Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:46 — 23.9MB)

The rise of RISC-V continues apace, we bust a recent ZFS myth, hybrid tiling in Plasma, Stadia departs with a nice gift for people, Joe draws an old skool mucky jpeg and ruins KDE Korner, and more.

News

Google’s Stadia Controller is getting Bluetooth support

Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture

RISC-V Summit Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V

ESP32-C6 WiFi 6, BLE, and 802.15.4 module and development board launched!

The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good

ZFSBootMenu

Admin

Follow Joe on Mastodon

Discoveries

KZones

Archimedes Live

KDE and Xfce Kornerx

New image for existing flavor: Xubuntu Minimal

KDE PIM Nov/Dec

Big UI Improvements and Fixes

Plasma on the VisionFive2

Akademy 2023 in Greece

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:10 — 23.4MB)

The ultimate ESP system, VoIP & RTC capture and troubleshooting, overpriced keyboards, making arcade cabinets even more fun, some notable distro releases, avoiding CAPTCHAs, and more.

Discoveries

ESPhome

Homer/Sipcapture

solaar

logitech G PRO

BGFX

The Great Crypto Scam

Vanilla OS

EndeavourOS Cassini

Mozilla changes Firefox’s user agent because of Internet Explorer 11

useragents.me

Feedback

Snikket

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 33:01 — 26.5MB)

Real hope for a local-only voice assistant, Matrix learns an age-old lesson about funding FOSS, 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop, Mozilla is about to catch up to the Mastodon trend, there definitely won’t be a Raspberry Pi 5 this year (honest), and KDE Korner.

News

With voice assistants in trouble, Home Assistant starts a local alternative

LineageOS 20 released

The Matrix Holiday Update 2022

Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton

[Feb 2019 – Upton: “I don’t have a route to do something this year”]

[Jun 2019 – Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35]

2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022

Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative

KDE Korner

Gear 22.12  (Gwenview has a new docs page), KDEnlive 22.1, Tokodon 23.01

Rewritten Spectacle in 23.04 & Fractional wayland + multiscreen fixes

& some holiday updates  & end of year goodies and finally a 2022 overview

Kraft v1.0 & it can be run on WSL

KDE Fundraiser & KDEnlive Funraisers successes!

Linux App Summit Brno April 21-23 2023

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:02 — 24.9MB)

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2022 predictions, and make some new ones for 2023.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:36 — 25.4MB)

It’s our 2022 in review episode which features Linux in space, gaming wins and fails, Raspberry Pi drama, the year of user-facing AI, Canonical and Microsoft, the rise of Mastodon, and more.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:54 — 24.8MB)

Loads of discoveries including picking the best DNS server for your connection, Telnet on the Amiga, some synth thing, markdown notes, and fixing downloaded Twitter data. Plus your feedback about Red Hat and IBM, containers and firewalls, Signal alternatives, and more.

Discoveries

dnsdiag

ZiModem

KnobKraft

twitter-archive-parser

silverbullet

One Thing Well

Feedback

ksuperkey

Firewalld and Podman – Protecting Your DB

docker will happily bypass your firewall

Session

Signal issue

Prosody IM

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:08 — 25.8MB)

Particle physics depends on software that’s maintained by one retiree, another argument about AI, YouTube disrespects Creative Commons, we find an excuse to laugh at Musk, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence

FORM (symbolic manipulation system) – Wikipedia

GPT-3 Business Email Generator by Danny Richman

AI writes Terraform

Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

Twitter turns its back on open-source development

KDE and Xfce Kornerx

Xubuntu Development Update December 2022

Xfce 4.18 Looks Exciting

Finalizing rpm-ostree support in Discover

Introducing KIO AFC

Plasma Mobile Gear ⚙ 22.11 is Out

This week in KDE: Humongous UI improvements

This week in KDE: custom tiling

Help KDE hire more people!

Status of the 15-Minute Bug Initiative

October/November in KDE Itinerary

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:53 — 24.8MB)

An application firewall, reverse engineering with a better and scriptable version of Wireshark, getting the most out of webcams on Linux, running the latest kernel on a ten year old phone, moving away from mailing lists, KDE Korner, and the best distro of 2022(?)

Discoveries 

Portmaster

tshark

Will’s reverse engineering efforts

cameractrls

PostmarketOS on a Samsung Galaxy S III

Mailing lists are on the wane

The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists

KDE Korner

Jonathan Esk-Riddell’s report from Prague and Scarlett’s too

Push notifications for KDE

NeoChat E2EE progressingNate’s Update: Welcome in Plasma

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Tailscale

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:37 — 24.6MB)

Python comes to Arduino, a look at the new version of Fedora Silverblue, Linux helps Windows work with old printers, running your own Mastodon instance, remastering Ubuntu ISOs, and more. With guest host Alan Pope (popey).

News

Arduino Announces Official MicroPython Support

Announcing Fedora Linux 37

OpenPrinting keeps old printers working, even on Windows

LibreOffice and blockchain: What cool things are possible?

Running your own Mastodon instance

Popey tells us about running ubuntu.social

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 33:09 — 26.6MB)

Some great discoveries including traffic shaping, USB over IP, speech to text, and a funny Firefox extension. Plus Graham talks to Ken VanDine, the engineering manager for Ubuntu Desktop.

Discoveries 

Sad Servers

Really Awful OSS Incidents

AI to BS

USB/IP protocol — The Linux Kernel documentation

USB/IP Project

Wondershaper

Nerd Dictation

nerd-dictation on GitHub

Ken VanDine

Graham sits down with the Ken the Ubuntu desktop engineering manager at the Ubuntu Summit to talk about Snaps, desktop, WSL, Steam, and more.

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