LINUX Unplugged

Why Linux reigns for privacy; our recommendations for secure tools from chat to DNS.

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• Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration — This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton of customisation and flexibility. To get started, you’ll need an instance of Home Assistant running with the ESPHome add-on as well as the Home Assistant companion app on your mobile phone to receive notifications when someone presses the doorbell button.
• Alex in Chicago, Aug 10, 2023 | Meetup
• The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance — "The U.K. government wants to grant itself the right to scan every message online for content related to child abuse or terrorism—and says it will still, somehow, magically, protect peoples’ privacy. That’s simply impossible. U.K. civil society groups have condemned the bill, as have technical experts and human rights groups around the world."
• U.K. civil society groups
• human rights groups around the world
• WhatsApp, Signal, and the UK-based Element
• Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law — "End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats," Apple argued in a statement to the media.
• Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Snowflake ❄️ — Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call.
• Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking — Instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected.
• AdGuard Home
• NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
• UnifiedPush — UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.
• NextPush - Server App — UnifiedPush provider for Nextcloud - server application
• UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
• Proton Drive — Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data.
• SimpleLogin — Open source anonymous email service
• Simple NixOS Mailserver
• Proton Calendar
• EteSync - Secure Data Sync — Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
• Nextcloud + DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ has been successfully tested with Nextcloud.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.
• Nextcloud - Online collaboration platform — Regain control over your data
• Send — Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.
• nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end — A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance.

Two important news stories, plus our thoughts on GNOME’s new windowing proposal and the Framework 16.

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• The Framework Laptop 16 DIY AMD 7040
• Nextcloud Conference 2023 — Annually bringing the global Nextcloud Contributor Community together for a week of coding, design, discussion, talks & fun!
• Berlin with Brent, Fri Sep 8, 2023 | Meetup.com — Brent will be back in Berlin for the Nextcloud Conference and can't get enough of Berlin Meetups!
• Alex will be in Chicago August 10th!
• PayPal Shut Down GrapheneOS Foundation’s Account Used For Donations
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — Unfortunately, PayPal permanently locked our GrapheneOS Foundation account today. No reason has been provided for the account being locked. All we've done is accept donations. We added our bank account information yesterday in order to begin withdrawing money and it was locked.
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — PayPal has restored our non-profit GrapheneOS Foundation account. We should be able to withdraw all donations made through it in the past few weeks. We received no info on why our account was permanently banned with funds held for 180 days or why they now restored our account.
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We use Bitcoin as the main way we transfer funds internally, including using it to pay most of our project members. It doesn't replace having bank accounts to pay other expenses or accepting donations in other ways.
• Ansible Creator Wants to Build a New Automation Platform in Rust — Ansible's creator Michael DeHaan thinks there is still plenty of room to make more tools that would add to the existing automation ecosystem. Especially, when infrastructure automation solutions like Chef and Puppet were acquired.
• A New IT Automation Project? — Moving Beyond Ansible And Keeping The Spirit
• Welcome to JetPorch — Jet's goal is to be an community-driven enterprise automation and orchestration platform for the modern era.
• jetporch/example_content: example content for learning, exploration, and testing
• Jetporch: Next generation IT orchestration — Jetporch is a next-generation IT orchestration platform aiming to handle modern enterprise workloads at a planetary scale.
• Rethinking Window Management — We’ve wanted more powerful tiling for years, but there has not been much progress due to the huge amount of work involved on the technical side and the lack of a clear design direction we were happy with. We now finally feel like the design is at a stage where we can take concrete next steps towards making it happen, which is very exciting!
• Open Podcast API — The Open Podcast API is an initiative aiming to provide a feature-complete synchronisation API specification for podcast (web) apps and user-focussed servers.
• OpenPodcastAPI Meeting Notes
• HamWAN — HamWAN is a non-profit organization (501c3) developing best practices for high speed amateur radio data networks. HamWAN also runs the Puget Sound Data Ring, which is a real-world network implementation of the proposed designs.
• SUSE Liberty Linux — SUSE Liberty Linux is a technology and support solution that will secure your Linux future without fear of vendor lock-in. With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get trusted support and optional proven management tools that are optimized for mixed Linux environments, including Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux ®, CentOS, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
• anytype.io — the everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy
• bfs 3.0: the fastest find yet! — bfs is a tool I wrote to do breadth-first search through a filesystem. It started out simply enough, but over the years it's grown to include almost every feature from every other find implementation I could find, plus many of its own innovations.

Do they build them better in Germany? We try out the next-generation InfinityBook Pro 14 and dig into TUXEDO OS.

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• Office Hours 33: Just Burn it all Down — Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire. Plus, an update on our new bounty release format!
• TUXEDO Computers — TUXEDO Computers are customizable Linux notebooks and Desktop PCs optimized in the first place to run with Ubuntu-based Linux operating systems.
• TUXEDO OS Download
• TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 Linux Ultrabook Is Now Available for Pre-Order
• TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen8 — 17 mm thin, 1.3 kg light, a chassis footprint of only 31 x 21.5 cm, paired with a top-notch 16:10 3K Omnia display, a max-sized 99 Wh battery and a 14-core Intel Core i7-13700H high-performance processor.
• ddev — Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments.
• [nixpkgs PR] ddev: init at 1.21.4 by jgonyea
• Flipper Zero — Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks
• GNU Wget — GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS, the most widely used Internet protocols.
• GNU Guix — transactional package manager and distribution
• Cheogram — Extensible Messaging and Presence for the Telephone Network
• no-more-secrets — This project provides a command line tool called nms that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen on screen in the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers.
• Bard-Shell — Bard-Shell is a utility that allows you to use Google's Bard AI in the Linux terminal.

Have Oracle and SUSE lost their minds? Plus, we dig into Fedora's proposal to add telemetry collection to Workstation.

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• Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To — Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.
• Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 6:00 PM | Meetup
• Berlin Buds on Matrix
• Dissociated Press: Clone Wars
• SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment — SUSE is committed to working with the open source community to develop a long-term, enduring compatible alternative for RHEL and CentOS users. SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
• Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux — SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen today argues that SUSE is wading into this because of its belief that “becoming more proprietary should not be the basis for competition between open source companies."
• The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker News
• Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open — While we continuously explore other options, the aforementioned approaches are subject to change. However, our unwavering dedication and commitment to open source and the Enterprise Linux community remain steadfast.
• AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System — After much discussion, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board today has decided to drop the aim to be 1:1 with RHEL. AlmaLinux OS will instead aim to be Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatible.
• Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry — Red Hat's desktop developers are interested in "limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics." They are not wanting to collect individual user data but are interested in aggregate usage metrics.
• Changes/Telemetry - Fedora Project Wiki
• What data will be collected, exactly? — A breakout topic for the F40 Change Request on Privacy-preserving telemetry for Fedora Workstation.
• Endless OS’s privacy-preserving metrics system — Let’s stare directly at the elephant in the room: usage metrics – telemetry, analytics, or whatever other terms one might like to use – is something that free software community members are often opposed to, with some good justification.
• This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends — The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
• Alby
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• Office Hours 32: Things are Changing
• Our Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” Is Here! — We did our best to strike a comfortable balance between new features and interface changes to appeal to new users, while maintaining the current layout and interface that millions of our users know and love.
• rustdesk 1.2 — Rewritten with Flutter, Wayland support, Headless Linux, Resolution adjustment, Dark theme.

Can Ubuntu make a great immutable desktop? We're trying the brand-new "Everything is a Snap" Ubuntu Core Desktop.

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• Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
• Berlin Buds on Matrix
• Things are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.
• Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
• Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.
• ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.
• Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub
• canonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.
• Workshops on the Snap Store
• Snikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguish
• snikket-server: Image builder for Snikket server
• Snikket Chat — Simple, secure and private messaging.
• OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo — OLF is returning on September 8-9, 2023!
• Magnolia Mayhem’s CaterCloud
• Support LINUX Unplugged on Conshax
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• kz6fittycent/BobRossQuotes: A bunch of quotes from Bob Ross
• Bob Ross Quotes - Snap Store

Just about every take on the Red Hat news seems to have missed the mark.

Special Guest: Carl George.

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• Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
• Berlin Buds Matrix Room
• Our Essential Apps | Self-Hosted 100 — We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8.
• Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes — There was a time, not too long ago, that Red Hat found value in the work done by rebuilders like CentOS. We pushed our SRPMs out to git.centos.org in a neat package that made them easy to rebuild; we even de-branded it for them. More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder.
• Linux Action News 298 — Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.
• Ask Noah 343 Interview w/Mike McGrath — Mike McGrath joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss the changes Red Hat is making in how they make their source code available.
• A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model — We fear that be it through incompetence or malice, many RHEL salespeople and business development professionals may regularly violate GPL and no one knows about it. That said, the business model as described by IBM's Red Hat may well comply with the GPL — it's just so murky that any tweak to the model in any direction seems to definitely violate, in our experience.
• Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code — One option is through the usage of UBI container images which are based on RHEL and available from multiple online sources (including Docker Hub). Another method that we will leverage is pay-per-use public cloud instances. With this, anyone can spin up RHEL images in the cloud and thus obtain the source code for all packages and errata.
• Springdale Linux Discussions — While RedHat's action itself is not particularly surprising given somewhat-recent developments with regards to the likes of CentOS Stream, the timing has taken many in the RHEL-compatible-clone world by surprise.
• Red Hat & Fedora – largely stepping out of this ecosystem - Fedora Mailing-Lists — What Red Hat has done recently is depressing, but not a huge surprise to me. Red Hat struggled repeatedly with how to deal with "the clones".The core idea I always came back to in those discussions was that the value isn't in the bits, but in the stability, services and ecosystem Red Hat enables around the bits.
• How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business — To move from small player to big-time enterprise software competitor, Cormier argued that Red Hat had to ditch the freely downloadable Red Hat Linux. Instead, it should replace Red Hat Linux with a more robust enterprise software package that maintained the principles of free (as in freedom) software without actually being free (as in price) to customers.
• Carl George on Fosstodon — “You should have already been using #CentOS Stream. There, I said it.”
• NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux — NASA/NSSC has a requirement for FY23 CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Purchase. Item: CIQ Rocky Enterprise Linux Per Person Advanced - Annual Subscription. Quantity: 3
• NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux (HN Discussion)
• catercloud.me — Originally, the project consisted of a web framework that glued together several other, more mature open-source projoects, but as scope creep and my own tendency toward re-inventing the wheel rose to the surface, the project’s development became more and more complex, slowly incorporating a lot of components that go way beyond a simple word cloud and into things like natural language processing.

Chris tears into two old PCs, and builds a surprisingly powerful multi-monitor Wayland workstation.

Plus, Wes has a new device, and Brent wants answers.

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• Too many Disks? Perfect.
• Chris' Workstation neofetch
• Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard — Black. Wired, Comfortable, Ergonomic Keyboard with Cushioned Wrist and Palm Support. Split Keyboard.
• Magic TrackPad
• NixOS Remote Desktop
• FOUR Displays
• U.S. Intelligence Has Admitted Amassed Data on ‘Nearly Everyone’ — A newly declassified report confirms that the government has unprecedented insight into our lives through smartphones, cars, web browsing, and other tech.
• DNI Haines Statement on Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
• ODNI Senior Advisory Group Panel Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
• Millions of Americans’ personal data exposed in global hack
• US government agencies hit in global cyberattack
• Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear by Michael Bazzell — This textbook is PROACTIVE. It is about starting over. It is the complete guide that he would give to any new client in an extreme situation.
• Have I Been Pwned — Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach.
• Stalkerware Resources and Help – Darknet Diaries — It’s a nightmare scenario that’s alarmingly common. Your spouse, partner, ex, co-worker, or vengeful person is determined they want to spy on you. To follow you everywhere you go digitally. They might have access to your location, the cameras in your home, your emails. It’s extremely violating and horrible. Here are a few resources that can help if you’re in this situation.
• Darknet Diaries — True stories from the dark side of the Internet.
• Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Surveillance Self-Defense | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We’re deprecating SeedVault and will be replacing it with a new implementation. SeedVault was created by a member of the GrapheneOS community in 2017 based on our design for it. Unfortunately, it has been taken over by an untrustworthy group of developers without aligned goals.
• GrapheneOS/platform_external_seedvault
• SeedVault - Calyx Institute
• seedvault-app/seedvault — A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.
• How to use SeedVault Backup for Android
• immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
• DAVx5 — Sync your contacts, calendars and tasks. Get live-access to your WebDAV Cloud files. All-in-one CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV solution for Android
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: go2tv — Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs.

Is Ham Radio a natural hobby for Linux users? An old friend joins us to explain where the two overlap.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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• Ask Noah Show Episode 200: Ham Radio Linux Superstation — We celebrate episode 200 by sharing our plans to serve the community better! Ham Radio has come a long way from tubes and dials. Alex Archer KC0REL joins us to discuss building the ideal ham shack on Linux!
• HAM - Official Documentary (2022) - YouTube — HAM is a short documentary that follows a group of Montanan amateur radio enthusiasts that show the loyal community of amateur radio, explore what it means to be a ham, and how they are trying to keep the hobby alive.
• FT8—What Is It and How Can I Get Started? — FT8 is one of the many digital modes often referred to as sound card modes (SCM) because they utilize a computer’s sound card to bring in audio from your radio to be processed by software to decode the information embedded in the signal.
• Amateur Radio Software For Linux | KC7NYR
• Closed Source Ham Radio Software on GNU/Linux
• awesome-hamradio — Awesome hamradio repositories.
• Ham Radio Operators Tune In to Giant Waves in the Earth’s Ionosphere | Science Mission Directorate — This new technique vividly demonstrates the effect of these waves on radio communications.

We get the inside scoop on SouthEast LinuxFest, and share a few stories from the early days of the Linux community.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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• DebianBookworm — Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10.
• Debian 12 “Bookworm” Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
• For the LAS Time | Linux Action Show 468 - YouTube
• Ask Noah
• ThinLinX
• JMP: Your phone number on every device
• SouthEast LinuxFest — For the regulars and newbies, please review our schedule to get a feel for what’s happening at this year’s events. For the newbies, be sure to read our About Us page to understand a bit more about the event in general.
• SELF 2023 Schedule
• southeastlinuxfest - YouTube
• Argon ONE V2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 — The Argon ONE Case is now better than ever as it has many new features
• comma — Comma runs software without installing it.
• org-roam
• Taking org-roam everywhere with logseq
• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge
• SUSE Partners with Collabora to Deliver Commercial LibreOffice Support
• Send a Boot from web with Alby — Top off Alby, then head over to the Podcastindex.org
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost right from the web at the Podcast Index with Alby.
• Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
• fractal on GitLab
• FluffyChat — FluffyChat is an open-source, nonprofit and cute matrix messenger app. The app is easy to use but secure and decentralized.
• NixOS for the Impatient — This post is about how I set up NixOS.

We attempt to swap Linux distributions live on our production server, to prove that new tooling makes the Linux distro model obsolete.

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• Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice [LWN.net] — Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has let it be known that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, and the future of its support in Fedora is unclear as well.
• The distribution model is changing
• The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support — Estimated Monthly Costs - ~$9000 / month for hosting cache.nixos.org
• NixOS 23.05 released
• Introducing NixOS Anywhere
• Nixos-anywhere: install nixos everywhere via ssh — You can then initiate an unattended installation with a single CLI command. Since nixos-anywhere can access the new machine using SSH, it's ideal for remote installations.
• Quickstart - nixos-anywhere
• Disko Examples
• NetBird — NetBird is an open-source VPN management platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
• netbird GitHub repo — Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.
• Nix-portable — Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured
• Nix-bundle — Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
• nix-user-chroot: Install & Run nix without root permissions
• Nix Release 2.10 (2022-07-11)
• Nix Portable: Nix - Static, Permissionless, Install-free, Pre-configured - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
• Send a Boost with Alby — Top off Alby, and then boost from the Web.
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• KTailctl — A GUI for the Tailscale mesh network.
• SABnzbd