Snaps are going to be better on distros that aren’t Ubuntu, Mozilla wants to lead the way in making AI open, OpenAI admits it doesn’t have a legal business model, and Plasma 6 is almost here.

News

Dublin Linux Install fest Sat Feb 3

What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks

Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions

The World Of Web Browsers Is In A Bad Way

What’s next for Mozilla?

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

How Microsoft found a potential new battery material using AI – The Verge

Plasma 6 RC1

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