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Shane and Amolith talk about Shane's air traffic tracking hobby, mesh networking and learning programming for career change.

Shane set up his SDR dongle

FlightRadar24, their data for business subscription plan

They have a Raspberry Pi image

Shane talked about this in episode 107

TP-Link AV600 powerline adaptors

1 nautical mile is 1.852 of your finest kilometres, or 1.1508 US land miles.

Unrelated, but just look at this map, then look Mike in the eyes and tell him that non-metric units shouldn't be consigned into history books.

Other trackers are available:

ADS-B One

adsb.fi

Meshtastic open source, off-grid, decentralised mesh network

LoRaWAN

Used by farmers

Can be helpful during natural disasters

Lilygo

Silicon Valley

Go

Discussed on Linux Downtime ep 76

2023 has been the year of tech lay-offs

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Conor and Mike talk about a new chapter for Asahi Linux, the redesign of everyone's favourite email client and a penguin beating a fruit.

Asahi Linux has a new flagship distro and it's Fedora

Fedora remixes

Fedora special interest groups

Asahi alternative distros

Thunderbird got redesigned

KMail

Linux overtook macOS on the Steam Deck

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Whilst the other two are sunning their behinds somewhere, Amolith and Mike discuss two interesting projects - Amolith's own Willow, and Hare programming language that Mike has recently gotten into.

Willow

How to get a feed of GitHub releases

Gitea and Forgejo have release feeds, but GitLab doesn't

Git tags

Apparently, other source code management systems exist:

Mercurial

Fossil

Willow might end up in a Slackware install near you

Go templates

The plan is for Willow to be ready by this year's Ubuntu summit, where Amolith will be giving a talk on it.

Application lifecycle management

Hare

Hare's IRC channel (opens in an IRC client)

Drew DeVault's blog

There actually is a tutorial

Hare specs

High level data structures in Hare

The venerable top, and its descendants:

Htop

Btop++

Jtop

The Ares Operating System, a blog post on it and from it.

Meet up with Amolith at DEF CON 31, 10-13 August in Las Vegas

Meet us all at Ubuntu Summit 2023, 3-5 November in Riga

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We talk about running Debian on the devil's fruity hardware, then briefly sidestep into a culture and piracy discussion. Shane shares his plan to bug all air traffic with an SDR dongle and a Raspberry Pi. Conor shows off his new colour ereader.

Asahi Linux

Debian M1 installation

Debian ARM

KDE Plasma

Gnome Boxes

Asahi's feature support page details what works and what doesn't

Speakers are a work in progress

Firefox as a Snap

There is a project that looks after Linux on Microsoft Surfaces

Beta and VHS video from Technology Connections

A video from 1997 Macworld where Bill Gates came in to prop Apple up

Winamp is still around

ReVanced for YouTube

Dodgy boxes became popular and the State noticed

Gabe Newell on piracy

The soccer streaming case

Shane got himself an SDR dongle

As discussed on Linux Matters and Late Night Linux

FlightRadar24, their data for business subscription plan

Nautical mile is 1,852 metres

R820T

Russian Warship Go Fuck Yourself

Russian military exercise in the Irish EEZ

Submarine cable map

Starlink's a source of light pollution as well as aid to the Ukrainian military (now paid for by the US)

Conor got himself an InkPad Color 2

Judge Dredd

Terry Pratchett's Discworld

Tetris the movie

Two idiots one keyboard

BeagleV-Ahead Risc-V board

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Our 😤 thoughts on the Reddit debacle, and the options that there are for online communities.

Wikipedia's article about the whole mess

Reddit'd like some of that sweet IPO cash 🤑

Reddit's announcement of the API changes

Apollo' Christian Selig's post ⚰️

Subreddits went dark, the CEO just couldn't help himself and trolled on

👷‍♂️ Last year's stats had volunteer mods generate $3.4M worth of free labour

Reddit's pivot to crap ↪️💩 possibly made Google Search (even) less usefull

Ranking of reddit.com

Reddit's old site, projects like RES and third party apps like Infinity improve upon the current "stock" experience

sub.rehab lists instances of the Reddit communities on alternative platforms

kbin

Lemmy

Sync app reborn on Lemmy

ActivityPub

List of Lemmy instances

How to 🪛 install Lemmy from scratch

kbin admin bare metal guide

Megalodon for Mastodon

The threat of Threads

The EU Comission Ireland in the Fediverse

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With Conor and Amolith away, Shane and Mike took a break from wagging their chins about Linux, and wagged them about their other nerdy pursuits instead.

Amolith was at SELF

Conor was at Download

Twilight Struggle

Rocket League

Team Fortress

Ticket to Ride

Settlers of Catan

Monopoly

Carcassonne

Crisis

Cluedo

Trivial Pursuit

OpenOffice

Cities Skylines

Anno 1800

Red Alert 3

BioShock

Arduino

Raspberry Pi

Distortion pedal building tutorial

Bitwig

Ardour

Battleground: Ukraine

Darknet Diaries

The Blindboy Podcast

Joe's podcasts

The Guardian

The Economist

The David McWilliams Podcast

Audible

Kobo

Ian M Banks

Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space

The Expanse

Star Trek Discovery

Star Trek Picard

Blender

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Jules Verne

Museum

Off on a Comet

Naomi Novik's Scholomance

Terry Pratchett

Maxime J. Durand's The Perfect Run

Gooseberries

Basil

Moka pot

A video of a ping pong "runaround"

Ask the Hosts

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We talk about desktops, are they even necessary? Then we discuss Conor's newest hop, to Nobara.

Framework now offers Ryzen processors

Entroware Kratos

Lenovo ThinkPads

Dell XPS

SlimBook

LTT desk pad

Nobara is a "modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it".

GloriousEggroll and his Proton-GE

Flathub now has a lot of things, including Proton VPN

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We talk to Ciarán about entertaining avians cetaceans prone to disco music publication and cataloguing system based on ActivityPub, creating specs for podcast syncing API, Star Trek, life, the Universe and everything.

Funkwhale

They Might Be Giants

Grooveshark

Jamendo

Castopod

Owncast

Find instances using this dashboard

The flagship instance

Ciarán's own instance

Funkwhale's Gitlab repo

Open Podcast API

gPodder

AntennaPod

KDE Kasts

PodFriend

nextcloud-gpodder

Podcasting 2.0

Podverse

Pocket Casts

REST API

Retribute, wealth sharing platform

W3C Payment Request API

Star Trek Picard

The Original Series

TNG

DS9

Voyager

Enterprise

Discovery

Lower Decks

Red Letter Media

The Expanse

Stargate SG-1

Firefly

Cowboy Bebop

The Irish unification is happening next year

Ciarán is on Mastodon

So is Funkwhale

Open Podcast API is on GitHub

SouthEast LinuxFest takes place in 9-11 June in Charlotte, North Carolina

Amolith is going to be there, write the show or write him if you want to meet up

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Amolith's friend in code Chris masterfully expands on the previous episode by subtly correcting everything we got wrong about Gio and adding more information about the technology and the project.

Gio's Website

Gio was created by Elias Naur

OpenGL

Vulkan

Intro to GTK for comparison

GoGio, a CLI utility that helps build Gio apps for Android, iOS, tvOS and WebAssembly

Gio's Open Collective page

sourcehut

HarfBuzz

GopherCon

Kakoune code editor

GitHub

sourcehut

Gophers Slack channel

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We talk about using Bing and Edge (what has the world come to?). Is it a stoat? Is it a drill sergeant? No, it's an AI, and possibly a thieving one, but shouldn't we rethink IP anyway? Maybe the bot can cook better than Mike, idk the bar is low.

Room 101

Mike's Binging it

Amolith's turning AI into small woodland creatures and military personnel using Chatbot UI

Prompt Injections

Github Copilot

Today in Focus AI episodes

Algorithmic Trading

Gio website

Amolith's Gio project

Flutter

Amolith ferments his own moonshine tea

The obligatory Wikipedia article

The what of the what?? Article on making kombucha - includes terms like SCOBY and pellicle, so you know it's the genuine... article.

Vietnamese coffee

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