Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:38 — 21.1MB)

A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more.

Discoveries

Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans

Telegraf

FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux

It takes a Mac to save a Mac but there is a FOSS alternative

Feedback

Vagrant

wallabag

Shaarli

Archiving and Digital Preservation

Bookmarks and Link Sharing

Read-it-later Lists

get-iplayer

bashpodder

PICO-8

TIC-80

Scratch

Appel

Kolide

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Linode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:41 — 21.1MB)

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.

News

You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay

Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying

The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here!

Linux Downtime Episode about Asahi

This was the first step in the interview process at Canonical – I withdrew my application

My Interview Process Experience With Canonical

Ask Shuttleworth a question!

Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own

KDE Korner

Okular – First Eco Certified

QT6 work progresses with Frameworks+Plasma and now Kate/Kwrite

Some KDE items of interest from Wikidata Data Reuse Days

Nate’s usual weekly updates

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:00 — 20.7MB)

We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim.

Discoveries

aha

blame Canada for computer translation

Chirp

vimwiki

Open Collidoscope (video)

Borderlands synth

Computers are really fast, but less exciting now

114 billion transistors, one big meh

Unity Store

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:34 — 20.4MB)

Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy.

News

Arch is 20 years old

The Web is 33 years old

A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon)

Something is up with elementary

GNOME, Mono, Xamarin founder Miguel de Icaza leaves Microsoft

Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years

Click here to see why the BBC HATES RSS

Admin

Check out Linux Downtime and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

Wikidata reuse days… non now…

Steamdeck runs KDE

PIM Update & KDE Gear updates

New Firmware Security tab coming in Plasma 5.25

Translation help

Signature support is now Okular in on Android

Eco Software

Multi-cursors in Kate

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:37 — 20.4MB)

A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.

Discoveries

Pandas (10mins to pandas)

WLED

XSuspender

subnetcalc

Quickemu and Quickgui

Feedback

French Keyboard bug in KDE

asus-linux.org

GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

protondb

Linode

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