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Whose responsibility it is to check the pockets of laundry before washing it, the biggest mistakes we’ve nearly made, and Joe gets bullied about headphones. With Aaron from Hybrid Cloud Show, and Mark and Martin from Linux Matters.
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Mono moves to the Wine project, the Internet Archive can’t lend books but should have seen it coming, Mozilla adds unpopular AI to Firefox, and KDE asks for donations in Plasma. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.
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A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox
Asking for donations in Plasma
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Following on from our episode about dealing with a horrible codebase, Andy argues that completely rewriting a project is almost always a bad idea.
Things You Should Never Do, Part I
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We often talk about working with cloud technologies, but how do we have fun with them?
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Another example of the downsides of abstraction, whether AI can ever be truly “open source”, and the security benefits and drawbacks of different types of VPN.
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Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers’ credentials
Debate over “open source AI” term brings new push to formalize definition
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To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” Linux, if so how, and if it’s even possible in Voice of the masses.
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We need to talk about Ubuntu (again). The updates situation is a confusing mess, a lot of enthusiast users have had enough and are starting to move to other distros, but ultimately millions of normal users will quietly carry on and not care.
Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess
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AMD will patch some old Ryzens against SinkClose now, but their benchmarking methods for newer CPUs didn’t live up to everyday reality. Plus Bcachefs devs annoy Linus Torvalds, the US government sues a college over compliance issues, and Jim disappoints a patron.
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AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs to get SinkClose patch after all
AMD explains, promises partial fixes for Ryzen 9000 performance problems
Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs
After cybersecurity lab wouldn’t use AV software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud
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Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual boot, Google quietly drops support for Chrome on old Ubuntu, the Apple tax hits Patreon, and an exciting new Raspberry Pi.
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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 235
Chrome dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 but it’ll be back
Patreon warns content makers that Apple wants to be paid
Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
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