Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:42 — 20.5MB)

A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more.

Discoveries

TTS

audible-activator

Furnace

Feedback

Gadgetbridge

LNL-Discoveries

LNL-Discoveries – GitHub

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:35 — 21.8MB)

We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner.

News

Introducing multitasking to Arduino

GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users

GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments

Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer

VLC Media Player banned in India, website and VLC download link blocked

Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse

KDE Korner

Nate’s updates: Fewer microscopic bugfixes and weekly updates 1 2 3 4

Kate macro recording

Krita 5.1 & KDEnlive 22.08

KDE Snap Packages

Neon 22.04 Docker Images

Akademy Talk Schedule Live

Tailscale

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:35 — 20.4MB)

Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more.

Discoveries

Tauno Serial Plotter

kdb-audio

ChromeOS Flex is now generally available

Discussion

Open source isn’t working for AI

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:21 — 20.9MB)

It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop.

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.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:16 — 20.8MB)

Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.

Discoveries

bat

Beej’s guide to network programming

LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app

Galaxy Buds Client

Lineage problems

battop

Feedback

Late Night Linux Discoveries

code

Joe’s RSS Thingy

Bismuth

How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries

GoatCounter

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:37 — 21.1MB)

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

MicrocodeDecryptor

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

Minecraft and NFTs

Banned from Minecraft, crypto group says it’ll just make a better game

KDE Korner

Latte Dock | Farewell…

The Eco Sprint

Kate incremental updates and Itinerary Update

Bit of love for Discover

Multihead will be no more

Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:16 — 20.8MB)

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.

Discoveries

Firefox

xdg-ninja

Steam Deck

inxi

coconutBattery

Feedback

lnl-discoveries

LanguageTool

Linux Downtime 51

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:31 — 20.3MB)

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

London Meetup 5th August near The Eye

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

Reddit and Nothing NFTs

KDE Korner

KDE eV Report 2021

Last and This week in KDE

Should Fedora sponsor KDE officially?

Linode

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:21 — 20.2MB)

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

viddy

Cheerlights & cheerlights-hid

Hacking a Netgear router to be a ‘mesh’ satellite

Vita3K

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

liquidsoap

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:48 — 19.8MB)

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

Chris Green on Twitter

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

KDE Apps mid-year update

Digitally signing PDFs with a hardware token

DigiKam 7.7.0

KDE PIM May & June update

Linode

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