It’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, and some tough love for Mozilla.
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2023 News
Good news
Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight
Maverick Mars chopper has survived way past its warranty – now it’s time for a sequel
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible
Gaming
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community
Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more
Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks
Graham talked about his Steam Deck OLED on LNL258
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November
Enshittification
Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees
LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA
Incorrect license information for the LXD snap
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know
We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.
We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
Fedora Program Manager layed off (what that role was)
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program
Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law
Fediverse
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration
Mozilla
Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge
Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI
Firefox’s protection against fingerprinting
Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet
New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android
Introducing Solo, an AI website builder for solopreneurs
Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux
Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
