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Testing the security of your Bluetooth devices, diffing databases, visualising MQTT data, running Linux VMs on an iPad or Iphone, org mode in Kate, and making point and click games. Plus whether we are too negative, or if we are just realistic.
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You can now run VMs on iOS with UTM
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The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special feature” to interact with Google sites, Mozilla shows that it needs advertising, and openSUSE might be getting a new (terrible) name.
News
EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones
Take action to stop chat control now!
Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector
Why Chromium tells Google sites about your CPU, GPU usage
Privacy-Preserving Attribution
Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default
Mozilla desperately needs transparency
Automox
Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1Password
Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux
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An incredibly powerful hex editor for reverse engineering binaries, easily searching through snaphots for end users, streaming audio from phones to the Linux desktop, writing interactive fiction games, and how we makes notes and manage tasks.
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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 23:49 — 19.1MB)
Instead of the news which is all either boring or grim, we’ve come up with a fun Linux-themed game show that’s definitely not completely fixed. Plus a great network tool, and what keeps us on Linux when most apps are available everywhere else.
Feedback
1Password
Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux
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Unlocking the full potential of Nvidia graphics cards, hacking the otherwise bricked Spotify hardware device, Félim realised that his Borg backups could be significantly smaller, making wiring diagrams using text, silly terminal effects and colours, using a ThinkPad as a WiFi dongle, great lightweight distros for an ancient netbook, better Google searches, and more.
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Automox
Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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New RISC-V and Arm Linux laptops are starting to pave the way for an exciting future, Mozilla makes another divisive acquisition, a couple of big anniversaries make us feel old, some quick KDE updates, and more.
News
World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu
Canonical Announce First RISC-V Laptop Running Ubuntu
Video of a Banana Pi with the same SoC
Significantly slower than a Pi 4
The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support
Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years
Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising
What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal!
KDE e.V. is looking for a contractor to coordinate the KDE Goals process
Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
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Your favourite obscure open source software in Voice of the masses. Plus whether AI is a load of old rubbish, and even if it is useful for some things we have to ask ourselves: at what cost?
Voice of the masses
What’s the best open source app or utility that no one else has heard of?
Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/latenightlinux to learn more.
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A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processing data and CSV files on the command line, controlling cycling workout gear and graphing your progress, and a top tip for following Mastodon accounts in a normal RSS feed reader.
News
Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox
Plasma 6.1 Beta out: Triple buffering, Wayland explicit sync & RDP access
Discoveries
Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/latenightlinux to learn more.
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We look back at what Linux and open source was like when we first got into it, and consider some of the ways that things have improved over all these years.
Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 23:07 — 18.6MB)
The whole band is back together for the first time in a while and we’ve got “excellent” news that Raspberry Pi is doing an IPO, another look at the Pi 5 after 6 months, our positive thoughts about Mozilla’s new Executive Director, Félim’s doubts about OSI’s attempt to define open source AI, a very quick bit of KDE news, and more.
News
Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers
Raspberry Pi 5 Network OS Installer
Growing Our Movement — and Growing Mozilla — to Shape the AI Era
Mozilla Foundation Welcomes Nabiha Syed as Executive Director
Why I’m Joining Mozilla as Executive Director
The Open Source AI Definition gets closer to reality with a global workshop series
The Open Source AI Definition – draft v. 0.0.8
Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/latenightlinux to learn more.
