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We explore the line between developer and sysadmin and come to the conclusion that despite the clear difference between the roles, there is a lot of crossover when it comes to skills and character traits.
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
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Red Hat donates a bunch of container tools to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and we are broadly positive about it. Plus some of our highlights from the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 conferences.
News/discussion
Red Hat to Contribute Comprehensive Container Tools Collection to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 day one: keynotes, sessions, announcements, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 2: keynotes, announcements and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Day 3: Keynotes, announcements and more
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Windows ssh is sending more telemetry than you might think, Let’s Encrypt will offer 6 days certificates, a PSA about domains that don’t send emails, and performance issues in a Synology NAS.
Plugs
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Winter 2024 Roundup: Storage and Network Diagnostics
News/discussion
ssh on Windows sends telemetry
Let’s Encrypt to offer 6 day certs
Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don’t use it for sending email
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Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser automation, converting Office documents to markdown, markdown in Vim, and why we think Raspberry Pi OS shouldn’t change its default desktop environment.
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Octoprint PSU control with Home Assistant
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Entroware
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Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested.
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Chinese researchers are making progress with quantum computing but they haven’t broken modern RSA or AES encryption, Russian attackers compromised a business via a nearby building’s WiFi, a startup runs out of money and bricks a robot for kids, and hardening Linux systems.
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ZFS Storage Fault Management on Linux
News/discussion
No, Chinese quantum computers haven’t hacked military-grade encryption
The Nearest Neighbor Attack: How A Russian APT Weaponized Nearby Wi-Fi Networks for Covert Access
Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds
The confusing reality of AI friends
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SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more.
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Send us your predictions for 2025
Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus
Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld
Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat
Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now
£4 more (plus a keyboard) for a LOT more performance
New era of slop security reports for open source
Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch
The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest
KDE Korner
I think the donation notification works
This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incomingThis Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! & Better fractional scaling
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We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model.
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The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driven architecture and design, message queuing, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.
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