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.

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:50 — 26.4MB)

Mastodon usage explodes in the wake of Musk ruining Twitter, AI training fair use is about to be legally tested, Signal tries to be Snapchat, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them

Twitodon

Pick an Instance Helper

GitHub Copilot litigation

The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress

Signal thinks it’s Snapchat

What happened to signal-desktop? – snap – snapcraft.io

snap automatic updates can now be ‘held’ indefinitely (currently beta/edge)

Mozilla Ventures: Investing in Responsible Tech

SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency-related projects to be removed

KDE Korner

A New ‘KDE Control Centre’ Widget Inspired by iOS

KDE For Creators

Tiling Work

Kate Treats, Outlines & smarter Krunner

Kolide

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:46 — 23.1MB)

Docker firewall issues, Ardour’s major new feature, listening for your neighbours’ garage door openers and tyre pressure monitors, colourising old photos, complaints from new Ubuntu users, KDE Korner, and more.

Discoveries

rtl_433

Ardour 7

Palette.fm

Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source

Santa Circles

Feedback

Unattended upgrades doesn’t upgrade additional repository

KDE Korner

On hiring, and fundraising to make it more biggerer

KDE neon Rebased on Jammy

UserBase Rebooted

This Week in KDE: QA pays off & UI Improvements

digiKam Recipes

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:32 — 24.5MB)

It’s our 200th episode spectacular! We look back over some of the key events and trends from the last ~5 years that the show has been going. The rise of Arm and RISC-V, the death of 32-bit x86, Mozilla’s decline, the Ubuntu Phone fever dream, gaming wins, and loads more.

Linode

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Kolide

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:42 — 25.5MB)

Tracking planes that don’t necessarily want to be tracked, the catch 22 of communicating changes to FOSS users, Graham makes another terrible racket, what we do to procrastinate, and more.

Discoveries

ADS-B Exchange

Virtual Smart Home introduce Pro tier

tuning-workbench-synth

tune CLI

HPR New Year live show and FOSDEM podcast table

Tailscale

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:11 — 25.8MB)

Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RISC-V laptops, KDE Korner, and more.

News

A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy

New games were still being added last month

Canonical launches free personal Ubuntu Pro subscriptions for up to five machines

Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops

First RISC-V laptop available

The Steam Deck is now available with no reservations required (mostly)

What KDE are doing to improve Steam Deck and desktop mode (shipped over a MILLION!)

Debian Chooses A Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware

KDE Korner

Akademy videos Day 1 & Day 2 (incl. Nate’s Goal)

Akademy BOFs & Translations on UserBase

KDE Neon 22.04 will have Firefox PPA instead of snap

Overhall of Kontact Encryption

MiTubo Adds Feeds

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:21 — 22.8MB)

Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham makes a dreadful racket, and more.

Discoveries 

The CIA has a podcast

CIA museum: Inside the world’s most top secret museum

The Fuck

OPNsense

samplebrain

Mutable Instruments Clouds

httm

Ventoy

The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice on Apple’s Mac App Store

Feedback

Mimic 3

Tailscale

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Linode

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

systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more.

News

Listener Michael sent Joe a LMN 3

Systemd support is now available in WSL

Systemd support lands in WSL

Audacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support

Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers

KDE Korner

Intel Becomes First Krita Development Fund Corporate Gold Patron

Kdenlive Fundraiser

This week in KDE: It’s a big one, folks

This week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability

Plasma Bigscreen

KDE Neon 22.04 Rebase Imminent – Vote Firefox Snap/Other

Official ppa

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:31 — 24.5MB)

Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and more.

Discoveries

Navidrome

ImHex

Moonlight

UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro

AI “art”

Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition

Professional AI whisperers have launched a marketplace for DALL-E prompts

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:45 — 20.5MB)

Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner.

News

NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions

Ubuntu Unity Becoming An Official Flavour With 22.10 Release

github-cli Debian package GPG key expires

LG is bringing NFTs to its smart TVs – The Verge

NFT shit-list

Feedback

UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files

KDE Korner

Neal Gompa explains why do none of the major distros have KDE Plasma as default 

KDE Promo Sprint

Kaidan 0.9 E2E & ATM

These Weeks in KDE

Linode

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.