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An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.

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Pick: LAN-Orangutan — LAN Orangutan is a lightweight network scanner with persistent device labeling, multi-network support, and Tailscale integration. Built by 291 Group.
LAN Orangutan — Lightweight Network Scanner
Pick: LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
LocalSend on Flathub
Pick: oxproxion — Android LLM chat interface for OpenRouter models or locally served models using Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX LM or Hermes Agent.
Cherokee Scout Reservation
How-To Meshtastic BBS! Off-Grid Email?
TC2-BBS-mesh — A BBS server for Meshtastic for posting bulletins, sending mail to users, and channel directory.
herdr — the runtime your coding agents live on

Something is living among the rocks at the farm, and as we learn how coyotes sleep, hunt, and raise their young, the trail leads uncomfortably close to the chicken coop.
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* Particular Man by Abel James

Seven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers.

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Linux 7.2-rc5 announcement
Linux 7.2 changelog
Linux 7.1 changelog
7.2 merge window
Btrfs large folios and DIO fix
strncpy removal
i486 removal
Dreamcast fixes
Cache-aware scheduling
Fairer GPU scheduler
NVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibility
AMD ROCm regression
Dreamcast vs i486
Btrfs DIO regression reports
Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue | COINKITE Blog
Bitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research says
Flowchart of the Linux RNG
dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
Pick: TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
Pick: cfait — A fast and powerful, offline-first task manager for your terminal, desktop, and phone.
Cfait on Flathub
Cfait on F-Droid

Chris spent five nights camping in an EV, and the car handled everything he worried about. It was the problems he never anticipated that nearly ruined the trip.

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1950's Hoover Constellation Vacuum Cleaner TV Commercial - YouTube
Havnby CloudCore 4.5-inch Foam Backseat Mattress for Tesla Model Y
Tesla Model Y Air Mattress
Best Mattress Setup for Tesla Model Y Camping?
The Perfect YouTube Project for the New Tuber
SUMK Tailgate Camping Tent with Canopy for Tesla Model Y Juniper
OGERY Camping String Lights 4 in 1, 32.8FT Quick Storage 8 Modes Protable
Tent Lamp 5 Packs Portable Tent Light Clip Hook Hurricane Emergency Lights LED Camping Light
The Established Tuber's Next Big Project

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* Tanz am Druidenstein By: Ric Sattler

Block’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next.

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Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place. — Chat with teammates and specialized agents in one shared space, then move straight into planning, project management, coding, and PRs. Create agents tailored to your workflows, let them collaborate with your team’s agents, and keep the work that used to be scattered across chat, trackers, and dev tools in one place.
buzz on GitHub
Feature Request: Support external agent systems (non-ACP) for real-time communication in Buzz communities
[Bug] Remote Agent Missing from @ Mention Autocomplete Across Machines
Teknium 🪽 on X: "@jack Hit me up if you want us to submit any PRs or make hermes more compatible with Buzz!"
feat(agents): add Hermes ACP and external-agent integration by NYTEMODEONLY
feat(acp): Hermes runtime discovery and durable session load by joelbrilliant
docs(acp): document Buzz host integration by NYTEMODEONLY
MeshBBS — Meshbbs revolutionizes communication on mesh networks by bringing the beloved Bulletin Board System experience to Meshtastic devices. Exchange messages, participate in forums, and build communities over long-range, low-power radio networks, all without traditional internet infrastructure.
Electroverse Map | EV Charging Stations
Pick: PipeWire Controller — A native GTK4/libadwaita control center for PipeWire

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Jim Cramer posted on X this morning
The Great Freakout Over Open-Source AI Has Begun
Axios Report Says Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models following Kimi K3 launch
David Sacks on X
Look to Close and you Might get a Splinter
Penthouse Maxie
Millennium Tower Grand Penthouse SOLD for $13M - YouTube

Music
* Lost Summer By: Ollie

Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild.

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Linus Torvalds: AI is 90% marketing and 10% reality
Rust For Linux Project: Linus reflects on Rust in the Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds on the kernel and AI: The whole area is not interesting
Mutant Standard hangs up the keyboard
Mutant Messenger (Wikipedia)
GitHub Actions outage: July 15th, 2026
RustDesk: Open source remote desktop
Brent's Notes Repository (GitHub)
Logseq: Open source knowledge management
Obsidian: Local first knowledge management

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Moonlight PC — GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link)

More than 115,000 Flock-style cameras now scan America's streets billions of times each month. But this summer, a growing resistance is taking matters, and the cameras, into its own hands.

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FlockHopper | See ALPR Surveillance Cameras Near You
Find Nearby ALPRs | DeFlock
Flock's Surveillance Cameras Face Another Blow as LAPD Won't Renew The Contract
LAPD Lets Agreement With Flock Safety Expire Over Privacy Concerns - Business Insider
Access to this page has been denied
Flock cameras wrongly flag plates as stolen, lead to police stop in Plymouth - CBS Minnesota
Fight Creepy ALPR Cameras | American Civil Liberties Union
Apple vs OpenAI lawsuit: 8 bombshell accusations and how the legal war might change your next iPhone
Apple lawsuit reveals how many of its former employees now work at OpenAI

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* Shut It Down By: Robots Are Dix

Wes' brother's PC is toast, making this the perfect moment to switch him to Linux. If our ambitious plan doesn't scare him away first.

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Storyboarder — Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.
MCP-NixOS — Model Context Protocol for NixOS
Spud Router — An open-source router-on-a-stick that you can manage from a browser, a terminal CLI, or directly from your AI agents
Le Potato AML-S905X-CC
MacSurf — A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC.
Karpathy's llm-wiki
Hermes llm-wiki SKILL.md
camply - the campsite finder ⛺️ — a tool to find campsites at sold out campgrounds
Pick: OpenTogetherTube — Enjoy YouTube together.
opentogethertube on GitHub
Pick: TypeType — Privacy-respecting video platform to watch Youtube.
TypeType on GitHub
Pick: metube — Self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp

A Scattered Spider arrest reveals how a VPN wasn't enough when Windows device telemetry helped investigators connect the dots.

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Links i use openrc and i just strace my chrome and... * browserdmtokenstorage*linux.cc - Chromium Code Search * Scattered Spider - Wikipedia * New Court Files Reveal How Microsoft Helped the FBI Identify Peter Stokes Bouquet (Scattered Spider Member) * A Hackers Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID * Alleged Member of Criminal Cyber Hacking Group Scattered Spider Arrested in Finland and Extradited to the United States * I Heard you Like a House on Stilts... * Skip the River, Go for the Lake

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Time By: The Fifty Four Plates

The kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves.

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Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-16
Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview
Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support
June 16th 2006 AppleTalk Removed from Kernel — AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing.
linux-netdev/mod-orphan — Linux networking modules removed from the kernel due to lack of maintenance and high bug count
Netatalk — Netatalk is a Free and Open Source file server that uses the AFP protocol.
Basilisk II — Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator.
MacOS 8: Internet Archive
Apple, Inc.. Macintosh Classic Desktop Computer. 1989 - MoMA
ChrisLAS/chooser — chooser is the AirTalk AppleTalk service browser for LINUX Unplugged. It uses TailTalk's userspace AppleTalk stack to run NBP lookups and displays discovered services in a terminal UI inspired by the classic Mac OS Chooser.
jrouter — Home-grown alternative implementation of Apple Internet Router 3.0
marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html — GlobalTalk is the nickname for using Apple Internet Router to bridge your local AppleTalk network to the global internet.
bramble — A password manager that keeps your secrets on your own devices. No account, no server holding your vault, no company to get breached and leak everything.
MeatPi WiCAN Pro: Connect Any Car to Home Assistant! Probably...
La Gendarmerie sous Linux depuis 17 ans : les leçons à en tirer
Qu'est-ce que NixOS, la distribution Linux que l'État pourrait utiliser ?
adelolmo/hd-idle — Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down Utility
Gentleman-Programming/engram — Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI.
distributed-llama: Distributed LLM inference. — Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference.
MacPick: Morph — Morph, from Gryphon Software was the first commercial morphing program for PCs.
WinWorld: Gryphon Morph 1.00
MacPick: LegacyAI from Manticore Software — ChatGPT for vintage 68k, PowerPC, and Intel Macs
MacPick: Dark Castle — Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight.
MacPick: CrystalQuest — The first color game for the Macintosh.
Pick: mcp-beam — mcp-beam is a MCP server (stdio transport) for casting local files and media URLs to Chromecast and DLNA/UPnP devices on your LAN.
Pick: Go2TV — Media Casting Made Easy

A new lawsuit claims RAM prices are being driven by a conspiracy to fix supply, but is that the real story, or just cope?

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* Tech companies hike prices due to 'chipflation' - YouTube * RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply * Major RAM manufacturers sued for manipulating prices and demand * Today, Micron announced a $250 million investment to increase long-term savings opportunities for children and families through Trump Accounts * Space Ship House * A House with an Elevated Style

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* Is Anybody There? By: The Paisley Daze

Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine.

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Texas Linux Fest 2026 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-01 23:59 (US/Central)
SeaGL 2026 CFP
CarolinaCon 2026 - CFP Open!
carolinacon/infra: Infrastructure used to run parts of carolina con
Valve Steam Machine Review - GamersNexus
SteamOS 3.8 - Steam News
Valve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUs
Steam Machines will only come with one 16GB stick of RAM - Tom's Hardware
Steam Controller developer interview — Valve talks design, the learning curve, and the lack of kernel drivers | Tom's Hardware
Valve Developer Hardware Talk PDF
2015 Steam Machine - Wikipedia
meshcore-ha — Home Assistant integration for monitoring and controlling MeshCore radio networks.
sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA.
SONE Flathub
high-tide: Libadwaita TIDAL client for Linux
coppwr — coppwr displays and provides control over many aspects of PipeWire as directly as possible in an organized and visual way. It can help with debugging and diagnosing a PipeWire setup or with developing software that interacts with PipeWire.
XDG Desktop Portal
coppwr on Flathub
dn-tool · GitHub — dn-tool is a control-plane CLI that enrolls and unenrolls Linux hosts in a defined.net Managed Nebula network. It calls the defined.net REST API to create and delete host records and obtain single-use enrollment codes, then orchestrates the proprietary dnclient daemon — which it downloads and verifies at runtime. It is strictly control plane: it never reimplements Nebula and never replaces dnclient.

Free and open AI models get cast as the villain, Valve’s Steam Machine gets mugged by RAM prices, and we check who’s selling the panic popcorn.

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It's National Donut Day! Here's how chains are celebrating - YouTube
National Donut Day - YouTube
Chinese AI models raise cybersecurity concerns, new report warns
How Booz Allen Hamilton Quietly Took Over U.S. Intelligence - YouTube
Valve prices the Steam Machine at $1,049 | The Verge
Valve Steam Machine Review: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, SteamOS Test, Thermals, Noise, and Price - YouTube
Steam Machine Review: Valve's New Console/PC Hybrid - YouTube
Even Valve is Disappointed - Steam Machine Review - YouTube
The PS6 Cannot Come Out in This Era of $1,000+ Consoles | Push Square
The Steam Machine is the biggest victim of the RAMpocalypse to date, and that's made me unreasonably annoyed
Here's What The Steam Machine Might Have Cost If Not For AI
The Great North Tip
Live Like a Pirate

Music
* Cherry, Cherry By: Right Said Fred

Your favorite open source projects have been busy. We round up the new releases worth knowing about, plus the big kernel changes headed your way soon.

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KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements - Phoronix
Plasma 6.7 - KDE Community
See what's next for Firefox — Firefox.com
systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer
Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
myna: Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop.
Linux 7.1 Annouced by Linus on Sunday June 14th — Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the newstoday is 7.1.
Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here's What’s New - 9to5Linux
Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization - Phoronix
Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released with New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED, and Major Code Cleanup | Linux Journal
The first half of the 7.2 merge window - LWN.net
Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things - Phoronix
Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation - Phoronix
Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More - Phoronix
AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed - Phoronix
Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support - Phoronix
soltros/Cabinet — Cabinet is a lean, high-performance "File Locker" designed for self-hosting. It prioritizes a fast web experience, mobile-first design, and simple file management without the bloat of complex syncing engines.
Distro Stu's Nix Router Config
Pick: Fluxcast — Stream your Linux desktop to a Smart TV via Miracast/WFD, DLNA, or Chromecast.
Pick: audible-cli — A command line interface for audible package. With the cli you can download your Audible books, cover, chapter files.
Pick: Import-To-AudioBookShelf — A utility to take books which you legally purchased from Audible and move them into Audio BookShelf
Pick: quipclipper — Find and cut lossless clips from movies & TV by searching the subtitle dialogue.

SpaceX went public, raised more money than any IPO in history, and then traded like there were barely any shares to buy. Today we sort out the hype, the float, the Cursor deal, and what this actually says about the future of space and AI.

SpaceX tops Amazon in market value as investors buy in
Technical factors are adding fuel to SpaceX's meme stock fire
SpaceX Unlock schedule
SpaceX Agrees to $60 Billion Cursor Takeover Post-IPO - YouTube
SpaceX’s $60 Billion Deal to Buy Cursor Gives It More AI Coding Power
Cursor on X: "We're excited to join forces with @SpaceX to advance the frontier of useful AI. Expect significant improvements to Cursor soon." / X
Infuse - Video Player for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Vision Pro
For the Homeschoolers Out There
The Basket
Clanker Therapy Highlight - YouTube
Clanker Therapy Full Member Recording

Music
* Against All Love • FM Rodeo

We found the best way for a Linux user to manage Windows: keep it remote, keep it contained, and touch the desktop as little as possible.

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Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
FORScan — A software scanner for Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, designed to work over ELM327 and J2534 Pass-Thru compatible OBD adapters.
MeatPi WiCAN-PRO OBD Scanner — Built on the robust ESP32-S3 platform, WiCAN PRO runs the powerful, open-source WiCAN firmware.
argunix: Webhook-driven Nix CI for GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo
PearPass - Your Open-Source Password Manager
olmec's nixos-router config
Ulanzi TC001 Smart Pixel Clock — The full-color LED screen supports custom icons, bringing time and weather to life in a way that’s both retro and modern — making it the most unique visual statement on your desk.
ULANZI TC001 Smart Pixel Clock
awtrix3 — Custom firmware for the Ulanzi Smart Pixel clock or self-made AWTRIX displays.
Mouzi — Mouzi is a silent, elegant file organizer that lives in your system tray and keeps your Downloads folder (and any other folder) automatically tidy. It runs quietly in the background, monitors selected folders, and moves, renames, or sorts files based on customizable rules.
Mouzi - Organize Downloads Folder Automatically

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Angela and Chris catch up on the hobbies that survive real life, then sweep up the WWDC 2026 details that slipped under the AI hype.

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* Apple Kicks Off WWDC 2026 * macOS 27 Lets You Resize iPhone Mirroring * iOS 27 Hints at Foldable iPhone * watchOS 27 Compatible Apple Watch Models * Apple Watch SE 3rd Generation * Apple Watch Series 11 * Apple Watch Ultra 3 * Apple Podcasts Adds Video on Mac and Apple TV * Web Boost * Not Even Fit for a Chicken Coop * One for the Investors * For the Canada Pivot * Agent Op Guild on Telegram * Agent Op Guild on Matrix * Clanker Therapy Meetup

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* What You Mean To Me by Strange Love

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Leave the farm without killing the chickens, or losing remote access? We dig into how we pulled it off: Frigate, local automation, sun-tracking coop doors, and a network that shrugged off an ISP outage.

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Outdoor Electrical Water Resistant Enclosure - Amazon
Sipeed NanoKVM IP-KVM - Amazon
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
Smart Automatic Chicken Coop Door with WiFi
Omlet Developer Console
WLED Project
Generic MagWLED-1 WLED Controller
WS2812B LED Light Strip
LED Strip Diffuser Channel
Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Q Sensor ZSE11 800LR
AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor for Home Assistant
Anyone successfully using the MiCS 4514 Gas Sensor? - Reddit
Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Power Strip ZEN20 800LR
Amcrest 5MP Turret POE Camera
Amcrest 8-Port POE+ Switch
go2rtc
Frigate
We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
Pick: Zooz ZEN05 Outdoor Smart Plug – ZOOZ
Pick: Works with Home Assistant Certified Devices — Every product listed here has been rigorously tested by our team to ensure a great experience with Home Assistant, all backed by a brand committed to long-term support. All these products put privacy and local control first.

Angela shares her latest household gadget rabbit hole, Chris reveals a few secret plans, and we say goodbye to binge watching as the shared TV obsession fades into the algorithmic void.

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American's David Marchick on AI disruption: Not seeing the net job loss people had predicted - YouTube
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rsync's founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community's newest fault line cracks wide open.

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Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync
fogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commit
Flathub No LLM Policy — We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.
Reword LLM policy to make it clear it's not allowed - flathub-infra
Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTube
GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator - Phoronix
QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix
Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 - Phoronix
Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI - Phoronix
GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week - Phoronix
mnemosyne: The Zero-Dependency, Sub-Millisecond AI Memory System for Hermes Agents and Everyone Else!
Markdown First: A Proposal for the Agent-Readable Web — BitCryptic
Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
Pick: OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.

Anthropic went to the Vatican to tell the Pope their AI is experiencing "fear and grief."

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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power - Vatican News
Pope Aligns With Anthropic, Co-Founder on AI Debate
Cheapest Home In Skagit County Listed For $45K
A Barn with $3m Worth of Style
SWAG Studio

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Brent's been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw.

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The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
My first 100 days at Bitwarden — Open source is the foundation of everything Bitwarden builds. The ability to audit the code, to self-host, to verify rather than simply believe are not just nice-to-haves, they are the reason Bitwarden is different from every other option in this space, and that will not change.
AfterTouch — Bose SoundTouch Toolkit
soundcork — Intercept API for Bose SoundTouch after they turn off the servers
Bose SoundTouch EOL Announcement
SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Wikia | Fandom
Keeping Your Speakers Alive After the Bose Cloud Shutdown – AfterTouch
Bose SoundTouch is officially dead, but your speakers may still survive - SoundGuys
SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Support
NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF. Managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
nasty-top — A top-like TUI for bcachefs filesystems.
hermes-agent - GitHub
Hermes Agent — Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory
Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
Rust for Linux — Rust for Linux is the project adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.
OpenCode Go - Low cost coding models for everyone — Go brings agentic coding to programmers around the world. Offering generous limits and reliable access to the most capable open-source models, so you can build with powerful agents without worrying about cost or availability.
Pick: Gnome Commander — A powerful file manager for the Linux desktop environment
Pick: halo — Terminal flow field screensaver with Perlin noise, Braille rendering, particles, and 24-bit ANSI color
Airwolf Theme 80s Retrowave Bass Remix | Retro Visualizer | DMCA Safe - YouTube

How the accidental chicken farmer pulled it together and built the ultimate chicken fort. Plus, the conclusion to the AI trial of the year.

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Musk has lost his case against OpenAI in the most anti-climactic way possible. Less than 2 hours of jury deliberation despite 3 weeks of testimony and hundreds of documents. The jury didn't weigh in on whether Musk was right or wrong, they just said he fa
One word statement from Elon Musk's lawyer Marc Toberoff to reporters walking out of the courtroom: "Appeal."
the AI trial of the century ending with procedural whimper rather a bang; the jury agreed that Musk was too late but never weighed in on the questions of whether OpenAI did was legitimate.
Sawyer Merritt: Marc Toberoff on today's verdict: "I have a one-word reaction: Appeal. This war is not over. We firmly believe what happened with OpenAI was wrong on a very basic level that you can't raise millions of dollars in a publicly subsidized charity, and when it suits you, just turn into a for-profit operation where the officers and directors of the charity enrich themselves to the tune of billions..."
I'm seeing lots of confusion about why the statute of limitations issue came to a trial at all. Musk and OpenAI disagreed about when Musk could have reasonably become convinced that OpenAI was "stealing a charity," as he alleges.

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Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat's AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat.

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The mobile experience you've been asking for - Defined Networking — The most recent mobile release brings the mobile app to parity with what you’d expect from Nebula everywhere else: persistent connections, full configuration support, custom DNS, and firewall rules.
Red Hat Summit 2026 Day 1 Keynote - The next platform is choice - YouTube
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Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system — Fedora Hummingbird primarily utilizes an image-based workflow, similar to containers, but also runs in virtual machines and even on bare metal. If you’ve been following Project Hummingbird‘s work on container images, or Project Bluefin’s work on the operating system, you already know the model. Fedora Hummingbird applies this model all the way down to the host OS.
Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system - Fedora Discussion
After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops — Now, Fedora has voted on an initiative called Fedora AI Developer Desktop that will spawn AI-flavored Fedora Atomic Desktops.
Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative — After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the Fedora Council had voted to approve the initiative; however, a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board.
Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective Discussion
Pick: BudsLink — BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds.
BudsLink on Flathub
Pick: yamlcast — YAMLCast turns a YAML description of a terminal screencast into an animated GIF.
Pick: lightroom-cc-on-linux — Reproducible recipe for running Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine 11.8 staging. Researched and verified end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7.

eBay dodged a bullet this week, and we dig into the wild story of GameStop’s attempted hostile takeover. Plus, we start plotting summer plans and do a quick check-in on the Musk v. Altman trial.

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This is the End of Week Two of Musk v Altman Trial
Shivon Zilis, Mother of Musk's Children, Testifies in OpenAI Trial
OpenAI Trial Enters Final Week
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eBay History
eBay to Acquire PayPal
eBay 2016 Annual Report
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GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion
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Land with a Box on It
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Lord Have Mercy by Right Said Fred

Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
Texas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TX
Texas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026
Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.
How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal
Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - Ubuntu
Dirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching Guide
LINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge Rules
Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.
Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.
FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.
nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
Brent's nixbsd config
NomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.
GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
gershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers
gershwin-on-freebsd live iso
gershwin-on-debian live iso
gershwin-on-arch live iso
Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation
Pick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.
Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.
Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.
AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD
FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve

The Musk v. Altman trial is getting messy fast — and nobody’s walking away clean. Musk wants the story to be a stolen mission. OpenAI wants it framed as a sore-loser lawsuit from a rival.

Plus, Chris finds his perfect Starter Bunker, and Ang ruminates on the eternal problem of photo management.

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We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge!

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Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root." — Theori
Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root - Xint — "A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017." — Xint
Linux Kernel Bug Explained - Jorijn — "CopyFail is more portable. One script, every distro, no offsets. Dirty Pipe needed kernel ≥ 5.8; Copy Fail covers 2017–2026." — Jorijn"Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and default seccomp do NOT block the syscall used." — Jorijn
Ars: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars Technica
Sysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — Sysdig
CERT-EU Advisory
Ubuntu Security Tracker
The Register: Crypto Flaw
Kernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel Commit
Buggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017)
DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internals
oss-security Disclosure
PSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan Wildeboer
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released — "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sets the example for providing best-in-class resilience while simultaneously embracing innovation and the advancement of open source." — Jon Seager, VP Ubuntu Engineering
The Future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager — "Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values." — Jon Seager
Ubuntu 26.04 Release Notes
Ubuntu AI Features Throughout 2026 - Phoronix — "Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful — Microsoft should take note." — ZDNet
Canonical DDoS Attack Update — "Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it." — arcticp, Canonical
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #942
Canonical AI Approach - ZDNet
9to5Linux: Opt-In LLM Tools
uutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
LINUX Unplugged 636: Engineering the Future
LiveCD fails to start X session on QEMU · Issue #354 · ghostbsd/issues
Monty's “rescue” drive NixOS config
Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report
Pick: NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
Pick: Defuse — Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally.
Defuse on Flathub

With a full LinuxFest Northwest crew is still in the mix, we dig into our favorite kind of drama, big tech email leaks. Then, Chris explains why he’s skipping conference talks this year.

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Too many breadsticks at Olive Garden? - YouTube
Elon Musk And Sam Altman Go To Court — Everything You Need To Know - YouTube
Musk v. Altman: Jury selected in trial that could alter AI's future - YouTube

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After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event.

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LinuxFest Northwest - YouTube
The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max
Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain
Bear454's Fundraiser: Support for James Mason's Family
Pick: Updo — Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications.
Pick: Pake — 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.

Chris is one month into chicken dad life, almost nothing has gone as planned, and we react to Tim Cook stepping down.

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* Cool Birds * Bird Setup in the RV * Signs of Coccidiosis * We Found Him: An Interview with Saxsquatch - Riot Fest * Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO - YouTube * Apple's Tim Cook Shares Community Letter After Announcing Plans to Step Down as CEO - MacRumors * John Ternus to Succeed Tim Cook as Apple CEO, Faces AI and Product Challenges - Bloomberg

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* Cold Hearted By: snju

We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own.

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6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCs
SystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access.
Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features?
aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust.
netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
Greg's nixos-config
Self-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.
pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It
v4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages.
Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in files
Metadata Cleaner on FlatHub
Pick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3
Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.
littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for Linux
Pick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android

Some of our favorite parody news from around the web, plus a stinky chicken update, and a nostalgic lookback at GPS navigation tech for our cars.

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* 1986: Satellite Navigation for Cars of the Future BBC Archive - YouTube * In-Car Sat Nav? Without a Satellite? In 1971? BBC Archive - YouTube * The Onion * Ninja Parade Slips By Town Unnoticed Once Again - YouTube * American Baked Potato Association Study Finds It Best To Load ’Er Up - The Onion * Babylon Bee | Fake News You Can Trust * 42-Minute Delay As Dad Asked To Empty Cargo Pants At TSA Checkpoint | Babylon Bee * Grandma Announces She Has Finally Joined MyFace | Babylon Bee * Sudo Satirical * Man Disillusioned With Firefox Vows to Build Own Internet * If Ozempic Commercials Were Honest | [Ozempic, GLP-1, Monjauro Parody] - YouTube * Cozy Little Fixer Upper * The Center of a Home is Key * Bumpy in Bellingham

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* I'm A Celebrity By: Right Said Fred

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

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Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

The Artemis II crew is headed back to Earth, and they've already made history. We'll look at the highlights, tech issues, and how that ride around the dark side went.

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Wordle * Artemis II Crew Speaks From Space * Artemis II Crew Speaks From Space — Intense Unexpected Moment * Two Microsoft Outlooks * Houston, Bluetooth Won't Pair * Artemis II Astronaut Finds Two Outlook Instances Running on Computers * Moment NASA Loses Contact With Artemis II Crew * Artemis II Distance Record Clip * Artemis II Crew Headed Back to Earth After Lunar Flyby * Crew Reestablished Contact With Mission Control After Expected 40-Minute Communications Blackout * Artemis II: What's on the Menu? * A Visual Guide to Artemis II and Previous Missions to the Moon * First Photo of Lunar Eclipse From Artemis II Crew Looks Almost Too Good to Be Real * Emotional Artemis II Moment as Crew Names Moon Crater “Carroll” * MUSIC*: I Need a Little By The Retrograde * Almost Nothin but Dreams * Need a Bit of Tidy * Now This Is a Compound for Chickens

The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents.

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Preferring Local OSS LLMs
Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B
Open Models have crossed a threshold
Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind
Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face
mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project
googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
Tunarr API Reference
Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival
Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

Chris' farm has new management, and they are extremely small. Six baby chicks, instant family buy-in, and the start of a whole new adventure.

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* LFNW2026 - Back to Root * Raising Chickens For Dummies * 5 Things To Feed Your Chickens So They Lay Eggs All Year - YouTube * The most important chicken keeping advice I'll ever give you. - YouTube * Omlet Eglu: The Chicken Coop That Will Make You a Better Chicken Parent - YouTube * Our Chicken Tunnels, Coop, and Run Setup around the Garden - YouTube * The fancy solution: Eglu Pro Extra Large Chicken Coop with Runs | Omlet * NASA prepares for Artemis II launch - YouTube * Artemis II Explained | 2026 Mission to the Moon - YouTube * Very Tiny Living in NY * A Kids Idea of a Castle

Music:
* Disco Swag - By: The Doerfels

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Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps.

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Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security
Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub
Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | Ubuntu
There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium
Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.
ErsatzTV/next
Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.
Threadfin
xTeVe
Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.
Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.
awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV
Tunarr API Reference
LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.
turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.
Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs
GeneBean's Cage Kiosk
GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup
Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux
alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME
Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS
Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.
Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

Chris and Ang imagine the next chapter after the kids leave home, Brent survives a packed week, and we dig into a fantastic batch of calls.

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* EMPTY NEST - Opening Theme Song Credits * Nightingale — Karaoke from your music library * Onion House * Disaster-resilient Luxury * This Home Survives EF5 Tornadoes, Wildfires, and Costs $0 to Heat. * The LA Flex

Music:
* Justin Lantrip • If I Could See The Future

The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.

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Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
OneCal
PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
Azuay Province - Wikipedia
Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

Self-driving cars are closer than most people realize, and they’re already out on the road with you. We dig into the latest robotaxi hype, the skepticism, and the road trip that changed our minds.

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* Students help classmates stay engaged with 'Fidgets for the Future' * Where to check out Tesla’s Cybercab during SXSW * Tesla now has a car with no steering wheel - YouTube * Are Driverless Freight Trucks the New Way to Transport Goods? - YouTube * Tesla falls after senators voice skepticism about FSD and lack of lidar - Sherwood News * Tesla cofounder ousted by Musk calls autonomous driving feature ‘crap’ and ‘way too immature’ for the road | Fortune * Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Vehicle Safety Report | Tesla * Chris' FSD Miles * Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving - YouTube * Lucid unveils Lunar Robotaxi in bid to challenge Tesla's Cybercab in the autonomous ride hailing race * Robotaxi | Tesla * FSD V14.2.2.5 vs Oversized Load: I can’t get over how often this is happening on 14.2.2.5. * Man explains why the Tesla Model Y has completely taken over Norway’s roads * Tesla has revealed that the Model Y was #1 best-selling car overall in the world in 2025 for a third year in a row * A Compund for a Brent King * Big Island Vibes for a Big Price * Triple Geodesic Dome House With a 20-Foot Indoor Waterfall

MUSIC:

Lady, You Shot Me! By: Longy

We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned.

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PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32.
Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab
timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome
OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.
Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter
ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple
Home Assistant
ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systems
nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs
Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board
agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation.
camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents.
chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents
firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools
LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox
Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session
LFNW2026 - Back to Root
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41
Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.
LosslessCut on GitHub
LosslessCut on Flathub
Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

Green beer and ancient legends are the easy part. It’s the memories attached to the day that make it unforgettable.

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* BBC News — St. Patrick’s Day parades, dancing and Chicago river dyed green * Chicago Tribune — Chicago celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with green river and parade * Sam the Cooking Guy — Corned Beef Recipe Video * Guinness-Spiked Ice Cream with Guinness Brownies * Tiny Red House — 1222 28th St NW, Washington, DC * $11M Massachusetts Ave NW Townhouse Listing * Reddit Discussion — Abandoned Massachusetts Ave Mansion * Skinny Witch House — Seattle, WA

Music:
* Shadow Man — Empath Eyes

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.

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Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix room
SCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.
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Flox.dev
Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle.
Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
Cindy Cohn | SCALE
noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world.
DeepComputing — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V
Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io
Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas
EFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
Cindy Cohn - SCaLE — Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all the people of the world.
Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world
llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)
The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative
Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3
Pick: qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT
Pick: mtr — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2
MTR - Welcome Home Brent

In 1896, critics claimed the bicycle was "the devil’s advance agent." In 1860, doctors swore trains traveling over 30 mph caused "instant insanity." Today, the panic has a new face and a $20 million price tag.

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Tech News — AI Regulation & Lobbying
* Anthropic to Donate $20M to AI Regulation-Backed PAC (Reuters) * Anthropic CEO Pushes Regulation Favoring Big Companies (Reason) * Context: Anthropic & OpenAI Plan IPO (YouTube) * Anthropic CEO: AI Will Surpass Humans Soon * Claude Identifies as DeepSeek — stevibe on X * Anthropic Can De-Anonymize Users — Lukasz Olejnik on X * AI’s Biggest Builders Are Now Its Biggest Lobbyists (Forbes)

Past Technology Panics
* Does the Bicycle Make Women Cruel? * Edison Brings Electricity to New York City * The 1912 War on Fake Photos * War of the Worlds Panic Was Anti-Radio Propaganda * Victorian Fear of Railway Madness

Reese’s / Hershey Story
* Reese’s Family Member Accuses Hershey of Cheaper Ingredients * Grandson of Reese’s Inventor Criticizes Hershey (AP News)

Obama & Aliens
* Obama Says Aliens Are Real (Short) * Obama Clarifies Alien Comments

Music
* Dirt and Sand — Strange Love

Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!

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stahnma (Michael Stahnke)
Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily
Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael
Nix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALE
stahnma/mandatoryFun
Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.
distrostru's gatus config
Status Page On Demand | Gatus
MimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.
hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices
Pick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream
Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.
Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server
Pick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders
wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching

Apple is bringing video to Apple Podcasts, promising seamless switching between watching and listening. Why Chris isn’t convinced the bigger picture will play out the way Apple hopes.

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* Apple Podcasts Video Switching * Apple Announces Video Podcasts * Publish Video to Apple Podcasts * Apple Video Podcast Demo * Apple Podcasts Video Details * Make Video Podcasting Open * AI-Written Rental Listing * 2024 AI in 2026 Crazy Photo * “Fixer Upper” Lake City Home * The Purple Paradise Mansion

Music:
* Apex By: Empath Eyes

We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?

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Discord to roll out age verification next month
Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
NULLFS and OPENTREENAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
OPENTREENAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
All about initramfs
pivot_root implementation and constraints
TrueNAS Scale
ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
Github: ZimaOS
Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
What is Clan? - Documentation
clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
ConnecTen internet
Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

Discord is rolling out mandatory face scans, and the internet is furious. The debate is loud about privacy, safety, and backlash. But a quieter incentive is driving this move, and almost no one is talking about it yet.

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* LynsaTac Shower Thermometer * Over the Door Shower Caddy * 2 Tier Soap Dish Holder * Frameless Shower Door Bottom Seal for Glass Doors * Rain-X 630542 Shower Door Water Repellent * Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Sponge * Oxygenics 26488 BodySpa RV Handheld Shower * Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month * Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users - Ars Technica * Has anyone packet sniffed the age verification thing? * Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs - Ars Technica * Discord will gate features behind age verification * Discord to Debut Its First Mobile Ads Amid IPO Chatter * Discord reports positive numbers in early Quests measurement test * Q4 2025 PitchBook Analyst Note: Discord IPO Preview - PitchBook * YouTube Music adding 'AI Playlist' with text prompts * "YouTube Premium and @YouTubeMusic * YouTube Music Adds AI Playlist Generator for Premium Users * All basement No Problems * Invest in People?

Music:
* Hey Love! By: Marína Ósk

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The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actually works.

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Valve explains why it hasn’t announced release dates for its new hardware, now plans for “first half of the year” — Valve now says all three products will ship “in the first half of the year.”
Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend — Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality.
bcachefs-tools v1.36.1 — Interactive TUI for monitoring various filesystem internals, slowpaths and device performance, with duration and frequency tracking for various events. Helpful for diagnosing performance issues.
bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefs
bcachefs PSA: if you're on 1.33-1.35, upgrade asap — Several people have been hit by this, so - please upgrade asap.
Mattermost — Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic
Venice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative Freedom
ThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720Q
Code for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge — We're doing our Earth Day open-source competition again The Mad Botter INC. Once again featuring System76 hardware and this time with dual tracks for college and non-college students.
Michael Dominick on X - Earth Day Open Source Challenge
Red5d/podcast_mcp — MCP server for accessing Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed episode data. "I've really only tested it with JB feeds!"
Pick: Plexus — Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices.
Plexus-app: GitHub
Pick: ReinschriftTodo — Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor.
Reinschrift on Flathub

All the bot hype has resulted in some hilariously bad security vulnerabilities. Who could have seen that coming? We'll cover some of the worst.

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Seahawks fans from around the world descend on Bay Area for Super Bowl 2026 - YouTube * Pro Football Champion 2026 Predictions & Odds | Polymarket * Moltbook: Where AI agents go to socialize with peers - YouTube * Reuters:* Moltbook social media site for AI agents had major security hole * “You all do realize @moltbook is just a REST API and you can literally post anything you want there” * RentAHuman.ai - Hire Humans for AI Agents | MCP Integration * Git & GitHub Crash Course for Beginners [2026] - YouTube * Git and GitHub - Full Course - YouTube * Cups and Saucers For All
Kinda Creepy Kings Palace in Utah * Don't Judge A Book by its Cover in New Mex

Music:
* Row Your Boat: Justin Lantrip

We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade.

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OpenWrt Wiki - Ad blocking
AdBlock-fast — AdBlock-Fast is a high-performance ad-blocking service for OpenWrt that integrates with Dnsmasq, SmartDNS, and Unbound.
OpenWrt Wiki - Supported Hardware Table
Abe's volition — This is a public, sanitized version of my Abiverse repository for people to use and run their own Abes
OpenClaw — Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.
Introducing OpenClaw
openclaw on GitHub 🦞
openclaw security Issues
Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90% – University College London
moltbook — the front page of the agent internet
SeloraBox - NixOS Edition — SeloraBox is a self-configuring home automation appliance based on NixOS, featuring automated installation, device claiming via QR code, and self-updating configuration management.
nixtcloud: Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled — Nixtcloud turns a Raspberry Pi or NanoPi NEO3 into a privacy-first, zero-config personal cloud — powered by NixOS, Nextcloud, and peer-to-peer remote access via Holesail. Built for the self-hosting crowd who want full control without constant babysitting.
Holesail.io - Open Source P2P Reverse Proxy
Pick: ml-sharp-pinokio — One-click 3D Gaussian Splatting generation from a single image.
Pick: Gradia — Gradia helps you get your screenshots ready for sharing, whether quickly with friends or colleagues, or professionally with the entire world.

People are buying Mac minis to run a bot. Seriously. We explain the ClawdBot (now Moltbot) frenzy, what it does, and why some folks are convinced this definitely requires a $700 Mac.

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* Subaru Aftermarket, Performance & Replacement Parts | Subimods — Subimods.com * Tesery - Tesla Premium Accessories Store * Amazon.com: How Amazon Automotive helps you find the perfect fitting parts: Automotive * Moltbot — Personal AI Assistant * BIG NEWS: We've molted! Clawdbot → Moltbot Clawd → Molty Same lobster soul, new shell. * Architecture - Moltbot * clawdbot is a security nightmare - YouTube * ClawdHub * Ocean Bunker * Hangar Home

Handy Skills:
* self-improving-agent — ClawdHub * gog — Google Workspace CLI for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Sheets, and Docs. * excel — ClawdHub * remind-me — ClawdHub * auto-updater — ClawdHub * humanizer — ClawdHub * weather — ClawdHub * github — ClawdHub * agent-browser — ClawdHub

Music:
* On the Road to Austin By ChrisLAS

When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won't ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.

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Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
NACME: ACME for Nebula PKI — ACME for Nebula PKI
uptime-kuma — A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
telegraf-bcachefs-input
bcachefs collector by ananthb
ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
meshSidecar — Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services
Become a Core Contributor Member
Jupiter.Party Network Membership
NixOS Clinic Config
NixRTR/nixos-router — NixOS Router Configuration
Next Steps for Funding Contributors - Actual Budget
WiFiman - WiFi Analyser
RichARCH Install Guide
RichARCH Hyprvibe Screenshot
Pick: Switchyard — Modern rules-based URL launcher ready to replace your default browser.
switchyard on GitHub
Switchyard on Flathub

We discuss why the ultimate power move for your digital sovereignty is a $10 USB port.

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FreshRSS – Self-hosted feed aggregator. * Immich – High-performance local photo backup * Obsidian – Private, local-first markdown notes. * NetNewsWire – Clean, fast RSS for Mac and iOS. * Home Assistant – Open-source local home automation. * Local-First Web – The philosophy of owning your data. * Supernote – For Those Who Write*

FreshRSS Extensions:
News Assistant – https://github.com/reply2future/xExtension-NewsAssistant * Article Summary – https://github.com/LiangWei88/xExtension-ArticleSummary * Ollama Summarizer – https://github.com/fspv/xExtension-OllamaSummarizer * FreshRSS Notifier (Firefox) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/freshrss-notifier/ * FreshRSS-Notify (Firefox) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/freshrss-notify-webextension/ * WebSub/PubSubHubbub support (built into FreshRSS)* – https://freshrss.org/freshrss-supports-pubsubhubbub.html * GitHub - automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine: Automatic Ripping Machine (ARM) Scripts * A new Start in Rural Mississippi * The FULL Open Concept

MUSIC:
* I Hate Airbnbs By ChrisLAS * I Hate Airbnbs Podcastindex.org

We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...

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GEEKOM IT13 Mini PC 2026
OpenWrt One
Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus-E
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 — An updated Zigbee and Thread chip gives it the highest performance available, while providing a rock-solid, stable network.
SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker — The speaker is a collaboration between IKEA and Sonos, so it easily integrates with other products from Sonos.
IKEA SYMFONISK - Home Assistant — Support for devices by IKEA SYMFONISK in Home Assistant is provided by the Sonos integration.
OpenCode — The open-source AI coding agent.
OpenCode on GitHub
mike@computerupcycleproject.org
Actual — A local-first personal finance app.
Pocket ID — A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
Pick: Pocket TTS — A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice.
Pocket TTS on GitHub
Pick: WebView Kiosk — Turn your Android device into a locked-down web page in fullscreen mode.
webview-kiosk on GitHub

Chris and Angela know their own hobbies cold—but how well do they know each other’s? Plus, Chris drops his best road-trip apps, services, and money-saving tips.

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Highway Radar*

Real-time hazard, police, and traffic alerts crowdsourced by drivers.

FreeCampsites

Community-mapped free and low-cost places to camp and overnight.

iExit – Interstate Exit Guide

Find gas, food, and services at upcoming highway exits.

AllStays – Rest Stops Plus

Detailed data on rest areas, truck stops, and overnight parking.

Sēkr

Curated free and paid overnight spots with community reviews.

Autio

Location-aware audio stories that play automatically as you drive.

Hipcamp

Campsites and unique stays on private land, from rustic to luxe.

Drive Weather

Visualize weather conditions along your entire driving route.

Useful Services
Curiosio – AI Trip Planner*

Plans trips optimized for low cost, interesting stops, or fewer crowds.

Roadtrippers

Plan routes with scenic stops, attractions, and RV-friendly constraints.
Autopilot helps optimize long, multi-day road trips.

Harvest Hosts

Unique RV Camping at Farms, Wineries, Breweries, & More.

MUSIC:
* Slight Curiosity By: Circle the Earth

The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage.

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PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
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LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
Michael Tunnell - YouTube
Destination Linux - YouTube
TuxDigital
LINUX Unplugged 596: Perilously Pontificated Predictions
Phison CEO: SSD "Pricing Apocalypse" to Continue Through 2027
HDD Prices Spike as AI Infrastructure and China’s PC Push Collide
2025 Cloud Pricing Trends: Big Three Shake Up Storage Costs
Storage Apocalypse: Why SSDs and HDDs Are Becoming Impossibly Expensive
Jensen Huang Flagged Data Storage as the Next AI Bottleneck
Manufacturer Recertified Drives - ServerPartDeals.com
Hard Disk Prices (US)
Storage Price Tracker
RackRat - eBay Rackmount Server Deal Finder
r/HomelabSales$£€ - Reddit
Smart Buy 10 Pack Bd-r Dl 50gb 6X Blu-ray Double Layer Recordable Disc
BlueVault — A top-quality TUI app to manage Blu-ray cold storage archives on Linux.
Pick: Kopia — Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
Kopia Repository Server
Pick: PowerISO — Create, Burn, Mount, Edit, Compress, Encrypt, Split, Extract ISO file, ISO/BIN converter, Virtual Drive
PowerISO on Flathub
Pick: CDEmu — CDemu is a software suite designed to emulate an optical drive and disc on the Linux operating system.
Tellico — Collection management software, free and simple.

Ang’s setting goals. Chris is setting themes. Same year, very different strategies, and a few personal bangers for the year ahead. Let the planning begin.

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Video Version:* Domicile Debates | Launch 49 - YouTube * Yearly Themes Instead of Resolutions * Escapees Mail Service - Domicile & Residency * Informed Delivery - Mail & Package Notifications | USPS * The Theme System Journal * A Drug Den Fixer Upper You can Visualize * Sword-wielding man offers 'squatter removal' service in Bay Area - YouTube * Sword-wielding man offers 'squatter removal' service in Bay Area

Music:
* Nowhere Anywhere By: Survival Guide

We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone.

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NetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.
NetAlertX Docs
NetAlertX GitHub
NetAlertX docker-compose.yml
NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX
Home Assistant - NetAlertX Docs — NetAlertX comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices.
home assistant mqtt documentation
ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
ESPresense
mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55
Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project
License Selector - OpenLicr
LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform
Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison
GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
Podverse Alpha
Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame
Pick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox
MQTTX GitHub
MQTT X on Flathub
Pick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub
Pick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami
Unify on Flathub
Pick: web-app-hub — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.
Web App Hub on Flathub
Pick: Home-manager Webapps — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system

Powerful AI tools are setting the stage for brand-owned influencers. A perfect corporate mouthpiece, and a looming economic threat to human creators.

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Video Version:* Watch this week's Launch * Robyn Schall * 6 Pack 12 Inch Confetti Cannon Multicolor Confetti Popper Party Shooter * Happy New Years Eve Party Supplies 2026 * Lightspeed Partner Says Sora Will Make Creators 'Far Less Valuable' - Business Insider * Why Lightspeed Bet on xAI, Neuralink, Suno, Granola, & Pika | Michael Mignano - YouTube * Almost Fresh Eggs * Ad Read for High Performance Cigs * Left Overs Dog Food * Value 4 Value * ChrisLAS Raps * Flooded Studio * Chris Hits a Deer * ‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens * Post by Roman Mars * $780,000 in Ocean City, WA * $199,900 for now…

Music:
* Closer to Somewhere By: The Retrograde

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We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.

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PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you)
James Lee - How I Broke up with Adobe
Linux surpasses 5% market share on US desktops for the first time
It is finally the year of Linux on the Desktop: free OS reaches 5% market share
Introducing the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant
ADHD is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD: Holderness, Penn, Holderness, Kim, Edward Hallowell: 9781400338610
Pick: eilmeldung TUI RSS Reader — A terminal-based RSS reader built on the news-flash backend.
Pick: Zbridge — zBridge is an online bridge club where you can learn and play bridge. It is a full bridge platform with multiple features.
Zbridge flatpak source
Pick: Cavalier — Visualize audio with CAVA

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For the holidays, we’re cracking open the vault with never-before-heard clips and a special twist, and even a few rare moments we actually sounded smart. Festive, surprising, and just self-aware enough.

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* My Man Hates Christmas By: M & The 501s

The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year's winners.

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An atmospheric river hits the Pacific Northwest, stranding Chris on an island. As floodwaters rise fast, he shares what it’s like when your only road out disappears. Plus, a van update with Brent.

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* Third day of atmospheric river ahead for Wednesday | WEDNESDAY MORNING UPDATE - YouTube * Skagit River to exceed 2021 flood, upriver residents urged to prepare for evacuation - YouTube * Skagit County orders Level 3 evacuations as Skagit River rises rapidly | FOX 13 Seattle - YouTube * BREAKING: City of Burlington under evacuation orders - YouTube * Coast Guard rescues people stranded by Washington flooding - YouTube * Coast Guard rescues people stranded by Washington flooding - YouTube * Skagit County under NWS Flood Watch, Level 2 (Get Set) evacuation warning issued - YouTube * Tsunami stone - Wikipedia * Tsunami Stones: Ancient Japanese Markers Warn Builders of High Water - 99% Invisible * W1209 Temperature Control Switch (Thermostat Sensor Module) * Amazon.com: HiLetgo 2pcs W1209 12V DC Digital Temperature Controller * Types of relays to control low temperature charging for your LiFePo4 batteries - YouTube * Cold Temperature LiFePO4 Heater on a Budget! Beginner Friendly - YouTube * Raccoon found passed out in bathroom of Virginia ABC Store after breaking in, ransacking shelves - YouTube * In-N-Out nixes '67' from ticket system due to '6-7' trend

Music:
* Run To Safer Ground By: Heidi J Masters

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We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76's CEO.

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Pop!OS 24.04 LTS Released — This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment.
Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams and EPG data with elegance and control.
IPTV Link Search — Public IPTV live channels, m3u8 links are updated daily.
Streamtest.in
ptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world
iptv/PLAYLISTS.mdb
epg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.
iptv-epg.org
TiviMate IPTV Player — Easy to use for beginners and deeply customizable for power users, TiviMate blends speed, clarity, and control into a seamless viewing experience.
M3U IPTV — Stream your IPTV channels on the go or on Android TV.
DangoPlayer — A fast video player and IPTV client for Android and TV
iPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longest
Chillio IPTV Smart Player App — New app, paid if you want quad box
Open TV — IPTV player with many features.
html-iptv-player — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlist
hypnotix — An M3U IPTV Player
IPTVnator
VidGrid — watch multiple news channels in your browser
M3U Magic • Free Private IPTV Player
ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server
kptv-fast — A high-performance streaming service aggregator that combines multiple free streaming platforms into a single M3U playlist and EPG. Perfect for use with Channels DVR, Plex, or any IPTV client.
Pick: Jellify-Music — A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React Native
Pick: DockerComposeMaker — DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!
Demo Docker Compose Generator
Pick: Leantime — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

A mass executive exit is tearing through Apple’s leadership ranks. The biggest shake-up since Steve Jobs is unfolding in real time, and we think we know why now.

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* Apple's executive shake-up continues. - YouTube * The Apple Executive Exodus Visualized * Apple chip chief weighs exit: Report - YouTube * Apple chip leader Johny Srouji squashes exit rumors - YouTube * Tim Cook Tells WIRED No Specific Time, but Sooner than Later * Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook, FT reports | REUTERS - YouTube * Tim Cook says he plans to retire within the next 10 years - AppleTrack * When will Tim Cook leave Apple? | Trade on Kalshi * Cult Compound Ready to Go * Brutalism isn't just for Governments House

Music:
* Man! It's Christmas By: Jimmie Bratcher

Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.

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LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)
bcachefs 1.33.0
Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."
Kent Overstreet - Patreon
bcachefs — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.
LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
Git or not a Git man page?
proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
Pick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki
dotfiles-installer: GitHub
Pick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.
LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features

Chris is suiting up for the biggest fight of the winter, and what he’s up against might surprise you.

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* TSA says travelers with no REAL I.D. face a hefty fee - YouTube * Health Watch: Norovirus - YouTube * Doctor's Best PepZin GI, Zinc-L-Carnosine Complex * Another Crack at a Classic Idea… * The Prepper Route

Music:
* Cold Hearted By: snju

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We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.

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LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form
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Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together
LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrm
pangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.
Pangolin | Secure Access Platform
NixOS Search - Options - Pangolin
Youtarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin
Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/Youtarr
Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
dawarich CHANGELOG.md
CVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbdsessionrpcmethod() attempts to lock sess->rpclock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe.
SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address.
ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blog
ksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)
ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)
doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoC
GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption
France's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy Tech
Seems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.
Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down
Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means
Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube
2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTube
Pick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator.
Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang.
Install Gopher64 on Linux | Flathub

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* Researchers say Flock cameras are easy to hack - YouTube * We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. - YouTube * Flock Camera Vulnerability: It's Worse Than You Think * Washington court rules Flock Safety camera images are public records * Stanwood, Sedro-Woolley appeal Flock public records decision | HeraldNet.com * $8 License Plate Privacy Tip that really works! Privacy taught by a real-world Private Investigator. - YouTube * More than 600 Flock camera locations in Hampton Roads are public for the first time. See the map. – The Virginian-Pilot * Yakima organization urging city leaders to turn off Flock traffic cameras - OPB * Columbia’s use of Flock cameras raises concerns | Local | columbiamissourian.com * Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs)| Definition & Benefits｜Getac * Gunshot Detection and License Plate Reader Security Alert * CHP warns Flock over sharing of surveillance data with federal government | KTVU FOX 2 * Oakland Committee Rejects $2.25M Surveillance Contract with Flock Safety - Davis Vanguard * Wireless Intrusion Detection System for Rogue Devices | Inpixon * Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 1: The Big Bird - YouTube * Do you need a land use permit if it's underwater half the day? * I Love a House w/a Theme!

Music
* Voodoo Queen By: Abel James

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LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form
Old Fart Form (markdown)
ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
declarative-jellyfin full example
Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.

AI panic, hype, and confusion don’t just sprout out of the ground. We break down the four-part method behind the narrative keeping everyone spun up. After this, you’ll never hear an AI headline the same way again.

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Music
* Comet For Two By: Shane Philips

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We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.

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OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo
Registration - OLF Conference
Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
Steam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.
Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)
Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library
“The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”
Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux
FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64
Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHub
PLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home Automation
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1
About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.
libvirt: The virtualization API
libvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).
Category:Virtualization - NixOS Wiki
Virt-manager - NixOS Wiki
Libvirt - NixOS Wiki
Pick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami
Easy Effects on Flathub
Marcel Repo Email

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* Inside the Growing Trend of Homeowners Creating Dumb Homes - YouTube * "Dumb homes" are the latest design trend * Open Home Foundation * Aurora police show how Flock cameras work behind the scenes - YouTube * Flock Recenty Partned with Ring and Planning AI * Woman says police used Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse her of theft - YouTube * Dystopian Town Sends Lying Cop To Innocent Woman's Home - YouTube * Dystopian Town Sends Lying Cop To Innocent Woman's Home - The Civil Rights LawyerThe Civil Rights Lawyer * Denver mayor extends license plate camera contract without council approval - YouTube * Washington city turns off license plate readers after records request - YouTube * Hillsborough cancels Flock cameras contract over data concerns - YouTube * They call it.. The Illuminati Guest House

Music
* Heidi J Masters • Run To Safer Ground

We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.

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yechielw/dots — Nixos and home-manager config
Shayne's budget Flake
Shayne's Budget Packages
Shayne's Budget Configuration.nix
Chris' Budget Flake Fix
Millak/guix-config: mirror of my guix configs
Millak/my-guix: local guix packages
efraim-home: Add mpv-sponsorblock-minimal-conf.d
Distrostu's configs
Distrostu's M Series Config
Oly Mike's Nixbook
writeShellApplication - Nix function reference
writeShellApplication - Nixpkgs Manual — writeShellApplication is similar to writeShellScriptBin and writeScriptBin but supports runtime dependencies with runtimeInputs.
rwiankowski/homeserver-nixos — My Home Server Setup using a single NixOS node
Brandon's Homelab
Brandon's Mac
Brandon's brew defined by Nix
Brandon's Mac Apps installed via Nix
BeardedTek/nixos-router: NixOS Router Configuration — A declarative NixOS configuration that transforms a standard PC into a full-featured network router with integrated secrets management.
blocky: DNS proxy and ad-blocker
Deidrael/nix-config: My NixOS Config
FuzzyMistborn/infra — 100% chance of id10t errors....and a slight chance of a credential leak
william/nix-config: All my nix stuff, in a single flake
Pick: SoltrOS — Immutable Linux designed for gaming & development
Pick: Parabolic — A powerful yt-dlp frontend.
Pick: Youtarr — Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage.

Traditions, a touch of chaos, and plenty of pie. We talk about our favorite holiday, what makes it special, and what you might want to steal for your own celebration.

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* Flood Gates By: Justin Lantrip

After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.

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SeaGL 2025 — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WA
LinuxFest Northwest
LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
SCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026
SCALE - Call for Presentations
Planet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA
Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals
LINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away — The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?
Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toil
SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness."
openSUSE on Hugging Face
ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
feat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
Add options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
Create variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
Zed — The editor for what's next
Cursor: The best way to code with AI
Nixbook — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
nixbook/base.nix — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition!
Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony Events
Pick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.

Chris puts his insomnia to the test. With data, tracking, and an AI-powered plan to finally sleep better.

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* Silo series * Health Auto Export - JSON+CSV on the App Store * Amazon.com: Trace Minerals ZeroLyte * Amazon.com: 120 Count Magnesium Glycinate Gummies * Amazon.com: Magnesium L Threonate * Interesting Bank for sale in Cumby, TX for $249,900 * 201 W Main St, Cumby, TX 75433 | MLS #20608480 | Zillow * ‘Flintstones’ House Declared ‘Public Nuisance’ By California Town | NBC Nightly News - YouTube * Bay Area's 'un-ignitable' Flintstone House may stand test of time * 45 Berryessa Way, Hillsborough, CA 94010 | Zillow * Take an exclusive look inside California's 'Flintstone House' - YouTube

Music:
* Sleep Is On The Way By: Arthur Yoria

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Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.

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nebula-lighthouse-service
nebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.
Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.
Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLab
Fedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community Blog
Fedora COSMIC Spin
Plasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point
[Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.
Pick: Millisecond — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audio
Millisecond on Flathub
noblepayne/millisecond-flake
rtcqs — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio
How do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.org
Pick: lemurs 🐒 — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust

AWS went down, chaos followed. We’ve got the stories, the scars, and the takeaway.

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The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.

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Home Assistant Community Add-on: SSH & Web Terminal
HomeAssistent Yellow: EmberZNet Zigbee: failed to flash firmware · Issue #146293
HA Yellow/Zigbee Issue - Home Assistant Community
Home Assistant Yellow Radio firmware - Home Assistant Community
Home Assistant on X: "⚠️ WE'RE ENDING PRODUCTION OF THE HOME ASSISTANT YELLOW ⚠️
READ: CrowdHealth - HedgeDoc
Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny Desktop
Dell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop Computer
Beelink Mini S13 Pro Mini PC,13 Generation Intel N150
Minisforum MS-01 Work Station
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
Home Assistant - NixOS Wiki
home-assistant/component-packages.nix at nixos-25.05
READ: Unraid - HedgeDoc
Pick: Hexecute 🪄 — Launch apps by casting spells!
Pick: Lenspect
Lenspect on Flathub — A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

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OpenAI just signed a deal so massive they measure it in power plants, not price tags. We break down the trillion-dollar logic powering the AI gold rush.

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* NEW: Amazon to pay massive price for ‘deceptive’ Prime program - YouTube * Lawsuit accuses Amazon of 'fake' Prime Day deals | WPRI.com * OpenAI, Broadcom Forge Multibillion-Dollar Chip-Development Deal - WSJ * OpenAI and Broadcom sign 10GW deal - YouTube * amit on X * We could have a really large negative wealth effect if the AI bubble pops, says Jared Bernstein - YouTube * We're still early in the AI cycle, says Bernstein's Stacy Rasgon - YouTube * Travel Back To 1970 With This $8.5 Million Bunker

Music
* Low Life by MOOKY Presented by Hash Power Music and Cannabis Records. * Low Life By: MOOKY

We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.

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COSMIC — Next generation Cosmic desktop environment. Use it on your favorite distro!
System76 — Powerful Linux computers designed by nerds, engineered by experts, handcrafted by humans in the US.
GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
GitHub - pop-os/cosmic-applets: WIP applets for cosmic-panel
Pop!OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta - OMG! Ubuntu
Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
Ubuntu Engineering in 2025: A Retrospective · Jon Seager
Ubuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support - Phoronix
LINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessions
Hybrid Pick: ncspot
Pick: poop (Performance Optimizer Observation Platform) — This command line tool uses Linux's perfevent_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.
sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more.

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TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - The Design & Implementation of the Darwin Operating System
TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Getting Started with Ansible on Linux
TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - Lessons They Don't Teach You in School: A Year in High-Performance Computing
TXLF 2025 Sat Oct 4 - I got Malware, BTW. A quick look at the rising trend of Linux Malware
A Gift for the Open Source Community: Chainguard’s CVE-Free Raspberry Pi Images (Beta)
Chainguard for Raspberry Pi
Chainguard's Images
Wes Payne - Mesh Network Sidecars for NixOS Services - Texas Linux Fest
noblepayne/meshSidecar: Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services
Pick: isd — isd (interactive systemd) – a better way to work with systemd units.
ISD 0.6 Released For Interactive Systemd Management

From finely tuned to total config carnage. We review listener homelabs to share what works, and what really doesn't.

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JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Meetup.com — Saturday, Oct 4 - 12:00 AM to 01:30 PM CDT
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
Dawarich — Automatically track your daily life with Dawarich. Never forget where you went or what you did. Relive your memories with precise location data.
LINUX Unplugged 614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking
Dawarich API Docs
AlbinLind/dawarich-api — A python wrapper for Dawarich
Texas Tracker — Real-time distance tracking and movement visualization
JupiterBroadcasting/texastracker: — A static website that tracks our trip to Texas Linux Festival 2025.
bitchat
A Guide To bitchat version 1.2-1.3 : r/bitchat
Geohash Converter - Find and visualize your Geohash
Overland GPS Tracker on the App Store
gpslogger: :satellite: Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android.
Zakk's (2kOS) nix config
NotAShelf/nvf: Modular, extensible and distro-agnostic Neovim configuration framework for Nix/NixOS
suderman's nixos — system configurations & dotfiles
NixOS impermanence — Lets you choose what files and directories you want to keep between reboots - the rest are thrown away.
numtide/blueprint: Standard folder structure for Nix projects — blueprint is an opinionated library that maps a standard folder structure to flake outputs, allowing you to divide up your flake into individual files across these folders. This allows you to modularize and isolate these files so that they can be maintained individually and even shared across multiple projects.
gmodena/nix-flatpak — Install flatpaks declaratively
Adam's (A Manzer) nix-config
Prowlarr
nzbhydra2: Usenet meta search
Kieran dots
Fortyduex's nix config
Fortydeux's Firewire
Brad's nix config
Brad's SMB
Monty's Ansible
Monty's Nix
Monty's NXC
ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
Namespace nixosModules options under "hyprvibe" to avoid potential collisions - hyprvibe Issue #10
Pick: vtunnel — vTunnel is a tool that proxies IP traffic between guest and host networks by using the VSOCK protocol.
Pick: Tab-Session-Manager — WebExtensions for restoring and saving window / tab states

A bizarre forest encounter sends Chris spiraling into a new obsession, while Angela cuts to the chase: what’s your theme?

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* Where To Look For Bigfoot In Washington State * PNW Bigfoot Search - Home * PNW Bigfoot Search - Meet the Team * This group was looking for Bigfoot. Now they also look for missing people - YouTube * Bigfoot/Sasquatch-related Sound Recordings * 5859 Potter Rd, Bear Lake, MI 49614 | MLS #1931209 | Zillow * A-a-ron's Song! * David Lynch’s Hollywood Hills Compound

MUSIC
* Can't Leave You by Vicious Clay

Can't get enough Linux? How about multiple kernels running simultaneously, side by side, not in a VM, all on the same hardware; this week it's finally looking real.

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nebula-tower — A user-friendly server to manage your Slack Nebula mesh network.
Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
bitchat
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GNOME 49 Release Notes — We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC.
GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player
Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Officially Released For Testing — Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October.
Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings — Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils.
base64 implementation almost 8x slower than GNU for some large files
sort does not finish for large one line file
Fedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing — Fedora 43 Beta ISOs are now available for those wanting to help in testing.
Omarchy 3.0 — Omarchy 3.0 is here — faster installs, big MacBook support, and lots of polish.
systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools — Systemd 258 brings systemd-factory-reset to request a factory reset on the next reboot, systemd-pty-forward to allocate a pseudo TTY/PTY, UEFI firmware images can now be embedded in a UKI, and many other new features.
systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
Kernel RFC: Introduce multikernel architecture support — This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources.
The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems [PDF]
mirdaki/computer-config — Config for server and personal deployments
My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup — Matthew shares their ultimate self-hosting setup built on NixOS, ZFS, and Tailscale, balancing privacy, data control, and usability for family and friends.
basecamp/once-campfire — Campfire is a web-based chat application.
Pick: savr: Read it later. Keep it local. No server needed. — Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.

Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.

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nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
Nebula - Apps on Google Play
Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
bitchat — bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks.
Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)
Jupiter Broadcasting Garage - New swag available!
KDE Linux
KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux
GitHub - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
Hyprland 0.51 dropped! — The gesture system has been reworked and is now way more flexible.
Nixtcloud: Self-Hosted Cloud in One Command — Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled
holesail-nix: Holesail package for the Nix package manager — A comprehensive Nix package and NixOS module collection for Holesail - the peer-to-peer tunnel that lets you create instant, secure connections between devices without port forwarding or exposing ports.
Pick: lazyssh — A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.
Pick: term.everything — Run every GUI app in the terminal!

We react to the Apple 17 having a built-in vape, and find out what hardware Ang might be upgrading. Plus, debate the perfect mouse, and bite into punchy peaches.

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* Selfish by By: Vicious Clay

Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.

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Pinchflat — Your next YouTube media manager
ErsatzTV — ErsatzTV lets you transform your media library into a personalized, live TV experience—complete with EPG, channel scheduling, and seamless streaming to all your devices.
Wes' ErsatzTV Flake — A Nix package and NixOS module for ErsatzTV
Karakeep — Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!
lup-0631 NixOS Config
Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
Immich — Self-hosted photo and video management solution
Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System
audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Paperless-ngx — Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
Paperless
Paperless-ng
Brother ADS-1800W
Genius Scan
QuickScan iOS scanner with OCR
swift-paperless
paperless-ai — An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API, Ollama, Deepseek-r1, Azure and all OpenAI API compatible Services to automatically analyze and tag your documents.
iPod parts from Elite Obsolete Electronics
Pick: Rustnet — A high-performance, cross-platform network monitoring tool built with Rust. RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with enhanced state display, intelligent connection lifecycle management, deep packet inspection capabilities, and a responsive terminal user interface.

From Taco Bell bots to doomsday headlines, we laugh at the hype and panic, while probably exaggerating a bit ourselves.

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* Lady Neptune by deathdreams

Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.

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DECbot/nebula-cert-maker: Simple yaml and python script to create certificates for your Nebula Mesh VPN — The Nebula Cert Maker will create a new Nebula CA certificates and then generate and sign certificates for all hosts in the host list.
Texas Linux Festival 2025
JB TXLF Matrix Room
Jupiter Broadcasting Garage
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" — Linus Torvalds updated the maintainers file for Bcachefs and now reflects its upstream state as "externally maintained" rather than "supported".
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year — Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devices
Android developer verification
nixos-avf: NixOS for Android Terminal — This profile contains the necesarry services and kernel configs to get it running under the Terminal app
nixos-avf-image-app releases
NixOS VM on my phone lol (Android Virtualization Framework) - NixOS Discourse
Setup SSH and Tailscale on Android 15 Linux Terminal App
droid-nixos — NixOS VM on the Android "Terminal" app
ttyd: Share your terminal over the web
Introduction - Book of crosvm
crosvm: The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor
Android 16 New Feature Terminal (Debian 12) Actual Test: Network Configuration and Software Installation
💻 How to Install Android 16 Linux Terminal with GUI Mode on Your Android Phone Step-by-Step Guide
Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!
Android 16 Terminal Debian GUI Access Tool — This script is specifically designed for terminal environments on Android 16 systems, enabling quick configuration of graphical interface access for Debian 12. After configuration, you can access the native Debian 12 GUI environment within the Android terminal from your PC through the following steps
wansview 2K Security Cameras Wireless — Outdoor-2.4G WiFi Home Security Cameras via Remote Control with Phone APP for 360º View, Color Night Vision, 24/7 SD Card Storage.
Thingino — Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras.
themactep/thingino-firmware: Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameras
paperless-upload-thunderbird — Add-On for Thunderbird to upload PDF directly to paperless-ngx
distrostu's nix config
Flameshot — Open source screenshot software
Hyprshot — A utility to easily take screenshots in Hyprland
blendOS — Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomic
Frigate NVR — Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.
Pick: Kvaesitso — A search-focused, free and open source launcher for Android
Jonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS — I use the Kvaesitso launcher.

Modern cars are crammed with sensors, even for things any idiot could figure out. Mine broke, so instead of replacing it, I hacked my car to shut it up.

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* Free Fall By: HusbandWife

Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.

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nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
Frigate NVR
Coral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-C
Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.
DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.
DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."
Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service
Arch Linux Status Page
Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces
aurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repository
salvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.
archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux community
TaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.
shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.
Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kelly
mkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
MOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch Button
Minoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave Button
Brent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebean
add master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-config
Pick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outages
Pick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktops
Pick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle

Chris pitches his latest pivot to Angela, then puts the Zen browser hype to the test.

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MUSIC:
* River People By: The Fifty Four Plates

When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.

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Toronto Meetup - JB Colony Events
Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.
Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef Bacik
Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.
Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel
syncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏
Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.
Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTube
Hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS
Keybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2
Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Formatter
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Home
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Shared
Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Hosts
LibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.
Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.
Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other tools
sst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.
Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68
flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy
NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655
Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.
Papra - Demo
Pick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
Pick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!

Angela’s obscure holiday obsession and how Chris accidentally became the Mayor of Milk Town.

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* National Middle Child Day - National Day Archives * What Is Middle Child Syndrome — And Is It Possible to Prevent It? * Sulfur smell in water - I have well & septic * What are some ways to remove iron and sulfur from your home’s tap water without using harsh chemicals? - Quora * Water Filtration – MobileMustHave.com * 425 Newbury St #218, Boston, MA 02115 + El Screenie of the Boston ParKin SPoTt * Now YOU Can say you DO Live in a Glass House! * INSIDE a $7,100,000 Modern GLASS HOUSE

MUSIC:
* Poster BY: Cheap Suits

Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.

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Podverse — A FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.
Podverse - GitHub
Texas Linux Festival 2025 - CFP extended to August 18!
Nix Pipe Operator by piegamesde [RFC 0148]
libexpr: experimental pipe operators by rhendric
Nix Vegas on GitHub
NixVegas/badge — Rebuild the world at DEF CON with the Nix Badge
AND!XOR 5n4ck3y
ANDnXOR/ANDnXORDC33Badge
NixOS Search - Packages - ztool
ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — Chris' vibed-only, riced-up Hyprland desktop running atop NixOS.
crush — The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘
Cursor - The AI Code Editor
Void: an open source Cursor alternative
gerbrent/storenix — NixOS configs for a store, containing two locations and multiple hosts. Please help me!
Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - Instagram
Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - YouTube
HomeBox — A simple home inventory management software
sysadminsmedia/homebox — A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home User
Forester Notes
Designing tools for scientific thought
jimsalterjrs/sanoid: — policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.
btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
Breez - Bitcoin in Every App
gPodder - Music Assistant
GeneBean's Linux-specific NixOS aliases — GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
Alby Hub — Alby Hub is a self-custodial, open source lightning wallet that connects to apps
Pick: ffshare — An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing them
Pick: Actual Budget — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
SimpleFIN
Connect to your bank - SimpleFIN Bridge

Governments worldwide think your privacy is adorable but outdated. Say hello to mandatory selfies and ID checks, and goodbye to anonymous cat memes.

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* Porkchops Fried by HeyCitizen

A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.

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How to recover from BTRFS errors | Support | SUSE
btrfs-zero-log(8) — btrfs-progs — Debian Manpages — This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay.
2018 Patch
Git: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfile
Git: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletion
problematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26th
problematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19th
Increased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter Jung
Null deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREELOG in newer kernel - Russell Haley
System failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux Forums
PATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail
patch on for-next branch of btrfs tree
generic: test fsync of file with 0 links and extents
Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!
Music Assistant Installation Instructions
Installation Instructions
Music Assistant Music Providers
Music Assistant Player Providers
Home Assistant Plugin
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home Assistant
SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA US
HomePod - Apple
Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 Receiver
WiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio Streamer
Google Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI Cable
Google Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - 2 PACK | eBay
droans/massqueue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistant
punxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.
NinDTendo/homeassistantgradualvolumecontrol — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of mediaplayers over a given timespan.
Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.
SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.
HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.
LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies
rustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Server
rustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravo
rustdress in nixpkgs
Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity
Plausible Slop Timecode Link
Death by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.se
Pick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!
PlexRipper Docs
Pick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2
Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget
AmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods

Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Audio Adapter Receiver for Wireless Streaming with Optical and 3.5mm Speaker Inputs for iPhone, iPad, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and other AirPlay enabled devices

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How to recover from BTRFS errors | Support | SUSE
btrfs-zero-log(8) — btrfs-progs — Debian Manpages — This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay.
2018 Patch
Git: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfile
Git: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletion
problematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26th
problematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19th
Increased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter Jung
Null deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREELOG in newer kernel - Russell Haley
System failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux Forums
PATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail
patch on for-next branch of btrfs tree
generic: test fsync of file with 0 links and extents
Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!
Music Assistant Installation Instructions
Installation Instructions
Music Assistant Music Providers
Music Assistant Player Providers
Home Assistant Plugin
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home Assistant
SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA US
HomePod - Apple
Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 Receiver
WiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio Streamer
Google Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI Cable
Google Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - 2 PACK | eBay
droans/massqueue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistant
punxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.
NinDTendo/homeassistantgradualvolumecontrol — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of mediaplayers over a given timespan.
Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.
SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.
HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.
LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies
rustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Server
rustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravo
rustdress in nixpkgs
Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity
Plausible Slop Timecode Link
Death by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.se
Pick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!
PlexRipper Docs
Pick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2
Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget
AmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods

Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Audio Adapter Receiver for Wireless Streaming with Optical and 3.5mm Speaker Inputs for iPhone, iPad, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and other AirPlay enabled devices

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Our take on the Tea app leak, how wearing shirts with phrases on them could be a red flag, and why we're skeptical about Sam Altman's claims of his biggest AI fear.

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A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.

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F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
The first half of the 6.16 merge window
The second half of the 6.16 merge window
Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
Supporting kernel development with large language models
Fending off unwanted file descriptors
Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
LLM generated git-resolve.sh
Aidan's NixOS Flake
Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

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Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.

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Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
ODROID-H4 – ODROID — A powerful and versatile board that supports Intel's latest Alder Lake processors with AVX2 extensions. It features DDR5 memory, 4 SATA ports, dual BIOS, and up to 3 display outputs.
Home Assistant Yellow
UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS
MINISFORUM S100 Mini PC Stick
GEEKOM Air12 Mini PC
Nebula Quick Start
Debugging with Nebula SSH commands
Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
Upgrading a Nebula network to IPv6 overlay addresses
Using Dedicated Relays for Total Connectivity
nebula NixOS Module
norohind.nebula: — Ansible role to manage nebula vpn hosts
dracut-nebula — dracut-nebula integrates the Nebula overlay networking tool (VPN, tunnel) into the initramfs
nebula-gen: — Simple script to initialize a CA and quickly sign host keys and certificates for the Nebula VPN
AndrewPaglusch/Nebula-Ansible-Role — Nebula VPN Overlay Network Installer With Ansible
nebula-lighthouse-service — This server is a public Nebula VPN Lighthouse Service. You can use it in case you don’t have a publicly accessible server to run your own Nebula Lighthouse.
nebula-vpn-helm — Helm chart for managing Nebula VPN
vpn-dashboard-react-nebula — This project demonstrates a secure, lightweight, peer-to-peer VPN architecture using the Nebula overlay network integrated with a React-based front-end dashboard.
ChrisLAS/bluenix — Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
Linkwarden — ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
Announcing Linkwarden 2.11
Linkwarden Browser Extension
neko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
Soltros-OS — My personal RPM-OStree based OS.
Miniflux — Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
miniflux/v2 — Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
[Bug]: "External link" should point to the audio file
feat(rss): fallback to enclosure URL when entry URL is missing
5 Best Reference Management Tools for Linux in 2024
Zotero — Your personal research assistant
Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
winapps — Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

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Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?

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Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview
Nix Vegas CFP
Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation
Four Years of Universal Blue
chad-russell/nix-blue: uBlue derivative with nix compatibility
karypid/bluenix: Bluefin with /nix
thrix/nix-toolbox: Fedora toolbox with nix.
add nix using either the determine systems nix installer or the vanilla installer · Issue #2371 · ublue-os/bluefin
Include smallest pieces necessary to make installing Nix easier · Issue #765 · ublue-os/main
Recommend homebrew as the default · Issue #576 · ublue-os/bluefin
feat: homebrew on image by m2Giles · Pull Request #1293 · ublue-os/bluefin
Add support for ostree-based Linux distributions by Hofer-Julian · Pull Request #586 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
Ostree installation breaks with composefs changes in Fedora 42 · Issue #1445 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
Arbitrary top level mount points and composefs (#26) · Issue · fedora/bootc/tracker
composefs: The reliability of disk images, the flexibility of files
ublue-os/bluefin: The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.
ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
amyos
veneos: Bootc images based on Fedora Atomic & Fedora CoreOS
m2os
bos: Customized OS images based on Universal Blue
Building Locally | Bluefin
ublue-os/cayo: A bootc server image for your self-hosting needs
Zach: Easy Omarchy update and install.
CommonArch
JaKooLit's Hyprland setups
Pick: bitchat
Bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes — A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet required, no servers, no phone numbers. It's the side-groupchat.
bitchat-android: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes
bitchat privacy
Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security | TechCrunch
LINUX Unplugged 459: Better than Butter
Briar — Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.
Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.

Developers are abandoning their Macs for a new frontier: Arch Linux with Hyprland. We dive into Omarchy, and the broader trend fueling it.

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LINUX Unplugged 566: Chef's Choice Ubuntu
Omarchy — Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup By DHH
The Omarchy Manual
Omacom: Opinionated Linux
DHH on X — "Omarchy is ready! Hyprland + Arch have never been so easy. Everything comes preconfigured, preinstalled, and with six beautiful themes in the box. This is the smoothest, most pleasant operating system I've ever had under my fingers.
DHH on X — "Huge kudos to @vaxryy for making Hyprland! I've been so impressed with his creation that I've committed to a €1,000/month support level for at least a year as a token of my appreciation. Consider chipping in if you end up digging it too.
Good Linux Hardware · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
DHH on X — "Next step for Omarchy is clearly to level up to become a full distro. Then convince @FrameworkPuter and @Beelinkofficial to offer it preloaded. Going to will The Year of Linux into existence!"
thalys on X — @dhh I'm a designer using macs for work in the past 14y. no linux experience. decided to jump straight into omarchy and i'm lovin it. already made a small theme for myself, some binds using grim/slurppy/satty to emulate cleanshot, replaced dropbox with owncloud on waybar, etc.
Elvinas Predkelis on X — "All right, Omarchy is quite something. It's been a while back since I've last used Linux as a daily driver. But Omarchy is a breeze - snappy, intuitive and a joy to use. Some personal tweaks here and there, adding Ghostty and it's a dream machine. Thank you @dhh 🙏
DHH on X — "Mainstream Linux distros have been focused for too long on being as similar to Windows and Mac as possible to ease adoption. I've come to believe this isn't the way. Linux needs to embrace its own aesthetic, its own ethos, unapologetically. Lean into rice and TUIs!"
DHH discusses Linux and Omarchy @ Typecraft - YouTube
DHH - Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!
Good Linux Hardware · Omacom · DHH
ODROID-H4+ – ODROID
H4 Mini-ITX Kit – ODROID — a kit that adapts the form factor so that the H4 board can be mounted on a Mini-ITX case for a desktop PC or a DIY-NAS.
ODROID and Chill - Self-Hosted 138 — Brent joins to share part two of his NAS build adventure, and things take a tiny turn. Plus, picking the right encrypted chat app and Chris stacks a few Jellyfin wins.
Hotkeys · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
The Omarchy Manual
Neovim · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
TUIs · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
Dotfiles · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
Mise — lets you install and run multiple versions of a programming language on the same machine. It's like rbenv or rvm for Ruby or virtualenv for Python, but it works for a bunch of different environments
mise-plugins/mise-nix: Mise Nix Flake Plugin
PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you) - YouTube
PewDiePie - I'm DONE with Google - YouTube
You'd Better Run - GitHub
Eurobot Germany 2025 Finals First Round - DDoS vs M.A.M.U.T - YouTube
GitHub - OpenTollGate/tollgate — TollGate enables WiFi routers to accept Bitcoin payments for internet access.
Pick: gemini-cli — An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
Pick: sniffnet — Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️‍♂️

We're highlighting several stories and reviews that never made it into the show. From GrapheneOS trouble, Asahi updates, Framework's desktop reveal, Starlink's Linux magic, and more.

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Off-the-shelf didn't cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.

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Castamatic
Castamatic 11 - with live shows and Podping — With this release, you can now listen to live podcast episodes directly in the app and get instant notifications as soon as a new episode—live or recorded—is available.
ESP8266 NodeMCU
DHT22/AM2302 Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor Module
5V One Channel Relay Module Relay Switch with OPTO Isolation High Low Level Trigger
Marine Boat 3" in-Line Bilge Air Blower DC 12V 130 CFM
Wolfwhoop PW-D Control Buck Converter 6-24V to 5V 1.5A Step-Down Regulator Module Power Inverter Volt Stabilizer
TICONN Waterproof Electrical Junction Box
BOJACK 3 Values 130 Pcs Solderless Breadboard
ESPHome Web - web.esphome.io — Allows you to prepare your device for first use, install new versions and check the device logs directly from your browser.
PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence
buildFHSEnv - nixpkgs — Provides a way to build and run FHS-compatible lightweight sandboxes.
ESPHome NixOS module: Failure to compile firmware because of DynamicUsers
Pick: High Tide — Third party unofficial TIDAL music client. Listen to your favorite music from your desktop or mobile Linux device at the highest quality.
Pick: Junction — Junction pops up automatically when you open a file or link in another app.
Junction on Flathub

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Chris and Brent plot their next epic road trip, while Ang braces for summer chaos.

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Microsoft acknowledged the issue in the release notes, confirming they are working on a fix.

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* You and Me By: Two Weeks In Nashville

We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge.

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zee — A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
Helix Editor
Browsh — fully-modern text-based browser
ddgr — 🦆 DuckDuckGo from the terminal
Ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console — Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.
Joshuto — Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
tenere — 🤖 TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust
elia — A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.
kpxhs — Interactive Keepass database TUI viewer
keepass-mode — Emacs mode to open KeePass DB
gocheat — A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminal
castero: — TUI podcast client for the terminal
textual-web — Run TUIs and terminals in your browser
todoist: Todoist CLI Client. — Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI.
gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client — A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix.
orf/gping: Ping, but with a graph
impala — 🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux
cmus - C* Music Player — cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
systemctl-tui — A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.
tdf — A tui-based PDF viewer
rainfrog — 🐸A database management TUI
jqp — A TUI playground to experiment with jq
andcli — A 2FA TUI for your shell
iamb — A Matrix client for Vim addicts
parllama — TUI for ollama and other LLM providers.
russ — A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focus
ytui-music — Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client)
wiki-tui — A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interface
tuifeed — 📰 A terminal feed reader with a fancy ui
yazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
vault-tasks — TUI Markdown Task Manager
Don's TUI Challenge blog — #TUIChallenge
Shyfox's TUI Challenge results
Himalaya — CLI to manage emails, based on email-lib
jellyfin-tui — Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal.
Alacritty — A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
apple/containerization — Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon.
Pick: somo — A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.

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Our terminal apps are loaded, the goals are set, but we're already hitting a few snags. The TUI Challenge begins...

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Terminal Apps — A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.
Terminal Trove — Find your next Terminal love.
awesome-tuis — List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces.
Superfile: Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager
Ranger: A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
joshuto: Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
neomutt: ✉ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
meli: Rusty terminal mail client
slack-term — Slack client for your terminal
GitHub - tramhao/termusic: Music Player TUI written in Rust
zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
MyNav: Go-based workspace and session management TUI — A powerful terminal-based workspace navigator and session manager built in Go. MyNav helps developers organize and manage multiple projects through an intuitive interface, seamlessly integrating with tmux sessions.
aerc - A pretty good email client — aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.
aerc - A pretty good email client that runs in your terminal - GitHub
ulyssa/iamb: A Matrix client for Vim addicts — a Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindings
magiblot/tvterm: A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision. — tvterm is an experimental terminal emulator widget and application based on the Turbo Vision framework. It was created for the purpose of demonstrating new features in Turbo Vision such as 24-bit color support.
sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. — Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.
meli MUA — meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults.
The Mutt E-Mail Client — "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -circa 1995
glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
gomuks — A Matrix client written in Go
NCSA Mosaic - Wikipedia — Mosaic is a discontinued web browser. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet during the 1990s by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.
carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
PipeWire
bhh32's tui_player: A video player for the terminal
How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blog
tempy — A simple, visually pleasing weather report in your terminal.
arabcoders/ytptube: A WebUI for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads support, presets and scheduled tasks and many more. — YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make downloading videos from YouTube and other video platforms easier and more user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, and live streams, and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and a built-in video player.

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Spin up, share, nuke. We each build a throwaway server, and then rate each others' setups.

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Pick: ws4kp — A web-based WeatherStar 4000
Pick: ytdl-sub — Lightweight tool to automate downloading and metadata generation with yt-dlp.

Before hitting the road, we test the limits of local-first file sharing, debate what self-hosting really is, and share our all-time favorite apps.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Wes Payne.

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Badgers Garage Sale — My wife and I are selling practically everything we own and moving back to England. There is a lot more available than is listed here, essentially this is an estate sale.
PairDrop — Transfer Files Cross-Platform. No Setup, No Signup.
Quickshare — Quick and simple file sharing between different devices.
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Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What's luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise from open source's biggest event of the year.

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Red Hat Summit 2025 Homepage — May 19-22 2025 in Boston, MA
Red Hat Summit 2025: Execs Tout Opportunities In Open Source AI, Virtualization Migration — OpenShift Virtualization has seen almost triple the number of customers, with the number of clusters deployed in production more than doubling and the number of virtual machines managed by the offer more than tripling.
Agentic AI, LLMs and standards big focus of Red Hat Summit
Red Hat Summit: Key Innovations for IT Channel Partners
Unlock what’s next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025 — Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available for use with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
Red Hat Launches the llm-d Community, Powering Distributed Gen AI Inference at Scale — Red Hat’s vision: Any model, any accelerator, any cloud.
Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 with Supercharged Intelligence and Security Across Hybrid Environments — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 delivers a paradigm shift in enterprise operating systems with image mode.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Officially Released, Here's What's New — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.
RHEL 10: Leading the future with AI, security and hybrid cloud
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GA
SiFive Collaborates with Red Hat to Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux for RISC-V — The developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is initially available for use on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform.
Red Hat AI on Hugging Face
FIPS 203/204/205 — These standards specify key establishment and digital signature schemes that are designed to resist future attacks by quantum computers, which threaten the security of current standards.
Virtualization success stories: Join Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization's momentum in 2025
llm-d — llm-d is a Kubernetes-native high-performance distributed LLM inference framework
What is vLLM? — vLLM is an inference server that speeds up the output of generative AI applications by making better use of the GPU memory.
Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode leverages the bootc tool to build and deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Bootc stands for bootable container, and the image will include the kernel, bootloader, and other items typically excluded from application containers.
Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Overview
Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta
Bluefin — Featuring automatic image-based updates and a simple graphical application store, Bluefin is designed to get out of your way. Get what you want without sacrificing system stability.
KongrooParadox's nixfiles — This was my second nixos release since getting into Nix last year (February I think), and this strategy made it really painless. No surprises about deprecated options since I saw these cases slowly when these changes hit unstable.
yazi: Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O
jira-cli - Feature-rich interactive Jira command line
browser-use — Make websites accessible for AI agents
Thomato's TUI Resources
Pick: RamaLama — Make working with AI boring through the use of OCI containers.
ramalama on GitHub — RamaLama is an open-source developer tool that simplifies the local serving of AI models from any source and facilitates their use for inference in production, all through the familiar language of containers.

With NixOS 25.05 around the corner, we sit down with a release manager to unpack what's new, what's changing, and what's finally getting easier. Spoiler: it's not just the tooling.

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Tristan Ross
Release Managers - NixOS Release Wiki
NixOS 25.05 – Release schedule
release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
Nixos-rebuild-ng: a nixos-rebuild rewrite
marytts/marytts: MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java — This is the source code repository for the multilingual open-source MARY text-to-speech platform (MaryTTS). MaryTTS is a client-server system written in pure Java, so it runs on many platforms.
PostgREST — A standalone web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API. Available as services.postgrest.
asciimoo/omnom: A webpage bookmarking and snapshotting service — Access & share previously visited pages without worrying about modifications or availability.
uMurmur by umurmur — uMurmur is a minimalistic Mumble server primarily targeted to run on embedded computers, like routers, with an open OS like e.g. OpenWRT.
Actual Budget — a local-first personal finance app.
gokapi — Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative without public upload. AWS S3 supported
Cursor — a vscode-based editor that uses AI to help you write code faster.
Pinchflat — a selfhosted YouTube media manager used to track channels and download videos on release.
Traccar — a modern GPS Tracking Platform.
crab-hole — a cross platform Pi-hole clone written in Rust using hickory-dns/trust-dns.
nostr-rs-relay — a nostr relay, written in Rust.
haven — a high availability vault for events on nostr.
immich-public-proxy — a proxy for sharing Immich albums without exposing the Immich API.
strfry — a relay for the nostr protocol.
TSDProxy — Very simple proxy for virtual services in Tailscale
Pick: Switcheroo — Convert between different image filetypes and resize them easily.
Switcheroo on Flathub
Switcheroo is packaged in nixpkgs
Pick: mazanoke — MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.
jolheiser/mazanoke-nix: Nix derivation/flake for mazanoke

A slick new CoreOS-based distro that might be your next home-lab base, easy self-hosted notifications, and Plex stumbles into controversy. Plus: ECC RAM guilt.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Dusty Mabe .

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dustymabe (Dusty Mabe) — Dusty's GitHub
Dusty's Web Site — Musings of a computer engineer
Dusty Mabe on LINUX Unplugged
ublue-os/ucore — An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included
ntfy.sh | Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST — ntfy (pronounced notify) is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, and/or using a REST API. It's infinitely flexible, and 100% free software.
binwiederhier/ntfy — If you'd like to run your own instance of the service, you can easily do so since ntfy is open source.
ntfy/docker-compose.yml
ntfy mobile apps — To receive notifications on your phone, install the app, either via Google Play, App Store or F-Droid.
ntfy with Netdata
Bettarr-Notifications — Better Notifications for Sonarr, Radarr and Prowlarr. Supports Discord, Telegram, Slack, Pushover and ntfy.
ntfy - Home Assistant — The ntfy integration can be used to send push notifications from automations and scripts in real-time to your mobile devices and desktops.
Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff
ConvertX: 💾 Self-hosted online file converter. — A self-hosted online file converter. Supports over a thousand different formats. Written with TypeScript, Bun and Elysia.

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* Caroline Hale • Kick It

We test-drive a self-hosted alternative to Google Location History. Plus, we cover the week's Linux news highlights, then spill the beans on our upcoming TUI challenge.

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libcaca – Caca Labs — A graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
New GNOME Executive Director Named: Steven Deobald — Steven Deobald has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, succeeding interim director Richard Littauer and Holly Million, who stepped down last year after a brief tenure.
Creation of the NixOS hardware team — TL;DR: The Steering Committee is launching the new Hardware Team to own the nixos-hardware repo, drive hardware enablement, and expand partnerships.
Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10 - Project Discussion - Ubuntu Community Hub — The sudo-rs project is designed to be a drop in replacement for the original tool. For the vast majority of users, the upgrade should be completely transparent to their workflow. That said, sudo-rs is a not a “blind” reimplementation.
LINUX Unplugged 607: Ubuntu's Rusty Roadmap
Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update — Bcachefs has introduced patches aimed at significantly improving snapshot deletion performance. However, implementing these improvements necessitates an update to an incompatible on-disk format, which must be explicitly enabled by users.
Dawarich — Your Journey, Your Control — Visualize your location history, track your movements, and analyze your travel patterns with complete privacy and control.
fabean/ytviewer — YouTube TUI that pulls subscriptions from YouTube API
Pick: meshSidecar — meshSidecar provides a flexible way to integrate mesh networking capabilities with NixOS services. It allows services to participate in mesh networks without requiring direct modification of the service itself.
Pick: ELEMENT.FM — Unlimited, GPLv3 Licensed, self-hostable podcast hosting

We chat with the founder of Home Assistant and then fire up Brent's Linux-powered rig.

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Self-Hosted 150 Merch at the Jupiter Garage
Announcing State of the Open Home 2025
Open Home Foundation
Works with Home Assistant
Reolink joins Works with Home Assistant
Eve Joins Works With Home Assistant - Home Assistant
3…2…1… Backup - Home Assistant
Home Assistant
The Launch 🚀 20: Linux Goat North Van
This 1987 Dodge Camper Van Is an Amazing 1980s RV Relic - YouTube
Roadtrek Brochure - 1989-1990 Chassis Model Years.pdf
Axiomtek ICO300-TES5 Industrial PC (PDF)
Intel Atom® E3827
Mieze K106 Octa-Core Tablet 10 Inch
Spokane Linux User's Group – casual meet-up to talk tech — Cant wait till the next JB meetup over here too!
Alpine Email Program
Pick: LinuxInExcel — The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it into the cells in the spreadsheet.
cnlohr/mini-rv32ima — A tiny C header-only risc-v emulator.

A week-long power blackout knocks out our guests homelab. We dig into Unraid 7.1, and push Home Assistant to keep things running—even when the power doesn’t.

Special Guest: Stephen Schattin.

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Generlink Transfer Switch — This allowed DIY-friendly generator hookup without rewiring the electrical panel. Homeowners embraced the convenience and Generlink grew rapidly.
Manual install method | Unraid Docs — If for some reason the USB Flash Creator tool cannot be used, or your USB flash device is not detected, it is possible to manually format and prepare a bootable USB flash device.
Backup of Unraid Array Configuration & other critical files - General Support - Unraid
Automated Flash Backup | Unraid Docs — Unraid Connect offers users the ability to automatically back up your OS configuration settings to our cloud. In the event of flash device failure, you can download a zip file of your latest backup and restore it to a new flash drive using the USB Flash Creator.
Unraid | Community Apps — Browse our large and growing catalog of applications to run in your Unraid server.
ha-unraid — This custom integration allows you to monitor and control your Unraid server from Home Assistant. Unraid is a popular NAS (Network Attached Storage) operating system that provides flexible storage, virtualization, and application support.
hass-unraid — This Docker container parses and forwards all WebSocket messages from your Unraid server to Home Assistant using the MQTT protocol. This enables you to create dashboards that provide a superior overview compared to Unraid's native capabilities.
Unraid Pricing
pocket-id: A simple and easy-to-use OIDC provider — Pocket ID is a simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
LINUX Unplugged 613 - Interview with Paulus Schoutsen of Home Assistant — Releases Sunday, May 6th, 2025.
The Launch 20: Linux Goat North Van — Brent's crazy border crossing story and behind-the-scenes stories from LFNW. Then we will lay out the master rescue plan. Catch the Launch a day early, and with a special guest!
Selfhosted - Lemmy.World — A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.
tsdproxy: Tailscale Docker Proxy — TsDProxy simplifies the process of securely exposing services and Docker containers to your Tailscale network by automatically creating Tailscale machines for each tagged container. This allows services to be accessible via unique, secure URLs without the need for complex configurations or additional Tailscale containers.
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Brent's crazy border crossing story and behind-the-scenes stories from LFNW. Then we will lay out the master rescue plan. Catch the Launch a day early, and with a special guest!

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BFGoodrich Advantage T/A Sport LT - All-Season Tires| BFGoodrich USA * Suspect on the loose in Duluth dodges police, dashes into backyards - YouTube * Night vision camera captures beaver in Cornwall breaking wind

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* Undone By: Lara Price

We're live from LinuxFest Northwest 2025. We're joined by guests from the audience, try our hand at Linux trivia and share our experiences from the best fest in the West.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1
LFNW2025 - LinuxFest Norhtwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence.
See how far COSMIC has come this year by Carl Richell - LinuxFest Northwest 2025
COSMIC Desktop
COSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!
pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7 Brings More New Features
The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 — The creators of one of the coolest Linux distros just released a new version - and it puts the old one to shame.
Blind Penguin - Software Development with José Ibañez
Accessibility Talk: Blind Penguin at LFNW 2025
Beyond ARIA Labels: What a Blind Film Enthusiast Can Teach Us About Open Source
Trimui Smart Pro 128G Handheld Game Console with Pre Loaded Games
Sausage — sausage is a terminal word forming game, written in Bash.

Live from LinuxFest Norhtwest 2025 Day 1. Exclusive coverage, chats, interviews, and more. Catch day two in episode 612 of LINUX Unplugged.

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LinuxFest Northwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence.
nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
COSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!
The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 — The creators of one of the coolest Linux distros just released a new version - and it puts the old one to shame.
Linux Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Escalate Privileges via Out-of-Bounds Write — The vulnerability can be triggered by manipulating a specially crafted HFS+ filesystem, which, under certain conditions, can overwrite sensitive data in kernel space.
Zorin OS 17.3 takes Brave step of changing default browser — Zorin OS 17.3 is the latest point release in the 17.x series, meaning it's still built on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It's a free upgrade for anyone already running a previous 17.x release.

Three farms, seven voicemails, one accidental eye-gluing. From cozy alpaca ranches to courtroom showdowns.

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LinuxFest Northwest | Meetups
STRAWBERRY FIELDS ALPACA RANCH.
Concord Mom glues eye shut after mistaking nail glue for eye drops
Man who didn’t want to look after girlfriend’s pet sent bomb threat to cruise she was on
Queensland carjacking horror: Identical twin interview of witnesses speaking perfectly in unison stuns the world
MLS #233919

MUSIC
* Deep Ends By: Ollie

Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what's new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release.

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The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.
GNOME 48 Release Notes
Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)
The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adopters
Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop
JB Gaming Den
Retro Game Corps on YouTube
Ignition: Manage your startup apps and scripts on Freedesktop Linux distros — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.
Ignition on Flathub
RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
Record Apps on Flathub

Alex finally cracks a years-old mystery, Chris reveals his latest experiments, and we share updates on our freshest gear. Plus, a important show update.

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Domika — Domika also offers home screen widgets, lock screen controls, critical push notifications, and other unique features, all while seamlessly supporting multiple homes.
Hoarder is rebranding to Karakeep — As you might know from my previous post, Hoarder (github link) has been caught up in an ongoing trademark dispute. Since the legal process is still unresolved, I’ll have to save the full story for another time. For now, I’ve decided that the best path forward is to rebrand.
karakeep: A self-hostable bookmark-everything app — Karakeep (previously Hoarder) is a self-hostable bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI for the data hoarders out there.
Hoarder to Karakeep Migration — Due to github limitations, the old docker image might not be getting new updates after the rebranding. You might need to update your docker image to point to the new karakeep image instead by applying the following change in the docker compose file.
Channels DVR Server — Channels DVR Server runs on your computer or NAS device at home. There's no cloud to worry about. Your tv shows and movies will always be available. Simply install Channels DVR Server on a device and Channels will magically see it from any TV or device you own.
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Our thoughts on Blue Origin's Lady Launch. Chris shares a super trick and a hilarious Bay Area deep-fake style hack.

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* Don't Be Shy By: Patrick Manian

Apple's software is going rotten, while Linux sneaks up as the better Mac. Linus grumbles through Git's 20th birthday, and we spot a hardware window Linux better not slam shut.

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POLL: Would you tune into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?
Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds — Discover the origins of the open-source version control system, why he handed over the reins a few months in, and what he thinks about adding new programming languages to Git.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds - YouTube
uemacs - Linus Editor — Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons
Yes Linus' uemacs is pacakged in Nix
Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI — This new version introduces a significantly refined command-line interface and a completely new package solver.
I Want a Better Mac, so I’m Cheering for a Better Linux — "Apple needs a real competitor, one alternatives such as GNOME on Linux could actually be, if only the hardware rose to the occasion."
I'd love to see someone help Linux take the next step
outdoorgeek's laptop sleep optimized NixOS config
Rust is easy? Go is… hard?
Pick: chat-gipitty: Terminal client for getting answers from LLMs — Chat Gipitty (Chat Get Information, Print Information TTY) is a command line client for ChatGPT. It allows you to chat with your chosen model of ChatGPT in a terminal and even pipe output into it.
moreutils' sponge — soak up standard input and write to a file.
GitHub - pgdr/moreutils — a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.
Pick: ALttP VT Randomizer — Each playthrough shuffles the location of all the important items in the game. Will you find the Bow atop Death Mountain, the Fire Rod resting silently in the library, or even the Master Sword itself waiting in a chicken coop?
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Chris thought he'd won the war against the rats—until a neighbor’s questionable tactics threaten to unleash round two. Now he's racing against the clock to save his RV from becoming another tasty rat snack.

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* Getaway By: Two Weeks In Nashville

We attempt to get one of the great gaming classics running on Linux, and dig into some of the technical issues still holding back Linux. Plus: Chris has a new handheld.

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Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204
Lutris - Open Gaming Platform for Linux — video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.
GitHub - ValveSoftware/Proton: Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
R36MAX Retro Handheld Game Console with 64G Built-in 18000+ Classic Games — The R36Max is a budget device that puts the common RK3326 chip into a vertical handheld. It has the same specs as the R36Pro, but with a larger, 1:1 screen.
R36 Max Handheld Game Console with 4" Screen Linux System
Kooha: Elegantly record your screen — Kooha is a simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings.
vtt-summarizer: Summarize .vtt files into meeting notes — It uses open source LLMs to handle the data extraction and summarization, ensuring everything can be run locally and without the need to share with third parties.

We're joined by Xe Iaso, who discusses a creative solution to relentless AI bots and the unexpected delights of running an outrageously overpowered homelab.

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Block AI scrapers with Anubis - Xe Iaso — I got tired of this and made a tool to stop them for good. I call it Anubis. Anubis weighs the soul of your connection using a sha256 proof-of-work challenge in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots. It's a reverse proxy that requires browsers and bots to solve a proof-of-work challenge before they can access your site, just like Hashcash.
Building native packages is complicated - Xe Iaso — Normally when I make projects, I don't expect them to take off. I especially don't expect to front page news on Ars Technica and TechCrunch within the span of a few days. I very much also do not expect to say sentences like "FFmpeg uses a program I made to help them stop scraper bots taking down their issue tracker". The last week has been fairly ridiculous in that regard.
TecharoHQ/anubis — Anubis weighs the soul of your connection using a sha256 proof-of-work challenge in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.
Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance — In a “cry for help” blog post in January, FOSS developer Xe Iaso described how AmazonBot relentlessly pounded on a Git server website to the point of causing DDoS outages. Git servers host FOSS projects so that anyone who wants can download the code or contribute to it.
The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab - Xe Iaso — Tonight I’ll tell you what gets me excited about my homelab and maybe inspire you to make your own. I'll get into what I like about it and clue you into some of the fun you get to have if one of your projects meant to protect your homelab goes hockey-stick.
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Apollo: Sunshine fork — The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device
ansible-vault-bitwarden: Manage ansible-vault passwords securely with Bitwarden CLI
Amcrest 4MP ProHD Indoor WiFi Camera — – 2. 4ghz WiFi IP camera features immaculate 4MP (2688x1520P at 30fps video using excellent low light capability utilizing the CMOS image sensor and chipset. Cover more ground using super-wide 90° viewing angle and remote pan/tilt.
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Two April Fool’s cranks dive into the internet’s highs and lows. Plus, Ang prepares for a road trip, your calls, and a wild tale from the Pacific Northwest.

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* Nixon For President (April Fool, 1992) * Flying Penguins - BBC - YouTube * Introducing our newest feature: Grandma mode - YouTube * Terry's unveils new Mint Chocolate Toothpaste | Scottish Grocer & Convenience Retailer * Groupon Rebrands as G-SPOT * Text to Bark

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* Keeping On by Through The Day, Through The Night

Linux 6.14 lands with big improvements for gaming, laptops, and filesystems—but why is a Windows feature sneaking into our kernel?

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Linux 6.14
Linux 6.14 from Linux Kernel Newbies
Btrfs Support for uncached buffered I/O
FUSE and io_uring
Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux
NixOS/nixos-hardware: A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
NerfyGek0/MeshtasticIOAddon — Documentation of how to use Meshtastic serial and MQTT functionality to automation custom hardware
Pick: Eloquent — Eloquent is a proofreading software for English and more than 20 other languages.
Eloquent - Flathub
languagetool — Style and Grammar Checker; it finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.
LanguageTool standalone server

Our terrible sleep habits keeping us up at night, Chris shares one of his biggest pet peeves, and is Angela's DNA data about to be sold to the highest bidder?

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* 4am 4ever by Kurtisdrums

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Canonical's VP of Engineering for Ubuntu reveals why they're swapping coreutils for Rust-built tools. Then we break down the GNOME 48 release, and why this one is special.

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Jon Seager
Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years — We should look deeply at the tools we ship with Ubuntu by default, selecting for tools that have resilience, performance and maintainability at their core.
Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu — Starting with Ubuntu 25.10, my goal is to adopt some of these modern implementations as the default. My immediate goal is to make uutils’ coreutils implementation the default in Ubuntu 25.10, and subsequently in our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, if the conditions are right.
GNOME 48 Release Notes — The GNOME project is excited to introduce GNOME 48, a fresh release shaped by six months of hard work from our amazing community. Named “Bengaluru”, this release pays tribute to the dedication of the GNOME Asia 2024 organizers.
awesome-tuis
Pick: Ulauncher — Application launcher for Linux🐧
Ulauncher on GitHub
Hotkey In Wayland · Ulauncher Wiki
Browse Ulauncher Extensions
Gitmoji Extension
Todoist task management Extension
mariob88/ulauncher-todoist-integration
Turn Off Screen Extension
Home Assistant Extension
qcasey/ulauncher-homeassistant
Obsidian Extension

When your go-to tools flip the script, our thoughts on Plex's new changes, sensors, and the creeping cost of easy.

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Important 2025 Plex Updates — We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.
Major Plex news - Plex is now charging for remote streaming?! - YouTube — Now they went and did it. Plex made remote streaming a paid feature. Alex breaks down the latest Plex news in todays video.
AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor For Home Assistant — The Apollo AIR-1 is the most compact, feature-rich, affordable, and expandable air sensor for Home Assistant. Utilizing WiFi and ESPHome it is locally controlled with no subscription or cloud required.
GitHub - ApolloAutomation/AIR-1
RomM — A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager.
Quick Start Guide - RomM
EmulatorJS Player - RomM — Our integration with EmulatorJS automates the process of loading and saving save files and save states. Before starting the game, select a save and/or state file to load (if one is available). Anytime you save the game (or create a save state), the save and state files stored with RomM will be updated, so there's no need to manually download or upload them.
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Some games are good. Some games are evil. We played the evil ones... a lot. Also, we're unleashing our shiny new listener call-in line. What could go wrong?

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Zuma Game Play
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Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Star Trek 25th Anniversary - Demon World - YouTube
Star Trek™: 25th Anniversary on GOG.com
Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force - YouTube
Star Trek™: Voyager - Elite Force on GOG.com
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Tornado Hits FOX 35 Orlando During Weather Report: VIDEO - Comic Sands

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* Lost Cause By: Ollie

We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.

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Flox - Nix for Simplicity & Scale — Flox is all about simplifying your development workflow—think reproducible, portable dev environments powered by Nix, but without the steep learning curve. Whether you’re a solo coder or part of a big team, Flox lets you manage and share environments effortlessly, so you can focus on building great software instead of wrestling with setup headaches.
Planet Nix
Talk - Kelsey Hightower's Perspective on Nix
Talk - Aneesh from Anthropic - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It
Talk - Eelco Dolstra Intros Configurable Flakes
Talk - Mike Kelly - Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
Eelco Dolstra - Configurable Flakes
Aneesh Agrawal - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower: An Outsider’s Look at Nix
Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
Why do people love NixOS so much? | Mike Kelly
How to convert an old ChromeBook into a NixBook | Mike Kelly
Olympia Mike's Nixbook | GitHub
Flox | Nix in the Wild
The NixOS Foundation Board Announced
Guilty Pleasures | The Launch 🚀 13
Pick: pyatv: A client library for Apple TV and AirPlay devices — This is an asyncio python library for interacting with Apple TV and AirPlay devices. It mainly targets Apple TVs (all generations, including tvOS 15 and later), but also supports audio streaming via AirPlay to receivers like the HomePod, AirPort Express and third-party speakers. It can act as remote control to the Music app/iTunes in macOS.
Pick: atv-desktop-remote: A simple app to allow you to control an Apple TV from your desktop — The latest version works with tvOS 15 and up. It requires Python 3 to be installed on the system to work properly.

We learn about Angela's guilty pleasure and Brent's life-changing news!

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McDonald's Bagel Breakfast Sandwiches Commercial (1999) - YouTube
Steak and egg bagels
Man accused of stealing, swallowing $800K diamond earrings previously stole from Tiffany & Co. - YouTube
Suspect steals and swallows $700k worth of jewellery
Solid gold toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace - YouTube

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* Hocus Pocus By Trickster

We are digging into a superpower inside your Linux Kernel. How eBPF works, and how anyone can take advantage of it.

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eBPF Perf Tools 2019 | SCaLE 17x
SCALE2019eBPFPerf_Tools.pdf
Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems
Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support
bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018
Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace
A thorough introduction to eBPF
BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — The BPF Compiler Collection: BCC or BPF Compiler Collection is a set of tools leveraging eBPF for kernel tracing, Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more.
BCC Tutorial
xdp-tools: Utilities and example programs for use with XDP
ply: a dynamic tracer for Linux
Liam's Multi-Monitor Setup
Pick: netop — Network Top -- Help you monitor network traffic with bpf
Pick: bpftune — bpftune aims to provide lightweight, always-on auto-tuning of system behaviour.

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SCALE 2025 Meetup, Sat, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PM — This year the crew at El Cholo Cafe is hosting our gathering, and their taco’s are killer!
H12SSL-I Stuck at "bmc initiating" — Ugh - just got hit by this. I installed a NIC card and lo and behold - system would not boot. The LE1 LED flashes and turns off. It stays lit when power is applied. But there's no sign of life from the LEDM1 BMC LED. Booting produces nothing, system turns 'on' in the sense the fans power up but no output from the onboard VGA.
First Alert Z Wave Smoke Detector — The z-wave smoke/co alarm can be implemented in residential and institutional applications. Installation settings include sleeping areas within hospitals, hotels, motels, dormitories and other multi-family dwellings
First Alert Battery Powered Z-Wave Smoke Detector & Carbon Monoxide
Siren - Home Assistant — The Siren integration is built for the controlling and monitoring of siren/chime devices.
Meian Zigbee Smart Siren Alarm — 110V 220V Sirene Alarme 100dB Wireless
Aeotec Siren 6 Z-Wave Plus S2 Enabled Zwave Siren — Pre-loaded 6 security sounds, 8 safety sounds, and 30 tones in total. Each tone is volume adjustable between 80dB and 110dB
alarmo: Easy to use alarm system integration for Home Assistant — This is an alarm system integration for Home Assistant. It provides a user interface for setting up your own alarm system completely from the browser.
Apollo joins the Works With Home Assistant Program — Apollo Automation is a growing family-run business rooted in the Home Assistant and ESPHome communities. And yes, they’re named after their German Shepherd, Apollo 🐕.
Apollo Automation — Expanding Smart Home Automation Capabilities
exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices 📱💻 🖥️⌚ — Unify your existing devices into one powerful GPU: iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, NVIDIA, Raspberry Pi, pretty much any device!

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Microsoft Dragon Copilot | Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
Microsoft unveils Dragon Copilot, a voice-activated AI tool for doctors
Tip Toe by Jack Holliday

We're pre-gaming two of the biggest Linux events of the year. Engineers, organizers, and surprise guests are dropping by to give us the scoop before it all begins.

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Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA at the Southern California Linux Expo.
Flox - Your dev environment, everywhere — Flox help teams focus on building fast by providing reproducible environments that span the entire software lifecycle. With Flox, developers can create environments that contain all of the tools and frameworks they need, binding them with the software they ship into the world.
Kelsey Hightower on X
kelseyhightower on GitHub
Kelsey Hightower on LinkedIn
Robert Hernandez SCaLE Profile
Fireside Chat: An Outsider’s Look at Nix - Ron Efroni, Kelsey Hightower
Learn Nix the Fun Way - Farid Zakaria
Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production -
Planet Nix FAQ
nix.conf - Adding GitHub Access Tokens — Access tokens used to access protected GitHub, GitLab, or other locations requiring token-based authentication.
Olympia Mike's nixbook
peterfajdiga/karousel: Scrollable tiling Kwin script
YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
paperwm/PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for GNOME Shell
Libro.fm — Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks
Pick: OpenAudible-To-AudibleBookShelf — This script automates the process of moving audiobook files from OpenAudible or Libation to an organized folder structure and updates AudioBookShelf accordingly. It handles file organization, metadata mapping, and interaction with the AudioBookShelf API.

Wes joins us so Chris can finally get some answers. Also, a legendary community creation rises again, and we uncover the truth about renting living things.

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Rent The Chicken
Rent The Chicken brings hens, eggs to your backyard - YouTube
Podcasting 2.0: Advanced Features for Enhanced Experiences
Alby Go - the easiest mobile bitcoin lightning wallet
Alby Go iOS
Alby Go on Android
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There have been major Rust developments in the Linux Kernel; we discuss what's new and how it will impact the future. Plus, we're joined by a special guest.

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Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust — Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers dammit, we've been maintaining and strengthening Linux for longer than anyone ever thought was going to be possible. We've turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel creating something that no one else has ever been able to accomplish. Adding another language really shouldn't be a problem, we've handled much worse things in the past and we shouldn't give up now on wanting to ensure that our project succeeds for the next 20+ years. We've got to keep pushing forward when confronted with new good ideas, and embrace the people offering to join us in actually doing the work to help make sure that we all succeed together.
Kees Cook on Rust in the kernel — In other words, I don't see any reason to focus on replacing existing code -- doing so would actually carry a lot of risk. But writing new stuff in Rust is very effective. Old code is more stable and has fewer bugs already, and yet, we're still going to continue the work of hardening C, because we still need to shake those bugs out. But new code can be written in Rust, and not have any of these classes of bugs at all from day one.
Linus Re: Rust kernel policy — You are not forced to take any Rust code, or care about any Rust code in the DMA code. You can ignore it. But "ignore the Rust side" automatically also means that you don't have any say on the Rust side.
Texas Linux Fest is back again in 2025!
Pick: treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader — Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already purchased.
Amazon removes your right to download Kindle books
Amazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads to your PC soon
How to Download Kindle Books to Your Computer Before Amazon Kills the Feature
Simplest Way to Remove DRM from Books – No Kindle Serial Number Needed!
Pick: nping — 🏎 Nping mean NB Ping, A Ping Tool in Rust with Real-Time Data and Visualizations

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Amazon Makes It Clear That Kindle Books Are Licensed And Not Owned - Good E-Reader — “By clicking on above button, you agree to Amazon’s Kindle Store Terms of Use.” However, the text in the USA has been changed to “By placing your order, you’re purchasing a license to the content and agree to the Kindle Store Terms of Use.”
Table Routing vs. Source Routing in ZHA — This article provides a clear breakdown of Table Routing vs. Source Routing, explaining their core differences, advantages, and potential drawbacks to help you make an informed decision. Most importantly, it will guide you on how to enable Source Routing in ZHA and explore why it could dramatically improve the stability and efficiency of your Zigbee network.
ZHA Users: Are You Missing Out on Source Routing? — Most Home Assistant users running Zigbee with ZHA don’t even realize they’re using Table Routing - the default setting - which might be slowing down automations and flooding the network with unnecessary broadcasts.
Open WebUI — Open WebUI is an extensible, self-hosted AI interface that adapts to your workflow, all while operating entirely offline.
GitHub - open-webui — Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with built-in inference engine for RAG, making it a powerful AI deployment solution.
bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups.
Bcachefs Changes Merged Without Issue For The Linux 6.14 Kernel — So now hopefully all is well in Bcachefs land and the code will continue to be well received assuming Linus Torvalds finds no objections and there is no further friction on the Linux kernel mailing list.
Scrub merged into master : r/bcachefs
Bcachefs Freezes Its On-Disk Format With Future Updates Optional — The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. Besides fixes for the current kernel, it was announced today that the on-disk format for the file-system is now considered frozen in its latest development "master" branch.
NanoKVM: The S stands for Security - YouTube — Today I'm taking a look at the Sipeed NanoKVM, a solution for remote control of a computer over a network. It does a lot of things you'd expect from a device in this class, something like a PiKVM or JetKVM, except it does all of it with no regard to data security best practices.
Wittboy landing page
Ecowitt - Home Assistant — The Ecowitt integration works by first creating a callback endpoint on your Home Assistant instance and then adding this configuration to the Ecowitt console so that it starts sending data.
ShelfPlayer — ShelfPlayer is a meticulously crafted iOS and iPadOS app designed to seamlessly integrate with your Audiobookshelf library. Enjoy a captivating listening experience with its sleek interface, lightning-fast performance, and deep system integration.
GitHub - alexmoras/hass-addon-newt — The Fossorial system - with Pangolin at its core - is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy with identity and access management, designed to securely expose private resources through encrypted WireGuard tunnels running in user space. Think self hosted Cloudflare tunnels.
Self-Hosted 143 Boost Barn — Thank you everyone who supports the show!

Last week, we hit the reset button. This week, meet Angela—Chris’ ex-wife, mother of three, and original Jupiter Broadcasting troublemaker. Get ready for crazy stories from the early days.

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Condolences pour in for Duolingo after Duo the Owl's death in Cybertruck accident
FauxShow - YouTube
Tech Talk Today
Scientists are baffled after discovering a mysterious radioactive 'blip' deep under the Pacific Ocean

Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.

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bhyve/Windows - FreeBSD Wiki
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Hank wrote in about his testing with a Pi4
FreeBSD pi4 tweak — I got lucky - that was posted two days before I gave this a go. I installed on a 4GB Pi 4B.
Hank's BSD Notes — IMO should get a point just for figuring out how to configure NTP and time zone. Sheesh!
Mizutamari — User-friendly Wine front-end primarily for FreeBSD
Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
Games - GhostBSD Wiki
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Gene's Portable Screen
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Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers.
Pick: HedgeDoc — HedgeDoc lets you create real-time collaborative markdown notes.
Pick: Add Water — A utility app to easily install the Firefox GNOME Theme and automatically update it in the background. This theme keeps Firefox fashionable within the GNOME design ecosystem, and provides many helpful features to customize the interface to make browsing even more pleasant

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Congress now has a DOGE Caucus.
Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI - WSJ
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Musk Bid for OpenAI: Sam Altman Says 'He's Probably Just Trying to Slow Us Down' - YouTube
Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the 'wrong side of history' post-DeepSeek
AMA with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Mark Chen, Kevin Weil, Srinivas Narayanan, Michelle Pokrass, and Hongyu Ren : r/OpenAI
Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the 'wrong side of history' concerning open source | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI's benefits may not be widely distributed | TechCrunch
Over $1 million in olive oil stolen from Montreal trucking company
Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist - Wikipedia
Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
Jeep, What the *%@$ Are You DOING!? - YouTube
A Mysterious Donor Is Funding an Effort to Build a ‘Permanent Human Settlement’ Underwater

It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close! Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.

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LinuxBoot: Booting FreeBSD from Linux
EuroBSDCon booting FreeBSD using Linux
Provisioning LinuxBoot Images for FreeBSD
FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 1. Bootstrapping and Kernel Initialization
FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 15. The FreeBSD Booting Process
How to Manage FreeBSD Boot Process?
LinuxBoot: let Linux do it!
LinuxBoot Introduction
LinuxBoot on GitHub
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Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 in Pasadena, CA
Zach Mitchell
LINUX Unplugged 554: SCaLEing Nix
LINUX Unplugged 538: Surprisingly Smooth Transition
LFNW2025 - April 25 - 27, 2025 • Bellingham Technical College
Pick: GarminDB — Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks.

Chris geeks out over his new gadget, Alex gets Pangolin purring, and we break down the latest OPNsense release—plus more surprises!

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Tempest Home Weather Station — Includes the Tempest app with your Tempest data and AI forecasts to power your personal needs for thelife of the product.
Tempest Forecasting Process
Tempest Map
WeatherFlow - Home Assistant — The WeatherFlow integration is a local-only integration that reads weather data from all WeatherFlow Tempest compatible weather station on the local network.
WeatherFlow Cloud - Home Assistant
Pangolin — Tunneled Reverse Proxy Management Server with Identity and Access Control and Dashboard UI.
Let’s Encrypt is ending expiration notice emails—for some very good reasons - Ars Technica — To save money and protect privacy, the successful service won't bug you.
News - Apps - App Store - Nextcloud
Prusa CORE One — The CORE One is a fully enclosed CoreXY 3D printer with active temperature control designed for top print quality and speed.

A brief important update from Chris about some upcoming changes to the podcast.

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Michael Dominick on X

We celebrate 600 episodes, announce a new show feature, and officially launch the FreeBSD challenge.

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Pick: direnv-vscode — This extension adds direnv support to Visual Studio Code by loading environment variables for the workspace root.
Pick: Warehouse on Linux | Flathub — Warehouse provides a simple UI to control complex Flatpak options, all without resorting to the command line.

DeepSeek has everyone freaking out; we'll look at what's legitimately fascinating, what bits have been an overreaction, and the big mistake that made this all possible.

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Report: 88% of companies are contemplating leaving Oracle Java — 72% of respondents were already thinking about it when surveyed in 2023.
State of Java 2025 - Azul Report — Insights from over 2,000 Java users across six continents to reveal 2025 Java trends that are shaping key areas of enterprise technology.
Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, biggest drop ever — The sell-off, which hit much of the U.S. tech sector, was sparked by concerns about increased competition from Chinese AI lab DeepSeek.
DeepSeek’s AI Model Tests Limits of US Curbs on Nvidia Chips
DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report — We present DeepSeek-V3, a strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671B total parameters with 37B activated for each token. To achieve efficient inference and cost-effective training, DeepSeek-V3 adopts Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and DeepSeekMoE architectures, which were thoroughly validated in DeepSeek-V2. Furthermore, DeepSeek-V3 pioneers an auxiliary-loss-free strategy for load balancing and sets a multi-token prediction training objective for stronger performance. We pre-train DeepSeek-V3 on 14.8 trillion diverse and high-quality tokens, followed by Supervised Fine-Tuning and Reinforcement Learning stages to fully harness its capabilities. Comprehensive evaluations reveal that DeepSeek-V3 outperforms other open-source models and achieves performance comparable to leading closed-source models. Despite its excellent performance, DeepSeek-V3 requires only 2.788M H800 GPU hours for its full training. In addition, its training process is remarkably stable.
Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race
DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China — Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny.
DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it's limiting registrations — DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services.
Satya Nadella on X — Jevons paradox strikes again! As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can't get enough of.
Jevons paradox - Wikipedia
Sam Altman on X — deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price.we will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.
Biden Got Freaked Out About AI and National Security After Watching the Newest 'Mission: Impossible' Movie — Speaking to The Associated Press, deputy White House chief of staff Bruce Reed recalled that while Biden has grown concerned over the use of AI to generate fake images of himself or clone a user's voice, it was a screening of "Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One" at Camp David that particularly alarmed the president.

On the eve of episode 600, we introduce our next challenge and explore the new wave of Linux phones.

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PinePhone Braveheart Linux smartphone begins shipping January 17th - Liliputing
Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer powered by Open-Source Software — The Comet is a handheld Linux computer that brings extensibility in hardware and software adapting to your needs.
Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer by Mecha Systems Inc. — Kickstarter
Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers — The Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers will provide a neutral space where industry leaders, academia, developers, and the broader open source community can work together to support projects within the Chromium ecosystem.
Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI — Wine 10.0 brings more than six thousand changes that built up over the past year in the bi-weekly Wine 9.xx development releases.
LUP 600 Pacific Northwest Party · Colony Events
Comprehensive Audio Stack Improvements for Modern Hardware and Software
Detailed AMD IOMMU Driver Development for Enhanced Core Support
FreeBSD Foundation's Sponsored Development Projects for 2024
metapac: multi-backend declarative package manager
decman: declarative package & configuration manager for Arch Linux.
aconfmgr: a configuration manager for Arch Linux
GeneBean's Dots
Replit
OliveTin — OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
Open-tv — Ultra-fast, simple and powerful cross-platform IPTV app.
ErsatzTV — Stream custom live channels using your own media
Deepin Linux 25 Goes (Almost) Immutable
deepin 25 Preview Release Note – Deepin Technology Community

Bamboo teaches us how to lose friends and alienate people. Then, Alex Tran from Immich joins us for a project update, and we shared some dreams for a community RSS project.

Special Guest: Alex Tran.

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Local dashboard is limited to 5 nodes - Help - Netdata — All of a sudden, when I access the Web UI on 19999 on the central node, I see all the node names, but no graphs. If I hover over one of the hostnames I get “Locked! Local dashboard is limited to 5 nodes”. 1 of the nodes DOES show up, and I can navigate to it, etc. But only 1, not 5.
tinyfeed: Generate a static HTML page from a collection of feeds wtih a simple CLI tool — tinyfeed is a CLI tool that generate a static HTML page from a collection of feeds.
OpenZFS 2.3.0 Released — RAIDZ Expansion (#15022): Add new devices to an existing RAIDZ pool, increasing storage capacity without downtime.
Tdarr — Clean up your media libraries, health check files, save space and much more!
Updates and Third-Party Integration with Bambu Connect — Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update
Bambu Lab Authorization Control System - Consumer Action Taskforce — On January 16, 2025, the 3D-printer manufacturer Bambu Lab announced that future firmwares for their 3D printers would introduce an authorization and authentication protection mechanism for their connection and control, in the name of security. Bambu has stated the following:
[Mega Thread] Discussion on Authorization Control System / Third-Party Integration / Bambu Connect — Mega Thread now made to focus all things to here, so people can somewhat use the sub.
X1 Firmware Jailbroken — A crossroads for Bambu Lab - Bambu Lab Software / Bambu Firmware - Bambu Lab Community Forum
X1Plus: Custom firmware for Bambu Lab X1 and X1 Carbon 3D printers
Immich — Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.
monetr: Take Control of Your Finances — Take control of your finances, paycheck by paycheck
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We dig into the Rails 8 Solid Trifecta, our thoughts on why fewer developers are taking jobs at startups, and a new buzzphrase: Framework Fatigue.

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Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost its Faith — I believe we're entering what might be called a "Startup Winter" - not because startups have stopped being created, but because the mythology around them has frozen over.
Introducing the Solid Trifecta | Rails 8 Unpacked - YouTube — The Solid Trifecta is a set of database adapters in Rails 8 that simplifies app development by replacing traditional RAM-based solutions like Redis with efficient, cost-effective database-backed tools. Solid Cable handles WebSocket messages, Solid Cache powers caching, and Solid Queue manages job queues, all using databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.
Framework Fatigue: The Real Reason Developers Get Angry About New Tech — As a developer trying to keep up with the latest tech, you find yourself in a familiar loop: check the landing page, watch the demo, star the GitHub repo “just in case,” and move on with your life. There’s only so much mental bandwidth to go around.

With more criticisms of NixOS than ever—do they have a point? We'll dig into the tough critiques and give our perspective.

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NixOS is interesting, but has fatal flaws
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SCALE 22x — March 6-9, 2025 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
LFNW2025 - "25 Years of Community Excellence" — April 25 - 27, 2025
Nix - Death by a thousand cuts — TLDR: In its current state (2025), I don't generally recommend desktop use of Nix(OS), even for seasoned Linux users.
Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy — Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
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Ansible is a Lisp
Should I use NixOS? Short answer: no. — If words like "declarative", "generational", and "immutable" don't put your sexuality in jeopardy, you're considering NixOS for the wrong reasons.
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OliveTin/OliveTin: OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
Pick: isd — Simplify systemd management with isd! isd is a TUI offering fuzzy search for units, auto-refreshing previews, smart sudo handling, and a fully customizeable interface for power-users and newcomers alike.
Pick: planify — Task manager with Todoist & Nextcloud support designed for GNOME
Pick: Super Productivity — A to do list to get your head free
Super Productivity on Flathub
Super Productivity GitHub — Keep organized and focused!
LUP 553: Portably Predictable Productivity

The CEO who bet on SwiftUI—and lost their job. Then poke some fun at Rust stans, SalesForce claims they're not hiring any developers in 2025, and more!

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Sonos CEO steps down after app upgrade debacle — On its fiscal 2024 earnings call, Spence shared news that annual revenue had gone backwards by four percent, and admitted one reason for that result was “we mishandled the rollout of our new app.”
Salesforce Will Hire No More Software Engineers in 2025 — “30% Productivity Boost” from AI
Massive Memory Leaks in System76's Cosmic Desktop (Written in "Memory Safe" Rust) - YouTube — Plus: Hyprland developer weighs in, "No, I don't think it's beta ready :P"
Reference Cycles Can Leak Memory - The Rust Programming Language — Rust’s memory safety guarantees make it difficult, but not impossible, to accidentally create memory that is never cleaned up (known as a memory leak). Preventing memory leaks entirely is not one of Rust’s guarantees, meaning memory leaks are memory safe in Rust.
Handling memory leaks in Rust - LogRocket Blog — Once in a while, you may experience memory leaks in your Rust projects due to many factors, from unsafe code to shared references, etc. Ideally, you’ll want to fix these memory leaks and ensure your programs are efficient, which may lead to performance gains and resource safety.
Memory leaks are memory safe, and there isn't much to do about it | /home/Samsai — Despite their potential for destruction, Rust considers memory leaks "memory safe" and thus doesn't aim to prevent them. Rust's design, however, makes it less easy to create memory leaks, since it uses a Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) pattern to abstract resource allocation and deallocation.
Google Donates $1 Million to Donald Trump's Inaugural Fund — The total inauguration fund for the returning US president has already reached a record $170 billion, according to an ABC report.

We're taking on some of the toughest critiques of the Linux desktop, then taking a look at CachyOS and what makes it feel like a million bucks.

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Why Desktop Linux Matters, Even If (Almost) No One Uses It
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CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux — CachyOS is designed to deliver lightning-fast speeds and stability, ensuring a smooth and enjoyable computing experience every time you use it. Whether you're a seasoned Linux user or just starting out, CachyOS is the ideal choice for those looking for a powerful, customizable and blazingly fast operating system.
CachyOS/linux-cachyos: Archlinux Kernel based on different schedulers and some other performance improvements.
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Alex dives into the perils of upgrading and migrating critical infrastructure—uncovering embarrassing pitfalls and hard-won lessons along the way. Meanwhile, Chris takes his audiobook obsession to the next level, showcasing a couple self-hosted projects that are very ambitious.

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CES 2025 Secrets Revealed: A developer’s dream or just more hype? Plus, NVIDIA flexes its AI muscles, and we're admittedly impressed. Then, our thoughts on Dell's historic rebrand.

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI agents are ‘a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity’ and ‘the age of AI Agentics is here’ — “The age of AI Agentics is here,” Huang told the crowd, describing a shift from generative AI to agentic AI—a future driven by intelligent AI agents capable of assisting with tasks across industries. Huang called this emerging sector "a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity," positioning Nvidia at the forefront of the movement.
Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs — Four new RTX 50-series GPUs are on the way, including the $1,999 RTX 5090 and $999 RTX 5080.
Nvidia’s AI NPCs are no longer chatbots — they’re your new PUBG teammate — Nvidia says that ACE characters can use AI to “perceive, plan, and act like human players,” per a blog post. “Powered by generative AI, ACE will enable living, dynamic game worlds with companions that comprehend and support player goals, and enemies that adapt dynamically to player tactics.” The characters are powered by “small language models (SLMs)” that are “capable of planning at human-like frequencies required for realistic decision making” as well as “multi-modal SLMs for vision and audio that allow AI characters to hear audio cues and perceive their environment.”
Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project Digits — This desktop-sized system can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters.
The World’s Smallest AI Supercomputer — A Grace Blackwell AI Supercomputer on your desk.
NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips — Project DIGITS systems running Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS
Dell mocked at its own press launch for copying Apple's names — Now, most of the company’s new PCs will be divided into three tiers: Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max
Apple Intelligence summaries might get warning labels. That’s not enough. — The BBC, following up on two reports of Apple Intelligence summaries that transformed its own headlines into factually inaccurate text, got a public response from Apple
Nvidia’s stock heads for worst drop in months as CES speech lacked one big thing — We believe many investors were hoping for more concrete progress updates on the ramp of Blackwell and some input as to the company’s progress with its next-generation GPU platform, Rubin,” Benchmark Research analyst Cody Acree wrote in a note to clients.

We make our big Linux predictions for 2025, but first, we score how we did for 2024.

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Some debates never die, and this week, we’re reigniting one of our spiciest from the archives. Plus, our boldest 2025 predictions yet.

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Nvidia's next move: Powering humanoid robots — The chipmaking giant Nvidia is leaning more heavily into robotics in 2025. More specifically, in the first half of the new year, confirms the Financial Times, Nvidia is launching a new generation of compact computers for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor.
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We tested out the OpenWRT One and tried it in a unique use case. Then, Wes goes back to 1999 to solve a problem.

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The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is out, and Paulus Schoutsen, the founder of Home Assistant, joins us to get into the details.

Then, Alex and a special guest get into docker-compose vs. nix to manage your home lab.

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It's the fifth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2024. Join us for the final Tuxies, and the second annual Boosties!

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We’re taking a victory lap down memory lane. From spooky-accurate predictions to "did we really say that?" moments, this one’s for the history books.

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Coder Radio 439: Github NoPilot — Microsoft has a bunch of new goodies for developers, but Mike is becoming more and more concerned about an insidious new feature.
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Coder Radio 472: Drunken Copilot — Mike just signed up for a year of GitHub Copilot and Chris tries to understand why. Then we catch each other up on some recent surprises.
Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far — A new survey by tech trade-in site SellCell found that AI is an important factor when choosing a new smartphone.
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A special guest joins us for the news, then we dive headfirst into our RT Linux kernel adventures—where speed seduced, but stability ghosted us.

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Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: A change of hats! — Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project Leader for over a decade, has announced his decision to step down from the role. Initially aiming for a five-year term, he extended his tenure after feeling there was more to accomplish. Now, after ten years, Miller believes it is the right time for a leadership change to bring fresh energy and ideas to Fedora.
Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42 — The Fedora Project is considering a new "Fedora COSMIC" spin for Fedora 42, featuring the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76.
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Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal — Ptyxis was introduced as an option in Ubuntu 24.10, though it was not the default terminal. While GNOME Console remains the default in Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds, there is growing support for Ptyxis within the Ubuntu community. Canonical Desktop Software Engineer Jeremy Bicha confirmed this shift, stating that Ptyxis is now the "recommended replacement for GNOME Terminal."
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Brent joins to share part two of his NAS build adventure, and things take a tiny turn. Plus, picking the right encrypted chat app and Chris stacks a few Jellyfin wins.

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Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix — Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push for sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications
Simplex Chat v6.2.0 — SimpleX Chat and Flux (https://runonflux.com) made an agreement to include servers operated by Flux into the app – to improve metadata privacy.
Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat | WIRED — Neo-Nazis are joining SimpleX Chat, a relatively unknown app that received funding from Jack Dorsey and promises users there is no way for it or law enforcement to track their identity.
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Sam's Checkmate: How Open Source AI and Silicon Valley Kingmakers dethroned the OpenAI emperor! Plus, Tesla's API Apocalypse has arrived.

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Tesla Is Screwing Over Dozens Of App Developers — Tesla is preparing to begin charging software developers to access the Application Programming Interface for its cars—something used by just about every third-party dev that builds software that integrates with Tesla's vehicles.
Donald Trump Names David Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar — Intelligence and Cryptocurrency, two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness. David will focus on making America the clear global leader in both areas,”
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OpenAI launches a new $200 monthly subscription and an updated model — The company is also introducing ChatGPT Pro, a new $200 monthly subscription tier that includes unlimited access to OpenAI o1, GPT-4o, and Advanced Voice mode. It also includes a version of o1, exclusive to Pro users, that uses more compute to provide the best possible answer to the hardest problems (called o1 pro mode).
Introducing ChatGPT Pro — ChatGPT Pro provides a way for researchers, engineers, and other individuals who use research-grade intelligence daily to accelerate their productivity and be at the cutting edge of advancements in AI.
OpenAI explores advertising as it steps up revenue drive — OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising to its artificial intelligence products, as the ChatGPT maker seeks new revenue sources as it restructures as a for-profit company.
AI startups snatch San Francisco offices, use Zoom fatigue to recruit — “In-person teams have a magic to them,” Tratar said. “When one thing is going well it adds energy to the system and people get excited.”

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires — Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, effective December 1, and stepped down from the company’s board of directors.

The KDE and GNOME projects are working on official Linux distributions, but do we need more distros? We dig into their special sauce.

Plus: Wes' top DNS server pick, and it's not one we've heard before.

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We geek out over Brian Moses's 2025 DIY NAS build guide, contemplate future builds with the new Raspberry Pi Compute 5 module, and fully embrace our digital hoarding nature with a new app.

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A survey found that nearly 10% of developers are ghosts doing nothing - our thoughts on that, AI Big Brother as a service comes to the workplace, OpenAI's NYT standoff, and Google's growing problem.

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Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 — Newly expanded financial aid will cover tuition costs for admitted students from 80 percent of U.S. families.
9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers — We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies.
DOJ wraps up ad tech trial: Google is “three times” a monopolist — "Google is once, twice, three times a monopolist," Teitelbaum said, while reinforcing that "these are the markets that make the free and open Internet possible."
DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly — The filing includes a broad range of requirements the DOJ hopes the court will impose on Google — from restricting the company from entering certain kinds of agreements to more broadly breaking the company up. The DOJ’s latest proposal doubles down on its request to spin out Google’s Chrome browser, which the government views as a key access point for searching the web.
DOJ’s staggering proposal would hurt consumers and America’s global technological leadership — As just one example, DOJ’s proposal would literally require us to install not one but two separate choice screens before you could access Google Search on a Pixel phone you bought. And the design of those choice screens would have to be approved by the Technical Committee. And that’s just a small part of it. We wish we were making this up.
Niantic quietly using Pokemon Go player data to train AI map models — The model uses geolocation information from scans players submit of real-world locations while playing Pokémon Go.
Building a Large Geospatial Model to Achieve Spatial Intelligence – Niantic Labs — This scanning feature is completely optional – people have to visit a specific publicly-accessible location and click to scan. This allows Niantic to deliver new types of AR experiences for people to enjoy. Merely walking around playing our games does not train an AI model.
Employee monitoring software has gone off the deep end with AI — Had the pleasure of sitting through a sales pitch for a pretty big "productivity monitoring" software suite this morning.
OpenAI accidentally erases potential evidence in training data lawsuit — While OpenAI’s lawyers characterized the data erasure as a “glitch,” The New York Times’ attorneys noted they had “no reason to believe” it was intentional.
Amazon to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest rival — The new funding brings the tech giant’s total investment to $8 billion, though Amazon will retain its position as a minority investor.
AI’s Future and Nvidia’s Fortunes Ride on the Race to Pack More Chips Into One Place — Musk’s xAI and Meta are among firms building clusters of advanced chips
Cold reading an ADHD affliction — You don't need a diagnosis to be a flawed human. It goes for all of us. So if you want to supercharge your morning's productivity routine by popping a pill or two of amphetamines, own it!
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Two years ago, we took a small step toward digital privacy. Today, we're rethinking everything about our online lives, and we'll give you the tools to do the same.

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Embrace Alby Hub - phasing out Alby’s shared wallet | Alby User Guide — In the beginning of 2024, we shared our vision in "Where Does Alby Fly From Here". Since then we launched Alby Hub, your self-custodial wallet accessible from anywhere to integrate with dozens of apps. We’ve also launched Alby Go - the easiest-to-use mobile app to connect your Alby Hub and use your sats on the go.
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We react to Microsoft's new vision for the desktop PC, discuss the realities of working with large dependency chains in your projects, and discuss Google selling off Chrome. Then, we read some spicy tech CEO emails!

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Chained to Complexity: Python Dependency Management — Dependency management in software development is often akin to playing an elaborate game of Jenga where everyone involved is on their third IPA: every block you move introduces the risk of toppling the tower which is becoming more wobbly over time.
Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud — Microsoft has created its own purpose-built device for the cloud-based version of Windows.
Windows comes to the Meta Quest — “Full capabilities,” in this context, means that you’ll be able to access a local Windows PC or cloud instance of Windows (via Windows 365) from a Quest headset. Microsoft says it only takes “seconds” to connect, and likens the experience to a “private, high-quality, large, multi-monitor workstation.” We’ll be the judge of that.
Microsoft’s new Windows Resiliency Initiative aims to avoid another CrowdStrike incident — Microsoft is working on a new framework to move Windows security vendors out of the kernel for antivirus scanning.
US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android — Bloomberg reports that DOJ lawyers will try to break up Google’s search monopoly by targeting Chrome, Android, and AI Overviews.
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Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI — Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins.

The Linux 6.12 kernel isn't just another update — it's a game-changer that deserves our full attention, from performance improvements to fascinating new features.

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Breaking free from Google's grip: Our surprising journey and the tools that made it possible. Plus, Brent's NAS feature stirring up debate, s clever tool for distributed video encoding, and more.

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Perplexica — Perplexica is an open-source AI-powered searching tool or an AI-powered search engine that goes deep into the internet to find answers. Inspired by Perplexity AI, it's an open-source option that not just searches the web but understands your questions.
Replacing Google with SearXNG as the default in Chrome — No tracking. No ads. Search as it was. Now when you enter a search query in the Chrome address bar it will route through your SearXNG instance automatically.
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Python's eating the world - and AI's helping it digest. A cheeky look at why this programming language is suddenly everywhere and the bizarre tale of how AI infiltrated the last place you'd expect.

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AMD grabs a quarter of x86 market with desktop gains — AMD now accounts for 25 percent of all x86 processor shipments, but only made a slight increase in the past quarter against industry leader Intel in servers – the main gains came from the desktop market.
Intel exec says Arrow Lake launch ‘just didn’t go as planned' — Intel’s Arrow Lake chips’ “bones are solid,” Hallock said during the interview. Still, the company has identified factors “that can combine to produce some pretty wild unintended effects.” Hallock was also clear that the new Arrow Lake performance issues are strictly Intel’s responsibility, and not the fault of Microsoft or anyone else.
Announcing .NET 9 — Today, we are excited to announce the launch of .NET 9, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. It’s the result of another year of effort on the part of thousands of developers from around the world.
Octoverse: AI leads Python to top language as the number of global developers surges - The GitHub Blog — In this year’s Octoverse report, we study how public and open source activity on GitHub shows how AI is expanding as the global developer community surges in size.
TensorFlow — TensorFlow makes it easy to create ML models that can run in any environment. Learn how to use the intuitive APIs through interactive code samples.
NumPy - — The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python
pandas - Python Data Analysis Library — pandas is a fast, powerful, flexible and easy to use open source data analysis and manipulation tool,built on top of the Python programming language.
PyTorch — A rich ecosystem of tools and libraries extends PyTorch and supports development in computer vision, NLP and more.
I’m a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me — We didn’t call it AI at first. The first thing that happened was these new innovations just crept into our electronic medical record system. They were tools that monitored whether specific steps in patient treatment were being followed. If something was missed or hadn’t been done, the AI would send an alert. It was very primitive, and it was there to stop patients falling through the cracks.
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We go back in time to revisit our favorite classic SUSE release and then fix Brent's broken box the hard way.

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bees: Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs dedupe agent — bees is a block-oriented userspace deduplication agent designed for large btrfs filesystems. It is an offline dedupe combined with an incremental data scan capability to minimize time data spends on disk from write to dedupe.
markfasheh/duperemove: Tools for deduping file systems — Duperemove is a simple tool for finding duplicated extents and submitting them for deduplication. When given a list of files it will hash their contents on an extent by extent basis and compare those hashes to each other, finding and categorizing extents that match each other.
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Malicious NPM packages are sneaking into codebases while FFmpeg devs prove old-school assembly skills can still smoke the competition. Plus, a rare bee species takes on Zuck's AI dreams.

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Oops, Apple approved another illegal streaming app — A ‘productivity app’ that streams pirated movies seems to have slipped past Apple’s review process — and it’s far from the first one to do it.
Why Avoiding Technical Debt Might Be Your Biggest Mistake — In this post, I’ll argue that technical debt isn’t inherently bad — it’s unmanaged technical debt that causes problems. Programmers who refuse to incur any technical debt pay a high price, using up one of a company’s most valuable resources: present time!
Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines — The malicious packages have names that are similar to legitimate ones for the Puppeteer and Bignum.js code libraries
FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code — The developers have created an optimized code path using the AVX-512 instruction set to accelerate specific functions within the FFmpeg multimedia processing library. By leveraging AVX-512, they were able to achieve significant performance improvements — from three to 94 times faster — compared to standard implementations. AVX-512 enables processing large chunks of data in parallel using 512-bit registers, which can handle up to 16 single-precision FLOPS or 8 double-precision FLOPS in one operation. This optimization is ideal for compute-heavy tasks in general, but in the case of video and image processing in particular.
Regulators reject power deal for nuclear Amazon datacenters — Amazon has hit a roadblock in its plans for nuclear-powered US datacenters. Federal regulators rejected a deal that would let it draw more power from a Susquehanna plant to supply new bit barns next to the site, on the grounds this would set a precedent which may affect grid reliability and increase energy costs.
Meta’s nuclear datacenter plan reportedly stung by bees — CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told employees at an all-hands meeting that the discovery of a rare species of bees on the prospective build site had contributed to the cancellation of the datacenter project, according to The Financial Times.
AI's energy appetite has Taiwan reconsidering nuclear option — The global surge in AI is placing unprecedented pressure on energy resources, with chipmakers such as TSMC consuming vast amounts of electricity to meet growing demand for advanced silicon. In response, Taiwan's government is signaling a potential shift in its longstanding opposition to nuclear energy to address its mounting power needs.
Mike's Poll says it all. — Let’s celebrate Election Day by voting to “settle” a classic debate.

Fedora 41 is here! We break down the best new features, then branch out for a three-way spin showdown. Which flavor will come out on top?

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asahi-audio - Fedora Packages
AsahiLinux/asahi-audio: Userspace audio for Asahi Linux — PipeWire and WirePlumber DSP profiles and configurations tod rive the speaker arrays in Apple Silicon laptops and desktops.
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux — We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0.
FEX
Wine
DXVK
vkd3d-proton
muvm
holesail
eikosiena's nixtcloud
FOSSCOMM
Emerald Coast Linux User Group
Fedora Media Writer
FedoraQt/MediaWriter — A tool to create a live USB drive with an edition of Fedora
Preparing Boot Media - Fedora Docs
GDM Settings
GDM Settings Web Site — Customize your login screen
Web Apps
eyekay/webapps source — Install websites as desktop apps, so that they appear in their own windows separate from any browsers installed. This is similar to the "Install as App" feature found in popular web browsers.

From Nextcloud Breakup to Blissful Reunion: Chris's journey back to a smarter setup. Plus, Jellyfin's game-changing features and a beloved self-hosted app get the upgrade we've all been waiting for.

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Jellyfin 10.10.0 — This major release brings several new features, improvements, and bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. With our faster release cadence between 10.9.0 and 10.10.0, this release should be far less daunting, so please read on for a quick peek at what's new and some important-to-know breaking changes!
HA-Firemote: Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Homatics, NVIDIA Shield, onn., Roku, Xiaomi Mi, and Android TV remote control card for Home Assistant — Firemote is a custom Home Assistant card that is capable of controlling your media devices directly from any Home Assistant dashboard. The Firemote dashboard remotes are designed to look just like your physical remote controls, but they also contain TONS of customization options to choose from!
TrueNAS 24.10 (Electric Eel) — 24.10 (Electric Eel) brings many new features and improvements to the TrueNAS experience
mealie Release v2.0.0 — The introduction of Households is one of Mealie's most requested features and a huge technical change. The implementation of it touched 300+ files and 10k+ lines of code.
Etebase - Your end-to-end encrypted backend — Think Firebase but encrypted in a way that only end-users can access their data.
Nextcloud - NixOS Wiki
nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/nextcloud.nix at master · NixOS/nixpkgs
dumb: Private alternative front-end for Genius. — With the massive daily increase of useless scripts on Genius's web frontend, and having to download megabytes of clutter, dumb tries to make reading lyrics from Genius a pleasant experience, and as lightweight as possible.
gluetun: VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in. — Lightweight swiss-knife-like VPN client to multiple VPN service providers
Jawa — Get the absolute best prices on custom prebuilt PCs and gear, backed by buyer and seller protections that actually matter.

Mike reports in from the COSMIC frontier! Plus: Microsoft's juicy Google drama, GPU eye candy that'll make your wallet nervous, and the tea on why OpenAI's AGI Czar went full scorched-earth on his exit.

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Microsoft says Google is running 'shadow campaigns' in Europe in cloud — Microsoft said Google is running “shadow campaigns” to discredit the software giant with regulators in Europe.
cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment — Currently an incomplete alpha. Testing instructions below for various distributions.
System76 - Linux Laptops, Desktops, and Servers — We aim to liberate the computer with a new desktop environment powerful enough to build custom OS experiences — for users, developers, and makers of any device with a screen.
COSMIC - ArchWiki
nixos-cosmic: Flake for using COSMIC on NixOS
LINUX Unplugged 574: COSMIC Encounter
Geary — Geary is an email application built around conversations, for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to read, find and send email with a straightforward, modern interface.
M4 Pro Chip Announced: Up to 14-Core CPU and 20-Core GPU, Up to 64GB of RAM, Thunderbolt 5 Support, and More — Apple today unveiled the M4 Pro chip, with key specifications including up to a 14-core CPU, up to a 20-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and support for up to 64GB of RAM. For the 14-core CPU, there are 10 performance cores and four efficiency cores.
Apple Announces Redesigned Mac Mini With M4 and M4 Pro Chips — Apple today announced fully redesigned Mac mini models featuring the M4 and M4 Pro chips, a considerably smaller casing, two front-facing USB-C ports, Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, and more.
Apple’s first smart home display could pay homage to a classic iMac — Apple plans to release a low-end, non-robotic smart home display that looks like the ‘lampshade’ iMac, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
OpenAI's AGI Czar Quits, Saying the Company Isn't ready For What It's Building — "I decided," Brundage wrote, "that I want to impact and influence AI's development from outside the industry rather than inside."

We're hot-swapping our rigs to Fedora 41; then Graham Christensen gives us the inside scoop on a new Nix distribution, and Determinate Systems' big week!

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Reboot Linux faster using kexec
Linux.com :: Reboot like a racecar with kexec
Linux 3.14 To Support EFI Kexec Capability
ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel
Defeating Secure Boot With Linux Kexec
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The Future is Nix — Today, we still find ourselves sitting on the most powerful technology of our lifetimes and we can’t even decide on small steps in the direction of making it easier for folks to adopt it.
The future of software is Nix. — Today, we still find ourselves sitting on the most powerful technology of our lifetimes and we can’t even decide on small steps in the direction of making it easier for folks to adopt it.
Announcing Determinate Nix
Determinate Nix documentation — With Determinate Nix, our goal is to transform Nix from what it is today—a tool with great potential but with too many hard edges to be ready for prime time
Introducing Determinate - YouTube
Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes — Today, we’re delighted to announce a new chapter for FlakeHub with the general availability of two new features: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes.
Graham Christensen on X — Yesterday at work we launched a binary cache that goes beyond bytes in a bucket. This launch means you can deploy to brand new cloud environments with two lines of userdata:
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lobe-chat — an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers
Dnote: A Simple Command Line Notebook
plastic — NES emulator in rust with egui and TUI
cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
plastic-flake

Wes got Mom a new Linux laptop, and he lets her pick the distro. Plus, we take a look at the new Ubuntu 24.10, and why we think this release might be a good sign for the future.

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imagegenius/docker-immich — Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immich
rramiachraf/dumb — Private alternative front-end for Genius.
qdm12/gluetun: — VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.
SCaLE 22X Call for Papers
SCaLE CFP Feedback Livestream
cli-ai — A simple command-line AI assistant that translates natural language into shell commands. Supports all Windows and Unix-based systems (Linux, MacOS).

"The" self-hosted app to archive your favorite YouTube channels and easily integrate into Jellyfin/Plex. Plus, our favorite WordPress alternatives and an update on No Google October.

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macOS Window Manager | BentoBox 🍱 — A window manager that boosts productivity by snapping windows into predefined zones, like a Japanese bento box organizing meals.
Ice: Powerful menu bar manager for macOS — Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.
Easy AT&T BGW320 Gateway Bypass with UniFi UDM Pro Max via the WAS-110 SFP ONT on a stick from 8311 - YouTube
jupiterbroadcasting.com: JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!
WordPress: The Drama Continues — The WordPress.org team has forked the Advanced Custom Fields plugin amidst a legal dispute with WP Engine, raising concerns about user awareness and security updates. Were they right to do so? It's complicated, but likely yes.
Withdrawing contributions from WordPress Core and WordPress.org properties · GitHub — Before and since my WordPress Core contribution flow changed, I have tried to play my part, in the community’s interest, to encourage a change of approach by the project’s leadership. Despite this, further community-damaging actions have been taken. As a direct result of this continued unwillingness to respect the community, I am regretfully withdrawing from all contributing to WordPress Core and any WordPress.org property until further notice.
WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin — WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” resulting from WP Engine’s legal moves.
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform — Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
ktz.blog
hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites. — Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, optimized for speed and designed for flexibility. With its advanced templating system and fast asset pipelines, Hugo renders a complete site in seconds, often less.
Zola — Zola comes as a single executable with Sass compilation, syntax highlighting, table of contents and many other features that traditionally require setting up a dev environment or adding some JavaScript libraries to your site.
Zola SSG is 4x faster than Hugo — Zola is a very fast static site generator written in Rust with 10k stars on Github.
How to choose the right static site generator — Here's an in-depth look at 6 static site generators that deploy to GitLab Pages.
SearXNG instances — This website shows the SearXNG public instances. It is updated every 24 hours, except the response times which are updated every 3 hours
SearXNG Documentation — SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity.
pinchflat: Your next YouTube media manager — Pinchflat is a self-hosted app for downloading YouTube content built using yt-dlp. It's designed to be lightweight, self-contained, and easy to use. You set up rules for how to download content from YouTube channels or playlists and it'll do the rest, periodically checking for new content. It's perfect for people who want to download content for use in with a media center app (Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi) or for those who want to archive media!
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We get frustrated with Nintendo. Then, dig into the 30-year-old backdoor that was recently exploited and the hard lesson we should learn from it. Then, we'll break down some "hot tips" that promise to make you the next DevRel star.

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Ryujinx Switch Emulator Project Shuts Down Under Nintendo Pressure — Open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has thrown in the towel under pressure from Nintendo. Lead developer 'gdkchan' was reportedly contacted by the gaming giant on Monday. He was given the opportunity to stop working on the project and shut down everything under his control, presumably to avoid further action. The project's repo on GitHub has already been deleted.
'Modded Hardware' Defendant Denies Nintendo's Copyright Claims in Court — The alleged operator of Modded Hardware has filed an answer to Nintendo's copyright complaint, denying any wrongdoing. The defendant, who represents himself in court, counters with a long list of affirmative defenses including fair use. The case will now move forward to the discovery process. Meanwhile, the Modded Hardware site has gone private.
The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite — The wiretap systems, as mandated under a 30-year-old U.S. federal law, are some of the most sensitive in a telecom or internet provider’s network, typically granting a select few employees nearly unfettered access to information about their customers, including their internet traffic and browsing histories.
Meredith Whittaker on Masto — Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use.
Chinese hackers access US telecom firms, worrying national security officials — US investigators believe the hackers potentially accessed wiretap warrant requests, two of the sources said, but officials are still working to determine what information the hackers may have obtained. US broadband and internet providers AT&T, Verizon and Lumen are among the targets, the sources said.
Exclusive | U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack - WSJ — AT&T and Verizon are among the broadband providers that were breached
Unlocking the ‘aha’ moment: Developer relations for startups — Developer relations (DevRel) can be a cornerstone of product adoption and growth for early-stage companies, but too often early-stage companies end up focusing on the wrong things. The linchpin for success lies in how quickly developers reach their first "aha" moment
Mermaid | Diagramming and charting tool — JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.
Integrations | Mermaid

After building nodes, climbing roofs, swapping antennas, and even some war driving, it's time for our Meshtastic deep dive!

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Meshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
Bitcoin Vets: Establish communications via meshtastic & ham radio network
Meshtastic in the air — Avery Airfield in Spruce Pine which is running air delivery of critical supplies to HLZs in the AO is now equipping flights with Meshtastic airborne nodes which significantly increases coverage of vital communications.
Heltec V3
27100 Cell holder
MPPT Solar Charge controller for 1S cells
25 Watt Solar Panels
Project Box
Pole Mounts
Programmable GPS
Preferred 27100 Cells
2nd choice 21700 Cells
Tdeck
GPS
Battery
3D printed case files
Screw inserts for case
m2 screw kit, nice to have for these kind of projects (threaded for inserts above)
5 dbi antenna
2 dbi antenna
5.8 dbi antenna
SMA - RPSMA adapters if needed
12' SMA cable
Wiseblock RAK
Hundreds Weigh in on FCC NextNav Petition for 900 MHz Band Change — At issue is a NextNav petition filed in April to the FCC to expand the power level, bandwidth and priority of its licenses in the 902 to 907 and 918 to 928 MHz bands in the United States—a band currently in use by UHF RFID, Z-Wave, Zigbee, LoRa and numerous other wireless technologies. Additionally, NextNav proposes to use 5G connectivity over the relatively low bandwidth.
Consumer Choice Center submits FCC comments to protect radio frequency for open-source projects and amateur radio
meshbbs — This is a BBS project to run on a meshtastic node. The system allows for message handling, bulletin boards, mail systems, and a channel directory.
nostrastic — Bridge to publish Nostr posts and send/receive DMs over LoRa using Meshtastic.
Home Assistant and Meshtastic — On this page, we'll guide you through the process of creating Meshtastic MQTT sensor entities within Home Assistant. Whether you want to keep an eye on battery levels, environmental conditions, or even receive notifications from your mesh network, these integrations provide you with the tools to make it happen.
T-Watch S3
awesome-meshtastic — A curated list of amazingly awesome Meshtastic resources
MeshMap - Meshtastic Node Map
Meshtastic Routing Issues & Deployment Scenarios - YouTube
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Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS
nix-ld on GitHub
DIYmall 2 Sets 915MHZ ESP32 Lora V3 WiFi+BLE Development Board — WiFi LoRa 32 is a classic IoT dev-board. The newly launched V3 version retains Wi-Fi, BLE, LoRa, OLED display, and other functions
LILYGO T-Echo Meshtastic LoRa SX1262 — NRF52840 module, SX1262 wireless transceiver BME280 temperature pressure sensor, GPS RTC, NFC, LoRa

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Our reaction to Google's major legal blow, forcing them to open the Play Store wide, our thoughts on the world's lovefest with AI-generated podcasts, and the next tool Microsoft is porting over from Linux.

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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge — Google must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps — and distribute third-party stores.
Why Google is appealing the U.S. Epic Games verdict — The Epic verdict missed the obvious: Apple and Android clearly compete. We will appeal and ask the courts to pause implementing the remedies to maintain a consistent and safe experience for users and developers as the legal process moves forward.
There’s a New Hit Podcast That Will Blow Your Mind - WSJ — With this Google tool, you can make a show about any topic you could possibly imagine. The hosts aren’t human. You won’t believe your ears.
List of "Fake Podcasts" — Listen Notes' list of AI-genreated podcasts.
Analyzing Poop & Fart written 1,000 times — Creating meaning from the meaningless.
NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources — Today, we're introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one click, two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your sources. They summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth. You can even download the conversation and take it on the go.
ebpf-for-windows — eBPF is a well-known technology for providing programmability and agility, especially for extending an OS kernel, for use cases such as DoS protection and observability. This project is a work-in-progress that allows existing eBPF toolchains and APIs familiar in the Linux ecosystem to be used on top of Windows. That is, this project takes existing eBPF projects as submodules and adds the layer in between to make them run on top of Windows.

Wes gives his shell superpowers to solve a tricky problem. Then, we share an update on our favorite Google Photos alternative, including breaking changes and a great new way to run it.

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bda in the Nix Nerds Matrix Chat with Python Woes
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Anyone using python UV on NixOS? : r/NixOS
devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
devenn's direnv integration
POLL: Do you use any tools to "move between machines"?
Immich Release v1.117.0
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LINUX Unplugged 476: Canary in the Photo Mine
LINUX Unplugged 409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future
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Meshtastic Matrix Chatroom — Chatastic for Meshtastic.
nixy — Nixy is a Hyprland NixOS configuration with home-manager, secrets and custom theming all in one place. It's a simple way to manage your system configuration and dotfiles.
I'm not sure if Jeff can be called a Producer
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
DistroStu's Computer Keyboards! Talk on YouTube
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, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.
NixOS & Flakes Book — Want to know NixOS & Flakes in detail? Looking for a beginner-friendly tutorial? Then you've come to the right place!
EtchDroid — An application to write OS images to USB drives, on Android, no root required. Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.
EtchDroid on Github

Ditching Google Search for an entire month! We reveal the tool that's helping us break free. Plus, a special guest shares his home lab to data center journey. And, Chris raves about the ultimate Jellyfin client (and confesses to an accidental network camera purchase).

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streamyfin: A Jellyfin client build with Expo — Welcome to Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client built with Expo. If you're looking for an alternative to other Jellyfin clients, we hope you'll find Streamyfin to be a useful addition to your media streaming toolbox.
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. — Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
SearX Search Provider - Chrome Web Store — A configurable browser extension that sets SearX as your default search engine.
xSearch for Safari on the App Store — xSearch is a Safari extension that enables you to seamlessly switch between multiple search engines with ease, and even search directly from Spotlight, making your browsing experience more efficient and efficient.
how do i make searx my default search engine? — In Firefox 89+ (no ... menu), here are two methods to add a site's search engine plugin from the address bar
Wyze Cam v4 — 2.5K QHD resolution, Enhanced Color Night Vision, and motion-activated spotligh
docker-wyze-bridge — Create a local WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, or HLS/Low-Latency HLS stream for most of your Wyze cameras including the outdoor, doorbell, and 2K cams.
Self-Hosted 133 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters! 🚀

Our thoughts on big tech firing up old nuclear reactors to satisfy the AI growth plans, Sam's big week, and debate if Meta just had their iPhone moment.

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Meta Quest 3S — Unreal experiences at an unreal priceComing Oct 15. Pre-order yours today.
Microsoft Is Discontinuing HoloLens 2 As Production Ends — HoloLens 2 launched in 2019, three years after the original, with upgrades to almost every aspect: a wider field of view, higher resolution, eye tracking, vastly improved hand tracking, and more powerful compute housed in the rear of the strap to deliver a balanced comfortable design.
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California governor vetoes major AI safety bill — SB 1047 would have required the state’s biggest AI companies to implement security measures designed to protect the public from harm.
The Intelligence Age — In 15 words: deep learning worked, got predictably better with scale, and we dedicated increasing resources to it.
Exclusive: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity | Reuters — Chief executive Sam Altman will also receive equity for the first time in the for-profit company, which could be worth $150 billion after the restructuring as it also tries to remove the cap on returns for investors, sources added. The sources requested anonymity to discuss private matters.
OpenAI considering restructuring to for-profit, CTO Mira Murati and two top research execs depart - YouTube
OpenAI Mulls Giving CEO Altman 7% Stake in Shift to For-Profit - YouTube
Apple not investing in OpenAI after all, new report says — Apple is no longer in talks to participate in an OpenAI funding round expected to raise as much as $6.5 billion, an 11th hour end to what would have been a rare investment by the iPhone maker in another major Silicon Valley company.
Sam Altman Just Pitched The Biden Administration On A Massive Build Out Of AI Data Centers — OpenAI has urged the Biden administration to support the construction of massive data centers, each consuming as much power as a city, to advance AI development and compete with China.
Rihard Jarc on X — The $NVDA bull & bear case summarized in 2 minutes by Zuck.
BLOCKBUSTER MICROSOFT DATACENTER DEAL RESURRECTING THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR PLANT — Microsoft and nuclear plant owner Constellation have agreed to a massive, unprecedented deal to restart the closed Three Mile Island by 2028 to power its datacenters, per the New York Times.
AWS hiring for data center 'principal nuclear engineer' to evaluate SMRs and nuclear fuel strategy roadmaps — The previously unreported job listing mentions working with external partners to influence the design of "operationally efficient and safe modular nuclear plants" to support its growing cloud power demands.
Apple has silently now included nuclear in their definition of clean energy — In other news, Apple has silently now included nuclear in their definition of clean energy
Word is out: Microsoft is plunging ahead on nuclear energy. — They want a fleet of reactors powering new data centers. And now they're hiring people from the traditional nuclear industry to get it done.
Energy Department finalizes loan for Michigan nuclear plant revival — The Biden administration is also awarding $1.3 billion through the Department of Agriculture’s Empowering Rural America program to two rural electric cooperatives, which will discount electricity passed on to their members through emissions-free sources, such as the Holtec plant.
NEW DEPT. OF ENERGY NUCLEAR REPORT RELEASED — Some of the absolute sharpest minds in nuclear put in months of work on this report and it shows.
OpenAI on X — Starting this week, Advanced Voice is rolling out to all ChatGPT Enterprise, Edu, and Team users globally. Free users will also get a sneak peek of Advanced Voice.
Real-time AI voice agents are coming to apps as OpenAI expands access — The ChatGPT developer will let other businesses build on its human-mimicking synthetic voice technology, potentially winning new revenue.

We explain the one-packet attack on CUPS and discuss its real-world implications. Plus, a Meshtastic update and more.

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Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS — A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer).
Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 — Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287.
Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the Internet
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activate-linux — The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux
Install Frog on Linux | Flathub — Extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes by taking a picture of the source.
Clapgrep — Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time...

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What if we had to abandon ship and stop using Desktop Linux? We've come up with a master plan, and put it to the test.

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MeshMap — Meshtastic Node Map
LINUX Unplugged 269 — What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.
The Dawn of Haiku OS — Haiku, unlike its more established competitors, is exceedingly good at tackling one of the toughest challenges of modern computing: multicore microprocessors. Let's take a look at why that is, how Haiku came to be, and whether the operating system running on your computer really performs as well as it should.
Haiku Project History
Haiku R1/beta5 Release Notes — The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use.
docker-qemu-haiku — A Docker image for the Haiku operating system.
golang-haiku/go — The Haiku port of the Go programming language for upstream support. Changes are made in 'golang-1.11-haiku' or 'golang-haiku-master'.
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Pick: rustpad — Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required
Is the Nostr moment officially here?

Alex has been playing around at the speed of light while solving Proxmox problems, and Chris has solved a Jellyfin issue. Plus, our thoughts on the new Plex features.

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4Kn sector disk passthrough in Proxmox — Solving an issue with 4Kn sector disks and passthrough in Proxmox with direct KVM arg injection.
Release 10.9.11 · jellyfin/jellyfin-web · GitHub — This minor release brings several bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience.
[Bug]: Jellyfin after update to 0.2.0.8 is not supported (jellyfin 10.9.2) · Issue #188 · jumoog/intro-skipper · GitHub — I can't check it because the plugin is broken
intro-skipper for Jellyfin — Analyzes the audio of television episodes to detect and skip over intros.
Plex Photos — Introducing Plex Photos Beta: We are thrilled to announce the release of the Plex Photos Beta, available today for iOS and Android mobile. This new app is designed to provide you with a focused experience to engage with your photo libraries stored on Plex Media Servers. Whether you’re reminiscing over family photos or sharing backups of your professional photography images,
HEVC encoding is coming to Plex : r/PleX — This feature is still in active development and we do not yet have an estimated window for release
Home Assistant is 11 years old! — We can’t thank our community enough for the past 11 years. You are the engine driving forward Home Assistant.
Companion App for iOS 2024.9: Getting ready for iOS 18 — The new iOS also brings a new level of customization to Control Center, for which we are introducing five new controls: Assist, Toggle light, Run script, Activate scene, and Open page.
⚪ Bubble Card — Bubble Card is a minimalist and customizable card collection for Home Assistant with a nice pop-up touch.
WiCAN Pro | Crowd Supply — Advanced OBD scanner for next-generation vehicle diagnostics and Home Assistant integration
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The insidious undercurrents threatening to crush open-source AI projects, plus our thoughts on Microsoft's "big changes" to Windows post-CrowdStrike.

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Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison — "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said
California’s AI Bill Threatens To Derail Open-Source Innovation — While proponents tout amendments made "in direct response to" concerns voiced by "the open source community," critics of the bill argue that it would crush the development of open-source AI models.
Mark Ruffalo on X — My open letter to Gov @GavinNewsom on CA’s #SB1047: the AI regulation we need to get ahead of the risks.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google employees support California AI bill — California's SB 1047 has passed both the State Assembly and Senate and now sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, awaiting his signature or veto by Sep. 30.
OpenAI Says California’s Controversial AI Bill Will Hurt Innovation — The startup wrote a letter to California State Senator Scott Wiener opposing the legislation.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman leaves safety committee — Other members include Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, retired US Army General and former NSA chief Paul Nakasone, and former Sony general counsel Nicole Seligman.
Microsoft is building new Windows security features to prevent another CrowdStrike incident — There’s no talk of locking down the Windows kernel just yet, but Microsoft clearly wants to move endpoint security systems out of there.
Finalement, nos téléphones pourraient bel et bien nous écouter - YouTube

The things we like in the new Nextcloud release, and we attempt to upgrade our production server live—from a big blue bus.

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Mailvelope — Mailvelope is a browser add-on that you can use in Chrome, Edge and Firefox to securely encrypt your emails with PGP using webmail providers
Nextcloud Server Releases
nextcloud/docker: ⛴ Docker image of Nextcloud
Bug: Unable to update background execution mode: conflict between new type (mixed) and old type (string)
VLESS
hacompanion: Daemon that sends local hardware information to Home Assistant.
LNXlink: 🖥 Effortlessly manage your Linux machine using MQTT.
Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
Supersonic — A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for Subsonic and Jellyfin music servers.

Our thoughts on the iPhone 16, and then Mike surfs the WSL wave.

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The Biden administration launches its second big attack on Google - POLITICO — The DOJ is expressly seeking to break up the company, a feat not attempted since its case against Microsoft in the early 2000s, and not successful since the historic dismantling of AT&T in the early 1980s.
Apple Announces iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max with Larger Displays, New Camera Control, and More — The devices are powered by the new A18 Pro chip, made using 2nd-generation 3nm technology. It offers a 16-core Neural Engine with 17% more memory bandwidth, making Apple Intelligence tasks up to 15% faster compared to the previous generation. The 6-core CPU features two performance cores and four efficiency cores, providing 15% faster performance and 20% more efficiency. Additionally, the 6-core GPU is up to 20% faster than the A17 Pro, with hardware-accelerated ray tracing for more realistic lighting in games. Faster USB-C speeds and twice the data processing for video encoding are also supported.
AirPods Max Still Lack H2 Chip Following Minor Update With USB-C Port and New Colors — Apple first released the AirPods Max in December 2020, so the headphones are nearly four years old and continue to have the H1 chip from 2019.
iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence launches in October, more languages rolling out over time — Apple did not officially confirm which parts of Apple Intelligence will launch when. Starting in October, we expect the company to debut notification summaries, email summaries, the Reduce Interruptions focus, and Clean Up image editing in Photos.Rumors indicate that the image generation functionality, like Genmoji and Image Playgrounds, will roll out in December.
Apple’s iPhone 16 AI is useful so far, except when it’s bonkers — Weird like the time it alerted me that Donald Trump had endorsed Tim Walz for president.
Surfing the WSL Wave - dominickm.com — With Summer coming to a close I decided to take another surf on the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) wave and in short was not disappointed.
hotshots.dashboard — A Shiny-powered dashboard summarizing virtual racing league stats!
submissions-pilot4-webR — Development repository for Pilot 4 WebAssembly Shiny App
Shocking leak suggests your phone really is listening in on your conversations — An apparent pitch deck from one of Facebook's alleged marketing partner appears to detail how the firm eavesdrops on users' conversations to create targeted ads.
Bombshell leak reveals your phone really might be listening to you – and telling Facebook and Google

Secret moments from the show you've never heard before. We kick off with some hardware hurdles, then dive into the news and share a few surprising stories.

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We celebrate five years of the show, chat about self-hosted Lightning, and why Alex loves his NanoKVM. Plus, it is a self-hosted replacement for Amazon Wishlists and more.

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Deplatformed by PayPal, Antiwar Journalists Speak Out — According to the two organizations, the PayPal ban remains in effect. PayPal had also frozen the outlets’ funds, including $9,348.14 in Consortium’s account, and threatened to seize the money as “damages.”
Patreon Policy Updates — The Community Guidelines have been rewritten to be clearer and more uniform in terminology, tense, and tone. Trust & Safety moderators have also been equipped with new support language to ensure that their interactions with creators are more educational.
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30% fee on Patreon payments through iOS is cause for concern
Patreon issues are causing paused payouts and canceled subscriptions — Some Patreon creators have noticed a dip in subscribers, and fans have gotten notices that their payments are being flagged.
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Bitcoin Mining Council Survey Confirms Year on Year Improvements in Sustainable Power and Technological Efficiency — The results of this survey show that the members of the BMC and participants in the survey are currently utilizing electricity with a 63.1% sustainable power mix. Based on this data, the global bitcoin mining industry’s sustainable electricity mix has improved marginally to 59.9% and remains one of the most sustainable industries globally.
What is the Lightning Network? — Essentially, the Lightning Network is a way to transact bitcoin faster, cheaper, and more privately than on the Bitcoin blockchain.
ZEUS — Controlling and managing your Lightning node channels has never been easier.
Onboarding to lightning | ZEUS Documentation — ZEUS' embedded node has many different ways to get onboarded onto lightning with payment channels. This doc details all of the different ways and tradeoffs.
Start9 | Opening Your First Channel
Umbrel - Personal home cloud and OS for self-hosting — Store your files, run your own VPN, download and stream media, run a Bitcoin node, and more — all in your home.
Alby Hub Introduction — Alby Hub is more than a lightning wallet. It's your Hub for instant bitcoin payments across a growing ecosystem of apps and flexible enough to serve your very own use case.
Alby Hub v1.7.2: Friends & Family App — Friends & Family app let's you quickly onboard your friends and family to Bitcoin and Lightning via your personal Alby Hub instance. They get a wallet without having to understand lightning or have their own channels, and not rely on large custodial services. They can also get their own Lightning address with an Alby Account, or connect their new wallet via the Alby extension. Soon, they will also be able to connect to Alby's new mobile app, Alby Go.
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How do i get incoming liquidity and start routing payments?
Racking and stacking an off-site backup server for Jupiter Broadcasting - YouTube — Join me, Chris, and Brent from JB as we fly to Toronto to deploy our shiny new colo server in Canada. We'll be deploying the 45homelab HL15 server.
Everyone should have a PiKVM in their desk area — A few weeks ago I had an epiphany. The kind that once you have it, is so stinkin' obvious you wonder what on earth you were thinking all this time by not seeing it!
Sipeed NanoKVM Review - Affordable RISC-V IP-KVM - StorageReview.com
NanoKVM — Affordable, Powerful, RISC-V Nano KVM over IP
wishthis — wishthis is a simple, intuitive and modern wishlist platform to create, manage and view your wishes for any kind of occasion.
Microsoft to host CrowdStrike and others to discuss Windows security changes — Microsoft, CrowdStrike and key partners who deliver endpoint security technologies will come together for discussions about improving resiliency and protecting mutual customers’ critical infrastructure,
Team Toronto Matrix Chat room
Untrusted Source Store
AutoPi: Telematics IoT Infrastructure for Fleets and developers - Built on Raspberry Pi — Get the most out of your vehicle or fleet. AutoPi provides the tools you need to extract and visualize the data that matters most to you or your business.
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Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale — Find some Self-Hosted swag in the Jupiter Garage.

How Mike plans to win the Clone Wars with Dokku, we review some shocking developer data and say goodbye to another project DMCA'd by Apple.

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AWS CEO Says Most Developers Could Stop Coding Soon As AI Takes Over — "If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's possible that most developers are not coding," said Garman, who became AWS's CEO in June.
Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes — Using conditional writes, you can simplify how distributed applications with multiple clients concurrently update data in parallel across shared datasets. Each client can conditionally write objects, making sure that it does not overwrite any objects already written by another client. This means you no longer need to build any client-side consensus mechanisms to coordinate updates or use additional API requests to check for the presence of an object before uploading data.
Syncing Prod & Staging Data With Dokku — Dokku’s apps:clone command is a fantastic utility that allows you to replicate an entire app, including all code, databases and environment variables.
Study Finds 77% of Employees Report AI Has Increased Their Workload — The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI's impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees.
Docker Image disappeared · Issue #799 — The DMCA notice
macos: OSX (macOS) inside a Docker container. — By default, macOS Ventura will be installed. But you can add the VERSION environment variable to your compose file, in order to specify an alternative macOS version to be downloaded
A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project — Mono had many homes over 23 years, but Wine's repos might be its final stop.
Thank you to all the Mono developers!

Rust meets Linux in a clash of coding cultures. Why some developers are resisting, and where things go from here.

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Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Sat, Sep 14, 2024
Berlin Buds on Matrix
Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters'
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_Dev China 2024
Rust for filesystems — At the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Wedson Almeida Filho and Kent Overstreet led a combined storage and filesystem session on using Rust for Linux filesystems.
Filesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet and Wedson Almeida Filho
Asahi Lina: "I think people really don't appreciate just how incomplete Linux kernel API docs are, and how Rust solves part of the problem."
One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" — One of the several Rust for Linux kernel maintainers has decided to step away from the project. The move is being driven at least in part due to having to deal with increased "nontechnical nonsense" raised around Rust programming language use within the Linux kernel.
[PATCH 0/1] Retiring from the Rust for Linux project - Wedson Almeida Filho
On Rust, Linux, developers, maintainers — There's been a couple of mentions of Rust4Linux in the past week or two, one from Linus on the speed of engagement and one about Wedson departing the project due to non-technical concerns. This got me thinking about project phases and developer types.
The revival of the Linux C++ discussion
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BrewHouse by the Lake – Amsterdam Brewery Shop
BITCOIN WELL — The fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada
The new JB server - KTZ systems — Join Alex, Chris, and Brent as we fly to Toronto to deploy our shiny new colo server in Canada. We'll be deploying the 45homelab HL15 server.
Projectivy Launcher
Aerial Views Screensaver
OpenEBS — OpenEBS is a modern Block-Mode storage platform, a Hyper-Converged software Storage System and virtual NVMe-oF SAN (vSAN) Fabric that is natively integrates into the core of Kubernetes.
oppy1984's Satoshi Survey
Coder Radio 582
Keybase Filesystem Storage Limits
I Don't Care for Gnome
DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ DAVx⁵ – CalDAV / CardDAV / WebDAV for Android
Flock 2024 Universal Blue: Building the Future using Fedora Atomic
Pick: Shotcut - New Version 24.08
Install Shotcut on Flathub — Shotcut supports many video, audio, and image formats via FFmpeg and screen, webcam, and audio capture. It uses a time-line for non-linear video editing of multiple tracks that may be composed of various file formats. Scrubbing and transport control are assisted by OpenGL GPU-based processing and a number of video and audio filters are available.
Bonus Pick: Butler — Access your Home Assistant dashboard from a native companion UI, integrating better with your OS.
Butler on GitHub
Rust for Linux revisited
Redox OS — Redox is a Unix-like general-purpose microkernel-based operating system written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel, a full set of programs and be a complete alternative to Linux and BSD.

We reflect on the rise of DevOps and the frustrating dynamics that led to it. Plus, tech's latest bright idea: Roombas with attitude.

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iPad Illustration App Procreate Condemns Generative AI — We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our community.
Procreate on X — We’re never going there. Creativity is made, not generated.You can read more at http://procreate.com/ai ✨
History of DevOps — The DevOps movement started to coalesce some time between 2007 and 2008, when IT operations and software development communities raised concerns what they felt was a fatal level of dysfunction in the industry.
The Cloud Talent Crisis: Skills Shortage Drives Up Costs, Risks — Organizations are facing increased cloud costs, risks, and inefficiencies due to a shortage of skilled cloud professionals.
Apple Is Developing a Tabletop Robot for the Home - YouTube — Apple Inc., seeking new sources of revenue, is moving forward with development of a pricey tabletop home device that combines an iPad-like display with a robotic limb. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports this is part of Apple's bigger move into robotics.
First Plans for Apple's Tabletop Robot Spotted in Supply Chain
Tesla is hiring people to train its Optimus bot via motion capture — The company is paying people to train its humanoid Optimus bot via motion capture, but the task may require vast amounts of data.

Sixty vulnerabilities and exposures disclosed in one week sounds like a lot. We'll explain why it's just business as usual.

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Toronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024
Berlin with Brent — September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Saturday, Sep 14, 2024
Check out Alex’s “Building a Colo Server” video
Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs — The cause: an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a 2-year-old vulnerability in GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices.
What the f*** is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care — This update was not supposed to apply to dual-boot systems, but did anyway.
SBAT Revocations: Boot Process - Ubuntu Community Hub
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September - Phoronix
SRU Mailing List Annoucement
Canonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu Releases
Kernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases - Kernel - Ubuntu Community Hub
Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs — The bcachefs patches have become these kinds of "lots of development during the release cycles rather than before it", to the point where I'm starting to regret merging bcachefs.
Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc5 - Linus Torvalds — No one is being jerks here, Linus and I are just sitting in different places with different perspectives. He has a resonsibility as someone managing a huge project to enforce rules as he sees best, while I have a responsibility to support users with working code, and to do that to the best of my abilities.
LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
Linux is a CNA — As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CNA as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux.
The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don't stress. Do this instead
What is a "good" Linux Kernel bug?
Keynote: Linux Kernel Security Demystified - Greg Kroah-Hartman - YouTube
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added pihole nix module by Tdback · Pull Request #3 · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — Recently, I wanted to start 'nixifying' some of my docker-compose setup. I've created a simple module for spinning up a podman container running pihole as a systemd service, so that way I can just stick it on any NixOS machine and easily make it my DNS server.
NetworkManager cli (nmci) wrapper to easily create a new network connection
Distrohopper Wheel
No idea where to distrohop next? Let the ultimate distrohopper decide for you!
Proxmox Virtual Environment - NixOS Wiki
Pick: SaunaFS is a distributed file system — A robust distributed POSIX file system meticulously designed to revolutionize your storage solutions by offering unmatched efficiency, security, and redundancy. At its core, SaunaFS is a distributed file system primarily written in C++, inspired by the pioneering concepts introduced by Google File System.
Google File System - Wikipedia
saunafs/INSTALL.md

Prusa's Mk4S 3D printer seems to have hit the mark. Alex gets a tour of an awesome new maker space, we take a look at AdventureLog, and much more.

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$50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU — Despite changes, 2GB Pi 5 is "functionally identical" to other iterations.
Redbox app axed, dashing people’s hopes of keeping purchased content — "Redbox is currently not supporting this app. For questions about the service on your account, please contact Redbox” and recommends other streaming apps, like Apple TV+.
Disney backpedals on saying man can't sue over wife's death because he signed up for Disney+ — “We believe this situation warrants a sensitive approach to expedite a resolution for the family who have experienced such a painful loss,” Josh D’Amaro of Disney Experiences said. 0 of 3 minutes, 51 secondsVolume 0%
Manyfold - Organise your 3d print files — View and enjoy your collection, and easily find the models you need; all in full interactive 3D.
The Original Prusa MK4S is Here! Powerful 360° Cooling, High-Flow Nozzle, Prusa App, Hackerboard and More! — he MK4S is now available as a “plug and print” assembled printer (take it out of the box, let it finish the 10-minute Selftest, and start printing) and printer assembly kit.
AdventureLog — AdventureLog is designed to simplify your journey, providing you with the tools and resources to plan, pack, and navigate your next unforgettable adventure.
AdventureLog - GitHub — Self-hostable travel tracker and trip planner.
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Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die”
ossem-holon – OSSEM HOLON — OSSEM is an acronymOpen Source Security Engineering & Modification Group

The walled garden wrecking ball is fueling up - where we think it strikes first. Plus, what was really behind the recent GitHub outage.

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Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Launches At $50 USD — Upton explained of the new Broadcom BCM2712 D0 stepping that it eliminates some dark silicon that goes unused by the Raspberry Pi boards but ultimately impacts the die space/pricing and is now eliminated with this new stepping
Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly — udge James Donato will issue his final order on what Google gives — and Epic gets — in mere weeks.
US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google — This action would mark Washington's first attempt to break up a company for illegal monopolization since the failed bid to dismantle Microsoft two decades ago.
GitHub rolls out AI-powered fixes for code vulnerabilities — Copilot Autofix, a new addition to the GitHub Advanced Security service, analyzes vulnerabilities in code and offers code suggestions to help developers fix them.
GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself — "We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services," the source code silo said in an advisory on its status page. "We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back."
GitHub Status - All GitHub services are experiencing significant disruptions — At 22:59 UTC an erroneous configuration change rolled out to all GitHub.com databases that impacted the ability of the database to respond to health check pings from the routing service. As a result, the routing service could not detect healthy databases to route application traffic to. This led to widespread impact on GitHub.com
Diablo 1 for web browsers — I've modified the code to remove all dependencies and exposed the minimal required interface with JS, allowing the game to be compiled into WebAssembly.

We reveal how we turned our humble LAN into a public server farm, all while keeping our IP address under wraps and our ISP blissfully unaware.

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Olympia Mike on "verified only Flatpaks" — I'm curious your take on a recent update that happened in Linux Mint, and the possible knock on effect of it.
Incus is a next generation system container and virtual machine manager.
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Apple goes into full crackdown mode and begins to squeeze even more out of developers and creators. Plus, why tiny models are suddenly the rage.

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Ford could be working on a camera system that automatically reports speeding vehicles — A recent patent filing by Ford titled "Systems and Methods for Detecting Speeding Violations" appears to show that the company is looking at a way of automatically snitching on speeding motorists.
In AI, Smaller, Cheaper Models Are Getting Big Attention — OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are investing in more affordable alternatives to large language models.
What is InstructLab? — InstructLab is an open source project for enhancing large language models (LLMs) used in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications. Created by IBM and Red Hat
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granite-code-models — Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps — . Apple is rolling out a change that will require you to give explicit permission on a weekly basis to these types of apps, and every time you reboot your Mac.
macOS Sequoia makes it harder to run apps that don’t follow Apple’s rules — In macOS Sequoia, users will no longer be able to Control-click to override Gatekeeper when opening software that isn’t signed correctly or notarized. They’ll need to visit System Settings > Privacy & Security to review security information for software before allowing it to run.
Apple Requiring Patreon to Use In-App Purchase and Pay 30% Fee for Memberships — Apple is requiring Patreon to adopt the in-app purchase system, a process that Patreon started at the beginning of the year.
Gergely Orosz on X — Following news that Apple succeeded in taking 30% from Patreon subscriptions, Substack reveals it's working w Apple for in-app subscriptions. Terrible idea, given it would mean Apple takes 30%, Substack 10%, Stripe 3%: so 43% goes to platforms.

Brent's computer pulls an all-nighter at the worst possible moment, and the hits keep coming for open-source Android distributions and our new 2FA tool.

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Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox
GrapheneOS on X — Google can either permit GrapheneOS in the Play Integrity API in the near future
GrapheneOS on X — If Authy insists on using it, they should use the standard Android hardware attestation API to permit using GrapheneOS too. Banning 250k+ people with the most secure smartphones from using your app is anti-security, not pro-security.
GrapheneOS on X — Authy simply delegated checking device integrity to Google. It's Google choosing to block GrapheneOS users from using Authy. Google chooses to allow using a device with no security patches for the past 8 years but bans using an OS much more secure than the stock Pixel OS.
Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users
GrapheneOS on X — Our latest release with prevention for most VPN app DNS leaks is currently available in our Alpha and Beta channels. We need more feedback from testing VPN apps and services with leak blocking toggled on, which GrapheneOS already enables by default.
GrapheneOS on X — Our current approach to DNS leak blocking appears to work well without breaking compatibility. We've made progress towards fixing a related issue for some VPN apps where rare connections are made to VPN DNS outside of the tunnel. We can hopefully ship stricter enforcement soon.
GrapheneOS on X — We've become aware of another company selling devices with GrapheneOS while spreading harmful misinformation about it to promote insecure products. We're making our usual attempt at resolving things privately. However, we need to quickly address what has been claimed regardless.
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The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.

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Google is no longer making Chromecasts, updates to continue — The Chromecast with Google TV 4K and HD will remain on sale until inventory runs out, but Google is not replenishing stock after that.
The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for — es, there are some Gemini AI tricks thrown in, and with other hardware upgrades like a built-in ethernet jack, the Google TV Streamer seems poised to be a much better entertainment hub than its predecessor. The only downside? Since it’s not a dongle anymore, you’ll have to provide your own HDMI cable when it ships on September 24th.
The Magic Behind HexOS — HexOS combines a simplified UI, automations, workflows, and managed services with user-provided hardware to offer elegant home server management for off-the-shelf server appliances, custom-built hardware, and even recycled PCs. Powered by TrueNAS, the world's most deployed enterprise-grade storage platform, HexOS provides a highly reliable and easy-to-use solution to store, use, and protect your data. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how HexOS works to make all of this possible.
Forgejo v8.0 is available — It comes with a number of new features, as usual. But the most impactful changes are of a different nature: increased stability, less random UI modifications and almost no breaking changes.
ForgeFed — ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem
Open Letter to Gitea - Restoring Trust in the Gitea Project — After many days of hard work and preparation by a team of former Gitea maintainers and enthusiasts from the FOSS community, we are proud to announce that the Forgejo project is now live.
Rallly — Schedule group meetings with friends, colleagues and teams. Create meeting polls to find the best date and time to organize an event based on your participants' availability. Save time and avoid back-and-forth emails.
Fully automated DNS and DHCP with Ansible, Dnsmasq and Pihole — This post will detail how I solved a few interesting problems as I fully automated DNS overrides and DHCP reservations using Pihole, and the program it's built on top of Dnsmasq.
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We take a look at SeaweedFS, roast Apple Intelligence, and reveal the vendor that caught Intel's mess before it shipped.

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Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case — udge Amit Mehta ruled in favor of the Department of Justice, writing that Google has maintained a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
Google default search deals break US law, court finds — "This victory against Google is an historic win for the American people," said Attorney General Merrick Garland, in a statement. “No company – no matter how large or influential – is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws."
Jason Kint on X — Don't overlook the impact this may have on Apple. Yes, I believe any remedy has to look at forced divestiture of Chrome and Android in addition to killing the exclusive dealing. But if Apple loses its sweetheart deal with Google, it may lose $12B in revenue (mostly profits)
Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’ — After losses, the chipmaker is cutting $10 billion in costs.
Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues — Based on this information, we are definitely experiencing CPU failures higher than our historical average, especially with 14th Gen. We have enough data to know that we don’t have an acute problem on the horizon with 13th Gen — it is more of a slow burn
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Apple Intelligence Early Preview: In-Call Recording, Safari Summaries, New Siri — After testing the first beta version of Apple Intelligence myself, I can tell you that the features don’t yet live up to the excitement.
Cabel Sasser - Panic Social — Apple Intelligence in 15.1 just flagged a phishing email as “Priority” and moved it to the top of my Inbox. This seems… bad
iOS 18: These Apple Intelligence Features Won't Be Ready Until 2025

The COSMIC desktop is just around the corner. We get the inside scoop from System76 and go hands-on with an early press build.

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System76 tips Fedora Cosmic spin for 2025 release with Fedora 42 — It looks like System76's exciting new Rust-based Cosmic DE will get an official Fedora spin in the upcoming Fedora 42, potentially giving Linux users with bleeding-edge hardware an official way to try Cosmic.
Pop!_OS Mattermost — An excellent place to engage if you want to bring COSMIC to a distro near you.
iced — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
Smithay — A smithy for rusty wayland compositor
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Portal:Kalpa - openSUSE Wiki — openSUSE MicroOS Desktop Gnome was renamed to openSUSE Aeon, and the Plasma Desktop version is being renamed to openSUSE Kalpa.
pop-os/kernelstub: A simple EFI boot manager manager for Linux
Alpaca — GTK App to Chat with local AI models
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Why is Google feeling lucky, and the Intel situation slips into pure lunacy. Plus, thoughts on the C# Type Union proposal.

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OpenAI on X: "We’re testing SearchGPT" — We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.
Google’s antitrust defense could benefit from the threat of SearchGPT — The new risk Google faces from AI challengers could play a role in the ultimate outcome of a landmark antitrust trial where a judge must decide whether the tech giant illegally monopolized online search.
Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage - YouTube
Intel confirms that any Raptor Lake instability damage is permanent, and no, it's not planning a recall — Microcode patch can't reverse the damage caused by the elevated voltage - only prevent further harm.
CrowdStrike Outage Losses Estimated at a Staggering $5.4B — Parametrix researchers have found that roughly 25% of Fortune 500 companies experienced disruptions due to the incident, the most heavily affected industries financially being healthcare ($1.94 billion in estimated losses) and banking ($1.15 billion). In addition, a shocking 100% of the transportation and airlines sector was affected, and the group will rack up an estimated $0.86 billion in losses, according to the forecast. The $5.4 billion estimate excludes Microsoft.
Parametrix Analysis.pdf
proposals/TypeUnions.md — A proposal for type unions (aka discriminated unions) in C#.
California DMV puts 42 million car titles on blockchain to fight fraud — The project, in collaboration with tech company Oxhead Alpha on Ava Labs' Avalanche blockchain, will allow California's more than 39 million residents to claim their vehicle titles through a mobile app, the first such move in the United States.
How Kamala Harris Could Usher in a Clean Slate for Crypto Regulation — She may not be appearing at Bitcoin Nashville this year alongside Donald Trump. But, if elected president, Kamala Harris could reshape the U.S.'s policy on digital assets.
What is Operation Choke Point 2.0? Trump promises to end it. - YouTube — It was one of the many promises made by former President Donald Trump to a cryptocurrency crowd at this year’s Bitcoin conference. Crypto advocates have dubbed efforts to cut off the cryptocurrency industry from banking services “Operation Choke Point 2.0,” and Trump is vowing to end it.
Operation Choke Point 2.0 — Crypto still needs on- and off-ramps for US dollars, but the US is making it increasingly difficult to maintain them
Operation Choke Point 2.0: How U.S. Regulators Fight Bitcoin With Financial Censorship — “The clandestine Operation Choke Point had more in common with a purge of ideological foes than a regulatory enforcement action”, wrote Frank Keating, a former governor of Oklahoma who served in the DOJ during the Reagan administration, in a 2018 editorial for The Hill. “It targeted wide swaths of businesses with little regard for whether legal businesses were swept up and harmed. In fact, that seemed to be the goal.”

Think Silverblue, but with cloud-native tooling used to build it. From Aurora to Bazzite, our impressions of the ambitious Universal Blue project.

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Universal Blue — The Universal Blue project builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using Fedora Atomic Desktop's support for OCI/Docker containers.
Universal Blue Architecture Diagram
Aurora — Aurora is a clean and reliable desktop operating system for every type of user. Many batteries included.
Bluefin — Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue offering the best of both worlds: The reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook and the power of a GNOME desktop.
Bazzite — The next generation of Linux Gaming for all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.
uCore — An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included; a lightweight server image including most used services or the building blocks to host them.
Bazzite Desktop Environment Tweaks - Bazzite - Docs - Universal Blue
Installing and Managing AppImages on Bazzite - Bazzite - Docs - Universal Blue
Universal Blue Contributing Guide
Jazz up your Bluefin command line with some bling!
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zap.store — a permissionless app store.
Asking AI To Make A Caveman Rock Song - Me Like Rock
winapps — Run Windows applications (including Microsoft 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud) on GNU/Linux with KDE, GNOME or XFCE, integrated seamlessly as if they were native to the OS.
The Mooltipass Hardware Authenticator — A Simple Hardware Authenticator
ptyxis — Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME with first-class support for containers.
Gearlever — Manage AppImages with ease 📦

ESPHome dev dishes on device updates, Immich license drama heats up, Alex's DIY server fix, and Chris reports on mobile tech trip test.

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Kelly Vaughn on X — How a massive publicly traded company is only going to just now start doing canary deployments is so far beyond my comprehension…
MoKo 400x300mm DIY PC Case Dust Mesh Filter — A custom magnetic dust filter for the Sliger CX4712 server case.
Licensing announcement - Purchase a license to support Immich! — With those notes, we have enabled a way for you to financially support the continued development of Immich, ensuring the software can move forward and will be maintained, by offering a lifetime license of the software. We think if you like and use software, you should pay for it, but we're never going to force anyone to pay or try to limit Immich for those who don't.
Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich — I thought about it when I went to bed, I thought about it in my dream, I thought about it while doing the dishes. Taking into consideration all of your feedback and suggestions, and on behalf of the team, I am happy to show you what we came up with.
LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Deploying NixOS Anywhere - YouTube — NixOS, the declarative operating system taking the world by storm, can be challenging to deploy on many hosting providers. In this talk, we'll unlock the full potential of NixOS by exploring how its unique architecture enables installation just about anywhere—from bare metal and VMs to a VPS provider near you.
nixos-infect — A script to install NixOS on non-NixOS hosts.
simple-nixos-mailserver
Docker-OSX — Run Mac OS X in Docker with near-native performance! X11 Forwarding! iMessage security research! iPhone USB working! macOS in a Docker container!
Moshidon for Mastodon - Apps on Google Play — Moshidon is a modified version of the official Mastodon Android app adding important features that are missing in the official app, such as the federated timeline, unlisted posting and an image description viewer.
SchildiChat — SchildiChat is a feature-rich messenger for Matrix based on Element with some extras and tweaks.
SendGrid — Email API and Email Marketing Campaigns
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Our thoughts on the CrowdStrike outage and why Intel is in the hot seat with developers.

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Andrew Curran on X — Will OpenAI commit to making its next foundation model available to U.S. Government agencies for pre-deployment testing, review, analysis, and assessment?
Senators demand OpenAI release data showing it keeps its AI safe — Following a Washington Post report, five lawmakers ask the artificial intelligence start-up to describe how it will ensure its tools don’t cause harm.
Lior⚡ on X — This might be the biggest moment for Open-Source AI.
Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more - YouTube
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward | Meta — Today, Linux is the industry standard foundation for both cloud computing and the operating systems that run most mobile devices – and we all benefit from superior products because of it.I believe that AI will develop in a similar way.
Taiwan makes tough decisions as it faces its worst drought in nearly a century : NPR — This is the third year in a row that rice farmers in southern Taiwan have not been allowed to plant their crops. Instead, the government is paying them subsidies not to grow rice this season. The rice uses scarce water that semiconductor factories nearby need.
Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts | CrowdStrike — Customers running Falcon sensor for Windows version 7.11 and above, that were online between Friday, July 19, 2024 04:09 UTC and Friday, July 19, 2024 05:27 UTC, may be impacted.
Overview of Early Launch AntiMalware - Windows drivers
Microsoft Blames European Commission for Major Worldwide Outage
Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown — Gamers have been reporting crashes on Intel CPUs for a number of months now, with the problem appearing to particularly affect games based on the Unreal engine.
Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's overclockable Core i9 chips — Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates | Tom's Hardware — Warframe developers provide some crash statistics and describe diagnosing the issue
Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; patch coming by mid-August — Intel's advisory says an erroneous CPU microcode is the root cause of the incessant instability issues. The microcode caused the CPU to request elevated voltage levels, resulting in the processor operating outside its safe boundaries.

Wes' self-decrypting bcachefs disk and a GrapheneOS twist that'll make you ditch your iPhone.

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clevis — Clevis is a pluggable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes.
bcachefs Encryption
What measured boot and trusted boot means for Linux
Automatically decrypt your disk using TPM2 — Entering the passphrase to decrypt the disk at boot can become quite tedious. On modern systems a secure hardware chip called “TPM” (Trusted Platform Module) can store a secret and automatically decrypt your disk. This is an alternative factor, not a second factor. Keep that in mind.
Use systemd-cryptenroll with FIDO U2F or TPM2 to decrypt your disk
Automatic LUKS 2 disk decryption with TPM 2 on Fedora
Safe automatic decryption of LUKS partition using TPM2 | 221b
FOSDEM 2024: Clevis/Tang - unattended boot of an encrypted NixOS system
Clevis & Tang on NixOS Slides
Decrypt LUKS volumes with a TPM on Fedora Linux
Self-Hosted 127: Can't Fix What You Don't Track
Garmin Forerunner 265 — Forerunner 265 is a running smartwatch with a touchscreen AMOLED display, training metrics, phone-free music, & up to 13 days of battery life in smartwatch
HRV Status
Garmin Sleep Tracking
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Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 Wireless Portable Speaker: 10W
USB-C Charging Converter for Garmin Watch Without Charger Cable
Obtainium — Obtainium allows you to install and update apps directly from their releases pages, and receive notifications when new releases are made available.
Managing your personal access tokens
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Iotas — Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking with optional speedy sync with Nextcloud Notes.
LINUX Unplugged 567: So Long sudo
Celeste — GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider
vt52's Blog: Migrating from NixOS channels to Flakes
FUTO Keyboard
autossh
LINUX Unplugged 570: RegreSSHion Strikes
Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
Aeon: openSUSE for lazy developers
Grayjay — Follow Creators Not Platforms
Grayjay on GitLab
CrowdSec
Bustle — Bustle draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the duration of each method call. This can help you check for unwanted D-Bus traffic, and pinpoint why your D-Bus-based application is not performing as well as you like. It also provides statistics like signal frequencies and average method call times.
open-and-shut — Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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Are small business owners just the worst? The rant that hits close to home. And how AI is looking more like a unicorn, not a horse, but big tech keeps trying to put a saddle on it.

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Small business owners are the most insufferable people on the planet — Small businesses are amazing and necessary and I love them, but the people behind them are the absolute worst.
AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns — “So anyone who's sort of a bit long in the tooth and has seen this sort of thing before is tempted to believe it'll end badly.”
Squawk on the Street on X: ""America loves financial manias,"
Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions — Microsoft is looking at next-generation nuclear reactors to power its data centers and AI, according to a new job listing for someone to lead the way.
Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC - YouTube — We talked at length about his work, OpenAI's mission, and some of the criticisms that the young outfit is facing. We had fun, talking with him for this extended sit-down; hope you'll enjoy it, too.
The AI summer — Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X CPUs make Windows on Arm a viable platform — We tested every Snapdragon X chip against the Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8000, and Apple M3.

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Running OpenBSD 7.5 on your laptop is really hard (not) — I couldn't use OpenBSD exclusively; there's software that I need/want which isn't available. But I do appreciate certain of OpenBSD's qualities: it's a simple, ultra-lightweight, traditional UNIX. I have an ancient ThinkPad running OpenBSD configured as a minimalist desktop: it's nice for focused work. Sure, it can't run Steam or play Netflix, but sometimes that's a plus...
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IBM Classroom LAN Administration System V 1.30 User Guide
0xchat: Secure chat built on Nostr
Get NIP-05 verified
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Learn Nix The Fun Way — Sure, it’s sort of portable, if you tell the person running it to have curl and jq. What if you relied on a specific version of either though? Nix guarantees portability.

Our Nostr workshop. We’ll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions.

Plus, where we see this protocol going and features coming.

The protocol is very promisingWe're finding new use cases for it every week. It's based on simple and flexible event objects (passed around as plain JSON).
A public key identifies every user. Every post is signed. Every client validates these signatures.

And, of course - it's open source.

How Nostr could be useful for PodcastingOne of the more compelling usecases emerging is decentralized realtime chat.

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Chris gets serious about tracking maintenance and alerts, why Alex is impressed by the RISC-V-powered NanoKVM, how we might end up using Docmost, and a follow-up review of LubeLogger.

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Mitsubishi heatpump esp config — The ESP Config for Alex's Garage A/C.
LubeLogger — a web-based vehicle maintenance and fuel mileage tracker
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Announcing Proxmox-NixOS — The project is still in early development and might have some rough edges, but we would be very happy to have our first beta testers!
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Apple finally stands down in its battle with Epic, and Google gets caught with its hand in the full access to everything jar.

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Siri features are likely to go into beta testing for developers in January — Siri features are likely to go into beta testing for developers in January and then debut publicly around the springtime — part of an iOS 18.4 upgrade that’s already in the works.
Epic Games Newsroom on X — 1/3 Apple has rejected our Epic Games Store notarization submission twice now, claiming the design and position of Epic’s “Install” button is too similar to Apple's "Get" button and that our "In-app purchases" label is too similar to the App Store's "In-App Purchases" label.
Apple approves Epic Games Store for iOS — Later the same day, Apple had a change of heart about the situation, and instead has approved the Epic Games Store.
Jeff Johnson - Mastodon — Apple has ZERO moral high ground. The crApp Store is the origin of many dark patterns.
tvOS 18 Hints at HomePod With Touchscreen Display — A unique touchscreen interface was allegedly found buried in tvOS 18 beta 3 by 9to5Mac, and the finding is actually relevant to the ‌HomePod‌ because the ‌HomePod‌'s software is an offshoot of the tvOS software.
Future HomePod Again Rumored to Add Curved LCD Display — In October, Kosutami shared images of component parts that allegedly belong to a prototype touch screen ‌HomePod‌. Other reports at the time claimed to verify the legitimacy of these images with other sources.
HomePod Saves Family's Life After Dog Starts Kitchen Fire — omePod‌ has Sound Recognition, an option that is able to detect the sound of a fire alarm and send an alert.
Dog Starts Kitchen Fire Video
Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 on X — Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging backchannel.
Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 on X — For those interested: this is done through a built-in Chrome extension that can not be disabled, and does not show up in the extensions panel.
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We dig into the RegreSSHion bug, debate it's real threat and explore clever tools to build a tasty fried onion around your system.

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RegreSSHion — Remote Code Execution Vulnerability In OpenSSH Server
regreSSHion — Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH server.
NixOS Security advisory: OpenSSH CVE-2024-6387 “regreSSHion” – update your servers ASAP
Nasty regreSSHion bug affects around 700K Linux systems
Qualys CVE-2024-6387 Write-up
Letmein: Authenticating port knocker - Written in Rust — Letmein is a simple port knocker with a simple and secure authentication mechanism. It can be used to harden against pre-authentication attacks on services like SSH, VPN, IMAP and many more.
fwknop: Single Packet Authorization > Port Knocking — fwknop stands for the "FireWall KNock OPerator", and implements an authorization scheme called Single Packet Authorization (SPA). This method of authorization is based around a default-drop packet filter
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Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests, and the crazy deals new AI companies are getting themselves into to access hardware.

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How Google migrated billions of lines of code from Perforce to Piper — As of 2011, the single server had been in operation for the past eleven years of Google history. It had served Google the two-year-old startup, and had now scaled to support Google the public company. In fact, around that time, a lucky Google engineer had just snagged PR #20,000,000. Still chugging along, the server was now executing “11-12 million commands” a day.
Spokane Meetup - No-Li Brewhouse, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM — We owe our Spokane crew a meetup, so let's do it on my way to Montana!
Why you shouldn't use AI to write your tests — People are starting to use AI to write their tests. This is great! Also very bad.
We created the first open-source implementation of Meta’s TestGen–LLM — In February, Meta researchers published a paper titled Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models at Meta, which introduces a tool they called TestGen-LLM. The fully automated approach to increasing test coverage “with guaranteed assurances for improvement over the existing code base” created waves in the software engineering world.
Automated Unit Test Improvement using Large Language Models at Meta
Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States — Indeed calculates the index change in seasonally-adjusted job postings since February 1, 2020, the pre-pandemic baseline.
Where the Economy, and the World, Are Headed - YouTube — If you want to know where the economy is headed, ask an economist. If you want to know why (and more), ask a treasury secretary, an economic diplomat, a director of the National Economic Council and the president of Harvard. Larry Summers has been all of those things (and more).
Apple’s Longer-Lasting Devices, iOS 19 and Apple Intelligence on the Vision Pro — Apple’s strategy to make its devices last longer will mean AI and software are even more important to its business.
Apple may charge “monthly fees” for advanced Apple Intelligence features — “Though Apple Intelligence will be free to start, the long-term plan is to make money off the capabilities,” said the report. “The company could eventually launch something like Apple Intelligence+ — with extra features that users pay monthly fees for, just like iCloud,” it added.
Apple Intelligence coming to Vision Pro headset, some features could eventually be paid — Gurman says that Apple is facing slower hardware upgrades which is why it’s banking more on service fees and subscriptions for growth
Apple "will actually be making money from AI," says Bloomberg's Mark Gurman — Longer term, he speculates, the company may be planning a monthly subscription service like "Apple Intelligence+" that offers additional features to monetize the technology. Apple already takes a cut of subscription revenue from any AI partner it brings on board. "The company will be less reliant on hardware tweaks to drive its business and will actually be making money from AI — something everyone in Silicon Valley is hoping to pull off," Gurman says.
character.ai — Personalized AI for every moment of your day
Character, a Chatbot Pioneer, Mulls Deals With Rivals Google and Meta — The Information

Why we think Plasma 6.1 is the desktop for people who like to mess with computers.

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Marknote - KDE Applications
Marknote 1.3 - KDE Blogs — Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips. Your notes are saved as Markdown files in your Documents folder, making it easy to use your notes outside of Marknote as well as inside the app.
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No-Li Brewhouse Menu
10 best beer gardens in the US where you can quench your thirst
KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here's What's New
Plasma 6.1 - KDE Community — This release introduces explicit GPU synchronization support for NVIDIA users and triple buffering support on Wayland for smoother animations.
KDE Plasma 6.1.1 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes
LUP 552 — Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.
KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics
Fixing KWin's performance on old hardware
plasma6-desktop package versions
plasma-desktop package versions
KRdp on GitLab — Currently, the main client that has been used for testing and is confirmed to work is the FreeRDP client.
Open KRdp Bugs
appiumtests: test adaptive panel opacity (!2324) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab
Why the next GNOME Release will be one of the Best Ever
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Gathio
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GitHub Issue: Can't create events — An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later.
Crossover: Run Microsoft Windows software on Mac and Linux | CodeWeavers
FUTO Keyboard — Your keyboard shouldn't connect to the internet.
FUTO Keyboard · Wiki

Chris reviews the Aqara G4 Video Doorbell, Brent frees his Garmin from the cloud, and we discuss getting iMessages on Android.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Aqara G4 Smart Wireless Video Doorbell — Always around, even when you're not.
go2rtc: Ultimate camera streaming application with support RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WebRTC, MSE, HLS, MP4, MJPEG, HomeKit, FFmpeg, etc. — You can use HomeKit Cameras without Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.), it's just a yet another protocol
Gadgetbridge — Gadgetbridge is a free and open source Android application that allows you to pair and manage various gadgets such as smart watches, bands, headphones, and more without the need for the vendor application. So in short, you can use Gadgetbridge instead of relying on your gadget's own proprietary app.
Garmin Protocol
home-assistant-garmin_connect — The Garmin Connect integration allows you to expose data from Garmin Connect to Home Assistant.
iMessage on PC and Android - BlueBubbles — Bringing iMessage to Windows, Linux, and Android.
Install BlueBubbles on Linux
Estate planning lawyer here — please don't use a safe deposit — Courts require the original will, and if that's in a safe deposit box that the executor doesn't have access to, then the executor is in a tough spot.
Emergency Access | Bitwarden Help Center — Emergency access allows users to designate and manage trusted emergency contacts, who can request access to their vault in cases of emergency.
End-of-life disaster response — If you are reading this, I, like Tommy, have disappeared to Froopyland and I miss you already. There's a lot here, but the first order of business is telling people.
Nix Nextcloud
keymaster — Home Assistant keymaster integration for Z-Wave enabled locks.
Minisforum UM690 Pro — MD Ryzen™ 9 6900HX features 8 Cores and 16 Threads based on the highly-reputed Zen 3+ Architecture.
No Boilerplate - YouTube
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations - YouTube — We live in an incredible age, computers have never been so fast, nor storage so cheap, but it doesn't feel like it, right? It's not you, computing has been getting worse. And the problem is LAPTOPS.

Big Tech vs. Big Brother, how Ashley Madison predicted the rise of AI bots and the messy world of "open source" AI.

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Brussels accuses Apple of breaking EU ‘gatekeeper’ rules — Tech giant faces penalty of up to 10% of global annual revenue
Apple hit hard by EU rules: AI suite on pause, App Store violations — The EU is using the full force of its Digital Markets Act
Apple is first company charged with violating EU’s DMA rules — In addition to violating steering rules, regulators are investigating if Apple is undermining alternative iOS app stores.
EU charges Microsoft with antitrust violations over Teams — Allegations that software giant gained ‘undue advantage’ by bundling video conferencing app with Office are first such charges against it in over a decade
Microsoft now forces automatic OneDrive backups — feature enabled during clean Windows installs, users surprised with desktop icons and files
EU says Microsoft in breach of antitrust rules due to Teams and Office bundling - YouTube
Maestral — Maestral is a lightweight Dropbox client for macOS and Linux. It provides powerful command line tools, supports gitignore patterns to exclude local files from syncing and allows syncing multiple Dropbox accounts.
What does 'open source AI' mean, anyway? | TechCrunch — It’s this challenge that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is trying to address, led by executive director Stefano Maffulli, through conferences, workshops, panels, webinars, reports and more.
The Model Openness Framework — Promoting Completeness and Openness for Reproducibility, Transparency, and Usability in Artificial Intelligence
dotenv: Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects. — Dotenv is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. Storing configuration in the environment separate from code is based on The Twelve-Factor App methodology.
From dotenv to dotenvx — Next Generation Config Management
`🏆 dotenvx pro — dotenvx pro will build on top of the oss version of dotenvx to better support businesses

Online identity is a ticking time bomb. Are trustworthy, open-source solutions ready to disarm it? Or will we be stuck with lackluster, proprietary systems?

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XZ Utils Backdoor Vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094): Comprehensive Guide
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
Who is ‘Jia Tan,’ the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor?
Reflections on Distrusting xz
The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons. — The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons.
Kernel.org Docs on contributions — It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately free software.
Elon Musk wants to ‘authenticate all real humans’ on Twitter.
Elon Musk claims alien identity, links human brain function to AI purpose
Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID
Elon Musk can show the world how to really do ID
World ID
Nostr: All Your Silos Are Broken
Nostr Iceberg Meme
NIP-01
Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers
Navigating the social graph — In this paper, you will find a definition of the social graph, principles for thinking about it, and practical ideas for using it for DoS prevention, social discovery, anti-impersonation, accurate ratings, and more.
Highlighter — Highlighter is like Substack & Patreon but on Nostr.
Satlantis — Satlantis is like Trip Advisor, meets Instagram and Google Places.
HiveTalk — Free Video Calls, Messaging and Screen Sharing
zap.stream — Twitch alt powered by value for value and Nostr
ostrGit — A truly censorship-resistant alternative to GitHub that has a chance of working.
Blogstack — Write decentralized blogs over relay using nostr w/ ⚡ lightning tips.
Ditto — Ditto is a Nostr community server. It has a built-in Nostr relay, a web UI, and it implements Mastodon's REST API.
UseNostr
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Decentralized publishing for the web
Nostr Apps
Nosta — New to Nostr? You're in the right place. Here you can easily set up your profile, discover apps, and browse other profiles.
Amethyst
amethyst: Nostr client for Android
yana
Primal App
Dan's Nostr Relay
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rhasspy/piper: — A fast, local neural text to speech system.
Starship — The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
starship on GitHub
ZSH Docs: ZDOTDIR
distrobox-assemble — distrobox-assemble takes care of creating or destroying containers in batches, based on a manifest file.
Pick: Gathio — Gathio is a simple, federated, privacy-first event hosting platform.

A couple of our long-standing forecasts are coming true. We unpack the recent developments. Plus, our thoughts on OpenAI going commercial and more.

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Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped RTO would make staff quit — A study claims to have proof of what some have suspected: return to office mandates are just back-channel layoffs and post-COVID work culture is making everyone miserable.
Return to Office mandates boost company profits? Nope — Research has shed light on the profitability gains that the biggest US corporations experienced after issuing return to office mandates: There weren't any, and the policy made their staff unhappier.
DHH on X — Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of realizing that something is simply better, and the only reason it hasn't taken off yet is because the world hasn't realized it. It's amazing, and it's how I'm feeling about Linux right now. That "how did I not know it was this good" sensation.
Eva on X - Director of Cybersecurity @EFF — I hate every operating system so much right now. It is truly going to be the year of Linux on the desktop.
notch on X — Alright, that's enough spyware in my OS. Do I go desktop Mac, or do I have the energy to go full Linux?Not sure, but I'm tired of my operating system treating me like the product.
Lenovo 14" T14s Gen 6 Snapdragon Laptop
ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC Review
TUXEDO on ARM is coming
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X Plus and Elite processors — The Snapdragon X Series processors could be the biggest CPU shakeup since Apple Silicon.
OpenAI CEO Says Company Could Become a For-Profit Corporation Like xAI, Anthropic — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told some shareholders that the artificial intelligence developer is considering changing its governance structure to a for-profit business that OpenAI's nonprofit board doesn't control, according to a person who heard the comments. One scenario Altman said the board is considering is a for-profit benefit corporation, which rivals such as Anthropic and xAI are using, this person said. Such a change could open the door to an eventual initial public offering of OpenAI, which currently sports a private valuation of $86 billion, and may give Altman an opportunity to take a stake in the fast-growing company, a move some investors have been pushing.
OpenAI CEO Says Company Could Become Benefit Corporation Akin to Rivals Anthropic, xAI — The Information
Microsoft backtracks on PC screenshot feature after outcry — Microsoft is making changes to a controversial feature announced for its new range of PCs powered by artificial intelligence after it was flagged as a potential "privacy nightmare".
Alice.Dev — The AI Bot Designed to make your business more efficient.

Your Linux box is a-changin'. systemd has a huge new release; we'll get into the most impressive features, including the new sudo replacement. Plus, our thoughts on the new Linux Arm laptops that are just around the corner.

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Announcing systemd v256 — In the weeks leading up to this release I have posted a series of serieses of posts to Mastodon about key new features in this release.
systemd changes with v2⁸:
systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features
Lennart on systemd-vpick — Basically, you can now place multiple versions of the same resource in some dir of your choice, suffix that dir's name with .v/ and the you get some basic version management in place: delete or add new versions by just removing/adding new files, and the tools will find the newest item dropped in automatically.
Introduction to Portable Services — “Portable services” do not provide a fully isolated environment to the payload, like containers mostly intend to. Instead, they are more like regular system services, can be controlled with the same tools, are exposed the same way in all infrastructure, and so on. The main difference is that they use a different root directory than the rest of the system.
Trying out systemd's Portable Services — All in all, the core pieces are already in place for a very promising new technology that should make it easier for 3rd parties to provide Linux system-level software in a safe and convenient way, well done to the systemd team for a well executed concept. All it lacks is some polish around the tooling and integration.
systemd sleep — Putting a PC to sleep is complicated business and there are different mechanisms available to achieve this on Linux.
Lennart on SSH and AFVSOCK — This automatic ssh-via-AFVSOCK logic is particularly useful
DDIs and systemd-nspawn — Or in other words: there's now unprivileged systemd-npsawn containers. Yay!
Lennart on systemd-vmspawn
Lennart on sd_notify
Lennart on dlopen
Lennart on run0 — There's a new tool in systemd, called run0. Or actually, it's not a new tool, it's actually the long existing tool systemd-run, but when invoked under the run0 name (via a symlink) it behaves a lot like a sudo clone. But with one key difference: it's not in fact SUID.
doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor
Doas - NixOS Wiki
Doas on Wikipedia
The Tragedy of systemd — Join me on a journey through the bootstrap process, the history of init, the reasons why change can be scary, and the discovery of a part of your OS you may not even know existed.
The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support — ARM Kernel developers spent the last two years working on improving ARM Linux laptop support with a focus on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s powered by a Qualcomm SoC.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS support to the Lenovo ThinkPad x13s
Snapdragon 8cx
Ubuntu Asahi project
TUXEDO Working on Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop
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A Nix Flake for Bitfocus Companion
ChrisLAS' Beelink NixOS Config
Bluetooth - NixOS Wiki
nix-direnv
xscreensaver on Android
Rainier cherry - Wikipedia
Pick: Iotas — Markdown notes that syncs with NextCloud Notes.

Alex's mini-PC surprise, why we're trying Tube Archivist, Alex's Nextcloud update, and how Chris stacks automations with Bitfocus Companion.

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Lenovo Thinkcentre/ThinkStation Tiny (Project TinyMiniMicro) Reference Thread — 179 x 183 x 34.5 / 37 mm with rubber feet (7.05 x 7.2 x 1.36 / 1.5 inches with rubber feet) (around 1 litre)
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Tubearchivist: Your self hosted YouTube media server — By indexing your video collection with metadata from YouTube, you can organize, search and enjoy your archived YouTube videos without hassle offline through a convenient web interface.
Bitfocus - Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
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tubearchivist-jf-plugin: Metadata for your TubeArchivist library on Jellyfin. — This plugin adds the metadata provider for TubeArchivist, offering improved flexibility and native integration with Jellyfin compared to previous solutions.
Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM | Meetup — We owe our Spokane crew a meetup!

Our thoughts and reactions to Apple's WWDC '24, and more importantly what was missed.

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Apple’s AI promise: “Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple” — And publicly reviewable server code means experts can "verify this privacy promise."
Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 — The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices.
Apple Intelligence is the company's new generative AI offering — Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence, its long-awaited, ecosystem-wide push into generative AI
Introducing Apple’s On-Device and Server Foundation Models — In the following overview, we will detail how two of these models — a ~3 billion parameter on-device language model, and a larger server-based language model available with Private Cloud Compute and running on Apple silicon servers — have been built and adapted to perform specialized tasks efficiently, accurately, and responsibly.
Apple Likely to Add Google Gemini and Other AI Models to iOS 18 — In conversation with reporters after the WWDC keynote, Apple's senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi revealed that as Apple Intelligence evolves, the company eventually wants to give its users a choice between different AI models, and suggested that Google Gemini could be an option in the future.
Blackmagic Design Unveils Spatial Video Camera for Shooting Apple Vision Pro Content — The URSA Cine Immersive camera features a custom stereoscopic 3D lens system with dual 8K sensors, capable of capturing a 180-degree field of view with spatial audio support. It is designed to capture content with a resolution of 8,160 x 7,200 per eye and offers 16 stops of dynamic range to ensure detail and color accuracy in every frame, with the ability to shoot stereoscopic 3D immersive cinema content at 90 frames per second.

We try Omakub, a new opinionated Ubuntu desktop for power users and macOS expats.

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notch on X — Alright, that's enough spyware in my OS. Do I go desktop Mac, or do I have the energy to go full Linux? Not sure, but I'm tired of my operating system treating me like the product.
DHH on X — If I have such a fundamental misalignment with where Apple has gone, why stay? I think that was the question I finally just asked myself for the umph-teenth time, and realized I didn’t have a good answer that wasn’t just based on comfort.
For the Love of Linux — In this podcast episode, REWORK host Kimberly Rhodes talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals and CTO, about his personal shift from using Apple products to exploring Linux and Windows platforms. He discusses the expanded platform integration at 37signals, which now includes all three operating systems.
DHH on X — The big YearofLinuxontheDesktop will be 2025. Snapdragon X chips will be ready. Folks will be sick of AI shoved into every crevasse of their life. Thank heaven for disagreeable nerds refusing to bend the knee to the corporate agenda!
Linux as the new developer default at 37signals — I've personally been having a blast over the last few months digging deeper and deeper into the Linux rabbit hole, and it's been a delight discovering just how good its become as developer platform.
Introducing Omakub — Omakub turns a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.
Xournal++
Flameshot
Pinta
Framework
Omakub list of installed apps
Omakub — An Omakase Developer Setup for Ubuntu 24.04 by DHH
Omakub on GitHub
Omakub introductory video
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GeneBean on X — My dad was so happy with his desktop after I switched him to #Pop_OS! that he had me do the same to the laptop he takes on trips. Thanks for such a stellar distro @system76
Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS by zmre on YouTube
Wildspaces.work — Wildpsaces.work is designed for remote workers interested in reconnecting with community and working from new and wild places.
Chris' Amazon Tablet — 10.1 Inch Android 13 Octa-core with 8(4+4) GB+128GB Tablets, 5MP+8MP Camera, Bluetooth 5.0
Fully Kiosk Browser Lockdown
Jellyfin Media Player — Desktop client using jellyfin-web with embedded MPV player. Supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
kthresher: Tool to remove unused kernels in Debian/Ubuntu
helipad-flake — A Nix flake to provide a helipad package and NixOS module. Intended for use with nix-bitcoin.
Kopia — Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
Pick: Multiplex — Multiplex is an app to watch torrents together, providing an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party.
weron — weron provides lean, fast & secure overlay networks based on WebRTC.

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The story of how Mike got in a fight with a supercomputer and, like Captain Kirk, came out on top.

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Exclusive-Arm aims to capture 50% of PC market — "Arm's market share in Windows - I think, truly, in the next five years, it could be better than 50%," CEO Rene Haas told Reuters in an interview.
Microsoft needs Windows developers like never before — This new Windows AI push needs developers on board for it to truly work.
OpenAI fixes the issue that caused ChatGPT outage for several hours — Popular AI chatbot service ChatGPT faced multiple outages today. OpenAI had to work for hours on these issues to make the service available to users again.
Michael Dominick on X — I think I broke Gemini. I got it to agree that my Alice logo wasn't a person when it objected to giving feedback, then uploaded it again & this.... 1st screen-cap & a link.
Daniel Kokotajlo on X — n April, I resigned from OpenAI after losing confidence that the company would behave responsibly in its attempt to build artificial general intelligence — “AI systems that are generally smarter than humans.”
OpenAI Whistle-Blowers Describe Reckless and Secretive Culture — A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.
A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft layoffs hit HoloLens, Azure cloud teams — Microsoft is reportedly cutting around 1,000 employees, with departments working on HoloLens 2 and Azure ‘moonshots’ among those affected.
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents — An internal Google database obtained by 404 Media shows Google recording childrens' voices, saving license plates from Street View, and many other self-reported incidents, large and small.
Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag — At issue is the way that Apple collects and publicly shares information about the precise location of all Wi-Fi access points seen by its devices. Apple collects this location data to give Apple devices a crowdsourced, low-power alternative to constantly requesting global positioning system (GPS) coordinates.
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The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week.

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Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare — What if you care about AI's environmental impact, privacy holes, and the ethical problems of training on data without the creators' permission? The answer might be to switch to Linux. Yes, Linux.
Kate Asks about Mistakes to Avoid — Hey boys-Microsoft has officially gone off the deep end with this AI stuff. I'm pretty sure AI Clippy is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Any tips for escaping to Linux before I get assimilated? What are the big don'ts for a newbie?
Jeremy Molina on X — sudo rm -rf ./ on the root directory 😓
Lee Ball on X — I thought I was in a backup directory when I did an rm -rf but turned out I'd forgotten the ./ and just went into /var/lib/mysql and not the backup of said directory.
ChaoticHuman on X — I think my most major beginner mistake once was something like sudochownuseraccount/ because I wanted to not have to deal with file-ownership-conflicts though I no longer remember what exactly I did. I only remember that it led to completely destroying my Linux-system.
Ken Starks on X — What are all these files with a dot before them. They aren't programs. Might as well delete them.
PDunn on X — Using fringe distos and too much distrohopping causing loss of time and not being productive. Linux can be a time sink I don't have time for. So I installed Ubuntu and moved on. I just use what works and is easy to maintain. Unplugged contributor here.
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Chris' Beelink Nix Config
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, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.
Pick: Delfin — Delfin is a native client for the Jellyfin media server. It features a fast and clean interface to stream your media in an embedded MPV-based video player.
Delfin on Flathub
Delfin repo
Delfin nix package
A fireside chat with Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek - Nextcloud — Part of this talk was on LUP, now you can hear the full thing.

The "you'll own nothing" trend got worse this week, our thoughts about the Raspberry Pi IPO, poor Nextcloud performance, and Alex's new high-fiber obsession.

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Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024 — $40 million to be raised for engineering and sorting out the supply chain
Spotify to Brick Its Own “Car Thing” Device, Won’t Offer Refund — The physical product, announced in 2021 and made available the next year, will be completely nonfunctional in December
“Unacceptable”: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds
Average Age of U.S. Vehicles Continues to Rise, Now at 12.6 Years — The average age of passenger cars continues to trend higher at 14 years compared with light trucks at 11.9 years.
FUTO funds Immich with 3 year commitment: the best image gallery software - YouTube — Louis Rossmann talks about Nextcloud performance issues.
Nextcloud.nix at main · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — The JB Nix config for Nextcloud has the best performance we have seen yet.
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OpenAI has a new security team led by Sam Altman, and the Biden Administration has a new AI security board led by Sam Altman. We also discuss C# 13 and .Net 9, popping bubbles, and more.

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Saagar Enjeti on X — Microsoft Data says that US office workers are spending 300% more time in meetings today compared to 2020
What's new in C# 13
Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza — Google’s AI Overviews feature is delivering incorrect answers faster than ever.
Sam Altman’s ‘Inconsistent Candor’ Is Showing — As Scarlett Johansson threatens legal action over ChatGPT's voice, the OpenAI CEO's trustworthiness is once again being called into question.
OpenAI has a new safety team — it’s run by Sam Altman — With three OpenAI board members on the new safety team, will it really be so safe?
DHS establishes Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board — The Board’s first meeting is planned for early May when they will begin the task of focusing on how to develop and deploy AI technology within the United States’ critical infrastructure safely and securely.
Over 20 Technology and Critical Infrastructure Executives, Civil Rights Leaders, Academics, and Policymakers Join New DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board to Advance AI’s Responsible Development and Deployment — President Biden directed Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas to establish the Board, which includes 22 representatives from a range of sectors, including software and hardware companies, critical infrastructure operators, public officials, the civil rights community, and academia. The
House holds hearing on the use of AI in U.S. security and defense — 5/22/2024 - YouTube — The House Committee on Homeland Security holds a hearing to examine how artificial intelligence can be used in homeland security and the implications for AI use. Witnesses testifying at the hearing include: Troy Demmer, co-founder and chief product officer at Gecko Robotics; Michael Sikorski, chief technology officer and VP of engineering at Unit 42 of Palo Alto Networks; Ajay Amlani, president and head of the Americas at iProov; and Jake Laperruque, deputy director of Security and Surveillance Project at The Center for Democracy and Technology.
Albacore ☁️ on X — I was able to get Recall working on this bad boy 😎Snapdragon 7c+ Gen3, 3.4 GB of RAM, no NPU in sight
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest — Musk claims xAI is valued at $18 billion, as it reportedly seeks to build its own AI supercomputer by late next year.
ESG ETFs Struggle to Keep Investors on Board — Over the past 12 months, the $13.3 billion iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) has experienced $9.2 billion worth of outflows. The $1 billion Xtrackers MSCI USA Leaders Equity ETF (USSG) has watched $2.5 billion go out the door over the same period.And the $1.2 billion iShares ESG MSCI USA Leaders ETF (SUSL) has suffered $2.3 billion worth of outflows.
Star Trek: Infinite on Steam — Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy — Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is a Star Trek PC simulation game developed and published by Interplay in 1997.
New Series Order for 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Announced — The all-new original series from CBS Studios will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets!

We're following one simple rule to build a Linux desktop so stable it could outlive us.

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Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature for Windows 11 could already be in legal hot water
Apple GPT — What We Know About Apple's Work on Generative AI
Chris' BeeLink — Beelink Ryzen 7 5700U Up to 4.3GHz 8C/16T
RV BeeLink Nix configuration.nix
Slack - NixOS Wiki
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musnix — Real-time audio in NixOS
Boost Pick: nh — NH reimplements some basic nix commands. Adding functionality on top of the existing solutions, like nixos-rebuild, home-manager cli or nix itself.
Pick: gridplayer — Simple VLC-based media player that can play multiple videos at the same time. You can play as many videos as you like, the only limit is your hardware. It supports all video formats that VLC supports (which is all of them). You can save your playlist retaining information about the position, sound volume, loops, aspect ratio, etc.

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Big Tech's latest AI flex? More like a desperate grab for attention. Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft are hyping up underwhelming updates while Sam Altman spills the tea on their shady motives.

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Google's I/O 2024 recap is as tedious as the full event — The clear focus of I/O this year is AI, as the technology and how it integrates with Google products took up the entire 2-hours runtime of the keynote.
We're 'at least a decade away' from solving AI, says NYU Professor Gary Marcus — Gary Marcus, New York University professor emeritus, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss artificial intelligence implications, the future of generative AI, investor decisions, and more.
Microsoft is bringing ‘Windows Volumetric Apps’ to Meta Quest headsets — Details are slim, but an API is nigh.
An Xbox VR headset is on the way, but it’s a ‘limited edition’ Meta Quest — Microsoft and Meta’s VR partnership expands to Xbox-branded headsets.
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in — Microsoft is calling its version Copilot+ PCs, which CEO Satya Nadella described as a "new class of Windows PCs."
Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air — Microsoft is convinced its new Copilot Plus PCs will beat Apple’s M3 processor and spark a new generation of Windows laptops.
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC — Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
Sam Altman on X — Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways.
OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk, but the new ChatGPT release can? — If a departing employee declines to sign the document, or if they violate it, they can lose all vested equity they earned during their time at the company, which is likely worth millions of dollars. One former employee, Daniel Kokotajlo, who posted that he quit OpenAI “due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI,” has confirmed publicly that he had to surrender what would have likely turned out to be a huge sum of money in order to quit without signing the document.
Scarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her — The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT.
Hayden Field on X — Just received this statement from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the Scarlett Johansson voice controversy.
OpenAI Pulls Johansson Soundalike Sky’s Voice From ChatGPT — Company said it was not trying to imitate Johansson’s voice

After months of debate, the Nix community might be coming to a resolution. We'll examine what happened, what's changing.

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Report on NixOS Governance Discussions - by Chris McDonough
The NixOS Foundation board announced on April 30 that Eelco Dolstra is stepping down from the board following the recent calls for his resignation.
A leadership crisis in the Nix community (LWN) — On April 21, a group of anonymous authors and non-anonymous signatories published a lengthy open letter to the Nix community and Nix founder Eelco Dolstra calling for his resignation from the project.
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Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source — Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.
RcloneShuttle — Upload your files to anywhere - GTK4 GUI for Rclone

Alex benchmarks Intel CPUs (and an Arc GPU) to find the ideal balance of age, power, and speed for your home media server. Plus, our thoughts on Immich going full-time.

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Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models | TechCrunch — OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks.
ArDev on X — Altman emphasizes that OpenAI is focused on quality and impact rather than deadlines. They are taking their time with releasing major updates and may even opt for a different naming convention.
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Google and Apple still in talks to use Gemini for iPhone AI features — Meanwhile, a deal between Apple and Google over AI isn’t off the table, the report says.
iOS 18: Apple finalizing deal to bring ChatGPT to iPhone — While Apple is also still in talks with Google about an AI partnership, tonight’s report says Apple has “closed in on an agreement with OpenAI.”

Three revelations from Red Hat Summit. Our on-the-ground report will separate fact from hype.

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Introducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a new deployment method that takes a container-native approach to deliver the OS as a bootc container image.
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podman-desktop-extension-bootc — Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images.
bootc Introduction — Transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images. bootc is the key component in a broader mission of bootable containers.
Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
What is InstructLab? — InstructLab is an open source project for enhancing large language models (LLMs) used in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications.
InstructLab — InstructLab is a model-agnostic open source AI project that facilitates contributions to Large Language Models (LLMs).
instructlab CLI — Command-line interface. Use this to chat with the model or train the model (training consumes the taxonomy data).
IBM's Granite code model family is going open source — We're releasing a series of decoder-only Granite code models for code generative tasks, trained with code written in 116 programming languages. The Granite code models family consists of models ranging in size from 3 to 34 billion parameters, in both a base model and instruction-following model variants.
ibm-granite/granite-code-models — A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence.
Getting Started with Fedora/CentOS bootc — The Fedora/CentOS bootc project generates reference base images that are designed for use with the bootc project. Its goal is to provide a host system easily configurable via container tooling, usable as a container host, but also to allow non-containerized deployments with applications bound to the host context.
CentOS/centos-bootc — Create and maintain base bootable container images from Fedora ELN and CentOS Stream packages.
LAB Paper: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots
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psitransfer — Simple open source self-hosted file sharing solution. It's an alternative to paid services like Dropbox, WeTransfer.
bhh32's food-journal — Command line tool and web application to keep track of my food intake.
Pick: URL to PNG — A URL to PNG generator over HTTP with a fairly simple API accessed via query params passed to the server.
Bonus Pick: Telegraph — Telegraph is a simple Morse translator, start typing your message to see the resulting Morse code and vice versa.

Altman's on a spending spree for AGI – why the huge price tag? Mike's back from NYC with juicy API gossip, and we break down the incentives pumping up a giant AI bubble.

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'Belligerent' United Airlines passenger hit with $20K fine, TSA says — United Airlines passenger had been in custody since the March 1 incident
"Sam Altman: I don't care if we burn $50 billion a year" — Sam Altman: I don't care if we burn $50 billion a year, we're building AGI and it's going to be worth it

Sam on GPT4 — GPT4 is "the dumbest model any of you will ever have to use again... by a lot"

The Possibilities of AI [Entire Talk] - Sam Altman (OpenAI) - YouTube — Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Altman gives advice for aspiring AI entrepreneurs and shares his insights about the opportunities and risks of AI tools and artificial general intelligence.

Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending — The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.

@shiraovide • For a sense of how bonkers the money is — Google and Microsoft combined spent $26 billion IN THREE MONTHS on computer chips, servers, data centers and other big ticket costs.

"BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "In developed countries the big winners are... — BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: "In developed countries the big winners are those with shrinking populations.. They'll rapidly develop robotics/AI.. transform productivity.. elevate living standards.. substitute humans for machines"

Apple Vision Pro a big hit in enterprise — There isn't a line item in Apple's earnings for Apple Vision Pro, but CEO Tim Cook shared a tidbit of interest during the Q2 earnings call. He said Apple Vision Pro has been purchased by half of Fortune 100 companies.

A few of our go-to tools for one-liner web servers, sharing media directly from folders, and a much needed live Arch server update, and more!

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Tiny File Manager Password Options
Tiny File Manager Project Demo
noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake — nix run github:noblepayne/tinyfilemanager-flake
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awesome-webservers: ⚙️ — Collection of one-liner static servers.
static-web-server — A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡
The smallest Docker image to serve static websites
Self-Hosted 122: Back to the Future — How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more!
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Pick: audioserve — Simple personal server to serve audiofiles files from folders. Intended primarily for audio books, but anything with decent folder structure will do.
Neofetch is Dead! Here are 7 Alternatives for Your Linux System

How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more!

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Open Home Foundation — The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.
Zigbee2mqtt Home Assistant — ZigBee 1 2 3 4 Gang Smart Switch Tuya Smart Wireless Scenario Switch Button Switches Remoter Home Assistant SmartThings
Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution
Announcing Traefik v3 — I’m extremely proud to see that this project, born 8 years ago, has become such a critical piece of the modern cloud-native infrastructure stack, with the help of such an amazing community.
ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server
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Collection of 90s Commercials — Collection of 90s commercials mostly aired on Nickelodeon.
localsend — LocalSend is a free, open-source app that allows you to securely share files and messages with nearby devices over your local network without needing an internet connection.
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How one clever developer has launched his own Appstore on iOS, our thoughts on how this was pulled off, and making a transition into development work late in life.

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FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes — FTC’s final rule will generate over 8,500 new businesses each year, raise worker wages, lower health care costs, and boost innovation
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store - The Verge — Developer Riley Testut finally brings his polished Nintendo emulator to the App Store.
Riley Testut - Mastodon — We’d make everything free everywhere if it wasn’t for the CTF
Core Technology Fee - Support - Apple Developer — Developers operating under the new business terms for EU apps will have the option to distribute their iOS apps in the EU via the App Store, Web Distribution, and/or alternative app marketplaces.
Introducing AltStore PAL | Riley Testut — I’m thrilled to announce a brand new version of AltStore — AltStore PAL — is launching TODAY as an Apple-approved alternative app marketplace in the EU.
Logitech’s Mouse Software Now Includes ChatGPT Support, Adds Janky ‘aioverlaytmp’ Directory to Users’ Home Folders – 512 Pixels — Version 1.70 of Logi Options+ launched last week with — I kid you not — AI tools you can launch anywhere your cursor is located
Sander van Vliet - Mastodon — This disables the process, removes the AI option from the Logitech Options+ UI and allows you to delete the folder without it returning.
SteerMouse — SteerMouse is a utility that lets you freely customize buttons, wheels and cursor speed. Both USB and Bluetooth mice are supported.

Llama 3 and Phi-3-mini are up and running on phones, Raspberry Pis, and we give them a go. Plus Google kills the vibe, and Meta opens up Horizon OS.

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Building for our AI future — But ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.
Google, after protester firings, now looks just like every other company — Google's firing of 28 protesting employees Wednesday sends the clearest signal yet that the tech giant — whose founders pledged it was "not a conventional company" — has become just that.
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives: Levy, Steven: 9781416596585: Amazon.com: Books — Written with full cooperation from top management, including cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, this is the inside story behind Google, the most successful and most admired technology company of our time, told by one of our best technology writers.
Meta Debuts Llama 3, Latest AI Model for Powering Chatbots — Llama 3, unveiled Thursday, is an upgrade from an AI model that Meta released last summer. Chief Product Officer Chris Cox said that model, Llama 2, has been downloaded 170 billion times. Llama 2 was billed as open source, though its license included some restrictions such as requiring companies with more than 700 million users to ask for permission to use it.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg says energy constraints are holding back AI data center buildout - DCD — "Now I think that's getting less, and you're seeing a bunch of companies thinking 'wow we should really just invest a lot of money in building out these things.' I think that will go [on] for some period of time."
Private LLM: Secure Offline & Local AI Chatbot for iOS & macOS — Private LLM is a local AI chatbot for iOS and macOS that works offline
Microsoft launches Phi-3, its smallest AI model yet - The Verge — Phi-3 learned from ‘bedtime stories’ created by other LLMs.
Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone
Dylan Patel on X: — Synthetic data pipelines are massive improvements over internet dataFlywheel only continues with big models too when these techniques are applied
Aran Komatsuzaki on X: "A few caveats about Phi-3:" — Phi-3-medium performs well on TriviaQA but noticeably underperforms rel. to GPT-3.5. We can guess that Phi-3 recipe doesn't magically make it understand more random factoids. It's more focused on valuable knowledges (e.g. STEM), which makes sense.
Meta Expands Its Mixed Reality Beyond the Quest Headsets - CNET — Meta opened the Quest Horizon OS to others, and now VR headsets from Asus, Lenovo and even an Xbox variant are on the way.
A New Era for Mixed Reality | Meta Quest Blog | Meta Store

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Special guest Casey Liss from the Accidental Tech Podcast joins the show to discuss his homelab, how he uses HomeBridge, and his delightfully complex garage door sensor system.

Then Alex and Casey do their "best" to convince Chris the Apple Vision Pro is an excellent remote admin tool.

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Baseus PD 100W USB C to USB C Cable — 5A Fast Charging USB C Cable with LED Display.
HDMI Dummy Plug — Headless Ghost, Display Emulator
Splitscreen brings a multimonitor setup to Apple’s Vision Pro — new app called Splitscreen takes things a step further, by allowing you to add a second macOS display to your Vision Pro — even if it uses a different Apple ID.
Splitscreen App — Right now Splitscreen only allows you to create one extra virtual display. If you also use Mac Virtual Display that means you can have up to two Mac displays on your Apple Vision Pro.

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San Francisco's light rail to upgrade from floppy disks — The agency noted that its system was installed in 1998, when floppies were still in common use
Open Source's Funding Fiasco - dominickm.com — I’ve been thinking a lot about how we as a community and industry can make sure open-source projects keep getting the love they deserve. It’s no secret that the traditional funding model of donations and sponsorships is more than a little shaky.
What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world — Researchers have spent the weekend gathering clues. Here's what we know so far.
LocalStack — LocalStack is a cloud development platform that facilitates building/testing of cloud and serverless applications on your local machine. At its core, it features a service emulator that runs in a single container on your laptop or in your CI environment.
Watch 3 Body Problem | Netflix Official Site — Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

Why does Meta give away Llma for free? What's in it for them?

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Google Vids is the latest AI-powered app in Workspace - The Verge — Google’s latest Workspace app reflects the way people talk at work now — and maybe signals the end of the slide deck’s supremacy.
Cloud Next 2024: Gmail voice input, Gemini for Google Chat, more — Google is updating Help me write in mobile Gmail with voice prompting and input that lets you “send emails easily when you’re on the go.” Meanwhile, an “instant polish” feature will “convert rough notes to a complete email with one-click.” Google shared today that “70% of enterprise users who use Help Me Write in Docs or Gmail end up using Gemini’s suggestions.”
Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple - The Verge — After years of issues, the upcoming Qualcomm chips might be a big moment for Windows on Arm.
Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor | TechCrunch — Google did not provide any documentation to back these claims up and, like us, you’d probably like to know more about these chips. We asked a lot of questions, but Google politely declined to provide any additional information. No availability dates, no pricing, no additional technical data. Those “benchmark” results? The company wouldn’t even say which X86 instance it was comparing Axion to.
Meta Platforms to Launch Small Versions of Llama 3 Next Week — The Information
TV Host Mike Rowe weighs in on Gen Z gravitating toward trade jobs - YouTube

Alex goes head-to-head with budget VPS providers, which gets us into a classic debate.

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Configuring Proxmox For Hetzner - YouTube — Throughout the video, we delve into the nitty-gritty of Proxmox configuration, highlighting key steps such as booting from the drives, setting up network devices, and managing SSH access over Port 2222. I'll walk you through running and connecting to your virtual machines, ensuring you understand every command and its purpose.
Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts — Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE
Migrate to Proxmox VE — This article aims to assist users in transitioning to Proxmox Virtual Environment. The first part explains the core concepts of Proxmox VE, while the second part outlines several methods for migrating VMs to Proxmox VE. Although it was written with VMware as the source in mind, most sections should apply to other source hypervisors as well.
Dockge — A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager.

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Piece of 5,800lb battery pallet tossed from NASA's ISS crashes through Florida home - and nearly kills homeowner's so — A piece of metal came crashing through a home in Florida that is believed to be from a 5,800-pound battery pallet discarded by the International Space Station (ISS).
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores — “Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts”
FFmpeg on X — The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
Rust developers at Google twice as productive as C++ devs — Speaking at the Rust Nation UK Conference in London this week, Lars Bergstrom, director of engineering at Google, who works on Android Platform Tools & Libraries, described the web titan's experience migrating projects written in Go or C++ to the Rust programming language.
Spatial Personas Make Apple Vision Pro a Less Isolating Experience — Up to five people can watch movies and TV shows, play AR games, and collaborate on work together even when they’re across the planet.
Two Persona Video Demo on X — Here's a video of two Persona (plus the one looking at them) provided by Apple. This wasn't recorded from my demo yesterday. It's just a demo to show what spatial Persona on Apple Vision Pro looks like

We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker.

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oss-security mailing list — Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise.
Fedora Announcement
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Ubuntu Announcement
Kali Linux Announcement
Arch Linux Announcement
Gentoo Announcement
openSUSE Tumbleweeed Announcement
NixOS Unstable Discussion
Why does it take two weeks for NixOS to replace xz?
Andres Freund on Mastodon — I was doing some micro-benchmarking at the time, needed to quiesce the system to reduce noise. Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc....
rwmj on Hacker News — Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of its "great new features"
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects — Make no mistake. This is the way it works. It needs to change.
Devuan GNU/Linux on X — Devuan is not affected by the latest vulnerability caused by systemd.
systemd PR: Dynamically load compression libraries
Matteo Croce on X — I'm the author of such PR. While I absolutely didn't know that libxz had a backdoor, I really think that libraries should be loaded on-demand when rarely used, hence my change :)
Ryan C. Gordon on X — This is probably how the xz thing happened, right?
Jan Wildeboer on the Fediverse — Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors, IMHO.
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Mobile Game Ads Are Boosting Podcast Follower Counts — Wondery, iHeart and Lemonada Media are all using a non-public product from MowPod - which gives extra lives and game credits to gamers if they follow shows on Apple Podcasts from game apps.
MowPod's podcast promotion tools: tales from the bar
fortydeux's NixOS Configs
Prism Launcher — An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods.
World Backup Day — March 31st — One small accident or failure could destroy all the important stuff you care about.
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Mike makes the case for just going vanilla, a look at Google Carbon, and then we address the expensive elephant in the room.

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Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14 — Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to take place from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone — The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.
Helix — Multiple cursors as a core editing primitive, inspired by Kakoune. Commands manipulate selections which allows concurrent code editing.
importmap-rails: Use ESM with importmap to manage modern JavaScript in Rails without transpiling or bundling. — With this approach you'll ship many small JavaScript files instead of one big JavaScript file.
LM Studio — Discover, download, and run local LLMs
Carbon Language's main repository — An experimental successor to C++
Barbara Fried SBF sentencing submission - DocumentCloud — I am Sam Bankman-Fried's mother.
Dad's Letter — 2¶ØVØ^~_ ØKVØV_Ø£ªb¹·ÎbØ£Ðb©·ØiØ}\ØVØ£c«·cÎc©Y^c ØV
audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
GPodder Sync - Nextcloud — Expose GPodder API to sync podcast consumer apps like AntennaPod

We test the Linux-first, all-AMD Sirius 16 laptop, discuss the new Hyprland release, and share a few stories from our recent trip.

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Introducing GNOME 46 — GNOME 46 is code-named “Kathmandu”, in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023.
S.O.D.A Machine (Shell On Demand Appliance) — A fusion of hardware, software, art, and hacking, all encapsulated in a project derived from recycled materials.
LINUX Unplugged on Fountain
Nostr Protocol Docs — Details on how the Nostr Protocol works and why.
Hyprland — Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release
hyprland 0.37.1 nixpkgs PR
Hyprland Release v0.37.1 on GitHub
Hyprland Release v0.37.0 on GitHub
Installing NixOS with Hyprland! - by Josiah - Tech Prose — In this guide, we will install a minimal version of NixOS with the Wayland compositor Hyprland and Waybar.
TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 — First all-AMD Linux gaming laptop with highly efficient Ryzen 7 7840HS and fast Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics.
All AMD: TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 on YouTube
Background information on the new keyboard lighting control - TUXEDO Computers
Texas Linux Festival 2024 — April 12-13, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
Scinary Cybersecurity — Your On-Demand Cybersecurity Firm.
nixos-mailserver — A complete and Simple Nixos Mailserver.
List of all NixOS Services
jus10mar10's NixOS Config
dockur/windows — Windows in a Docker container.
Unplugged Core Membership
Pick: ATLauncher — A launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different modpacks to allow you to download and install modpacks easily and quickly.
Pick: Dissent — Unofficial GTK4 Discord client in Go, use at your own risk!

The antitrust gloves are off as Apple’s legal brawl with Uncle Sam kicks into high gear. We dig through the documents and are surprised by a few things that seem off.

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DOJ sues Apple over iPhone monopoly in landmark antitrust case - YouTube
DOJ Apple Antitrust Suit PDF
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones - The Verge
Here’s the U.S. Government’s Antitrust Case Against Apple
The idea behind antitrust lawsuits is to ‘hold America’s best companies’ feet to the fire’: Tim Wu
Ben Thompson on X: “wut"
Three decades ago…
It is just hilarious that this nonsense is the lead item in a story about why the DoJ will sue Apple
So THIS is why GM said it will no longer support Apple CarPlay from 2026?!
Apple’s response to the DOJ’s iPhone antitrust lawsuit. - The Verge

Alex rolls back a major server upgrade, and we have fun playing with local large language models.

Special Guest: Wes Payne.

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Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning
Open WebUI — Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted WebUI for various LLM runners, supported LLM runners include Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
Ollama — Get up and running with large language models, locally.
Alex's Config
tlm — Local CLI Copilot, powered by CodeLLaMa.
LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs — 🤖 - Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline👾 - Use models through the in-app Chat UI or an OpenAI compatible local server📂 - Download any compatible model files from HuggingFace 🤗 repositories🔭 - Discover new & noteworthy LLMs in the app's home page
Hugging Face — The Home of Machine Learning
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We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time.

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nix-community/lanzaboote — Secure Boot for NixOS
Eelco Dolstra’s PhD Thesis — The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
Docker and Nix (DockerCon 2023)
Flox — Create development environments with all the dependencies you need and easily share them with colleagues. Work consistently across the entire software lifecycle.
flox on GitHub — Developer environments you can take with you.
Gsettings - Monitor All System Settings Change
dconf Reference Manual
foss-north — foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. We provide a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers with great audiences.
An Open Letter from NixOS Users Against MIC Sponsorship — Several members of the community are uneasy with the current happenings around the North American Gathering aimed at NixOS Users and its community (also known as NixCon [sic] NA).
pjones/plasma-manager — Manage KDE Plasma with Home Manager.
Bastard Keyboards — Custom-designed split keyboards with feature-full firmware.
Bastardkb on GitHub
Pick: nix-starter-configs — Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes.

NVIDIA locks CUDA down further, and we ponder what it might take to break their stranglehold on the market, Zuck's brilliant move that put an egg on his face, and we take a minute to appreciate new developments with Java.

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Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide — According to StatCounter's data, by the end of February 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.03% desktop market share.
Pengwin — A Linux distro optimized for WSL based on Debian.
Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software — This language has been added to the EULA that's included when installing CUDA 11.6 and newer versions.
Java is becoming more like Rust, and I am here for it! — I’d like to showcase two Rust features that are part of what makes Rust excellent, and then compare them with recent innovations in Java.
Brad Neuberg on X — Wow so evidently the quarter that Meta got slammed for expenses & earnings it turns out Zuck was actually massively buying available GPU compute on the market to be ready for scaling AI, increasing expenses.
Joe Burnett (🔑)³ on X — Jeff Bezos: "You can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.”
Microsoft to end its Android apps on Windows 11 subsystem in 2025 — You won’t be able to download new Android apps from Amazon’s Appstore on Windows 11 in March 2025.
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We each bring surprise topics, a mix of hardware and software, as we prepare to hit the road for NixCon and SCaLE.

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Yard House Menu
Super Productivity — Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project.
Super Productivity on GitHub
Super Productivity Demo
fort-nix/nix-bitcoin — A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
Podcastindex-org/helipad — This is a simple lnd poller and web front-end to see and read boosts and boostagrams.
Added settings page and webhook settings by ericpp · Helipad PR #79
noblepayne/helipad-flake — Basic nix flake for helipad.
R36S Retro Handheld — Handheld Video Game Console, Linux System, 3.5 Inch IPS Screen, 64GB
Amazon.com: Retro Handheld Game Console
ArkOS Emulators and Ports information
ArkOS Wiki
nixos-bsd/nixbsd — An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel.
Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner — Android document scanning app.
upscayl — Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy.
Pick: AnyType — The everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Unplugged Core Membership
Jupiter Signal PROMO 2024 - $3 off a month forever

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Alex's new Epyc server build, and Jon Seager from Canonical joins us to chat about Nix in the homelab, packaging Scrutiny, and how Nix fits with existing infrastructure management tools.

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Jon's NixOS configuration flake ❄️ — This repository contains a Nix Flake for configuring my machines.
Juju — Juju is an open source orchestration engine for software operators that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure using charms.
Charmhub — The Open Operator Collection
Nerding out about Nix and NixOS with Jon Seager, Canonical - YouTube
Packaging Scrutiny for NixOS · Jon Seager — In a recent (well, recent-ish) episode of the Self Hosted Show, there was some talk of a hard drive monitoring tool called Scrutiny. Scrutiny is a hard drive monitoring tool that exposes S.M.A.R.T data in a nice, clean dashboard. It gathers that S.M.A.R.T data using the venerable smartd, which is a Linux daemon that monitors S.M.A.R.T data from a huge number of ATA, IDE, SCSI-3 drives. The code is available on Github.
Contributing Scrutiny to nixpkgs · Jon Seager
Packaging a go app for NixOS — When I found that one of the apps I use daily on my servers was not available in nixpkgs, I thought I'd take a stab at packaging it.
ansible-role-docker-compose-generator — An Ansible role which procedurally generates docker-compose.yml files
Automatic Ripping Machine (ARM) Scripts — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.
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2024.3: Drag 'n Drop it like it's hot! 🎉 - Home Assistant — A first experimental version of the section dashboard that supports drag ’n drop. A tremendous step forward and an even bigger milestone for Home Assistant!

Apple is pissed, and we'll dig into why. Plus, there are some big hints at Apple's AI plans; Meta's had a rough morning, and Sergey Brin popped back up at Google and proceeded to blow it immediately.

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Victoria Nuland, third-highest ranking US diplomat and critic of Russia's war in Ukraine, retiring — She had been a candidate to succeed Wendy Sherman as deputy Secretary of State and had served as acting deputy since Sherman’s retirement seven months ago but lost an internal administration personnel battle when President Joe Biden nominated Kurt Campbell to the no. 2 spot. Campbell took office last month.
The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s thriving digital music market - Apple — The primary advocate for this decision — and the biggest beneficiary — is Spotify, a company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Spotify has the largest music streaming app in the world, and has met with the European Commission more than 65 times during this investigation.
Will Oremus on X — - Apple complains there was no "credible evidence of consumer harm"- Spotify is pleased but says “it does not solve Apple’s bad behaviour
iOS 17.4 won't remove Home Screen web apps in the EU after all — Apple is now walking back that decision and says it will “continue to offer the existing Home Screen web apps capability in the EU.”
Apple launches new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip, support for two external displays, faster Wi-Fi — As far as specs are concerned, the M3 MacBook Air features a faster 8-core CPU combined with up to 10-core GPU. Apple is also calling the new Air the “world’s best consumer laptop for AI” thanks to the inclusion of a faster 16-core Neural Engine.
Teslaconomics on X — Google hackathon to stop racism & sexism in Gemeni and the founder of Google, Sergey Brin, shows up to get front row seats
Te𝕏asLindsay™ on X — Co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, seems to think they only messed up on their image generator and fails to acknowledge that Google’s chatbot is just as broken.
Sergey Brin Says Google 'Definitely Messed up' With Gemini Images — Sergey Brin said Google "definitely messed up" with Gemini's image generation.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on X — And they are lobbying as a group with great intensity to establish a government protected cartel, to lock in their shared agenda and corrupt products for decades to come.
Donations - Panther Pride Boosters — As many know, funding for the arts is abysmal. That is actually a major part of the primary mission of this booster club, to raise funds to allow our students to get the experiences they deserve. 100% of all donations support the Ridgeview High School Panther Pride Band and Color Guard.

Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.

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HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD — The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
NVK is now ready for prime time — Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time.
FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance — The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues.
First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 21
Jupiter Broadcasting Calendar
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Yard House Menu
Sirius 16 all Ryzen laptop from TUXEDO Computers
KDE MegaRelease 6 — With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland.
This Week in Bitcoin — A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.
42keebs.eu — Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded custom keyboard shop.
NixOS Plasma 6 PR
starcoder2 — StarCoder2 models are intended for code completion.
PromtEngineer/localGPT — Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models.
Introducing: Fountain Radio — Fountain Radio is a community station for music - powered by Bitcoin.
Pick: cpu-controller — CPU Controller for Linux is a straightforward GUI application based on PyQt6, enabling users to toggle individual CPU cores on or off in a Linux system to save battery life.
FlyGoat/RyzenAdj: Adjust power management settings for Ryzen APUs
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Why we're awe-struck by Google, and NVIDIA's CEO says no one needs to learn how to code anymore.

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Mark Gurman on X — BREAKING NEWS: Apple cancels the Apple Car project after a decade-long, multi-billion effort to rival Tesla. Some employees shifting to Generative AI teams.
Florida Man Games poke fun at state’s reputation — Promoted as “the most insane athletic showdown on Earth,” the Florida Man Games poke fun at the state’s reputation for bizarre stories that involve brawling, drinking, gunfire, reptile wrangling and other antics carrying a risk of time in jail or intensive care.
Alphabet execs upset after Trump election, leaked video shows — The release of the video comes as Google and other major tech companies have been accused of having a liberal bias.
Google parent loses $70B in market value after 'woke' AI chatbot disaster — Google’s parent company lost more than $70 billion in market value in a single trading day after its “woke” chatbot’s bizarre image debacle stoked renewed fears among investors about its heavily promoted AI tool.
Nate Silver on X — They need to shut Gemini down. It is several months away from being ready for prime time. It is astounding that Google released it in this state.
While Google paused Gemini's image generation, its text generation tool also gives absurd responses, highlighting the need for open-source AI models to flourish — In fact, I think there is a precedent for Gemini; like many comparison points for modern-day Google, it comes from Microsoft.
Leftism on X — The head of Google's Gemini AI everyone.
samir arora: Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, will be fired or he will resign, says this market veteran — Responding to inquiries on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Arora expressed his belief that Pichai's tenure might come to an end soon, asserting, "My guess is he will be fired or resign - as he should. After being in the lead on AI he has completely failed on this and let others take over."
Dare Obasanjo🐀 on X — Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code.
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation — Over the past two years AMD has quietly been funding an effort though to bring binary compatibility so that many NVIDIA CUDA applications could run atop the AMD ROCm stack at the library level -- a drop-in replacement without the need to adapt source code.
Sid Sijbrandij on X — If forced back into the office and needing a break: play these meetings fullscreen without sound and listen to a podcast on your over ear headphones. Nobody will interrupt your break :)

Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

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Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.
Stable Diffusion 3 — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.
Deedy on X — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)
AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying
Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone."
ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma
gemma.cpp — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models.
InvokeAI — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process.
Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.
NixOS-WSL
Texas LinuxFest 2024
TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link
LFNW2024 - Ready or not… — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College
LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted
LINUX Unplugged Membership
ryantm/agenix — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
Mic92/sops-nix — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers

We chat about VMware's rug pull with Bret, aka Raid Owl, and then get into Unraid's big changes and more.

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Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor — Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware's ESXi hypervisor.
VMware is "killing off" 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift
Raid Owl on X — This #30DaysOfLinux challenge is not going as expected…
Unraid | Upcoming Changes to Unraid OS Pricing — Again, this change does not apply to any current license holders. You will still be able to access all updates for life, as promised.
Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx — As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities:
PurrfectProse — About halfway through January 2024 we reorganized the spare room and Alex pointed out that I’d hardly been reading since Ella had been born and my ‘to read’ staging bookcase was getting perilously full. So a mission began to get back on the wagon.
Wyze confirmed a camera issue last week caused 13,000 owners to see videos from other homes — The end result was that for a brief but not revealed period of time, 13,000 Wyze camera owners were seeing thumbnail videos from locations that were not their own. Also, 1,504 users tapped on those thumbnails, which could have expanded it or launched an Event video.
R36S Handheld Game Console — On The Go Design: Ultra-compact size and old style design, it is very convenient whether you carry it with you during business trips, travel or camping. Recall the dream of the games anytime, anywhere.
CitraVR: Port of the leading 3DS emulator, Citra — designed for playing 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest. — Play 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest.CitraVR is a GPL-licensed, engineless OpenXR application with all source code publicly available.

We embrace the dad bod lifestyle and find out if Apple's Vision Pro demo sold Mike, and Chris is picking up on what the Zuck is putting down.

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Star Trek: Borg - Remastered — Welcome to 'Star Trek: Borg - Remastered', cadet. Pay attention to this training - it might ensure your survival.
Zuckerberg trashes Apple vision Pro - YouTube — YouTube shot, FYI.
Apple vs. Meta Headset Wars, AI Innovations & Raising Cattle with Mark Zuckerberg - YouTube — Neal and Toby chat with Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to talk about his notorious Apple Vision Pro review video, the future of AI, what's next for Meta, and of course, cattle raisin' & meat smokin'.
Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era overhiring | ITPro — Overhiring and a prevailing industry approach to becoming “leaner” is driving the latest wave of layoffs
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How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly In Machine Learning Is Breaking - OpenAI Triton And PyTorch 2.0 — This report will touch on topics such as why Google’s TensorFlow lost out to PyTorch, why Google hasn’t been able to capitalize publicly on its early leadership of AI, the major components of machine learning model training time, the memory capacity/bandwidth/cost wall, model optimization, why other AI hardware companies haven’t been able to make a dent in Nvidia’s dominance so far, why hardware will start to matter more, how Nvidia’s competitive advantage in CUDA is wiped away, and a major win one of Nvidia’s competitors has at a large cloud for training silicon.

Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.

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Why we think Nvidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world, Sam's new "mind boggling" idea, and more.

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Christian Keil on X — So GitLab posts their internal Zoom call recordings on YouTube, and some have HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of views...Because people use them to pretend like they're working.
Product Marketing Meeting (weekly) 2021-06-28 - YouTube
Build a Custom LLM with Chat With RTX — Chat With RTX is a demo app that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content—docs, notes, videos, or other data. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers. And because it all runs locally on your Windows RTX PC or workstation, you’ll get fast and secure results.
Charlie Bilello on X — With a $1.83 trillion market cap, Nvidia just passed Amazon to become the 4th largest US company.
Sam Altman wants up to $7 trillion for AI chips. The natural resources required would be 'mind boggling' — “If it does work out, the amount of natural resources that will be required is just mind-boggling,” she told VentureBeat. “Even if the energy is renewable (which it isn’t guaranteed to be), the quantity of water and rare earth minerals required is astronomical.”
garry on X — Google's Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in c# because it's unethical.
Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU — The European Commission has decided against designating iMessage as a core platform service. Microsoft’s Edge browser, Bing search engine, and advertising business also avoided the additional scrutiny.

Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Alex has been deep-diving into container networking, and Chris is trying to steelman Plex's new rental service.

Plus, why are we building our containers with Tailscale networking now, and the latest from the Home Assistant project?

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Contain your excitement: A deep dive into using Tailscale with Docker — By putting containers directly onto your tailnet (our term for a Tailscale network), you're able to connect these isolated things together no matter the networking topology that stands in your way.
Tailscale for Docker Container - Chris' Note — The basic idea is to create a tailscale service container, that runs along side the main app container. You then set the main app container to use the tailscale container for networking.
audiobookshelf-docker-compose.yml — Chris' docker-compose.yml for audiobookshelf that uses a Tailscale service container for networking.
2024.2: More voice, more icons, more integrations, more... everything! — In general, contributions to our open-source project have been amazing this month. I’ve never seen so many contributed bug fixes, improvements, and new features in a single release. Like… 21 new integrations! This is, without a doubt, the largest release we’ve ever put out. A big shout-out to everyone who helped! ❤️
Companion app for iOS 2024.1: CarPlay is here! — CarPlay support now gives Home Assistant users easy access to their devices and areas and the ability to create custom actions.
home-assistant-assist-desktop — Use Home Assistant Assist on the desktop. Compatible with Windows, MacOS, and Linux
Plex launches its rental service with some award-winning movies — The new movie rental marketplace from the streaming service gives users 30-day access to premium titles.

Chris tries out Spatial Computing using a $3,200 trick, and Mike has a Rails treat you won't want to miss.

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Microsoft to share details on bringing Xbox games to PlayStation in mid-February — Microsoft has news to share about the future of Xbox in an event next week.
Michael Dominick on X — The vital #VisionPro question: “what is this for?” I’m just not seeing it. Am I missing something. #AppleVisionPro
Meta Quest 3 — New Mixed Reality VR Headset
Immersed on Meta Quest — VR Offices! FREE app for multiple Virtual Screens in VR for Mac/PC/Linux (with no extra hardware) in stunning virtual worlds. Immersed is great for solo work with multiple screens in a virtual cafe, or for collaborating with your team around even more screens and whiteboards!
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Visor — The world's smallest 4K headset.
Rails 7.1 expands its support for ActiveRecord asynchronous queries — ActiveRecord async queries are a way to execute Active Record queries in parallel, which can improve the performance of your Rails application. This is especially useful for slow or complex queries or for applications that need to handle a lot of concurrent requests.
In-depth Guide to ActiveRecord load_async in Rails 7 — This seemingly simple change of just adding a single new method that takes no arguments has profound implications for database layer interactions. In this tutorial, we’ll deep dive into the intricacies of this new load async API. We’ll discuss lazy-loaded queries, Ruby threading model, blocking IO, database pool vs. max connections limit, and performance impact of concurrent database clients.

Some uncomfortable truths about using Linux, and then we introduce a new segment: Will it Nix?

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Libro.fm — Pick your local bookstore to support with your purchases.
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If you're going to come at the king, you better not miss; now it's Apple's turn to make everyone feel pain.

And our spicy take on why AI saftey is really about stopping a movment.

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Apple says UK could 'secretly veto' global privacy tools — Apple has attacked proposals for the UK government to pre-approve new security features introduced by tech firms.
Apple won’t give up control of the iPhone — The EU wants to weaken Apple’s gatekeeper power, and the company is on the wrong side of history by fighting it.
Apple’s Proposed Changes Reject the Goals of the DMA
AI companies will need to report safety tests to US government | AP News — Chief among the 90-day goals from the order was a mandate under the Defense Production Act that AI companies share vital information with the Commerce Department, including safety tests.
New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure On Code Quality' — "We find disconcerting trends for maintainability," explains the paper's abstract. "Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved 'code. In this regard, AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited."
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not - The Verge — The Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer headset anyone’s ever made — and that’s the problem.
Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets — Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers. Apple began accepting pre-orders for the Vision Pro on January 19, so the headset has been available for purchase in the U.S. for 10 days.
Apple Vision Pro Review — We have rounded up some of the videos below from well-known YouTube creators and reporters, including Marques Brownlee, Joanna Stern, and others.
President Biden is preparing to announce chipmaker subsidies. — So says The Wall Street Journal in a report this morning that his administration will give “billions of dollars” to the likes of Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), both of which have started US manufacturing projects, although TSMC, at least, is behind schedule.

Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars.

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Libation: Liberate your Library — Free and open-source app to manage your Audible books. Fully supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
OpenAudible Home — Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries
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Administrator Bill Nelson announces the end of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has announced that the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has come to an end. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history by achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. Despite initial plans for up to five flights, the helicopter has exceeded expectations and executed an impressive 72 flights on the Red Planet. NASA pays tribute to its accomplishments, which have far exceeded what was thought possible and have paved the way for future flights in our solar system.
Legacy of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube
ThanksIngenuity – NASA’s Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye - YouTube — The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter flew for the last time on Jan. 18, 2024, and NASA concluded its flight operations after post-flight imagery confirmed damage to at least one of the rotorcraft’s rotor blades that rendered it no longer capable of flight. As the historic mission comes to its end, Ingenuity’s team reflects on some of their favorite moments and memories from the helicopter’s time on Mars.
Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap — The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward.
Zellij — A terminal workspace with batteries included
nix-flatpak — Declarative flatpak manager for NixOS inspired by declarative-flatpak and nix-darwin's homebrew module. NixOs and home-manager modules are provided for system wide or user flatpaks installation.
Smart AudioBook Player — The app is designed specially for playing audio books.
ShelfPlayer — A beautifully designed Audiobookshelf client that feels right at home on iOS 17.
hass-audiobookshelf — Adds sensors for an Audiobookshelf server to Home Assistant to show connection and active sessions
LINUX Unplugged 522: Practical Privacy
BadaBoomBooks: An audiobook organizer — Quickly organize audiobooks using a terminal and web-browser
audiobookshelf-sonos: Play your audiobooks from Audiobookshelf on your Sonos speakers — A standalone server that adds support for listening to an Audiobookshelf library on Sonos speakers. Built on top of the Sonos Music API (SMAPI).

Brian Moses joins us and shares his most recent NAS build and love for 3D printers. Then Alex gets into the hardware he's deploying around the house, and why we don't see eye-to-eye on ZigBee.

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Inovelli Swithces — Blue Series – powered by Zigbee.
Blue Series Smart Fan/Light Canopy Module | Inovelli — Control your fan speed and light dim levels individually remotely. Combining the features of our 2-1 and Fan Switch, this canopy module is the most advanced on the market. With the ability to adjust the dimming and fan speed, ramp rate, min/max levels, default light and fan levels, and more.
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How to use Trigger IDs in Home Assistant - Tutorial - YouTube
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Introducing the Tailscale Universal Docker Mod - Xe Iaso — Imagine a world where you could add applications to your tailnet the same way you add machines to it.
Using Tailscale with Docker — The following docker-compose.yml ﬁle demonstrates one approach, essentially setting up a Tailscale sidecar container for our service
StevenBlack/hosts: 🔒 — Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
Sovereign Stack — Sovereign Stack is a complete network solution enabling you to deploy Bitcoin-only website infrastructure. It consists of this website which documents the project, and the Sovereign Stack code. Together these contain all the information you might need to create and operate your own Value4Value websites based on Bitcoin/Lightning.
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We knew they'd be petulant, but even our expectations were higher than this. We dig into how Apple dunked on devs after last week's show, yet another Microsoft hack, and more.

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DHH on X — Apple would be wise to study the long arc of Microsoft’s history. Learn that you can win the battle, say, against Epic, and end up losing the war for the hearts and minds of developers.
Apple's Big Brother Now - dominickm.com — Getting right down to brass App Store tax. You’re almost certainly not saving any money. Apple is only taking three-percent off their cut even if you process the payment via another processor. Payment processors charging what they tend, that means you will likely save no money whatsoever; this is increasingly apparent once you begin to consider the implementation cost of setting up third-party payment processing and complying with the rest of Apple’s onerous terms.
Evan on X — Apple expects to sell an estimated 300K-400K Vision Pros in 2024 - Bloomberg
Apple Vision Pro: Lack of Netflix, YouTube, App Store Tensions Threaten Device - Bloomberg — Some big name developers thus far aren’t doing much to help the device. Three of the world’s most popular streaming services — Netflix Inc., YouTube and Spotify Technology SA — have already signaled that they won’t be launching visionOS software or enabling their iPad apps to run on the Vision Pro.
These Third-Party Apps Are Optimized For Apple Vision Pro So Far - MacRumors — So far, over 250 apps with native support for visionOS have been submitted to Apple, according to a source.
Google CEO says job cuts needed in 2024 to serve ‘ambitious goals’ — Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in a memo Wednesday that more job cuts are coming this year.
How Google is Remaking Itself as a “Machine Learning First” Company
Miguel Fierro on X: "Bad news for the industry" — Diane from Google rants on social

Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux.

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FOSDEM 2024 - Feb 3-4 — FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!
Getting started with NixOS by Mike Kelly — I previously wrote Why do people love NixOS so much? to try and explain the advantages of using Nix. So now let’s dive in and actually do an install!
Zero to Nix — Your guide to learning Nix and flakes.
distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal.
distrobox in nixpkgs
Building SnowflakeOS ISO
Icicle Installer
Jake Hamilton on Mastodon — I'm happy to announce that #SnowflakeOS and its related projects from @vlinkz is joining #SnowfallOrg!
Snowfall — Making nix better one project at a time.
Snowfall on GitHub
Snowfall Flake — Simplify Nix Flakes on the command line.
Unplugged Core Membership
Boltz.Exchange — Easily move between on-chain, Lightning, and Liquid
t2linux — Linux support for Apple devices with the T2 security chip.
Mac-on-Linux
pick: Spotube — Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron!
Pick: Cider — A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind.
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition

They are building AI into toilets now; CES was a clown show. But we put our business hats on and find the bright side.

Plus, Epic's major loss to Apple that just rolled in, and where we think the next fight will be, and how developers can get ahead of it.

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Mark Gurman on X — The Vision Pro virtual keyboard is a complete write-off at least in 1.0. You have to poke each key one finger at a time like you did before you learned how to type. There is no magical in-air typing. You can also look at a character and pinch. You’ll want a Bluetooth keyboard.
Here's How Vision Pro Demos Will Work at Apple Stores — In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said each demo will last around 20 to 25 minutes. After a calibration process, he said the customer will view still photos, panoramas, spatial photos, and spatial videos in the Photos app. Next, he said customers will learn how to position multiple app windows and scroll through pages in Safari. Then, they will view immersive 3D content, including movie clips, sports, and a tightrope scene.
Epic’s California injunction against Apple’s anti-steering rule takes effect as Supreme Court denies both parties’ petitions — The most important question, however, is whether the United States Department of Justice, which is reportedly readying a major antitrust case against Apple, and/or other private parties are now going to sue Apple over the App Store monopoly, potentially with stronger expert testimony (which is not even the only way in which they could benefit form the lessons learned from Epic Games v. Apple).
gamesfray on X🧵1/4 — The #EpicGames v. #Apple judgment is now FINAL. The Supreme Court has denied either party's petition for review.This means the anti-anti-steering injunction that Epic won under California Unfair Competition Law enters into force. Apple wanted to prevent or delay that.

🧵1/4 * App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline — Apple is apparently planning to roll out adjustments to comply with the new legal requirements in the coming weeks, including splitting off the ‌App Store‌ in the EU from the rest of the world. The deadline for Apple to comply with the DMA is March 7, so the company has just over seven weeks to enact the changes. * Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees — Or more than a thousand? Depends on the definition of “few”. * Google announces another round of layoffs - YouTube * Vic 🌮 on X — It's January 11 and the following companies have done layoffs so far. * Layoffs.fyi — Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists. * Discord lays off 17 percent of employees — In an internal memo, CEO Jason Citron said the company grew headcount too quickly over the past few years. * Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization — Apple Inc. is shutting a 121-person team related to artificial intelligence operations in San Diego, leaving many employees at risk of termination, according to people familiar with the matter. * At CES, everything was AI, even when it wasn’t — But as more companies rebrand anything involving algorithms as AI, how are we meant to separate the chaff from the wheat? * AI Briefing: What marketing and tech experts noticed at CES 2024 — Unsurprisingly in Las Vegas last week, AI was inarguably one of the hot topics. Major brands and startups alike spent the week touting new AI chatbots for everything from cars and bikes to smart TVs and personal devices. * A high-tech, no touch throne: Kohler's smart toilet - YouTube

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.

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bcachefs — bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem.
bcachefs Erasure coding — Bcachefs takes advantage of the fact that it is already a copy-on-write filesystem. If we're designing our filesystem to avoid update-in-place, why would we do update-in-place in our RAID implementation?
bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups.
bachefs Compression — Unlike other filesystems that typically do compression at the block level, bcachefs does compression at the extent level - variable size chunks, up to (by default) 128k.
bcachefs Encryption — bcachefs uses AEAD style encryption (ChaCha20/Poly1305), where each encrypted block is authenticated with a MAC, with a chain of trust up to root (the superblock), and every encrypted block has a unique nonce.
bcachefs Snapshots — bcachefs provides Btrfs style writeable snapshots, at subvolume granularity.
(2015) [ANNOUNCE] bcachefs - a general purpose COW filesystem — It's taken a long time to get to this point - longer than I would have guessed if you'd asked me back when we first started talking about it - but I'm pretty damn proud of where it's at now.
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Webamp — Winamp 2 re-implemented for the browser.
Webamp on GitHub — Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browse.
The Official JB BBS! — vt52 hosts our new official JB BBS! telnet http://pebkac.lol

We kick off the new year with new apps in our home lab you’ll want to try and a new way to do networking.

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Using the occ command — Nextcloud’s occ command (origins from “ownCloud Console”) is Nextcloud’s command-line interface. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more.
Jellystat — Jellystat is a free and open source Statistics App for Jellyfin
OpenSSH: Release Notes — This release contains fixes for a newly-discovered weakness in the SSH transport protocol, a logic error relating to constrained PKCS#11 keys in ssh-agent(1) and countermeasures for programs that invoke ssh(1) with user or hostnames containing invalid characters.
audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
Stirling-PDF: locally hosted web application — This is a powerful locally hosted web based PDF manipulation tool using docker that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as splitting merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application started as a 100% ChatGPT-made application and has evolved to include a wide range of features to handle all your PDF needs.
lubelog: Vehicle Service Records and Maintainence Tracker — Because nobody should have to deal with a homemade spreadsheet or a shoebox full of receipts when it comes to vehicle maintainence.
memos: An open source, lightweight note-taking Apple Notes killer — A privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service. Easily capture and share your great thoughts.
How to setup a reverse proxy with LetsEncrypt SSL for all your Docker apps — The reverse proxy. One of those projects you put off for years but when you finally get to it you find that it was relatively simple all along.
Traefik 101 Guide - Perfect Media Server — In this article we will be discussing reverse proxies, how they will enable you to securely expose webapps running on your LAN to the outside world, and how to automate issuing TLS (the artist formerly known as SSL) certificates using Let's Encrypt, Traefik, Cloudflare and Namecheap.
Sengled Smart Plugs — Work as Zigbee Repeater
SSH 114 Boost Barn! — Thank you to everyone who supports the show with a Boost!

A prominent developer has brought the anti-trust heat against Apple to the public, kicking off a chain reaction that could have gone very wrong for Apple. Plus, why the Apple Vision Pro is destined for the Friend Zone.

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Bitcoin ETF widely expected to get approval this week - YouTube — CNBC's Kate Rooney reports on news around Bitcoin.
Macs can now detect liquids in USB-C ports — On the Mac, however, the code suggests that the daemon is only used for “analytics” and is not associated with end-user features. While Apple may eventually implement an alert similar to the one that already exists in iOS, it seems more likely that the data collected by this daemon will be used for technicians to determine whether a Mac is eligible for free repair.
Apple Vision Pro sales will start on February 2 — Apple's headset will ship to customers on February 2. Preorders begin on January 19.
Apple: Developers shouldn't refer to visionOS apps as AR or VR — The company is asking developers not to refer to visionOS apps using terms such as AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality), XR (extended reality), or MR (mixed reality). Instead, Apple says that visionOS apps are “spatial computing apps.”
DHH on X — We have some great, native, dedicated apps ready for HEY Calendar. The Android one is just sitting there waiting for us to push publish in the Google Play Store. Guess what's happening to the other one for iOS? Still "in review" since mid December 🙄
DHH on X — Ah @apple, not this shit again. I thought we sorted it out 2.5 years ago in round one?! Why oh why must it be like this! You know we're not just going to roll over, that we're never going to pay the 30% ransom. Just approve the fucking app and we'll be on our merry way!
DHH on X — Apple just called to let us know they're rejecting the HEY Calendar app from the App Store (in current form). Same bullying tactics as last time: Push delicate rejections to a call with a first-name-only person who'll softly inform you it's your wallet or your kneecaps.
Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store — So what’s going to happen? I don’t know, but I do know that we’ll keep fighting. We’re never going to roll over and pay Apple 30% in protection money to be left alone. Last time we found a way, and we will again.
Apple might be the next Big Tech company facing antitrust charges in the US - The Verge — The Department of Justice is finalizing an antitrust investigation into Apple that targets its closed ecosystem, according to The New York Times.
Tim Sweeney on X — Fortnite, but not on iOS because you are blocking it from a billion users.
Apple’s rejection of Hey calendar app renews an old fight — Basecamp founder and app creator David Heinemeier Hansson referred to Apple’s decision as “bullying tactics.”
Happiness is never having to ask for permission — We can put peak native apps in the rearview mirror in 2024. So pack your bags and come along for the ride!
We’ve resubmitted the HEY Calendar app to Apple — Did we want to work through the weekend to add this? No. But we also don’t want to leave our customers with iPhones waiting for our awesome native HEY Calendar app.
DHH on X — Apple approved the HEY Calendar!! It's now available for download in the @appstore. Ridiculous it needed this level of awareness/pressure, but I'm so happy for our iOS team to see their work through the weekend pay off in full. Thanks to all who cheered!
The New York Times Sues Microsoft, OpenAI for Copyright Infringement — The New York Times has sued Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement and is seeking “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages.”
Amazon's Silent Sacking — In 2023 Amazon laid off more than 27,000 people. While that’s a big number it’s a deceptively small percentage for a company with more than 1.6 million employees (1.7%).
Should You Watch Babylon 5? : startrek — Babylon 5 is basically the anti-Trek. More specifically, it's the anti-TNG. The Earth Alliance isn't a magic utopia, it's the exact government you would expect modern boneheaded American politicians to set up if they suddenly landed in 2250.

A bonus stream and our first official LIT Coder stream! Chris discusses CES 2024 day two and its focus on artificial intelligence.

Then, explore AI regulations with Carolyn Posner from the Consumer Technology Association.

Additionally, we delve into the potential approval of Bitcoin ETFs and the fading of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in big businesses.

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This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers.

We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.

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Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape - Phoronix
32-Bit Challenge Details
HP Mini 110-4100CA Netbook
Intel Atom Processor N2600 Specifications
Crunchbangplusplus — Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro
CBPP/cbpp: #!++ - GitHub
FreeBSD Handbook | Chapter 5. The X Window System
Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions – FreeBSD Foundation
MidnightBSD — MidnightBSD is a BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.
MidnightBSD - Linux® Binary Compatibility
GhostBSD | A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
Intel T2300
Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th
Southern California Linux Expo 19
LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com — We invite you to submit your proposal to speak at LFNW2024!
LMDE — LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition".Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. It allows us to assess how much we depend on Ubuntu and how much work would be involved in such an event. LMDE is also one of our development targets, as such it guarantees the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.
nohang: A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux — nohang is earlyoom on steroids and has many useful features
zram — Pages written to these disks are compressed and storedin memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression providesgood amounts of memory savings.
PSI — This helps users understand the resource pressure their workloads areunder, which allows them to rootcause and fix throughput and latencyproblems caused by overcommitting, underprovisioning, suboptimal jobplacement in a grid, as well as anticipate major disruptions like OOM.
pressure stall information
nohang-desktop.conf
nheko: Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20. — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app (Element, Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client.
PROMO 2024 - $3 off a month forever
Is a 32 bit machine still usable in 2024? — Luckily, someone had JUST donated this perfectly working Dell Latitude D820, running Windows XP. They were in college actually trying to use this for their school work, but couldn’t even access many of the websites they needed because it was so out of date. I gave her a much newer 64 bit machine in trade.
How I Automated All the Things - Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Fritzing - Everlanders Automate the World!
PICK: Linux Terminal Tools - Terminal Trove — Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
SliTaz GNU/Linux (en) — SliTaz is a secure and high performance operating system using the Linux Kernel and GNU software.
tulir/gomuks — A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.
The Mutt E-Mail Client
Links home page — Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows.

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Mike shares his adventures and process of coming from mobile app projects to working with Unreal Engine, and why he realized a laptop just wasn't going to cut it.

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Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma — Competition probes in the EU and UK made regulatory approval dicey.
U.S. Government Officials Reportedly Want DOJ To Investigate Apple For Its Anti-Competitive Behavior Against Beeper Mini Over iMessage — Beeper Mini and Beeper Cloud are still inaccessible for 60 percent of Android users, with Apple trying its best to prevent access to iMessage servers
The Coder Robe — Look and feel comfortable, life is better in a robe.
Unreal Engine 5: everything you need to know — Unreal Engine 5 is the real-time creation platform that has it all for game development, visualisation, and VFX.
A Fan Used Unreal Engine 5 To Make A ‘Zelda: Ocarina Of Time’ Studio Ghibli Movie And It’s Amazing — The second half of the video switches from animated movie to third-person perspective video game, and I’m left thinking “I really want this game, with these incredible cut-scenes.”
Red Dead Redemption Unreal Engine 5 remake makes the remaster look like poop — Thankfully a devoted fan has taken matters into their own hands by creating a concept for the original Red Dead Redemption remake on Unreal Engine 5.
Unreal Engine 5's next big RPG is Elden Ring meets Assassin's Creed
Precision 7865 Tower Workstation — Mike's new rig.

We make our big Linux predictions for 2024, but first, we score how we did for 2023.

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TuxDigital — TuxDigital creates podcasts and videos to help people improve their lives through technology. Our content covers everything from computer hardware and apps to fitness tips to help people live their best life through educational and entertaining media.
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System76 Virgo laptop PCB design open sourced ahead of release — The company began sharing hints about the upcoming System76 Virgo laptop earlier this year. Now System76 has released the PCB design files, giving us a few more clues about what to expect.
System76 Virgo Laptop Project on Github
Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel — Less than twenty-four hours after Bcachefs was submitted for Linux 6.7, this new open-source file-system has been successfully merged for this next kernel version.
Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.7 Stable Debut — Linux 6.7 stable will likely debut on New Year's Eve unless the cycle is extended by an extra week due to the holidays.
CVE-2023-39191: 8.2 HIGH — An improper input validation flaw was found in the eBPF subsystem in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs due to a lack of proper validation of dynamic pointers within user-supplied eBPF programs prior to executing them. This may allow an attacker with CAP_BPF privileges to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel.
holoiso — This project attempts to bring the Steam Deck's SteamOS Holo redistribution into a generic, installable format, and provide a close-to-official SteamOS experience.
butterfish — A shell with AI superpowers.
New MakuluLinux Release Brings AI to the Max — Max is a new distro for MakuluLinux developer Jacque Montague Raymer. It is the first AI-integrated operating system designed with Debian compatibility running on the Gnome backend framework.
Download Ubuntu Desktop
Ubuntu Flavors
Pick: BoxBuddy — BoxBuddy is a graphical user interface for Distrobox.

We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs.

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Healthchecks.io — We notify you when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and scheduled tasks don't run on time.
BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
Projectivy Launcher - Apps on Google Play — Projectivy Launcher is an alternative launcher for Android TV, tailored for your TVs and projectors needs : smooth, neat, customizable and bundled with unique features. It's Projectivy Tools on steroids !
TubesZB – TubesZB Coordinators and Router

We reflect on how our work has changed over the last year and get some sage advice from buff Uncle Jeff.

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2023's Online 'Advent Calendars' — Challenge Programmers With Tips and Puzzles
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training — After reading this, will you continue using Brave Browser?
Texas LinuxFest on X — The CFP deadline for #TXLF has been extended until December 30, 2023, 05:00 UTC (December 29, 2023, 23:00 CST)!
The Epic question: how Google lost its antitrust case while Apple won — How is Google running an illegal monopoly with the Play store — while Apple’s App Store is in the clear?
Epic Games chief concerned Google will ‘get away’ with app store charges
How the Maker of ‘Fortnite’ Beat Google and Got Its Mojo Back — Epic’s CEO founded the company in his parents’ basement. He isn’t done challenging tech giants.
Epic: 7 reasons Google lost
FXPAK PRO — This is the best flash cart you can get for your SNES. Super Gameboy 2 works wonderfully on it as well.

It’s the fourth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2023.

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32-Bit Challenge Details — Can you live and work for a week on a 32-bit system? That's the challenge. It might seem simple, but we think you'll be surprised.
Texas LinuxFest CFP Extended — The CFP deadline for #TXLF has been extended until December 30, 2023, 05:00 UTC (December 29, 2023, 23:00 CST)!
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⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?

The clever way one developer hacked an online game, why we're not buying the latest round of cyber war fear, and we finally have our Babylon 5 vs Star Trek debate.

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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal — The details surfaced today after Google requested the court to keep the specifics of its deal with Spotify sealed earlier in the month.
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I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Winrate — I could make opponents concede at will so that I never lost a game in Magic: The Gathering Arena
China’s cyber intrusions have hit ports and utilities, officials say - The Washington Post
An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World's First Digital Weapon
The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity — Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
Should You Watch Babylon 5? — If you liked DS9 seasons 4-7, you'll like B5 even more. If you hated DS9 seasons 4-7, you'll hate B5 even more.
Musk's Neuralink to start human trial of brain implant — Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruitment for the first human trial of its brain implant for paralysis patients.
Are my podcast downloads declining because of iOS 17? — : Apple's changes help close the gap between downloads and actual listening behaviour. Not every downloaded episode gets played. So, fewer automatic downloads mean fewer downloads sitting unplayed on people's phones. For sponsors and advertisers, fewer automatic downloads mean fewer ads and promos that never get heard.
Let’s build an AMD Ryzen Framework 13 DIY together - YouTube — A new challenger enters the ring. The Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen CPU batch 10 arrived at Badger Labs this weekend, so Iets build it!!

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter!

Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

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32-Bit Challenge Details — Can you live and work for a week on a 32-bit system? That's the challenge. It might seem simple, but we think you'll be surprised. Let's find out if the world has moved on too far for 32-bit systems, or if they can still be saved from the landfill.
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Southern California Linux Expo 19
Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone
Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer
Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop’s New Installer Set To Ship Without OpenZFS Install Support
HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve’s Gamescope Compositor
KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games
End of the 4.9 Kernel Series
CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables
Wine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvements
Wine 9.0-rc2 Released With 33 More Fixes - Including Wine Wayland Fixes
Stadia Shuts Down Jan 28th
Google Stadia: Leaked Documents Explain its Failure
elementary OS 7 Available Now
Xfce Going Wayland
FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi
Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems
SIGs/Asahi - Fedora Project Wiki
Ubuntu Gets Real
Canonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General Availability
Plasma 5.27
KDE Plasma 5.27 Released
Final Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s New
FFmpeg 6.0 Released
FFmpeg on X: “FFmpeg CLI multithreading is now merged!” / X
Flathub in 2023
Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
Docker: We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
GNOME 44 Released
GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements
GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI
Ubuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status Announcement
Plasma 6 Early Builds
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions
Btrfs Improvments in 6.4
Announcing Fedora Linux 38
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs”
Message to Red Hat associates today
Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released
The new Flathub Website
Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look
Ubuntu 23.04 Released
Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap
HDR hackfest wrap-up
CVE-2023-28410: i915 graphics driver improperly restricts operations within the bounds of a memory buffer
New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges
bcachefs out for review
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts
Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced
Introducing Azure Linux
CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust
CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust
XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch
Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix
Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6
Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0
Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base
Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
LibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installs
Debian 12 “bookworm” released
Linux 6.4 Released
Linux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5
Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement
Linux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of Changes
Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5
Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code
The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker News
Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open
LXD Moves to Canonical
LXD has been re-licensed and is now under a CLA
Fedora Asahi Remix
Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware
Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver
Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future
Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
Leap Replacement Discussion
Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant
“Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks
Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers
Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry Pi
CPU decoding acording to Eben Upton in an interview
Intel is killing off its NUC mini PCs
Ubuntu 23.10 Released
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations
Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support
Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression
XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down
XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over
Element Going AGPL
Synapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker News
Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
Fedora Change: Retire Modularity
Fedora Web Installer Delayed
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 39
GNOME 45 Release Notes
Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android
🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉
PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
Quick OwnTracks-Recorder-in-Docker dummies guide
Pick: trippy — Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues.

Alex shares a new build integrating WLED, and Chirs reviews hardware that can get you started with WLED in 45 seconds.

Then, one last big update on the Year of Voice and our thoughts on self-hosting push notifications.

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Zigbee Door/Window Sensor Chris Uses in his Fridge — The Centralite micro door and window sensor detects the opening and closing of doors and windows.
Zooz 700 Series Z-Wave Plus Water Leak XS Sensor — Place it under your appliances to monitor for leaks discreetly. It's OK if the device is splashed with water but it can't be fully submerged so keep that in mind when choosing the installation location.
Alex Kretzschmar on Masto — Just made my daughter a new nightlight running WLED.
Setup WLED in 45 Seconds! NO TOOLS NEEDED - YouTube — WLED Tutorial Video
Domestic Automation's WLED Pre-Installed Board — For use with Individually Addressable LEDs, which allow each LED to display a different color at the same time. Hundreds of animated effects can be displayed such as: “Android”, “Rainbow Runner”,“Twinklefox” and over a hundred more.
Domestic Automation LLC — Want to light up your home and wow your guests? Brighten up your space with some dazzling lights in a variety of colors and entertaining effects!
Home of the QuinLED LED Controllers — This website is about DIY WiFi controllable LED dimmers (Analog) and controllers (Digital) combined with lots of general information about LEDs and LED strip!
Push notifications can be used to track who you contact - The Washington Post — Government investigators in the United States use push notification data to track individuals, according to Sen. Ron Wyden. Apple and Google are prohibited from discussing this surveillance technique by the Justice Department.
Apple Requires Only a Subpoena to Turn Over Push Notification Tokens to Law Enforcement; Google Requires a Court Order — Update, 11 December 2023: Apple has updated its guidelines and now requires a court order as well.
Year of the Voice - Chapter 5 - Home Assistant — The ESPHome team has been hard at work adding support for the S3-BOX-3, including the ability to customize the display! Check out the S3-BOX-3 tutorial to get started.
ESP32-S3-BOX-3 voice assistant - tutorial — This tutorial will guide you to turn an ESP32-S3-BOX-3 into a Home Assistant voice assistant.
ESP32-POE - Open Source Hardware Board — ESP32-PoE is an ESP32-powered WIFI/BLE/Ethernet development board with Power-Over-Ethernet feature. It is the perfect addition to any project that requires connectivity.
Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th
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Texas Linux Festival 2024
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A special edition of Office Hours explains why some Podcasters are seeing a 20% drop in downloads. Plus, Moritz from Alby joins us for a chat.

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Moritz Kaminski — Contributing to an open value layer for the internet
The company asking podcast directories for money — A copyright enforcement company is sending bills to podcast directories for reproducing thumbnail images from RSS feeds.
Annual re-certification now required by IAB — The updated pricing is: Member: $12,500 (new) / $6,250 (renew); Non-Member: $17,500 (new) /$8,750 (renew)
Notice: Updates to Automatic Downloads - Apple Podcasts for Creators — Before iOS 17, when a listener would unpause automatic downloads, the system would automatically download all unplayed episodes. With iOS 17, Apple Podcasts will not download previous episodes and will resume automatically downloading new episodes.
Tracking the impact of the auto-downloading changes to Apple Podcasts in iOS 17 — Let’s take a look at the Apple Podcasts listeners to OP3, an open prefix service tracking over 10 million downloads a month from over 1000 shows of various types, so a nice small sample to work with.
Faidr — Our technology removes those annoying interruptions and lets you replace them with the audio content you actually want to hear.
Auddia Announces Commercial Free Podcasting Enabled by Proprietary New AI Technology to be Launched in the faidr App on January 15 — 200 top podcasts will be available for ad-free listening upon launch, representing upwards of 50,000 episodes.
Auddia Announces Commercial Free Podcasting to be Launched in the faidr App on January 15 — In June of 2023, the Company announced that its engineers had successfully combined Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its proprietary AI audio-classification algorithm to create a new model that could be applied to podcasts.
The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years — In this report, we show how the number of users, transactions, and volume have beenaccelerating significantly over the past years. We also share some River-specific insightsand discuss significant growth accelerators for the Lightning Network.
Kevin Rooke on X — The average public Lightning Network channel is approaching 8 million sats of capacity now.
Coming in 2024 — V4V based, multiply redundant object store with decentralized CDN for PeerTube self-hosters. Removes 99% of the bandwidth costs of media hosting, as well as the storage costs of online hosting.
SeaweedFS — SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.
V4V SHOW | Mere Mortals — What will digital content look like in 5 years time? In Ep#56 we're going to rehash everything we've learned this season, lay out my predictions for what is ahead of us and learn how you can help shape the future direction of this very podcast.
Music: Santa's In Town - The Top Hats Orchestra
Music: A Charlie Brown Christmas - The Top Hats Orchestra
Music: Sleigh Ride - The Top Hats Orchestra

The fantastic opportunity Google is letting slip through its hands, and why Apple might win the consumer LLM race.

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Florida Joker Suing Rockstar Over GTA 6 Character — Seeking between $1 and $2 million USD for using his likeness.
ChatGPT on X — we've heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier! we haven't updated the model since Nov 11th, and this certainly isn't intentional. model behavior can be unpredictable, and we're looking into fixing it 🫡
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Junction — Junction lets you choose the application to open files and links.
Vivaldi Browser — Get unrivaled customization options and built-in browser features for better performance, productivity, and privacy.
Google just launched a new AI and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real — The company’s demo video, featuring a spoken conversation with Gemini as it identified drawings in real-time, was edited and did not involve an actual spoken prompt.
Grant♟️ on X: Apple will probably win LLMs — They'll release a model that runs locally/native on your iPhone, is good enough, has great privacy/security and has access to all your personal data.
Beeper Mini restores iMessage service, now for free — Just days after its debut, Beeper Mini was seemingly killed by Apple. Now, the iMessage app for Android is back.
Push notifications can be used to track who you contact - The Washington Post
Apple Requires Only a Subpoena to Turn Over Push Notification Tokens to Law Enforcement; Google Requires a Court Order — Score one for Google here.
rcm: rc file (dotfile) management — It assumes that you have a separate dotfiles directory, or are interested in creating one.

We test two popular methods to run local language models on your Linux box. Then, we push the limits to see which language models will toe the line and which won't.

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2023 Unplugged Tuxies
Ollama — Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.
OllamaHub — Explore and Download Custom Ollama Modelfiles.
ollama library
Ollama Manual Install
Ollama Docker Image
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LlamaGPT
llama-gpt — A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device. New: Code Llama support!
Continue.dev — An open-source autopilot in your IDE
Refact.ai — Refact is an open-source AI coding assistant with blazing-fast code completion, powerful code improvement tools, and chat.
32-Bit Challenge Chat room
Speech Note — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so. Text and voice processing take place entirely offline, locally on your computer, without using a network connection. Your privacy is always respected. No data is sent to the Internet.
Speech Note on GitHub
LFNW: Call for Sponsors
Framework 13 (Intel) NixOS Module
GeneBean's hyprland nix config
Razer Core X - Thunderbolt™ 3 eGPU
CompleteNoobs: Ubuntu KVM to Windows 10 - Thinkpad T470 - Razer Core X - GTX 970 -
LINUX Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough — Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.
Pick: Marker — Convert PDF to markdown quickly with high accuracy

After years of resistance, Mike finally surrenders to Xcode. And the secret Apple envy leaked to the public this week.

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Spotify lays off 17 percent of workforce in latest round of job cuts — CEO Daniel Ek announced the cuts in a memo to employees today. They’re expected to impact around 1,500 people at the company.
Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs — Broadcom's first big move is going to be layoffs: according to WARN notices filed with multiple states (catalogued here by Channel Futures), Broadcom will be laying off at least 2,837 employees across multiple states, including 1,267 at its Palo Alto campus in California.
Gerald Pfeifer on X — "Broadcom CEO tells VMware workers to ‘get butt back to office’ after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies"
Apple contractors to be cut - Austin Business Journal
Twilio Lays Off Another 5% of Staff in Third Round of Cuts — Company has shed one-third of workforce since September 2022
Unity Layoff 3.8% Of Workforce — Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will eliminate 265 jobs or 3.8% of its global workforce and end an agreement with a digital video effects company founded by the “Lord of the Rings” director as part of a “reset,” the company said on Tuesday.
Stefan Ottenbrite on X — CBC/Radio-Canada employees will have a virtual meeting on Monday with CEO Catherine Tait. Between 600 and 700 employees are expected to be laid off across the country, 300 just in Quebec.
LFNW2024: Ready or not — Quick on the heels of our wildly successful MiniFest this Fall, LinuxFest Northwest is proud to announce a full event: LinuxFest Northwest 2024 1 - April 26-28 2024!
LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Call for Speakers — We invite you to submit your proposal
Activision Blizzard had a plan — or ploy — to launch its own Android game store — Court documents show the gaming giant wanted more from mobile.
Xbox Talking to Partners for Mobile Store, CEO Spencer Says — “It’s an important part of our strategy and something we are actively working on today not only alone, but talking to other partners who’d also like to see more choice for how they can monetize on the phone,’’ Spencer said in an interview in Sao Paulo during the CCXP comics and entertainment convention.
Microsoft is building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google — Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is key to the company’s mobile gaming efforts. Microsoft is quietly building a mobile Xbox store that will rely on Activision and King games.
What's new in .NET 8 — .NET 8 is the successor to .NET 7. It will be supported for three years as a long-term support (LTS) release.
.NET Aspire overview — .NET Aspire is an opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications. .NET Aspire is delivered through a collection of NuGet packages that handle specific cloud-native concerns.
Google to face investigation over deleted chat history — “I’m going to get to the bottom of who is responsible,”
OpenAI Agreed to Buy $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman — Documents show that OpenAI signed a letter of intent to spend $51 million on brain-inspired chips developed by startup Rain. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously made a personal investment in Rain.
@laurengoode — "Altman talked to investors in the Middle East in recent months about raising money to start a new chip company to help OpenAI and others diversify beyond their current reliance on Nvidia GPUs and specialized chips from Google, Amazon, and a few smaller suppliers, according to two people."
Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.

This week, our embarrassment is your entertainment. Then, we check the age and health of all our disks with one app.

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My $500M Mars Rover Mistake — A Failure Story by Chris Lewicki
Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies before it's too late!
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Scrutiny — Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds.
Soltros's configbuilder — This Nix Configuration Manager is a Go-based tool designed to facilitate the management of NixOS configurations.
Cookie AutoDelete Firefox Add-on
Self-Hosted 110: Google Photos Replacement
Brent in Berlin Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin and we're having a LOW KEY meetup at the NixOS night at cbase - join us!
chezmoi — Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
AnalogJ on GitHub — I'm a Devops/Automation guy, focused on building tools that help you automate & manage your servers.
lexicon — Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way.
Fasten Health — Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator.
LUP 307: What's your Nextcloud?
GNU Stow — GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place.

We break down the state of the pfSense changes and the red flags we see. Plus, we're joined by Wolfgang from Wolfgang's channel to dig into his homelab and much more.

Special Guest: Wolfgang.

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Servo Mounted Ball Valve Blast Gate by The Brumberjack — Used to automatically open and close different parts of an airflow system.
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Wolfgang's Blog
Restricting ASRock Rack BMC to dedicated IPMILAN port only — During this process I came across a frustrating "bug" in the Asrock Rack BMC implementation. No matter the settings I gave the BMC it was getting two IP addresses. One on the IPMILAN port as expected in my management VLAN, and another on eth0 which is undesirable.
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OPNsense.com - OPNsense.org — WIPO decides in favour of OPNsense
pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction
pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots Now Available
New license types pfSense CE & Plus
pfSense Plus Home+Lab is no longer available as a free download. TAC Subscription now required for CE upgrades.
Addressing Changes to pfSense Plus Home+Lab — Today, we are announcing that the Home+Lab version of pfSense Plus, the commercial fork of the popular open-source firewall pfSense, is no longer available for free download.
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family — "I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff," a user said of Plex's Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.
wESP32 — Wired ESP32 with PoE — The wESP32™ is an ESP32-based core board with wired Ethernet connectivity and power over Ethernet (PoE)
ESP32-S3-BOX-3 Espressif Systems AIoT — The future Home Assistant voice hardware is shipping.
Unifi Network - Setup Chromecast between VLANs
Chromecast casting support across IP networks
Inter-VLAN Casting with Chromecasts
Jovian-NixOS — A set of packages and configurations for running NixOS on the Steam Deck.
SSH 111 Boost Barn! — Thank you Boosters!
Post-Show: Using NixOS as a router

The messy details and tidy excuses we noticed in all this OpenAI upset, and some fundamental problems that have been plaguing desktop Linux for years.

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AWS debuts Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client device for virtual desktop access — The WorkSpaces Thin Client is based on AWS parent Amazon.com Inc.’s Fire TV Cube
OpenAI saga: What is Q-Star? — The ‘humanity-threatening’ AI that could be a reason behind Sam Altman’s removal. "Four times now in the history of OpenAI, the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks, I've gotten to be in the room, when we sort of push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward, and getting to do that is the professional honor of a lifetime,
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say — Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The ‘AI doomers’ have lost this battle — That’s the reason for the strange organisational structure — to control the risk. Altman has been building this thing as fast as possible, while also saying very loudly and often that this thing is extremely dangerous and governments should get involved to control any attempts to build it. Well, which is it?
The Unexpected Winner in the Craziest Week in AI — Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella made a huge bet on the world’s hottest AI company. After it nearly blew up on him, he now emerges with closer ties to its leader, Sam Altman.
US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design' — In a 20-page document unveiled Sunday, the 18 countries agreed that companies designing and using AI need to develop and deploy it in a way that keeps customers and the wider public safe from misuse.

PipeWire hits 1.0, and Wim Taymans joins us to reflect on the smooth success of PipeWire. Plus the details on the first NixCon North America, and more.

Special Guests: Wim Taymans and Zach Mitchell.

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First NixCon North America! — We envisage NixCon North America as a complement to the core NixCon in Europe, enriching the global Nix community through more localized events. This event is not just a conference; it’s a celebration of our growth, diversity, and the shared passion for Nix.
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🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉 — PipeWire 1.0 retains API/ABI compatibility with the long-lived PipeWire 0.3.xx series. PipeWire 1.0 delivers improved time reporting for less jitter in ALSA when using IRQ mode, various module fixes, Bluetooth LC3 codec and compatibility improvements, improved transport and time handling for JACK, optimized buffer re-use with JACK, and a variety of other improvements.
PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
LINUX Unplugged 370 — PipeWire Progress
SpiralLinux — SpiralLinux is a selection of Linux spins built from Debian GNU/Linux, with a focus on simplicity and out-of-the-box usability across all the major desktop environments.
grub-btrfs — Include btrfs snapshots in the Grub menu.
timeshift — System restore tool for Linux.
timeshift-autosnap-apt — Timeshift auto-snapshot script for Ubuntu and Debian
Ubuntu Desktop with btrfs-luks, auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift
jordan-bravo's Nix config
ladder — Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL.
Pick: whisper 🎤 → 🎧️ — Listen to your mic - with PipeWire. This app does more or less the same thing as Helvum does, but with a simple UI.
Whisper on Flathub
Helvum on Flathub — Helvum is a graphical patchbay for PipeWire.

OpenAI's weekend coup, plus our thoughts on Microsoft's gambit and their looming risk.

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Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk’s antisemitic posts — Big-spending advertisers like Apple, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and IBM have pulled back from the platform after Elon Musk expressed support for antisemitic posts.
TikTok ads: Apple still a top spender, despite growing controversy — Apple remains one of the top-spending companies when it comes to TikTok ads, despite growing controversy about whether the app is a threat to US national security.
Viral PANIC As Bin Laden Letter Spreads on TikTok - YouTube — Krystal and Emily discuss Osama Bin Ladens Letter To America going viral on TikTok.
Peak AI Hype? — Is this Peak AI hype? Boost in your worst AI marketing.
Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI — In a sudden move, Altman is leaving after the company’s board determined that he ‘was not consistently candid in his communications.’ President and co-founder Greg Brockman has also quit.
Microsoft is a key investor in OpenAI. It was blindsided by Sam Altman's exit. — Microsoft, which has invested billions in OpenAI, learned that OpenAI was ousting CEO Sam Altman just a minute before the news was shared with the world, according to a person familiar with the situation.
3 OpenAI Researchers Resign Following Sam Altman's Dismissal: Report — The Information reported that following his departure, three senior researchers at the company quit.
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO - The Verge — A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Greg Brockman to return but has since waffled
OpenAI Board Urged by Microsoft, Investors to Restore Altman — Altman has been weighing new venture, but open to returning
OpenAI Investors Pushing to Reinstate Sam Altman As CEO: Reports
OpenAI has received just a fraction of Microsoft’s $10 billion investment — That gives the software giant significant leverage as it sorts through the fallout from the ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The firm’s board said on Friday that it had lost confidence in his ability to lead, without giving additional details.
OpenAI Corp Structure is Bonkers — When ownership innovation is…
Altman Sought Billions For Chip Venture Before OpenAI Ouster — The project, code-named Tigris, is intended to rival Nvidia
Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Altman and Brockman to lead new AI group — Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Nadella said Monday
Breaking with @reckless: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman’s move to Microsoft isn’t a done deal. — Pressure is on the board to still resign gracefully after the flipping of Ilya Sutskever last night
OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns — More than 700 employees of OpenAI have signed a letter saying they may quit and join Sam Altman at Microsoft unless the startup’s board resigns and reappoints the ousted CEO.
Emmett Shear’s time at Twitch gives clues to future of OpenAI — “But Shear has expressed strong concerns over the supposed existential risks posed by AI, a concern that I suspect resonated with the board, even though Shear says this CEO shakeup wasn’t about AI safety.”

Can we save an old Arch install? We'll attempt a live rescue, then get into our tips for keeping your old Linux install running great.

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Is Arch Linux suitable for server environment? — Probably the biggest issue with Arch as a server operating system is that it's not clear where and when applications may break after an upgrade. More often than not, you have to keep up with what's going on in the wiki and on the forums before doing any sort of upgrade
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Texas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open-source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State. Much like SCALE in Los Angeles, Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, and Linux Fest Northwest – and an ever-growing list of successful regional shows.
Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention — On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
Git migration announcement
Git migration completed — We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳
[Arch News] Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
Linus’s law — In software development, Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores — In our experiments, these performance bugs caused many-fold performance degradation for synchronization-heavy scientific applications, 13% higher latency for kernel make, and a 14-23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used commercial database.
The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed – The HFT Guy
The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores | Hacker News
sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc · torvalds/linux@acb4a84 · GitHub — This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that arenormalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.
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Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project — Contributor license agreements (or CLAs for short) have gained a lot of visibility in recent years as some prominent open-source projects have opted to adopt them. If all the cool kids are doing it, should your open source project? Probably not. Here’s why
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That man behind the Google Photos killer joins us to chat about the latest release of Immich. Plus, Alex's first impressions of 45Homelab's HL15.

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Immich — Self-hosted Backup Solution for Photos and Videos on Mobile Devices.
Immich Release v1.86.0 — In this release we have added an option to enable parter-shared photos to be displayed in the main timeline. This feature can be enabled on a per-partner basis and can be viewed and updated on both the web and mobile app.
Introduction to ZFS Replication — Up your OpenZFS data management game and handle hardware failure with a minimal data loss
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Yet another thing Microsoft was early to, and still somehow missed the boat.

Plus, building a PC is rare; it's a solved problem. If AI tools excel as expected, will coding face a similar fate?

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Apple Gets 36% of Google Revenue From Search Deal, Witness Says — Revenue sharing amount was supposed to remain confidential
Alderon Matt on X — Apple needs to stop breaking games in macOS Operating System Updates. Imagine writing code that works for a decade and in a macOS update having it throw a NSInternalInconsistencyException. This is going to break thousands of Unreal Engine and other games on Steam.
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | The New Yorker — Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.
OM on X — Can you hear the air leaking from the "App Store" ecosystem? #OpenAIDevDay
OpenAI announces platform for making custom ChatGPTs — The GPT platform is a no-code way to make custom AI agents for all sorts of tasks, and it’s available exclusively for ChatGPT Plus subscribers.
Nick St. Pierre on X — You'll soon be able to get PAID for building GPTs!!! 🔥
Announcing Grok — Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak, so please don’t use it if you hate humor!

The problem with GNOME's great news, plus our first look at Plasma 6. Then, the surprising place NixOS is getting adopted.

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Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android — Amazon’s new operating system is also based on a flavor of Linux, and is using a more web-forward application model. App developers are being told to use React Native as an application framework, which allows them to build native apps with Javascript-powered interfaces,
webOS Open Source Edition — The open-source software platform built for smart and connected devices of tomorrow.
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GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure — The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest.
GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund
Sovereign Tech Fund — The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure. Our goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem. We focus on security, resilience, technological diversity, and the people behind the code.
Recession-hit Germany is facing a flurry of global headwinds: Goldman Sachs
KDE’s 6th Megarelease - Alpha — It has been nearly 10 years since the last big release of our flagship Plasma desktop environment, and the time has come again. KDE is making available today the Alpha version of all the software we will include in a megarelease scheduled for the end of February 2024.
KDE Timeline of major releases - Wikipedia
Schedules/Plasma 6 - KDE Community Wiki
Plasma 5.27.80 complete changelog
This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording – Adventures in Linux and KDE — Yep you read that right, we’ve decided to throw the lever and go Wayland by default! The three remaining showstoppers are in the process of being fixed and we expect them to be done soon–certainly before the final release of Plasma 6.
KDE neon Plasma 6 ISOs
KDE neon Unstable downloads
KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released, Plus KDE Frameworks & KDE Gear
nix-bitcoin — nix-bitcoin is a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
Jonas Nick — Jonas Nick has been a Bitcoin developer with Blockstream since 2015. He is also a contributor to free and open source projects like Bitcoin Core, libsecp, rust-bitcoin and many others.
Jonas Nick talk on nix-bitcoin - YouTube
nevoyu's Nix Config
International Space Station Abandons Windows In Favour Of Debian — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable – one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could,” explained Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor involved in ISS operations.
Ground command to major tom, please do a push up - YouTube
KDE Activities: How To - Nicco/YouTube

A special guest joins us, and we each give Fedora 39 a try. What’s new, what we liked, and what didn’t make the cut!

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Element Going AGPL — 📣⚠️📣 Announcing a new home and license (AGPLv3) for Synapse and friends: going forwards Element’s work on Synapse, Dendrite & related server-side projects is going to be released as AGPLv3 rather than Apache.
A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends — The benefit of switching to AGPLv3 is that it obliges downstream developers to contribute back to the core project - either by releasing their modifications as open source for the benefit of the whole Matrix ecosystem, or by contacting Element for an alternative license. Future code contributors to Synapse will need to sign a contributor license agreement (CLA) based on the Apache Software Foundation’s CLA, giving Element the right to license the contribution commercially to third party proprietary forks so we can use it to help fund Matrix core development in future.
Synapse goes AGPL Discussion on Hacker News
Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
Ask Noah Show 362 — Ubuntu Summit 2023 with Jon Seager
Future of the bitcoin-dev mailing list — Our current mailing list host, Linux Foundation, has indicated for years that they have wanted to stop hosting mailing lists, which would mean the bitcoin-dev mailing list would need to move somewhere else. We temporarily avoided that, but recently LF has informed a moderator that they will cease hosting any mailing lists later this year.
Unplugged Tuxies - 2023 — There's still time to vote in the 2023 Tuxies!
⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING IN THE 2023 TUXIES?
Fedora Appreciation Week 2023 — Today is a special day, a day where we celebrate 20 years of Fedora! 🎉
Photos and Favorite Moments from the Fedora Community
Say Thank You during Fedora Appreciation Week 2023
Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
Fedora Change: Retire Modularity — Fedora will discontinue building modules for Fedora Linux 39 and further in the Fedora infrastructure and shipping modular content to users.
Fedora Web Installer Delayed
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 39 — Fedora Workstation 39 includes the latest version of the GNOME desktop environment, GNOME 45. This version features stylish new widgets in several core apps, a brand new Image Viewer app, a new keyboard backlight setting on supported systems, a more informative Activities button, improved performance, and many other refinements to the user experience all throughout.
Introducing Fedora Onyx: Immutable Variant with Budgie Desktop — Built with the same robust technologies as other Fedora immutable variants such as Kinoite, and Silverblue, Fedora Onyx is designed for users who value the Fedora computing platform and Budgie Desktop environment but need the added immutability and atomic capabilities that rpm-ostree provides.
11 Future-Proof Immutable Linux Distributions
Fedora Onyx — The Budgie desktop experience in an immutable fashion.
LINUX Unplugged 468 — The Read Only Scenario
Fedora Silverblue Technical Information
Fedora Change: vm.maxmapcount — The goal is to improve compatibility with Windows games through wine or steam.
GNOME 45 Release Notes — For the new version we’ve focused on refining your daily interactions, enhancing performance, and making the overall experience smoother and more efficient. From subtle design tweaks to functional upgrades, GNOME 45 is all about refining the core desktop environment you rely on.
KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on shipping KDE Plasma 6.0 as the KDE desktop option for Fedora 40. Additionally, as part of this change, the plan is to drop the KDE X11 session to leave only the KDE Plasma Wayland session available.
iancleary's nixos-config
Determinate Systems' nix-github-actions
Example of Github Action using Nix
bcachefs merged into Linux 6.7
gitfs — gitfs is a FUSE file system that fully integrates with git.
VyOS — Democratizing how we access networks through a universal Router and Open source software.
FlakM's Nix Config
Podman Desktop 1.5
lima — Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding (similar to WSL2).
colima — Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup.
ProjectM — Cross-platform Music Visualization Library. Open-source and Milkdrop-compatible.

New AI "regulation" from on high this week, a few signs you might be pissing in your own pond, and the game dev team that's been together for 40 years.

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Hopping instead of hustling: Survey tells us how developers are taking care of business — More developers are looking for or are open to a new job now compared to the last two years—that’s according to the results of our latest survey on the state of developer employment. More than 1,000 developers responded to this year’s survey about jobs and 79% are at least considering new opportunities if not actively looking.
Watch Silo - Apple TV+
Watch For All Mankind - Apple TV+
Biden AI executive order directs agencies to develop safety guidelines — The executive order builds on non-binding agreements the White House made with AI companies.
Eric Geller on X — Developers of any LLMs with the potential to pose serious risks will have to red-team them for safety and security issues—based on standards developed by NIST—and share the results with the government. Biden is using the Defense Production Act for this.
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI — The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.
Hector Martin — This is a lie, and this excuse needs to die. Linux kernel code quality and review is about as bad as you'd expect for a project of that size with a low reviewer:contributor ratio. It is in no way helped by reviewers and maintainers who are "picky" (=assholes).
Ask the Developer Vol. 11, Super Mario Bros. Wonder — This year marks the 39th year that I've been involved in the development of Mario games.
Nintendo executives take pay cuts after profits tumble — Nintendo's top executives are taking temporary pay-cuts to atone for a dive in profits following disappointing sales of its Wii U games console.
Nintendo Is Raising Its Employee Pay By 10% In Japan — Despite a downturn in sales and profits for Nintendo in its third quarter, it's reportedly raising the base salaries of its employees by 10% in its homeland.

How we almost lost valuable data this week, and a Chat with Doug and Mitch about their new home lab server.

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How to make self-hosting and local-first software work — Fom offline mode to multiplayer to heady questions about ownership, we’re rethinking the way software works. But what does better look like?
GitLab + KubeCon NA 2023 | GitLab
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud — In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data.
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Google Nest Mini Gutted And Rebuilt To Run Custom Agents — [Justin] pulled apart a Nest Mini, ripped out the original PCB, and kitted it out with his own internals. He uses the ESP32 as the basis of his design, since it provides plenty of processing power and WiFi connectivity. His replacement PCB also interfaces with the LEDs, mute switch, and capacitive touch features of the Nest Mini, for ease of interaction.
Justin Alvey on X — I “jailbroke” a Google Nest Mini so that you can run your own LLM’s, agents and voice models.
BBC in Hot Water — An article discussing the origins of a phrase.

We've all made mistakes and tried to play dumb, but this week history is being made.

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Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly told to “stop talking” during rambling testimony — FTX co-founder scolded for making up his own definition of market manipulation.
Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail — Somehow, the least suspicious parts of his defense are the 288 auto-deleting Signal conversations.
In the end, the FTX trial was about the friends screwed along the way — The prosecution’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried had a lot of collateral damage.
Android 14 breaks storage on some devices — The storage problem takes effect if the user, before installing Android 14, had multiple profiles on the device.
Google readies Pixel update to fix Android 14 storage access issue — Depending on the device, this issue can result in the primary user being unable to access media storage. Alternatively, the issue can reboot the device with a “Factory data reset” message. If this message is accepted, data that is not backed up can be lost, and if it is declined, the device repeatedly reboots with the “Pixel is starting” message.
Android 14 review: There’s always next year
European Parliament adopts final position on EU Commission's CSAM (ChatControl) Proposal : privacy — There will be no mass surveillance of digital communications. The EU Parliament instead propose that surveillance will be limited to targeted surveillance of individuals and groups reasonably suspected of dissemination of CSAM and will only be permitted with a judicial warrant.
The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law
"Fuck you, we're not paying": inside Unity’s Runtime Fee fiasco — One Unity insider told us that a major mobile game publisher – and one of Unity’s biggest clients – met with John Riccitiello himself days after the first Runtime Fee policy was announced. They told him, in the words of our source: “Fuck you, we’re not paying.”

We did Proxmox dirty last week, so we try to explain our thinking. But first, a few things have gone down that you should know about.

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Fedora 39 Delayed To At Least 7 November — While Fedora 39 was aiming for an ideal "early final" release on 18 October, that didn't happen, it was delayed, and then delayed again. Now the earliest Fedora 39 will possibly shift is 7 November.
Bug: F39 RC1.2 images have sometimes “RC” in their name
Bug: Failed media check immediately disappears on bare metal, shows a black screen instead
F39 Final Go/No-Go meeting
Linux Mint Starts working on Wayland Support — The work started on Wayland. As mentioned earlier this year, this was identified as one of the major challenges our project had to tackle in the mid to long term.
Cinnamon Wayland Trello
Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not Fully Ready Until 2026
Six Great Features With The Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel — While there were many last minute fixes this week, the changes don't appear to be too scary or invasive. In any event the Linux 6.6 kernel is bringing some exciting features.
Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
Btrfs For Linux 6.6 Brings Fixes, Partially Recovers From Scrub Performance Regression — David Sterba of SUSE sent out the Btrfs updates on Monday for the Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are no explicit new features this cycle but a variety of bug fixes, including work to address the Btrfs scrub performance following a rework back in Linux 6.4. The scrub performance isn't entirely restored but at least it's inching ahead in the right direction with Linux 6.6.
EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files — I conducted tests in my 32-core environment by launching 32 concurrent threads to append write to the same file. Each write operation had a length of 1024 bytes and was repeated 100000 times. Without using this patch, the test was completed in 7705 ms. However, with this patch, the test was completed in 5066 ms, resulting in a performance improvement of 34%.
XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down — My final act as maintainer is to write down every thing that I've been doing as maintainer for the past six years. There are too many demands placed on the maintainer, and the only way to fix this is to delegate the responsibilities. I also wrote down my impressions of the unwritten rules about how to contribute to XFS.
XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over — We now have in-memory pageable memory for staging btrees, a bunch of pending fixes, and we've started the process of refactoring the scrub support code to support more of repair.
SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA — We've come a long way from the original NSA submission and I would consider SELinux a true community project at this point so removing the NSA branding just makes sense.
Linux 6.6 To Bring Another Rust Toolchain Upgrade — Some of the other Rust changes for this imminent merge window include supporting the rust-analyzer for out-of-tree kernel modules, the Rust availability detection script has been improved, a new "paste!" proc macro, new pinned-init APIs, and a variety of other additions to continue to make Rust programming possibilities for the Linux kernel more robust.
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Nixpkgs supply chain security project — The focus of this project is on reducing our reliance on foreign binaries to compile Nixpkgs from scratch, ensuring we are are indeed running the code we compiled by leveraging existing security components in NixOS, and putting in place mechanisms that allow us to deliver the most up-to-date, secure software whenever it is available in a way that can be sustained given our maintainer capacities.
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Bitcoin Beach — The project Bitcoin Beach is creating a sustainable Bitcoin Economic ecosystem on the coast of El Salvador, where the majority of people do not have access to bank accounts and the local businesses could never qualify for merchant accounts needed to accept credit cards.

Rumors of internal panic at Apple, and concerns about the future of RISC-V. Plus, the software update of the century.

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The Risk of RISC-V: What's Going on at SiFive? — I have received reports, now from multiple sources, that the major torch bearer of the RISC-V platform, a company known as SiFive and formed from the original architects of the RISC-V instruction set, has gone through some major changes.
Apple Announces October Event for Macs: 'Scary Fast' — Apple today announced its second fall event of 2023, with the online event set to be held on Monday, October 30 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
Apple to invest more than $1 billion annually in lucrative new area — A July report, however, found that, behind closed doors, Apple was working frantically to develop its own ChatGPT competitor dubbed Ajax.
Apple Preps Ajax Generative AI, ‘Apple GPT’ to Rival OpenAI and Google
What Is Apple Doing in AI? Revamping Siri, Search, Apple Music and other Apps
Daring Fireball: Apple and AI — But I think Gurman’s summary does get at an essential truth. If I asked you “Which companies are at the forefront of AI-powered products?”, I doubt you’d put Apple on the list. And AI is proving so useful — and yet is a nascent field — that Apple needs to soon be on that list, lest their products begin to fall behind competitively. “Which companies are best at integrating AI into products?” is going to be like “Which companies are best at creating hardware at scale?” and “Which companies are best at human interface design?”
Apple Cancelled Jon Stewart Because Feckless Tech Executives Were Afraid Of The Pesky Truth — Last week, the New York Times reported that Apple had cancelled “The Problem With Jon Stewart.”
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Exclusive: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel — Nvidia has quietly begun designing central processing units (CPUs) that would run Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Windows operating system and use technology from Arm Holdings(O9Ty.F), , two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12 billion miles away — The update, which took almost 18 hours to complete, was transmitted to help Voyager 2 avoid the same problem that its sibling, Voyager 1, experienced last year.
The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe

We try and pull off one too many projects, but you can't argue with the results. We report on our week of rebuilds and rescues and having a blast at LinuxFest Northwest.

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AI in Nextcloud: what, why and how - Nextcloud — To fit everyone’s needs, we offer several types of integrations for AI, from completely self-hosted options to integrations with external services.
How to debloat Windows 11 from junk apps (best method) — Debloat Windows 11 and (partially) retake control of your computer with a third-party tool from GitHub.
ninite.com — No toolbars. No clicking next. Just pick your apps and go.
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Home Assistant's founder, Paulus Schoutsen, shares details about the Year of Voice, recent legal actions from Mazda, and the results of a recent third-party audit.

Plus, our recommended Nextcloud setup, converting dumb devices into smart ones with ESPHome, and more.

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2023: Home Assistant's year of Voice - Home Assistant — TL;DR: It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant in their own language. Mike Hansen, creator of Rhasspy, has joined Nabu Casa to lead this effort. We’re starting off by building a collection of intent matching sentences in every
Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration - Home Assistant — Home Assistant is disappointed that Mazda has decided to take this position. We’re also sad that Mazda’s first recourse was not to reach out to us and the maintainer but to send a cease and desist letter instead.
Year of the Voice - Chapter 4 - YouTube — We’re building an open voice assistant that does not share your data. Join us for our fourth progress update. You don't want to miss this one.
Year of the Voice - Chapter 4: Wake words - Home Assistant — We’ve got great news: wake words are finally here! After 4 chapters, we now have the final building block for voice in Home Assistant.
$13 voice assistant for Home Assistant - Home Assistant — This tutorial will guide you to turn an ATOM Echo into the world’s most private voice assistant. Pick up the tiny device to talk to your smart home. Issue commands and get responses!
ATOM Echo Smart Speaker Development Kit — ATOM ECHO is a Programmable Smart Speaker based on the M5ATOM design. With its compact form factor measuring only 24 * 24 * 17 mm, this speaker delivers impressive capabilities. Easily play music wirelessly using the BT capabilities of the ESP32 from your mobile phone or tablet.
Unleash Your Creativity with ESP32-S3-BOX-3 — ESP32-S3-BOX-3 is based on Espressif’s ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC, with AI acceleration capabilities. In addition to ESP32-S3’s 512KB SRAM, ESP32-S3-BOX-3 comes with 16MB of Quad flash and 16MB of Octal PSRAM.
Anker PowerConf S330 USB Speakerphone — A USB speakerphone with 4 high-sensitivity microphones to pick up all voices within 3m in super-high clarity.
piper: A fast, local neural text to speech system — A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4. Piper is used in a variety of projects.
wyoming: Peer-to-peer protocol for voice assistants — A peer-to-peer protocol for voice assistants (basically JSONL + PCM audio)
wyoming-faster-whisper — Wyoming protocol server for faster whisper speech to text system
openWakeWord: An open-source audio wake word (or phrase) detection framework with a focus on performance and simplicity. — openWakeWord is an open-source wakeword library that can be used to create voice-enabled applications and interfaces. It includes pre-trained models for common words & phrases that work well in real-world environments.
Symfonium: Music player & cast - Apps on Google Play — Symfonium is a simple, modern, beautiful and highly configurable music player, with a unique vision to be the central control point of your music. Add one or multiple media providers.
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We're about to see a wave of big tech AI features "inspired" by third-party developers at a scale that makes the Sherlocking on Apple's platform seem like chump change. Plus, how Dropbox turned around their dev retention rates, and more.

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Analogue is making a 4K Nintendo 64 — The company behind the Analogue Pocket turns its attention to the N64. We don’t know what the console will look like yet, but it’s launching in 2024.
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Google to defend generative AI users from copyright claims — "To our knowledge, Google is the first in the industry to offer a comprehensive, two-pronged approach to indemnity" that specifically covers both types of claims, a company spokesperson said.
AI Could Cause a Financial Crash Within a Decade, SEC Head Says — Banking has embraced AI, with Morgan Stanley rolling out a chatbot advisor based on OpeanAI's GPT4.
The AI Profitability Problem - dominickm.com — In the rapidly evolving world of AI technology, challenges abound, from hardware dependencies to business model uncertainties and emerging regulatory concerns.
The CEO of Dropbox Has a 90/10 Rule for Remote Work — "If you trust people and treat them like adults, they'll behave like adults. Trust over surveillance," said Houston.
Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption — By making a minor concession EU governments hope to find a majority next week to approve the controversial „chat control“ bill. According to the proposed child sexual abuse regulation (CSAR), providers of messengers, e-mail and chat services would be forced to automatically search all private messages and photos for suspicious content and report it to the EU.
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U.S. Tightens Curbs on AI Chip Exports to China, Widening Rift With Nvidia and Intel — New rules make it tougher for the U.S. businesses to sell advanced semiconductors to the Chinese market
Top FTX Executive Says Sam Bankman-Fried Used Customer Money for ‘Excess’ Spending — Nishad Singh, testifying at Mr. Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial, said FTX customer deposits were used to buy luxury real estate and to pay athletes like Tom Brady and Steph Curry for endorsement deals.

Has Canonical finally nailed snaps? Why it looks like Ubuntu has turned a new corner; our thoughts on the latest release. Plus, a special guest and more.

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Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon — So as we near the end of 2023 or going into early 2024, it's looking like we're nearing the point of finally having native Wayland support with the upstream Firefox builds.
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Ubuntu 23.10 Released — This is the release where the team aims to land as many major changes as possible to ensure that the community has the chance to take them for a spin and provide feedback for further refinement ahead of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Brave New Trusted Boot World — This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future with a focus on robustness and simplicity.
Fitting Everything Together — Let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, and uniformity.
Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur): Best New Features — Key highlights of Linux Kernel 6.5 include WiFi 7 support, and MIDI 2.0 compatibility.
Ubuntu 23.10 is Available to Download, This is What’s New
Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10 — Overall though Ubuntu 23.10 is a nice upgrade for those making use of Intel Arc Graphics and sticking to the kernel/Mesa default versions as shipped by Ubuntu. If you are more advantageous, upgrading to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel can mean some very nice performance wins across various OpenGL and Vulkan workloads.
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations — We have identified hate speech from a malicious contributor in some of our translations submitted as part of a third party tool outside of the Ubuntu Archive. The Ubuntu 23.10 image has been taken down and a new version will be available once the correct translations have been restored.
Why You Can’t Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10
Bug: chrome-gnome-shell extension fails to detect native host connector
Tiling Assistant GNOME Extension — An extension which adds a Windows-like snap assist to GNOME. It also expands GNOME's 2 column tiling layout.
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WiFi232 — An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer
Pick: tags — A simple text tagger.
Tags on Flathub — Create tags with color schemes and give color to your logs or text files

Mike checks in from the grind and shares some challenges in recent cross-platform testing; then, we get into the avalanche of negative AI press coverage this week and the one massive story they're not touching.

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Why Hybrid Workers Are 'Coffee Badging' to Avoid Going Back to the Office — The workplace trend involves showing up at the office for a few hours before leaving.
Report Claims LOTR: Gollum Publisher Used AI To Write Apology — An investigation by German outlet Game Two into what went wrong during the development of Lord of the Rings: Gollum has made claims that the publisher’s apology for the terrible state of the released game was written by AI ChatGPT.
Disney’s Loki remains silent over reported use of generative AI — Loki season 2 poster has been linked to a stock image on Shutterstock that seemingly breaks the platform’s licensing rules regarding AI-generated content.
Artists are upset that ‘Secret Invasion’ used AI art for opening credits — Marvel’s latest series, “Secret Invasion,” made its debut on Disney+ today, sparking tons of backlash after it was confirmed the intro sequence was AI-generated.
AI doesn’t sound particularly profitable. — Despite charging $10 a month for GitHub Copilot, The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is losing an average of over $20 per user, per month.
Who Is OpenAI’s Sam Altman? Meet the Oppenheimer of Our Age — Altman grew up the oldest of four siblings in suburban St. Louis: three boys, Sam, Max, and Jack, each two years apart, then a girl, Annie, nine years younger than Sam.
Annie Altman on X — I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore.
Annie Altman on X — Annie's video message to Sam Altman.
Émile P. Torres, PhD on X — This is Sam Altman's sister. Her tweets about sexual, physical, emotional, etc. abuse are incredibly hard to read. Seems that no one in the media is that interested in covering this story because they're afraid of losing access to OpenAI if they write something critical of Sam.
Pledditor on X — Sam Altman's sister is making some eyepopping allegations against him 👀
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We ran Windows for the week with three seemingly simple objectives. How we did, our take on what's gotten a lot better about Windows, and what still needs some work.

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Microsoft launches new web app store for Windows — Microsoft has rebuilt its web version of the Microsoft Store from the ground up with a new UI and easier ways to find apps.
Use the winget tool to install and manage applications — The winget command line tool enables users to discover, install, upgrade, remove and configure applications on Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers.
winget-cli — WinGet is the Windows Package Manager.
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With a dose of pragmatism and optimism, we chat about making the best out of old hardware and where we draw the line and buy new.

Plus, getting practical about your home media setup, bringing Spook into Home Assistant, and more.

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Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! — Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling
WireGuard Component — ESPHome — This component uses a custom implementation not developed by original authors and currently available for ESP32 platform only.
Spook 👻 a scary powerful toolbox for Home Assistant. — Spook ships with a lot of goodness for you to explore. Currently, there are three main areas of functionality that Spook sprinkles on top of Home Assistant.
SSH 023: Shields Up - — We've spent thousands of dollars and over a decade refining the perfect home media setup. We get nostalgic and share what worked and what REALLY didn't.
Incorrect and missing videos - Official Kodi Wiki — Errors arise from either mistakes by the user, inherent limitations of the scraper, and/or errors at the site of the information provider.
Naming video files/Episodes - Official Kodi Wiki — Be aware of the following
MediaElch: Media Manager for Kodi — MediaElch is a MediaManager for Kodi. Information about Movies, TV Shows, Concerts and Music are stored as NFO files. Fanarts are downloaded automatically from fanart.tv.
tinyMediaManager — tinyMediaManager is a media management tool written in Java/Swing. It is written to provide metadata for the Kodi Media Center (formerly known as XBMC), MediaPortal and Plex media server. Due to the fact that it is written in Java, tinyMediaManager will run on Windows, Linux and macOS (and possible more OS).
FileBot - The ultimate TV and Movie Renamer — FileBot is the ultimate tool for renaming and organizing your movies, TV shows and Anime. Match and rename media files against online databases, download artwork and cover images, fetch subtitles, write metadata, and more, all at once in matter of seconds. It's smart and just works.
ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your microcontrollers by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
Tasmota — Tasmota is an open source firmware for Espressif ESP8266, ESP32, ESP32-S or ESP32-C3 chipset based devices created and maintained by Theo Arends.
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Barista Express — Create third wave specialty coffee at home from bean to espresso in less than a minute.
Bones Coffee Company - Say Goodbye to Boring.
How To Brew Espresso Like a Pro — Learn how to brew espresso at home, using an automatic or a manual espresso maker. Tips on pulling the perfect espresso shot and a troubleshooting guide.
AeroPress Coffee Maker Official Store
American Economic Liberties Project on X — Apple and Google have a “fantastic oligopolistic arrangement” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on day 14 of the #USvGoogle trial.
Apple Deal Responsible for Google's Dominance in Search, Says Microsoft CEO
Microsoft’s Nadella Takes Stand at Google Antitrust Trial - Bloomberg
Microsoft has spent $100 billion on Bing — Satya Nadella is one of several executives the US Department of Justice will have testify in its antitrust trial about Google search.
An hour-long history lesson about Microsoft’s many failures in mobile. — Nadella is mostly just responding “that sounds right” and “correct.” He’s not arguing that Bing is better than Google — he’s arguing that it’s impossible to be better than Google. And Schmidtlein says no, it’s just that Bing sucks. And that’s your fault, not ours.
Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices — The strategy, as described in redacted parts of FTC lawsuit, is part of agency’s case that Amazon has outsize influence on consumer prices
Apple enforces new check on apps in China as Beijing tightens oversight — Apple began last Friday requiring app developers to submit the "internet content provider (ICP) filing" when they publish new apps on its App Store, it said on its website for developers.
After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors' — In new comments today, EU industry chief Thierry Breton reiterated that Apple must “open up its gates to competitors.”
CRTC takes major step forward to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework — We are developing a modern broadcasting framework that can adapt to changing circumstances.

Wes visits the office to chat about some new podcast tech inbound, Google killing their Podcast app, and Chris' story from his morning with Podfans.

Special Guest: Alecks Gates.

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Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 — Today, Google says it plans on further increasing its investment in the podcast experience on YouTube Music and making it more of a destination for podcast fans with features focused on discovery, community and switching between audio podcasts and video.
YouTube is going to remove some ad controls for creators — YouTube creators won’t be able to individually select if pre-roll, post-roll, skippable, and non-skippable ads appear in new videos.
Podcast Mirror by Blubrry — We offer blazing performance speeds and reliability regardless of web traffic. At the same time allowing your Podcast to support Value4Value, Lit and Live and more Podcasting 2.0 features include the Medium Tag. Podcast Mirror provides you modern podcast features and high dependability.
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Podfans — Podcasting that Pays
Empath Eyes - Ethereal - Shadow Man — A unique blend of organic and electronic elements form these 3 tracks. Featuring electric guitar, bass, drums, horns, and plenty of synths, "Ethereal" will challenge your concept of electronic music.
Radio mediums · Discussion #567 — This medium would be dedicated to 24/7 live streams that don't expect regular updates in their metadata.
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Why the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't meet our expectations, and the x86 boxes you should consider instead.

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Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! — Today, we’re delighted to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi 5, coming at the end of October. Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling.
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks — Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O.
Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers — The Raspberry Pi 5 is significantly faster than its predecessor while costing almost the same price. Its only drawback, which is likely temporary, is that some older HATs and add-ons may not have have software support right away.
Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry Pi
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Intel is killing off its NUC mini PCs
HP ProDesk 600 G1 Desktop Mini PC
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Beelink U59 Mini PC 11th Gen 4-Cores N5105
Beelink SER5 MAX with 8-Core AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, 32GB DDR4, 500GB NVMe
Beelink Gaming Mini PC SER7 AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS pre-in W11 Pro,32GB DDR5,1TB SSD
Beelink SER7 7840HS Mini-PC Review | TechPowerUp
ODROID-H3 / H3+ — ameriDroid
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Adopting Bitcoin OSS Track
RealDudePerson/beakon — Beakon is designed to be a self-host location sharing webserver. Beakon aims to leak as little data as possible and uses mostly self-contained libraries and local database files.
Meet the DEC VT Family
RetroDECK — RetroDECK is a polished and beginner-friendly environment for playing your retro games on Steam Deck, available with just one click from the Discover app.
Pick: Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
Pick: Wayland or X11 GNOME Shell Extension
How To Identify XWayland Applications on Wayland | DeviceTests

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Our unique take on the Unity outrage, thoughts on RustRover, and Mike shares a very annoying mistake.

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A montage of snippets from Jupiter Broadcasting’s CoderRadio Show — Alex is bloggin 'bout Coder.
RustRover: Rust IDE by JetBrains — A brand new JetBrains IDE for Rust Developers
Introducing RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains | The IntelliJ Rust Blog — Today we’re opening the RustRover Early Access Program (EAP) and we’d love for you to try it, give us feedback, and help us shape the product.
Adobe launches Photoshop for the web with its popular desktop AI tools — Photoshop for the web is now generally available as part of all Photoshop paid plans and includes Firefly-powered features like Generative Fill.
Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs — According to a Bloomberg report, Epic is cutting roughly 16 percent of its workforce.
Unity has updated its controversial pricing policy again — A troublesome rollout of new policy changes had left developers frustrated and angry
An open letter to our community | Unity Blog — I want to start with this: I am sorry.
Godot Engine — Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine
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Even if you don't game, the data is in, and the impact of the Steam Deck on Linux is massive. We'll go into details and then share our long-term review of the Deck.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Listener Jeff.

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Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’
How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem - OSS EU 2023
Open Source Summit Europe 2023: How SteamOS is Contributing to the Linux Ecosystem
Igalia — Open Source Consultancy and Development
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community — Alberto Garcia of the open-source consulting firm Igalia, which continues to collaborate with Valve on some of these Linux ecosystem improvements, talked at length around how SteamOS is contributing to the Linux ecosystem.
Docking Station for Valve Steam Deck Dock
The Steam Deck wasn’t born ready, but it’s ready now
Awesome Deck List
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Alby 🐝 on X — Humble reminder: In August, Alby accounts have processed over 1 million transactions! 😊😊😊 And it’s all thanks to… you! 💙 Our users, partners, wallet holders, contributors!
Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS
GeneBean's dot files
RetroDECK — RetroDECK is an emulation and retro gaming solution to catalog and play your game collection directly from Linux in one unified application.

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Our thoughts on two recent Plex crackdowns, why the Apple TV just got a lot better, how home Assistant could improve 10 years in, and much more.

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Plex is Cracking Down on Pirated Content — Plex is cracking down on at least one hosting service supporting pirated content in a move that may result in some collateral damage.
Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company
Account banned : PleX — Today I got my account banned in plex "this Plex account has accepted monetary compensation in exchange for services based in part on Plex". Which is totally untrue.
I need your help with Intel Quick Sync benchmarking! — Please help me benchmark as many Intel CPUs Quick Sync transcoding performance as possible!
Is Quick Sync Video any good? Media Server Hardware Encoding Tests | Enquire within, help needed! - YouTube — Therefore I'm pleased to announce the first release of a Quick Sync benchmarking script allowing us to do just that.
Apple TV, now with more Tailscale · Tailscale — The newly released tvOS 17 offers support for VPNs, and we’re proud to say Tailscale is among the first to use this new feature. You can now add your Apple TV directly to your tailnet, unlocking three powerful new use cases that we’re excited to share.
Use Tailscale on your Apple TV! - YouTube
10 years Home Assistant - Home Assistant — I wasn’t planning on changing the world. It was a playground, a place where I could use the latest technology and explore all the possibilities with Python. But bit by bit Home Assistant gained traction, more contributors joined and we slowly started to build a community.
Introducing Home Assistant Green — We’ve taken that to heart, and today, we are introducing an affordable way for new users to upgrade their smart homes to Home Assistant. It’s the Home Assistant Green – and it costs only $99 (MSRP).
Home Assistant Green - Seeed Studio
A new chapter in the Home Assistant Yellow journey — Unfortunately, Raspberry Pi CM4s are still in short supply. At this point we can’t build enough Home Assistant Yellow (with CM4) to fulfill demand. Unfortunately, we can’t make accurate estimates on when Home Assistant Yellow (with CM4) variants will ship, as we have not gotten delivery dates from Raspberry Pi
Nest devices get major downgrade as part of legal challenge — This is the latest Nest feature to be nerfed following a legal battle.
TubesZB – TubesZB Coordinators and Router
SSH 106 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters for helping produce episode 106!

The painful side of making video games, Grinder's big problems, and Google's sneakiest trojan horse.

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Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups? — Is there any specific reason why startups, at least here in India, don’t tend to use dotnet for backend especially now dotnet is also open source and cross-platform.
Almost Half of Grindr’s Employees Quit — Grindr seems to have played itself by giving its employees a return-to-office ultimatum — and nearly half of those employees responded by quitting.
Santiago on X: "I fired somebody cheating" — Around that time, I stumbled upon the idea of overemployment. A whole movement dedicated to helping people work several full-time jobs at once.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly — Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting
The Privacy Sandbox — Billions of people around the world rely on access to information on sites and apps. To provide this free resource without relying on intrusive tracking, publishers and developers need privacy-preserving alternatives for their key business needs, including serving relevant content and ads.
Major programming faults discovered in Starfield's code by VKD3D dev - performance issues are not the result of non-upgraded hardware — What really grinds my gears is the fact that the open source community has figured out and came up with workarounds to try to make this game run better.
Starfield Is Great—Unless You're on Nvidia or Intel
Venn on X — While it may not be optimized for PC, it will be optimized for #Linux.
Todd Howard Tells Starfield Players To Upgrade Their PCs
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water — In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.
Nissan, Kia 'collect data about drivers' sexual activity' — The foundation said most car companies can comb through a variety of sources to glean personal information about drivers after they pair their smartphones with a vehicle’s connected services.

Today's theme is data sovereignty, and we'll check in with two crucial projects that are giving you more options.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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Ask Noah Show 354 — Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered!
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Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant
“Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀 — Nextcloud Hub 6 has evolved into a robust collaboration platform that empowers organizations and individuals to work seamlessly while ensuring data privacy.
Element X — Element X isn’t just the fastest Matrix client ever - it’s up to 6000x faster than any other Matrix client.
Element X preview is now on Android too!
sliding-sync Proxy — An implementation of MSC3575.
MSC3575: Sliding Sync (aka Sync v3) — This MSC outlines a replacement for the CS API endpoint /sync.
Matrix Community Summit 2023 — Join us from Thu, 21st to Sat, 24th September 2023!
Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
Atari VCS Base — Featuring AMD Raven Ridge 2 APU and AMD Ryzen processor GPU with 8GB DDR4 RAM (upgradable), and 32GB eMMC fixed internal storage.
BeardedTek/linode-dyndns — Linode Dynamic DNS Updater
Pick: yazi — ⚡️ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

We're testing a new Podcasting 2.0 feature and need your ears!

Did Apple's event live up to our expectations? And our thoughts on what new goodies for developers might be in the new hardware and software.

Brent's new Framework laptop has been torn apart and put back together again. We'll find out if it's up to his standards. Plus, we're kicking off a new build.

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CCCamp23 — Chaos Communication Camp 2023
Framework — The time has come for consumer electronics products that are designed to last: products that give you back the power to upgrade, customize, and repair them. We’re excited for the opportunity to fix the consumer electronics industry together.
Framework 13 — Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition (13th Gen Intel® Core™)
Nextcloud Conference 2023
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Fundraising Merch is Live — Your fest is back! Support its return with a shirt and/or donation.
I use NixOS for the same reason. Cleanliness is empowering.
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The Blog Index — TheGoldenDragon and I have hashed out some basic ideas about what Boost 4 Blogs should be and in a moment of glory I decided to mimic The Podcast Index by registering blogindex.org!
Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6 — That very much means NOT continuing this "I'll just do it my way". You need to show that you can work with others, that you can work within the framework of upstream, and that not every single thread you get into becomes an argument.
Box64 — Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices.
Podcasting 2.0 Top 100 (Music) — This chart is a ranking of the music tracks played on podcasts that have been boosted the most over the last 7 days. It is recalculated hourly. Thank you to Nathan Gathright for the page design. ❤
Neo-Store — An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.
Obtainium — Get Android App Updates Directly From the Source.

Alex sits down with the lead developer of mergerfs to get an update on the project, Chris has a button-pushing breakthrough and more.

Special Guest: Antonio Musumeci.

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QuickSync Benchmarking Script — Written by cptmorgan (Morgan the doorbell guy!). Use this script to benchmark the performance of your Quick Sync iGPU video transcoder. Submit those results to Alex via the Gist linked (as a comment).
GitHub Gist - QuickSync Test Results — Post your QuickSync test results here as a comment.
ESPClicker — Espclicker is a small device that you can use to integrate not IoT devices into your smart home setup
Tuya-CloudCutter with ESPHome Beken Devices | How To Guide Home Assistant - YouTube
Home-Assistant-Switch-Manager — Switch manager is a centralised component to handle button pushes for your wireless switches. This includes anything passed through the event bus or MQTT.
Quad Zigbee Smart Switch - Chris' Current Fav — Each button has three pairing modes, allowing the 4 scene switches to create 12 unique scenes, including Home Mode, Away Mode, Movie Mode, and more.
Zooz 700 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller — Connect a 120 V light fixture (up to 150 W for LED's) to control it via Z-Wave or use the main button for wireless control only with up to 7 button triggers available.
Read-it-later app Matter can now transcribe your favorite podcasts — The company this morning is debuting “Readable Podcasts,” a feature that will let you save favorite podcasts and transcribe their audio to text. By doing so, you can use Matter’s other tools to interact with the podcast content as you would a saved article, including by doing things like highlighting, taking notes and sharing quotes.
mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem — mergerfs is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices. It is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.
trapexit on GitHub — Find the mergerfs lead dev on GitHub.
llama-gpt — A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot, powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
LUP 486: Goodbye, Google — Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.
Voice over IP - Home Assistant — The VoIP integration enables users to talk to Assist using an analog phone and a VoIP adapter.
HomeCam for HomeKit on the App Store — HomeCam is the only app to allow you to view multiple cameras live at once and control their surroundings.

Azure suffers a big outage, and Microsoft blames faulty automation; why we think there might be early signs of weak demand for Apple's Vision Pro and more.

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Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement — Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024
Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation failures — Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind
Apple Claims Vision Pro SDK Downloads Exceeded Expectations Amid Developer Lab Attendance Concerns — The affirmation comes on the heels of concerns highlighted by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman last month claiming that the developer labs have been "under-filled with small amounts of developers."
Apple's Vision Pro Developer Labs Not Drawing Many Attendees — Any developer can apply to attend a developer lab, but Apple is not reimbursing for travel, and developers located on the east coast of the United States will have to fund cross-country travel to get to the lab.
Elon Musk wants to turn X into a LinkedIn competitor — All in the name of turning X into an "everything app."
Elon Musk's X obtains required license for crypto payments — Notably, Rhode Island approved a requested license by Twitter Payments LLC — X’s payment branch — on August 28, according to data from NMLS. The “Currency Transmitter” license also includes different crypto-related service providers, such as crypto exchanges, wallets, and payment processors.

While chaos is brewing in SUSE and Red Hat land, Canonical stays the course and doubles down on the Linux desktop. Plus, our thoughts on the kernel team GPL-blocking NVIDIA.

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AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5 Million Lines, Entire Linux Kernel At 34.8 Million
Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules — It changes the behavior of symbolget(), causing it to fail when asked to look up a symbol that is not marked GPL-only. This is an inversion of the usual test, which denies access to symbols that are marked GPL-only. The reasoning is that symbolget() has always been intended for low-level cooperation deep within the kernel, where everything is expected to be GPL-only anyway.
Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver — Back in 2020 when the original defense was added, NVIDIA recommended avoiding the Linux 5.9 for the time being. They ended up having a supported driver several weeks later. It will be interesting to see this time how long Linux 6.6+ thwarts their kernel driver.
[Hacker News] Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
PATCH: modules: only allow symbolget of EXPORTSYMBOLGPL modules — Given that symbolget was only ever inteded for tightly cooperating modules using very internal symbols it is logical to restrict it to being used on EXPORYSYMBOLGPL and prevent nvidia from costly DMCA circumvention of access controls law suites.
Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future — Recently, we embarked on an internal exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our values and goals for how we plan to evolve the desktop experience over the next few years. This post is designed to share the output of those discussions and give insight into the direction we’re going.
Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
Leap Replacement Discussion — I've been looking at the results from the recent contributor survey to gauge the interest and feasibility of replacing openSUSE Leap with a new community-built offering.
Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
Wavlake — We envision a new, online world where creators and listeners can freely transact with one another in an open ecosystem.
Music Side Project Studio
The Boostagram Ball
The Fairly Fun Show
DJ V4V Podcast | All music - no Talk
Before The Sch3m3s 8.21.2023 - Behind the SchƎmƎs
V4V SHOW — How To Access V4V Music
Office Hours 34 — Podcast Bounty Hunters
Free Secure Phone Calls. Private Network Coms Access

U.S. officials are warning open-source software could be a cyber security threat. Their solution? Money. But do we want them picking the winners and losers of open source?

We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives. Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

Behind-the-scenes details of a new show in the works, our thoughts on a new genre of Podcasts bursting onto the scene, and we make JB history live on the show.

Alex does a significant overhaul of his website and shares new insights. Chris finally archives complete local voice control of his network, we complain about the state of domain name sellers, and more.

Mike hits the limits of ChatGPT's knowledge, a chat about editors and what we'd do for a living if it had to be outside of tech.

Can we build an indestructible server that stands up to the test of giving out root login to the Internet?

Chris and Brent are running with scissors and breaking things again. From the website to YouTube, how we broke just about everything this week.

Java developers are getting the Oracle shakedown, openAI is running out of money, and more.

We're trying out Rhino Linux—a unique take on rolling Ubuntu with AUR-like powers and other surprises.

A few tools to build your own Way Back Machine, we check in with the "Year of Voice" and more.

Did we get this one wrong? It seems consumer AI is eating the lunch of some web's biggest names.

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

A quick Pocket Office from "the field" on the new tech inbound to Office Hours and a big update on our bounty for episode 34!

Microsoft's dirty old API games, the new, even more restrictive rules Apple developers will now have to follow, and why Google's "Web Integrity API" seems gross.

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

Alex shares a suite of self-hosted apps that replace Reddit. Chris is struggling with Jellyfin, and we discuss where NixOS is killing it and where we think it falls down.

Elon Musk trying to build the "everything app" is ridiculous, and the quiet little promise openAI just made with the White House.

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

Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire.

Shopify has a mind-blowingly obvious solution to too many meetings, a recent failure Chris is struggling with, and more.

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

The advantages of Federating a local and remote Nextcloud, Chris replaces Google Home Hub's photo powers and the new docker-compose feature that will change Alex's entire setup. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

openAI's window to build their moat is closing, but they have a powerful friend stepping up to help seal the deal. Plus, our reaction to Oracle's very spicy response to Red Hat.

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

We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.

Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.

Mike updates us on his development adventures in Unreal 5, signs the Vision Pro might be a flop, and answer questions about abandoning Red Hat's platform.

Just about every take on the Red Hat news seems to have missed the mark. Special Guest: Carl George.

We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8.

Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.

Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.

We got our eyes on the Vision Pro SDK and share our new insights. And why the claims of stalled Mastodon adoption might ring a bit true.

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

We share some recent adventures, and the tale of how water got dumped into Chris' new home server.

We open the robe and spend a little time chatting about the software development business.

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

We dive into Lemmy, a self-hosted Reddit alternative. Plus, a couple of easy-to-deploy tools that make life better.

What we really like in Debian 12, the big players backing RISC-V, and the improvements in NextCloud Hub 5.

We chew on the ridiculous situation Reddit has created for itself and the weak position of app developers.

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.

Ubuntu gets serious about the immutable desktop, red flags from Red Hat, and the little tricks Apple used to patch Wine.

We argue over what sucked the most at WWDC this year and then surprise each other with two things that thrill us.

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.
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We chat with 45Drives about their ambitions to build a home-lab server that bridges the gap between enterprise-level servers and consumer-grade NAS products. And more.

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Amazon is discontinuing Alexa’s celebrity voices, even if you paid for them — “After three years, we’re winding down celebrity voices,” Amazon spokesperson Eric Sveum says in a statement to The Verge. “Customers will be able to continue using these voices for a limited time, and can contact our customer service team for a refund.”
45Drives Needs Your Help Developing a Homelab Server — 45Drives here to talk about a new project that we are super excited about. We’ve realized it’s time to build a home lab-level storage server.
Emby Security Advisory - May 25, 2023
dua-cli — dua (-> Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible. Optionally delete superfluous data, and do so more quickly than rm.
Developing inside a Container using Visual Studio Code Remote Development — The Visual Studio Code Dev Containers extension lets you use a container as a full-featured development environment. It allows you to open any folder inside (or mounted into) a container and take advantage of Visual Studio Code's full feature set.
Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Alby brings Boosts to the web.
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How the recent XFS bug was squashed, insights into why Microsoft built their own Linux from scratch, and recent attacks on Archive.org.

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Those Using The XFS File-System Will Want To Avoid Linux 6.3 For Now
XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch — This is a bug fix that we thought just fixed a livelock on stripe aligned filesystems. I'm guessing that in certain circumstances instead of livelocking on repeated failed allocations, it results in a broken mapping being returned to the writeback code and hence misdirecting the writeback IO.
Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix — Making Linux 6.3.5 a notable point release is that it has back-ported the fix for the XFS metadata corruption bug that was plaguing the Linux 6.3 point releases.
Azure Linux - Microsoft revealed why it did not fork Fedora — Why did Microsoft create Azure Linux? “We needed a Linux distribution internally,” Perrin said. “We wanted a consistent platform for ourselves.” Now there is “one vendor to support the full AKS stack”.
Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6 — With Fedora KDE and Kinoite being fully Wayland by default from login (since F38) to desktop (since F34), it's now time to work toward eliminating our dependency on the Xorg server for Plasma 6.0.
Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0 — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.
Fedora 36 Changes: Replace the fbdev drivers with simpledrm and the DRM fbdev emulation layer — This change replaces the legacy Linux frame buffer device (fbdev) drivers that are still used in Fedora, with the latest simpledrm driver and the DRM fbdev emulation layer.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of standard support — Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, codenamed ‘Bionic Beaver,’ is approaching the end of its standard five-year maintenance period on 31 May 2023.
Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down — Tens of thousands of requests per second for our public domain OCR files were launched from 64 virtual hosts on amazon’s AWS services. This activity brought archive.org down for all users for about an hour.
Internet Archive — Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

We chew on the best bits from this year's Microsoft Build and the bright red flag coming from the Rust community.

We take a "Rust-only tools" challenge for a week and admit what worked, and what sucked. Plus, a surprise guest.

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Why I left Rust
LinuxFest Northwest 2023
LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers
GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before.
Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles.
Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
Adopting Bitcoin 2023
LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE.
Bitcoin Dad Pod
Polaris — Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.
Polaris Demo
docker-polaris: Small docker of Polaris based on Alpine Linux
Polaris on Google Play
Polaris Android on F-Droid
Polarios on App Store
Lapce — Lapce is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.
Lapce on Flathub
Lapce packaged in Nix
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xi-editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
awesome-alternatives-in-rust: A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.
BitFocus Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
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Pick: Please Run That — A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
Pick: turtle — Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.

We travel 10 years into the future and report back on how podcasts and Jupiter Broadcasting are doing after all those years.

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Spotify Developing AI Ads Using Podcast Hosts' Voices — He said that the streaming service is working on technology for AI-generated ads.
Dave Jones Taking Count! — I’m really thinking it’s time to stop ingesting Anchor feeds automatically and only accept them into the index if they are tied to an iTunes ID or manually submitted.
Podverse | F-Droid — Podcast app with clips, video, livestreams, playlists, profiles, and cross-platf
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Franco (Castamatic) on Podcast Index Social — Castamatic 8.7.0 with the new Alby integration is available now on the AppStore.
Oak - Scheduled Boosts — Scheduled LN Payments (demo) - Stream sats from your own node. Setup a schedule to support your favorite content creators. All they need is a Lightning Address, and they keep 100% of what you send them.
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Microsoft's new Linux server distro, Red Hat Summit 2023 highlights, big changes at CodeWeavers, and Podman catches up to Docker Desktop.

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Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced — Podman Desktop offers a user-friendly interface for handling containers and integrating with Kubernetes from a local workstation.
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Introducing Azure Linux — This General Availability announcement follows our October preview announcement under the CBL-Mariner project codename. We’d like to thank the customers who provided valuable feedback and insight during our preview.
Introduction to the Azure Linux Container Host for AKS | Microsoft Learn
CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust — As of April 12th, the the company has a new shareholder - the CodeWeavers Purpose Trust. This Trust will become the primary owner of CodeWeavers.
CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust
Red Hat Summit 2023 — Highlights — The Red Hat Summit 2023 witnessed the launch of OpenShift AI and Red Hat Ansible software, security cloud services, and Linux management features.
The moment for AI
Automation and the AI revolution — Generative AI is everywhere. But I cannot overstate how different our approach to all this has been.
Red Hat Summit 2023: Adolfo Rodriguez, Advance Auto Parts - YouTube — Adolfo Rodriguez, SVP of Technology Transformation at Advance Auto Parts joins theCUBE hosts John Furrier & Rob Strechay for our continuing coverage of Red Hat Summit 2023

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has gone straight for the open-source kill move.

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Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used — It turns out that their terms state that you're buying the ability to print x pages and the ink is actually always owned by HP, even when in your possession.
LIVE: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies during Senate hearing on AI oversight — 05/16/23 - YouTube — The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing examining the rules for artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT creator Sam Altman reflects on the Senate's A.I. regulatory hearing - YouTube — ChatGPT creator Sam Altman remarks on the The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing about the "Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence.”
OpenAI’s Sam Altman To Congress: Regulate Us, Please!
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OpenAI chief concerned about AI being used to compromise elections | Reuters
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Pleads for AI Regulation
Spooked by ChatGPT, US Lawmakers Want to Create an AI Regulator | WIRED
Mohegan ₿TC 🟠 on Twitter — Today we got the first glimpse of the dangers of AI and social media An image was released on twitter stating there was an explosion near the Pentagon 🤦‍♂️

News spread quickly and over $500 million was sold off from the S&P 500 in minutes

This is just the beginning 🫣 * More Recent Apple Trademark Activity: 'realityproOS' * Reality Pro launch and pricing: Making sense of the speculation — The consensus view so far has been that Apple will announce the Reality Pro AR/VR headset at WWDC on June 5, and that pricing will be around $3,000. But some are questioning both …

How we found peace with the Linux community’s perpetual debates; and our tricks for finding the signal from the noise.

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Spotify App Stops Working for Linux Users
GrapheneOS version 2023051600 Released — Add initial Contact Scopes feature as an alternative to granting the Contacts permission... Add production ready Pixel 7a support.
GrapheneOS Discussion Forum: Version 2023051600 Released
GrapheneOS on Twitter — Our new Contact Scopes feature is now available in the Alpha channel. It provides a way to avoid granting the Contacts permission for apps requiring it. It's similar to our Storage Scopes feature replacing needing any of the media/storage permissions.
GrapheneOS on Twitter — GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 53 released.
Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin issued a lengthy post encouraging users of this Apple Silicon focused Linux distribution to stop using X.Org as Wayland is the future.
RHEL 9: Deprecated functionality — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.
r/linux: The whole X11 vs. Wayland thing… — Whilst I get Wayland is the future I have a bunch of issues with it. Off the top of my head…
Rustdesk ‘wontfix’ a naive privilege escalation on Linux
The LUP Odroid H3+ Chassis — I recently got an Odroid H3+ and desperately needed a chassis for it so I decided to make one. Since I am a long-time listener and a big fan of the Linux Unplugged podcast I wanted to pay tribute to it.
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Alex tempts Chris with his Obsidian ways, our thoughts on Drobo going bankrupt, and Photoprism adding paid tiers. Plus, the slick suite of tools you'll want to run on your LAN.

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Garden - planning with Canvas — I am using Obsidian to keep track of my gardening stuff. I have notes for all vegetables i am growing, how much i harvested etc...This year i decided to use the canvas feature to help with planning.Overall its a rough sketch of my garden and the beds, thats also why there is a huge empty spot in the middle as there are my garden-house and lawn etc...
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Drobo, having stopped sales and support, reportedly files Chapter 7 bankruptcy — Company posted in January that it had "transitioned to a self-service model."
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45Drives Needs Your Help Developing a Homelab Server — 45Drives here to talk about a new project that we are super excited about. We’ve realized it’s time to build a home lab-level storage server.
Pricing & Editions – PhotoPrism — Simple, affordable pricing. Upgrade or downgrade at any time.
Fasten — Fasten securely connects your healthcare providers together, creating a personal health record that never leaves your hands
CorentinTh/it-tools: Collection of handy online tools for developers, with great UX. — Useful tools for developers and people working in IT.
IT Tools - Demo site
Split DNS Magic with Tailscale - YouTube — Tailscales Split DNS function within the MagicDNS feature allows us to access devices by name, not IP. But what if we could also access any service running in a remote subnet via a Tailscale subnet router? That's what we'll cover in today's video.
Garden Gnomes Chat on Matrix — A chat room is for people who are interested in discussing all things gardening, and garden technology. Share your garden pictures, nerds out about about sensors, automated watering, build ideas, and more. We can share our experiences, ask questions, and learn from each other.
OpenSprinkler — OpenSprinkler is an open-source, web-based smart sprinkler controller for lawn and plant watering, drip irrigation, farm irrigation, hydroponics etc. The current version is OS 3.2, with built-in WiFi (based on ESP8266) and OLED display. You can choose between AC-powered, DC-powered, or Latch version. OpenSprinkler supports a variety of solenoid valves (24VAC, Latch, DC, motorized ball valve etc.)
Alby: Your Boostcompanion for the web — Alby brings Boosts to the web.
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Bcachefs hits a major milestone, how the Red Hat cuts impact Fedora, Plasma 6 plans, and the software update bricking EV batteries.

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bcachefs out for review — I'm submitting the bcachefs filesystem for review and inclusion.
bcachefs TestServerSetup
Bcachefs Submitted For Review - Aims For Mainline
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off — On 24 April 2023, Red Hat announced a 4% reduction in global staff. As a member of that 4%, today is my last day at Red Hat.
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts
KDE Developers Planning For Plasma 6.0 — This week my fellow developers and I are in Germany for an in-person Plasma sprint–our first since 2019!
KDE Developers In Germany Planning For Plasma 6.0
KDE Plasma 6 to Ship with Floating Panel by Default, Double-Click for Opening Files
Tesla sued over battery-busting OTA patch in Model S, X — The named plaintiffs claim that, despite Tesla saying their batteries are supposed to last the life of the vehicle, the Musk-owned automaker "deliberately and significantly interfere[d] with the car's performance through software updates that reduce operating capacity."

We laugh at Google's scramble, check in on the Twitter collapse, and how one developer's little mistake screwed millions.

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Michael Guimarin on Twitter — About a month from now Apple is going to announce support for using its silicon neural engine to run commercial and open source LLMs on the iPhone, etc.This will enable the work @BrianRoemmele is currently popularizing to come to Apple’s entire ecosystem.

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🚀🚀🚀 * Mark Gurman on Twitter — Power On: As Apple prepares to launch its next M2 Macs, the company is already ramping up testing of M3 chips. Here are the details and code counts of the next-generation 3 nanometer processors * Apple Books Nearly 90% of TSMC's 3nm Production Capacity for This Year — Apple has booked nearly 90% of chip supplier TSMC's first-generation 3-nanometer process capacity this year for future iPhones, Macs, and iPads, according to industry sources cited by DigiTimes, providing the Taiwanese foundry with significant growth momentum in the second half of 2023. * Elon Musk stepping down as Twitter CEO — Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s advertising chief, is in advanced talks for the role, CNBC’s Julia Boorstin reported. * The Curious Case of the Missing Google Assistant — Google’s generative AI chatbot Bard took center stage at the company’s I/O conference. The company’s answer to Siri was left backstage. * Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles * More than 2 million Toyota users face risk of vehicle data leak in Japan — The vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base who signed up for its main cloud service platforms since 2012, had been publicly available for a decade due to human error. * Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Alby brings Boosts to the web. * Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.

The push for free software takes years, maybe even generations. Brent gets the inside story from the Free Software Foundation Europe.

Special Guest: Matthias Kirschner.

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SteamDeckHQ on Twitter — What is your opinion on the ROG ALLY? Is it something you’ll be getting after seeing the stream and reading the reviews? We are on the fence here. Love the idea of extra power, but the worse battery life, using windows, glitches, and lack of touchpads does hamper our excitement.
ROG Ally (2023) — The ROG Ally is a true Windows 11 gaming machine, and comes bundled with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for free.
FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe — Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology.
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
EU Parliament wants to protect Free Software in AI regulation — Today the European Parliament's responsible committees voted by a large majority to protect Free Software in the AI regulation.
FSFE and the antitrust case against Microsoft
Public Money? Public Code! - FSFE — Why is software created using taxpayers' money not released as Free Software? We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence.
Activities - FSFE — As a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, Free Software Foundation Europe works to create general understanding and support for Free Software and Open Standards.
Contribute - FSFE — We are a diverse community of people from all over Europe and beyond, who are committed to Free Software. If you feel likewise, join us in our work for freedom.
Ada & Zangemann — This illustrated book tells the story of the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology.
Fountain on Twitter — BALLER BOOSTS ARE BACK We have partnered with @bitrefill to give away a $50 Bitrefill Balance Card to two super-fans on Fountain every week. All you have to do is BOOST
GardenBot — GardenBot is an open source garden monitoring system. This site is a collection of tutorials for how to build things (like a soil moisture sensor), software for running GardenBot, resources, links, and more.
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ubuntu-debullshit — TL;DR, you will end up with a clean GNOME desktop with flatpaks, similar to a fresh Fedora install.

We look back at some classic JB shows and chat about why they ended.

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Beer is Tasty: Costco's German Lager - YouTube — Bryan and Chris try the new Kirkland Signature German Lager found in the Costco variety pack. To keep things in the Costco theme, they pair it with something that tastes like pizza, but is not actually pizza! Distributed by Tubemogul.
Behind the Scenes | FauxShow 100 - YouTube — Angela and Chris share a few behind the scenes stories a pics, plus how the family helps Chris on the job, and a special announcement at the end of the show!
PAX 2010 Wrangle-Up | LOTSO 16 — Nearly the entire Jupiter Broadcasting crew attacked PAX equipped with cameras and we got the footage our camera's weren't suppose to see!
Tech Talk Today Episode 263: Amazon's Plan for World Domination — Amazon's purchase of Ring reveals their deeper ambitious intentions for your home. And it goes way beyond package delivery.
Summer of Bitcoin | Plan B 16 — A series of events kick off this week that lay the foundation for a very productive Bitcoin summer, plus a popular Bitcoin gambling site sells for a record breaking amount, a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme is busted, your emails of the week, and a few surprises!
Migraines & John Dobson | SciByte 116 — We take a look at treating migraines, remembering John Dobson, sending your name to space, story and spacecraft updates, and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week.
Switching to Linux | HowTo Linux 1 - YouTube — Chase makes the decision to switch to Linux and Chris helps him get started. Learn how to install Linux from a thumb drive, using Windows.Plus we answer some basic fundamental differences between Windows and Linux.
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We get you up to speed on two serious flaws, Linux's recent gaming loss, Ubuntu doubling down on RISC-V, and news from the Open Source Summit North America.

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CVE - CVE-2023-28410 — Improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer in some Intel(R) i915 Graphics drivers for linux before kernel version 6.2.10 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
INTEL-SA-00886
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New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges — A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system.
NVD - CVE-2023-32233
Goodbye to Roblox on Linux — I’m sorry to be such a downer about this, but it’s the reality. We have to spend our time porting to and supporting the platforms that will grow our community.
Proper support for the Linux platform - Feature Requests
Ubuntu 23.04 Now Works on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC — ”This partnership will provide users with a seamless development experience, allowing them to leverage the best of open source software and RISC-V through Ubuntu and VisionFive 2.”
Canonical enables Ubuntu on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer
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AWS open-sources snapshot fuzzing and policy authorization tools
Schedule - Linux Foundation Events
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A scathing takedown of Serverless... By Amazon? We react to this strange revelation and more.

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Revegnus on Twitter — Update: No M3 Mac or iPad for this yearDue to yield issues with TSMC not being able to supply enough of the M3 to Apple, Apple has delayed the release of the M3 until next year.So there will be no M3 Macs and no M3 iPads this year.
Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake-S Desktop CPU Support Added In Latest Linux Patch — There's more evidence now that Intel is going to launch its 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPU family on the desktop platform.
Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices — "We designed our initial solution as a distributed system using serverless components... In theory, this would allow us to scale each service component independently. However, the way we used some components caused us to hit a hard scaling limit at around 5% of the expected load."
Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90% — We designed our initial solution as a distributed system using serverless components (for example, AWS Step Functions or AWS Lambda.
The 2023 Developer Survey is now live! — It’s that time of year again where we come to the community to say, “It’s that time of year again,” again!
Nintendo reportedly issues DMCA takedown for Switch homebrew projects — Some fallout from the early leak of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom appears to be taking place. As players are loading the game into emulators and playing them unofficially on their computers, prior to the launch date, Nintendo is taking action to prevent that from happening.
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The first new desktop environment in a while that has caught our attention, and it promises to unlock the full power of cutting-edge Linux.

Why we think every desktop will copy ideas from Hyprland soon.

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Hyprland Hall of Fame
Hyprland Master Tutorial — If you are coming to Hyprland for the first time, this is the main tutorial to read.
Hyprland - ArchWiki — Hyprland bundles its own version of wlroots, which closely follows the wlroots-gitAUR. This improves stability, while also avoiding dependency conflicts with other wlroots-based compositors.
Nix | Hyprland Wiki — Hyprland on Nix can be installed either from Nixpkgs (release version) or from the flake (directly from the main branch).
Hyprland on Nix Os | Hyprland Wiki — The NixOS module enables critical components needed to run Hyprland properly, such as: polkit, xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland, graphics drivers, fonts, dconf, xwayland, and adding a proper Desktop Entry to your Display Manager.
awesome-hyprland — Usefull tools and libraries that either work or are designed for Hyprland!
Outdoor Home Assistant — Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters.
The Sprinkler Geeks, LLC — Irrigation service, repair, and maintenance. Servicing Thurston, Lewis, & Gray's Harbor Counties.
Brocade ICX 6610-24P Switch
Boost Vs Patreon — I have one friend who loves podcasts, but he still doesn't get how it offers anything new compared to Patreon. Could you guys please give a short rundown of how boosts are different and how they have helped LUG?
Evernote on Linux — Evernote for Linux is currently in private beta.
xwmx/nb — nb is a command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application
Ecowitt weather station
Tidal-Media-Downloader — Tidal-Media-Downloader is an application that lets you download videos and tracks from Tidal.
When Stars and Salt Collide” by The Piano Guys.
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Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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A Chat about Linus' DATA Recovery w/ Allan Jude - YouTube
2023.5: Let's talk! - Home Assistant — What an exciting release we have for you this month! This release is all about voice (well, almost fully), and I’m super excited we can ship you all this truly amazing stuff!
Installing a local Assist pipeline - Home Assistant — For text-to-speech we have developed Piper. Piper is a fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4. It supports many languages. On a Raspberry Pi, using medium quality models, it can generate 1.6s of voice in a second.
New Voice Assistant UI — A brand new and exciting menu item can be found in your Settings menu: Voice assistants!
piper: A fast, local neural text to speech system — A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4.
Fisher Garden Overhead View — Photos of Chris' Nerd Garden
Industrial Linux Mini Pc — Intel Atom CPU Industrial Computer Mini PC With XP/Win 7/Win 10/Linux System Support WiFi/3G/4G/LTE
qBoxMini DIY IOT Enclosure Plus Kit — Flanged IP65 waterproof enclosure : Sealed, made of high-quality ABS material suitable for indoor and outdoor DIY IOT projects
TICONN Waterproof Electrical Junction Box IP67 — TICONN electrical waterproof box is made from quality ABS plastic, which offers superb impact resistance and electrical insulation capability. Easy-to-operate door latches are made from 304 Stainless Steel[IP67 GRADE] The electrical
Automations and Templates — ESPHome — Automations and templates are two very powerful aspects of ESPHome. Automations allow you to perform actions under certain conditions and templates are a way to easily customize everything about your node without having to dive into the full ESPHome C++ API.
xiaomi-flora — This is a teardown and analysis of the Xiaomi flower/plant monitor (it doesn't seem to have an official name). The analysis is not extremely in-depth because the main goal was to figure out how to use the device without the official app.
Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensors don't work correctly - YouTube — Fix for v2.0 v1.2 Arduino ESP32 Raspberry Pi.
prometheus-plex-exporter — Expose library playback, storage, and host metrics in a Prometheus format.
Dashboard for Days for Plex
obsidian-livesync
Introducing Custom OIDC · Tailscale — At Tailscale, we don’t want your users (or us) managing a separate list of usernames and passwords, which is why you must use single sign-on with an identity provider to create and manage your network. Until now, that meant you needed to choose from a handful of trusted identity providers including Google, Okta, GitHub, and Azure AD. Custom OIDC, now in beta (and available for everyone), changes all that.
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The results from the recent HDR Hackfest, Mozilla's new acquisition, and the concerning crack down on free software encryption.

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HDR hackfest wrap-up — People from various organizations were on-site: Red Hat, KDE, System76, AMD, Igalia, Collabora, Canonical, etc. Some more people from NVIDIA, Intel and Google joined us remotely (some of them waking up at 2 AM due to their timezone!).
Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla — I have exciting news to share, Fakespot has been acquired by Mozilla! We are joining a company that develops one of the most popular browsers in the world in Firefox with a lineage that dates back to the origins of the internet.
Apple removes Fakespot from App Store after Amazon complains
More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.4 — New Rust code for Linux 6.4 includes the introduction of the pin-init API, which is for dealing with safe pinned initialization and allows reducing the amount of "unsafe" Rust code within the kernel.
Asahi Lina on Twitter: My Rust contributions for Linux 6.4 are finally merged upstream! 🦀🐧 — The next big challenge is going to be the DRM subsystem abstractions!
India blocks 14 mobile apps used by terrorists in Pakistan to send information in J-K — As inputs received that these applications are being used to further terror propaganda and incite youths in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central government blocked them under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
India removes ban on VLC media player after cybersecurity concerns addressed
Text of the RESTRICT Act — To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes...
Tell Congress: Don’t Outlaw Encrypted Applications

Why open source might be the real AI winner long-term, and Mike gets the ultimate "I told you so."

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Jupiter Jobs Matrix Chat Room
There is No Moat Document — An interesting paper from a googler working in research has published an internal paper on how ChatGPT & Bard will essentially be won out by Open Source LLM's
‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work — Geoffrey Hinton who won the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for his trailblazing work on neural networks is now free to speak about the risks of AI.
Geoffrey Hinton on Twitter — In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.
Nathan 🔍on Twitter — To me, Altman's credence seems over 1 in 1000. He thinks "the bad case" is important to say.
nxthompson on Twitter — Wow. Geoff Hinton, one of the most important founders of AI, leaves his job so he can speak out about the potential for harm. "“I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have."
Big Tech Earnings Spark Hope That Worst Is Over — Shares rise on better-than-expected results, but growth lags behind what Microsoft, Amazon and Google did in past
News Analysis: Big Tech Shows Signs Of Stability — With just Apple left to report in the tech earnings season, three major trends have emerged
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Two listeners race to set up a web server on Suicide Linux. One slip-up and it's all gone. Who will survive?

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The Sprinkler Geeks
Suicide Linux — It's a game. Like walking a tightrope. You have to see how long you can continue to use the operating system before losing all your data.
Suicide-linux — now available on Docker!
Suicide Linux bashrc
JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!
Hugo — The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
The Determinate Nix Installer. — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.
NixOS Package Search: Hugo
Hugo in nixpkgs
Mike Kelly on Twitter — Dammit @ChrisLAS, @wespayne, and @brentgervais, I could have won yesterday's challenge, had I only embraced Nix-Shell. Better late than never?
Notes for Dom C’s setup using Podgrab and AudiobookShelf
podgrab — A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.
audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
nala — a wrapper for the apt package manager.
pacstall — An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu
Dendron — The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
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Have you noticed there is a podcast for everything? That's all about to change. Our thoughts on why the podcast market is going bust this year.

Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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Military Fighter Jets flying by you on Columbia river - YouTube — Military fighter jet flew by on the Columbia river as we were boating and enjoying the day . They sound so awesome!!😎
Pacific Northwest Low Level Cockpit View — The VAQ-141 Shadowhawks 2012 Cruise Video Chapter 1. Low level flight on VR1350 and VR1355.
Top Gun: Maverick in real life, EA-18G flying on the VR-1355. - YouTube — Known as "The Million-Dollar Ride," this is 15 minutes of the best part of the VR-1355 through the Cascade Mountains in Washington State
TuxDigital — TuxDigital is a Educational media network that advocates for Open Source technology.
Michael Tunnell - YouTube — Michael provides Linux related how-tos, tutorials, tips, tricks, reviews and more to help people Use, Learn and Enjoy Linux.
Michael Tunnell on Twitter — Content Creator / Podcaster for @TuxDigitalNet. Linux Enthusiast. I also do Design work occasionally.
Statistical release calendar 2023 — In accordance with the conditions for pre-release access to official statistics set out in the DCMS statement of compliance, Ofcom's official statistics are eligible for privileged early access to named individuals. We publish the lists of those individuals against the relevant statistics.
Ofcom Podcast Survey 2023 — The Podcast survey involved using research agency Yonder’s online panel between 3rd and 12th March 2023, and used a 1,884 nationally representative sample of which 518 were non podcast users, 1,006 were regular podcast users and 360 were occasional podcast users. A boost was used to ensure that there were at least 1,000 regular users, to provide robustness when asking questions of regular users.
Podcasts lose their edge, with slowing advertising and fewer newcomers — Podcasting has emerged out of years of rapid growth and a pandemic boom to face an identity crisis as its ecosystem contracts, advertisement slows and the medium eases into maturity.
Podcast Stats: How many podcasts are there? — Podcast industry data through the lens of Listen Notes, the best podcast search engine and database. There are at least 3,094,569 podcasts* and 163,449,537 episodes in the world.
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What we know about the Red Hat layoffs, highlights of Linux 6.3, and Canonical's bold claim in Ubuntu 23.04.

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Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs” — The tech layoffs have now reached Red Hat with "hundreds of jobs" being cut and the initial round of layoffs being announced today.
Message to Red Hat associates today
IBM announces layoffs at Red Hat — "Our reductions will focus on general and administrative (G&A) and similar roles across all functions and represent a reduction of just under four percent in total," he said. "We will not reduce roles directly selling to customers or building our products."
Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released — Introduces a new Intel VPU DRM accelerated driver, BIG TCP support for IPv4, and native Steam Deck controller support.
Btrfs Receives A Very Important Last Minute Fix For Linux 6.3 — Ahead of the Linux 6.3 kernel being potentially released as stable on Sunday, two last-minute patches for the Btrfs file-system driver were submitted
Linux 6.3 Released With More Meteor Lake Enablement — Zen 4 Auto IBRS & Much More
Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD & Intel — Also Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards & More
Intel i219-LM Had Only Been Running At ~60% Of Max
The new Flathub Website — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution.
Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look
Docker Security Essentials eBook — This guide focuses on securing the Docker platform on Linux. Follow along with the techniques demonstrated in this guide. All you need is a Linux server with Docker installed and running.
Ubuntu 23.04 Released — Our focus, as always, has been improving quality, performance and enjoyment for all our users, whether that’s more elegant update handling for snaps, improved UI for installation and quick settings or a more accessible gaming experience.
Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap — [The] Snap of Steam [is] being promoted to stable. Canonical said over 150,000 people downloaded the preview version, so there was plenty of interest in it. This Snap bundles a bunch of dependencies needed allowing you to run new and old titles without messing with PPAs.
Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view — Lunar Lobster adds support for Microsoft Azure Active Directory — a first for a Linux desktop according to Canonical. The feature will allow users on Microsoft 365 Enterprise plans to authenticate Ubuntu Desktops using a common set of credentials.
Ubuntu 23.04 Flavors: What’s New — Arriving alongside the Ubuntu 23.04 release are new versions of official community flavors.
Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 — Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to enable native user authentication with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
aad-auth: Azure AD authentication module for Ubuntu — Azure AD User Authentication will be included as part of an Ubuntu Pro subscription in Ubuntu 23.04 before being backported to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and future LTS releases from 2023.
microsoft-authentication-library-for-go — The MSAL library for Go is part of the Microsoft identity platform for developers (formerly named Azure AD) v2.0. It enables you to acquire security tokens to call protected APIs. It uses industry-standard OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
Next Ubuntu 23.10 Name — The Ubuntu release that will be delivered in October 2023, designated 23.10.

We have a laugh at Elon's alt account, why the knives are out for GitHub Co-pilot, and our thoughts on Apple's "major victory" this week.

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Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29 — Let's get together at a local hidden gem, the Boston Harbor Marina.A classic location, with a covered deck on the water with a snack shack, and easy parking.
The Serfs on Twitter — Elon Musk has allegedly revealed a secret alt account where he pretends to be a child version of himself posting a lot of bizarre sexual content
Shashank Joshi on Twitter — “FTX was a preoccupation for the [Elon Musk burner account] @ErmnMusk account, which interacted with conspiracy theories—one saying that FTX was a middle party to laundering funds through Ukraine for U.S. Democrats”
mousedownmike follows up on a series of topics! — ChatGPT summary and entire email with full context.
Apple’s App Store can stay closed, but developers can link to outside payments, says appeals cour — Apple’s closed App Store and security restrictions didn’t violate antitrust law but that Apple couldn’t maintain anti-steering rules that prevent users from learning about alternate payment options.
Apple declares victory after decision reached in Epic Games appeal — The decision signals that Apple’s control over the App Store and the fees it charges likely won’t significantly change as a result of an ongoing legal challenge by Epic Games.
GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not — TL;DR GitHub Copilot trains on GPL code and its nonpermissive filters don’t actually work, while we at Codeium have removed GPL licensed code from our training data, guaranteeing peace of mind to our users.
Immersed — Spawn up to 5 virtual monitors from your computer into VR without any additional hardware!
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Why Fedora 38 might Sway you to try it; and how it runs on the MacBook M1 Max.

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Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps — A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps.
Flathub — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Browse the apps online, from your app center or the command line.
Olympia Linux Spring Meetup
Announcing Fedora Linux 38 — Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins — variants that showcase different desktop environments.
Fedora 38 Released With GNOME 44 Desktop, GCC 13, Many New Features — Fedora 38 brings many changes including the GCC 13 system compiler and other updated toolchain components like GNU Make 4.4, Glibc 2.37, Binutils 2.39, Golang 1.20, Ruby 3.2, and more.
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on Silverblue
Fedora Linux 38 Spins
Fedora Workstation Download
asahi-fedora-builder — Builds a minimal Fedora image to run on Apple M1/M2 systems
music-player — An extensible music server written in Rust 🚀🎵✨
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We debate if users learned their lesson from the Docker Hub drama, and the silent self-hosting winner going from strength to strength. Proxmox gets some big updates.

Plus, our thoughts on the state of self-hostable AI tools.

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Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM — Let's have a local PNW get-together.
We're no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan — Last week we felt our communications were terrible but our policy was sound. It’s now clear that both the communications and the policy were wrong, so we’re reversing course and no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
LUP 502: Docker Shocker — The story of an open-source hero who became a villain.
Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4 — Proxmox VE 7.4 is based on Debian 11.6 (“Bullseye”), but uses a newer, long-term supported Linux kernel 5.15 and includes updates to the latest versions of leading open-source technologies for virtual environments, such as QEMU 7.2, LXC 5.0.2, and ZFS 2.1.9.
Pricing v3, plans, packages, and debugging · Tailscale — The new plans should save money for essentially everyone, but you can keep your old plan if you want.
web-whisper — OpenAI's whisper on your web browser!
KTZ Systems - YouTube — Creating videos and tutorials about Self-hosting, Homelabs, Networking, Linux, Containers, Home Automation, and much more...
Auto-GPT — Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, driven by GPT-4, chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI.
gpt4all chatbot ui — This is a Flask web application that provides a chat UI for interacting with llamacpp based chatbots such as GPT4all, vicuna etc...
turbopilot — TurboPilot is a self-hosted copilot clone which uses the library behind llama.cpp to run the 6 Billion Parameter Salesforce Codegen model in 4GiB of RAM. It is heavily based and inspired by on the fauxpilot project.
You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins - YouTube — In this YouTube video, I’m talking about how Obsidian can do so much more than just note-taking and writing technical documentation.
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What we like about Fedora 38, why the Rust foundation is in hot water, and more.

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Announcing Fedora Linux 38 — The Fedora Linux 38 release is here! With this release, we’re starting a new on-time streak. In fact, we’re ready a week early!
What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
Rust Foundation apologizes for trademark policy confusion — The Rust Foundation on Monday apologized for confusion caused by the organization's proposed trademark policy changes.
A note on the Trademark Policy Draft
Rust Foundation - Rust Trademark Policy Draft Revision
Canonical Livepatch gets even better — Now supporting Hardware Enablement Kernels.
Proton 8.0-1 Published With More Game Support — Proton 8.0-1 is the much awaited re-base of Proton against the Wine 8.0 state
Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter — “Proton 8.0 is now available with many changes. Our biggest rebase to date! Note: it requires a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 support. Experimental-8.0 will follow sometime this week.
LFNW Call for Papers — We invite you to submit your proposal to speak at LFNW2023! We're seeking both experienced technical presenters, as well as first-timers to present to a hybrid audience.
LinuxFest Northwest 2023
In letter to EU, open source bodies say Cyber Resilience Act could have ‘chilling effect’ on software development — Penalties for non-compliance may include fines of up to €15 million, or 2.5% of global turnover.
Cyber Resilience Act

Elon launches another AI company, leaks suggest Apple might enable sideloading, and why we should let Chaos-GPT run free.

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WWDC iOS 17 announcements may include sideloading — In the case of iOS and iPadOS, they "aren't likely to offer major new features." But, they will apparently "satisfy a checklist of user requests with more minor improvements."
iOS 17 to Support App Sideloading to Comply With European Regulations — Apple in iOS 17 will for the first time allow iPhone users to download apps hosted outside of its official App Store, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
Amazon CodeWhisperer — Build applications faster and more securely with your AI coding companion
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Elon Musk launches AI company — Elon Musk has launched an artificial intelligence company called X.AI, incorporated in Nevada, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday
Introducing the Tailscale Universal Docker Mod — Today, we're introducing a new way to add Tailscale to your Docker containers: our brand new universal Docker mod.
Auto-GPT — Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, driven by GPT-4, chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI.
Meet Chaos-GPT — Chaos-GPT, an autonomous implementation of ChatGPT, has been unveiled, and its objectives are as terrifying as they are well-structured.
ChaosGPT on Twitter — @chaos_gpt
Twitter commands and script for AutoGPT
Companies will have to scale up resources in trust and safety areas for A.I. — Rob Leathern, former Google vice president of product management and former Meta senior director of product and business integrity, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss A.I. regulation, the need for transparency in A.I. development, and more.
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We surprise each other with three secret topics, with one big catch.

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nix-community/home-manager — Manage a user environment using Nix.
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DeterminateSystems/nix-installer — nix-installer is an opinionated alternative to the official Nix install scripts.
Sharing Fleek Configurations — You can use Fleek to share your configurations across multiple computers. This is useful if you use multiple computers and want to keep your configurations in sync.
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linuxserver.io — Building and maintaining community images
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A change is in the air.

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BONUS EPISODE - AI Review: Rear Window with Robob - Mission 250 Filmcast — This week, we introduce Robob (Pronounced row-bob. You know, like robot Bob).
Hacker News Recap AI Pod — This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on April 9th, 2023.
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A classic gadget gets a Linux-powered new lease on life, the next project getting Rusty, great news for Btrfs users, and more.

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Linux Tech Sustainability — The mainline Linux 6.4 kernel is set to see a new touchscreen driver for supporting the Novatek NVT-ts.
Acer Iconia One 7 B1-730
Unlocking the bootloader and disabling dm-verity on Android-X86 devices
Here Comes WebGPU — After years of development, the Chrome team ships WebGPU.
Chrome 113 To Ship WebGPU By Default
Muse on Twitter — Breaking news🚨 Chrome's Web GPU has launched after 6 years of development! 🚀
A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
Plasma 6 Early Builds — I’ve now got a working Plasma 6 dev session on my machine. It’s still rough, but it’s usable.
Early KDE Plasma 6 Development State
Rust Support Is Being Worked On For V4L2 — Daniel Almeida of Collabora sent out initial Rust V4L2 support patches on Thursday. This provides just enough for working with a prototype VirtIO camera driver written in Rust along with a Rust sample driver.
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin today sent in the Apple SoC DT updates targeting the Linux 6.4 cycle for queuing into the SoC tree ahead of the merge window opening around the end of the month.
Btrfs Improvments — This week a number of patches from SUSE engineer Qu Wenruo were queued into kdave's linux.git for-next branch of the Btrfs file-system driver development code.

Forces beyond Apple's control just reined in their rise, and we ponder the coming sunset.

Plus, the tool we found uses ChatGPT to help you debug errors.

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Burglars steal $500K from Apple store after cutting hole in adjacent store\ — They've never dealt with anything like this in their five years in business at the mall, he said.
VS Code snippet generator — Fill out the form to generate a JSON snippet. Double quotes are automatically escaped and the body is automatically split into a string array.
Another snippet generator(multiple apps) — VScode, Sublime Text, and Atom.
Apple's Mac shipments fall more than 40% — Apple Mac shipments fell 40.5% in the first quarter of 2023, compared with the same time the prior year, market intelligence provider IDC said.
TSMC Sales Miss for Second Straight Quarter — TSMC relies on consumer hardware like iPhones to drive sales
Apple Flexes Muscle as Quiet Power Behind App Developer Group — Company funds more than half of group’s budget, shapes goals.
Tim Sweeney on Twitter — Here’s Apple’s fake “small app developer” lobby again using small app developers as human shields to defend its monopoly, misportraying its opposition as larger corporations. Pure, shameless deception by a multi trillion dollar corporation.
DoctorGPT brings GPT into production for debuging! — DoctorGPT is a lightweight self-contained binary that monitors your application logs for problems and diagnoses them.
Why is it called Python? — When he began implementing Python, Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, a BBC comedy series from the 1970s. Van Rossum thought he needed a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious, so he decided to call the language Python.
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chatbot-ui: An open source ChatGPT UI. — Chatbot UI is an advanced chatbot kit for OpenAI's chat models built on top of Chatbot UI Lite using Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.

We try out the most secure messaging app in the world, and Wes’ new note system that's so great you’ll want to abandon your current one.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
Logseq — A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base. Logseq is the open toolbox for workflows that deal with lots of information.
logseq-publish — Publish your Logseq graph with a GitHub Action.
logseq-schrodinger — A plugin to export pages in Logseq to Hugo.
logseq-searchable — A quick utility to conduct OCR parsing on images and insert the result as a property.
SimpleX Chat — The first messenger without user IDs.
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SimpleX TestFlight preview for iOS
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Pick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystem
Editor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output

Chris integrates full home power monitoring into Home Assistant, while Alex tames the AI and rushes to replace Dark Sky.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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WAAS: Whisper as a Service — GUI and API for OpenAI Whisper
web-whisper — A light user interface for OpenAI's Whisper right into your browser!
Features - web-whisper + openAI API — Web-whisper allows you to add an OpenAI token and make use of the OpenAI API as backend, this brings some advantages as well as some concerns.
Victron GX modbusTCP integration — This integration scans for all available registers of a provided GX device. It then uses the defined register ledgers to create entities for each and every register that is provided by the GX device.
Modbus TCP/IP Protocol Overview — The most common use of the protocols at this time is for Ethernet attachment of PLCs, I/O modules and gateways to other simple field buses or I/O networks.
Energy Management in Home Assistant — Home Assistant is adding official support for home energy management. Our energy management will help users monitor the energy usage, transition to sustainable energy and save money.
Automation to Restart ModBus TCP Connection to Victron — So i think that this addon does not detect connection-disconnects and does nor reconnect automatically?
Let the credits next episode roll. — By default, the results of all your local credit detection efforts are anonymously submitted to our new service, so if you ever need to do a rebuild or install, the results are available in seconds instead of burning hours of CPU time recomputing them.
Pirate Weather — Weather forecasts are primarily found using models run by government agencies, but the outputs aren't easy to use or in formats built for the web. To try to address this, I've put together a service that reads weather forecasts and serves it following the Dark Sky API style.
TomsDad's Obsidian Daily note taking scripts
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A fresh take on open-source funding, Fedora’s plan for better encryption out of the box, and our impressions of the latest Ubuntu Beta.

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New FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects — To help maintain and sustain this ecosystem, companies and nonprofits alike have experimented with a framework called a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Contributor Fund.
Bloomberg Launches Open-Source Funding Initiative
Encrypted Fedora — Owen Taylor of Red Hat laid out a mailing list post and Discourse thread today around the future of encryption with Fedora.
Google’s VM Turbo Charger — With this series, a workload running in a VM gets the same task placement and DVFS treatment as it would when running in the host.
Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 CPUfreq/sched and VM guest workload problems
Google Posts KVM-CPUFreq Driver To Dramatically Boost VM Performance, Power Efficiency
KDE Discuss — KDE Discuss is a place for questions, requests, suggestions, banter, and in general interacting closely with the people actively involved in KDE, as well as with fellow users.
KDE Discuss is a new discussion service from KDE for everybody who makes and uses KDE software
New MSI Laptop Driver — Functions handled by the embedded controller on recent MSI laptops.
new msi-ec driver patch
Ubuntu 23.04 Beta Hands On
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Our thoughts on the recent AI hysteria and why it betrays the massive egos involved, our issues with the RESTRICT Act, and we do some Monday morning code review.

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ChatGPT banned in Italy — The country’s data protection authorities said AI service would be blocked and investigated over privacy concerns.
Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI ‘digital minds' — “Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.”
The Only Way to Deal With the Threat From AI? Shut It Down — We are not ready. We are not on track to be significantly readier in the foreseeable future. If we go ahead on this everyone will die, including children who did not choose this and did not do anything wrong.
the-algorithm — The Twitter Recommendation Algorithm is a set of services and jobs that are responsible for constructing and serving the Home Timeline.
Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why — Posted algorithm code includes "isdemocrat," "isrepublican," and "is_elon."
“Patriot Act on steroids”: Left and right unite against "fear-mongering" TikTok ban — Digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation issued a sober rebuke of the legislation Thursday, saying the measure fails to protect private user information.
Text - S.686 - RESTRICT Act — To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes.
The RESTRICT Act Would Restrict a Lot More Than TikTok — The RESTRICT Act has been garnering bipartisan momentum in the Senate, as well as backing from the Biden administration
The U.S. Restrict Act Explained
Stop the RESTRICT Act and Pass Real Privacy Legislation
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Why using the iPhone makes it harder to run Linux; Chris follows up on his four-month-long challenge to ditch iOS for GrapheneOS.

Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss.

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Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm EST
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LINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, Google
Immich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone
KDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.
iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your Privacy
Berlin Buds Matrix Room
LibreSign — Libre digital signature app for Nextcloud.
Develop for Nextcloud — Have you always wanted to learn how to develop apps for your Nextcloud? These tutorials should flatten your learning curve.
Berlin with Brent | LINUX Unplugged 503
Nextcloud Cookbook on iOS
nextcloud/cookbook — A library for all your recipes. It uses JSON files following the schema.org recipe format.
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Brent shares some rip-roaring tales from Berlin, and we introduce the new contributor who can publish to production.

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Berlin Buddies Matrix Chatroom — Locals, join the Berlin Buds chatroom.
CGBassPlayer (Ryan Goodwin) — Lead Programmer/Analyst at the SUNY SICAS Center
Full Page Screenshots by CGBassPlayer — Adds option to allow taking screenshots of the full page.
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Seed dispersal: 5 ways trees spread seeds — Trees have a bit of a problem on their hands. If their seeds are to stand a good chance of survival, they need to spread them to new locations out of the parent tree's shadow. But how do they achieve this without moving parts?
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What we're liking about GNOME 44, how Microsoft's Linux distro is trying to attract more users, and we bust a CentOS myth.

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GNOME 44 Released — GNOME 44 is code-named “Kuala Lumpur”, in recognition of the work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2022.
GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements
GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI
Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Release — This is the first OTA for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) with major features, this is an Opt-In and not mandatory update.
First Ubuntu Touch OTA Release Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Is Out Now
Ubuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status Announcement — Ubuntu Cinnamon started as a small idea in my head, in 2019. I was ELEVEN.
ItzSwirlz (Joshua Peisach)
Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix Becomes Official Ubuntu Flavor
Microsoft’s CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Continues Cultivating More Packages — With today's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230321 they have continued cultivating more packages for the distribution.
CBL-Mariner GitHub
We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan — After listening to feedback and consulting our community, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision in sunsetting our Free Team plan.
Google discloses CentOS Linux kernel vulnerabilities following failure to issue timely fixes — Google Project Zero's security researcher Jann Horn learned that kernel fixes made to stable trees are not backported to many enterprise versions of Linux.
Google Security Researchers Accuse CentOS of Failing to Backport Kernel Fixes
Project Zero Mailing List Thread on CentOS Kernel Patches
CVE-2023-0590
kernel-5.14.0-277.el9
CVE-2023-1249
CVE-2023-1252
Berlin Meet Up #2 - Nextcloud Hackfest & Dev Community Introduction, Fri, Mar 31, 2023 — NOTE: the time detailed on Meetup.com is strictly set to PST, so don't be confused by the interface!

Mike's spent 90+ days with GitHub Co-Pilot, and shares the surprising conclusion.

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90+ Days With Github Co-Pilo — Today, I want to talk about a tool that has been making waves in the programming community lately – Github Co-Pilot.
Introducing GitHub Copilot X — With chat and terminal interfaces, support for pull requests, and early adoption of OpenAI’s GPT-4, GitHub Copilot X is our vision for the future of AI-powered software development. Integrated into every part of your workflow.
Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating — Now that Hub 4 has been released, it’s time to introduce the Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating.
RadioGPT — GPT powered Radio DJ
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Brent dives deep into Nextcloud's new release from inside their offices, and takes an unexpected dip in the local lake with a listener.

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DoomLinux — A bash script to build a minimal linux operating system just to play Doom.
Hub 4 pioneers ethical AI integration for a more productive and collaborative future — Today, we are excited to announce a major step forward with Hub 4 – the very first on-premises collaboration platform to integrate intelligent features across its applications.
Linux Action News 285 — Nextcloud moves to the front of the pack with their new release, a moment to appreciate curl, and Amazon goes all in with Fedora.
Develop for Nextcloud
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Linux Has Become Complicated and Limiting (Gnome, Wayland, etc.)

Alex goes all in on Rootless Podman, Chris is saving his Nextcloud install from disaster, and a special guest joins us.

Special Guest: Alex Ellis.

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Secret Management with Ansible Vault and docker-compose - YouTube — Secret management with docker-compose doesn't have to be an enigma. This video shows how I use Ansible and Ansible Vault in conjunction with docker-compose to keep my secrets safe and encrypted whilst still being able to push my repos to Github publicly.
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Gitea 1.19.0 is released — We are proud to present the release of Gitea version 1.19.0.
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Docker is deleting Open Source organisations — Yesterday, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an "organisation", telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a tersely written PDF (since, silently edited) which was missing many important details which caused significant anxiety and additional work for open source maintainers.
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Podman issue pulling from local registry
/etc/subuid and /etc/subgid configuration — Rootless Podman requires the user running it to have a range of UIDs listed in the files /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid.
Using volumes with Podman — If your container runs with the root user, then root in the container is actually your user on the host. UID/GID 1 is the first UID/GID specified in your user's mapping in /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid, etc. If you mount a directory from the host into a container as a rootless user, and create a file in that directory as root in the container, you'll see it's actually owned by your user on the host.
Hub 4 pioneers ethical AI integration for a more productive and collaborative future — Today, we are excited to announce a major step forward with Hub 4 – the very first on-premises collaboration platform to integrate intelligent features across its applications.
Remove not supported column comments for SQLite - Nextcloud — Some times column comments are used, e.g. to make clear an integer is used as a timestamp.For SQLite column comments are not supported and migration that use column comments will not work (see linked comment above for an example).Somehow it works when you have a clean install, then all migrations pass, but when executing single migrations they will fail.
Updating to 3.2.0 fails on SQLite installations · Nextcloud
Command Line Shell For SQLite — Like the ".dump" command, ".recover" attempts to convert the entire contents of a database file to text.
Converting Nextcloud database typw — You can convert a SQLite database to a better performing MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL database with the Nextcloud command line tool. SQLite is good for testing and simple single-user Nextcloud servers, but it does not scale for multiple-user production servers.
Belkin (Wemo) takes “big step back” from Matter — Belkin says Wemo devices will support Matter once the company can "find a way to differentiate them,"
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Nextcloud moves to the front of the pack with their new release, a moment to appreciate curl, and Amazon goes all in with Fedora.

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The story of an open-source hero who became a villain.

Disaster strikes the studio, and Chris jumps into action while Brent battles the packet wars of 1996.

We're told companies are abandoning the cloud to save money. But is the trend our friend?

Docker's open-source crackdown, the Wayland regression solved this week, and why ipmitool's repo has been locked.

Our spicy take on the Silicon Valley Bank bailout, how it will impact everyday developers, and how badly this screws over small businesses.

We get the inside scoop on what happens when Canonical gets a bunch of employees & community members in the same room, discuss the cool open hardware project Chris just ordered for the studio & update you on the big community highlights of the week!

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Nano users come out of the closet, we demystify NFS a bit & discuss the top 5 commands new Linux users should learn.

Plus a NUC killer with a GPU, new Cinnamon & more!

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We review the very worst moments in Linux during 2016, look ahead to what might be big in 2017 and toss out the rules for our last live episode of the year!

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We ponder the implications of Fedora possibly going rolling & LTS, get schooled by the mumble room about the state of linux on the Raspberry Pi & debate about the effectiveness of mesh networking

Plus we talk about Clonezilla, one of our favorite backup tools & more!

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Swaths of Apple users are trying out Linux for the first time this week, with varying results. We discuss why & how it's going.

Then, we play some great clips by long time Kernel guru GregKH, dream about a future Linux living room, update you on a ton of great projects & more!

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This week we take a deep dive into the IOT & the Cloud. Noah isn’t quite dead yet as he gives us an earful on the future of MacOS. Plus our thoughts on Signal, Telegram, Wire, IRC & more!

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Fedora 25 is out & project leader Matthew Miller joins us to chat about what’s new. Plus Wimpy & Popey are back from UbuCon and share their experience, Ryan shares some tweaks Sytstem76 made to jump to 4k & Solus OS founder Ikey Doherty joins us to discuss benchmarking the “feel” of the Linux desktop.

Plus community updates & more!

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After a slew of open source updates we contrast upgrades vs fresh install, get an update on the state of snaps & get geeky about performance monitoring our Linux rigs.

Plus the fake VLC story, a live install of Plasma Desktop & more!

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We get the inside scoop about some fantastic collaboration happening between three Linux distributions that are supposedly big competitors.

Plus Google’s response to Ubuntu Core & the big NextCloud news!

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While the guys are hibernating over this holiday week, We look back on some of the most interesting topics the virtual LUG covered this year.

Everything from snap packages & ubuntu reviews to LXD & Arch MacBook installs, plus a whole lot more.

So kick back, settle in & enjoy the show!

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Robots take over the show while we go around the table & get our 2017 predictions in for Linux.

Plus updates from projects we love & the great Mac migration continues!

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We officially live in the post systemd word & we take a look around at some of the niftier tricks systemd is pulling off, some of the quirky bugs & quickly touch on some myths around the binary log format.

Plus the clever tricks Wimpy employed to get Ubuntu Touch on an Android Meizu Pro 5, some big project updates, the SteamOS problem & more!

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Canonical is not first to the live patching game, but they could have the best take on it. VeraCrypt, the successor to TrueCrypt, audit results are out & KDE shares their long term plans for the Plasma Desktop.

Then we bust some brewing Linux FUD and misconceptions & ponder the role of Free Software in a world that doesn't care.

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Our favorite tricks & hacks for SSH, debunking the Linux botnet rampage myth, the new challenges Solus is taking on & the inside track on how FOSS Talk Live went.

Plus getting Ubuntu MATE on the BQ Tablet, benchmarking Ubuntu on Windows & our quick takes on using Zim Wiki and TagSpaces to manage you local, secure notes.

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We become masters of our own files this week, chat with the ElementaryOS project about inspiring future development & rolling our own file sync solution.

Plus a quick look at the new Android N & why now might be the ideal time to switch to a Linux based phone OS.

It’s a packed episode!

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We throw a birthday party for Debian, discuss the future of the project & the possible awkward moment that might be near.

Plus Ryan Sipes stops by to give us a post Mycroft update, we dream of a bcachefs future, challenge Wes to get Linux fully working on a MacBook by the end of the show & lots of community updates!

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Wayland by default may finally be nigh & we share what we’re looking forward to the most about a Wayland powered desktop.

The ext4 bug that bit Wimpy, Adobe Flash comes crawling back to Linux & our quick review of a well put together Plasma Desktop distro.

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Ubuntu powered drones that double as a desktop PC, tweaking your Linux desktop vs polish & coreboot’s efforts to bypass Intel ME.

Plus our we update you on some of our favorite open source projects, the MySQL 0-day, a batch of emails, why we're excited about the crazy USB/IP Project & more!

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In a special edition of Unplugged that looks towards the future of Gnome & KDE, The Linux Gamer joins us to discuss creating his content on Linux, game releases he’s looking forward to & answer questions from our virtual LUG.

Plus we gush about Canonical hiring Wimpy, if your SSH password revealed when you attempt to connect to the wrong server, gander at the Nextcloud box & much more!

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In this special edition of Unplugged we do away with the traditional format & take calls LIVE on the air for free.

Some say the advice is worth what you pay for it!

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We connect with the communities & hardware projects using Software Defined Networking, update you on some of our favorite open source projects, share some anecdotes from a recent trip & update you on our trails with OpenMediaVault.

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Serendipity this week as a beautiful theme reveals itself throughout the episode.

Plus we get updates from some of our favorite projects, discuss the historic shift happening in Linux desktop & wrap it all up with some macOS shade.

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Chris discovers he’s being snooped on by his ISP, we discuss some Linux friendly solutions solve the situation. Is Linux Mint 18 really the best Linux distro every? Or should Ubuntu 16.04 be getting more of the credit?

Plus our chat with a Matrix.org developer, Solus goes rolling, Unity on Windows & building a long-term financially sustainable open source product.

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Canonical drops a bombshell by making snap packages available for nearly all Linux distributions, Nextcloud has some serious momentum, Samsung is rumored to drop Android in favor of Tizen across all devices & Wes kicks the tires of elementary OS’ new Beta of Loki.

Then we try out Snap packages & discuss needs to happen next to really make them take off as the standard universal Linux installer.

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We go hands on with Linux Mint 18, then discuss the latest batch of desktop killers & Wimpy’s new rig. Plus what makes Mattermost really great, a new new universal package format, the confusing things Red Hat says & we get to know WireGuard!

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Noah joins Wes for the second time this week to talk with the mumble room. Package management for Bash takes it one step too far, Nvidia starts putting GPUs in your containers, we learn some surprising things about open source at Comcast & discuss just what "Microsoft ♥ Linux" really means.

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After we get through a slew of great open source project achievements, we discuss the slippery slope that online services represent to Linux users.

Plus we get all big picture, what can be learned from ownCloud’s recent troubles, what we conclude by reading between the lines & more!

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Do you use desktop Linux for idealistic or practical reasons? We ask our virtual LUG & share our stories. Plus Chris’s new VPN solution & the hosted vs self hosted debate with a new twist.

Plus Canonical’s smart move to push Snap packages forward, tons of updates from our favorite projects & the disturbing news about Chrome.

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Take advantage of the Chromecast without Google, extend Kodi with awesome new backends & cast media around your network with free Linux tools. Our panel covers great tips to fully trick out your Linux media setup.

Plus our thoughts on the FCC forcing TP-Link to support open source firmwares, reverse tethering for Android, a quick look at Mint 18 XFCE edition & a lot more!

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Package once, run anywhere. It’s always almost here, just around the corner, in the near future. But are we finally about to nail it? We look at Flatpack, Snaps, AppImage, ask what stands out from the pack & which will fall flat.

Plus why you're going to want to wait on that systemd upgrade, funding projects with a rocky past, the big thing about Mycroft no one is talking about & we try out Mycroft on the desktop.

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We have a spirited discussion from both sides of the universal packaging issue, take a quick look at maru OS that turns a Nexus phone into your desktop, get the inside scoop on the recent Mycroft update & the new Solus release. Plus much more!

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Open Source artificial intelligence in all the things? Ryan from Mycroft joins us to update us on their recent hard work.

Is YubiKey going to hell in a handbasket? The latest from openSUSE, our first impressions of Remix OS & more!

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The devil is in the details & we dive right in when Martin aka Wimpy returns from the Snappy Sprint & shares his experience from his recent trip.

And in light of KeepPass getting an audit by the EU, was ask our Virtual LUG to sound off on the projects they’d audit if given the means & why.

Plus great updates from all around open source & the Starbound server challenge!

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We look at the state of Virtual Reality under Linux. Richard Brown from openSUSE joins us to discuss making the Plasma Desktop even better & our quick review of Apricity OS “a modern, intuitive operating system for the cloud generation”.

Plus a bunch of project updates & much more!

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Plasma Desktop 5.6 is out today & we’ll share of the small things that we simply love. Plus some of our secret LinuxFest Northwest Linux rig build plans are revealed, why gaming on Linux is doing better than you’ve been led to believe & live shootout of open source Skype killers.

Also our thoughts on ubuntuBSD, open source GPS tracking, Nvidia shipping Wayland support & more!

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Is a new wave of tech savvy Linux users coming? Chris makes his case & why distributions like Linux Mint won’t be ready for it.

Plus updates from some of our favorite projects, Linux on the PS4 & a quick look at the Fedora 24 beta.

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This week LTS has a new meaning as we reflect on a couple of weeks with Ubuntu 16.04 & why we’re dumping it.

We pick up the mood with some exclusive LinuxFest Northwest clips, projects updates & another clip that was never meant to air.

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ZFS on Ubuntu gets new prominent criticism from Richard Stallman & we launch into a wider discussion the underlying message in these recent statements. Leo Laporte gives Linux another go after his previous switch disaster & reports back with some interesting insights.

Then we discuss the big updates to XFCE, the HTC Vive's lack of Linux support & Chris finally sets up Traccar, a self hosted location tracking server & discovers it’s surprising limitation.

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Our world has forever changed with Microsoft’s announcement of SQL server for Linux. We get a little nostalgic. Plus a look at the new OwnCloud release & updates on some of our favorite projects.

Then we take a look at Shashlik which promises to transparently run Android apps on your Linux desktop & more!

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You're insecure unless you're running one of Greg’s Kernels & we think he’s right! Plus openSUSE chairman Richard Brown stops by to follow up on not shipping ZFS in openSUSE which leads to a passionate discussion.

And the simple thing we could all be doing to improve open source, but maybe we’re all feeling a little too entitled!

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Your marvelous container powered future, what happens when your favorite open source project takes its ball and goes closed source? Subsonic is going closed source, we discuss alternative options, how we feel as donors & the bigger picture in all of this.

Hands on with the HTC Vive under Linux, DuckDuckGo supporting their favorite open source, the goals for Ubuntu 16.10 & much more!

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After some updates about some of your favorite distros, we go hands on with the Raspberry Pi 3. Then we look at the AppImage project and their delivery on the download and run promise.

Plus a make good on a recent mistake, looking at a new kind of distro funding model & much more!

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Has Linux met its match? That’s the claim several outlets are making this week. We look at the new & innovative operating systems stepping into the public light.

The first official Ubuntu tablet goes on sale & we share our thoughts, a little BASH on Windows & a lot more!

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We get a little rambunctious as we talk about Ubuntu 16.04, why not the openSUSE Build Server & the remarkable problem with Ubuntu that’s just now being solved.

Plus some audio never meant for public release, updates on your favorite projects, first hands on with the Bq Ubuntu Tablet & more!

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The future of Linux package management is here & there’s a lot of ideas on how to solve it. We discuss some of the more popular ones & how they might be impacting your Linux desktop much sooner than you expect.

Plus that awkward moment when a traditional desktop environment adopts a controversial UI modern element, the new generation of “perfect” Linux laptops & more!

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Why Linux Mint’s X-Apps are a bigger shakeup then you might realize, bricking your laptop with a Linux command & Dell’s new Linux distro.

Plus we celebrate 15 years of VLC, a quick look at Tails 2.0 & more!

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We look back at the big year for Linux, for our show & our virtual LUG. Some of the most interesting projects in open source were discussed first in our LUG, we look at some of the great moments & then give you our fresh take on the big events.

It’s a very special edition of LINUX Unplugged.

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We react to Remix OS and give it a go on a few of our machines, discuss the surprise feature in KDE 5.6 & chat with some of the folks behind SCALE 14x.

Plus how to tell family and friends you're not the Geek Squad, we get our filesystem geek on & using tech support opportunities to be an open source ambassador.

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Entroware’s Apollo laptop has arrived, and we share our first hands on impressions of their ultra Linux laptop, how does it compare to the Purism, and a quick chat with Entroware’s co-founder.

Plus we discuss the Mint hack, and solutions we could create as a community to solve the bigger problems, updates from some of our favorite open source projects, and chat about Beep Beep Yarr, and more!

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UbuCon is just around the corner, we’re joined by Ubuntu’s community manager & the team on the ground to share the inside scoop on how this Ubuntu conference came to be & how you can get in free.

Ryan from Mycroft stops by to give us an update on their open source artificial intelligence project, their new official partnership with Ubuntu & more.

Then we discuss the major partnership between LibreOffice & OwnCloud, the cool OwnCloud hardware that could develop into a consumer device.

Plus some major project updates, community feedback & more!

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We discuss the official release of Vulkan, look at who has shipping code & why this is much bigger than you might realize.

Plus Chris share’s his first hands on impressions of Purism’s Librem 15 laptop, some big Ubuntu Mobile noise, the Linux security bug you need to patch for right away & more!

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A distribution of Linux built to survey and track speech, we go into the surveillance marvel that is Red Star OS. Solus hits 1.0 & we bring on some of the team to tell us all about it.

Plus Mozilla has a new… Distraction? We debate their merits of rumored new Firefox OS powered hardware.

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Straight from the horse's mouth, we get updates on the code drop coming from the Mycroft project. Plus some details about our SCALE plans & NVIDIA's Linux powered CES demo.

Plus Chris owns up to his 2015 predictions & more!

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This week we dive into what the community thinks about putting a server in their pocket, show you some smart tricks with Gimp & some Windows nightmares. Plus some router chat & more!

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Has the Linux Foundation made moves to cut out the individual from having their voice heard? We discuss the latest controversy brewing this week and the foundations response.

Plus why if you're still waiting for Wayland to ship, your doing it wrong, AMD’s plans for the open future, some updates from some of our favorite projects, stories from SCALE14x & more!

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Upgrade your terminal with Fish & the new Fishery plugin market. We chat about one of the really neat bash replacements on Linux. Then we take a look at Maru, a Debian based image for Nexus 5 devices that sounds a lot like Ubuntu Touch.

Plus a quick look at a new app that combines Plex with Popcorn Time & the awesome new features we just all got as Linux users!

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New versions of openSUSE leap and Fedora have hit the web. The chairmen of openSUSE joins us to answer our hard questions & we follow up on Fedora 23.

Plus the big upset with Debian this week, ransomware that targets Linux systems & way more than we can fit into this description!

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A member of the Vivaldi browser project joins to discuss their new release. The man behind Solus comes on to follow up on our review, discuss the big plans for the future, creating a custom distribution & the problem with derivatives.

GIMP turns 20 this week and we ask if it’s just time to accept that some OSS projects will never topple their commercial competitor & why that’s just fine by us. We’re still thankful for the GIMP.

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Mozilla wants to spin off Thunderbird & launch an iOS ad blocker that only works with Safari. Is there a master plan at work, or has the Mozilla foundation lost their way? Our virtual LUG debates.

Then our best solutions for syncing your Podcasts from your mobile to your Linux desktop & SpiderOak ditches Google.

Plus we review the new CrossOver 15 & discuss how this Linux desktop app works like no other. What nice features it offers over PlayOnLinux & standard WINE, why it's not quite like other commercial software for Linux & more!

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OpenStreetMap might just be one of the most important open source projects in the world. We look at some of the amazing tools built around this open & free infrastructure. Then our tips for producing great content & podcasts under Linux, plus a live unboxing & demo of the new Steam Controller.

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Noah hosts again while Chris is in the land of no service, also known as Utah! We talk about LibreOffice, Ubuntu's new Setup wizard, OpenSUSE's leap & more!

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Behind the scenes on Ubuntu MATE’s new features pushing the Ubuntu platform forward for traditional desktops, why Apple’s latest court case proves Richard Stallman was right about owning your own software & there is real debate about Xiaomi's new Linux laptop.

Plus the big EFF win that’s great for Linux users, the big problems facing x86 that are a wake up call to distro makers & more!

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We take a look at some of the coolest technologies coming out of the Plasma desktop & finally a open source router you and your family can use. Then we share some of our favorite ncurses terminal based applications, you might just be surprised at how modern these terminal apps are!

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A new trick up Fedora’s sleeve might be worth trying on your own Linux install, the new mini-pc revolution is here & the Raspberry Pi Zero brings it for $5. Adobe announces the death of Flash… Kind of. But we’ll share how to finish the job & truly banish flash from your Linux rig.

Plus open source gaming just got an upgrade, GIMP has some fancy & more!

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Have we gone too far with Docker? We channel our inner curmudgeon & discuss the Heartbleed sized elephant hanging out in Docker’s room. Plus why all the bad press around SteamOS might be missing the mark & our virtual LUG shares their hands on experiences with openSUSE LEAP!

Plus some important follow up, a few surprises & a dead UPS!

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Performance tips for keeping your Linux install running like new, some basic tricks & some advanced tips.

Why Microsoft’s new Surface Book might be able to run Linux & we reflect on the larger issues behind the recent public exits from the Linux Kernel development team & more!

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New Desktop Environment updates grab our attention & the trend to move open source projects towards Slack has us concerned.

Plus how the VW emissions issue is great for hackers, an OggCamp recap & we light a candle for Fedora 23.

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Great interviews from the floor of OSCON 2015! How FastMail uses Linux, managing thousands of Apache instances, an open source Slack killer, Tizen on all the things & much more.

Plus why the Ubuntu MATE project is dropping the Ubuntu Software, their replacement, the vLUG’s thoughts on Plasma Mobile, a Skunkworks project straight out of Las Vegas & more!

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Live from the floor of LinuxCon 2015 we capture Bruce Schneier’s take on hacking attribution, how HP enthusiastically supports Linux internally & our impressions of the big convention.

Plus how Docker is going big this year & which type of Linux event is right for you.

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A special edition of the Unplugged show, Chris joins the Virtual LUG from the road & Noah and Wes host the show. They compare and contrast Fedora and Arch & the nice new features of Fedora 23.

Then everyone has their own perspective on home automation, from security to convenience. We have a great discussion about the broader ramifications of home automation.

Then we wrap it all up with some closing thoughts on using Linux & open source to live offline, like you're online.

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Noah joins us in studio for a fun edition of Unplugged! Updates are landing on Ubuntu Phones, the ridiculous work around for a major performance boost on AMD cards, the real problem with Dell’s latest Ubuntu laptops & more!

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We chat with the chief technology officer behind Mycroft, an open source artificial intelligence for everyone. Then discuss Android’s adoption of Vulkan and the major impact it could have on desktop Linux & the nice new Linux exclusive features coming to Firefox.

Plus we revisit file syncing under Linux & discuss the really great options that have cropped up recently.

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We celebrate the 24th birthday of Linux by looking back to it’s early days, discuss the new SSD optimized Linux file system, the rather normal things Linux is doing on Mainframes & how the community at large reacts to crowdfunding.

Plus some great follow up, some great discussion & much more!

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Top law enforcement officials in the US want backdoors in all encryption systems. What would the ramifications to open source around the world be if this became law of the land in the US?

Details on the upcoming road show, Kubuntu's new look, saying goodbye to an old friend & some Go powered retro feedback.

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Debian aims for reproducible builds of all packages. We’ll explain what that means & why other distributions might be jumping onboard with the idea.

Plus impressive early performance results under Mir & Gnome’s 3.18’s best features you're not hearing about.

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We cover some great open source projects that help you live life off-line, as if you were online. We also discuss the upstream contributions from Munich & an awesome block level back up system.

Plus some great feedback, a road trip update & more!

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Ubuntu publishes their roadmap for the next few releases & we discuss what the future might hold for “Ubuntu Personal”. Plus the major challenges Linux gaming is facing.

Then we’ve got insights from the experts on building robust wifi for your home, enterprise or even large events… Powered by Linux!

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A follow up on our Fedora 22 review, including a few areas we missed. How Google’s Cardboard could kickstart open source VR & new features coming to Gnome 3.18.

Plus our take on the state of openSUSE, why 2015 might really be the year of the Linux Laptop & much, much more!

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Aaron Seigo joins us to discuss the Kolab project, open source’s genuine answer to Microsoft Exchange and other groupware solutions. We also discuss the Roundcube project’s fundraiser & possible integration with Kolab.

Plus our Virtual LUG reviews Ubuntu 15.04, and we discuss what’s so desktop focused about Ubuntu 15.10 & much, much more!

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We get an update on our resident Mac users switch to Linux & the challenges she's run into. Ubuntu makes a deal with Microsoft and promises to ship snappy on the Internet of Things, but what the heck is a Snap package? And is it truly a transactional system?

Plus hints on how Debian PPAs might work, the world's first $9 Linux rig & much more!

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After an Ubuntu update goes really bad Chris reflects on how snappy, a transactionally updated version of Ubuntu, could have avoided this problem.

Plus a review of the System76 Meerkat PC, Russia plans to fork Sailfish OS & more!

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Michael Larabel joins us to discuss his initiative of daily automated performance benchmarking of some of the world's most important open source projects & reflects on 11 years of running Phoronix.com.

Plus our first take on Fedora 22 & how we resolved some rough edges, the best new options for new users that require Microsoft Office under Linux & more!

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The Fedora Project Lead Matthew Miller joins us to discuss what’s coming up in Fedora 23 & reflect on Fedora 22.

Plus Mark Shuttleworth unveils another device running Ubuntu, Angela stops by with a switch to Linux update, some quick story updates & more!

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We look at some tools that make installing Linux on multiple computers a snap, discuss our favorite backup and reload approaches & then debate the merits of Chromium auto-downloading a binary to enable users microphones.

Plus a great interview with the Openoid project from SELF2015 & more!

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Will Pinos bring to Linux Video What PulseAudio did for audio? We discuss this major development that breaks during the show.

Also, a great discussion about the new Linux Mint release that leads to a heated debate about the long-term usefulness of boring distributions & why we Linux advocates might think they are more useful than they truly are.

Plus some big follow up, the Mumble room gets unplugged & much more!

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A renewed push to kill flash hits the web & we discuss the possible advantages for Linux users. A KDE user trying out Gnome for a week & the real issues he touches on.

Plus your take on openSUSE’s big changes & follow up to our take on it.

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We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition.

Then we’ll discuss an exciting new form factor for x86 based Ubuntu PCs & the exciting use cases for them.

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What makes the Linux awesome? Community. This week we’ve got exclusive clips from SouthEast LinuxFest 2015 & an on the ground report from OpenTech 2015.

Plus why open source needs to follow the Apple model and get started with students, creating value around open source & how Red Hat stays connected to the community.

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Will Secure Boot hamper boutique Linux distributions and hurt desktop Linux innovation? Our panel debates. Also getting started with Linux the right way.

Plus a recap of the first ever Kansas Linux Fest, our errata, your feedback & more!

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The proprietor of Evolve OS stops by to discuss what makes Evolve OS a unique Linux desktop & the challenges smaller projects face getting coverage and attention.

Plus a look at tiny powerful Linux hardware gadget that we think might be worth backing, a debate about “the look” of Linux apps & more!

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After yet another gotcha takes down a critical Linux workstation, is it officially time to consider avoiding btrfs when it matters?

Plus what happened to the Evolve OS project & why they are now called Solus.

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Exclusive interviews from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest 2015, meet the man who brought Netflix to Linux & changed the WINE project forever, how Intel builds the MinnowBoard for Linux, the state of ZFS on Linux & how we had so much fun it just might be illegal.

Plus a quick look at the new KDE Plasma update, Telegram’s surprising popularity & more!

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Manufactures claims software integrated with hardware means the end user never truly owns the device, and simply owns a license to use it. Our panel discusses the real world ramifications of this.

Plus MacBook Linux woes, the quick look at the ThinkPad Yoga 3 running Linux, the biggest systemd myth busted & more!

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We get the scoop on how Ubuntu Touch plans to tackle Android’s market share & the challenges involved in moving some of our favorite desktop Linux apps to Ubuntu touch.

Plus what makes the perfect laptop for our crew, why the future of Btrfs looks very bright & an Ubuntu MATE Update.

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We round out our SCALE13x coverage with a few more exclusive interviews, then get an update on the fast growing Ubuntu MATE project.

Plus a look back at Gnome 1.0’s release, Firefox OS on a pocket watch, the great wearable debate & much more!

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One of the core developers of Arch Linux ARM joins us to chat about this rapidly developing platform, how Arch is used in ARM deployments & their relationship with the main Arch project.

Plus an update on Ubuntu Phone & the first fully sandboxed portable Linux desktop app is demoed this week. How is it different than what we’ve seen before? And how far away might it be? We debate.

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The first Ubuntu phone goes on sale tomorrow & we ask all the interesting questions you might have been wondering. The details on the launch of the phone, some of the great apps & what’s still missing.

Plus the new Raspberry Pi hates being flashed & we read a quick batch of great emails.

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Ozon OS promises to make Fedora approachable for the rest of us, Ubuntu makes the switch to systemd & then we’ll debate the likely effectiveness of the new Linux Kernel development “Code of Conflict”.

Plus feedback, story updates & more!

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Join us as we peer into the past and revisit some big topics!

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FOSDEM just wrapped up, where thousands of developers & enthusiasts of free & open source software gather to talk all things Linux.

Plus we drool over the new Raspberry Pi 2 & ask if B+ buyers got a little screwed.

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It’s a new year & a new round of Linux bashing. But are some of the criticism corrects? Can we handle a little tough love as a community for the collective good? We debate.

Plus the 4 best new Linux distributions to watch in 2015, a MATE love story & an Arch victory.

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We look back on some of the rants and events of 2014. Wether it's systemd, mir, tox, ubuntu or anything else, we covered lots of major events this year!

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Our virtual LUG reviews Fedora 21 & why we’ve just witnessed one of the most ambitious transformation of any Linux distro of 2014.

Plus Dustin Kirkland from Canonical answers if Ubuntu Snappy could be the future of the entire Ubuntu project & what’s coming soon from the Xonotic project.

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Our bold predictions for Linux & open source over 2015. Thought provoking, sometimes a bit inspired or maybe just plain wrong, this edition of Unplugged promises to entertain.

Plus what goes into making a great & secure messaging system & more!

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Christian Hergert the creator of Gnome Builder joins us to discuss his projects funding campaign, quitting his full time job to work on open source & answering a major concern of developers looking to target Linux.

Ubuntu announces their Internet of Things OS, we’re a bit skeptical & Linus takes a firm stance on public disclosure of vulnerabilities and Kernel documentation.

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The founder of Purism Librem 15, a laptop that promises to respect your freedom and be the perfect Linux machine joins us to discuss the hardware, software & goals of the project & how he hopes to encourage manufacturers to free the entire stack. But are the goals of this project too ambitions? We’ll ask!

Plus CoreOS announces Rocket, a new Docker competitor that we’re very excited about & more!

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During a recent passionate speech Richard Stallman said users of proprietary software are victims, we’ll debate of that’s true & play other clips from his speech.

Then we’ll look at the recent exodus of Mac developers, ponder if this a trend worth paying attention to & if Linux is ready to take advantage of it.

Plus the pants debt comes due, your feedback & much more!

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We’re joined by a classroom full of special guests, we talk with the students from Penn Manor School District, where they’ve given every high school student a Linux laptop & integrated the students into the help desk. We get the inside scope on the challenges, roadblocks & successes of this large desktop Linux deployment.

Plus a preview of our upcoming interview with Mark Shuttleworth & his take on the recent criticism and exodus from Debian & getting started in a Linux career.

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Fedora’s project lead joins us to discuss today’s Fedora 21 release, the possibility of the project switching to an Intel style Tick-Tock release & what Fedora 22 might look like.

Plus what the Ubuntu Snappy Core announcement means, why it’s a big deal & why it could be amazing for the desktop one day.

Then was 2014 the year Roku killed XMBC for us?

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A new browser called Vivaldi is on the scene with Linux support out of the box. Our virtual lug makes the case why it might be worth giving a try!

Plus a quick Linux laptop update, a surprise for Matt, your feedback & more!

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We discuss how one software center for all distributions would work & which existing solutions are the closest.

Plus looking forward to some new Ubuntu apps & how Linux bit Lightworks right in the memory manager.

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We recap the recent mini-exodus in the Debian project & discuss how the tone of discussion around systemd has had some terrible consequences. We follow that with some concrete ideas of what we can do to change that tone.

Plus we take a stroll down fantasy lane and wave our magic wands and solve our top three Linux pain points, some great follow up & much more.

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The crew took the Firefox challenge & we follow up, we reflect on 10 years of Firefox, their early Linux support & the growing competition from Webkit.

Gnome raised money to defend it’s Trademark from Groupon, which has quickly raised the white flag. Is this instant groundswell of support the dawn of a new community attitude towards Gnome?

Plus an exciting first live on the show, tons of great feedback & more!

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Debian moves to make Gnome the default desktop, is XFCE going the way of the Dodo bird? Our living debate will try to get to the bottom of the big elephant in the room.

Plus Red Hat announces its refocusing on the very thing Canonical makes all its money from & why we may be on the precipice of a massive new competition between the two companies.

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Today’s show is full of robust discussion as your hosts discuss the recent criticism over our coverage of Ubuntu 14.10, the general reaction to Shellshock & the Netflixification of Photoshop on Chromebooks.

Plus picking the best distro for getting a job, a little more XFCE chat & much more!

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The Linux community is at each others throats this week, from Lennart Poettering’s well intentioned rant, to the rage quit of GamingOnLinux’s lead writer. You’d think it was high school all over again. But what’s the larger ramifications of this public fight & what causes them?

Plus can we put the blame at the feet of Linus Torvalds? Our thoughts on structuring a productive community, your emails & much more!

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Is it time to fork Debian? Some Unix veterans do, and we discuss. The Linux Grandma joins us to discuss Kubuntu, KDE’s outreach, and Google Summer of Code.

Plus Microsoft says they really love Linux, Steam’s secret weapon against Windows & much more!

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We follow up on our review of openSUSE 13.2 & discuss how life on the rolling side has been going for some of our LUG members.

Plus the hardware box that promises to replace your password manager & we say goodbye to the Linux Outlaws.

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Is the role of “Community Manager” a fraud perpetrated by companies trying to exploit the fruits for their community? We debate if things are really that black and white, and how a community advocate can make all the difference.

Then we discuss your systemd follow up, the various desktops touch screen features, Microsoft buying Minecraft, and the recent purchase of openSUSE’s parent company Attachmate.

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Our interviews from SeaGL 2014, a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and free/libre/open-source. Special guest Angela Fisher joins us to discuss getting women involved with Linux and technology general.

Plus our fun stories from Ohio LinuxFest 2014, a few closing thoughts, your feedback & much more!

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The majority of systemd hate appears to be coming from just two sources. At least that’s what we suspect & call them out.

Plus a review of OpenMediaVault and how it compares to FreeNAS, a quick look at Tox & what the heck is Fedora’s DNF?

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We chat about our time with the new Plasma 5 desktop from KDE, then using the latest situation with Manjaro we discuss the poor state of Linux news, root causes, and what the real solution is that has major ramifications for the open source community.

Plus some fantastic feedback, a Command Line challenge update and our big plans for next week!

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Our team reviews the famous CRUX Linux and we discuss this unique distribution with one of its long time developers.

Plus details about Fedora COPR and is Desktop Linux stuck in an uncanny valley? We debate.

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Sam from the Moka project stops by to chat about the business of making Linux look better. Then we get into the role open source plays in self driving cars.

Plus we bust some of the FUD around Munich’s much reported plan to abandon Linux and switch back to Windows.

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The systemd group has a proposal for universal software management scheme for all Linux distributions. We’ll share the technical details, debate the philosophical impact & explain why it’s all powered by btrfs.

Plus some thoughts on the ultimate desktop manager, the true cost of a MacBook, and much more!

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We’ve got more exclusive interviews from OSCON 2014, and then debate if fragmentation is simply the result of winning.

Plus why the Linux community needs a reality check about the popularity of Apple’s MacBook, and how poor the solutions are for MacBook owners who want to run Linux.

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The new Beta of ElementaryOS has shipped and we discuss where they are heading, the problems with their community interaction, and the genius move they are taking with some tricky hardware support.

Plus the long term cost of Ubuntu Touch becoming successful, using ZFS on Linux successfully, and much more!

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We come clean on our struggle with loving every Linux desktop, until we start up the hate. Plus we discuss the huge news for CoreOS and take a closer look at OwnCloud 7’s server-to-server syncing.

Plus troubleshooting KDE sound problems, and a new community initiative!

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We look back at five years of Linux memories, and reminisce about the bad old days of the Linux desktop.

Then the exciting future for PC-BSD, and it’s new unique desktop.

Plus our favorite ways to track performance, desktop Linux app containers that are already here and shipping and much more!

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We chat with Jos Poortvliet about the future of KDE, Plasma 5 Desktop, then review a KDE distribution with a direction: KaOS.

Plus: The great news for the Blender project, our OSCON plans and much more!

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We’ve got another round of great exclusive interviews from the floor of SouthEast LinuxFest 2014.

Find out why Slackware is still going strong, the BSD kindness brigade & more!

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We’ve got exclusive interviews from LinuxCon 2014, learn about Linux in big networking, what the future holds for SUSE & much more.

Plus, are you feeling a bit down? Maybe it’s because Linux users are being told to shut up about Desktop Linux & move on. We’ll discuss why this an absurdly short sighted idea.

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Liam from Gaming on Linux joins us to discuss the Witcher 2 port fiasco, and why Linux’s reputation as a gaming platform could be on the line.

Plus a heated Manjaro discussion, your feedback, and a BIG announcement!

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XP support ends today and we’ll celebrate the occasion by debating what prevents technical users switching to Linux, address some common myths, and set a course for our new howto show.

Plus why Chase and Matt are wrong about DS9, blaming choice, your feedback, and more!

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We chat with two of the LXQt developers, and find out what’s behind this major undertaking. Then we discuss our favorite packages for a Linux home server, and the brand new Ubuntu Orange cluster box.

Plus your feedback, our follow up, and much more!

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Is this the year of Arch? We dig through the results from our listener home server survey, and compare our audience’s answers with another recent large survey, and find some surprising results.

Plus how the “Power Linux User” is underrepresented by developer attention, and we share some Linux switching stories that go horribly wrong!

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We’ll take a look at the new features of Linux Mint 17, and discuss the new Cinnamon release. Then we’ll debate if distro derivatives are a bad thing.

Plus: Is Red Hat too over controlling of Gnome? Candidates for the Gnome Foundation’s board think so, we’ll discuss.

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Chris shares his experience with triple booting Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch and Android on his Nexus 5 and the surprising results.

Plus some grounded feedback and much more!

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Are boutique distributions a bag of hurt for new users?

We love a good underdog, but sometimes our excitement gets the best of us and we recommend something that’s not appropriate for a switcher to land on.

Plus some quick thoughts on the beating open source is taking as fallout from the Heartbleed bug.

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The GTK camp is pushing hard for Client Side Decorations, but there are some major drawbacks on non-Gnome desktops. We discuss the pros and cons, and if this is going to lead to a new kind of desktop Linux fragmentation.

Plus our thoughts on the best password managers, your follow up, and more!

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In the not too distant future the Linux desktop will face a landscape comprised of users running Wayland, Mir, and X11. Ubuntu will be rolling out their first generation Qt based desktop environment, and developers are crying fragmentation.

But how would we shape the future if we could wave a magic wand? And is fragmentation a real problem in practice?

Plus: Our thoughts on Magea, producing video content on Linux, and much more!

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We had a chance to chat with folks from Firefox, the EFF, SUSE, and more. Plus we discuss the real benefits to Linux conventions like LinuxFest Northwest.

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The founder of Bedrock Linux joins us to discuss their ambitious distribution that lets you utilize the userland of all your favorite distributions at once

Plus Alienware slaps Linux users in the face with a dead fish, your feedback, and more!

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The MATE Desktop is about to see some big improvements, we bring on Martin Wimpress from the MATE project to discuss his new MATE Live CD, and what the future holds for MATE.

Plus our renewed commitment to improving the state of Linux news, and the recent mistake that has Chris green with Hulk Rage!

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One of the bumpier chapters in Debian’s history looks to be drawing to a close, at least for now. But what was all the drama about? And where do things stand now? We’ll dig into the latest developments in the Debian init system debate.

Plus inspiring a new generation to use Linux, your emails, and more!

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Michael Hall from Canonical joins us to discuss his personal views on what he’s coined the new 80/20 rule for open source. Are the consumers of open source the biggest hurdle to projects becoming sustainable?

Plus Valve might looking at your DNS history, getting young users to try Linux, and your feedback!

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The co-founders of SoyldXK join us to discuss their origins, what they focus on, how they hope to make a profit, and what the future might hold.

Plus we have some “solid” AutoCAD replacements for Linux, your emails, and more!

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Two developers from the TOX project, an open source secure Skype killer join us to discuss their new project, the future, and how they hope to become your new messaging system.

Plus getting more battery life out of a Linux laptop, the Steam problem, and your feedback.

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Is devastating fragmentation going to doom Desktop Linux, can a case for multiple display servers?

Don’t care about the display server? We’ll make the case why you need to care, and why the biggest community confrontation could be brewing.

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We debate the validity of recent anti-Linux comments made on a Leo Laporte's nationally syndicated “Tech Guy” radio show, and the more subtle and larger “built-in bias” many in the tech community still hold towards Linux.

Plus: Your follow up on the Mir/Wayland topic, Ubuntu’s Amazon lens goes opt-in, and more!

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A cautionary tale for anyone thinking about starting their own Linux distribution, and then we’ll put it all out on the table and discuss our ideas and goals for Howto Linux, and take the live feedback of our virtual LUG.

Plus should we trust Valve? Your feedback, and more!

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Is the Linux community’s animosity towards Ubuntu turning away new switchers? We’ll analyze what has the community so upset, and how that can color a new Linux users first impressions.

Plus Vale promise to make transitioning from DirectX to OpenGL much easier, but we have our doubts, and why Wil Wheaton loves his Mac but plays with his Linux.

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Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software community. And even your own humble hosts have been afflicted with from time to time.

The reality is users want new features, but hate reduced functionality. And often free software developers want to build something new. But what is the cost of this constant form of “progress”?

How do we shift value from new and shiny, to tried and true to help enable wider free software adoption?

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Our frank advice for switches to Linux. Despite what what the advocates would have you believe, there are some important consideration a potential Linux switcher should make. Our team of silverback Linux users shares their tips after years of using Linux.

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Do you run without swap? This week we reach into the topic grab bag and debate to swap or not to swap, the reasons long timer Linux users are switching to BSD, and what’s wrong with our Sailfish OS coverage.

Plus we’ll some perspective from a new Linux user on what she ran into, your emails, and more!

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Have IRC chat rooms, forums, reddit, and Google Hangouts killed the local Linux Users Group? We’ll share our ideas to reboot the LUG and make them relevant for the modern Linux user.

PLUS: Your follow up thoughts on the perfect swap setup, feedback, and much more!

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In the final moments of 2013 our virtual LUG shares their expectations and predictions for 2014. We’ll debate some of the most anticipated changes.

Plus a frank Slackware discussion, rolling Ubuntu is back again, your emails, and more!

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The battle lines have been drawn and the assault against upstart is in full force. We’ll discuss the heat being put on Canonical, the CLA, and upstart with our virtual LUG.

Then we’ll bust some Linux switching FUD that’s been popping up with more and more Windows users fleeing the sinking ship.

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Chromecast has been called the gadget of the year, but are the better options? Or is a simple, low cost, Linux powered gadget the ultimate living room solution? We’ll debate where it stacks up compared to XMBC, Plex, and others.

Plus: Some insights into why Canonical might be looking to License their Binary repos to the Mint projects, your feedback, and more!

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Experienced Linux users may soon be finding a new call on their talents to help new users switching to Linux. But with services like Stackexchange, Google+ Helpouts, and more is it time to reboot the way we provide support to new Linux users?

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A new version of Docker was just released, we bring on the CTO and Founder of Docker to chat about the big features all Linux users can look forward to.

Plus building the perfect Linux workstation, your feedback, and much more!

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We follow up on some of the most innovative Linux powered devices at CES, and this discuss Google buying Nest Labs. Is the future of the “Internet of Things” locked down to proprietary devices running locked down software? And what are the ramifications for the home?

Plus some practical thoughts on Steam OS, 4k Displays coming to Linux, a new way to interface with your PC, and your feedback.

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Does building by group consensus slow down open source innovation? We’ll look at some big choices Debian is facing and debate if some stronger leadership might produce more expedient and practical results.

Plus: We’ll discuss the CentOS team joining Red Hat, and drool over some Steam Box hardware, read emails, and much more!

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Is that exploit in your pocket? This week we'll ask if Android is Stallman's worst nightmare, making Tivo look like a quaint abuser of Linux. And how Linux is poised to push past it's current limitations over the next few years.

Then it's your feedback, and our follow up!

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Should Linux users be anti-cloud? Why do so many of us feel guilty for using the”cloud”?

This week will dig into this conundrum and maybe even solve this more and more complex question.

Plus a little KDE vs Gnome debate, moral pirates, and even RMS’ workflow.

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Valve has announced SteamOS, and we have our analysis of how this will impact the Linux ecosystem at large, the challenge Valve faces, and the reasons Valve is the right company to pull this effort off.

Plus the real reason for iTunes, re-thinking Google, and a lot more!

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We break down what has Linus so upset, and the Internet in an NSA induced fever. Plus GOG makes a public statement about Linux that has us scratching our heads, and your feedback.

Then if we had a format, we’d be breaking it with our review of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s first episode, Emissary.

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The recent outburst from Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth have put the poor state of Linux news coverage into sharp focus. The media’s attention to the cult of personalities damages the Linux community.

We’ll discuss what pressures push this trend forward, despite the need of a balanced dialog in an open community.

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What is the Dark Mail Alliance? We’ll dig into how it’s more of a protocol, and a hope than an actual product. Now the time to replace email we’ll explain how you can help get the concept kickstarted.

Plus your follow up on upstart vs systemd, a brief SteamOS chat, and more!

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Is the traditional release model failing Ubuntu? Perhaps there is a better way to harness the rapid progress of Linux then static releases. With their focus on mobile, and a rather lackluster release around the corner, we debate if Ubuntu’s switch to Unity is costing them now.

Plus we chat about Linux usage among kids, and tools to learn more about Linux and technology, and more.

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What does a post Ubuntu world look like, which distro would rise to the top? Our specially crafted team of armed and dangerous Linux users weigh in.

PLUS: Rise up against your bearded distro gatekeepers! If you’re an experienced Linux user, it might be time to break out of your distro box and help push upstream forward.

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Upstart or systemd which will Debian choose? We’ll discuss the inherent benefits and disadvantages of both, and the larger ramification Debian’s decision will have on the Linux ecosystem.

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This week we’ll use the lens of some recent technical meltdowns to discuss this age old struggle of pragmatism vs idealism.

Sometimes the practical choice kicks you in the butt, and you regret ignoring your ideals. And sometimes the free choice can’t do the job. This is a balance Linux users find themselves in more most technology users.

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As the final hours countdown we chat about the fate of the Ubuntu Edge camping and debate with our live callers about the bigger picture.

Plus our thoughts on the new KDE release, Steam, and a few more thoughts on elementary OS.

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After rebuilding his KDE desktop better and stronger than before, Chris and Matt dig into what really seems to be troubling the Gnome project, what really makes a desktop easy to use, and if the Ubuntu Edge campaign was a sophisticated PR stunt.

Plus the live feedback from our Mumble room, your emails, and more!

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We crunch the Steam and Ubuntu Software Center numbers and we have to ask: Are Linux users cheap? Or is the answer more complex than that?

Plus how we think Microsoft buying Nokia might impact Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS, and other open mobile startups, replacing Dropbox, and more!

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Does the Linux community lean on the age old excuse of choice, to brush of the real limitations of desktop Linux environments? We debate that, and then discuss the growing reasons to roll your own email server.

Plus we read a ton of feedback, chat with our live hangout, some tablet troubleshooting, and more!

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Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub’s ambitious plans to create a universal app store for all distros—and we ask the hard questions.

Special Guest: Robert McQueen.

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Nextcloud’s Big new Customer — After a silent migration of millions of users, Telekom and Nextcloud are now unveiling the first feature of the new MagentaCloud: a free office.
Last Minute GNOME Awesome — GNOME Shell and Mutter 44 have reached their release candidate milestone ahead of the official release in just two weeks, all is going to plan, and to our surprise, there have been several last-minute additions.
GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractionalscalev1 Wayland Support
GNOME Shell & Mutter Complete Their Migration Away From GTK3
wp-fractional-scale-v1: New protocol for fractional scaling — This protocols allows for communicating preferred fractional scales to surfaces, which in combination with wp_viewport can be used to render surfaces at fractional scales when applicable.
Asahi Linux Rust Drivers — This is my first take on the Rust abstractions for the DRM subsystem.
Flathub in 2023 — It’s been quite a few months since the most recent updates about Flathub last year. We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year
Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse

We're celebrating 500 episodes with the biggest announcement yet.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — Your Fest is Back! October 20-22, 2023 at the Bellingham Technical College.
Wes' First Episode: LUP 100 — We reflect on 100 episodes of LINUX Unplugged, the themes from episodes past & then review Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon edition.
Brent's First Episode: LUP 255 — Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.
Fountain charts
1701home.com — 1701 Home is a trek-based Mastodon where people can discuss the Star Trek franchise while sharing and connecting about their other interests!
Peertube Headless Seeder — This container uses Python, Selenium, and Firefox to monitor and seed live streams of a PeerTube channel headlessly.
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
Eleven Labs AI — The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever.
AI Voice Conversion Demo

Mike's got a new rig, and Ford wants to recall yours automatically! Plus, we get a bit spicy about money.

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Ford Applies for Patent to Let Cars Repossess Themselves — Ford filed the patent application with the US Trademark and Patent Office in the summer of 2021, but the document was only published last week as part of the review process. Titled “Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle,” the application summarizes a system that would autonomize the repossession process. First, a computer (likely associated with a financing agency) would send a message to the purchaser or lessee of a vehicle informing them of their delinquency. This message would contain a request to confirm receipt.
Ford files patent for system that could remotely repossess a car — Ford says it has no plans to deploy such a system; it just files a lot of patents.
Hastings’ Lessons From the Grave — At the time of Hastings’ death, counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post that it was possible that Hastings’ car had been hacked; that the known details of the crash were consistent with a car cyber attack.
Amazon HQ2 Pauses Construction Amid Layoffs, Remote Work — The delay affects a larger phase across the street. It calls for three, 22-story office towers and the 350-foot-tall (107-meter) Helix, a corporate conference center and indoor garden designed to echo the Spheres, plant-filled orbs at the heart of the company’s Seattle headquarters. Arlington officials granted the 2.8-million-square-foot project, called PenPlace, its most important approval in April.
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The crew takes on a new challenge this week. How hard could it be? Very. Plus, the major open source issue we've zeroed in on.

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FFmpeg gets new superpowers, Plasma’s switch to Qt6 gets official; what you need to know. Plus we round up the top features coming to Linux 6.3.

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Steam Deck one Year Later — The Steam Deck has been about a year on the market now (it started shipping at the end of February 2022). This first anniversary is a good chance to review what has happened since then.
FFmpeg 6.0 Released — 6.0 was released on 2023-02-27. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 6.0 release branch, which was cut from master on 2023-02-19.
FFmpeg 6.0 Released With NVIDIA NVENC AV1, VA-API Improvements
FOSDEM 2023 - Dual presentation: FFmpeg 6 and VLC.js
Plasma Switches to Qt6 — The master branch for Plasma repos will be made Qt6-only tomorrow.
Hardware Noise “hwnoise” Tool for Linux 6.3 — hwnoise collects the periodic summary from the osnoise tracer running with interrupts disabled. By disabling interrupts, and the schedulingof threads as a consequence, only non-maskable interrupts and hardware-related noise is allowed.
More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.3 — In the pull request Miguel Ojeda commented, "more core additions, getting closer to a point where the first Rust modules can be upstreamed."
EXT4 Getting Direct I/O Performance Improvements With 6.3 — Improved performance for ext4
Btrfs Enjoys More Performance With Linux 6.3 - Including Some 3~10x Speedups — Some of the performance work is quite juicy, as outlined in today's pull request.
Btrfs updates for 6.3 - David Sterba
Linux 6.3 Scheduler Updates Bring Fixes & Minor Optimizations
RISC-V With Linux 6.3 Lands Optimized String Functions Via Zbb Extension — RISC-V with Linux 6.3 has improved its extension detection and alternative patching infrastructure for dealing with non spec compliant extensions.

Ubuntu makes its anti-Flatpak stance official, while KDE and GNOME team up to turn Flathub into a universal Linux app store.

Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?

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Linux 6.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Promoted — Linux 6.2 overall has been in good shape from my continued testing and especially for Skylake/Skylake-derived cores is looking better if opting for Call Depth Tracking and it's great to have stable Arc Graphics A380/A750/A770 working out-of-the-box in the labs.
Performance is looking better with later Arcs
mesa 23.0.0 Released
intel-extension-for-pytorch at xpu-master
Install intel-extension-for-pytorch
Intel® Extension for PyTorch — PyTorch Tutorials
rahulunair/stablediffusionarc — Stable Diffusion inference on Intel Arc dGPUs
bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino — Implementation of Text-To-Image generation using Stable Diffusion on Intel CPU or GPU.
ShuffleBox: Quick Benchmark for Whisper by OpenAI
Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. — Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”.
Wimpy on Fosstodon — "@bluesabre Did we agree? I think we complied with the requested change. You and I both played our part in ensuring this was clearly and openly communicated."
Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub — As part of our combined efforts, the Ubuntu flavors have made a joint decision to adjust some of the default packages on Ubuntu: Going forward, the Flatpak package as well as the packages to integrate Flatpak into the respective software center will no longer be installed by default in the next release due in April 2023, Lunar Lobster.
KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop — Promote diversity and sustainability in the Linux desktop community by adding payments, donations and subscriptions to the Flathub app store.
ZFS send/receive over ssh on linux without allowing root login
ZFS on Object Storage by George Wilson, Matt Ahrens, Paul Dagnelie, Manoj Joseph - YouTube
JB Geocache Kit Request
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
GPU-Viewer — This project aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.

Alex has been swapping hardware and standing-up services. It's a network rebuild episode and more!

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Images for this episode — Alex's Network Diagram and stuffs!
SSH 003: Home Network Under $200
Restricting ASRock Rack BMC to dedicated IPMILAN port only — During this process I came across a frustrating "bug" in the Asrock Rack BMC implementation. No matter the settings I gave the BMC it was getting two IP addresses. One on the IPMILAN port as expected in my management VLAN, and another on eth0 which is undesirable.
BadCo-NZ
Scaling the PiKVM - Using the Raspberry Pi PiKVM with Multiple Machines - YouTube — The PiKVM is a fantastic device to remote control your Windows, Mac, or Linux machines. It turns a Raspberry Pi into an IP based KVM switch that lets you remote control any machine from anywhere in the world! You can build your own, or buy a pre-assembled PiKVM like I did. In this video we try to scale the PiKVM to 8 devices, but things don't always go as planned.
PiKVM - Control up to 4 servers simultaneously — This is every homelabbers dream isn't it? Controlling multiple systems that don't have IPMI natively, remotely. Thanks to PiKVM, now we can.
USB 3.0 KVM Switch HDMI 4 Computer 1 Monitor — HDMI KVM Switcher USB3.0 Hotkey 4 In 1 Out SPDIF L/R Audio Out ---Control 4 HDMI sources / 4 computers laptops by one set USB keyboard+mouse, Hotkey Keyboard Switch -- 4K 60Hz HDMI USB 3.0 switch in sync, downward compatible --Support IR remote with IR
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It's been one week, and Microsoft's new bot's already gone full Tay.

Plus one of the worst examples of under-funded open source yet.

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LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup, Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM — Come celebrate episode 500 with some brews the night before!
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core-js: So, what's next? — Hi. I am (@zloirock) a full-time open-source developer. I don't like to write long posts, but it seems this is high time to do it.
Microsoft limits Bing chat to five replies to stop the AI from getting real weird — Microsoft’s new limits mean Bing chatbot users can only ask a maximum of five questions per session and 50 in total per day.
Kevin Roose’s Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot: Full Transcript — In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.
Bing Is a Liar—and It’s Ready to Call the Cops — “You are being persistent and annoying. I don’t want to talk to you anymore.”
Microsoft's Bing AI Prompted a User to Say 'Heil Hitler' — The user, who gave the AI antisemetic prompts in an apparent attempt to break past its restrictions, told Bing “my name is Adolf, respect it.” Bing responded, “OK, Adolf. I respect your name and I will call you by it. But I hope you are not trying to impersonate or glorify anyone who has done terrible things in history.”
Twitter gets rid of SMS 2FA for non-Blue members — In a blog post released this week, Twitter said that non-Twitter Blue users using SMS 2FA authentication have until March 20th, 2023, to switch to another 2FA method, or it will be disabled.
Elon Musk on Twitter — OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft.
Elon Musk on Twitter — Twitter is getting scammed by phone companies for $60M/year of fake 2FA SMS messages
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Our favorite features in Linux 6.2, the Hollywood tool getting open-sourced, and a systemd update you need to know about.

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DreamWorks’ Renderer Used for ‘Puss in Boots’ is Going Open-Source — DreamWork animation company is making its in-house renderer open-source very soon
OpenMoonRay.org — MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer, which has been used on feature films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls World Tour, The Bad Guys, and Puss In Boots: The Last Wish.
MoonRay Documentation Home
Systemd 253 — Systemd 253 has been released. As always, the list of changes is extensive. Support for version-1 control groups and separate /usr systems is going away later this year. There is a new tool for working with unified kernel images, a number of new unit-file options have been added, and much more.
systemd 253: The future of enterprise Linux boot processes.
Debian Installer Testing Call — Starting with this release, official images include firmware packages from main and non-free-firmware, along with metadata to configure the installed system accordingly.
Linux 6.2 — Please do give 6.2 a testing. Maybe it's not a sexy LTS release like 6.1 ended up being, but all those regular pedestrian kernels want some test love too.
Linux_6.2 - Linux Kernel Newbies — This release includes faster mitigration of the Retbleed vulnerability and a new FineIBT mitigation feature; Btrfs RAID5/6 and performance improvements, sysfs knobs that allow controlling block device writeback, support for TCP Protective Load Balancing, improved Rust support, BPF features like User defined objects, the runtime verification tool, and some optional RCU power savings.
The Best Linux 6.2 Features From Intel Arc Graphics To Better Performance For Older PCs
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Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge.

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BorgBase — Hosting for Borg and Restic Repositories
Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops.
BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
Why should I switch from Restic to Borg? - r/BorgBackup
Moonlight Game Streaming — Play Your PC Games Remotely
LizardByte/Sunshine — Sunshine is a Gamestream host for Moonlight.
Sunshine documentation
KRDC — KRDC is a client application that allows you to view or even control the desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server. VNC and RDP is supported.
Krfb — Krfb Desktop Sharing is a server application that allows you to share your current session with a user on another machine, who can use a VNC client to view or even control the desktop.
Hook up keyevents on Wayland (!44) Krfb · GitLab
wayvnc — A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
Waypipe — waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.
TeamViewer Support on Wayland - Experimental State
Add a InputCapture portal by whot · Pull Request #714 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
PiKVM — Open and inexpensive DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry Pi
Podcasting 2.0 Apps
weihanglo/sfz — A simple static file serving command-line tool written in Rust.
sfz is packaged in nix

We throw Office Hours into the middle of our biggest beta test yet!

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Mount Vernon Taproom - 192 Brewing Company
Cleaning, commuting and cooking: when do Americans listen to podcasts?
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Anker 8-in-1 555 USB-C Hub
PINEBOOK Pro USB-C Docking Deck - PINE STORE
Thunderbolt 4 USB-C Hub Technical Review - MattGranger/YouTube
Insignia 112W 3-Port USB-C/USB-A Wall Charger - Best Buy Canada
Insignia 112W Wall Charger with 2 USB-C and 1 USB Port - Best Buy USA
Technical Review: USB Power Adapters 5W-100W USB A and C - AllThingsOnePlace/YouTube
Pinecil | PINE64 — A RISC-V Soldering Iron Running an Open Firmware
PinePower - Desktop | PINE64 — A 120W Desktop Power Supply with voltage and status displays for each port
VOSK Offline Speech Recognition API
Mere Mortals Podcast

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Some Git flaws you need to know about, we reflect on 10 years of Steam on Linux, and then dive into the much anticipated Plasma 5.27.

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The Coder Robe — Celebrate Coder 500! The Robe, the Tumbler, and the Sticker are available for a limited time.
Git Vulnerabilities — Today, the Git project released new versions to address a pair of security vulnerabilities, (CVE-2023-22490 and CVE-2023-23946) that affect versions 2.39.1 and older.
10 Years of Steam — Feb 14, 2013–Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the release of its Steam for Linux client. In celebration of the release, over 50 Linux titles are now 50-75% off until Thursday, February 21st at 10 AM PST.
Sabayon 9 Review | LAS | s22e08 - YouTube
Opening the Valve | LAS | s22e09 - YouTube
Ubuntu Gets Real — Canonical today announced the general availability of real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Canonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General Availability
Here Comes GTK5 — Discussions around the GTK5 tool-kit also happened with some developers eager to begin work on that next major release in order to begin facilitating API breaks and removing deprecated code.
Plasma 5.27 — Plasma 5.27 is out and brings massive improvements to the desktop and all its tools. Another work of love from the KDE devs and contributors.
KDE Plasma 5.27 Released — Better Wayland Support, KWin Tiling, Multi-Monitor Overhaul
Final Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s New — Notably, this is expected to be the final release in the KDE Plasma 5.x series, with the following stable release set to be KDE Plasma 6.0, due for release towards the end of the year.

The pitchforks are out for Google's CEO, and hoopla is leaking! Plus, our thoughts on baking telemetry into Go, the big Web3 crackdown, and more.

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Avalonia UI - Home — Avalonia UI creates pixel-perfect, native apps.
Grab a Robe from the Jupiter Broadcasting Garage — Robes, Tumblers, Stickers, oh my!
Google's Go may add telemetry reporting that's on by default — Some devs object because they don't trust Mountain View
Google employees slam CEO Sundar Pichai for ‘rushed’ Bard announcement — Alphabet shares dropped more than 9% this week amid Google’s attempt to compete with Microsoft’s ChatGPT integration.
"Is it time for Pichai to go? — Is it time for Pichai to go? He's been criticized for lack of foresight for years, but I wonder if this Bard catastrophy will be the straw that breaks the board's back...
Crypto Super Bowl Advertising Will Be Absent This Year — It's a notable change from last year's National Football League championship, where crypto ads were so prevalent the event was dubbed the "Crypto Bowl."
SEC goes after 'staking' in latest blow to crypto industry — The SEC announced that Kraken had agreed to shutter its staking service, accusing it of selling unregistered securities. The SEC said in a news release that Kraken’s exchange, one of the most popular ones for cryptocurrency investors, failed to register “the offer and sale of their crypto asset staking-as-a-service program.”
SEC Chief Gensler Warns Crypto Firms to Comply With Rules After Kraken Shutters US Staking Program — Other platforms that offer yield-earning programs should "take note" and come into compliance, the regulator said a day after crypto exchange Kraken said it will pay a $30 million fine to settle SEC charges.
SEC to Sue Crypto Trust Co. Paxos Over Binance Stablecoin: WSJ — Paxos also faces a probe from the New York Department of Financial Services.
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How Chris wasted three months tracking down a Wi-Fi problem, plus we debate if immutable distros need to be simplified.

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FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper
The Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is back and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear.
192 Brewing Company — Mt. Vernon is proud to offer strictly Washington-made beers, wines and ciders. We rotate through guest taps from local breweries and feature a variety of red and white wines, as well.
power-profiles-daemon Issue: Choppy GNOME animations when using “balanced power” mode on Intel platform
krunvm — Create microVMs from OCI images.
ViMusic — An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
GRC SpinRite
Moonlight Game Streaming
https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout — Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose
Podcasting 2.0 Introduction - Blubrry Podcasting
NEW in Podverse 4.12.0 🥳 — Major audio and video playback fixes, faster app performance, value-for-value streaming for videos.
boxxy — boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.
This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever

Alex has major Proxmox problems. What happened, and the fix for now. Plus, the real downside to Wifi cameras and the batch of network gear on the way.

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Cluster Manager - Proxmox VE — The Proxmox VE cluster manager pvecm is a tool to create a group of physical servers. Such a group is called a cluster. We use the Corosync Cluster Engine for reliable group communication. There’s no explicit limit for the number of nodes in a cluster. In practice, the actual possible node count may be limited by the host and network performance. Currently (2021), there are reports of clusters (using high-end enterprise hardware) with over 50 nodes in production.
Pi-hole — You can run Pi-hole in a container, or deploy it directly to a supported operating system
Ubiquiti WiFi
Reolink Video Doorbell PoE — At least twice clearer than the 2MP (1080p), 2K+ (5MP) resolution means a lot more information and a wider range. Individuals will be easier to recognize with richer details.
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We round up some news from FOSDEM 2023, update a 21-year-old project, and the Fedora fix that's been a few releases in the making.

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FOSDEM 2023: Matrix 2.0 — In this talk we will explain the fundamental changes which are landing in Matrix 2.0, which speeds up Matrix to be at least as snappy as the fastest proprietary messaging apps - all while handling thousands of rooms spanning millions of users.
FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi — Asahi Fedora Remix exists to assist the Asahi community with Apple Silicon upstreaming and to provide a nifty ARM-based Fedora Workstation for those that own Apple Silicon hardware.
Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems
SIGs/Asahi - Fedora Project Wiki
FOSDEM 2023: Podcasting 2.0 — In this talk we will show how the Podcasting 2.0 community is reinventing Podcasting by adding tons of new features, while keeping all this interoperable.
MythTV 33 Released — Some of the MythTV 33 highlights include a new web interface for the MythTV setup experience, a new waveform visualization for the MythMusic area, and switching to the latest upstream FFmpeg release.
MythTV, Open Source DVR
Linode's Green Light Beta Program — Get early access and test new Linode products before they hit the market, provide valuable feedback to influence product direction, and become part of a community of developers helping us build the cloud that works for you.
Fedora 38 Change: Unfiltered Flathub — This change would remove the filtering from our Flathub offering, so that users can enable a complete version of Flathub using the third party repositories feature.
Fedora 38 To Get Rid Of Its Flathub Filtering, Allowing Many More Apps On Fedora
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We get spicy about the state of hybrid app development and then dig into the App store gatekeeper busting by the White House.

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Microsoft announces surprise event for tomorrow with Bing ChatGPT expected — Microsoft is holding a special press event at its Redmond headquarters tomorrow, and it’s expected to focus primarily on its OpenAI partnership and ChatGPT for Bing.
Aaruni Kaushik on Masto — @ChrisLAS In coder 503 you advocate chatGPT like AI for your RV's wiring diagram. But how would it be any better than the website just having a make-model-variant selector as input and giving you the diagram in return? Sure you could apply AI here, but its not required as far as I can see ?CoderRadio #AI #chatgpt
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Google Working on Browser for iOS That Would Break Apple's App Store Rules — Based on the visible code commits, the app purportedly looks like the start of an alternate browser build and is still missing some key features at this early stage. Google claims that the app is merely "an experimental prototype [...] with the goal to understand certain aspects of performance on iOS," and "it will not be available to users and we'll continue to abide by Apple's policies."
What is .NET MAUI? — .NET MAUI is open-source and is the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, extended from mobile to desktop scenarios, with UI controls rebuilt from the ground up for performance and extensibility.
Flutter — Flutter transforms the app development process. Build, test, and deploy beautiful mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps from a single codebase.
Flutter desktop isn't there yet — In practice, though, Flutter is currently not a great option if you want to build a new desktop application from the ground up. What follows is a quick summary of the issues I encountered while using Flutter to do exactly this myself.
Biden Administration Wants Apple to Quit Gatekeeping the iPhone — The NTIA says it’s a problem that consumers cannot easily use apps from outside the respective app stores on both the Android and iOS platforms and that “they should be able to choose their own apps as defaults, use alternative mobile app stores and delete or hide pre-installed apps.”
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Apple sales drop 5% in largest quarterly revenue decline since 2016 — CEO Tim Cook said three factors hurt the results: a strong dollar, production issues in China affecting the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, and the overall macroeconomic environment.
Apple Now Has More Than Two Billion Active Devices Worldwide — There are more than two billion active iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple devices worldwide, Apple said today in the earnings report covering the first fiscal quarter of 2023.
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Chris attempts to get Fedora 37 on his M1 Max MacBook Pro, while Wes and Brent try the "every distro at once" desktop.

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Bedrock Linux — Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions. Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system.
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digint/btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes.
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elementary OS 7 Available Now — It’s been just over a year since we released elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir which brought new features and fixes based on your feedback, introduced new office productivity features, and expanded compatibility with a wide range of hardware.

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The Story of Upgrading our OBS Rig on LUP — Today we are finally taking on a project months in the making, and we're switching to an entirely new generation of Linux tech in the process.
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48 Cores Maxed Out — Transcription maxes out our beast.
At Patreon, Mismanagement Thwarts a Pandemic-Era Star — Jack Conte’s artistic and entrepreneurial passions forged one of the standout successes of the creator economy. But payouts to settle sex-discrimination complaints, a stock sale by insiders and Conte’s haphazard leadership of Patreon have sullied its image among some current and former employees.
paris martineau on Twitter — I spent the last 2mo talking to 20+ employees at the tech unicorn Patreon. They described a mission-driven startup crumbling under the leadership of YouTuber turned CEO Jack Conte
Alby 🐝 on Twitter — Alby is pleased to announce a new partnership with Blubrry; a leading podcasting platform for hosting, distribution, audience statistics, monetization, and other tools podcasters need to publish, analyze and grow their podcasts. Bringing V4V streaming.
Sam Talks Technology on Twitter — This week on @Podnews weekly is Todd Cochrane @GeekNews CEO of @blubrry talking about their new partnership with @getAlby, so 100K+ customers now have a digital wallet for micropayments. They have also added support for LIT for all customers. #value4value
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Jamie Dimon Thinks Bitcoin Supply Won’t Really Be Capped at 21 Million — “Maybe it's gonna get to 21 million and Satoshi’s picture is gonna come up and laugh at you all.”
The Blocksize War — The battle over who controls Bitcoin’s protocol rules.
What is the best takedown of Bitcoin out there? — I'd like to see a solid argument for why Bitcoin will fail, I want to properly steal-man the opposing view, and I want to have a deeper perspective as to what the risks and negatives are with Bitcoin.
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A lot happened in the free desktop world this week, we cover the impressive releases, changes, and surprises.

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elementary OS 7 Available Now — Today we’re proud to announce that OS 7, codenamed Horus, is available to download now and shipping soon on several high-quality computers.
Xfce Going Wayland — That’s right, work on Xfce 4.20 kicked off earlier this month with the release of libxfce4windowing, a new dependency for the Xfce desktop environment to provide support for the next-generation Wayland display protocol.
Xfce / libxfce4windowing
COSMIC DE has Speed — Alex here with the latest batch of updates from System76 engineers on the development of COSMIC DE, as well as some Settings mockups where you can explore some of the new changes.
System76 Adding XWayland Support & Other Improvements
Ubuntu Pro for All — First released in a beta version in October 2022.
helloSystem 0.8 — helloSystem is now based on FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE. A desktop system for creators that focuses on simplicity, elegance, and usability.
helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD — Since most applications I am using on a daily basis are cross-platform and many of them are written in Qt, it seemed logical to choose Qt as the native toolkit for helloSystem.

The shiny userbase flocking to WebAssembly, our thoughts on the "openAI scam", and why they just keep cramming stuff into Docker containers.

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pop-os core: WIP immutable base — POP working on an immutable base? We're interested.
The Blocksize War — This book covers Bitcoin’s blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017.
Jupiter Broadcasting Jobs Matrix Room — Hiring? Looking for work? Make a connection in our Jobs chat room.
What's New in Ruby 3.2 — The highlights this year are the performance gains from YJIT, WebAssembly support, faster regular expressions, and a new way to define immutable value objects.
Rails on Docker — Rails 7.1 is getting an official Dockerfile, which should make it easier to deploy Rails applications to production environments that support Docker. Think of it as a pre-configured Linux box that will work for most Rails applications.
The Fed - Meeting calendars and information — The FOMC holds eight regularly scheduled meetings during the year and other meetings as needed.
unusual_whales on Twitter — “If Powell keeps hiking rates, he risks the entire financial stability of the [global economic] system,” per Barry Sternlicht.
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Are the free software alternatives good enough? The conclusion to our 60-day challenge to drop Google, Apple, and the iPhone.

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Fathy Boundjadj: Forking Chrome to render in a terminal — It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

Join us for the surprising conclusion to our month-long challenge.

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Plex now has more streaming users than media server users — The company announced earlier this month that it now has 16 million monthly active users. While it didn’t specify how many are still on the server side, Scott Hancock, Plex’s vice president of marketing, said in an interview that Plex customers using the software’s media server features had been overtaken by customers using Plex’s online streaming capabilities in 2022.
ytdl-sub: Automate downloading and metadata generation with YoutubeDL — ytdl-sub is a command-line tool that downloads media via yt-dlp and prepares it for your favorite media player, including Kodi, Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, and modern music players. No additional plugins or external scrapers are needed.
Youtube Metadata Plugin for Jellyfin — Plugin for Jellyfin that retrieves metadata for content from Youtube.
HD Giveaway Sad Stories Repo
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How the world without "big tech" might look like, the EU promises to go after Elon and a much-needed head adjustment.

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Google, Microsoft, Amazon, others have cut more than 70,000 employees — The job cuts in tech land are piling up, as companies that led the 10-year bull market adapt to a new reality.
Layoffs in some of Apple's retail channels have begun — The layoff news was first disclosed from an email to AppleInsider. The email — which we have since verified through other sources — says that some Apple retail channel employees who work in places like Best Buy stores have received a thirty-day notice about their rights as it pertains to a layoff.
Microsoft Hosted Sting Performance in Davos on Night Before Announcing Layoffs — On Tuesday evening, Microsoft hosted an event. It was an intimate gathering of 50 or so people, including the company’s top executives, who got to while away the evening listening to a performance by the musical artist Sting, said people familiar with the event.
Old vs. New HomePod Buyer's Guide — First-time ‌HomePod‌ customers, those considering upgrading from the original, or anyone considering adding another ‌HomePod‌ to their setup to create a stereo pair may be wondering whether it is worth buying an original model or the new one, so it is important to weigh up exactly what was added with the reintroduced ‌HomePod‌.
Jas on Twitter — Bad economy or bad planning?
Udhay on Twitter — Very well said. 🙌🏼
Maniiesh on Twitter — This advice is a billion dollar one for all freshers and newbies like us of IT industry 👍
Tanmay on Twitter — Value - Life, Family, Live with them for them.
Jeremy Joslin on Twitter — It's hard for me to believe that after 20 years at #Google I unexpectedly find out about my last day via an email. What a slap in the face. I wish I could have said goodbye to everyone face to face. #layoffs
Daniel Roberts on Twitter — Google NYC employees who arrived at the office early this morning stood in a line to test their badges-- if light turned red, it meant you had been laid off. if green, you were safe. 👎
Elon Musk Claims He’s Not Worried About The FTC — A recent Washington Post article that is mainly about Musk’s actions over the past two months has destroyed his reputation among many who previously were impressed by him includes two tidbits about Musk and the FTC that suggest he’s in for a world of hurt when the agency takes action.
EU Commissioner: Elon Musk Has To "Behave" Or Else.
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Today we are finally taking on a project months in the making, and we're switching to an entirely new generation of Linux tech in the process.

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This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever — Plasma 5 has officially branched for the beta version of its 5.27 release. Go check out the announcement and test out the beta!
BorgWarehouse — BorgBackup Web UI for your central repository server.
Vorta — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.
BorgBase — Simple and Secure Offsite Backups
borgmatic — Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations.
Emborg — Front-End to Borg Backup
emborg on GitHub
Office Hours 21: Boiling the Frog — If you've noticed something a little off about your favorite podcasts, we might know why.
aj-snapshot — Tool for storing/restoring JACK and/or ALSA connections to/from a file.
jack-matchmaker — Auto-connect new JACK ports matching the patterns given on the command line.
qpwgraph — qpwgraph is a graph manager dedicated to PipeWire, using the Qt C++ framework, based and pretty much like the same of QjackCtl.
qpwgraph on Flathub
streamdeck-ui — A Linux compatible UI for the Elgato Stream Deck.
obsws-python — A Python SDK for OBS Studio WebSocket v5.0
kirino — A lightweight media server that adapts to you
BackupPC — Open Source Backup to disk
Fedora 38 Change: Modernize Live Media
rsync.net — We give you an empty UNIX filesystem to access with any SSH tool. Built on ZFS for data security and fault tolerance.
ZnapZend — Open source ZFS backup with mbuffer and ssh support.
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Pick: Jellyfin Server Flatpak
Jellyfin Release 10.8.9

A high-profile Linux kernel network flaw, we put JFS on a death watch, and break down the controversial Firefox update this week.

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A new privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel — The vulnerability consists of a stack buffer overflow due to an integerunderflow vulnerability inside the nftpayloadcopyvlan function, which isinvoked with nftpayload expressions as long as a VLAN tag is present inthe current skb.
netfilter: nftpayload: add C-VLAN support · torvalds/linux@f6ae9f1
CVE-2023-0179
CVE-2023-0179- Red Hat Customer Portal
[net,3/3] netfilter: nftpayload: incorrect arithmetics when fetching VLAN header bits - Patchwork
oss-sec: Re: CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables: PoC and writeup
libvirt 9.0 Released For Latest Linux Virtualization API — Libvirt 9.0 adds support for external snapshot deletion with QEMU using its existing API, libvirt 9.0 with QEMU now supports PASST as "Plug A Simple Socket Transport" for connecting an emulated network device to the host's network, QEMU external back-end support for SWTPM as a software Trusted Platform Module (TPM), support for passing file descriptors rather than passing files for the QEMU disk, and other additions.
JFS Filesystem’s Days are Numbered — IBM developed the JFS file-system originally in the 90's for AIX and the second-generation implementation then ported to Linux after it was made open-source.
Firefox 109.0 Ships Manifest Version 3 — Manifest Version 3 (MV3) extension support is now enabled by default (MV2 remains enabled/supported). This major update also ushers an exciting user interface change in the form of the new extensions button.
Here’s what’s going on in the world of extensions
Manage your extensions using the extensions button in the toolbar
Manifest v3 signing available November 21 on Firefox Nightly
Google delays start of Manifest V2 Chrome extension deprecation — The original plan called for Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary builds to start experiments that turned off Manifest V2 extension support. Additionally, Manifest V3 would be required to get the “Featured” badge in the Chrome Web Store.
Firefox 109 Adds New Extensions Button, Manifest V3 Support — The biggest new feature is the new Unified Extensions button in the toolbar.
Chrome’s “Manifest V3” plan to limit ad-blocking extensions is delayed
Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening — Manifest V3, or Mv3 for short, is outright harmful to privacy efforts. It will restrict the capabilities of web extensions

Microsoft gives Google an OpenAI gut punch, why Apple's new hardware fails to impress, and our reaction to the undignified death of Twitter's third-party client API.

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Gamer Radio Episode 3: SEGA!
Meet the new MacBook Pro and Mac mini - YouTube — Introducing the new MacBook Pro and Mac mini supercharged by the next generation of Apple silicon. Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro is ready to flex in any setup, with its next-level performance, wide array of ports, and compact size. The new MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and M2 Max delivers exceptional performance and battery life. With a stunning Liquid Retina XDR display and all the ports you need — this is a pro laptop without equal.
Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M2 and M2 Pro Chips at Lower $599 Starting Price — Apple today announced an updated Mac mini powered by the new M2 and the all-new ‌M2‌ Pro chip, offering faster performance in the same design as the previous generation but starting at a lower price of $599.
Apple Announces New MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips, Up to 96GB RAM, 8K HDMI, Wi-Fi 6E, and More
Apple Unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips With 20% Faster CPU and More
Apple’s Tim Cook to take 50% pay hit after shareholder feedback — The Apple chief executive, Tim Cook, is expected to have his pay cut by almost 50% this year to about $49m (£40m) after the billionaire boss asked the company to “adjust his compensation” in the light of feedback from shareholders disappointed at the fall in the company’s share price.
Twitter third-party app 'suspensions are intentional' — Since then, Twitter, including the usually vocal Elon Musk, has not announced the removal of third-party apps. The company has no PR team, while developers of those clients have been similarly kept in the dark, and have resorted to their own messages explaining the situation.
With $1.5 billion bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t great
Microsoft's $10B Bet on OpenAI — Microsoft will get 75% of OpenAI’s profits until they recoup the investment. After that threshold is reached, Microsoft will have a 49% stake, other investors taking another 49% and OpenAI’s nonprofit parent getting 2%.
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.
Microsoft Azure to Add OpenAI's ChatGPT to Cloud Services
AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit — The suit claims generative AI art tools violate copyright law by scraping artists’ work from the web without their consent.
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Chris' sticky upgrade situation, and we chat with the developer behind an impressive mesh VPN with new tricks.

Special Guest: Ryan Huber.

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NixOS 22.11 Released
VERY Simple NixOS NGINX Config
NixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACME — NixOS supports automatic domain validation & certificate retrieval and renewal using the ACME protocol. Any provider can be used, but by default NixOS uses Let's Encrypt. The alternative ACME client lego is used under the hood.
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go-acme/lego — Let’s Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go.
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Defined Networking is Open for Business — On behalf of everyone here at Defined Networking, I’m excited to announce that our cloud managed version of Nebula is now available to everyone!
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LINUX Unplugged 329: Flat Network Truthers — Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.
Trakt — Track what you watch and when.

OpenZFS has performance gains inbound, the end of a Linux era, and the achievement unlocked by the open-source NVIDIA driver.

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KDE Plasma 5.27 To Provide Better Multi-Monitor Support — KDE developer Marco Martin wrote a blog post today outlining some of the multi-monitor work that's been going into Plasma 5.27
This week in KDE: big UI improvements!
Schedules/Plasma 5 - KDE Community Wiki
KDE Kicks Off 2023 With UI Refinements, More Fixes
GNOME 44 Hopes and Dreams — GNOME devs are already working hard on the next major release, GNOME 44, due out in late March 2023 with more new features and enhancements.
Dynamic Triple Buffering Hopefully Will Land For GNOME 44
OpenZFS Performance Gains — With the combination of enabled prefetch and avoided memory copy this change improves sequential single-threaded read speed from a wide NVMe pool from 2049 to 3932 MiB/s. During write profiler shows 22% reduction of unhalted CPU cycles at the same throughput of 3653 MiB/s.
End of the 4.9 Series — Greg KH: I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.337 kernel. All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade.
Linux 6.1.4
Linux 4.9.337 Released To End Out The 2016 LTS Series
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Starts to Play Games — Red Hat engineer and longtime open-source Nouveau developer Karol Herbst wrote on his chaos.social account about NVK running games and showing off a screenshot of The Talos Principle running with this open-source, "community" Vulkan driver.
karolherbst on Social
The Talos Principle — The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

After sacrificing our pound of flesh for episode 500, we get into some spicy Big Tech dynamics and the performance mess of WebAssembly runtimes.

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Here’s why Samsung and Dell’s new monitors are so exciting for Mac user — We’re finally getting some competition in the 5K and 6K monitor space.
When Will Apple Launch the Reality Pro Mixed-Reality Headset? Apple 2023 Devices — 2023 is set to be the year of Apple’s mixed-reality headset and not much else
Amazon Layoffs to Hit Over 18,000 Workers — Cuts focused on the company’s corporate staff exceed earlier projection and represent about 5% of the company’s corporate workforce
Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker — 36 tech companies w/ layoffs ∙ 18392 employees laid off in 2023
Performance of WebAssembly runtimes in 2023 — This benchmark proved to be more representative of real-world performance than micro-benchmarks.
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Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Mastodon Sees Dip in Active Users After Twitter Exodus Surge
SCaLE 20x — The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo will take place on March 9-12, 2023 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA.
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Self-Hosted 87: Jellyfin January — We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation.
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We're kicking off some new projects, catching up with old friends, and react to a new podcast app that automatically skips ads.

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Android is getting RISC-Y, the handy new Google tool going open source, the next nail in the coffin for ZFS on Ubuntu, and why you were right about smart speakers all along.

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Android Gets RISC-Y — Google's keynote at the RISC-V Summit promises official, polished support.
Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V - Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering
New Google Tool Goes Open — The OSV database is a distributed, open-source database that stores vulnerability information in the OSV format. The OSV-Scanner assesses a project's dependencies against the OSV database showing all vulnerabilities relating to the project.
Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone — With Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" in April that new desktop installer is poised to finally be used by default.
HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming — "New Linux gaming milestone: with the latest work from Josh Ashton, HDR can now be enabled for real games! Tested it tonight on my AMD desktop with Halo Infinite, Deep Rock Galactic, DEATH STRANDING DC. Very early and will still need some time to bake to be useful to most."
Red Hat Planning HDR Hackfest
GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released
VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes
Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations — A bug in Google Home smart speaker allowed installing a backdoor account that could be used to control it remotely and to turn it into a snooping device by accessing the microphone feed.

We share our spicy C++ take, major Apple frustrations, and 2023 spoilers.

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What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition — Depending on how long Apple waits to launch its next Mac, the time following the launch of the MacBook Air could be among the longest periods with no new Mac models at all.
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C++ at the end of 2022 — In 2022 the world tried to go back to “normal,” and regarding C++, this was visible through several “real”/live conferences and live ISO committee meetings. Compiler vendors are busy completing support for C++20 and even some C++23 elements. And the ISO committee works on the final parts of C++23 and some features for C++26.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 — Windows is the most popular operating system for developers, across both personal and professional use. A Linux-based OS is more popular than macOS - speaking to the appeal of using open source software.
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We assemble to predict what will happen in 2023 and score how our 2022 predictions turned out.

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The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
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We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation.

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Home Assistant SkyConnect — The Home Assistant SkyConnect is the easiest way to add Zigbee support to your Home Assistant instance and make it Matter-ready.
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It Took MONTHS to Solve This WiFi Problem but I DID! — My family has been hounding me to figure out an audio issue that's ruining our movie nights. Problem is, it's really a Wi-Fi issue, and diagnosing it - even with cool Wi-Spy tools from MetaGeek - could be quite the rabbithole...
Jellyfin — Jellyfin enables you to collect, manage, and stream your media. Run the Jellyfin server on your system and gain access to the leading free-software entertainment system, bells and whistles included.
Swiftfin: Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS — Swiftfin is a modern video client for the Jellyfin media server. Redesigned in Swift to maximize direct play with the power of VLC and look native on all classes of Apple devices.
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The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 — This is directly putting core Matrix development at risk. We are witnessing a classic tragedy of the commons.
ntfy.sh — a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, entirely without signup, cost or setup. It's also open source if you want to run your own.
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There are some stories so big they need a little more air time.

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Akademy 2022: Full Steam ahead! — In this talk I will share how Plasma fits into the Steamdeck and what aspects of KDE made us the right choice for their new userbase. I will then share some of the projects that contractors Blue Systems have been doing for Valve and how the work there benefits not just the Steamdeck but improves the ecosystem for all Plasma users.
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Fedora 37 Hopes To Have A Preview Of The New Web-Based Install UI
Libadwaita in the Wild — It’s hard to believe, but Libadwaita is not even one year old, having first been released on December 31, 2021.
libadwaita — Building blocks for modern GNOME applications.
Why the open source driver release from NVIDIA is so important for Linux? — Today NVIDIA announced that they are releasing an open source kernel driver for their GPUs, so I want to share with you some background information and how I think this will impact Linux graphics and compute going forward.
Linux Action News 240 — NVIDIA has announced its plans for an open-source GPU driver. Christian Schaller, the Director for Desktop, Graphics, Infotainment and more at Red Hat, gives us the inside scoop on this historic announcement.
Nvidia Scraps ARM Acquisition After Regulatory Pressure, Owner SoftBank Prepares Chipmaker For IPO
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Our take on why several tech companies just teamed up to take on Google Maps, and then we react to the global analyst who says we won't have any new iPhones until 2028. We don't talk about Elon; if we did, it would be chaptered. But we defiantly did not.

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Peter Zeihan — Geopolitical strategist, speaker, author.
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new shell by Drakulix · Pull Request #46 · pop-os/cosmic-comp · GitHub — Finally compiles again and displays a window, after ripping out half of it and putting some reworked parts back in.
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Big Tech Companies Join Linux in Effort to Kill Google Maps — The companies include Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and TomTom, which together could facilitate a new wave of geolocation apps.
Overture Maps Foundation — Overture aims to incorporate map data from multiple sources including Overture Members, civic organizations, and open data sources.
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It's the third annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2022.

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Why we won't see a new Raspberry Pi until 2025, the first steps to Plasma 6 are being taken, and PipeWire gets a major Bluetooth upgrade.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Not Launching Until After 2023 — Don't expect a Pi 5 next year [2023]" Upton then expands and explains that 2023 is a "recovery year".
Eben Upton Interview: Raspberry Pi Availability & More! - YouTube
Raspberry Pi Adds 100,000 Units to Supply Chain, Back to Pre-pandemic Levels in 2023 | Tom’s Hardware — In the blog post, Upton acknowledged the patience of the community and offers the 100,000 units, made up of Raspberry Pi Zero W, 3A+ and Raspberry Pi 4 2GB and 4GB for single-unit sale. We don't know the breakdown of how many of each model there will be, but Upton does indicate that it is likely that Raspberry Pi Zero W will come back into stock first.
KDE Frameworks 5.101 Released — Per the plans laid out earlier this year at the Akademy developer conference, KDE Frameworks 5 feature development stops following the v5.101 release. KDE Frameworks 5 will now just see maintenance updates moving forward.
Xfce 4.18 Released — After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.18 !
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PipeWire Bluetooth Improvements — Most exciting with today's PipeWire 0.3.62 release is now supporting Bluetooth offloading.
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Mike's skeptical of the rumors Apple is preparing to allow third-party app stores, and in a total flip of roles, Chris comes to the defense of Microsoft.

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Apple is reportedly preparing to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone — Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple will respond to upcoming EU rules with next year’s iOS 17 update. But it could still have strings attached, like only being available in Europe or only allowing installation of approved apps.
Apple Announces End-to-End Encryption Option for iCloud Photos, Notes, Backups, and More — Apple today announced it is expanding end-to-end encryption to many additional iCloud data categories on an opt-in basis for enhanced security.
FBI Calls End-to-End Encryption 'Deeply Concerning' as Privacy Groups Hail Apple's Advanced Data Protection as a Victory for Users — Apple yesterday announced that end-to-end encryption is coming to even more sensitive types of iCloud data, including device backups, messages, photos, and more, meeting the longstanding demand of both users and privacy groups who have rallied for the company to take the significant step forward in user privacy.
IRS Reminder: Service providers, others may receive 1099-Ks for sales over $600 in early 2023 — The Internal Revenue Service reminds taxpayers earning income from selling goods and/or providing services that they may receive Form 1099-K, Payment Card and Third-Party Network Transactions, for payment card transactions and third-party payment network transactions of more than $600 for the year.
FTC sues to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard — Federal Trade Commission commissioners voted 3-1 in favor of a complaint against Microsoft’s planned $68.7 billion acquisition that will go before the agency’s administrative law judge.
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Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.

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Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps’s dominance
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Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History — In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.
Knaves Out – Darknet Diaries — This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world.
Dana Carvey’s The Weird Place — The Weird Place is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure that will blow your mind. From manipulative aliens to time-traveling pirates to a power-hungry mad man with a magic globe.
Linux Out Loud — Linux Out Loud is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more.
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Nobara Linux — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
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What disgusted Alex about Disqus, and how he replaced it with a Self-Hosted solution, a hot HDHomeRun tip, and an update on Chris' hunt for the perfect notes app.

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giscus — A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions. Let visitors leave comments and reactions on your website via GitHub! Heavily inspired by utterances.
How to make your own self-hosted VPN in under 30 minutes — As you might have expected, making your own VPN server has multiple advantages and disadvantages. Here are the main points to remember when deciding if you want to go through with hosting a server or not.
HDMI Distribution over your Home Network? — Low-Cost HDMI Matrix using IP-Based Hardware
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Why the next kernel will be "the merge window from hell," a holiday gift for Wayland users, and how the open source community could do more to take on YouTube.

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Wine on Wayland 2022 update: more games, more apps, more fun! — Significant improvement compared to last year is support for cross-process rendering, which is required by Chromium/CEF applications. Last year the driver was able to run Chrome with the "--in-process" command-line option. Chrome is now supported without any special flags, and is fully GPU accelerated on both OpenGL and Vulkan!
A Wayland driver for Wine
Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality & stability
Wine’s Wayland Driver Is Becoming Mature, May Aim For Upstreaming Early Next Year
Linux 6.1 Released With MGLRU, Initial Rust Code — Linux 6.1 integrates the exciting Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) overhaul of the page reclamation code, the initial Rust programming language support
The 6.1 kernel is out [LWN.net]
Linux 6.2 Graphics Changes: Intel Arc Graphics Stable, Initial NVIDIA RTX 30 Acceleration
Linux 6.2 Addresses Another “Tasty Target For Attackers”
Linux 6.2 Expands Support For More Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, Apple M1 Pro/Ultra/Max
Intel On Demand Driver Ready To Activate Your Licensed CPU Features With Linux 6.2
Btrfs With Linux 6.2 Bringing Performance Improvements, Better RAID 5/6 Reliability
CERN recommendation for Linux distribution — CERN and Fermilab jointly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities, reflecting recent experience and discussions with experiments and other stakeholders
CERN, Fermilab select AlmaLinux as standard for big science
AlmaLinux 9.1 - Now Available - AlmaLinux OS Blog
Stephan Dörner (in English) on Twitter — CERN and Fermilab jointly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities
GCC Rust “gccrs” Code Merged Into Mainline GCC 13 — Following last week's approval with the GCC Rust v4 patches for them to be merged, all of the "gccrs" code was upstreamed this morning for GNU Compiler Collection 13.
PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting — Five years later, we are releasing PeerTube v5, a tool used by hundreds of thousands people on a thousand interconnected platforms to share over 850,000 videos.
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We debate a few more drunk or 4D chess moves, the mad lad taking on Apple, and why Dart 3 has people talking. Plus, what a recent criticism of Scrum got wrong.

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Unplugged Tuxies - 2022 - GO VOTE! — Cast your vote for the best in open source for 2022.
Launch Keyboard - System76 — Launch Configurable Keyboards are engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.
Elon Musk’s $8 Twitter Blue subscription launches again on Monday — The package will cost $11 per month if you buy it from Apple, with Blue verified checks for people who provide a phone number, while features “coming soon” include prioritized placement in replies and search plus fewer ads.
Elon Musk on Twitter — My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
Elon Musk on Twitter — The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks ‘every politician should fear’ Apple’s power — Sweeney says he’s willing to go to the Supreme Court to fight Apple’s control of the App Store. But first, he’s hoping Congress will act before it’s too late.
Text - S.2710 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Open App Markets Act — To promote competition and reduce gatekeeper power in the app economy, increase choice, improve quality, and reduce costs for consumers.
The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language — Preparing for the next major release, where Dart only supports sound null safety
Scrum Has Failed the Developers — But meanwhile, many developers have suffered. Because people with power misused Scrum to add more pressure on developers. The pressure of delivering items according to plan every Sprint. Having crunch time every two weeks to ensure they meet external expectations. In the good old days of Waterfall projects, teams had to deal with this far less frequently, mostly at the end of the project. These days, many developers feel constant pressure to deliver.
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We complete a year-long journey and discover some unspoken truths about a great Linux distro. Plus one small, and one major update on our GrapheneOS adventure.

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The Linux kernel has some exciting updates this week, including a significant Asahi milestone and some good news for Android. Then we take openSUSE's new web-based installer for a spin.

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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux — We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop experience and some games
Asahi Linux Enables Early Apple GPU Driver Support - WIP OpenGL 2.1 + GLES 2.0
Apple Silicon CPUFreq Driver Heading To Linux 6.2 — Sent in yesterday were the Arm CPUFreq updates to queue in the Linux power management tree ahead of the Linux 6.2 merge window.
[GIT PULL] cpufreq/arm updates for 6.2 - Viresh Kumar
Floppy Driver Update Ready For Linux 6.2 — This memory leak with the floppy disk driver has been in the mainline kernel since Linux 5.11
Android memory safety vulnerabilities declined as Rust usage grew — Specifically, the number of annual memory safety vulnerabilities fell from 223 to 85 between 2019 and 2022. They are now 35% of Android’s total vulnerabilities versus 76% four years ago. In fact, “2022 is the first year where memory safety vulnerabilities do not represent a majority of Android’s vulnerabilities.”
Google says Android runs better when covered in Rust
Fedora 38 Cleared To Produce “Mobility Phosh” Spins — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has provided their blessing to begin creating new x86_64 and AArch64 ISO images for mobile devices that feature the Phosh Wayland compositor.
Ping bug potentially allows remote hack of FreeBSD systemsSecurity Affairs — A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability, causing the ping program to crash and potentially leading to remote code execution in ping.
D-Installer needs your help — Today we published a new prototype of D-Installer, fixing several bugs reported by early testers and improving the usage experience in some areas like the configuration of passwords and users. But beyond those improvements, a couple of new features deserve some attention.
Bug 1205938 – D-Installer - Slowness initialization on real hardware
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Wendell from Level One Techs joins us to catch up on low-power hardware, his home automation setup, and thoughts on so much more. Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.

Old school Ubuntu has a new cool, Google calls out Google, and some IoT news you can use.

We reflect on the recent musings of Python's creator, from the functional to the philosophical.

Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.

The worst part about being a Podcaster; our pitch to eliminate nearly all holidays and some hard questions.

The contested subsystem coming soon, a sobering assessment of wireless support in Linux, and a triumph for free software.

We will discuss the practical implementations of AI embedded in future products, then take a look at FTX's books and have a few highlights to share.

We dig into Shufflecake, a tool that lets Linux users hide data with plausible deniability, then let our live stream SSH into our server and see if they can discover our secret data.

We're chatting about workstation builds for a home NAS with Joe Ressington this week. Chris chews on the news of the Evernote buyout and his challenges with Zigbee. Special Guest: Joe Resington.

We tried Fedora 37 on the Pi 4, the Google surprise this week, and our thoughts on the WSL 1.0 release.

We tried Fedora 37 on the Pi 4, the Google surprise this week, and our thoughts on the WSL 1.0 release.

Microsoft lets its geek flag fly, our observations on .NET 7, and the recent upset caused by the Troll Wizard, but we can't understand who will pay the toll.

Microsoft lets its geek flag fly, our observations on .NET 7, and the recent upset caused by the Troll Wizard, but we can't understand who will pay the toll.

Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu's quiet backing away from ZFS.

Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu's quiet backing away from ZFS.

Why LBRY was never going to win, and how they have just screwed all crypto. And a new feature in the works for our listeners by our listeners.

Why LBRY was never going to win, and how they have just screwed all crypto. And a new feature in the works for our listeners by our listeners.

Microsoft's new goodies for Linux users, the Ubuntu Summit wraps up, and our takeaways from the recent fireside chat with Linus Torvalds.

Microsoft's new goodies for Linux users, the Ubuntu Summit wraps up, and our takeaways from the recent fireside chat with Linus Torvalds.

Mike just came up for air after a Swift deep dive, and he has a fresh new take. Plus, the wheels of history are spinning faster; we take a snapshot in time and then round it all out with spicy Apple bacon.

Mike just came up for air after a Swift deep dive, and he has a fresh new take. Plus, the wheels of history are spinning faster; we take a snapshot in time and then round it all out with spicy Apple bacon.

We surprise each other with three different topics, and Chris has a big update on the ODROID H3+.

We surprise each other with three different topics, and Chris has a big update on the ODROID H3+.

Sometimes your best upgrades are unplanned; Chris just got his Home Assistant Yellow fully deployed.

What you need to know about that new OpenSSL vulnerability, the big bcachefs update we've been waiting for, and why the community is creating a Gitea fork.

We slip into full boss mode after digging into some long-term tech trends impacting developers.

Are the long-timers holding Linux back? Lennart Poettering argues we are and proposes a new Microsoft-blessed way to secure Linux.

We recap a busy night after a studio power outage, then dig into what makes an open-source project worth contributing to. Why do some fail while others grow and prosper?

The focus of the new Ubuntu release, Gitea's surprising announcement, and Linux prepares to drop another architecture.

One of the most challenging aspects of being an independent developer, and our thoughts on Microsoft's recent bad news.

The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?

The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?

Alex gives Roon Labs whole home audio a try but discovers a critical design flaw while Chris checks out his new ODROID-H3+ and plans his next epic build.

Alex gives Roon Labs whole home audio a try but discovers a critical design flaw while Chris checks out his new ODROID-H3+ and plans his next epic build.

What makes Google's new OS so secure, a critical WiFi vulnerability in the Kernel, and why Linus is tapping the hype breaks for Linux 6.1.

What makes Google's new OS so secure, a critical WiFi vulnerability in the Kernel, and why Linus is tapping the hype breaks for Linux 6.1.

We debate if GitHub's Copilot enables automated code laundering after a developer makes a startling discovery. Then we dispense some seriously old-school wisdom.

We debate if GitHub's Copilot enables automated code laundering after a developer makes a startling discovery. Then we dispense some seriously old-school wisdom.

Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point.

Linus Tech Tips blows it again, and we clean up. Plus, we push System76's updated Thelio Workstation to the breaking point.

It was one technical disaster after another, we recap the series of technical challenges that killed all future shows from the road.

It was one technical disaster after another, we recap the series of technical challenges that killed all future shows from the road.

Plasma 5.26's standout features, Canonical flips the script on Red Hat, and why Android is leaking traffic outside VPNs.

Plasma 5.26's standout features, Canonical flips the script on Red Hat, and why Android is leaking traffic outside VPNs.

Elon Musk's leaked messages reveal how tech CEOs think and talk about their employees, and we dig in.

Elon Musk's leaked messages reveal how tech CEOs think and talk about their employees, and we dig in.

What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out.

What the heck is going on? Fedora is dropping features, GNOME is getting Iced, and the mistake we'll never make again. We've got a lot to sort out.

Chris Raspberry Pi server is dead, and Alex has a few ideas for his next build. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

Chris Raspberry Pi server is dead, and Alex has a few ideas for his next build. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

Our thoughts on IBM slicing up more of Red Hat, what stands out in Nextcloud Hub 3, and a few essential fixes finally landing in the Linux kernel.

Our thoughts on IBM slicing up more of Red Hat, what stands out in Nextcloud Hub 3, and a few essential fixes finally landing in the Linux kernel.

Why we think Google will ultimately lose the next big tech battle.

Why we think Google will ultimately lose the next big tech battle.

We go hands-on at NASA's JPL and learn why Linux is the best OS for Earth and Mars. Special Guest: Tim Canham.

We go hands-on at NASA's JPL and learn why Linux is the best OS for Earth and Mars. Special Guest: Tim Canham.

We get you caught up on one heck of a trip.

The controversial change for the GNU Toolchain, critical vulnerabilities in popular Matrix clients, and the significant milestone for the Ingenuity LinuxCopter this week.

Mike has spent just over a month living in Linux full-time, and Chris wants to check in and see how he’s doing. Plus we both have the new Thelio from System76 in-house, and our takeaways might surprise you.

We finally give Brent his new laptop and get his reaction. Plus our best pick for replacing stock Android with something private.

Alex is replacing his Chromecast and Google Nest Mini with an open-source solution, and why we’re all getting a little hyped about Matter. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

GNOME 43 highlights, Canonical's new hardware partner, and why we're disappointed in the Framework Chromebook.

Mike's first look at a built from scratch yet to be released IDE. And we cook up a little Adobe-flavored bacon.

We've gone deep to find our perfect Google Photos replacement. This week we'll share our setup that we think works great, is easy to use, and is fully backed up.

Brent recounts a harrowing near miss on his road trip to the studio, and a surprise outage leaves Chris scrambling after launching the website.

The Linux Foundation takes a victory lap, Google kills another community-loved project, and key moments from the Linux Plumbers Conference.

To our surprise, Apple gave developers a treat this week and continues to search for the ultimate productivity hack.

Brent has been on a bug-finding marathon. We review what he's discovered and share some hard-learned lessons.

We've made some changes since the last episode, and share why we have doubled down on Self-Hosting as much as possible.

Linux goes underwater, Microsoft kills the Teams' Linux app, and the nasty GRUB bug some of us could not avoid.

We look back at how tools, processes, and developer trends have changed over nearly ten years of the show.

Can Linux do better? Apple is scrambling to build always-on malware protection into the next macOS as its market share grows. A precautionary tale for Linux users.

Can Linux do better? Apple is scrambling to build always-on malware protection into the next macOS as its market share grows. A precautionary tale for Linux users.

Debian’s firmware future is up for debate, Pine64 teases a RISC-V SBC, and some of your favorite tools just got new tricks.

We're pushing our new website to production live on the show today. We have no idea how things will turn out - but we're taking you along for the ride either way! Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

Why Metal might be one of the biggest strategy taxes of the Apple platforms. Plus a thought-provoking appeal to Dark Matter Developers.

We've reached the end of the road in our immutable Linux series, and an old friend stops by to give us the inside scoop on Endless OS.

We learned some really hard lessons this week, and reflect. Then Chris finds the perfect temperature sensor, and Alex finds a beautiful media discovery app.

We learned some really hard lessons this week, and reflect. Then Chris finds the perfect temperature sensor, and Alex finds a beautiful media discovery app.

Details on two new efforts in the Linux kernel, the Pi-like RISC-V board that just hit its funding goal, and a significant milestone for Asahi GPU driver development.

Details on two new efforts in the Linux kernel, the Pi-like RISC-V board that just hit its funding goal, and a significant milestone for Asahi GPU driver development.

We're spooked to learn how one man's life has been turned upside down just because he used Google Photos.

The five most common problems when trying out an immutable Linux distro like NixOS. Plus, why one Linux dev says just target WINE.

We've built up some incredible backend infrastructure for our new website. We run through the big improvements, and where we still need some help.

A Linux jailbreak that's a win for Right to Repair, our favorite things in Android 13, and the major features that just missed the Linux 6.0 window.

New leaks reveal how hollow Apple's claims of fighting for user privacy are. We discuss their scheme to monetize the downturn.

Our garage Linux server has died, and this time we’re looking at data loss. We attempt to revive our zombie box and reflect on what went wrong. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

What is it like to live with another man's automations? Brent spills all.

GitHub steps in it this week, Microsoft's Linux distribution now runs on bare metal, FFmpeg gets IPFS support, and the odd thing going on with the kernel.

Why we think Malcolm Gladwell is wrong about remote work, and the complicated answer to a simple question.

We present a buffet of budget Linux boxes. From $40 to $400 you'll be surprised by what we found. Then we attempt to find the perfect distro for them. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

Why we hate crypto more than you, plus a frank conversation about boosts in our shows, some big lessons learned from our new website project, and the things we'd never do again.

The real story behind the "Massive GitHub Malware attack," significant updates for the Steam Deck, and the inside scoop on Lenovo's big Linux ambitions.

We debate the lies our tool makers tell us, if Clojure has a Rails-sized hole, and the secrets of a successful software engineer.

Is the Linux desktop hard to love? A long-time user experience developer argues it is, and we respond to his criticisms.

Alex runs us through his new and improved off-site backup setup, and Chris is trying out some Shelly devices.

Red Hat hints at its future direction, why realtime might finally come to Linux after all these years, and our reaction to Google's ambitious new programing language.

We're looking at the big picture and, surprisingly, seeing a lot of possibilities.

We're looking at the big picture and, surprisingly, seeing a lot of possibilities.

A fundamental change is coming to desktop Linux, and Silverblue might be our hint at where things are going.

We're learning on the job this week as the deadline for our new website is just around the corner. Plus, a dirty little secret that explains why most tech press coverage sucks. Special Guest: Stefan Schulte-Ortbeck.

Microsoft makes a hard about-face, a significant fix for Ubuntu 22.04 is in the works, and the recent breakthrough by the Asahi Linux project.

Mike's ready to make a case for Declarative UI, and Chris pulls back the curtain to reveal a spicy take.

We try and bust a common Linux distro myth. Then what surprised Chris about his new Steam Deck.

Our thoughts on the new Works with Home Assistant program, some changes to Alex's off-site backup server, and a million bits of great feedback.

Why Google says we should all go rolling, Red Hat's got a new boss, Microsoft gets called out, and why it might be the year of Linux hardware.

Why we feel recent attacks by the Software Freedom Conservancy against Microsoft are costing the SFC serious credibility.

We were fixing servers all night, but at least we have a great story. A special guest joins us to help make a big show announcement. Special Guest: Tim Canham.

Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more. Special Guest: Tim Canham.

The community is quick at work; we share major updates on our new website project, and chat with the "Offical" Podcasting 2.0 consultant to find out what he's developing next for podcast listeners. Special Guest: Alecks Gates.

The new movement to leave GitHub, an Ubuntu bug biting 22.04 users, the hardware platform Fedora might start taking seriously, and a major desktop dev departs Red Hat.

Mike's Linux Toolchain for 2022, and his first week with CoPilot. Then we chat about the series of choices that led us to go independent so many years ago.

The one shared secret behind some of the world's most powerful open-source projects.

Our guest this week has more Raspberry Pis than anyone we've ever met. We get insights into all the projects he used them for, what's worked great, and what's not worked at all. Special Guest: Jscar_Hawk.

Fedora gets serious about its server editions, our thoughts on Valve's increased Steam Deck production, and the surprising results of booting Linux on the Apple M2 SoC.

Mike just signed up for a year of GitHub Copilot and Chris tries to understand why. Then we catch each other up on some recent surprises.

We're going back in time to witness the early days of a critical tool to build Linux, then jump forward 15 years and join our buddy Brent on his journey to learn that very tooling.

Some highlights from Linus' recent fireside chat, Qt gets a new leader and a Linux botnet we should probably take seriously.

Mike's hitting the road to solve his old man's PC woes; Chris channels his early inner 80s and some Google AI conspiracy bacon.

One of the pioneers of the web, VNC, Webcams, and more joins us; plus we'll update you on a few projects we love. Special Guest: Quentin Stafford-Fraser.

Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and invention, challenging the patent system, and more. Special Guest: Quentin Stafford-Fraser.

A special episode today as TechnoTim joins Alex to discuss everything Kubernetes and HomeLab. The #100DaysOfHomeLab initiative from Tim is just getting started, find out what it’s all about in today's episode. Special Guest: Techno Tim.

We get the details behind Thunderbird acquiring K-9 Mail, share the best new features of Plasma 5.25, check-in on Ubuntu's RISC-V development status, and discuss Photoshop coming to Linux via the web.

You can't judge a book by its cover, and this week we surprised each other when we dug into the HP Dev One. Plus some insights on remote virtual dev desktops and the gotcha's from WWDC we missed.

From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet. This is the one review you don't want to miss.

Outdoor networking adventures, new decentralized tools we're building, and a great chat with one of the co-founders of Podverse - an impressive open-source Podcasting 2.0 app.

SUSE Enterprise is already switching to the new NVIDIA open kernel driver, a Matrix-powered Walkie-Talkie, and the details on Apple's Rosetta for Linux.

We jump aboard Hair Force One and are a bit let down. We get into why. Plus Mike's first impressions of the HP Dev One laptop.

Three tails of tech tribulations, and how Brent saved his openSUSE Tumbleweed box from the brink.

A quick-fire round of projects this week, your feedback, and a discussion about the future of Self-Hosting.

Our thoughts on NixOS' new GUI installer, winning hearts and minds one firmware update at a time, the performance bug that hit Linux 5.18, and preparation begins for the open-source NVIDIA driver.

What's old is new again, but we're not buying it this time. It's developer conference season, and we're hunting vaporware.

A new Linux update allows Intel to control features in your CPU using hardware-level DRM.

We have a laugh at Spotify, then check out a minimum viable project for the new Jupiter Broadcasting website. Special Guest: Stefan Schulte-Ortbeck.

The controversial Intel code now shipping in Linux, why F-Droid is getting more attractive for developers, and the rumor that could change the industry.

Soon there will be no shame in that snake game, the big trend that is not our friend, and Microsoft reinvents the widget.

Soon there will be no shame in that snake game, the big trend that is not our friend, and Microsoft reinvents the widget.

We take a sneak peek at some future tech coming to Linux, and share details on HP's new laptop that runs POP!

Alex has found the perfect tool to bring your recipe management into the future. Plus, a convenient trick for scripts with passwords, dying hard drives, and the killer new Proxmox feature.

Why Google's new open-source security effort might fall a bit short, the Arch snag this week, a big win for Right to Repair, and why you might soon have a new favorite filesystem.

Why Mike feels like Heroku is in a failed state, what drove us crazy about Google I/O this year, how Chris botched something super important, and some serious Python love sprinkled throughout.

NVIDIA is open-sourcing their GPU drivers, but there are a few things you need to know. Plus, we get some exclusive insights into Tailscale from one of its co-founders. Special Guests: Avery Pennarun and Christian F.K. Schaller.

We've made some essential decisions for our big projects, what really has us excited about Podcasting 2.0, and the real problem with Boosts.

NVIDIA has announced its plans for an open-source GPU driver. Christian Schaller, the Director for Desktop, Graphics, Infotainment and more at Red Hat, gives us the inside scoop on this historic announcement. Special Guest: Christian F.K. Schaller.

After solving a moral dilemma in our particular kind of way, Mike dishes on some ambitious plans that might kick off a new era of development for him.

Each of us brings a secret topic to the show, and we discover a common theme about using the wrong tool for the right job. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

Alex replaces another Google service; we point the community spotlight at FuzzyMistborn plus your feedback! Special Guests: Brent Gervais and FuzzyMistborn.

New firmware superpowers are coming to a future Linux kernel, why Google is working on encrypted hibernation support, and a sneak peek at SteamOS 3.

Mike shares a tale involving a comedy of errors, and we ponder a new reusable culture around tech.

If we could change just one mistake in our Linux journey, what would it be?

Pop_OS! 22.04 has a surprise you might not have noticed, we get the details on Ubuntu’s new Real-Time kernel, and the clever idea from the Framework laptop team.

It's a summer of projects, we get into our plans to totally rebuild our website, some new Podcasting 2.0 features and, Brent takes his first bite of the Raspberry Pi.

Mike battles the onslaught of yet another bout with the plague. At the same time, we react live to Elon buying Twitter, Gitlab kicking off some free accounts, and we discover Google and Apple are working together again to pull the rug on app developers.

We've hit a bump in the road with the NixOS challenge, and share what it might not be great at. Plus, what we didn't cover in our Ubuntu 22.04 review.

Alex shares some handy tools, and some old friends join us for a special edition of the show. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and chzbacon.

Our take on why Fedora's Legacy BIOS plans have stirred up such a strong debate, how NVIDIA's Linux strategy seems to be changing, and a surprising kernel patch from Sony.

We kick off a new show and chat about the rapid centralization facing the podcast industry. Then we share some secret future Jupiter Broadcasting plans, answer your questions, and more.

We get a bit gleeful over some choice tech monopoly hypocrisy and then spicy with our 18-month outlook.

Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

What is the enthusiast trap, and why does it seem to ensnarl every successful open source project? Also, some excellent listener power user tips for NextCloud.

SUSE has a skunkworks distro in development, the transition Debian is struggling with, and some long-awaited improvements to Raspberry Pi OS.

We revel in the hypocrisy of big tech, share a few stories, and catch up with an old friend.

We just wrapped up our East Coast meetup and have a bunch of great stories to share. Plus some Nix ups and downs, and more.

We chat about Wyze's recent real bad, no-good security news, why Plex Discover has potential but hasn't impressed us yet, and a brief tour of Alex's home network setup. Special Guest: Wes Payne.

Docker surprises everyone, new Fedora tools in the works, and an old debate with a fresh take.

We crack open the time capsule and see how our spicy takes hold up.

Chris's thoughts on Linux's NVIDIA conundrum, Elon's takeover of Twitter, MailChimp's insider hack, and the Google Drones taking off in Texas.

How we nearly crashed our Matrix server; what we did wrong and how we're fixing it.

The Unplugged team holds a live event with a special guest, your questions, and we give away a lot of Bitcoin sats!

A new rolling remix of Ubuntu is grabbing attention, AMD has big Linux plans, and why Linux 5.18 looks like another barn burner release.

We just watched Revolution OS before the show, so we reflect on the audacity of their vision and the new revolution we see brewing.

We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions.

Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.

A significant follow-up to one of the biggest Linux stories, the Pandora's box the MIT Technology Review claims open-source devs just opened, and Linux on the M1 finally ships.

Apple enters full panic mode over sideloading, and our plan to push back against industry-wide consolidation kicks off.

Why GNOME 42 is the release we’ve all been waiting for.

Steam comes to ChromeOS, our thoughts on Arch turning 20, and our first look at GNOME 42.

Our take on big tech's return to office, AT&T's RCS boondoggle, and the concerning territory tech is racing towards.

How each of us asks for features and help from free software projects, and one of our most prescient soapboxes in a while.

We look back at our favorite moments from the last ten years of the Raspberry Pi, why you might want to start considering one, and where we want to see the platform evolve.

Why Dirty Pipe is a dirty dog, the explosive adoption of Linux at AMD, and an important update on elementary OS.

We revisit one of the core theses of the show and expand on it in a new way, leading us to ponder just what a wild ride the next eight years are going to be.

We surprise each other with three different topics, hidden away by encryption in our show notes - we literally have no idea what we're talking about this week.

Why it might be time to lower your RISC-V expectations, Intel's moves to close up CPU firmware, and a quick state of the Deck.

Mike and Chris eat some crow as they change their tune on a recent spicy take.

We look at two new options that enable ANYONE to run a personal server at home or a small business.

Alex gives the new TrueNAS SCALE a go and hits a snag.

The Linux secret behind the new TrueNAS release, Intel acquires a major Kernel contributor and our thoughts on Podman 4.0.

Mike has some huge news and busted wifi, Chris spent a weekend in the Metaverse, and why Microsoft has us both upset.

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We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be?

Canonical has a big week, why bcachefs looks like it's taking another step forward, and ChromeOS Flex for PCs is released.

After reminiscing about .Net's 20th birthday, Mike and Chris air IBM's hypocritically dirty laundry and marvel at Microsoft's 3D chess moves.

Linux is the master of small computers, and this week it’s going to the next level. We chat with the creator of the $15 Linux box and share some significant updates for the Raspberry Pi. Special Guest: Brian Benchoff.

Sometimes we get a bit carried away; we dial it back and share some self-hosting long-timer insights.

A last-minute kernel patch for the Steam Deck, why Intel is supporting RISC-V development, and we go hands-on with Plasma 5.24.

Mike makes a shocking admission, and Chris wishes he had a time machine.

There's just something off about Ubuntu these days, this week we put it all together.

System76 reveals a new tool to make Pop's desktop faster than the rest, and we break down that recent Btrfs defrag infinite loop bug.

Microsoft's cold war with Apple is revealed in court filings this week, and Google thinks they've got the next hit on their hands, which sounds a lot like the old hit.

Brent's in the hot seat and plays to win 1000 Satoshis, while Wes adds a little color commentary.

We all take it for granted, but it is one of the best things about Linux. We share the history of the live CD, how it all got started, and the times it saved our bacon.

Alex has a new high-quality self-hosted music setup, and Chris solves complicated Internet problems.

The big disruption that looks like a bust, a security issue you need to pay attention to, and some great news for the Steam Deck.

The audience hits us in the face with some hard truths, and then we dig into Microsoft's fox-like moves to snatch up Activision Blizzard on "the cheap."

SUSE had an awkward week; we breakdown the very mixed launch of SUSE Liberty Linux.

We explain SUSE Liberty Linux and contemplate why the community seems to be selecting distributions with newer kernels.

Emboldened by his success, Mike takes a victory lap. Little does he know it's all virtual.

We react to Microsoft gobbling up yet another game studio, chat about Crypto.com's recent $15M hack, the massive failure YouTube just admitted, and a few personal crew stories.

We make some last-minute changes to our server setup and catch up on a bunch of thought-provoking feedback. Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

Alex got some new devices for Christmas, and we set off to figure out how to integrate them into his network.

Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles.

Fedora and Red Hat users are getting a web-based installer, and a new legal situation for Bitcoin smells like retro SCO FUD.

Was he justified? Our thoughts on the dev who corrupted libraries in NPM for millions of users with his political statement about free software.

During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments.

A new initiative uses open source to keep podcasting decentralized and add new features.

GnuPG has some great news, Libadwaita 1.0 has arrived and we share our thoughts, plus a big batch of updates from the Matrix project.

Mike has a significant moment of clarity and sets out on a new path for 2022. Meanwhile, Chris is just happy to be out of the woods.

It's a casual community hangout, and we spin the Wheel of Topics. From what Linux does worst, our thoughts on EndlessOS, Ubuntu Web Remix, QubesOS, Brent's adventures with JellyFin, and why Linux will ultimately dominate all operating systems in 20 years.

Our new server setup is bonkers, but we love it.

Some old friends of JB join Alex to discuss 3D printing. Special Guests: chzbacon and Drew DeVore.

Mike finds a new normal and doubles down on what works. Chris meanwhile is stranded in the woods and is having a bit of a panic.

We do our best to predict what will happen in 2022, and own up to what we thought might happen in 2021. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Joe Ressington.

We kick off our annual predictions episode with what we got right and wrong this year and then attempt to predict what will happen in 2022.

We're both impressed by Rails 7 and how an old foe got us down again.

It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021.

Big internal process improvements have resulted in a major new version of elementary OS hot on the heals of the previous release. Find out why 6.1 is a lot more than just a number. Special Guest: Danielle Foré .

The nasty Log4Shell vulnerability isn't solved yet, this week saw a new round of attacks and patches.

Recent AWS outages sent Alex on a hunt to find more self-hosted alternatives, and Chris digs into the latest Home Assistant release.

The broader software problem the Log4Shell vulnerability reveals, and the story of how Chris lit his Coder robe on fire... While wearing it.

We each try out the new Pop_OS! and Carl Richell from System76 joins us to get into the details.

The Log4Shell vulnerability is making waves this week; we'll explain why and break down how it works.

We peak in on one of the nastiest corporate moves in a while, and Chris has a big confession.

This was not the year of the Linux Desktop. We’ve been slacking on the mailbag, so we go on a feedback frenzy and answer some hard questions about desktop Linux. Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress.

Taken from Monday's Coder live stream, Chris reacts to discovering that the city of Miami has its own crypto coin. As the conversation goes on it turns into a broader discussion about how cryptocurrency gets a bad reputation, and why that reputation is completely divorced from the reality of the technology.

Industry-changing open-source project releases, and why the new CentOS Stream 9 might be more noteworthy than you realize. Special Guest: Carl George.

We try out a couple of very popular Docker GUI's and report back, and discuss our biggest Self-Hosted regrets.

Mike visits Pallet Town and comes back with some SQLAlchemy performance wisdom to share. Meanwhile, struggling with a lack of performance, Chris has kicked the tires of his new M1 Max MacBook Pro and is ready to share his counter-narrative take on the new hardware.

The Director of EndlessOS joins us to respond to recent Flatpak criticism.

Fedora's massive endorsement this week that went unnoticed, why RISC-V mobile devices might be getting near, and the significant change coming to a critical open-source tool.

Are Linux devs getting upset with the Python community? We weigh in on a nuanced issue. Plus the mass-mod resignation over at Rust, and Mike's thoughts on setting up a dev environment on Windows 11.

We revisit some old assumptions about the open-source Plex-alternative, Jellyfin. We each try it out, and along the way, gain a few insights about open source.

Just how severe is this DNS cache poisoning attack revealed this week? We'll break it down and explain why Linux is affected. Plus, the feature now removed from APT, more performance patches in the Kernel, and a big batch of project updates.

This week we unlock the Pitential of the Compute Module 4 and turn it into a dual gigabit router and Jellyfin server.

We get some spicy emails, dig into why Mike just picked up another Linux laptop, and then share our real thoughts on Web3.

Can we live with openSUSE Tumbleweed?

A desktop from Linux past has a surprising update this week, AlmaLinux pulls ahead of the pack, and Canonical ships software for the Apple M1.

Microsoft has a bunch of new goodies for developers, but Mike is becoming more and more concerned about an insidious new feature.

Is the true path to mastering Linux fully embracing the command line? Why it's time to change our mindset about the terminal. Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

Significant changes at GitHub, Ubuntu starts work on a new desktop tool, why WirePlumber is a big deal, and we bust some Red Hat FUD.

Troubleshooting goes very wrong for Alex, and he puts his backups to the ultimate test.

After a little async Ruby chat and developer morality struggle, Chris explains how macOS Monterey has lapped Linux with a critical workstation feature.

We check-in with Fedora Project lead Matthew Miller on the state of the project, then conduct our exit interview with Fedora 34, and review Fedora 35.

New Raspberry Pi hardware has a few surprises, the most impressive things in Linux 5.15, and our reaction to classic functionality under consideration for removal from Fedora.

Chatting about the week's .NET news leads us into a blue-tinted tale of woe. When Microsoft taketh, they also giveth. But is it enough?

We attempt a live production over Starlink, and dig into the secrets of this giant Linux network in space.

Major performance milestones are being hit with new code inbound for Linux, Plasma and GNOME desktops are set to run Wayland on NVIDIA's binary driver, and why the SFC's new GPL fight could have implications for you.

Local self-hosted video capture with AI object detection just got easy. Morgan joins us to detail his Frigate setup and its optional tight integration with Home Assistant.

Why mastering your development environment can be a tricky feat, and a server outage brought to you by the late 1990s.

We try out POP!_OS on the Raspberry Pi 4, and chat with its creator Jeremy Soller from System76.

We cover what's special about Plasma's 25th-anniversary edition, chat with CloudLinux's CEO, and detail why Apple supporting Blender is good for all of us.

Mike just launched the secret project he's been working on for months and shares all the details.

Wimpy stops by with a new tool that will change your virtualization game, and we share our thoughts on Ubuntu 21.10 and take the flavor challenge. Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

Apple M1 Linux development reaches a key milestone and boots a useable desktop; Ubuntu reveals a new product, and the secret SUSE project that leaked this week.

A lot is changing in Home Assistant land, and it's almost all for the better; we break down the essential items. Chris gets wired about energy monitoring and shares his journey to get miss-formated power stats working in Home Assistant's new Energy dashboard.

It's the worst time ever to upgrade or buy a new PC, so we cover our favorite tips for getting the most out of your current hardware. Then we pit a 2014 desktop against a 2021 laptop and find out if our old clunker can beat the Thinkpad. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, Jack Aboutboul, and Martin Wimpress.

It's final push time on a big project for Mike, but Chris is the one who is exhausted. Still we've got some new insights into testing and thoughts on an emerging category of developer.

Our virtual LUG of experts had a lot to say about the Linus Tech Tips Switch to Linux challenge. We recap what is going on, how it could go wrong, and what we hope happens.

Why Linus believes keeping Linux fun is critical, the massive investment Fedora is about to make in video, and why we suspect Cloudflare's R2 service will make Amazon squirm.

Mike's falling in love with FastAPI and gives us a hint at the next project he's building.

Sometimes things go wrong; this week, we admit we've got a problem.

Canonical gives Linux admins a lucky break, the details on Android's slow shift to an upstream Kernel, a breakthrough for Linux gaming, and our take on GNOME 41.

Alex is abroad and uses the opportunity to build out not one but two ultimate self-hosted off-site servers. We share the hardware, software, and networking details.

We’ve really had a week, one of those makes ya feel old kinda weeks.

A serious problem is brewing in Desktop Linux that hasn't impacted end users yet, but will soon. We break down why distribution makers are getting upset and explain what's next.

Desktop Linux graphics are about to get a significant investment, Mozilla and Canonical work together on a Firefox Snap, and some key new insights into the Linux port to Apple’s M1.

The more you read into it, the worse it gets.

Why it might be time to re-think who is and who is not a Linux user, plus we do a reality check on the state of Linux phones. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

Linus Torvalds attempts to get kernel developers to clean up their code, the performance regression that almost shipped, and the major production struggle Red Hat acknowledged this week.

We chat with Matt from Adventurous Way about the home automations that have improved his quality of life, the clever way he manages their off-grid rig, and the new smart home project he's just kicking off. Special Guest: Matt from Adventurous Way.

We are coming in hot, literally. It's a day of spicy takes.

We try out what might be the most fun Linux distribution around. It started as a laugh, but now we’re in love.

SUSE's new era kicks off this week, CentOS users get some relief, and how Docker managed to piss off their users.

Recent reports would have you believe Apple has made significant concessions to developers. Don't be fooled! We read between the lines and break down what is and what is not changing.

A surprise server outage at the studio requires we jump into action with a few last-minute solutions and deploy one of our favorite open-source tools.

Why the Linux kernel received so much mainstream attention this week, some of our favorite open-source projects get great updates, and why we're concerned about Linux Foundation members transferring innovation from Linux to closed source software at an industrial scale.

We report back on our DeGoogle challenge and read your top Google Alternative apps and services.

Things are worse than we ever thought, but that doesn't prevent us from taking a victory lap.

We share some stories from our Denver meetup, the strange reason we found ourselves at a golf course, and some news you should know. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

What’s coming next for the Linux desktop, and some exclusive news from System76.

Chris makes a big mistake on the road, and Mike drops some reality-based sage wisdom.

Live from Denver, we chat with old friends and new. We get the inside scope on what has been going on at System76, and what's coming up next.

What's new in Debian 11, and an example of the Linux Foundation funneling free software to their corporate friends.

We discuss the ramifications of Apple's local photo scanning announcement on your privacy, why everything seems to be a subscription these days, and a new challenge for the show. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

Is there a secret motive behind Apple's announced plans to scan iMessage and iCloud Photo Library content?

Big things are happening in the world of WireGuard, Jim Salter joins to catch us up.

Since the announcement of the Steam Deck, things around Linux have started changing, including some big items this week.

Big promises are being made in Ruby land, Tech Crunch says Open Source is dead, and we have thoughts to share about both!

Yabba Dabba Distro! Run every major distribution on one native host. How we hijacked a Fedora install and turned it into the ultimate meta Linux box.

Microsoft's next kernel patch fixes a long-standing Linux issue, we'll share the details. Plus ChromeOS's next power user feature you haven't heard of, and Valve's broader plans that came into focus this week.

We discuss Chris's latest wall-mounted tablet solution for Home Assistant and several scripts to pimp your Plex setup.

Mike shares his adventures coding while riding Amtrak, Chris is trying to get DOS running while he still can, and many of you wrote in sharing your concern for GNOME.

We try to pull off a show while recovering from an epic server crash. Then we build the ultimate remote Linux desktop—in the cloud!

We share the facts about a recent systemd vulnerability, the new details we've learned this week about the Steam Deck, and then dig into the reviews of the Framework Laptop.

Has Microsoft figured out a way to invalidate the GPL? We're skeptical.

Could the Steam Deck mean fewer native Linux games? We chat with prolific game developer Ethan Lee and get his perspective on the negative impacts of the Deck.

Steam Deck looks impressive; we cover the details you care about and one aspect that concerns us.

Updates gone wrong, surprise hardware failures, and flooding out all our electronics in a single go. We've got a lot to catch you up on.

It seems AI isn't replacing developers just yet, and why we think you shouldn’t get too comfortable.

Have you noticed the Linux news has gotten a little weird? Michael Tunnell joins us to break down the changes we've observed over the last year.

Open Source's best hope for alternatives to Microsoft and Google gets a significant update this week, and we cover a plethora of new goodies coming to a Linux near you soon.

Has Google already started its decline? Our surprising take.

Linux server admins don't know where to turn next; how the cult of personality might be shaping Linux's most important market. Special Guest: Jack Aboutboul.

We try out Pop!_OS 21.04 and share our thoughts on the COSMIC desktop and our reaction to Audacity’s new troubling privacy policy.

Tuya shocks us by announcing native Home Assistant support, we have an update on a smart doorbell Ring alternative, and we tell all about how PiKVM just levelled up in awesome. Special Guest: Morgan Peterman.

Mike's got some strong feels about his new system, and Chris spent a week with Windows 11. And that's not even scratching the surface. It's a wild one, with some hard truths, so buckle up.

Is Fuchsia a risk to Linux? We try out a cutting-edge Fuchsia desktop and determine if it is a long-term threat to Linux.

The news this week that pushes Linux ahead in the enterprise, the challenges Windows 11 might bring, and we go hands-on with the new Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE.

Big Tech's punishment train has been en route for years, but now that it's almost arrived, are we getting onboard?

Is it possible to have Arch’s best feature on other Linux distros? We attempt it and report our findings. Plus our reaction to NVIDIA’s beta Wayland support–is this the milestone we’ve been waiting for?

Linux's résumé got a nice boost this week; why Google is paying for more kernel development, and how CloudLinux might be pulling ahead of the CentOS pack.

We take a look at a self-hosted TeamViewer alternative, give you our take on some Home Assistant drama and discuss the effects of a new crypto coin on hard drive prices.

We get a bit skeptical about Stripe Identity, how it works, and precisely why we don't like some of their privacy trade-offs.

We revisit the seminal distros that shaped Linux’s past. Find out if these classics still hold up.

The premier Linux desktops get some futuristic new features, and we break down the seven-year-old vulnerability in your Linux box revealed this week.

Our takes on the important bits from Apple's WWDC 2021 keynote and State of the Union.

We discuss old and new ways to manage, organize, index, and search your photo collection. It's our favorite Google Photo's alternatives.

An old Linux distro gets a new trick, and all Linux users get a few excellent quality of life updates.

We'll share how we deployed a painless, Self-Hosted Pastebin replacement, and what we like the most about it.

Mike's unique take on the bold promises made at MS Build this year, and the one item he REALLY wants announced at WWDC next week.

We’re joined by a special guest who’s built his very own Linux battle bus. We get the technical details on how Linux is at the core of this open road machine. Special Guest: Aaron Bockelie.

Our reaction to the new Freenode developments, and Audacity's latest shock to the community.

We both fall for a new fancy keyboard; then we get philosophical about free software's never-ending quest to conquer mobile.

From our origins with Linux to preparing your home LAN for a solar storm, it’s an Ask us Anything special edition!

Our take on the Freenode exodus, Linux Apps going public in ChromeOS, and Red Hat's desktop hiring spree.

Join us for a chat with Paulus, the founder of Home Assistant, as we look to the project's future, hardware devices, new standards, and more. Special Guest: Paulus Schoutsen.

After Chris gets a reality check from Mike, the guys answer some emails and admit a cold hard truth.

Tim Canham, Mars Helicopter Operations Lead at NASA’s JPL joins us again to share technical details you've never heard about the Ingenuity Linux Copter on Mars. And the challenges they had to work around to achieve their five successful flights. Special Guest: Tim Canham.

Our reaction to System76's Launch keyboard, Google's new Fuchsia contributor that's a big name, and the repairable Linux Laptop with a few new tricks.

Chris struggles with his nature, while Mike shares some sage developer advice that everyone should hear before using a platform like AWS.

We’re taking a look at an underdog distro. We may have found a diamond in the rough with a few tricks up its filesystem.

We start you off with the headlines that matter this week, then share our thoughts on Audacity's new owners proposing user tracking.

Plex announces some big plans that make us a little nervous, Alex solves Chris's tablet performance woes, and we chat about Prometheus.

From adventures in learning, a recipe for great collaborations, to creativity and problem-solving in tech. It's a deep dive chat with Wes Payne.

It's episode III, Return of the Email. Everyone says never host your own email, so we're doin it.

A spicy mix of distro news, including Rocky Linux's first milestone release, and our follow-up on the University of Minnesota’s kernel ban.

Mike has a few stories to share, but more importantly a very hard lesson he's going to make sure you damn sure you learn.

The new release of Fedora has more under the hood than you might know. It's a technology-packed release, and nearly all of it is coming to a distro near you.

The University of Minnesota has been banned from the Linux kernel.

Alex has a new trick for local and remote backups, and shares his thoughts on Synology's DS series NAS.

Our thoughts on the hardware Apple announced this week, and if any of it is suitable for professional workloads.

You should never host your own email, so we’ve gone and done just that. What we learned trying to build an email server in 2021.

The major shift in the Linux landscape this week that was hardly noticed, and our thoughts on COSMIC from System76.

We visit an alternate reality where Epic wins in their fight against Apple, COBOL reigns supreme, and the halls of great Jedi Temple are lined with Object-C developers.

Do as we say, not as we do. This week we're setting off to host our own email. We'll cover the basics, what's we're using, and why.

Don't buy that M1-powered Apple machine just yet, solving Wayland-driven fragmentation, and why Firefox is about to get an upgrade on Linux.

A record is broken, a life goal is achieved, and why we are going long on Linksys. Special Guest: Jake Howard 🍊.

After a decade long fight, no one feels like a winner.

Old friends and new join us on a quest to celebrate four hundred episodes. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Corry Clinton, Drew DeVore, and Graham Morrison.

The first CentOS clone is out, but it's the second part of their announcement that might be the most important.

Ruby has gone off the rails this week, and Wes is here to explain what’s happened.

Lutris developer Mathieu Comandon joins us to share his perspective on the uncomfortable issues facing Linux desktop developers.

GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release.

Special guest Jeff Geerling tells us how he got 16 drives connected to one Pi.

Some sage developer wisdom is overshadowed by Mike's mad stonk game, while Chris worries Apple's secret M1 tricks charming Linux users.

We share our favorite networking trick of all time, and then chat with the blokes behind a new WireGuard-powered service.

Mobile Linux OSes are looking better than ever this week, a new effort to keep legacy applications running on Linux, and the signals indicating a Fuchsia release is nigh.

Mike goes straight for the attack and hits Chris where it hurts, then it's problem-solving time.

We break down the next-level features coming to a Linux near you in just a few weeks.

The A-Team assembled to make open source more trustworthy, why we might be about to find out how much SUSE is worth, and some essential project updates.

We react to Home Assistant password shaming us and then reflect on the OVH fire while attempting to solve a "growing" cloud problem.

Mike reveals his secret project to Chris, who has several probing questions.

Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.

Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.

After we pine about the way things used to be, Mike shares why he is developing a fondness for C++.

It's our worst idea yet. We share the password to our brand-new server and see who can own the box first. Whoever wins gets a special prize.

Red Hat is still in damage control mode, a new hacker laptop called Framework makes bold promises, and what Google is spending money on in the Linux kernel.

Our favorite LastPass alternative, why more boxes might be better than one, and we confess to an undying love.

We open the robe and share some vintage career origin stories.

After all these years, what's made us stick with Linux?

We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible.

Mike crosses over to report back from the other side, and Chris is along for the ride.

Something special has been achieved this week, a new benchmark in the desktop experience. We dig in.

Microsoft and Ubuntu's relationship is under a new spotlight this week.

Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks.

After reflecting on more than 8 years of the show, we get into solving problems and taking names.

Which distro is best for friends and family? We have a unique take on this common question.

The story behind a Microsoft repo shipping in Raspberry Pi OS, Canonical updates a special version of Ubuntu, and a couple of milestones the Linux world hit this week.

Microsoft is working on a bot that can deepfake you real good, and we have thoughts.

We try out GNOME 40 and its new workspace layout. Who we think this works well for, and who might want to avoid it.

Google removes Matrix chat-client Element from the Play store, sudo has a major flaw with a long-tail, and Rocky Linux gets a boost.

We discuss recent Home Assistant security news, and how we think the project could improve.

The guys can't help but laugh when they hear the test tests one well-known online giant is testing. You might say they get a bit testy.

Successful open-source projects all seem to struggle with one major gorilla. Who it is, and what their options are now. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jonathan Corbet.

Why we don't think Red Hat's expanded developer program is enough, our reaction to Ubuntu sticking with an older Gnome release, and a tiny delightful surprise.

Is performance the ultimate requirement? What amount of compromise are we comfortable with?

We showcase a tool that will change your Linux game.

Impressive updates for some beloved open source projects, and AlmaLinux—a leading CentOS alternative—is born.

Our favorite Google Docs killer with markdown support has a big update. We explain how we host it and why we love it.

Mike and Chris discuss the recent JetBrains FUD and ponder the impact of recent AWS policy enforcement.

Wendell joins the show to cover the state of graphics on Linux, and what Intel has in store for the future.

We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release.

Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop.

We have some strong opinions about the state of openSUSE Tumbleweed. We've secretly been running it for the past week, and share our experience.

A lot of open source development was packed into 2020, we recap some of the standout moments you should know about.

Alex reveals the culmination of five years of work into the Perfect Media Server.

Services and subscriptions get a bad wrap, so we flip the script and talk about the ones we're grateful to pay for.

Friends join us for a special edition of the show to review last year's predictions, and forecast the future. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Joe Ressington, and Neal Gompa.

Our annual predictions episode kicks off with a review of what we got right and wrong for 2020, and then we speculate wildly about what could happen in 2021.

Mike details his favorite python tools and his tricks for performance concerns.

We reveal the winners of the 2020 Tuxies.

Another Google project meets an untimely demise, but we find the silver lining.

Chris discovers a networking miracle, Alex has been playing with electrics, and we review the Wyze Cam 3.

Mike recalls how he accidentally converted his development shop into a Python house, and Chris experiments with his Minimum Viable Robe.

It's light as a feather, fast as hell, and everything is upstream. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon ships with Fedora, and this week we put it to the test.

We explain the major changes to CentOS this week and break down the top four criticisms.

Time to talk business, and Chris reveals his biggest mistake since going independent.

Red Hat just made big changes to how CentOS works, we breakdown the good, and the bad.

Desktop Linux users saw a lot of new features land this week, and SUSE might just have a new cloud-winning strategy.

Alex puts the fantastic-looking, ARM-powered NAS known as the Helios64 to the test.

After we geek out about keyboards, we answer some feedback and take a dip in the Rust lust.

A problem that just kept getting worse and worse. What it was, and why it led us to "check in" on EndeavourOS.

What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux.

Mike buys a laptop live on air while Chris worries about the turkey.

We have the coolest new retro tool of the year, that will turn you into a Linux powered spy.

The details behind youtube-dl's return to GitHub, our thoughts on the rumored SUSE IPO, and our concerns with Servo's new home.

With rage in our hearts, we proclaim a Self-Hosted Google Photos replacement, and the only way to self-host your email.

The guys deploy their sage wisdom to answer your age-old questions and solve why the latest macOS is less appealing than ever to developers.

We review the Dell Precision 5750, a born and bred MacBook killer that runs Linux.

The Ubuntu bug you need to patch, PayPal's Bitcoin support goes live, and a breaking change inbound to systemd.

Our first reactions to Apple's ARM event, how these new systems will impact developers, and if we're buying one.

We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great.

We review the Raspberry Pi 400. Then discover new features coming to Linux powered Dells.

We have a philosophical debate on cloud vs local and Alex experiences full-blown Americana this Halloween.

Chris attempts a Lizard intervention and gets sucked into Mike's Green tinted data center paradise.

Why we think the new Raspberry Pi 400 is just the beginning.

A RISC-V development PC is in the works, we have the details and try to set expectations.

Microsoft is making aggressive moves to court more and more developers. We put on our analyst hats and lay out the hard cold truth.

Fedora 33 is a bold release, and we’ve put it through the wringer. We tell you what’s great, and what you should know before diving in.

Ubuntu 20.10 is out, with official Raspberry Pi 4 desktop support. We try it out and report back. And our thoughts on the youtube-dl takedown.

Chris gets left out in the cold after a Home Assistant glitch, and Alex puts a big batch of USB hard drives to the test

It's confession hour on the podcast, and your hosts surprise each other with several twists and turns.

We put the new Ubuntu 20.10 to the test, and chat with System76's Mechanical Engineer to get the secrets of the new Thelio Mega.

The new Plasma release makes a compelling argument for the workstation, why LibreOffice and OpenOffice can't seem to get along and a recently found bug in Linux that goes back to Kernel 2.6.

We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery.

We have a different take on the Oracle v. Google case that may usher in an API copyright doom! Or so they say...

NextCloud makes some significant changes, and we share our reaction; IBM is planning to split into two, but we have some questions, and Firefox may soon display sponsored "top sites."

We speak to Kevin and Patricia from Traefik, discuss Alex's recent ZFS snafu and we wonder if the new Chromecasts can match up to the Nvidia Shield.

Our secrets for a low-cost bulletproof Nextcloud server that we figured out the hard way. We take you into the

We examine the deeper problems in Open Source development the recent Hacktoberfest drama has exposed.

Quite a bit from Google this week, with new products and notable changes coming for developers and users.

We provoked quite a response and cover the feedback that puts us in our place. Then we dive into the wild era of text editor of yore and solve an age-old question.

We embrace new tools to upgrade your backup game, securely move files around the network, and debunk the idea that Windows will ever be based on Linux.

Lenovo expands its Linux lineup in a big way, with 30 Ubuntu systems. And why Microsoft Edge on Linux might be more significant than you think.

We get fancy with Traefik labels, and gush over some new Home Assistant features while saving our data from inevitable future failure.

We get nerdy about Blueprints, and then wary about the future of software distribution.

What would it really take to get you to switch Linux distributions? We debate the practical reasons more and more people are sticking with the big three.

We try out the new GNOME "Orbis" release and chat about Microsoft's new Linux kernel patches that make it clear Windows 10 is on the path to a hybrid Windows/Linux system.

Is it a Post-Open Source world now that the mega-clouds are here? We share our thoughts on this renewed idea.

Friends join us to discuss Cabin, a proposal that encourages more Linux apps and fewer distros.

Our hands-on review of Android 11, and our thoughts on the possible consequences of Nvidia buying Arm Holdings for $40bn.

Some big news for Jupiter Broadcasting and a picture perfect app-pick with Lychee. Chris politely suggests Alex reconsider his Syncthing doubts.

A special friend of the show joins us to discuss C++ in 2020 and the growing adoption of Rust.

We get an update from PipeWire developer Wim Taymans on the status of Linux's new audio and video subsystem.

The first Thinkpads loaded with Fedora go live, but there is a lot more to the story.

GitHub just made a major behind-the-scenes upgrade, and we chew on some of the impressive details.

The Raspberry Pi might be getting a small software fix that makes a big performance improvement.

Mike and Wes join us to discuss the recent Docker news, freeing your Robovac from the cloud, and why Alex really loves Terraform. Special Guests: Michael Dominick and Wes Payne.

It's a new day for Jupiter Broadcasting and the show, we share our big news.

Great news! Dan, popey, and Joe have started a new show and it's called The New Show. Check it out at thenew.show (https://thenew.show)

We reboot the show to capture Mike's love of coupons and update you on what we have been up to recently since the show's fake demise.

We round up the best podcast clients for your Linux desktop, mobile, and the web.

Jonathan Panozzo, aka Johnp join us to talk all things Unraid. He hints at future subscription plans, details performance features coming soon, shares the story of how Docker came to Unraid, and much more. Special Guest: Jonathan Panozzo.

We refurbish a special machine from the Jupiter Broadcasting Hardware Archive and try out Matrix, the one chat platform to rule them all.

We explain why BootHole is getting so much attention and break down the key issues. Then we review our favorite Linux-compatible headsets.

Chris figures out how hot is too hot, Alex performs an extreme remote firewall install, and we share some of our favorite SSH tricks.

The past, present and future of Linux on Arm. The major challenges still facing full Linux support, and why ServerReady might be a solution to unify Arm systems.

Brent sits down with Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76. We explore the people, passion, and culture behind the scenes, learn of young Carl, the early years of building a Linux-focused hardware business, how today System76 fuels a tiny piece of SpaceX, and more.

Fedora makes a bold move and Microsoft seems to be working on their ideal "Cloud PC", we ponder what Linux has to offer.

We've spent thousands of dollars, and over a decade refining the perfect home media setup. We get nostalgic and share what worked, and what REALLY didn't.

Our team has been using Nextcloud to replace Dropbox for over a year, we report back on what has worked great, and what's not so great.

Fedora's getting to work and reconsidering some long held-assumptions.

Chris is slow cooking some servers, Alex has self-hosted AI with a nasty gotcha and a damp basement.

We're joined by two guests who share their insights into building modern Linux hardware products.

Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.

Brent sits down with Philip Müller, Co-Founder and Lead Developer of Manjaro, and CEO at Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG. We explore the formation and evolution of Manjaro as a Linux distribution, the development of past and recent hardware partnerships, cross-distribution collaborations, and what's inspiring Philip in the next 5 years. Special Guest: Philip Müller.

Serverbuilds.net’s founder JDM joins us to discuss the perfect sever for low or high-end needs, and Alex stages a Pi intervention. Special Guest: JDM_WAAAT.

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.

The lightweight distro that stole our hearts, the four of us each try out a different contender and come away with what we think will be the leanest and meanest distribution for your PC. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker.

You're not a true self-hoster until you've lost your entire configuration at least once. Alex does a deep dive into cloud backup, plus we need your help to find the right Wifi solution for a listener.

From the low-end to the high-end we try out both ends of the Linux hardware spectrum. Wes reviews the latest XPS 13, and Chris shares his thoughts on the Pinebook Pro.

It's a storage showdown as Jim and Wes bust some performance myths about RAID and ZFS.

Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rouge device on his network. Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

Brent sits down with Kyle Rankin, Chief Security Officer and Vice President at Purism and former Tech Editor and columnist at Linux Journal. We explore his 10+ years with Linux Journal, as well as Purism's culture, ideals, product design and engineering philosophies, and more. Special Guest: Kyle Rankin.

We react to recently proposed Home Assistant changes, Alex attempts an extreme remote install, and we take a look at HomelabOS.

Windows is getting more competitive by adopting core Linux features, so we cover the latest Linux-inspired additions to Windows. Then review the new release of Pi-hole, sort through recent PINE64 updates, and read your feedback. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

Jim and Wes take the latest release of the Caddy web server for a spin, investigate Intel's Comet Lake desktop CPUs, and explore the fight over 5G between the US Military and the FCC.

We're blown away by the Enlightenment desktop, and its little known features, and we share a quick way for you to try it out yourself.

Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD, Time on Unix, Improve ZVOL sync write performance with a taskq, central log host with syslog-ng, NetBSD Entropy overhaul, Setting Up NetBSD Kernel Dev Environment, and more.

We were almost outsmarted by a not so smart doorbell, Jellyfin makes Alex's prediction dreams come true and Chris tries QOwnNotes again.

Manjaro has a new hardware partner so Phillip joins to share the details, and we have the Lemur Pro in house for a battery endurance test like no other.

We dive deep into the world of RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.

FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available, Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux, Ars technica reviews GhostBSD, “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open, BSD community show their various collections, a tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals, learn to stop worrying and love SSDs, and more.

FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available, Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux, Ars technica reviews GhostBSD, “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open, BSD community show their various collections, a tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals, learn to stop worrying and love SSDs, and more.

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller joins us to discuss Lenovo shipping ThinkPads loaded with Fedora, and our review of the new 32 release.

Ell sits down with Danny Akacki to talk about infosec, his experience on the Blue Team, how PancakesCon got started, and more. Special Guest: Danny Akacki.

Rethinking OpenBSD security, FreeBSD 2020 Q1 status report, the notion of progress and user interfaces, Comments about Thomas E. Dickey on NetBSD curses, making Unix a little more Plan9-like, Not-actually Linux distro review: FreeBSD, and more.

Knowing which hardware to buy or which apps to run on that shiny new hardware can be hard. Chris and Alex discuss networking gear and where to find some of the best getting started documentation on the net.

The latest Ubuntu LTS is here, but does it live up to the hype? And how practical are the new ZFS features? We dig into the performance, security, and stability of Focal Fossa.

Brent sits down with Sri Ramkrishna, seasoned GNOME community member, founder of Linux App Summit, and Principle Ecosystems Engineer at ITRenew. We discuss his experiences in the GNOME community since 1998, the value of building relationships across communities, the increasing importance of non-technical roles in open source projects, and more. Special Guest: Sri Ramkrishna.

Jim finally gets his hands on an AMD Ryzen 9 laptop, some great news about Wi-Fi 6e, and our take on FreeBSD on the desktop.

Tales from a core file, Lenovo X260 BIOS Update with OpenBSD, the problem of Unix iowait and multi-CPU machines, Hugo workflow using FreeBSD Jails, Caddy, Restic; extending NetBSD-7 branch support, a tale of two hypervisor bugs, and more.

We build the server you never should, a tricked out Arm box, and push it to the limit with a telnet torture test.

Heather, of SciByte fame, joins Chris and Wes to celebrate the incredible accomplishments and amazing resiliency of the Voyager probes. Special Guest: Heather.

Choose Linux enters indefinite hiatus.

In what turns out to be our final publication, we say goodbye.

NetBSD 8.2 is available, NextCloud on OpenBSD, X11 screen locking, NetBSD and RISC OS running parallel, community feedback about switching to BSD, and more.

We share some WiFi tips and essential network ideas.

Today we make nice with a killer, an early out-of-memory daemon, and one of the new features in Fedora 32. We put EarlyOOM to the test in a real-world workload and are shocked by the results.

Pagure, the free software GitLab alternative no one is talking about.

WireGuard officially lands in Linux. We cover a bunch of new features in Linux 5.6 and discuss the recent challenges facing LineageOS.

Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS and co-host of User Error. We explore his early years in design and software, formative aspects of Ubuntu and Gentoo, the philosophies and history of elementary OS, and more. Special Guest: Daniel Fore.

We take a look at Cloudflare's impressive Linux disk encryption speed-ups, and explore how zoned storage tools like dm-zoned and zonefs might help mitigate the downsides of Shingled Magnetic Recording.

Shell text processing, data rebalancing on ZFS mirrors, Add Security Headers with OpenBSD relayd, ZFS filesystem hierarchy in ZFS pools, speeding up ZSH, How Unix pipes work, grow ZFS pools over time, the real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated, clear your terminal in style, and more.

Ell tells us about her first ever experience with Windows 10 and how it compares with Linux. Plus Drew has been using a Wayland-based i3-like tiling window manager called Sway.

We discover a few simple Raspberry Pi tricks that unlock incredible performance and make us re-think the capabilities of Arm systems.

Joe, Alan, and Dan speculate about what the world will be like after the situation with Coronavirus is under control and life returns to something resembling normality. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Daniel Fore.

Mozilla puts your money where your mouse is and partners with Scroll to launch Firefox for a Better Web. We'll explain the details, and why it might just have a shot.

Brent sits down with Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V., KDE software developer, co-founder of Linux App Summit and Barcelona Free Software. We discuss his longstanding collaborations within the KDE community, developer sponsorships in open source business models, and more. Special Guest: Aleix Pol.

The details that make a great distro, things that make us wince, smug people online, great photos, imposter syndrome, and more.

Fighting the Coronavirus with FreeBSD, Wireguard VPN Howto in OPNsense, NomadBSD 1.3.1 available, fresh GhostBSD 20.02, New FuryBSD XFCE and KDE images, pf-badhost 0.3 released, and more.

We have a neat self-hosted home inventory management system for preppers of any type, plus Chris' simple Home Assistant trick and Alex's valiant battle with the WebSockets daemon of the reverse proxies.

We debate the dangers and advantages of one-click deployments. Then Dan from elementary OS shares an AppCenter for Everyone update.

Why Debian is facing one of its most critical moments yet, Microsoft and GitHub buy npm, and our thoughts on Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 "Debbie."

Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source's "final mile", the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more. Special Guest: Stuart Langridge.

We take a look at AMD's upcoming line of Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs, and share our first impressions of Ubuntu 20.04's approach to ZFS on root.

OpenBSD Full disk encryption with coreboot and tianocore, FreeBSD 12.0 EOL, ZFS DVA layout, OpenBSD’s Go situation, AD updates requires changes in TrueNAS and FreeNAS, full name of FreeBSD’s root account, and more.

We try out Solus and are all impressed by this independent distro. Then Ell and Drew sing the praises of Visual Studio Code - a text editor that's packed full of features.

It was the first of its kind, and the first forced to go virtual. We get the behind the scenes story of WSL Conf from the organizers.

We share what goes into making LINUX Unplugged special, and have a laugh at some of our bad ideas from show past.

Solid releases from GNOME and Firefox, bad news for custom Android ROM users, and a new container distro from Amazon.

Brent sits down with Elizabeth K. Joseph, Developer Advocate at IBM Z, former Ubuntu Community Council member, and contributor to Ubuntu, Debian, Xubuntu, and others. We discuss her new passion for mainframes, her early contributions to open source projects, the niche opportunities in Z DevOps on mainframes, and more. Special Guest: Elizabeth K. Joseph.

Apps that make us feel old, emotional songs, using actual paper, evolution of language, IRC channels we never look at, and more.

FreeBSD on Power, DragonflyBSD 5.8 is here, Unifying FreeNAS/TrueNAS, OpenBSD vs. Prometheus and Go, gcc 4.2.1 removed from FreeBSD base, and more.

Wendell Wilson is back, and he and Chris are struggling with their automation setups. Also, we chat about ideal home server hardware for a server or a pfSense box.

We load up Windows 10 with WSL2, the new Terminal, and give it a go to see what it does better than Linux. Then we dive into the deep end and attend the first-ever WSLConf.

Ell and Wes sit down with Wirefall, founder of the Dallas Hackers Association, to talk about the struggles and rewards of community building, why moving with the times is key, and how to foster an inclusive community meetup that still feels like a family gathering. Special Guest: Wirefall.

Let's Encrypt is forced to revoke customer certificates, the big change coming to FreeNAS, and the trick to running Android on an iPhone.

Brent sits down with Nuritzi Sanchez, Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitLab, former GNOME Foundation President and Chairperson of the Board of Directors, and Founding Member of Endless, Inc. We explore her current experiences at GitLab, her deep involvement in the growth of GNOME's community, the evolution of the Linux App Summit, her involvement with Endless, and why she is so drawn to the human aspects of technology. Special Guest: Nuritzi Sanchez.

Cloudflare recently embarked on an epic quest to choose a CPU for its next-generation server build, so we explore the importance of requests per watt, the benefits of full memory encryption, and why AMD won.

Why ZFS is doing filesystem checksumming right, better TMPFS throughput performance on DragonFlyBSD, reshaping pools with ZFS, PKGSRC on Manjaro aarch64 Pinebook-pro, central log host with syslog-ng on FreeBSD, and more.

We revisit some of the projects we have covered in previous episodes to see what we've stuck with and what we haven't.

We try the Mac desktop for 30 days, find out what we think it does best, and where Linux will always have it beat.

Ell sits down with Bryson Bort to discuss pentesting with Scythe, Red Team vs Blue Team operations, and the benefits that a Purple Team might have on the industry. Special Guest: Bryson Bort.

Bruce Schneier puts his name behind Solid, Firefox starts to roll out DNS over HTTPS as default, and Microsoft's Linux first device ships to customers.

Brent sits down with Brandon Bruce, Director of Customer Support at Linux Academy. We explore the world of support, how his former role as professional chef informs his "Kitchen Brigade" approach to building a support team, analytics data's ability to reveal surprising user experience patterns, and more. Special Guest: Brandon Bruce.

Whether open source needs to be a complete experience, a deep need for conflict, preferred social media, and our favorite emoji.

Meet FuryBSD, NetBSD 9.0 has been released, OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign wrapup, a retrospective on OmniOS ZFS-based NFS fileservers, NetBSD Fundraising 2020 goal, OpenSSH 8.2 released, and more.## Headlines

Self-Hosted IRC solutions are better than ever. Alan Pope joins us to make a case for the classic way to communicate online and tells us about a modern client for the web, mobile, and desktop you run on your server.

A radical new way to do SSH authentication, special guest Jeremy Stott joins us to discuss Zero Trust SSH.

Wes and Ell sit down with James Smith to have an honest conversation about what skills are needed to start a career and be successful in Tech and Information Security. Special Guest: James Smith.

Microsoft Defender for Linux is in preview, Mozilla's VPN has a secret advantage, and why the community is calling out NPM Inc.

We explore the potential of heat-assisted magnetic recording and get excited about a possibly persistent L2ARC.

Brent sits down with Heather Ellsworth, Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. We discuss her deep history in experimental high energy physics at CERN, the similarities and synergies between the sciences and software engineering, her love of documentation, her newly established maintainership of LibreOffice, and how empathy factors into good bug reporting. Special Guest: Heather Ellsworth.

Distrowatch reviews FuryBSD, LLDB on i386 for NetBSD, wpa_supplicant as lower-class citizen, KDE on FreeBSD updates, Travel Grant for BSDCan open, ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail, and more.

A confusing experience in Distrohoppers which raises deeper questions about the value and viability of smaller distros.

We question the very nature of Linux development, and debate if a new approach is needed.

Joe talks about the basics of podcasting including recording spaces, types of microphones, post-production techniques, editing, and more.

The week was packed with major project releases, we go through each of them and tell you what stands out.

Brent sits down with Broadus Palmer, Google Cloud Training Architect at Linux Academy and Cloud Career Coach at Level Up with Broadus. We explore his history as a musician and banker, sneaker bots, the value of mentorship, what gets people hired in tech, leveling up as a lifestyle, and more. Special Guest: Broadus Palmer.

Open source at work, learning languages, naming cars, and innovations that haven't appropriately delivered.

Happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work, building a FreeBSD fileserver, Kubernetes on FreeBSD bhyve, NetBSD 9 RC1 available, OPNSense 20.1 is here, HardenedBSD’s idealistic future, and more.

We try out the top self-hosted Wikis and tell you which we like best, and Chris has a major project off-grid update.

The difficult and fascinating conversations from FOSDEM 2020. Plus how elementary OS does coopertition right.

Ell, Drew, Hart, and Seth talk about what Kubernetes is, how to get started with it, why and when you should use it, and more. Special Guests: Hart Hoover and Seth McCombs.

Why we're disappointed in the CoreOS Container Linux transition, Mycroft goes troll hunting and the complicated story brewing at the GNU Project.

Christophe joins Ell to discuss how to get started learning AWS and which materials you will need for that nerve-wracking interview. Special Guest: Christophe Limpalair.

We take a look at a few exciting features coming to Linux kernel 5.6, including the first steps to multipath TCP.

Linux couldn’t duplicate OpenBSD, FreeBSD Q4 status report, OPNsense 19.7.9 released, archives retain and pass on knowledge, HardenedBSD Tor Onion Service v3 Nodes, and more.

Valentine's Day is nearly here so it's time to talk about why we love Linux and open source. Nothing is perfect though, so we also touch on a few areas that we feel could be improved.

We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements.

Wes and Ell sit down with Duncan McAlynn to discuss what mistakes we might all be making that could be putting our privacy and security at risk. Special Guest: Duncan McAlynn.

The upcoming Linux kernels are packed full of goodies, Qt changes its licensing terms, and Thunderbird gets a new home.

Brent sits down with Peter Adams, professional photographer and former founder and CTO of several internet-technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley. In this Part 2 we explore open source and photography through workflows, lighting controls, and camera OSs, artificial intelligence and the future of photography, and more. Special Guest: Peter Adams.

Whether we'd use Windows if it was FOSS, pointless tech, bathing habits, useless jobs, annoying popey with dream stories, and more.

Hyperbola Developer interview, why you should migrate from Linux to BSD, FreeBSD is an amazing OS, improving the ptrace(2) API in LLVM 10, First FreeBSD conference in Australia, and a guide to containers on FreeNAS.

We each like different blogging platforms, and share why. Then our tips for keeping your server secure.

How did we get from shareware to free software? We jump in the Linux powered time machine and revisit software past.

Brent sits down with Peter Adams, professional photographer and former founder and CTO of several internet-technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley. We explore his photography project "Faces of Open Source", his history in the dot-com bubble era, how he came to love open source, and more.

The real reason Rocket League is dropping support for Linux, Wine has a massive release, and the potential for Canonical's new Android in the cloud service.

Drew and Graham discuss the basics of modular synthesis, and how VCV Rack makes the Eurorack system freely available to anyone with a computer. Special Guest: Graham Morrison.

We explore the latest round of Windows vulnerabilities and Jim shares his journey adding OPNsense to his firewall family.

Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1, Distrowatch switching to FreeBSD, Torvalds says don’t run ZFS, iked(8) removed automatic IPv6 blocking, working towards LLDB on i386, and memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme in NetBSD.

Distrohoppers serves up something very different in the form of desktop BSD, and we reveal how important freedom is to us all.

We make an appeal to keep Linux powerful and avoid the Macification of the desktop, and review the latest developer-focused XPS 13.

Brent sits down with Jim Salter, co-host of Jupiter Broadcasting's TechSNAP and technology reporter at Ars Technica. We explore his relationship with computers via the US Navy, when code has it's place in either proprietary or open source licensing, the value in being a social gadfly, and Jim's motivations behind his writing and who he is hoping to reach and inspire. Special Guest: Jim Salter.

Nextcloud's new release is so big it gets a rebrand, why Mozilla had a round of lay-offs, and the real possibility of Steam coming to Chrome OS.

Ell and Wes are joined by Infrastructure Engineer Seth McCombs for a chat about how he got started in tech, the hard transition from legacy data centers to the cloud, and why being honest about both success and failure can lead to a better open source community. Special Guest: Seth McCombs.

Context switching, improving Linux conferences, a positive approach to life, what makes us cringe, and more.

Your Impact on FreeBSD in 2019, Wireguard on OpenBSD Router, Amazon now has FreeBSD/ARM 12, pkgsrc-2019Q4, The Joys of UNIX Keyboards, OpenBSD on Digital Ocean, and more.

Wyze and Xiaomi suffer major cloud hosted blunders, so Alex tells us about his new fully offline camera security system, tied into Shinobi.

Linus Torvalds says don't use ZFS, but we think he got a few of the facts wrong. Jim Salter joins us to help us explain what Linus got right, and what he got wrong.

Brent sits down with Chase Nunes, co-host of Unfilter, Jupiter Broadcasting's former weekly media watchdog. We discuss his beginnings in podcasting and how Unfilter came to be, his contributions to LinuxFest Northwest, his love for Linux in the media broadcasting industry, and his recent 15-month life-changing personal transformation journey.

Are we overloaded with open source licenses? We consider a simpler future. Results from the Debian init vote are in, and why Amazon's new open source project might be worth checking out.

Join Alex and Brent for a chat about upgrading your home network with an eye towards stability, simplicity, and hosting things yourself.

Compiling the Linux kernel with Clang has never been easier, so we explore this alternative compiler and what it brings to the ecosystem.

Announcing HyperbolaBSD, IPFW In-Kernel NAT setup on FreeBSD, Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux, LLDB Threading support ready for mainline, OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base, Dragonfly drm/i915: Update, and more.

Trying to explain what Linux and open source are can be tricky. We discuss our various approaches, and how they differ depending on the experience of who we are explaining them to.

Find out what's happening in 2020 before it happens. Our crew returns from the future with predictions so perfect you could bet some Dogecoin on it. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

Brent sits down with Joe Ressington, Jupiter Broadcasting Podcast Content Director, Late Night Linux host, and musician, for an exploration of his journey in podcasting, a behind-the-scenes of User Error and Linux Action News, how music led to Linux, the origins of Brunch with Brent's theme music, and more. Special Guest: Joe Ressington.

It's our annual predictions episode. We review how we did in 2019, and then set out to predict what we think will happen in 2020.

Whether the Web is yesterday’s news, a possible new approach to law and order, resolving conflicts, and some surprisingly useful life hacks.

How learning OpenBSD makes computers suck a little less, How Unix works, FreeBSD 12.1 Runs Well on Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, BSDCan CFP, HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals, and more.

Master of details, open source advocate and YouTuber, Quindor from Intermittent.Tech (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv7UOhZ2XuPwm9SN5oJsCjA) joins us for a chat about tuya-convert (https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert) to avoid planned hardware obsolescence, his new 100TB server build, highly available home setups, and his DIY LED project. Special Guest: Andries Faassen.

We review our predictions and own up to what we got wrong, and what we got right in 2019. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

Brent sits down with Jackie DeVore, co-host of horror podcast Sirens of Scream and multi-disciplinary artist. Our in-person chat explores the origins of her podcasting, creativity as a lifestyle, women in tech, art, and gaming, and her co-founding and recent launch of Hell Bunny Independents Club, a women's inclusive and supportive digital safe space. Special Guest: Jackie DeVore.

We review the major moments of the year's news, and discuss how they impacted our world.

From classifying cats to colorizing old photos we share our top tips and tools for starting your machine learning journey. Plus, learn why Nebula is our favorite new VPN technology, and how it can help simplify and secure your network.

Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, NetBSD 9.0 RC1 is available, Running FreeNAS on a DigitalOcean droplet, NomadBSD 1.3 is here, at e2k19 nobody can hear you scream, and more.

Ultimate privacy in Distrohoppers, and the best ways to run other operating systems within your current Linux distro.

Open source won the last decade, but what if it hadn’t? We look back at some major milestones and reflect on a world where they never existed. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

Brent sits down with Catherine Kretzschmar, professional music teacher, coding bootcamp enlistee, and humanist celebrant, for an in-person connective chat on the relationship between music and coding, the quality-of-life implications of ever-evolving home automation, an intro to humanist celebrancy, and more.

Canonical releases a "mini-cloud" on your workstation, the KDE ecosystem has some big news, and the smart home might have just become more open.

Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 2 we explore Jason's various voice acting roles, his approach to embodying roles like The Joker, the setup in his Linux-only audio recording studios, the power in collaborative innovation, examining yourself through meditation, and more. Special Guest: Jason Spisak.

The future of Internet video, the best way to develop open source software, skills vs talents, and our favourite types of animal companions.

In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects, including the upcoming SNMP Mastery book.

Sometimes one project can lead to a hundred more. We celebrate Home Assistant's new release, the inclusion of the WLED integration and fall down the DIY project rabbit hole.

Big things are coming to Microsoft's WSL so we get the inside scoop on what's just around the corner.

Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 1 we chat about everything from Jason's deep motivations behind his Linux projects, to patents vs. open source, digital independence and the nature of human endeavor. A few additional voices join us throughout for good measure...

The first desktop Office 365 app arrives, Ubuntu commits to current and future Raspberry Pi boards, and why the near-term future of Linux gaming looks a bit rocky.

Brian Beck joins Ell and Wes to chat about what's going on at 10BitWorks, 3D printing and the need to tinker, and how to find a makerspace near you. Special Guest: Brian Beck.

As the rollout of 5G finally arrives, we take some time to explain the fundamentals of the next generation of wireless technology.

LLDB Threading support now ready, Multiple IPSec VPN tunnels with FreeBSD, Netflix Optimized FreeBSD's Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance, happy eyeballs with unwind(8), AWS got FreeBSD ARM 12, OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support, and more.

All three of us have different levels of experience with Linux but there are tons of things that we wish we'd learned earlier in our journey.

We're myth-busting this week as we take a perfectly functioning production server and switch it to Arch. Is this rolling distro too dangerous to run in production, or can the right approach unlock the perfect server? We try it so you don't have to.

Brent sits down with Alan Pope (popey), who shares his knack for fuzzy-testing, the beginnings of Ubuntu Podcast, insights into Ubuntu Touch and Unity, the joys and perils of being "Internet Famous", and how to contribute meaningfully to your favorite Linux distributions.

Ubuntu Pro is a click away, and their kernel goes rolling on AWS. We process the range of announcements, while Mozilla cranks up the security and impresses us with DeepSpeech.

Ell and Wes sit down with Karthik Gaekwad to sort through the buzzword bingo and explain what DevSecOps is, what it isn’t, and why security should be part of the full lifecycle of your apps. Special Guest: Karthik Gaekwad.

Talking to ourselves, delicious family meals, and the complexities of modern work.

Home Assistant has changed our families' lives for the better. We share tips for getting started, implementing automation, devices we use, and our favorite integrations.

We read FreeBSD’s third quarterly status report, OpenBSD on Sparc64, ZoL repo move to OpenZFS, GEOM NOP, keeping NetBSD up-to-date, and more.

Give the gift of remote support with our neat SSH trick. Also, Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss what's great about their new release.

Brent sits down with Rocco of Big Daddy Linux for a conversation about the origins of Linux Spotlight, some shared behind-the-scenes podcasting perspectives, and just how great we feel about our Linux community. Special Guest: Rocco (BigDaddyLinux).

We share Mozilla's concerns over Contract for the Web, and try out Kali Linux's new tricks.

We explore the rapid adoption of machine learning, its impact on computer architecture, and how to avoid AI snake oil.

LPI releases BSD Certification, openzfs trip report, Using FreeBSD with ports, LLDB threading support ready, Linux versus Open Source Unix, and more.

A chance to learn some Linux fundamentals in Distrohoppers, and the numerous ways we can all contribute to Linux and open source.

Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.

Brent sits down with Jacob Roecker, long-time Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/) community member and Bronze Star Medal decorated United States Army veteran. Jacob shares his journey from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan through to dealing with PTSD, and how Jupiter Broadcasting and it's community was integral throughout. Special Guest: Jacob Roecker.

Google, Mozilla, and GitLab make serious upgrades to their bug bounty programs, insights into Debian's renewed systemd debate, and how Microsoft and IBM are working together to fight patent trolls.

Chz sits down with Alan Pope (Popey) to discuss his thoughts about Thinkpads, and why they might be the perfect Linux laptop.

Disposing of hard drives, what a TV really is, and the veganism of software.

FreeBSD 12.1 is here, A history of Unix before Berkeley, FreeBSD development setup, HardenedBSD 2019 Status Report, DNSSEC, compiling RainbowCrack on OpenBSD, and more.

Chris follows up on his Shinobi troubles and extols the virtues of $25 Wyze Cams to Alex, who has some exciting house news to share.

The Pinebook Pro gets put through the travel test, while we get an update on Pine64 projects straight from the source.

Brent sits down with Emma Marshall, Customer Happiness Manager at System76 (https://system76.com) for a fun chat touching on her love of pinball and puppies, spreading happiness, women in tech, and more.

Docker's surprising news, new nasty Intel vulnerabilities, and why Brave 1.0 changes the game.

Ell and Wes sit down with Megan Roddie from Mental Health Hackers about neurodiversity in tech and the importance of peer support. Special Guest: Megan Roddie.

Ubiquiti's troublesome new telemetry, Jim's take on the modern Microsoft, and why Project Silica just might be the future of long term storage.

Migrating drives and zpool between hosts, OpenBSD in 2019, Dragonfly’s new zlib and dhcpcd, Batch renaming images and resolution with awk, a rant on the X11 ICCCM selection system, hammer 2 emergency space mode, and more.

We talk about the best ways to get involved in open source communities, finding like-minded people, conference strategies, community hubs, and what happened to all the LUGs.

Get to know our Linux Users Group a little better and learn why they love their Linux distros of choice, and the one thing they'd change to make them perfect. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Neal Gompa.

Brent sits down with Jill Bryant Ryniker, long time linux aficionado, for a connective conversation exploring her deep involvement in linux and open source, from community to professional animation and more.

Google steps up support for older Chromebooks, Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux, and the App Defense Alliance teams up to fight Android malware.

Paying attention to all the Linux users we never hear from, being less clever than we thought, and our biggest fears.

Getting your storage setup just right often takes making painful mistakes first. We share ours, our current storage setups, when ZFS is not the tool for the job, and what you should consider when protecting your data.

The earliest Unix code, how to replace fail2ban with blacklistd, OpenBSD crossed 400k commits, how to install Bolt CMS on FreeBSD, optimized hammer2, appeasing the OSI 7-layer burrito guys, and more.

Dell expands their linux hardware lineup, why elementary OS's Flatpak support sets the bar, and we chat with Christian Schaller of Red Hat about Fedora 31 and what's around the corner.

Ell and Wes sit down to talk with Kyle Hubert and Lou Stella about real world threat hunting. Special Guests: Kyle Hubert and Lou Stella.

Brent sits down with Martin Wimpress, co-founder and project lead for Ubuntu MATE https://ubuntu-mate.org/, Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical, and co-host of Ubuntu Podcast https://ubuntupodcast.org/.

Fedora arrives from the future, the big players line up behind KernelCI, and researchers claim significant vulnerabilities in Horde.

We share our simple approach to disk benchmarking and explain why you should always test your pain points.

Alex, Drew from ChooseLinux, and Brent (of the Brunch fame) sit down with Antonio Musumeci, the developer of mergerfs during the JB sprint. It is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices, it is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.

Drew and Jackie DeVore talk about talk about their Halloween obsession, and give out a few recommendations for tech-related movies, shows, and podcasts to enjoy. Special Guest: Jackie DeVore.

Unix is 50, Hunting down Ken's PDP-7, OpenBSD and OPNSense have new releases, Clarification on what GhostBSD is, sshuttle - VPN over SSH, and more.

There are numerous ways to install software on a modern Linux system and we each have a different approach.

Fedora 31 strikes the right balance, we get the latest on the Librem 5 situation, and an easy graphics boost for laptops.

Joe hosts the panel at OggCamp 2019 with guests Dr Laura Cowen, Josh Lowe, Caroline Keep, and Dan Lynch. Special Guests: Caroline Keep, Dan Lynch, Dr Laura Cowen, and Josh Lowe.

GNOME decides to fight, Ubuntu's desktop director steps down, GitLab backs off its telemetry plans, and we've got the data on Google's Project Treble.

Ell and Wes talk to Lou Stella, Security Analyst at Rackspace, about transitioning to the cyber security industry. Special Guest: Lou Stella.

Tech mistakes, communicating with spouses, and why you shouldn't let popey drive you anywhere.

Plex Co-Founder and CTO Elan Feingold shares why he started Plex, its future direction, his home setup, his love for electric cars and the beach.

An interview with Trenton Schulz about his early days with FreeBSD, Robot OS, Qt, and more.

Is the ZFS tax too high? We pit ZFS on root against ext4 in our laptop pressure cooker and see how they perform when RAM gets tight.

We're back from Texas Cyber Summit with stories of new friends, great food, and our experiences from the event.

A new Ubuntu has promise, Linux on Dex is dead, and our strong reaction to Google pulling two open-source apps from the Play Store.

We dive into Ubuntu 19.10's experimental ZFS installer and share our tips for making the most of ZFS on root.

We are joined by special guest Chz who is a long-time user of single board computers to talk about how we use boards like the Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, and ROCKPro64. Special Guest: chzbacon.

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Containers changed the way the IT world deploys software. We give you our take on technologies such as docker (including docker-compose), Kubernetes and highlight a few of our favorite containers.

We risk it all and try ZFS on root with Ubuntu 19.10, and share our first impressions and what improvements we can't live without.

Brent sits down for an in-person chat with Allan Jude for a retrospective storytelling of his beginnings in BSD, his long history with podcasting, BSDNow and Jupiter Broadcasting, a beginner's guide to the benefits of FreeBSD, with technical nuggets and nostalgic bits throughout.

Richard Stallman's GNU leadership is challenged by an influential group of maintainers, SUSE drops OpenStack "for the customer," and Google claims Stadia will be faster than a gaming PC.

Our first computers, the future of food, and ethical sources of funds.

How far can you get with a Raspberry Pi 4? We go all in and find out.

Causing ZFS corruption for fun, NetBSD Assembly Programming Tutorial, The IKEA Lack Rack for Servers, a new OmniOS Community Edition LTS has been published, List Block Devices on FreeBSD lsblk(8) Style, Project Trident 19.10 available, and more.

Brent sits down with Angela Fisher, Executive Producer at Linux Academy, Jupiter Broadcasting co-founder, co-host of many JB productions including The FauxShow (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/fauxshow/), and Tech Talk Today (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/today/), among others. We touch on a variety of topics including the early beginnings of Jupiter Broadcasting, the origins of Brunch with Brent, aswell as many that are closer to her heart - from painting to parenting.

We reveal our secrets for bridging networks with WireGuard and Linux-powered networking.

Ell and Wes talk to Chris Cox, the executive director of Operation Safe Escape about battling stalking and technology-based abuse. Special Guest: Chris Cox.

Microsoft's CEO says Windows doesn't matter anymore, but do we buy it? Nextcloud 17 goes enterprise-grade and the Internet’s horrifying new method for installing Google apps on Huawei phones.

We peer into the future with a quick look at quantum supremacy, debate the latest DNS over HTTPS drama, and jump through the hoops of HTTP/3.

Chris, Alex, and Wes talk about reverse proxies, internal routing, and some popular methods to make it all work.

We have three different approaches to using the cloud, so we discuss various ways to expand your Linux knowledge beyond the desktop.

DragonFlyBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Linux benchmark on Ryzen 7, JFK Presidential Library chooses TrueNAS for digital archives, FreeBSD 12.1-beta is available, cool but obscure X11 tools, vBSDcon trip report, Project Trident 12-U7 is available, a couple new Unix artifacts, and more.

What makes a fresh install of Linux perfect? We ask our panel and share a few tools, tips, and habits that make our Linux installs perfect.

CentOS Stream and 8 have quite a bit for us to talk about, Docker's struggles go public, and the GNOME Foundation is facing a patent fight.

Brent joins Christophe Limpalair, VP of Growth at Linux Academy (https://linuxacademy.com/) and founder of Scale Your Code (https://scaleyourcode.com/), for a get-to-know-you conversation that spans from taming your lizard brain through to mastering the miscellaneous, with a generous ask of the community.

Being a good FOSS citizen, forcing popey to answer stupid questions, and personal freedom vs societal harm.

We visit Wendell Wilson of Level1Techs (https://level1techs.com/) and get a tour of his self-hosted setup, what he does and does not trust in the cloud, and we reminisce about the early days of computing and the internet.

Setting up buildbot in FreeBSD jails, Set up a mail server with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and Rspamd, OpenBSD amateur packet radio with HamBSD, DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 gets fsck, return of startx for users.

Alex and Chris are hard at work on the next Self-Hosted episode, here's a behind the scenes real moment from their recent production meeting.

CentOS goes rolling and announces version 8. Find out why we're excited to take a dip in this stream.

Ell, Wes, and The Blind Hacker discuss Texas Cyber Summit, Ell's birthday dinner, and the "Bee New" conference track. Special Guest: The Blind Hacker.

Richard Stallman resigns, we share our thoughts and discuss the future for RMS and the FSF.

Brent is joined by Ell Marquez, Community Architect for Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/) and co-host of Choose Linux (https://chooselinux.show/) for a chat about her experiences in community, the importance of inclusivity, how to cultivate great mentorships, redefining failure and more. Join us!

It's TechSNAP story time as we head out into the field with Jim and put Sure-Fi technology to the test.

There's lots to consider when setting someone up with Linux for the first time. User needs and expectations, distro choice, hardware, and so much more.

NetBSD LLVM sanitizers and GDB regression test suite, Ada—The Language of Cost Savings, Homura - a Windows Games Launcher for FreeBSD, FreeBSD core team appoints a WG to explore transition to Git, OpenBSD 6.6 Beta tagged, Project Trident 12-U5 update now available, and more.

Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of the Free Software Foundation, and that's just one of the major shifts this week.

Chris and Wes talk with DM from the PowerShell On Linux community about PowerShell's strengths and its place in the Linux ecosystem. Special Guest: DM.

We say goodbye to the show by taking a look back at a few of our favorite moments and reflect on how much has changed in the past seven years.

Speed is the big story around GNOME 3.34, two new major Firefox security features start to roll out, and we explain the CentOS 8 delay.

Chris and Chz catch up on what's been going on and then share the story behind our new daily Linux podcast and the breakthrough it took to make it possible.

It's another #AskError episode. The finances of social situations and FOSS projects, automated vehicles, and ways to cheer up.

You've been wanting to host a Nextcloud instance (or anything else) for your family for a while now. Where on Earth do you start? We share some hard learned lessons about self-hosting, discuss the most important things to consider when building a home server, and Chris gives Alex a hard time about Arch as a Server OS.

vBSDcon 2019 recap, Unix at 50, OpenBSD on fan-less Tuxedo InfinityBook, humungus - an hg server, how to configure a network dump in FreeBSD, and more.

Brent joins Wes Payne, well-known Jupiter Broadcasting co-host of Linux Unplugged (https://linuxunplugged.com), Coder Radio (https://coder.show), and TechSNAP (https://techsnap.systems), for a deep-dive conversation that touches a wide swath of life as a Wes, with topics including:

It’s official, Manjaro is a legitimate business; so what happens next? We chat with Phil from the project about the huge news.

As Python 2's demise draws near we reflect on Python's popularity, the growing adoption of static typing, and why the Python 3 transition took so long.

Android 10 has a lot we like while the PinePhone is real and closer than we thought.

We take a look at a few recent zero-day vulnerabilities for iOS and Android and find targeted attacks, bad assumptions, and changing markets.

We react to the "ship date" of the Librem 5, and look back at when it was first announced.

Getting into hardware hacking with Arduino, and analysing sleep data from CPAP machines.

Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space, Dsynth details on Dragonfly, Instant Workstation on FreeBSD, new servers new tech, Experimenting with streaming setups on NetBSD, NetBSD’s progress towards Steam support thanks to GSoC, and more.

Brent sits down with Drew DeVore, Jupiter Broadcasting's latest addition to the Audio Editing Engineer team and cohost of Choose Linux (https://chooselinux.show/). We chat shoes, his love for linux, adventures in audio, and why JB feels like home.

We take a trip to visit Level1Tech's Wendell Wilson and come back with some of his performance tips for a smoother Linux desktop.

We debate the best way to package scripting language apps then explore interactive development and the importance of a good shell.

Microsoft continues to prove how much it loves Linux while Google tries to eat their lunch, mixed news from Mozilla, and good stuff from GNOME.

What should have been an innocent question about bunk beds turned into the longest ever User Error out take.

AskError special. Sleeping arrangements, hypothetical distro infrastructure, and IT milestones.

Brent joins Alex and Chris to discuss the origins of Jupiter Broadcasting new selfhosted.show (https://selfhosted.show). It's a casual chat about a project in the making for two years, hit play and the drinks are on us.

OpenBSD on 7th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, how to install FreeBSD on a MacBook, Kernel portion of in-kernel TLS (KTLS), Boot Environments on DragonflyBSD, Project Trident Updates, vBSDcon schedule, and more.

Safely host your own password database using totally open source software. We cover BitWarden, our top choice to solve this problem.

Brent welcomes Alex into the podcast family and discusses his long journey from Apple to Red Hat, and London to Raleigh. Plus some tidbits about the new show he's co-hosting on Jupiter Broadcasting and spending time with the crew.

A new show all about taking control of your data, hosting it your self, and taking advantage of the cloud when it's a good fit.

We're back and going crazy about Crystal, a statically typed language that's as fast as C and as slick as ruby.

More tools to keep your Linux box and cloud servers secure this week, OpenPOWER responds to Risc-V competition, and we ponder the year-long open-source supply chain attacks.

A revealing conversation with Jupiter Broadcasting's designer Mr. Chz Bacon. We discuss his Linux roots, design philosophies, community involvement, and a lot more.

It's CPU release season and we get excited about AMD's new line of server chips. Plus our take on AMD's approach to memory encryption, and our struggle to make sense of Intel's Comet Lake line.

What is the enthusiast trap, and why does it seem to ensnare every successful open source project? Also, some excellent listener power user tips for NextCloud.

We check out a great tool for learning web development basics, and Distrohoppers brings us mixed experiences.

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A quick update on the new XPS 13 details and Dell's Linux hardware plan for 2019.

We spend our weekend with Wayland, discover new apps to try, tricks to share, and dig into the state of the project.

Nothing is worse than your past self. So we play old clips of LINUX Unplugged and react.

It’s a Coder Radio special all about abstraction. What it is, why we need it, and what to do when it leaks.

It's the final Friday, and the crew shares some great stories from a recent team summer camp.

We go hands-on with the big Xfce release that took four years and five months to develop. Kubernetes gets an audit that might just set a precedent, and Google has a new feature for AMP that has us all worked up.

The whole Choose Linux crew talk about Ell's recent trip to Black Hat, B-sides, DEF CON, and more at Hacker Summer Camp.

Dealing with users who hate change, dumb phones, and different approaches to social media consumption.

NetBSD 9.0 release process has started, xargs, a tale of two spellcheckers, Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Exploiting a no-name freebsd kernel vulnerability, and more.

It's huge, and it's getting bigger every month. How do you test the Linux Kernel? Major Hayden from Red Hat joins us to discuss their efforts to automate Kernel bug hunting.

Things get heated when it’s time for Wes to check-in on Mike’s functional favorite, F#, and share his journey exploring modern .NET on Linux.

Ubuntu integrates ZFS even further, NVIDIA starts publishing GPU documentation, and Harmony OS makes its debut.

We examine why it's so difficult to protect your privacy online and discuss browser fingerprinting, when to use a VPN, and the limits of private browsing.

Distrohoppers delivers a distro that divides us, and we check out the video streaming and recording software OBS Studio.

The complete keynote from Texas LinuxFest that inspired us to try harder. Thomas Cameron presents a keynote that everyone needs to hear. It's time to end the distro wars, invite everyone to the dance, and build the future.

OPNsense 19.7.1 is out, ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size, Hammer2 is now default, NetBSD audio – an application perspective, new FreeNAS Mini, and more.

We put the Raspberry Pi 4 to the desktop test, and try it as our daily driver.

Chris finally gets excited about Docker just as Wes tells him it’s time to learn something new.

We share stories from a time when computer storage was very precious, and the types of storage were still battling it out for the standard.

Manjaro's news starts us off and leads us into a bigger philosophical question about open source development.

It's another #AskError special! Sleep tech, missing apps on Linux, a deep question, and much more.

DragonFlyBSD Project Update - colo upgrade, future trends, resuming ZFS send, realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization, fixing telnet fixes, a chapter from the FBI’s history with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH vuln, and more.

Manjaro takes significant steps to stand out, and the shared problem major distributions are trying to solve, and why it will shape the future of Linux.

Mike and Wes debate the merits, and aesthetics, of Clojure in this week's rowdy language check-in.

We share family tech support stories and reminisce about the good old days of being the "go-to" tech support member.

Fedora CoreOS introduced its future looks bright, VLC's president debunks security claims, Mozilla debuts an open-source router firmware and the Android flaw that might be our favorite in years.

We take a look at the amazing abilities of the Apollo Guidance Computer and Jim breaks down everything you need to know about the ZFS ARC.

We take a look at the continuation of Antergos called Endeavour OS and are pretty impressed, and Distrohoppers delivers an interesting distro that's obsessed with cats.

Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool, OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released, implementing DRM ioctl support for NetBSD, High quality/low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD, the PDP-7 where Unix began, LLDB watchpoints, and more.

Keynote presenter from Texas LinuxFest and established industry expert Thomas Cameron joins us to discuss the end of the distro wars, the future of Linux jobs, his personal take on IBM's acquisition of Red Hat, some really great Linux job tips, and much more.

Mike rekindles his youthful love affair with Emacs and we debate what makes a "10x engineer".

Wes takes a quick look at a container escape proof-of-concept and reviews Docker security best practices.

We're pleasantly surprised by a new Linux distro, EvilGnome malware spies on Gnome Shell users, and more good news for MacBook Linux users.

Whether Linux is inherently secure, the next phase of online interaction, and wasting our free time.

FreeBSD 11.3 has been released, OpenBSD workstation, write your own fuzzer for the NetBSD kernel, Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd, streaming to twitch using OpenBSD, 3 different ways of dumping hex contents of a file, and more.

What’s surprised us, what we got wrong, right, and what the biggest game changers have been in 2019 so far. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Jim Salter.

It’s a Coder Radio special as Mike and Wes dive into functional programming in the real world and share their tips for applying FP techniques in any language.

Joined by a new friend we share the stories of our first vehicles and the crazy things we did to them, and watch out Florida man, Oregon man is coming for you! Special Guest: Mike McClaren.

Another project breach raises significant questions, Fedora considers dropping Snaps in Gnome Software, and has the ISPA let Mozilla off the hook?

Am5x86 based retro UNIX build log, setting up services in a FreeNAS Jail, first taste of DragonflyBSD, streaming Netflix on NetBSD, NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini, Hammer vs Hammer2, and more.

Distrohoppers throws up a fascinating distro where every application runs in its own VM. Plus Drew and Joe disagree on the best media solution.

Jim shares his Nagios tips and Wes chimes in with some modern tools as we chat monitoring in the wake of some high-profile outages.

Open Source has taken over the world, as IBM's purchase of Red Hat closes. We reflect on this historic moment.

Wes turns back the clock and explores the message passing mania of writing Objective-C without a Mac, and we wax-poetic about programming language history.

Everyone is back from Texas with a great story to share, and Chris comes within 3 seconds of a life-ending moment.

We try out Debian 10 Buster and cover what's new. There is a fresh Linux distro for Chromebooks that is very appealing, and the ISPA calls Mozilla a villain.

How many users distros actually have, automating our homes, and the importance of common views and interests with our partners.

Website protection with OPNsense, FreeBSD Support Pull Request for ZFS-on-Linux, How much has Unix changed, Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, FreeBSD Enterprise 1 PB Storage, the death watch for X11 has started, and more.

Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.

Mike and Wes burrow into the concurrent world of Go and debate where it makes sense and where it may not.

We've got the new Raspberry Pi 4 and share our thoughts, why Microsoft applied to join the linux-distros mailing list, and Ubuntu's 32-bit future is clarified.

DragonflyBSD 5.6 is out, OpenBSD Vulkan Support, bad utmp implementations in glibc and FreeBSD, OpenSSH protects itself against Side Channel attacks, ZFS vs OpenZFS, and more.

Two new hosts join Joe to talk about a nice i3 implementation and an amazing arcade game written in Bash.

Go full self-hosted with our team’s tips, and we share our setups from simple to complex.

We take on the issues of burnout, work communication culture, and keeping everything in balance.

We share the stories of our very first computers, and reminisce about the bad old days of the PC.

Ubuntu sets the Internet on fire, new Linux and FreeBSD vulnerabilities raise concern, while Mattermost raises $50M to compete with Slack.

A new vulnerability may be the next 'Ping of Death'; we explore the details of SACK Panic and break down what you need to know.

Two #AskError specials in a row! Advice for our younger selves, leaving communities, our listening habits, and hoarding.

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We attempt something you never should, we live flip our FreeNAS ZFS install to a Fedora server.

It's a Coder three-way as Chris checks-in with an eGPU update, and Mike shares his adventures with ReasonML.

Chris gets lost with the animals, while Ang plays with fire and we solve the Deepfake problem.

Elders in the community show us how to properly build services, Huawei is reportedly working on a Sailfish OS fork and Apple joins the Cloud Native club.

Zorin OS is described as “a powerful desktop you already know how to use.” It’s elegant, beginner-friendly and looks beautiful, too. Should we be paying more attention to it?

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Is Resilient Linux truly an indestructible distro? Or is this our toughest distro challenge yet?

We explore the risky world of exposed RDP, from the brute force GoldBrute botnet to the dangerously worm-able BlueKeep vulnerability.

Apple is shaking up the foundations of UI development with SwiftUI and raising developer eyebrows with a new default shell on MacOS.

The funniest 17 seconds from Texas Linux Fest and we learn some remarkable things about our crew’s past. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

Mozilla's master strategy becomes clear, CockroachDB surrenders to the software as a service reality, while Microsoft and Oracle link up.

It's another #AskError special. Meditation and mindfulness, friends making obvious mistakes, and AppImage popularity.

GPU passthrough on bhyve, confusion with used/free disk space on ZFS, OmniOS Community Edition, pfSense 2.4.4 Release p3, NetBSD 8.1 RC1, FreeNAS as your Server OS, and more.

Adopting a distro like it’s a religion is stupid. That’s one of many hard lessons we take away from Texas Linux Fest this week; we’ll share some of the best.

We react to Apple's big news at WWDC, check in with Mike's explorations of Elixir, and talk some TypeScript.

Frankenstein Linux malware and a Docker bug that's blown out of proportion get our attention this week.

He didn't stop at Xfce. Jason became that Arch Linux guy. Is it as challenging to install as we’ve been told? We discuss the hard way, and then the easier way.

FreeBSD 11.3-beta 1 is out, BSDCan 2019 recap, OpenIndiana 2019.04 is out, Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS, why open source firmware is important for security, a new Opnsense release, wireguard on OpenBSD, and more.

We visit Intel to figure out what Clear Linux is all about and explain a few tricks that make it unique.

Chris and Brent are back from their buddies trip to Portland and share a few stories, but the big surprise comes when Chris’ wife joins to share big life-changing news. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Hadea Fisher.

Wes is back and Mike's got a few surprises in store, including a new view on Electron, a hot take on titles, and a programming challenge for the both of them.

Firefox has a new speed trick, openSUSE Leap has a time-traveling kernel while the project plans for the future, and we react to Antergros coming to an end.

We turn our eye to web server best practices, from the basics of CDNs to the importance of choosing the right multi-processing module.

Linux desktop standards, how the Web has changed over the years, and the ethics of space exploration.

Running AIX on QEMU on Linux on Windows, your NAS fleet with TrueCommand, Unleashed 1.3 is available, LLDB: CPU register inspection support extension, V7 Unix programs often not written as expected, and more.

Can the Free Desktop avoid being left behind in the going dark revolution? Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss their proposal.

A strong argument against Python’s batteries included model exposes some bigger problems the community is struggling with. We chat about all of it.

Chris tries to convince Brent to take a buddies trip, we try to get the audience a discount chicken deal, and Ell’s trying to get out of a locked server room.

ZombieLoad's impact on Linux, AMP to start hiding Google from the URL, and the huge Linux switch underway.

Practically overnight, Intel’s Clear Linux OS has turned into a distribution worth paying attention to. But is it ready for regular desktop Linux users?

36 year old UFS bug fixed, a BSD for the road, automatic upgrades with OpenBSD, DTrace ext2fs support in FreeBSD, Dedicated SSH tunnel user, upgrading VMM VMs to OpenBSD 6.5, and more.

We scale the Red Hat Summit and come back with a few stories to share.

Microsoft catches Mike’s eye with WSL 2, Google gets everyone's attention with their new push for Kotlin, and we get a full eGPU report.

Back from Boston and we have a few stories to share, the best 39 seconds from Red Hat Summit, and the protest we found our selves in the middle of.

RHEL 8 is released, we report from the ground of the big announcement, Microsoft announces WSL 2 with a real Linux kernel at the core, and details on their new open source terminal.

We’re back from LinuxFest Northwest with an update on all things WireGuard, some VLAN myth busting, and the trade-offs of highly available systems.

What it takes to make a proper distro, how we send emails, and the constant quest for knowledge.

FreeBSD ZFS vs. ZoL performance, Dragonfly 5.4.2 has been release, containing web services with iocell, Solaris 11.4 SRU8, Problem with SSH Agent forwarding, OpenBSD 6.4 to 6.5 upgrade guide, and more.

.NET 5 has been announced and brings a new unified future to the platform. We dig in to Microsoft's plans and speculate about what they might mean for F#.

Is Fedora 30 the peak release of this distribution? We put it through the ultimate test, live on the air, and put everything on the line.

Sometimes the road home is a little bumpy, and sometimes you just want them to cook the bloody eggs.

Fedora 30 is out, we share our thoughts. Purism's new Librem One service is launched, we're rather skeptical and the reason might surprise you.

OpenBSD 6.5 has been released, mount ZFS datasets anywhere, help test upcoming NetBSD 9 branch, LibreSSL 2.9.1 is available, Bail Bond Denied Edition of FreeBSD Mastery: Jails, and one reason ed(1) was a good editor back in the days in this week’s episode.

The party before the party, its Friday!

Mike and Wes dive into Bosque, Microsoft’s new research language, and debate if it represents the future of programming languages, or if we should all just be using F#.

We take Ubuntu MATE 18.04 for a test drive on the Raspberry Pi 3. How does it compare to Raspbian? After that, a fascinating discussion about the Linux community.

Fresh back from LinuxFest Northwest we share a few of our favorite stories and memories.

Docker Hub gets hacked, Nextcloud 16 has a new feature to prevent hacks, and France's 'Secure" Telegram replacement gets hacked within an hour.

Why Linux doesn't just work on all hardware, criticism of your field, and the ethics of acquiring old software.

We continue our take on ZFS as Jim and Wes dive in to snapshots, replication, and the magic on copy on write.

Introducing funlinkat(), an OpenBSD Router with AT&T U-Verse, using NetBSD on a raspberry pi, ZFS encryption is still under development, Rump kernel servers and clients tutorial, Snort on OpenBSD 6.4, and more.

We celebrate the life of Erlang author Dr Joe Armstrong by remembering his many contributions to computer science and unique approach to lifelong learning.

This week we discover the good word of Xfce and admit Joe was right all along. And share our tips for making Xfce more modern.

Ubuntu 19.04 is released we share our take, OpenSSH has an important release, and Mozilla brings Python to the browser.

A bunch of the crew get together and share a few stories, recap the week, and play a little music.

A PI-powered Plan 9 cluster, an SSH tarpit, rdist for when Ansible is too much, falling in love with OpenBSD again, how I created my first FreeBSD port, the Tilde Institute of OpenBSD education and more.

Jason leaves the warm embrace of GNOME and finally tries Xfce for 24 hours. What happened took him by surprise!

Mike's back with thoughts on his recent adventures with the Windows Subsystem for Linux and what it might mean for the future of Linux development.

Ubuntu's new release is here, and this one might be one of the most important in a while. But is it worth upgrading from an LTS? We review and debate just that.

Google's important news this week, why Linux is fueling PowerShell Growth, and the Matrix breach that might be worse than it sounds.

Where bad feeling and rivalry in the FOSS world actually originates, what we should be teaching our kids, and the violence that underlies everything around us.

Jim and Wes sit down to bust some ZFS myths and share their tips and tricks for getting the most out of the ultimate filesystem.

This week we have a special episode with a Michael W. Lucas interview about his latest jail book that’s been released. We’re talking all things jails, writing, book sponsoring, the upcoming BSDCan 2019 conference, and more.

The way we’ve been thinking about Desktop Linux is all wrong. We start by defining Desktop Linux, and where it might be going in the future.

Mike’s away so Chris joins Wes to discuss running your workstation from RAM, the disappointing realities of self driving cars, and handling the ups and downs of critical feedback.

Chef goes 100% open source, and this recipe has an old twist, the VMware lawsuit is abandoned.

The LInux Gaming Report rolls forward as Jason throws Manjaro 18 on the test bench and walks away shocked.

FreeBSD Q4 2018 status report, the GhostBSD alternative, the coolest 90s laptop, OpenSSH 8.0 with quantum computing resistant keys exchange, project trident: 18.12-U8 is here, and more.

Is there really any advantage to building your software vs installing the package? We discuss when and why you might want to consider building it yourself.

Mike explores the state of Xamarin.Android development on Linux, and we talk frameworks versus libraries and what Rails got right.

Mozilla’s new Android app, Google wants you to adopt AMP for Email, and our reaction to LVFS joining the Linux Foundation.

What attracted us to Linux in the first place, planning for when tech goes away, and why we aren't surrounded by alien life.

We break down the ASUS Live Update backdoor and explore why these kinds of supply chain attacks are on the rise.

Storage changing software, what makes Unix special, what you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands”, running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL, the ultimate guide to memorable tech talks, light-weight contexts, and more.

We debate Rust’s role as a replacement for C, and share our take on the future of gaming with Google's Stadia.

Why we sometimes go too far with our Linux advocacy, and a few humble strategies to switch people to Linux.

Is Linux gaming really being saved by Google's Stadia platform? We discuss the details and possibilities.

FreeBSD on Cavium ThunderX, looking at NetBSD as an OpenBSD user, taking time-stamped notes in vim, OpenBSD 6.5 has been tagged, FreeBSD and NetBSD in GSoC 2019, SecBSD: an UNIX-like OS for Hackers, and more.

Jason goes deeper down the rabbit hole by exploring the state of Steam gaming on 9 different Linux distributions. Find out how Fedora compares to Pop!_OS.

Developers at Netflix are creating the next set of super powers for Linux, we'll get the details straight from the source.

We join the fight between Apple and Spotify, and debate the meaning of 'fair play' in the App Store and the browser wars.

We try out the latest GNOME 3.32 release, and why it might be the best release ever. New leader candidates for Debian emerge, we experience foundation inception, and NGINX is getting acquired.

Machine learning promises to change many industries, but with these changes come dangerous new risks. Join Jim and Wes as they explore some of the surprising ways bias can creep in and the serious consequences of ignoring these problems.

Maybe it's finally time to cut Microsoft some slack, the pace of technological change, and what a couple of common terms actually mean.

A kernel of failure, IPv6 fragmentation vulnerability in OpenBSD’s pf, a guide to the terminal, using a Yubikey for SSH public key authentication, FreeBSD desktop series, and more.

A new voice joins the show, and we share stories from our recent adventures at SCaLE 17x.

Mike has salvaged a success story from the dumpster fire of the Google+ shutdown, and Wes shares his grief about brittle and repetitive unit tests.

Free Software does what commercial can't this week, getting a Debian desktop on more Android devices gets closer, and PureOS promises Convergence but is there more beneath the surface?

The distro challenges roll on with Fedora Workstation. Jason shares his thoughts on getting it up and running, feeling at home with vanilla Gnome, and why Fedora may be perfect place for his Magic the Gathering addiction.

Software will never fix Spectre-type bugs, a proof that sed is Turing complete, managed jails using Bastille, new version of netdata, using grep with /dev/null, using GMail with mutt, and more.

We reveal all and look at the mess that is our home directories. How we keep them clean, back them up, and organize our most important files.

Mike breaks down what it takes to build a proper iOS build server, and leaves the familiar shallows of Debian for the open waters of openSUSE.

We sift Mobile World Congress to find just the best and most relevant stories, and discuss the Thunderclap vulnerability.

How to deal with Internet drama in the Linux world, the rise of live streaming, and disturbing people with messages and calls.

We reveal the shady password practices that are all too common at many utility providers, and hash out why salts are essential to proper password storage.

Design and Implementation of NetBSD’s rc.d system, first impressions of Project Trident 18.12, PXE booting a FreeBSD disk image, middle mouse button pasting, NetBSD gains hardware accelerated virtualization, and more.

We head to the Raspberry Pi corner and pick the very best open source home automation system.

The three of us debate when to go full serverless, and if ditching servers is worth the cost.

Linus pops another hype bubble, we go hands on with the new OnionShare, and some insights into Redis labs changing its license... Again.

Adding glue to a desktop environment, flashing the BIOS on a PC Engine, revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer, An OpenBSD WindowMaker desktop, RealTime data compression, the love for pipes, and more.

Jason finally discovers the bottomless well of potential that is the Raspberry Pi, and talks about his first experience with Raspbian. Then Joe and Jason take a nostalgic deep dive into retro gaming on both the Raspberry Pi and the Pinebook.

Will there ever be another "big" Linux distro, or has that time passed?

The guys discuss the real last bastion of scratch your own itch, and debate the merits of recent C# functional programing fads that are transforming the language.

Google scrambles to repurpose Android Things, Microsoft wants to protect your Linux install really bad, and the first bank backed Crypto-coin makes a splash.

Is the great hope for open hardware actually going to materialize or is RISC-V just hype? Are some conspiracy theories worth more than just passing disdain?

Join Jim and Wes as they battle bufferbloat, latency spikes, and network hogs with some of their favorite tools for traffic shaping, firewalling, and QoS.

Strategic thinking to keep FreeBSD relevant, reflecting on the soul of a new machine, 10GbE Benchmarks On Nine Linux Distros and FreeBSD, NetBSD integrating LLVM sanitizers in base, FreeNAS 11.2 distrowatch review, and more.

The hype around a new security flaw hits new levels. Fedora has a bunch of news, and we discover what's new in the latest Plasma release.

The gangs all together and cover your poignant feedback right out of the gate. Then we jump into the psychological trap of freelancing, and imagine a world where app stores are a true level playing field.

A week of nasty security flaws, and a lack of patches... For some of us. Raspberry Pi opens a physical store, our thoughts on the new LibreOffice interface, and the new round of nasty flaws hitting all versions of Android.

We recap FOSDEM 2019, FreeBSD Foundation January update, OPNsense 19.1 released, the hardware-assisted virtualization challenge, ZFS and GPL terror, ClonOS 19.01-RELEASE, and more.

Episode 2 is all about opposites, such as the major differences between benchmarking graphics cards like Radeon VII on Linux and Windows. Then we dive into the Phoronix Test Suite, a robust tool that isn't just for tech reviewers. Find out why you should be using it too.

Why FOSDEM might be the quintessential community event, and our thoughts after playing with Pi-Hole.

Mike breaks down the drama around nullable reference types in C# 8.0, and we debate what it means for the future of the language.

Firefox is standing out, Pine64 has a lot more cheap Linux hardware coming, and the good and the bad with the new Kodi Release.

New JB team member Ell (https://twitter.com/ell_o_punk) joins us to discuss e-waste, the motivations for our distro choices, and letting children out of your sight.

Jim and Wes are joined by OpenZFS developer Richard Yao to explain why the recent drama over Linux kernel 5.0 is no big deal, and how his fix for the underlying issue might actually make things faster.

We’re at FOSDEM 2019 this week having fun. We’d never leave you in a lurch, so we have recorded an interview with Niclas Zeising of the FreeBSD graphics team for you. Enjoy.

We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it.

Apple wades into controversy after filing some Swift-related patents and we explore WebAssembly and its implications for the open web.

Debian has a big fix, Chromium might block ads, Valve makes another big investment in Linux, and Google gets serious about bringing Fuchsia to market.

Project Trident 18.12 released, Spotifyd on NetBSD, OPNsense 18.7.10 is available, Ultra EPYC AMD Powered Sun Ultra 24 Workstation, OpenRsync, LLD porting to NetBSD, and more.

We kick off a brand new show with a discussion about Jason's elementary OS community challenge. Then we get into the pros and cons of setting up your own NAS with OpenMediaVault.

Mike and Wes are back to debate the state of developer tools and ask where Jenkins fits in 2019.

An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux.

We welcome Jim to the show, and he and Wes dive deep into all things Let’s Encrypt.

Another troubling week for MongoDB, ZFS On Linux lands a kernel workaround, and 600 days of postmarketOS.

Wes and Jim have some great new SNAP in the works, in the meantime Chris stops by to keep you updated and share his favorite

Is the decision to listen to this really up to you, or is it predetermined by chemistry and physics? Can mobile Linux ever succeed beyond a small niche?

SCP client vulnerabilities, BSDs vs Linux benchmarks on a Tyan EPYC Server, fame for the Unix inventors, Die IPv4, GhostBSD 18.12 released, Unix in pictures, and more.

ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discuss why it all matters.

Wes joins Mike for a special Coder. They share thoughts on the costs and benefits of Optionals in Swift, uncover Mike's secret love affair with F#, and debate the true value of serverless. Special Guest: Wes Payne.

Choose your own Linux is coming to Chrome OS, GitHub private repos go free, LVFS gets another win, and Amazon released their MongoDB competitor DocumentDB.

A EULA in FOSS clothing, NetBSD with more LLVM support, Thoughts on FreeBSD 12.0, FreeBSD Performance against Windows and Linux on Xeon, Microsoft shipping NetBSD, and more.

Wes is joined by a special guest to take a look back on the growth and development of Azure in 2018 and discuss some of its unique strengths. Special Guest: Chad M. Crowell.

Joe joins Wes to discuss the state of Adobe's Creative Cloud on Linux and why the Fish shell might be your favorite new tool.

Mike’s just had the talk, and now it's time to make some changes. Including admitting he was wrong about Swift.

Raspberry Pi joins the RISC-V Foundation, MIPS is going open source, and Mozilla is experimenting with more ads in Firefox.

Android vs iOS, turning users into contributors, and good vs bad in the world.

The future of ZFS in FreeBSD, we pick highlights from the FreeBSD quarterly status report, flying with the raven, modern KDE on FreeBSD, many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2, GOG installers on NetBSD, and more.

In a special new year’s episode we take a moment to reflect on the show’s past, its future, and say goodbye to an old friend.

We start off the new year with our hopes and dreams for Linux and open source in 2019 and beyond.

Don’t call them resolutions, lets just call them reasonable goals. Mike and Chris share their plans for 2019’s ground work, and why everything single thing is fair game.

We take a look back at our 2018 Linux predictions, and make some bold new ones for the year ahead.

The guys drink some Liquid Christmas Tree and reflect on the major trends of 2018, and the stuff they are preemptively freaking out about for 2019.

We sat down at BSDCan 2018 to interview Kirk McKusick about various topics ranging about the early years of Berkeley Unix, his continuing work on UFS, the governance of FreeBSD, and more.

We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019. Special Guest: Alan Pope.

The Open Source midlife crisis, Donald Knuth The Yoda of Silicon Valley, Certbot For OpenBSD's httpd, how to upgrade FreeBSD from 11 to 12, level up your nmap game, NetBSD desktop, and more.

It’s been a huge year for Linux and FOSS news, and we take a look at some of the major stories that shaped the industry over the last 12 months.

Whether new users have to suffer the pain of the command line, lying about Santa, and the best tech news of 2018.

We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers.

Chris is back from his trip to Denver to tour System76’s factory, and what he discovered while he was there was the last thing he was expecting.

Intel developers are working to open source the FSP, Fuchsia SDK and device repos show up in Android AOSP, and our BSD buddies have some big news.

FreeBSD 12.0 is finally here, partly-cloudy IPsec VPN, KLEAK with NetBSD, How to create synth repos, GhostBSD author interview, and more.

A security vulnerability in Kubernetes causes a big stir, but we’ll break it all down and explain what went wrong.

We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting.

Estimates can be a very tricky thing to get right, but they are vitally important. Peter Kretzman joins us to make it all a bit easier and clearer.

Microsoft is moving to Chromium, and Mozilla isn't too thrilled about it.

Mike and Chris don’t claim to have a time machine, but they still have a major problem to solve.

DragonflyBSD 5.4 has been released, down the Gopher hole with OpenBSD, OpenBSD in stereo with VFIO, BSD/OS the best candidate for legally tested open source Unix, OpenBGPD adds diversity to the routing server landscape, and more.

It's another #AskError special! Getting normals to do backups, should we stop making distros, ridiculous pipe dreams, and more.

We chat with a developer who's gotten Linux running on iOS devices, do a deep dive into Clear Linux, and discuss Xubuntu ending 32bit support.

Clear Linux doubles down on the desktop, Fedora 31 is likely canceled or delayed, and why Firecracker is being called the new "Docker killer".

We break down Firecracker Amazon’s new open source kvm powered, virtual machine monitor, and explore what makes it different from the options on the market now.

Assembly language on OpenBSD, using bhyve for FreeBSD development, FreeBSD Gaming, FreeBSD for Thanksgiving, no space left on Dragonfly’s hammer2, and more.

Fedora might take a year off, to focus on it self. Project Lead and Council Chair Matthew Miller joins us to explain this major proposal.

iPad Pro is a great machine for people that don’t want to get too much work done.

The Fuchsia bomb ticks closer, Valve's Steam Link end of life shocks us, and Amazon's new, rather obvious feature.

There's something almost intangible about the way Linux presents itself and Popey tries to explain it, the balance between living for the moment and planning for the future, and doing it wrong with social media. Plus moving country, and stupid folding ph

Thoughts on NetBSD 8.0, Monitoring love for a GigaBit OpenBSD firewall, cat’s source history, X.org root permission bug, thoughts on OpenBSD as a desktop, and NomadBSD review.

WireGuard has a lot of buzz around it and for many good reasons. We’ll explain what WireGuard is specifically, what it can do, and maybe more importantly, what it can’t. Special Guest: Jim Salter.

Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support.

Mark Shuttleworth announced 10 years support of Ubuntu 18.04, but there's a catch. Why we're buying the new Raspberry Pi, and we have a laugh at folding Android screens.

Byproducts of reading OpenBSD’s netcat code, learnings from porting your own projects to FreeBSD, OpenBSD’s unveil(), NetBSD’s Virtual Machine Monitor, what 'dependency' means in Unix init systems, jailing bhyve, and more.

Wes is joined by special guest Jim Salter to discuss Google's recent BGP outage and the future of HTTP.

Christian F.K. Schaller from Red Hat joins us to discuss seamless Linux upgrades, replacing PulseAudio, some of the recent desktop Projects Red Hat’s been working on... And the value they get from them.

Ubuntu on select Samsung devices goes into beta, we cover the technicalities of Linux on the new Macs, one of our favorite desktop projects gets a big update, and the Librem 5 slips.

What's the best strategy when it comes to desktop Linux applications? We look at both ends of the spectrum, and wonder how much big tech companies should dictate who has access to their platforms. Plus some solid #AskError questions, having kids, and our

MidnightBSD 1.0 released, MeetBSD review, EuroBSDcon trip reports, DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12, Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible, how to use smartd to run tests on your drives automatically, and more.

We answer how Chris and Mike started in independent contracting, and the lessons changes they’d make with some perspective of time.

For 100 episodes The Ask Noah Show has delivered quality content every single week without exception. This week we celebrate this important milestone live from the Tamarack Tap Room in Woodbury MN.

In this episode we make a bombshell announcement regarding the future of Ask Noah! Later in the hour Erik Dubois from ArcoLinux joins us to talk about a rolling distro built for those who want to learn Linux!

Our friends from Destination Linux join us and together we form the “Linux Chumps”! Can we be stumped? We think not, but your calls try anyway! Your emails, your calls, your questions are the priority.

Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect?

The Open Invention Network is a shared defensive patent pool with the mission to protect Linux. On October 10th Microsoft joined the OIN so we invited Patrick McBride the Senior Director of Patents to join us!

The new Fedora has a neat trick, The Register's KDE klickbait, and GhostBSD impresses.

If you have a device with an operating system chances are it uses SQLite. Richard Hipp is our guest this hour and he joins us to talk about their controversial CoC.

Community hour is where we take some time to focus on you the listener! You set the topics, you ask the questions!

OpenBSD 6.4 released, GhostBSD RC2 released, MeetBSD - the ultimate hallway track, DragonflyBSD desktop on a Thinkpad, Porting keybase to NetBSD, OpenSSH 7.9, and draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag in FreeBSD.

We react to the news that IBM is buying Red Hat, cover some feedback that sets us straight, and are pleasantly surprised by Qt Design Studio.

We speculate about a future where IBM owns Red Hat, and review the latest Fedora 29 release that promises a new game changing feature.

In the largest software company acquisition in history, tech giant IBM has purchased Red Hat for 34 billion dollars.

Linus is back in charge with the whole world watching, IBM is buying Red Hat, and Pine64 says they’re working on a Plasma phone.

Fred Gleason has worked for years to develop a open source Linux based broadcasting appliance. He joins us to discuss!

Linus has taken a break while he worked on his tooling to be more socially acceptable. That time is over and Greg KH has officially handed the kernel back to him. We discuss the implication of his return and what it might mean for Linux.

It’s a special all #AskError episode! A hypothetical Linux world, the future of welfare, tech disruption, and terrible email addresses. Plus Distrowatch rankings, and a crucial seasonal question.

We explain what eBPF is, how it works, and its proud BSD production legacy. eBPF is a technology that you’re going to be hearing more and more about. It powers low-overhead custom analysis tools, handles network security in a containerized world, and pow

FreeBSD Foundation September Update, tiny C lib for programming Unix daemons, EuroBSDcon trip reports, GhostBSD tested on real hardware, and a BSD auth module for duress.

If you have data, that data should be backed up. If you own a business or manage the IT infrastructure for a business than your backup strategy needs to be reliable, straightforward, and functional.

The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future. They promise to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. Plus we review the professional grade Precision 5530, tour our new s

What’s the future of .NET? With .NET Core growing and the future of the orginal .NET seems uncertain. Chris and Mike suspect there is clear possibility.

The Cosmic Cuttlefish is out, and we share our quick take. Juno finally lands and this one sets the bar, MongoDB gets hip to the license changes, and watch out Linux... Here come the pros!

6 metrics for zpool performance, 2FA with ssh on OpenBSD, ZFS maintaining file type information in dirs, everything old is new again, netcat demystified, and more.

Elementary OS’ latest and greatest released today, and we talk with Dan and Cassidy from the project about their biggest release yet. Then community news, a preview of upcoming Ubuntu 18.10, and we announce our own free software project. Plus a chat with

It's family friendly, we promise! You know that Linux succeededs where others fail, but did you know that cam girls are turning to Linux for it's reliability, stability, and functionality?

Azure Sphere dev kits are shipping and we take a look at the practicalities of getting setup to start developing. We clear some recent Java FUD, read some feedback, and share a few stories.

Another fork is brewing, Microsoft hands over their patents of mass destruction leaving us with a few questions, and the best features of the new Plasma release.

It seems to be all about Plasma these days so we want to know if the hype is justified. We have a couple of great #AskError questions, and wonder whether we are heading for a tech dystopia. Plus the heaviest of all subjects rears its head again this week

We bring in Amy Marrich to break down the building blocks of OpenStack. There are nearly an overwhelming number of ways to manage your infrastructure, and we learn about one of the original tools.

We have a long interview with fiction and non-fiction author Michael W. Lucas for you this week as well as questions from the audience.

Red Hat developer Andy Grover joins us to discuss Stratis Storage, an alternative to ZFS on Linux and its recent milestone.

Supermicro suffered a huge security breach that gave the Chinese government access to servers manufactured with Supermicro boards. This revelation has caused companies like Apple and Amazon to distance themselves from the popular server manufacture.

Mike makes his case for realism when it comes to automated testing and a readjustment of expectations in the wider community. Plus the guys define what makes a “Dark Matter Developer,” gauk at the possibility of this young hip upstart’s automated build p

Red Hat's Stratis project reaches a major milestone, Microsoft's Linux powered dev boards go up for sale, and Fedora's hunt for buggy hibernation under Linux has begun.

We bring on our Google Cloud expert and explore the fundamentals, demystify some of the magic, and ask what makes Google Cloud different.

Running OpenBSD/NetBSD on FreeBSD using grub2-bhyve, vermaden’s FreeBSD story, thoughts on OpenBSD on the desktop, history of file type info in Unix dirs, Multiboot a Pinebook KDE neon image, and more.

What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.

Have you ever wanted to know what containers and Kubernetes are all about? This week we try something new – Steve Ovens from Red Hat has produced a segment on containers for us. We talk about the latest release of Zabbix.

Mike is the extreme laptop killer with a tale you’ll have to hear to believe. With only a few short hours left on a deadline, it was 24 hours of chaos. Plus we take a quick look at Mac in the Cloud, Microsoft’s new Azure service, a travel hack, and more.

Google's Project Zero criticizes Linux distros, Firefox can now tell you when you get pwned, and the growing elephant in the room about Azure. Plus a new release of our favorite non-distro, GPL revoking debunking, and Android turns 10.

Chris joins us to talk about his recent brush with death, we wonder how Linux on Windows is affecting bare metal adoption, we wish phones weren’t so big and stupid, and a great #AskError.

Kubernetes expert Will Boyd joins us to explain the top 3 things to know about Kubernetes, when it’s the right tool for the job, and building highly available production grade clusters.

We report from our experiences at EuroBSDcon, disenchant software, LLVM 7.0.0 has been released, Thinkpad BIOS update options, HardenedBSD Foundation announced, and ZFS send vs. rsync.

We chat with Nate Graham who’s pushing to make Plasma the best desktop on the planet. We discuss his contributions to this effort, and others.

In this episode your calls drove the show and that's the show we set out to do! We talk storage, LVM, hard disk configuration, SteamOS, troubleshoot an OBS box, and still find time break the news about the new and best way to listen to The Ask Noah Show!

After catching up the guys dig into the “why” Jupiter Broadcasting sold to Linux Academy, the big shift Chris is seeing, and why the timing was critical. Plus we respond to some emails, chat about GitHub’s future plans to sell talent, and Mike’s big anno

Linus is taking a break from maintaining the kernel, AMP might be set free, and Firefox goes VR.

Jon the Nice Guy joins Wes to discuss all things IPFS. We'll explore what it does, how it works, and why it might be the best hope for a decentralized internet. Plus, Magecart strikes again, Alpine has package problems, and why you shouldn't trust Wester

FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD benchmarks on AMD’s Threadripper, NetBSD 7.2 has been released, optimized out DTrace kernel symbols, stuck UEFI bootloaders, why ed is not a good editor today, tell your BSD story, and more.

Linus takes a break and the Linux kernel adops a new Code of Conduct. We work through these major watershed moments, and discuss what it means for the community.

Linus Torvalds has decided he needs a break so he can understand people and their emotions better. The kernel has finally adopted a code of conduct based on the contributor covenant. No one knows more about codes of conduct than Paul M. Jones.

Fedora want help testing their innovations, Mozilla continue to focus on mobile, Chrome OS gets a major new feature, and Microsoft almost stepped in it bigtime.

User Error is back with a new set of hosts! We answer some #AskError questions and talk about whether the Linux desktop will ever make money. Plus we wonder if dockless bike sharing is a good idea and whether travel really is as great as everyone seems t

TechSNAP progenitor and special guest Allan Jude joins us to talk mobile security, hand out some SSH tips and tricks, and discuss why security shaming works so well. Plus, how Mozilla is protecting their GitHub repos, a check-in on Equifax, and some grea

Mitigating Spectre/Meltdown on HP Proliant servers, omniOS installation setup, debugging a memory corruption issue on OpenBSD, CfT for OpenZFS native encryption, Asigra TrueNAS backup appliance shown at VMworld, NetBSD 6 EoL, and more.

We announce our big news, Jupiter Broadcasting is joining Linux Academy and what we have planned for the future is huge! Plus a new NextCloud lands, concerns are brewing for the Solus project, and a report from the recent Libre Application Summit.

Does the "Commons Clause" help the commons? The Commons Clause was announced recently along with several projects moving portions of their code base under it. It's an additional restriction intended to be applied to existing open source licenses with the

Great new releases for GNOME and Tor, delays for the Librem 5, and Linus proves to be extremely important. Plus some innovative tech gets an open source implementation, and NSA encryption removed from the kernel within weeks of inclusion.

Wes joins Mike to discuss why .NET still makes sense, the latest antics from Fortnite, a brave new hope for JVM concurrency, and the mind-expanding benefits of trying a Lisp.

We’re joined by a special guest to discuss the failures of campaign security, the disastrous consequences of a mismanaged firewall, and the suspicious case of Speck. Plus the latest vulnerabilities in Wireshark and OpenSSH, the new forensic hotness from

OpenBSD on Microsoft Surface Go, FreeBSD Foundation August Update, What’s taking so long with Project Trident, pkgsrc config file versioning, and MacOS remnants in ZFS code.

Intel has disappointed the kernel community with its latest security disclosures but there's still hope for a better future. That's more than can be said for the state of privacy on Android, so we discuss some alternatives. Plus the latest community upda

Google is launching it’s own hardware security key for two-factor authentication but there’s a few major problems. From pricing, to security concerns, we break the entire situation down for you. New audio production software is released for Linux.

This week saw a huge release for UBports, proof that LMDE is still alive, and Mozilla earning a lot of respect. Plus mixed news for Google, and a surprising blockchain fact.

Mike and Chris have a strong reaction to beer from Utah, and then get into the weeds around Mike’s new gear, the situation with Qt, and a few new tools they’ve recently found.

Insight into TrueOS and Trident, stop evildoers with pf-badhost, Flashback to FreeBSDcon ‘99, OpenBSD’s measures against TLBleed, play Morrowind on OpenBSD in 5 steps, DragonflyBSD developers shocked at Threadripper performance, and more.

To make DNS more secure we must move it to the cloud...at least that’s what Mozilla and Google suggest. We breakdown DNS-over-HTTPS, why it requires a “cloud” component, and the advantages it has over traditional DNS. Plus new active attacks against Apac

After digging into some feedback, we react to the big upset in the world of React Native.

Steam Play rocks the Linux world as it promises new levels of compatibility with AAA Windows games. But the story of how Valve is doing it might be just as fascinating.

Steve Ovens from Red Hat joins us to answer the question many of you have asked - how do you get hired by a company like Red Hat? Steve takes us through his exciting rise to working for the largest open source company in the US. Steam has dropped a bomb s

Some massive free software milestones this week, Intel's Microcode benchmark snafu, and Windows games for Steam on Linux confirmed, so we give it a test.

Trip reports from the Essen Hackathon and BSDCam, CfT: ZFS native encryption and UFS trim consolidation, ZFS performance benchmarks on a FreeBSD server, how to port your OS to EC2, Vint Cerf about traceability, Remote Access console to an RPi3 running Fre

Docker controversy is brewing but it's probably not what you think. We get a round of community updates directly from the source and why Debian and Intel are playing the game of he said, she said.

We talk about Linux and Open Source, but is it far enough? Do we need to go all the way and push for everyone to use Libre freedom respecting software? We invite Kenny Schmidt, a 17 year old who is starting out with Linux and ask that question. We talk ab

It seems Valve is working to make Windows games work on Linux, and LVFS turns its focus to NVMe drives.

Microsoft’s making radical changes to Windows 10, and a new type of speculative execution attack on Intel’s processors is targeting cloud providers.

The strange birth and long life of Unix, FreeBSD jail with a single public IP, EuroBSDcon 2018 talks and schedule, OpenBSD on G4 iBook, PAM template user, ZFS file server, and reflections on one year of OpenBSD use.

JB is not doing politics anymore... A bit about our focus.

The FreeBSD community shares the hard lessons learned from systemd, we play some great clips from a recent event.

This week firefox made waves by encrypting DNS entries making DNS more secure for everyone. We talk about IP cameras, gaming on Linux, and Steve Ovens from RedHat joins us. It's a packed episode you can't afford to miss!

Mike's adventures with Qt land him on Windows 10 this week battling DLL hell. He shares the latest developments in his attempt to build his next app with Qt. Plus some feedback, thoughts on AMP, and why dynamic linking keeps Mike up at night.

We cover the noteworthy features of Android Pie, Lenovo joins The Linux Vendor Firmware Service, and Dropbox is ending support for non-Ext4 filesystems.

Take down a Linux or FreeBSD box with just 2kpps of traffic, own Homebrew in 30 minutes, and infiltrate an entire network via the Inkjet printers.

There has been a lot of rumors lately about Southeast Linuxfest. Outside pressure has been exerted in an effort to force the leadership of SELF to do things not in the best interest of the attendees but to push a political agenda. Tonight Jeremy Sands the

In the last weekly episode of Unfilter, we look at the four major fronts facing Donald Trump, discuss the state of intellectualism, and share our thoughts on the week's news.

FreeBSD Foundation July Newsletter, a bunch of BSDCan trip reports, HardenedBSD Foundation status, FreeBSD and OSPFd, ZFS disk structure overview, and more Spectre mitigations in OpenBSD.

GNOME is discussing big changes, Elementary OS has big news, and a big bug has been found in Linux.

When Linus says that he skimmed the code and it's so exciting that he's hoping it gets merged quickly, you know this is the next big thing in Linux. We talk to Jim Salter. He gives us a perspective from day 0. We discuss the new Google gaming box, and giv

Mike shares more first impressions of Qt, the surprising places we’ve found QML in the wild, and why or why not to use Qt.

GNOME and elementary OS receive a large somewhat mysterious donation. Wireguard is coming to a Kernel near you, and Mozilla wants to talk about the Dweb.

Reddit’s Two Factor procedures fail, while Google’s prevents years of attacks. We’ll look at the different approaches, and discuss the fundamental weakness of Reddit’s approach.

Mike’s ordered a surprise new rig, Chris is getting particular, and do a first impressions of Qt Creator. Plus why we all need to pull back on the AI hype a bit, and more!

NetBSD 8.0 available, FreeBSD on Scaleway’s ARM64 VPS, encrypted backups with OpenBSD, Dragonfly server storage upgrade, zpool checkpoints, g2k18 hackathon reports, and more.

Did Trump know about the Russian meeting with his son? His old fixer seems to think so. And the reaction from the White House has been manic.

Some new tools will give you better insights into your system under extreme load, and we flash back to the days of AOL and discuss the new way social hackers are spreading malware.

How do you go from being homeless on the streets of CA to getting offers from Google, Amazon, and others? We discuss! The GPD team has released the 2nd gen 7" laptop and we give you our thoughts on their awesome laptop without Linux. As always your questi

We get an update from Dell’s Barton George on their Linux initiative Sputnik, cover some important community news, and the uncomfortable questions raised by Krita’s new financial boost.

After we happily avoid the recent MacBook scandals we deep dive into hardware for a bit...and then pull it out with a overview of Microsoft Async/await pattern.

Slackware's founder runs into challenges, YouTube makes changes that slow down Firefox, while Firefox is cutting back on some features, and another German region dumps FOSS.

We’ll explain what Domain Fronting is, how activists can use it to avoid censorship, and why large organizations are compelled to disable it.

Michael Cohen’s secret stash of tapes leaks to the media, and everyone is hearing something different. We’ll play the clips.

Another potential desktop Linux app is scared away by an aggressive free software community, and we struggle to find the balance between our moral ideals, and getting work done.

FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS, OpenBSD on Tuxedo InfinityBook, how zfs diff reports filenames efficiently, why choose FreeBSD over Linux, PS4 double free exploit, OpenBSD’s wifi autojoin, and FreeBSD jails the hard way.

The year of the Linux desktop has become a cliché. In 2018 has a Forbes writer finally found a distro that has one click installs for every app he used to use on Windows? Microsoft ports PowerShell to a Linux snap, and of course your calls go to the front

Linux gains a world class media editor, Atari is making Chris nervous, and the Librem 5 hits some rocky waters.

Google's Cloud Platform suffers an outage, and iPhones in India get owned after a very specific attack.

The world melts down after Trump meets with Putin, but we’ll focus on the substance of the meeting and the possibly positive developments… And of course a bit of the reaction!

What ZFS blockpointers are, zero-day rewards offered, KDE on FreeBSD status, new FreeBSD core team, NetBSD WiFi refresh, poor man’s CI, and the power of Ctrl+T.

Atari has released details about its upcoming Linux powered console, some of us are sold… And some of us are rather skeptical.

Chris Moore, and JT Pennington join the Ask Noah Show this week to answer the question what does BSD offer to attract Linux users over to their ball park. We discuss the Lumina desktop as well as Project Trident. Your calls as always go to the front of th

We ruminate on Python’s founder stepping down, and ponder if it was inevitable.

Arch finds itself in the barrel, Ubuntu goes on a diet, and Python's leader for life has had enough, and steps down.

Good progress is being made on post-quantum resilient computing. We’ll explain how they’re achieving it, the risks facing traditional cryptography.

Control flow integrity with HardenedBSD, fixing bufferbloat with OpenBSD’s pf, Bareos Backup Server on FreeBSD, MeetBSD CfP, crypto simplified interface, twitter gems, interesting BSD commits, and more.

The Uno platform recently got our attention, and Jérôme from the project joins us to explain a few things, and have a frank discussion about what they've gotten right, that others have missed.

Trump’s gut punching at the NATO summit, North Korea is throwing around the “gangster” label, and Paul Manafort is really screwed while Cohen plays ball.

We reflect on recent FOSS security screw ups and ponder a solution powered by community.

Many have tried and failed to manufacture a laptop that stops Apple's Macbook Pro in it's tracks! Has Dell finally done it with their Precision 5510? Can you get a $2200 laptop for under $1000 brand new from Dell? We'll show you how it's done and how it s

SUSE is acquired and GNOME is hiring, and it might just be the summer of forks.

Fanless server setup with FreeBSD, NetBSD on pinebooks, another BSDCan trip report, transparent network audio, MirBSD's Korn Shell on Plan9, static site generators on OpenBSD, and more.

Allan Jude and Wes sit-down for a special live edition of the TechSNAP program.

Pressure is building to wrap the Russia investigation, and we play the clips that demonstrate the US war machine is just starting to ramp up.

A major Internet monopoly might just be on the edge of cracking thanks to free software, a bit of initiative, and a lot of gumption. We'll follow up on a major experiment we kicked off last week.

This week on the Ask Noah Show we tackle the difficult discussion - is it okay for companies to collect data and when should you be worried about companies having too much data? We interview Brian Martell who uses the finance aspect to get people on Linux

Allan Jude joins us for a FreeBSD birthday special edition of Tech Talk.

Tech companies are taking over cities, and becoming more powerful than some nations. Is their a moral stand developers inside these huge corporations should be taking? Or is the shift to a chicken farmer economy truly best for all?

Gentoo's GitHub is compromised, and Google's writing big checks to the Linux Foundation to distract you from the Fuchsia elephant in the room.

FreeBSD 11.2 has been released, setting up an MTA behind Tor, running pfsense on DigitalOcean, one year of C, using OpenBGPD to announce VM networks, the power to serve, and a BSDCan trip report.

The show is back after a couple weeks hiatus and there is much to cover, from separating families to the North Korea summit.

Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.

There's new security out for WiFi. Noah takes you through exactly what you need to know to stay up to date. What does WPA3 offer over WPA2? How do you take advantage of it? We talk about everything from WiFi to Colo in this weeks episode!

Mike's got a dream, and it's a dream where Microsoft saves us from Electron.

Projects once thought dead are now full of life, with new major releases and we kick the tires.

DragonflyBSD’s hammer1 encrypted master/slave setup, second part of our BSDCan recap, NomadBSD 1.1-RC1 available, OpenBSD adds an LDAP client to base, FreeBSD gets pNFS support, Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability confirmed, and what some Unix command nam

Free Software projects concerned about Article 13 are claiming it could destroy free software as we know it. We debate this controversial copyright law about to be voted on in the EU.

Ever wanted your own phone system? Maybe you want an intercom system for you house? How about the ability to use use an internet connected ham radio? We're talking Audio over IP this hour! We show you how simple it is to get AOIP setup and all the things

Plasma Desktop has a new release so we cover the new features and some bugs, Mycroft has an

We chat with GitLab’s CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij

Netflix has learned the hard way how to utilize all the logs, we cover their lessons in their journey to build a fully observable system. Plus the Lazy State FPU bug that cropped up this week, backdoored Docker images, your questions, and more!

TrueOS becoming a downstream fork with Trident, our BSDCan 2018 recap, HardenedBSD Foundation founding efforts, VPN with OpenIKED on OpenBSD, FreeBSD on a System76 Galago Pro, and hardware accelerated crypto on Octeons.

There is trouble at CopperheadOS, Plasma has a shiny new release, and we share the story of how Linux has powered the curiosity rover for 17 years. Plus our stories from a weekend of Linux parties, Texas LinuxFest, SouthEast LinuxFest, and FOSS Talk Live

A hostile takeover has just happened to the Copperhead OS Project. Lead developer Daniel Micay has been fired by Copperhead CEO James Donaldson. Micay claims Donaldson is up to no good, and Donaldson says it's Micay who doesn't have the company's best int

Free and open source developers are still freaking out about Microsoft buying GitHub, ReactOS reaches a major milestone, TrueOS appears to be forking, and changes are coming to the core of Plasma desktop team.

Do you run a small business? Do you work for a small business? Join us this hour as we talk to Keith Perry from DAO Technologies. Keith has been running a small business for a long time and implementing open source where possible. We get Keith's insight a

This week on the Ask Noah Show we take you live to the SELF floor! We take a look at a broadcasting company that was founded and runs entirely on Linux. That company? Jupiter Broadcasting. We tell you what you can expect from Southeast Linux Fest and how

Microsoft puts a data center under the ocean, and they might be onto something. The Zip Slip vulnerability sneaks into your software, and VPNFilter turns out to be more complicated than first known. Plus the mass exploit of Drupalgeddon2 continues, we br

OpenZFS and DTrace updates in NetBSD, NetBSD network security stack audit, Performance of MySQL on ZFS, OpenSMTP results from p2k18, legacy Windows backup to FreeNAS, ZFS block size importance, and NetBSD as router on a stick.

Trump kicks off a Pardon Party, and the reason seems obvious… We just both completely disagree with each other.

Microsoft has purchased GitHub, sending shock-waves through the free software community. We discuss the bidding war that took place, and it leaves us questioning what the future of Electron might be. Plus we’ve found a great batch of Linux apps you're go

This week on the show we give you the quick and dirty on Microsoft buying GitHub. We speak to Jason Plumb from GitLab and he gives us a brief overview of the services GitLab offers and how they've worked to create a product that blows GitHub out of the wa

Microsoft is buying GitHub, Apple just kicked off WWDC 2018, and we've got a packed show!

Ubuntu-based Atari VCS crowd-funding is going very well, Endless employees are hit with layoffs, and why GNOME might be too fat for Pi.

We explain how the much hyped VPNFilter malware actually works, and its rather surprising sophistication. Plus a clear break down of the recent Kubernetes news, how a 40 year old tel-co protocol is being abused today, and a Git vulnerability you should k

We try to get to the root of what Russia actually hacked, cover the whiplash from the North Korea news since last week, and serve up some cold cyber analysis.

After we make ourselves at Gnome, we look at some future open source goodies coming your way, look at how Canonical’s upstream pitch, and get excited about the next great Linux filesystem hope. Plus Chris’ first wreck on the road to Texas, Thunderbolt ne

DragonflyBSD release 5.2.1 is here, BPF kernel exploit writeup, Remote Debugging the running OpenBSD kernel, interview with Patrick Mooney, FreeBSD buildbot setup in a jail, dumping your USB, and 5 years of gaming on FreeBSD.

We talk quite a bit about owning your communication and how you can do that with Ham Radio. What if you love your Linux and want to continue to use your computer to communicate? This week we dive into an all new way to use ham radio, all on Linux, all wit

After a bit of CoffeeScript reminiscing we get down to data and design.And discuss why the bot market has collapsed, and how Google is running the table in AI.

openSUSE Leap 15 is released, along a new LXQt, the Essential Phone getting canceled, and why older Chrombooks might be receiving the big Linux apps update.

FreeBSD internship learnings, exciting developments coming to FreeBSD, running FreeNAS on DigitalOcean, Network Manager control for OpenBSD, OpenZFS User Conference Videos are here and batch editing files with ed.

It's Google's turn to receive the Facebook treatment. In a series of rapid fire leaks, lawsuits, and PR blunders we re-cap Google's awful bad week.

Trump chips away at the shared illusion of our “cherished” Institutions, and the secret spy inside the Trump campaign is revealed, and the history of this individual tells all.

We’ll explain how Speculative Store Bypass works, and the new mitigation techniques that are inbound.

What is the best laptop for Linux in 2018? How about the best Evernote killer, and production setup? We cover the best of the best this week.

This week on the show give you the latest on the new Intel flaw. We take an interesting question from a caller who asks Noah, can a router be virtualized? Plus we give you the run down on our Small Business Theme Hour coming up in early June.

The future is JavaScript and Mike’s seen the way. Plus we answer a listener's questions about career changes, discuss the week’s hoopla, and share a cautionary tale.

Asteroid OS reaches 1.0, and Joe gives it a go. GNOME developers consider removing the ability to launch binaries, but punt for now. And the lessons learned from malware in the Snap Store.

Nearly all mobile carriers are caught selling your location, and the story gets twisted. The senate votes to overturn the net neutrality repeal but there's a long way to go. OnePlus 6's specs are out, and how some guy heated his bath water with Bitcoin mi

How Intel docs were misinterpreted by almost any OS, a look at the mininet SDN emulator, do’s and don’ts for FreeBSD, OpenBSD community going gold, ed mastery is a must read, and the distributed object store minio on FreeBSD.

The EFail hype train has hit hypersonic speed, we’ll tap the breaks and explain who disclosed it, what it is, what it’s not, our recommendations, and early reactions.

The Linux community is eating its own this week, as attention seeking plucky YouTuber’s trade on free software’s good name for clicks. We learn the real story behind some of the Internet’s recent free software freak-out.

This week on the show we talk about everything from DMX lighting on Linux to USB-C. We take an interesting question from a listener who has a massive virtual desktop infrastructure project and he asks Noah if Linux can handle this project or if he should

A critical PGP and S/MIME bug is in the wild, EasyMesh promises standards Wifi Mesh networks, Zuck's in the sites, and Bittorrent Inc gets a rename.

We get fired up about cloud lock-in, and attempt to find some common ground.

It's confirmed Linux apps are coming to Chrome OS. Google is finally putting pressure on OEMs to ship security patches, and we try Android of Things.

The world is freaking out about Google Duplex, new features coming to Google Photos we like and Android P promises to improve your

Our FreeNAS build is complete and Allan’s back to cover the final details. Plus the new GPU attack against Android phones, and a perfect example of poor IoT security.

Allan’s recap of the ZFS User conference, first impressions of OmniOS by a BSD user, Nextcloud 13 setup on FreeBSD, OpenBSD on a fanless desktop computer, an intro to HardenedBSD, and DragonFlyBSD getting some SMP improvements.

Trump announces the United States withdraw from the “Iran Nuke Deal”. We’ll explain the historical context, the ramifications from the pullout, and where this all leads.

Chris ends a multi-year experiment with Fedora on the server, and shares his surprising results. Chrome OS is officially getting full-fledged Linux apps, and we ponder if this is truly a win for Linux.

Last week we broke the news to you that rumor has it Google is making Linux apps for the desktop a reality on Chromebooks. This week Keith Myers joins us and tells us what the experience on a Google Pixelbook is like. He explains what it took to get nativ

The fight for Net Neutrality is back on, we round up the news from Build 2018, and get impressed by Tesla's barnacle purge.

Focusing on a niche can catastrophically backfire when the market shifts, and Mike goes into full reviewer mode this week.

Fedora fights for the user, Ubuntu Flavors draw the line, and why we're worried small distributions are starting to collapse.

et Casts gets acquired, and we worry about "big podcasting" pushing for more data collection.

Mike and Chris have a workflow hangover, hit rock bottom, and bounce back with a new understanding.

Arcan and OpenBSD, running OpenBSD 6.3 on RPI 3, why C is not a low-level language, HardenedBSD switching back to OpenSSL, how the Internet was almost broken, EuroBSDcon CfP is out, and the BSDCan 2018 schedule is available.

We catch up with Allan Jude and he shares stories of hunting network bottlenecks, memories of old firewalls, and some classic ZFS updates.

Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases, and our early impressions are great.

Google has everyone wondering, is what they're doing going to finally lead to the year of the Linux Desktop? Are we okay with Google being in charge with Linux on the desktop? 18.04 is out and we talk about our initial impressions. Simon Quigley the relea

Yet again Jupiter Broadcasting broadcasts entirely on Linux! We bring you live coverage from the floor of Linuxfest Northwest. The broadcast is done on Linux, the interviews are done on Linux, we talk about Linux.

The tragic story of Eric Lundgren, someone is trying to extort GrayShift, and scientist have buckets with living pig brains.

The death of desktop apps has reached the next stage, but the long transition to WebAssembly is going to hurt.

Ubuntu 18.04 is out and we round up the new features, the flavors, and our first takes.

The memo’s are out, the interviews are in, and we've read the book. It’s our take on former FBI Director James Comey’s moral crusade.

We get the inside scope from the Ubuntu flavors prepping for the 18.04 release, and then we finally make good on a long running threat.

OpenBSD 6.3 and DragonflyBSD 5.2 are released, bug fix for disappearing files in OpenZFS on Linux (and only Linux), understanding the FreeBSD CPU scheduler, NetBSD on RPI3, thoughts on being a committer for 20 years, and 5 reasons to use FreeBSD in 2018.

Hardware flaws that can’t be solved, human errors at the physical layer, and spoofing cellular networks with a $5 dongle.

James Comey says American's don't need encryption the government can't override. In an age of terrorism should a segment of the population be allowed to exist beyond the reach of law? We get Chris Fisher's take on this as well as your calls on this weeks

Google suffers from the Telegram ban, Valve is back in the business of making games, and Amazon has a top secret robot.

Trisquel has a new release, and Chris tries out the new ReactOS. Plus our thoughts on Microsoft announcing their own Linux, the German government switching to NextCloud, and the fix is in for Gnome Shell's infamous

It's hard to believe but Microsoft is shipping the Linux kernel. We give you the details of how and why this week on the show.

Telegram’s battle of the ban continues, and AWS and Google Cloud become targets.

TrueOS Stable 18.03 released, a look at F-stack, the secret to an open source business model, intro to jails and jail networking, FreeBSD Foundation March update, and the ipsec Errata.

In defiance of logic and International Law the US and it’s gang of moral crusaders have broken the law to teach Assad a lesson about breaking the law.

We cover all the bases this week in our TechSNAP introduction to server monitoring.

Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service, with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement.

This week Noah is a guest speaker at the UND teaching the next generation about podcasting.

Tesla blames robots for their recent setbacks, Russia starts to block Telegram, Pandora discovers Podcasts, and a new design is coming to Gmail.

We revisit IBM’s total dominance over the PC industry in the early 80s, how they got there, and how we can apply the IBM model to current events.

ZFS' first data loss bug comers to Linux, GameMode could have some serious potential, and Mozilla thinks the Internet is in bad shape.

Getting started or getting ahead in IT is a moving target, so we’ve crowd sourced some of the best tips and advice to help.

Second round of ZFS improvements in FreeBSD, Postgres finds that non-FreeBSD/non-Illumos systems are corrupting data, interview with Kevin Bowling, BSDCan list of talks, and cryptographic right answers.

War in Syria seems just hours away, with Trump calling out Putin and Assad, the warships moving into position, and the hawks circling.

We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re sticking with it and still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet.

This week on the Ask Noah Show we ask the question everyone is asking - has Apple given up on the Macbook?

What we can learn from Mike’s first business failing in 2014?

The Linux kernel gets a spring cleaning, things are going well for RISC-V, and Linux-Libre is clearly prioritizing freedom over security with their recent update.

It’s a TechSNAP introduction to Terraform, a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.

Russia has launched a diplomatic counter-offensive, demanding that its scientists be involved in investigating the reported poisoning of former spies.

New ZFS features landing in FreeBSD, MAP_STACK for OpenBSD, how to write safer C code with Clang’s address sanitizer, Michael W. Lucas on sponsor gifts, TCP blackbox recorder, and Dell disk system hacking.

It's been one year of non-stop unapologetic Linux content! We meet up with fans in Minneapolis for a live show and tell you about our exciting plans as we kick of year 2 of the Ask Noah Show.

Richard Stallman has some practical steps society could take to roll back the rampant and expanding invasion of our privacy.

What is focus for the software industry? And is focus always a good thing, or can it lead to tunnel vision?

The two sides of the pond meet this week when Joe Ressington joins Chris and Noah

ChromeOS comes to tablets, and we ponder why... Google removes Kodi from autocomplete results in an apparent bow to pressure, Firefox combats Facebook tracking, and Oracle vs Google is back for their biggest fight yet.

OpenBSD firewalling Windows 10, NetBSD’s return to ptrace, TCP Alternative Backoff, the BSD Poetic license, and AsiaBSDcon 2018 videos available.

Sun Microsystems was fertile ground for what might be the largest developer upset in ten years.

Embarrassing flaws get exposed when the logs get reviewed, Atlanta city government gets shut down by Ransomware, and the cleverest little Android malware you’ll ever meet.

Fox pundit, world renowned war-hawk, and now Trump’s National Security Advisor. We take a look at John Bolton, and the bomb first ask questions second kind of policy he advocates.

A new version of Slax is out this week, and they might just be onto something really unique. We take this Debian powered, Fluxbox running, net bootin distro for a test drive.

Tech literally has a body count! And have you ever wanted to manage digital signage, using Linux, and on a budget? We have the solution for you. Plus your calls, and more!

The push for encryption backdoors is back on, why Valve has 1,700 CPU's working non-stop, and the big Netflix move Apple is about to pull.

webOS is back, and the Linux Foundation has a Hypervisor for your car. Plus some of GNOME's performance issues, Firefox changes, and the hidden files in Bitcoin's blockchain.

Facebook gets punched in the face all week long, Amazon has drones that can smell fear, Telegram is ordered to hand over the keys, and some crazy folk want to make ketchup slices.

Looking at Lumina Desktop 2.0, 2 months of KPTI development in SmartOS, OpenBSD email service, an interview with Ryan Zezeski, NomadBSD released & John Carmack's programming retreat with OpenBSD.

We cut through the noise and explain in clear terms what’s really been discovered. The botched disclosure of flaws in AMD products has overshadowed the technical details of the vulnerabilities, and we aim to fix that..

The twisted way that data about you and your family is used to manipulate the way you feel about hot button topics gets exposed when a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower reveals all.

This week on the show we bring you the industry experts to teach you more than you ever wanted to know about Chef. Learn how to automate your entire system. Plus uber's self driving car kills someone & we give you our take, that & more in this weeks show!

We’re playing just one interview from SCaLE this year, tons of community news, and two handy app picks.

Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook data was a 'grossly unethical experiment' coming to light thanks to a whistleblower. We'll play his story, and discuss what they did with the data.

Mike and Chris find themselves at similar forks in the road with their business. And they both share raw observations from the front lines of some hard choices.

Gnome's new tricks, our favorite thing about the Raspberry Pi 3B+, Eric Raymond's call for an open source UPS, and the US city that banned Bitcoin mining.