Late Night Linux

There’s only one news story this week, and it’s a big one. Red Hat dropped a bombshell on the RHEL rebuild communities by announcing that they will restrict source code releases to paying customers only.

Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes

Keeping Open Source Open

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

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The pros and cons of working on open source software, streaming your Android screen to desktop Linux, a Hacker News alternative, stabilizing video, an ESP32-based open hardware watch, a ludicrously expensive router, quickly cropping and rotating videos, Joe and Félim troll each other, and more.

Discoveries 

Scrcpy

lobste.rs

Watchy 

Turris Omnia

Footage

chatGPT-shell-cli

TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Tailscale

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Linode

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A victory against the dystopian nightmare of facial recognition, Reddit drama might be good news long term, Google kills yet another service so muckyjpegs.com needs a new home, great KDE news, and more.

News

Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him

Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: May 2023 Progress Report

What Reddit Got Wrong

Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

Reddit CEO felt ‘reaffirmed’ by Musk’s handling of Twitter

Google Domains is yet another useful service to get the axe in favor of “focus”

Kdenlive news and fundraising report

This week in KDE: major plumbing work in Plasma 6

HelloFresh

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Kolide

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Linode

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A great way to access documentation offline, moving Windows installations to new disks without breaking them, streaming VR games from a PC, replacing Pocket with a proper open source solution, living with Google’s flagship phone for a few months, and more.

Discoveries

Zeal

Clonezilla

Wallabag

ALVR: Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi

TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Tailscale

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Linode

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The future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio production, open source voice assistants suddenly seem possible, and more.

News

Check out Ask The Hosts. Episode 1 is available on Patreon.

Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to Snap

All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year

Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base

Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement

Carl George’s take

The distribution model is changing

Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak

Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”

Push – a standalone expressive instrument

Willow could be the $50 hardware piece of the DIY voice assistant puzzle

Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup

Pocket’s new features make it even easier to discover and organize content

Linux On Desktop In 2023

Kolide

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

Linode

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What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to getting more young people involved. Plus what a long-standing bug with Snaps shows us about the open source ecosystem.

Tailscale

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Linode

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Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping your FOSS Android apps bang up to date, whether programming students should be using Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries 

gping

Chiaki

image stabilised Apollo 15

Apollo 11 VR HD on Steam

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

Nosey Parker

Joe’s Mastodon thread

Obtainium

GCompris

Feedback

Configure Firefox to reject cookie banners automatically

Bavarder: Chit-chat with an AI

TrueNAS from iXsystems

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HelloFresh

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Linode

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Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows on handhelds, Roblox stops working for us, a peek at the upcoming Plasma 6 release, and more.

News

Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report

Fedora Program Manager layed off

(what that role was)

Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation

A new onboarding experience on Mastodon

Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking

Asus ROG Ally review: it’s time to stop pretending Windows is the answer

Nintendo, ticked by Zelda leaks, does a DMCA run on Switch emulation tools

Plasma 6: “Better defaults”

Plasma 6 Sprint 2023

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.

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We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for virtualising Linux on M1 Macs, more on DNS and Yubikeys, and more.

Discoveries

CEMU

TrueNAS from iXsystems

To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl

Linode

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How and why the Free Software Foundation should be reformed, checking your Python code incredibly quickly, Will’s Telegram bot, FOSS surround sound, upscaling photos, and loads more.

Discussion

The Free Software Foundation is dying

Discoveries

ruff by Astral

LNL Telegram Bot

IEM Plugin Suite

Graham’s audio demo

Upscayl

Félim’s Irish landcape photo

Félim’s Irish landcape photo upscaled

Feedback

shotwell-site-generator

shotwell-site-generator screenshots

Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.

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