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Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more.

Discoveries

Frigate

Coral TPUs

daylight

RPi Improved Pan Tilt Module

The Visible Zorker

Flightgear new LTS

Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker

Pixel 9 desktop mode

pinchflat

fixing locale

KIOT

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:44 — 24.7MB)

AI crawlers are causing serious problems for open source projects, an example of disclosure by vagueposting, Zorin does something good and something bad, LibreOffice downloads are doing well, Thunderbird is planning new services, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

News

Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden

It might be a good time to temporarily uninstall atop

Panic averted: It was just a bug in Atop after all

Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship

Zorin OS 17.3 takes Brave step of changing default browser

Stop using Brave Browser

Look Mum No Computer on Steam

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs 

Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail

Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro Services

KDE Korner

Roadmap for a modern Plasma Login Manager

Akademy 2025

1Password Extended Access Management

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 24:48 — 19.9MB)

What if Google hadn’t come along in the late 90s? What would search, mobile devices, and the web in general look like? Plus a musical discovery, and why moving to a new distro just means moving to new little problems to fix.

Discovery

Wilsonic MTS-ESP

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 25:07 — 20.2MB)

Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon™.

News

Home Assistant officially Matters

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive 

Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management

Announcing Techpaladin Software

Fedora 42 Beta now available

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust

Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

GIMP 3.0 Released

The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:08 — 21.8MB)

Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more.

Discoveries

espargos and demo video

OSM2GoogleMaps Bookmarklet

Cyd

twitter-defollower

Cross Views

About apt upgrade and phased updates

Feedback

Rapid Photo Downloader

Become a sponsor to Damon Lynch

scc

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:30 — 23.7MB)

Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command & Conquer games, the EFF releases a tool to detect cellular spying, an official Debian VM on Pixel devices, a brief foldable update, and more.

News

Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

An update on our Terms of Use

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

Firefox 136.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

‘Flow’ wins best animated feature film Oscar

“thank you Blender”

Godot 4.4, a unified experience

EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Android’s native Linux Terminal app is live in Google’s latest update

Porkbun.com

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:25 — 24.4MB)

Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is a touch buggy, and more.

Discoveries

Guacamole

Lumon Industries (Macrodata-Refinement)

Skies-ADSB

Home Assistant Voice PE

Casio F91W to 5000m underwater

Pi-hole v6

gammastep

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:36 — 24.6MB)

The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin.

News

Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code

Passing the torch on Asahi Linux

[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself

On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.) – Theodore Ts’o

Terence Eden on young people in FOSS

Linux Dev Time – Episode 118

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

Amazon Kindles jailbroken

Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning

Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy

Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands

Matrix is at a T junction

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 24:03 — 19.3MB)

What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the Masses.

Voice of the Masses

What are you self-hosting, and what are you relying on others to host for you?

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 25:58 — 20.9MB)

Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more.

News

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer

Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: ‘Maybe the problem is you’

New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel

Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers

Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting

EU OS

The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google

We’re bringing Pebble back!

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant

Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199

Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage

How Blender helped Gints Zilbalodis make Oscar-nominated Flow

Flow – Official Trailer

Plasma 6.3 is out tomorrow

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Entroware

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