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We are joined by Element developer Andy Balaam to talk about working on open source software after 20 years in the proprietary world. We get into working in public, the realities of accepting code contributions, being part of a distributed team, the pros and cons of working from home, and more.

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The user experience on fresh installations of Windows and Edge is terrible and we get to the bottom of why. Unfortunately the reason isn’t exclusive to Microsoft’s offerings – it’s a pattern that we’ve seen from numerous companies, even Mozilla. Plus why it’s a bad idea to power your server on and off regularly.

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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

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How our lives would change if cars ceased to exist, what intellectual property we’d make into a TV show or movie, and our worst cases of buyers’ remorse. With Will and Félim from Late Night Linux, and popey from Linux Matters.

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In this episode:

• Mark has been exploring the secrets of the TPM
• Martin is running Radeon and NVIDIA GPUs in one PC.
• Alan is getting ongoing data from an EV.

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Governments around the world are trying to undermine end-to-end encryption. Are they going to get away with forcing in backdoors, and what does it mean for open source? Plus what we stubbornly refuse to use our computers and phones for.

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Dropbox once again proves that there is no such thing as “unlimited” anything, Intel isn’t going to support WiFi 7 on Windows 10 (but it doesn’t really matter), managing ssh keys, setting up data storage for containers, and more on IPMI for Raspberry Pis.

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Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users

Intel doesn’t plan to support Wi-Fi 7 on Windows 10

Wi-Fi 7 is Coming: Here’s What You Need to Know

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We were asked about managing ssh keys, and setting up data storage for containers.

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/25a

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We are all on board with the right to be forgotten but it can cause some tricky problems for open source projects – particularly small ones. Plus why we won’t stop going on about why we take such a dim view of crypto.

Amolith mentioned a toot from the Tor Project.

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