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Microsoft and Ubuntu's relationship is under a new spotlight this week. Plus our rundown of the feature-packed 5.11 release, a Fuchsia surprise, exciting hardware news, and more.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep — "The creepiest thing," he said, "[was] the direct contact on my private LinkedIn account" – which he noted did not share "the same corporate email. ＣｙｂｅｒＡｎｔａｎｉ on TwitterKDE Plasma 5.21 is Packed with New Features — KDE Plasma 5.21 is going to be released on February 16 and when it arrives it’ll bring a barrel load of changes and enhancements with it.This week in KDE — Plasma 5.21 approaches! Linux 5.11 Is Heavy On New Features, Improvements For 2021 — There are a ton of Intel and AMD changes, Syscall User Dispatch for helping some newer Windows games run under Wine, continued IO_uring advancements, many Btrfs file-system improvements, Lenovo contributed ThinkPad palm sensor detection support, and much more. Linux 5.11 - Linux Kernel Newbies Syscall User Dispatch Appears Destined For Linux 5.11 To Help Windows Games On Linux AMD Ryzen, EPYC 5~6% Faster Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 5.11 Intel Xe Graphics Are Looking Great On Linux 5.11 With Nice Performance Uplift OpenLiteSpeed WordPress Server | Linode Marketplace System76 Begins Detailing Their Open-Source “Launch Configurable Keyboard” — Like the Thelio computers, System76 is going to be manufacturing their own keyboards at their facility in Denver, Colorado.Keyboards Go Open Source With System76’s ‘Launch Configurable Keyboard’ system76/launch on GitHub — System76 Launch Configurable KeyboardSystem76 on Twitter — “The Launch keyboard PCB! #system76 #launch #keyboard #linux #comingsoon #sneakpeek"AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers — Several of these new job descriptions do begin with, "step up into a new organization built to engage more strategically and deeply with the technical teams of our commercial customers."AMD “Green Sardine” Firmware Published For Linux Users Google Fuchsia OS could run Android & Linux apps ‘natively’ — This week, a proposal has been put forward for an alternative solution for Fuchsia to run programs meant for Linux and Android. Instead of running Linux itself, Fuchsia would gain a system called “Starnix,” which would act as a translator between instructions for the Linux kernel and instructions for Fuchsia’s Zircon kernel.[rfc] Running unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia Fuchsia - Starnix Proposal Hacker News Comments — Running unmodified Linux programs on FuchsiaHomework: Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel Homework: Visual guide to SSH tunnels Homework: FOSDEM 2021 Videos

Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks. Plus what's wrong with OPNsense's Wireguard setup?Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshA Cloud Guru: This course will provide you the fundamentals, tools, techniques, and use case examples to configure, manage and troubleshoot Linux networkingSupport Self-HostedLinks:FileRun - File Manager — Just like you do with an FTP server, point FileRun to where you keep the files on your server and you will get instant web access to them.termpad — Just an empty terminal, in your browser.Tinypin — A self-hosted, minimalistic image collection board. OPNsense 21.1 Released — For those wondering, the WireGuard plugin has been available since 2019 and receives continuous improvements by its maintainer and various users alike.  And that is unlikey to change in the future.  Setting up linuxserver/wireguard — Putting your docker stack behind a VPN.linuxserver.io: WireGuard — Docker container to run WireGuard. Passthrough Intel iGPU with GVT-g to a VM and use Quick Sync with Plex in docker on Proxmox — Passing through an entire GPU is very useful for specific tasks but isn't a very efficient use of resources. Wouldn't it be nice if we could slice up 1 GPU and use it with multiple VMs at once?Hassio-google-drive-backup — A complete and easy way to back up your Home Assistant snapshots to Google Drive.Duplicati — Backup files and folders with strong AES-256 encryption. Save space with incremental backups and data deduplication. Run backups on any machine through the web-based interface or via command line interface. Duplicati has a built-in scheduler and auto-updater.

After reflecting on more than 8 years of the show, we get into solving problems and taking names. Plus a couple of special announcements, and some Hoopla we've just got to talk about.Sponsored By:The Coder: The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. Embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderA Cloud Guru: In this course, you will develop all of the skills you need to write effective and complex shell scripts that can automate mundane tasks and complex implementations. Support Coder RadioLinks:Coder Radio Episode 1 MP4 - Direct Download — Michael and Chris introduce our new weekly software development podcast. We start with a look at ways beginners can get started with development. Plus we chat about the issues new developers face entering a market dominated by App stores. Then – How platform vendors are feeling the need to reclaim greater control from developers.Gateways to Programming | Coder Radio Episode 1Coder Radio Episode 400 Poster — Celebrate 400 episodes of Coder Radio with this word cloud tribute poster. Every title turned into one cool poster.The Coder | Official Coder Radio Robe — The Coder is made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. Embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.Hacker Tried to Poison Florida City's Water Supply, Police Say — The hacker tried to drastically increase sodium hydroxide levels in the water, Pinellas County, Florida, officials said on Monday.RabbitMQ Message Server One-Click App | Linode Marketplace — RabbitMQ is a highly available intermediary for messages to scale applications and prevent impacts to performance due to message processing. Monitor message status and performance stats in the simple interface, or control entirely in the command line. Message queuing ensures that your server is optimized for your application’s load time, reducing performance impacts due to too many message requests. Use plugins to connect to other tools, including Kubernetes and Prometheus.Rust Foundation - Hello World! — Today, on behalf of the Rust Core team, I’m excited to announce the Rust Foundation, a new independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, Congratulations, Rustaceans, on the creation of the Rust Foundation! | AWS Open Source BlogMac utility Homebrew finally gets native Apple Silicon and M1 support — There aren't bottles for every package yet, but the work is in progress.Why I Still Use RSS — I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS.Newsboat, an RSS reader — Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.

Which distro is best for friends and family? We have a unique take on this common question. Plus new insights into the future of CentOS, and Chris falls in love with a 14-inch screamer.Special Guest: Carl George.Sponsored By: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. Datadog: Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS WikiCentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTubeUbuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users?Subscribe to Coder RadioJupiter Broadcasting Telegram ChannelAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsEndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro — For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September.Our first release of 2021 has arrived – EndeavourOSASUS - ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Ultra-Slim Gaming LaptopLinux on Laptops: ASUS Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS | Ars TechnicaAUR: snap-pac-grub — Pacman hook to update GRUB entries for grub-btrfs after snap-pac made snapshots.Feedback: Browser SyncxBrowserSync — Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!Feedback: Gaming on WaylandA free, open-source future for Mailspring - Information - Mailspring Community — Today, I am excited to announce that I am open-sourcing mailsync - the C++11 core of Mailspring that performs email sync - under the same GPLv3 license used by the rest of the app, making Mailspring entirely free software.Pick: ht — Yet another HTTPie clone, written in Rust.PIck: fddf — Fast data dupe finder, written in Rust.Pick: bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, written in Rust.

The story behind a Microsoft repo shipping in Raspberry Pi OS, Canonical updates a special version of Ubuntu, and a couple of milestones the Linux world hit this week.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS Microsoft repo installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton on Twitter — I can’t understand why you think this was a controversial thing to do. We do things of this sort all the time without putting out a blog post about how to opt out. Ubuntu Core 20 Released For IoT/Embedded Linux Use-Cases — Ubuntu Core 20 is offered for x86_64 and ARM hardware and is backed by Canonical with ten years of support. Containerize all the things with Ubuntu Core 20 Ubuntu Core How to Deploy Guacamole with Marketplace AppsDonating Docker Distribution to the CNCF — To make the project clearly an industry wide collaboration, hosting it in the CNCF was the obvious place, as it is the home of many successful collaborative projects, such as Kubernetes and Containerd. Distribution — The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content.AlmaLinux, the CentOS Linux replacement, beta is out — AlmaLinux, the open-source enterprise-level Linux distribution created as an alternative to CentOS, has been released in beta with most Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages. Google funds project to secure Apache web server with new Rust component — The module will be based on Rustls; a Rust open-source library developed as an alternative to the C-based OpenSSL project. LKML: Hector Martin: [PATCH 00/18] Apple M1 SoC platform bring-up — This series brings up initial support for the Apple M1 SoC, used in the 2020 Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air models. Hector Martin's Development Streams

Microsoft is working on a bot that can deepfake you real good, and we have thoughts. Plus some insights into testing, and a special friend returns to the show.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderA Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru now includes Cloud Playground. Azure, AWS, or GCP Sandboxes at your fingertips.Support Coder RadioLinks:Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios — Google will close its two game studios, located in Montreal and Los Angeles. Neither had released any games yet. That closure will impact around 150 developers, one source familiar with Stadia operations said. Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021 - Slack Engineering — As if this was not already an inauspicious start to the New Year, while we were in the early stages of investigating, our dashboarding and alerting service became unavailable. After You Die, Microsoft Wants to Resurrect You as a Chatbot — In a December 2020 patent, Microsoft outlines a process for uploading data about a person—even the deceased—to turn their likeness into a chatbot. Data of the dead: Virtual immortality exposes holes in privacy lawsPerl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain= — A warning went up on the perl.org infrastructure weblog overnight notifying users that perl.com now directed to a parking site and advised against visiting "as there are some signals that it may be related to sites that have distributed malware in the past."Huginn: Your agents are standing by! — Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server.

We try out GNOME 40 and its new workspace layout. Who we think this works well for, and who might want to avoid it. Plus Wimpy, Ubuntu's Desktop lead, chats with us about his future after Canonical.Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress.Sponsored By: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. Oh Dear: Oh Dear monitors uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks, and more. We send out notifications when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer-friendly API and kick-ass documentation. Promo Code: LINUXA Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:VideoLAN is 20 years old!Refreshing the Ubuntu Desktop Installer — We have started working on the new desktop installer, and plan to have a preliminary version ready for testing in the 21.10 release; due in October 2021. This paves the way to transitioning to the new installer for the next LTS release, which will be 22.04, due for release in April 2022.Martin 🙂 Wimpress on Twitter — I’ll soon⏳be leaving Canonical. I’m very excited to be joining the fine people @SlimDevOps😃Despite the change, I’ll continue to lead @ubuntu_mate; it’s my passion💖project. Naturally, I’ll remain an enthusiastic #Ubuntu & Snapcraft community contributor💪Slim.aiOnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support — Thanks to the existing minimal mainline support for the platform, features like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3D Acceleration are already working at the current stage of development.All Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsUnplugged Hangout Stream Live 1-26-2021 - JupiterTubeGNOME 40 Approaches Its UI Freeze, Easy Means To Start Testing It — GNOME Shell recently merged its new horizontal workspaces, among other changes. The official GNOME Shell & Mutter development blog put out a new post on Monday highlighting their latest efforts. They are working to get the remaining big items in place over the next two weeks before the freeze and then an “intense period of polishing and bug fixing.”Another Shell UX Update – GNOME Shell & MutterWelp, Ubuntu 21.04 Won’t Ship with GNOME 40 or GTK4 — Ubuntu devs cite the redesign of GNOME Shell in GNOME 40 and its potential impact on GNOME extensions (of which Ubuntu ships a few by default) and the Yaru GTK theme as reason to “stick” to GNOME 3.38 this cycle.Triple Buffering Likely Not Landing Until GNOME 42Ubuntu 21.04 Will Use Wayland By DefaultQuick Demo: Gnome 40 Multi-monitor Demo - JupiterTubeCarl George on Twitter — I’ve been a @gnome fan/apologist for a long time. Dynamic virtual workspaces spanned across multiple horizontally arranged monitors are so damn wonderful to use. Productive. Efficient. Spatial.Carl's Workspace Layout DrawingFeedback: Chromium WoesFeedback: VentoyUGREEN M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSDSilicon Power 256GB A55 M.2 SSDPick: Ticker — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

Google removes Matrix chat-client Element from the Play store, sudo has a major flaw with a long-tail, and Rocky Linux gets a boost.Sponsored By:Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action NewsLinks:Element suspended on Google Play Store — At 2021-01-29 at 21:35 UTC Google suspended Element from the Play Store without warning or notificationElement sees fivefold increase in signups after Whatsapp privacy debacle — After Whatsapp’s announcement, rival app Telegram reported a 500% increase in users and Signal saw an 18-fold increase in download numbers, putting it on track to cross 1m new users each day. Element team waiting hours — Update: we’re still waiting for a response from Google to our explanatory mail sent ~8 hours ago. Thanks all for your patience while we get this sorted...New Linux SUDO flaw lets local users gain root privileges — The issue is a heap-based buffer overflow exploitable by any local user (normal users and system users, listed in the sudoers file or not), with attackers not being required to know the user's password to successfully exploit the flaw. The vulnerability was introduced in the Sudo program almost 9 years ago, in July 2011.10-year-old Sudo bug lets Linux users gain root-level access Buffer overflow in command line unescaping Sudo vulnerability allows attackers to gain root privileges on Linux systems (CVE-2021-3156) - Help Net Security — "This vulnerability is perhaps the most significant sudo vulnerability in recent memory (both in terms of scope and impact) and has been hiding in plain sight for nearly 10 years." New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Patched in All Supported Ubuntu Releases Mitre - CVE-2020-28374 Red Hat Customer Portal: CVE-2020-28374 Debian: CVE-2020-28374 Ubuntu: CVE-2020-28374 The killing of CentOS Linux: ‘The CentOS board doesn’t get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do’ — Brian Exelbierd, responsible for Red Hat liaison with the CentOS project and a board member of that project, has told The Register that CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat simply refused to invest in it. Rocky Linux gets a new sponsor—Gregory Kurtzer’s startup, Ctrl IQ — Rocky Linux is to be a beneficiary of Ctrl IQ's revenue, not its source—the company describes itself in its announcement as the suppliers of a "full technology stack integrating key capabilities of enterprise, hyper-scale, cloud and high-performance computing."Linux maintainer says long-term support for 5.10 will stay at two years unless biz world steps up and actually uses it — Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has responded to complaints that the current promise of two years for 5.10 is not enough, explaining that support is not automatic but requires commercial help. Rust Game Server One-Click App Linode — A free-for-all battle in a harsh open-world environment.

We discuss recent Home Assistant security news, and how we think the project could improve. Plus a bunch of follow up, emails, and more! Note: This episode was recorded before the recent second Home Assistant vulnerabilitySponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshCloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDA Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comSupport Self-HostedLinks:Security Bulletin 1- Home Assistant — It has come to our attention that certain custom integrations have security issues and could potentially leak sensitive information.Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — . The conclusion is that some custom integrations are still vulnerable to a directory traversal attack while not being authenticated with Home Assistant. It allows an attacker to access any file without having to log in. This access includes any credentials that you might have stored to allow Home Assistant to access other services. Generic Thermostat - Home Assistant — The genericthermostat climate platform is a thermostat implemented in Home Assistant. It uses a sensor and a switch connected to a heater or air conditioning under the hood. ATCMiThermometer — Custom firmware for the Xiaomi Thermometer LYWSD03MMC and Telink Flasher via USB to Serial converter.ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.Xiaomi Mijia BLE Temperature and Humidity Sensor - Home Assistant — The mitemp_bt sensor platform allows one to monitor room temperature and humidity. The Xiaomi Mijia BLE Temperature and Humidity sensor with LCD is a small Bluetooth Low Energy device that monitors the room temperature and humidity. Xiaomi Mijia Bluetooth Thermometer — New Xiaomi Mijia Bluetooth Thermometer 2 Wireless Smart Electric Digital Hygrometer ThermometerGoogle-drive-backup: Automatically create and sync Hass.io snapshots into Google Drive — A complete and easy way to back up your Home Assistant snapshots to Google Drive.Troubleshooting your configuration - Home Assistant

The guys can't help but laugh when they hear the test tests one well-known online giant is testing. You might say they get a bit testy.Sponsored By:Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/coderDatadog: Try Datadog free by starting a your 14-day trial and receive a free t-shirt once you install the agent.A Cloud Guru: A Cloud Guru now includes Cloud Playground. Azure, AWS, or GCP Sandboxes at your fingertips.Support Coder RadioLinks:Alacritty: A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. — Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.How We Ported Linux to the M1 — At Corellium, we've been tracking the Apple mobile ecosystem since iPhone 6, released in 2014 with two 64-bit cores. Apple Seeds Second Release Candidate Version of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers — ‌macOS Big Sur‌ 11 included a ContentFilterExclusionList that let Apple's apps like the App Store, Maps, iCloud, and more to avoid firewall and VPN apps that users had installedProbabilistic flakiness: How do you test your tests? — While we use automated tests to detect regressions in product quality, until recently we had no means of automatically detecting whether the tests themselves were deteriorating.