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In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 188
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Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more.
News
London Meetup 5th August near The Eye
Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS
Torvalds is using Asahi on an Arm Mac, and the next kernel will be 6.0
Torvalds didn’t expect to run Linux on Arm Macs
Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks
Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade
Official Unreal Engine 5 editor binaries for Linux have been published
Banned from Minecraft, crypto group says it’ll just make a better game
KDE Korner
Kate incremental updates and Itinerary Update
Linode
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Linux Downtime – Episode 52
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Hayden explains why he uses Windows Subsystem for Linux on a daily basis, and argues that Microsoft is a very different organisation from the one that was so hostile to FOSS 20+ years ago.
He mentioned his unofficial timeline of Microsoft’s transition towards open source.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 187
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Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot follow-up, and more.
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Linux After Dark – Episode 22
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Our smallest and our biggest FOSS wins.
Things we mentioned:
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Late Night Linux – Episode 186
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Thinkpads that won’t boot Linux by default, Lennart moves to Microsoft, the Firefox Snap is finally a lot faster, Reddit shows its true colours, KDE Korner, and more.
News
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Lenovo Secured-core PC unable to boot Linux from a USB stick
Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem
Lennart leaves Red Hat and Goes to Microsoft
Microsoft is a Linux and open source company
Firefox snap performance Part 3: significant startup improvements
KDE Korner
Should Fedora sponsor KDE officially?
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Linux Downtime – Episode 51
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Martin and Hayden explain what it’s actually like to use GitHub Copilot, and why they think it’s going to have a positive impact open source software. Plus Hayden explains the legal nuances.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 185
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A modern alternative to the watch command, automating lights, and hacking routers, using FOSS to make installing Windows easier. Plus our thoughts on VC funding in open source, and more.
Discoveries
Hacking a Netgear router to be a ‘mesh’ satellite
Rufus 3.19 adds bypass for mandatory Windows 11 22H2 Microsoft Account requirement
Raspberry Pi Restores Guitar Amp, Complete With Effects
Feedback
Improvements in git 2.37 when resolving conflicts with vimdiff
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Linux After Dark – Episode 21
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We all tried to live with a touch-only experience on x86-64 devices. It turns out that Linux is very close to offering a great experience.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 184
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The community gets angry about GitHub Copilot, Félim gets angry about email, Firefox continues to improve, drawers fill up with more Raspberry Pis, KDE shines as ever, and more.
News
London Meetup 5th August near The Eye
Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform
GitHub Copilot and open source laundering
Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer
Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround
Thunderbird 102 Released: A Serious Upgrade To Your Communication
Thunderbird is getting a visual revamp
Lawmakers seek to accelerate asteroid finder and want more Mars helicopters
KDE Korner
Digitally signing PDFs with a hardware token
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