Late Night Linux

How the boss of WordPress spectacularly failed to read the room, why the CUPS vulnerabilities didn’t live up to the hype, Mozilla disappoints once again, great news for home automation, Valve supports Arch, and a Raspberry Pi 500 looks imminent. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.

News

​Know Before You Go – OggCamp 24

Announcing the OggCamp Swap Shop

Get Involved at OggCamp 2024: bring a talk or demo

The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source

Critical Linux bug is CUPS-based remote-code execution hole

Mozilla’s massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer

Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure

David Culley’s post about K9

Aqara joins Works with Home Assistant

Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

We have discussed the need for a signing enclave and proper build service for *years*. They are supporting our priorities

The Raspberry Pi 500 Hints At Its Existence

KDE e.V. and Kdenlive team are looking for contractors

Tailscale

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Jason Evangelho tells us about the rosy state of Linux gaming, including a lot of games that perform as well or even better than on Windows. Plus feedback, and discoveries about interacting with GitHub via the command line, a handy DNS testing tool, and playing ancient games with accurate audio.

Discoveries

GitHub CLI

dug

asid-vice

Feedback

Archiveteam

Jason Evangelho

Jason’s Mastodon

Jason’s articles on Forbes

Entroware

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We look back at the biggest news stories and trends from the last 7+ years and 300 episodes of LNL. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.

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Seven and a bit years of news

Google launches game streaming service called Stadia

A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy

Introducing a new version of Steam Play

Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022

Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)

Ubuntu is abandoning Unity

Canonical starts IPO path

Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

IBM to Acquire Red Hat

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained

Mozilla acquires Pocket

Mozilla to shut down their Mastodon instance

Mozilla recently flipped the switch to enable-by-default sponsored weather results from AccuWeather in every new Firefox tab

Microsoft to buy Github

Announcing WSL 2

GitHub and OpenAI launch an AI Copilot tool that generates its own code

Linux has made it to Mars

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more

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Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python objects, viewing HTTP archives, and more on the problem with micropayments.

Discoveries

Signal Processing Course

KDE Connect

Friture

wat

HARview

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Mono moves to the Wine project, the Internet Archive can’t lend books but should have seen it coming, Mozilla adds unpopular AI to Firefox, and KDE asks for donations in Plasma. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.

News

A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project

The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox

Asking for donations in Plasma

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To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” Linux, if so how, and if it’s even possible in Voice of the masses.

Voice of the masses

Should we try to convert Windows Subsystem for Linux users into “proper” native desktop Linux users? If so, how?

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Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual boot, Google quietly drops support for Chrome on old Ubuntu, the Apple tax hits Patreon, and an exciting new Raspberry Pi.

News

OggCamp

Linux is 33 years old

Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser

Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131

“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 235

Chrome dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 but it’ll be back

Patreon warns content makers that Apple wants to be paid

Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

Entroware

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The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details about OggCamp, and whether FOSS people are all old.

Discoveries

IPv6 for IPv4 admins

bashsimplecurses

Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000

taskfinder

OggCamp

Gary tells us about the upcoming free culture event in Manchester, UK.

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Call for papers

OggCamp on Mastodon

Are FOSS people all old?

The graying open source community needs fresh blood

1Password

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Open source myths, Graham gives us an update on the Open Documentation Academy, and why we don’t really talk about mobile Linux anymore.

Open source myths

Open Documentation Academy (GitHub repo)

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Analysing MQTT data, getting domains unblocked from Cloudflare DNS, making ASCII animations, and why Joe is drawn to Linux Mint. Plus why we don’t talk about Vivaldi even though it’s quite good, why Félim was wrong about right click in PuTTY, and Will doesn’t seem to understand Lemmy.

Discoveries

MQTT decode

Cloudflare DNS was blocking apps.kde.org

Durdraw

Linux Mint 22

Feedback

fedditt.uk

Lemmy

1Password

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