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If we could go back in time, what advice would we give our younger, less experienced counterparts about Linux and FOSS?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 192
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We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner.
News
Introducing multitasking to Arduino
GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash
Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users
GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments
Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
VLC Media Player banned in India, website and VLC download link blocked
Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse
KDE Korner
Nate’s updates: Fewer microscopic bugfixes and weekly updates 1 2 3 4
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Linux Downtime – Episode 54
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It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 191
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Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more.
Discoveries
ChromeOS Flex is now generally available
Discussion
Open source isn’t working for AI
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Linux After Dark – Episode 24
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How efficient are our whole setups – including servers, client machines, and VPSs? Could we be doing more to save energy and money?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 190
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It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop.
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Linux Downtime – Episode 53
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There is a sustainability problem in FOSS. How do we fix it?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 189
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Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.
Discoveries
Beej’s guide to network programming
LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app
Feedback
How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries
Kolide
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Linux After Dark – Episode 23
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In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 188
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Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more.
News
London Meetup 5th August near The Eye
Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS
Torvalds is using Asahi on an Arm Mac, and the next kernel will be 6.0
Torvalds didn’t expect to run Linux on Arm Macs
Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks
Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade
Official Unreal Engine 5 editor binaries for Linux have been published
Banned from Minecraft, crypto group says it’ll just make a better game
KDE Korner
Kate incremental updates and Itinerary Update
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