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What’s the best way to criticise FOSS projects?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 160
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A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more.
News
JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort
Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won’t ante up
Mozilla backtracks on crypto donations
Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web
Dev of namesake app donates proceeds to charity
Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days
Canon forced to ship ink cartridges without chips
KDE Korner
Gnome App ID in KDE Task Manager
KDE PIM Updates and 4k LOC from Dolphin refactored out
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 38
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Adam and Neal return to talk about Google’s mysterious open source operating system Fuchsia.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 159
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A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire.
Discoveries
A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer
Feedback
CalyxOS and a site to check which apps will work with de-Googled Android
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Late Night Linux – Episode 158
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Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Korner, and more.
News/discussion
Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects
UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere
Firefox I Love You, But Can You Shut Up About Mozilla VPN?!
Mozilla begs for crypto & jwz lays some smack down
Canonical Seeks Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
In 2022, security will be priority number one for Linux and open-source developers
Discoveries
ts – Prefix any line with the current timestamp
The Rockstar Language Specification
KDE Korner
Highlights of 2021 and a Roadmap for 2022
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Late Night Linux – Episode 157
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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2021 predictions, and make some new ones for 2022.
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Linux After Dark – Episode 07
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What it’s really like to live with Fedora Silverblue on your main machine. The good, the bad, and why Dalton is still using it.
Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite
Distrobox, a way to use Toolboxes on other distros
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Late Night Linux – Episode 156
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We look back at some of the biggest stories and trends of 2021 including Linux on Mars, gaming, Arm, drama, and NFTs.
2021 Linux year in review
Mars
Linux has made it to Mars [feb]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars [apr]
NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight [apr]
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight [apr]
“Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role [jul]
Mars helicopter has Log4j bug, breaks records all the same [dec]
Gaming
Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years [feb]
Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap [nov]
Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers [dec]
Steam Link now available on Linux [mar]
Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC [jun]
Steam Deck [jul]
EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound [sep]
Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 [nov]
Drama
FSF Adopts New Governance Framework for Board Members [dec]
Audacity 3.0.0 Released [mar]
Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! [may]
Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement [jun]
Audacity privacy notice [jul]
Clarification of Privacy Policy [jul]
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management [may]
Welcome to Libera Chat [may]
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work [jun]
Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon [sep]
Arm
Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 [jan]
Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon [jan]
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 [nov]
Pinephone Pro [oct]
How We Ported Linux to the M1 [jan]
M1 Macs booting from NVMe [jan]
GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 [aug]
The End-Of-Year 2021 State Of Linux On Apple’s M1 SoC [dec]
Asahi Linux looks forward to exciting 2022 on Apple silicon [dec]
NFTs
Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT [jun]
Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it [oct]
Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT [dec]
Stan Lee’s memory defiled [dec]
Brian Eno is not a fan of NFTs [dec]
Existential dread
Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years [aug]
Admin
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What’s Up With KDE, And How Was It Implemented!
Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 37
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Joe is joined by Chris from Linux After Dark and Fedora user Adam Dean to discuss using GNOME and why we shouldn’t bash it so often. Adam wrote a book called the Linux Administration Cookbook.
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