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Our brews of choice, what the minimum wage should enable a person to do, and how long we’d want to live if we stayed healthy. With Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Félim from Late Night Linux, popey from Linux Matters, and Gary, Chris and Dalton from Linux After Dark.
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KDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source Switch emulator, Mozilla does another great thing for the Web, another reason to hate Spotify, and more.
News
KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community
This week in KDE: a smooth release
Critical Plasma 6 piece on the Register
Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0
Nintendo’s Yuzu Lawsuit is All But Done. Price: $2.4m. Cost to Emulation: TBD
Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued
Hosting your podcast using Spotify is a bad idea
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What we’ve learned over the years about the interview process for software development jobs, both as the applicant and the interviewer.
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The boss of Nvidia says kids don’t need to code because they can just use AI, companies sell their users’ data to train models, and why 2.5Gbps networking probably isn’t worth bothering with.
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Jensen Huang says kids shouldn’t learn to code — they should leave it up to AI
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
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We were asked about adding 2.5Gbps gear to your network.
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In a “brand new” segment we ask how you keep your kids safe online, and give our own thoughts. Plus Will tells us about a dirt cheap ham radio and the new way he sniffs Bluetooth traffic, Félim loves AI when it’s tracking his head, the open source way to control lighting rigs, a BBS-like interface to sites like Hacker News, yet another Spotify replacement, Damn Small Linux returns, and more.
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Open source lighting rig control with QLC+
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Gary’s recent (mostly) good experience with an Arm Chromebook makes us wonder about the current state of proper Linux on Arm laptops. Plus follow up on why the Wyse 5070 has some limitations, but is still a great little x86 box.
Chris mentioned a FOSDEM talk
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More cameras leak footage, Avast is fined for selling user data, a vending machine quietly scans students’ faces, using a small NVMe drive with ZFS, and taking snapshots of VMs.
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“So violated”: Wyze cameras leak footage to strangers for 2nd time in 5 months
Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students
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The BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of Plasma 6 we let Félim do a short KDE Korner.
News
Stepping back into the refreshingly free world of Linux – The Irish Times
Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D
Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s
Mercedes-Benz AG – FOSS Manifesto
It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo
Anthony: “Not commenting the Mozilla lay…” – Indieweb.Social
Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy
New krita.org website launched
Kubuntu Graphic Design Contest
Wayland fake session restore and 805/500 supporters
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The automation tools we use in our development and why we use them. Plus how to engage with your project’s community – both in real time, and asynchronously.
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