Late Night Linux

Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE Korner.

News

Linux Matters has launched

Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically

Resist Fingerprinting

PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of them all turns 30

More layoffs at Red Hat

Fedora 38 released

Ubuntu 23.04 released

Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04

KDE Korner

KDE Gear 23.04, Nanonote 1.4.0, Announcing Arianna 1.0 & digiKam 8.0.0 is released

The road to KDE Connect 2.0

40 Snaps & a HowTo

Plasma Products / Not a DE

What’s new in Fedora Kinoite 38

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Linode

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A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KDE Korner, and loads more.

Discoveries

Logitech Media Server (LMS)

First Universal Blue image

Mission – Universal Blue

Scope – Universal Blue

CLARK

sniffnet

Yubikey Manager

Feedback

ngrep

rsyncy

KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile catchup

ktechlab

isoimagewriter

a pile of snaps

Krita Yearly report

Most plasma widgets ported to 6 & Nate’s weekly updates

Linode

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Kolide

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25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two (more) potential ways to help solve the FOSS funding problem.

News

A quarter century of Mozilla

Making the impossible possible — again

A new era of transparency for Twitter

Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why

Twitter’s Open Source Algorithm Is a Red Herring

Welcome to open source, Elon. Your Twitter code just got a CVE for shadow ban bug

The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023 – Original Prusa 3D Printers

A reply to Josef Průša – Stargirl (Thea) Flowers

Help us fund equipment – Armbian

Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects

thanks.dev

Linode

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Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom. Plus a novel way to solve the FOSS funding problem, and Proton as the ultimate Linux gaming platform.

Discoveries

chob

Chirp plant alarm

Garmin watch offline sync with Postrunner

ntopng

DoomLinux

Kolide

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Linode

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Entroware

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Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto, Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more.

News

Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore’s Law, has died

Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know

We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.

We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan

The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library

The Fight Continues

We updated our RSA SSH host key

We need better support for SSH host certificates

Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, dbt and BigQuery

Microsoft is building a cryptocurrency wallet into its Edge browser

Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge

Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI

KDE Korner

Testing QT6 Begins

Xwayland Screen Casting

GCompris overview 180+ activities

Labplot 2.10

This week in KDE: “More Wayland fixes”

This week in KDE: Distro upgrades for Fedora KDE in Discover

My experience taking part in Season of KDE

Adapting Standard Usage Scenario Scripts For KDE Applications: My Journey As A Season Of KDE Mentee – KDE Eco

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Kolide

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Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the maths. Plus your feedback about robot vacuums, guitar cables, Arch, why we don’t talk about Fedora, KDE wins, and more.

Discoveries 

qalculate

NiceGUI

Entropy Piano Tuner

Autodarts (video of it in action)

Feedback

Quinny

DustBuilder

Valetudo

Material for MkDocs

Linode

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Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android users, a lengthy quest to stream DRM-restricted media on Arm Macs, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Flathub in 2023

The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later

NewF-Droid  repository format for faster and smaller updates

The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

KDE Korner

Plasma 6 kick off and outline fixes & Wayland zooming

Apps in MS Store Tutorial

Plasma codemap

Kubuntu Manual

KDE for Scientists

PIM Update

Krita Tutorial Video

Akademy Talks Reminder!

Linode

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Kolide

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Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guitar with Linux, keeping kids safe online, and more.

Discoveries

mqttshark

device IDs to get steering wheel

nim

Turrican II AGA

Zelda a Link to the Past on Linux

Feedback

Timeshift

Kopia

Grsync

Cronopete

UrBackup

Neon AI OS for the Mycroft Mark II

Nextcloud localization

Behringer UMC22 audiophile 2×2 USB audio interface

Linode

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Kolide

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Entroware

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Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner.

News

Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults

NASA and open-source software

10 years ago Steam released for Linux

M$ Edge inserts ads on Chrome download page

My daughter’s school took over my personal Microsoft account

KDE Korner

KDE Switches to QT6

Nicco looks at theme & shows 6 “hidden” features of Plasma

Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0

Stop shouting

How to add flatpaks on Kubuntu/Neon

Nate’s regular updates

Two very last minute tools in Neon & two apps in unstable

Linode

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More reverse-engineering, free tech books, a handy tool for fixing things you’ve aCCIDENTALLY CAPITALISED, Chromium in the terminal, putting apps and config files in a “box”, more on aviation tracking, GUI vs CLI backups on Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries

reveng

lurk

GoalKicker.com books

Late Night Linux – Discoveries

Convert Case

carbonyl

Github Sponsors stops taking Paypal

boxxy

TheAirTraffic (ADS-B Exchange replacement)

Félim’s list of ADS-B Exchange alternatives

Feedback

BorgBackup

Sanoid and Syncoid

Linode

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Kolide

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