Late Night Linux

Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon.

News

Home Assistant officially Matters

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive 

Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management

Announcing Techpaladin Software

Fedora 42 Beta now available

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

GIMP 3.0 Released

The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year

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Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more.

Discoveries

espargos and demo video

OSM2GoogleMaps Bookmarklet

Cyd

twitter-defollower

Cross Views

About apt upgrade and phased updates

Feedback

Rapid Photo Downloader

Become a sponsor to Damon Lynch

scc

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Entroware

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Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command & Conquer games, the EFF releases a tool to detect cellular spying, an official Debian VM on Pixel devices, a brief foldable update, and more.

News

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

An update on our Terms of Use

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

Firefox 136.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

‘Flow’ wins best animated feature film Oscar

“thank you Blender”

Godot 4.4, a unified experience

EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Android’s native Linux Terminal app is live in Google’s latest update

Porkbun.com

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Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is a touch buggy, and more.

Discoveries

Guacamole

Lumon Industries (Macrodata-Refinement)

Skies-ADSB

Home Assistant Voice PE

Casio F91W to 5000m underwater

Pi-hole v6

gammastep

1Password Extended Access Management

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The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin.

News

Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

Passing the torch on Asahi Linux

[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself

On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.) – Theodore Ts’o

Terence Eden on young people in FOSS

Linux Dev Time – Episode 118

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

Amazon Kindles jailbroken

Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning

Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy

Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

Matrix is at a T junction

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What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the Masses.

Voice of the Masses

What are you self-hosting, and what are you relying on others to host for you?

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Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more.

News

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer

Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: ‘Maybe the problem is you’

New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel

Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers

Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting

EU OS

The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google

We’re bringing Pebble back!

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant

Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199

Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage

How Blender helped Gints Zilbalodis make Oscar-nominated Flow

Flow – Official Trailer

Plasma 6.3 is out tomorrow

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Entroware

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What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus a self-hostable workflow automation platform, simple systemd management, and Redshift on Xfce in Discoveries. Then we wonder why there seems to be less in the way of interesting Linux news these days.

Discoveries 

n8n

isd

redshift

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We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers.

News

Free Our Feeds

Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone

Plasma 6.3 beta 2 is out! and Season of KDE 2025

Foldable future?

Pixel 9 Pro Fold

Discoveries 

Hugin

Stratoshark

OuterTune

BarCamp Surrey

Laura and popey tell us about BarCamp Surrey

ServerMania

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Automox

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Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.

Molly’s personal website

[citation needed] newsletter

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes video

Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes article

Web3 Is Going Great

Best 2024 Discoveries

Thanks Matt for collating our discoveries

Will

Thingino

Motion

Spotify Car Thing

Graham

Osci-render

ink – inkle’s narrative scripting language

An IDE for retro game development 8bitworkshop

Synth of the year, https://github.com/aaronaanderson/Terrain

Felim

Pikchr

AITrack

Klevernotes & a very near taskfinder

Joe

InnerTune

StezStix Fix?

yt-dlp

Linux Mint 22

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