Late Night Linux

Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham makes a dreadful racket, and more.

Discoveries 

The CIA has a podcast

CIA museum: Inside the world’s most top secret museum

The Fuck

OPNsense

samplebrain

Mutable Instruments Clouds

httm

Ventoy

The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice on Apple’s Mac App Store

Feedback

Mimic 3

Tailscale

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systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more.

News

Listener Michael sent Joe a LMN 3

Systemd support is now available in WSL

Systemd support lands in WSL

Audacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support

Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers

KDE Korner

Intel Becomes First Krita Development Fund Corporate Gold Patron

Kdenlive Fundraiser

This week in KDE: It’s a big one, folks

This week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability

Plasma Bigscreen

KDE Neon 22.04 Rebase Imminent – Vote Firefox Snap/Other

Official ppa

Kolide

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Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and more.

Discoveries

Navidrome

ImHex

Moonlight

UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro

AI “art”

Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition

Professional AI whisperers have launched a marketplace for DALL-E prompts

Kolide

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Linode

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Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner.

News

NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions

Ubuntu Unity Becoming An Official Flavour With 22.10 Release

github-cli Debian package GPG key expires

LG is bringing NFTs to its smart TVs – The Verge

NFT shit-list

Feedback

UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files

KDE Korner

Neal Gompa explains why do none of the major distros have KDE Plasma as default 

KDE Promo Sprint

Kaidan 0.9 E2E & ATM

These Weeks in KDE

Linode

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Entroware

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A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more.

Discoveries

TTS

audible-activator

Furnace

Feedback

Gadgetbridge

LNL-Discoveries

LNL-Discoveries – GitHub

Kolide

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We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner.

News

Introducing multitasking to Arduino

GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users

GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments

Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer

VLC Media Player banned in India, website and VLC download link blocked

Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse

KDE Korner

Nate’s updates: Fewer microscopic bugfixes and weekly updates 1 2 3 4

Kate macro recording

Krita 5.1 & KDEnlive 22.08

KDE Snap Packages

Neon 22.04 Docker Images

Akademy Talk Schedule Live

Tailscale

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Linode

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Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more.

Discoveries

Tauno Serial Plotter

kdb-audio

ChromeOS Flex is now generally available

Discussion

Open source isn’t working for AI

Kolide

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It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop.

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Entroware

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Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.

Discoveries

bat

Beej’s guide to network programming

LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app

Galaxy Buds Client

Lineage problems

battop

Feedback

Late Night Linux Discoveries

code

Joe’s RSS Thingy

Bismuth

How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries

GoatCounter

Kolide

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Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more.

News

London Meetup 5th August near The Eye

Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS

Torvalds is using Asahi on an Arm Mac, and the next kernel will be 6.0

Torvalds didn’t expect to run Linux on Arm Macs

Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks

MicrocodeDecryptor

Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping

Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade

Official Unreal Engine 5 editor binaries for Linux have been published

Minecraft and NFTs

Banned from Minecraft, crypto group says it’ll just make a better game

KDE Korner

Latte Dock | Farewell…

The Eco Sprint

Kate incremental updates and Itinerary Update

Bit of love for Discover

Multihead will be no more

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