More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
News
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
Announcing the Open Home Foundation
tea.xyz causes open source software spam problems, again
A thread about people who need to run Windows
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
How Japan’s space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon
NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed
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How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds.
Voice of the masses
How do you keep your Linux systems secure?
News
German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice
German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating
Discoveries
OMG! Ubuntu article about login sound
Joe’s video of the laptop booting with the sound (play -v 0.9 –magic startup.ogg)
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There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year.
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News
Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux Family!
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How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide
backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
research!rsc: Timeline of the xz open source attack
New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update)
Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 224
OggCamp is happening later this year!
Gary gives us the details.
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The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
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Voice of the masses
What’s the main reason you use open source software?
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Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
News
Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!
Manual review of all new snap name registrations
KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user’s files
CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms – Krebs on Security
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers
Introducing Didthis: A New App For Hobbyists
Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one
Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse
Threads has entered the fediverse
Fedi.Tips urges admins to defederate Threads
Switch emulator Suyu hit by GitLab DMCA, project lives on through self-hosting
World Server Throwing Championship (WSTC) 2024
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What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more.
Voice of the masses
What’s pulling you away from open source, and what will pull you back?
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Discoveries
Mirroring Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu
Home assistant remote control from your Garmin watch
Tiny Core Linux is still a thing
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KDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source Switch emulator, Mozilla does another great thing for the Web, another reason to hate Spotify, and more.
News
KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community
This week in KDE: a smooth release
Critical Plasma 6 piece on the Register
Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0
Nintendo’s Yuzu Lawsuit is All But Done. Price: $2.4m. Cost to Emulation: TBD
Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued
Hosting your podcast using Spotify is a bad idea
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In a “brand new” segment we ask how you keep your kids safe online, and give our own thoughts. Plus Will tells us about a dirt cheap ham radio and the new way he sniffs Bluetooth traffic, Félim loves AI when it’s tracking his head, the open source way to control lighting rigs, a BBS-like interface to sites like Hacker News, yet another Spotify replacement, Damn Small Linux returns, and more.
Voice of the masses
How do you keep your kids safe online?
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Discoveries
Open source lighting rig control with QLC+
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Automox
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The BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of Plasma 6 we let Félim do a short KDE Korner.
News
Stepping back into the refreshingly free world of Linux – The Irish Times
Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D
Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s
Mercedes-Benz AG – FOSS Manifesto
It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo
Anthony: “Not commenting the Mozilla lay…” – Indieweb.Social
Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy
New krita.org website launched
Kubuntu Graphic Design Contest
Wayland fake session restore and 805/500 supporters
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An open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping, a static site generator for people migrating away from Bandcamp, hello world in every possible language, a synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope, why we are pretty down on macOS, and more.
Discoveries
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Great news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts, the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, Xfce is finally moving towards Wayland, Kubuntu sticks with KDE 5 for the LTS, Mozilla makes changes at the top, and more.
News
Unattended updates for everyone, F-Droid 1.19 is here
The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
Ubuntu Core Desktop Debut No Longer Planned for April
Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites [it’s white labelled like the VPN thing]
A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility
KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04
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