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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2023 predictions, and make some new ones for 2024.
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What would we do to make the Internet and the Web better? Various hosts from the Late Night Linux Family shows offer their answers. With guest hosts Gary and Chris from Linux After Dark, Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.
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It’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, and some tough love for Mozilla.
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Will’s post that made it to Hacker News etc
2023 News
Good news
Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight
Maverick Mars chopper has survived way past its warranty – now it’s time for a sequel
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible
Gaming
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community
Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more
Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks
Graham talked about his Steam Deck OLED on LNL258
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November
Enshittification
Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees
LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA
Incorrect license information for the LXD snap
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know
We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.
We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
Fedora Program Manager layed off (what that role was)
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program
Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law
Fediverse
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration
Mozilla
Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge
Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI
Firefox’s protection against fingerprinting
Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet
New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android
Introducing Solo, an AI website builder for solopreneurs
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Entroware
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Google’s war on ad-blockers is potentially really good news for Firefox, and so are mobile extensions. Plus another quick terminal tip, a VM advent calendar, extreme synth geekery, your feedback on backing up photos, a plea to stop telling us about syncthing, and more.
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Discoveries
Most followed Mastodon accounts
News
Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google’s war on ad blockers
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
privacy not included | Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
Open extensions on Firefox for Android debut December 14 (but you can get a sneak peek today
Feedback
Backing up my Android photos with rsync
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Our first impressions of two new hot bits of hardware – the Steam Deck OLED, and the Raspberry Pi 5. Plus great news for self-hosted webmail, a call to support open source AI/ML image processing, and a mini KDE Korner.
News
Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family
Vulns expose ownCloud admin passwords, sensitive data
ownCloud vulnerability with maximum 10 severity score comes under “mass” exploitation
Steam Deck OLED
Graham answers our questions about his new Steam Deck OLED
Raspberry Pi 5
Joe answers our questions about his new Raspberry Pi 5
Mini KDE Korner
DigiKam Windows revival and 8.2.0 release
KItinaryAnd two weeks of KDE6 features and fixes
Kolide
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An improvement to apt, a quick terminal tip, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, an M1 Macbook Asahi update, a self-hosted way to bypass paywalls, making native apps out of web pages, bridging Zigbee devices to MQTT, a terrible way to back up photos and videos from a phone, Félim learns about HDMI standards, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
Discoveries
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A new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for GNOME, Signal tells us how expensive it is to run its service, GitHub goes all in on Copilot, our speculation about the OpenAI drama, and a mini KDE Korner. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
News
Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more
Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks
Amazon has begun replacing Android with its own software on some products
GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot
Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Mini KDE Korner
HDR Support merged in kwin, Breeze overhaul and Presentation mode & LOTS of bugfixes & updates
Kolide
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Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to get notifications, M1 Macbook Air problems, an epic ThinkPad collection, and more.
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Octopus Energy Home Assistant addon
Feedback
Christian’s ThinkPad collection
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We imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. Plus mixed news in the RISC-V world, a glimmer of hope for desktop Linux on Arm, YouTube’s adblock tracking might be against the GDPR, and a micro KDE Korner.
Jim’s post about the empty WSL talk at the Ubuntu Summit.
News
The Risk of RISC-V: What’s Going on at SiFive?
Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What’s to Come
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law
Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux
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Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more.
Discoveries
ia command for the Internet Archive
wyrd (amoliths password thing)
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.
