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The future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio production, open source voice assistants suddenly seem possible, and more.

News

Check out Ask The Hosts. Episode 1 is available on Patreon.

Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to Snap

All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year

Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base

Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement

Carl George’s take

The distribution model is changing

Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak

Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”

Push – a standalone expressive instrument

Willow could be the $50 hardware piece of the DIY voice assistant puzzle

Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup

Pocket’s new features make it even easier to discover and organize content

Linux On Desktop In 2023

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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 (mp3): Download (Duration: 31:33 — 25.3MB)

What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to getting more young people involved. Plus what a long-standing bug with Snaps shows us about the open source ecosystem.

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.

Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 33:20 — 26.8MB)

Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping your FOSS Android apps bang up to date, whether programming students should be using Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries 

gping

Chiaki

image stabilised Apollo 15

Apollo 11 VR HD on Steam

The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

Nosey Parker

Joe’s Mastodon thread

Obtainium

GCompris

Feedback

Configure Firefox to reject cookie banners automatically

Bavarder: Chit-chat with an AI

TrueNAS from iXsystems

To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl

HelloFresh

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Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 33:28 — 26.9MB)

Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows on handhelds, Roblox stops working for us, a peek at the upcoming Plasma 6 release, and more.

News

Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report

Fedora Program Manager layed off

(what that role was)

Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation

A new onboarding experience on Mastodon

Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking

Asus ROG Ally review: it’s time to stop pretending Windows is the answer

Nintendo, ticked by Zelda leaks, does a DMCA run on Switch emulation tools

Plasma 6: “Better defaults”

Plasma 6 Sprint 2023

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.

Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 32:36 — 26.2MB)

We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for virtualising Linux on M1 Macs, more on DNS and Yubikeys, and more.

Discoveries

CEMU

TrueNAS from iXsystems

To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl

Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 33:46 — 27.1MB)

How and why the Free Software Foundation should be reformed, checking your Python code incredibly quickly, Will’s Telegram bot, FOSS surround sound, upscaling photos, and loads more.

Discussion

The Free Software Foundation is dying

Discoveries

ruff by Astral

LNL Telegram Bot

IEM Plugin Suite

Graham’s audio demo

Upscayl

Félim’s Irish landcape photo

Félim’s Irish landcape photo upscaled

Feedback

shotwell-site-generator

shotwell-site-generator screenshots

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.

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 30:49 — 24.8MB)

Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE Korner.

News

Linux Matters has launched

Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically

Resist Fingerprinting

PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of them all turns 30

More layoffs at Red Hat

Fedora 38 released

Ubuntu 23.04 released

Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04

KDE Korner

KDE Gear 23.04, Nanonote 1.4.0, Announcing Arianna 1.0 & digiKam 8.0.0 is released

The road to KDE Connect 2.0

40 Snaps & a HowTo

Plasma Products / Not a DE

What’s new in Fedora Kinoite 38

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.

Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 30:05 — 24.2MB)

A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KDE Korner, and loads more.

Discoveries

Logitech Media Server (LMS)

First Universal Blue image

Mission – Universal Blue

Scope – Universal Blue

CLARK

sniffnet

Yubikey Manager

Feedback

ngrep

rsyncy

KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile catchup

ktechlab

isoimagewriter

a pile of snaps

Krita Yearly report

Most plasma widgets ported to 6 & Nate’s weekly updates

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 29:29 — 23.7MB)

25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two (more) potential ways to help solve the FOSS funding problem.

News

A quarter century of Mozilla

Making the impossible possible — again

A new era of transparency for Twitter

Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why

Twitter’s Open Source Algorithm Is a Red Herring

Welcome to open source, Elon. Your Twitter code just got a CVE for shadow ban bug

The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023 – Original Prusa 3D Printers

A reply to Josef Průša – Stargirl (Thea) Flowers

Help us fund equipment – Armbian

Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects

thanks.dev

Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 32:50 — 26.4MB)

Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom. Plus a novel way to solve the FOSS funding problem, and Proton as the ultimate Linux gaming platform.

Discoveries

chob

Chirp plant alarm

Garmin watch offline sync with Postrunner

ntopng

DoomLinux

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.

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.