Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:08 — 25.8MB)

Particle physics depends on software that’s maintained by one retiree, another argument about AI, YouTube disrespects Creative Commons, we find an excuse to laugh at Musk, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence

FORM (symbolic manipulation system) – Wikipedia

GPT-3 Business Email Generator by Danny Richman

AI writes Terraform

Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User

Twitter turns its back on open-source development

KDE and Xfce Kornerx

Xubuntu Development Update December 2022

Xfce 4.18 Looks Exciting

Finalizing rpm-ostree support in Discover

Introducing KIO AFC

Plasma Mobile Gear ⚙ 22.11 is Out

This week in KDE: Humongous UI improvements

This week in KDE: custom tiling

Help KDE hire more people!

Status of the 15-Minute Bug Initiative

October/November in KDE Itinerary

Linode

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Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:53 — 24.8MB)

An application firewall, reverse engineering with a better and scriptable version of Wireshark, getting the most out of webcams on Linux, running the latest kernel on a ten year old phone, moving away from mailing lists, KDE Korner, and the best distro of 2022(?)

Discoveries 

Portmaster

tshark

Will’s reverse engineering efforts

cameractrls

PostmarketOS on a Samsung Galaxy S III

Mailing lists are on the wane

The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists

KDE Korner

Jonathan Esk-Riddell’s report from Prague and Scarlett’s too

Push notifications for KDE

NeoChat E2EE progressingNate’s Update: Welcome in Plasma

Linode

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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 20 devices.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:37 — 24.6MB)

Python comes to Arduino, a look at the new version of Fedora Silverblue, Linux helps Windows work with old printers, running your own Mastodon instance, remastering Ubuntu ISOs, and more. With guest host Alan Pope (popey).

News

Arduino Announces Official MicroPython Support

Announcing Fedora Linux 37

OpenPrinting keeps old printers working, even on Windows

LibreOffice and blockchain: What cool things are possible?

Running your own Mastodon instance

Popey tells us about running ubuntu.social

Linode

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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 20 devices.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 33:09 — 26.6MB)

Some great discoveries including traffic shaping, USB over IP, speech to text, and a funny Firefox extension. Plus Graham talks to Ken VanDine, the engineering manager for Ubuntu Desktop.

Discoveries 

Sad Servers

Really Awful OSS Incidents

AI to BS

USB/IP protocol — The Linux Kernel documentation

USB/IP Project

Wondershaper

Nerd Dictation

nerd-dictation on GitHub

Ken VanDine

Graham sits down with the Ken the Ubuntu desktop engineering manager at the Ubuntu Summit to talk about Snaps, desktop, WSL, Steam, and more.

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8

Linode

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

Mastodon usage explodes in the wake of Musk ruining Twitter, AI training fair use is about to be legally tested, Signal tries to be Snapchat, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them

Twitodon

Pick an Instance Helper

GitHub Copilot litigation

The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress

Signal thinks it’s Snapchat

What happened to signal-desktop? – snap – snapcraft.io

snap automatic updates can now be ‘held’ indefinitely (currently beta/edge)

Mozilla Ventures: Investing in Responsible Tech

SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency-related projects to be removed

KDE Korner

A New ‘KDE Control Centre’ Widget Inspired by iOS

KDE For Creators

Tiling Work

Kate Treats, Outlines & smarter Krunner

Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8