A special edition of Office Hours explains why some Podcasters are seeing a 20% drop in downloads. Plus, Moritz from Alby joins us for a chat.Special Guest: Moritz Kaminski.Sponsored By:Send us a Boost w/a new Podcast App: Send a boost into the show, try out a new app, and help keep podcasting independent. Join the Party! The Jupiter Membership Party: Join the party and get exclusive content. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Send a boost from the web; just Get Alby, top it off, and start boosting!🎉 Office Hours on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Moritz Kaminski — Contributing to an open value layer for the internetThe company asking podcast directories for money — A copyright enforcement company is sending bills to podcast directories for reproducing thumbnail images from RSS feeds.Annual re-certification now required by IAB — The updated pricing is: Member: $12,500 (new) / $​6,250​ (renew); Non-Member: $17,500 (new) /$8,750 (renew)Notice: Updates to Automatic Downloads - Apple Podcasts for Creators — Before iOS 17, when a listener would unpause automatic downloads, the system would automatically download all unplayed episodes. With iOS 17, Apple Podcasts will not download previous episodes and will resume automatically downloading new episodes.Tracking the impact of the auto-downloading changes to Apple Podcasts in iOS 17 — Let’s take a look at the Apple Podcasts listeners to OP3, an open prefix service tracking over 10 million downloads a month from over 1000 shows of various types, so a nice small sample to work with.Faidr — Our technology removes those annoying interruptions and lets you replace them with the audio content you actually want to hear.Auddia Announces Commercial Free Podcasting Enabled by Proprietary New AI Technology to be Launched in the faidr App on January 15 — 200 top podcasts will be available for ad-free listening upon launch, representing upwards of 50,000 episodes.Auddia Announces Commercial Free Podcasting to be Launched in the faidr App on January 15 — In June of 2023, the Company announced that its engineers had successfully combined Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its proprietary AI audio-classification algorithm to create a new model that could be applied to podcasts.The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years — In this report, we show how the number of users, transactions, and volume have been accelerating significantly over the past years. We also share some River-specific insights and discuss significant growth accelerators for the Lightning Network.Kevin Rooke on X — The average public Lightning Network channel is approaching 8 million sats of capacity now.Coming in 2024 — V4V based, multiply redundant object store with decentralized CDN for PeerTube self-hosters. Removes 99% of the bandwidth costs of media hosting, as well as the storage costs of online hosting.SeaweedFS — SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.V4V SHOW | Mere Mortals — What will digital content look like in 5 years time? In Ep#56 we're going to rehash everything we've learned this season, lay out my predictions for what is ahead of us and learn how you can help shape the future direction of this very podcast.Music: Santa's In Town - The Top Hats OrchestraMusic: A Charlie Brown Christmas - The Top Hats OrchestraMusic: Sleigh Ride - The Top Hats Orchestra

The podcast covers topics such as the 'Florida man' phenomenon, Rockstar Games' legal battle, Open AI's use of chat GPT, Google's missed potential and branding issues, Apple's potential AI features, the controversy surrounding Beeper Mini, US government monitoring on iOS and Google Android devices, and Nintendo's online service and emulators.

The hosts test local language models on Linux, pushing their limits. They discuss TailScale, Nixcon, and Scale Fundraising. The hosts explore testing AI models and browsing the internet. They also talk about Linode's cloud computing resources and tools. The 32-bit challenge, outsourcing tasks, and security threats are discussed. They search for a parking spot at Texas Linux Fest. Topics include rebuilding clusters, stacking for scale, and installing NixOS. They also discuss the NixOS hardware repository and topics related to Linux and Thunderbolt. Boosting and supporting open content is emphasized.

In this podcast, the hosts discuss their health concerns and struggles explaining inflation to their kids. They also delve into unauthorized purchases on Xbox Live, frustrations with Xcode on Mac, Microsoft's sales tactics, Tailscale VPN, and the ongoing Google-Epic lawsuit. Other topics include settlement talks, the power of Nix in hardware projects, and tech-related discussions and frustrations.

This week, our embarrassment is your entertainment. Then, we check the age and health of all our disks with one app.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 20 devices for free for a personal account. Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.LFNW 2024: Ready or not — Quick on the heels of our wildly successful MiniFest this Fall, LinuxFest Northwest is proud to announce a full event: LinuxFest Northwest 2024 - April 26-28 2024!LFNW 2024: Call for SessionsLFNW: Call for SponsorsMy $500M Mars Rover Mistake — A Failure Story by Chris LewickiUnplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies before it's too late!⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?Get your Tuxies “I Voted” sticker from TheGoldenDragon — $2 Digital StickerScrutiny — Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds.Soltros's configbuilder — This Nix Configuration Manager is a Go-based tool designed to facilitate the management of NixOS configurations.Cookie AutoDelete Firefox Add-onSelf-Hosted 110: Google Photos ReplacementBrent in Berlin Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin and we're having a LOW KEY meetup at the NixOS night at cbase - join us!chezmoi — Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.AnalogJ on GitHub — I'm a Devops/Automation guy, focused on building tools that help you automate & manage your servers.lexicon — Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way.Fasten Health — Fasten is an open-source, self-hosted, personal/family electronic medical record aggregator.LUP 307: What's your Nextcloud?GNU Stow — GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place.

Special guest Wolfgang joins the hosts to discuss his homelab. Topics include caching in ZFS, low-power server setups, challenges of streaming services, issues with WireGuard implementation in pfSense, privacy concerns with Plex, miscommunication incidents, home lab storage, ESP32 S3 Box and WESP32, and various topics like drive replacement and predictions for Plex.

The messy details and tidy excuses we noticed in all this OpenAI upset, and some fundamental problems that have been plaguing desktop Linux for years.Sponsored By:Alderon Games: Alderon Games is looking to hire talented remote workers. They believe in the power of play and the magic of immersive worlds and are looking for passionate individuals.Tailscale: Tailscale is the easiest way to create a peer-to-peer network with the power of Wireguard. Support Coder RadioLinks:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go. 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.AWS debuts Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client device for virtual desktop access — The WorkSpaces Thin Client is based on AWS parent Amazon.com Inc.’s Fire TV Cube OpenAI saga: What is Q-Star? — The ‘humanity-threatening’ AI that could be a reason behind Sam Altman’s removal. "Four times now in the history of OpenAI, the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks, I've gotten to be in the room, when we sort of push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward, and getting to do that is the professional honor of a lifetime,OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say — Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.The ‘AI doomers’ have lost this battle — That’s the reason for the strange organisational structure — to control the risk. Altman has been building this thing as fast as possible, while also saying very loudly and often that this thing is extremely dangerous and governments should get involved to control any attempts to build it. Well, which is it?The Unexpected Winner in the Craziest Week in AI — Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella made a huge bet on the world’s hottest AI company. After it nearly blew up on him, he now emerges with closer ties to its leader, Sam Altman.US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design' — In a 20-page document unveiled Sunday, the 18 countries agreed that companies designing and using AI need to develop and deploy it in a way that keeps customers and the wider public safe from misuse.

PipeWire hits 1.0, and Wim Taymans joins us to reflect on the smooth success of PipeWire. Plus the details on the first NixCon North America, and more.Special Guests: Wim Taymans and Zach Mitchell.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 20 devices for free for a personal account. Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies!⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutesFirst NixCon North America! — We envisage NixCon North America as a complement to the core NixCon in Europe, enriching the global Nix community through more localized events. This event is not just a conference; it’s a celebration of our growth, diversity, and the shared passion for Nix.Southern California Linux Expo 19Purchase a SCALE PassOne time Fiat donation for JB @ SCaLE 21x🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉 — PipeWire 1.0 retains API/ABI compatibility with the long-lived PipeWire 0.3.xx series. PipeWire 1.0 delivers improved time reporting for less jitter in ALSA when using IRQ mode, various module fixes, Bluetooth LC3 codec and compatibility improvements, improved transport and time handling for JACK, optimized buffer re-use with JACK, and a variety of other improvements.PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)LINUX Unplugged 370 — PipeWire ProgressSpiralLinux — SpiralLinux is a selection of Linux spins built from Debian GNU/Linux, with a focus on simplicity and out-of-the-box usability across all the major desktop environments.grub-btrfs — Include btrfs snapshots in the Grub menu.timeshift — System restore tool for Linux.timeshift-autosnap-apt — Timeshift auto-snapshot script for Ubuntu and DebianUbuntu Desktop with btrfs-luks, auto-apt snapshots with Timeshiftjordan-bravo's Nix configladder — Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL.Pick: whisper 🎤 → 🎧️ — Listen to your mic - with PipeWire. This app does more or less the same thing as Helvum does, but with a simple UI.Whisper on FlathubHelvum on Flathub — Helvum is a graphical patchbay for PipeWire.

Discussion on controversies surrounding TikTok and Twitter, Apple's contradictory advertising on TikTok, and the firing of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI. The chapter also explores the contradictory nature of OpenAI and its ownership of a for-profit company, as well as the negative impact of using the chat GPT name in marketing.

Can we save an old Arch install? We'll attempt a live rescue, then get into our tips for keeping your old Linux install running great.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 20 devices for free for a personal account. Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Kolide: Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.Is Arch Linux suitable for server environment? — Probably the biggest issue with Arch as a server operating system is that it's not clear where and when applications may break after an upgrade. More often than not, you have to keep up with what's going on in the wiki and on the forums before doing any sort of upgradeUnplugged Tuxies - 2023⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING?Get your Tuxies "I Voted" sticker from TheGoldenDragon — $2 Digital StickerTexas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open-source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State. Much like SCALE in Los Angeles, Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, and Linux Fest Northwest – and an ever-growing list of successful regional shows.Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention — On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.Git migration announcementGit migration completed — We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳[Arch News] Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settingsLinus’s law — In software development, Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores — In our experiments, these performance bugs caused many-fold performance degradation for synchronization-heavy scientific applications, 13% higher latency for kernel make, and a 14-23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used commercial database.The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed – The HFT GuyThe Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores | Hacker Newssched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc · torvalds/linux@acb4a84 · GitHub — This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that are normalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.BackTrack LinuxFlatsealWhy you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project — Contributor license agreements (or CLAs for short) have gained a lot of visibility in recent years as some prominent open-source projects have opted to adopt them. If all the cool kids are doing it, should your open source project? Probably not. Here’s whyStrike Global Now