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To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” Linux, if so how, and if it’s even possible in Voice of the masses.
Voice of the masses
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We need to talk about Ubuntu (again). The updates situation is a confusing mess, a lot of enthusiast users have had enough and are starting to move to other distros, but ultimately millions of normal users will quietly carry on and not care.
Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess
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AMD will patch some old Ryzens against SinkClose now, but their benchmarking methods for newer CPUs didn’t live up to everyday reality. Plus Bcachefs devs annoy Linus Torvalds, the US government sues a college over compliance issues, and Jim disappoints a patron.
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News
AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs to get SinkClose patch after all
AMD explains, promises partial fixes for Ryzen 9000 performance problems
Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs
After cybersecurity lab wouldn’t use AV software, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud
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Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual boot, Google quietly drops support for Chrome on old Ubuntu, the Apple tax hits Patreon, and an exciting new Raspberry Pi.
News
Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 235
Chrome dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 but it’ll be back
Patreon warns content makers that Apple wants to be paid
Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
Entroware
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Kevin and Andy talk about their project extremes: the oldest and newest projects they’ve worked on, the biggest and smallest codebases, the ugliest hack, the most elegant, the most popular, the most trivial, and the most important.
Andy’s links
Announcing I-DUNNO 1.0 and web-i-dunno
Kevin’s links
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How much Linux and traditional sysadmin knowledge do you need for a career in cloud computing?
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Insecure SSH implementations and a weak key that let a researcher control 200 MW of electrical capacity reignites the debate about versioned protocols vs pluggable protocols, follow-up on sharing files from your LAN with people on the Internet, and the pros and cons of encrypted backups.
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News/discussion
Researchers find insecure SSH implementations everywhere
512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant”
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playerctl and bluetoothctl to control the iPad remotely.
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The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details about OggCamp, and whether FOSS people are all old.
Discoveries
Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000
OggCamp
Gary tells us about the upcoming free culture event in Manchester, UK.
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Are FOSS people all old?
The graying open source community needs fresh blood
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We once recorded an episode about GNOME that was so negative that we decided to delete our recordings and not publish it. Our opinions of GNOME have changed significantly since then so we explain why.
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