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Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.
Discoveries
Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert)
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Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.
News
Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership
Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date
OpenMandriva Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage
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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 26:58 — 24.8MB)
A great example of accessibility features benefitting more than the target audience, a new version of the classic game Nethack, checking for bufferbloat, and Windows 10 limps on in discoveries. Then Félim’s question about the perceived value of open source goes in unexpected directions.
Discoveries
Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable
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We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.
News
Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze
Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yet
Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop [archived]
$100 Steam Machine GPU Unlocked! PS5 APU (ASRock BC-250)
Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status
Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
KDE Korner
Get started with Union, Plasma’s new theming engine, in 2 minutes or less: a FAQ
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Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.
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The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.
Plugs
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News
Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer
Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day [archived] 2
Arch Linux’s AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware 4.5
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits
Retro gaming handhelds
Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 26:52 — 24.7MB)
A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.
News/discussion
Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
Ubuntu Summit
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Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028.
News
Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing
The golden age of handheld gaming is already over [archived]
Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
We’re Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations – Software Freedom Conservancy
‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing [archived]
Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [21st Dec 2022]
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! [28th Sep 2023]
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Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion
Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages
EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox’s way
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Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News
Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own
Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit
Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access
Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
