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Is FOSS the ultimate lifeboat? If things go wrong with a tech stack, can you always just fall back on FOSS?
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Is FOSS the ultimate lifeboat? If things go wrong with a tech stack, can you always just fall back on FOSS?
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Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RISC-V laptops, KDE Korner, and more.
News
A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy
New games were still being added last month
Canonical launches free personal Ubuntu Pro subscriptions for up to five machines
Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops
The Steam Deck is now available with no reservations required (mostly)
What KDE are doing to improve Steam Deck and desktop mode (shipped over a MILLION!)
Debian Chooses A Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware
KDE Korner
Akademy videos Day 1 & Day 2 (incl. Nate’s Goal)
Akademy BOFs & Translations on UserBase
KDE Neon 22.04 will have Firefox PPA instead of snap
Overhall of Kontact Encryption
Linode
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Does it matter where you host your FOSS code? GitHub benefits from the network effect, but other options have their own benefits. Plus Gary explains why he doesn’t use Git.
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Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham makes a dreadful racket, and more.
Discoveries
CIA museum: Inside the world’s most top secret museum
The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice on Apple’s Mac App Store
Feedback
Tailscale
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Our worst Linux cock-ups, and what we learned from them.
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systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more.
News
Listener Michael sent Joe a LMN 3
Systemd support is now available in WSL
Audacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support
Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers
KDE Korner
Intel Becomes First Krita Development Fund Corporate Gold Patron
This week in KDE: It’s a big one, folks
This week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability
KDE Neon 22.04 Rebase Imminent – Vote Firefox Snap/Other
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What’s the best way to implement telemetry and metrics in open source software, and should it be opt-in or opt-out?
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Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and more.
Discoveries
UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro
AI “art”
Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition
Professional AI whisperers have launched a marketplace for DALL-E prompts
Kolide
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Where do we draw the line when it comes to our ethics and our ability to put food on the table?
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Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner.
News
NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions
Ubuntu Unity Becoming An Official Flavour With 22.10 Release
github-cli Debian package GPG key expires
LG is bringing NFTs to its smart TVs – The Verge
Feedback
UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files
KDE Korner
Neal Gompa explains why do none of the major distros have KDE Plasma as default
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