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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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Late Night Linux – Episode 195
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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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Linode
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Linux After Dark – Episode 26
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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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Late Night Linux – Episode 194
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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
Linode
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Entroware
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Linux Downtime – Episode 55
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What F/OSS means to us and why it’s important.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 193
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A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more.
Discoveries
Feedback
Kolide
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Linode
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Linux After Dark – Episode 25
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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
Tailscale
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Linode
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Linux Downtime – Episode 54
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It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS.
Make sure to listen to part 1 first.
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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
Kolide
Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8
Linode
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