Late Night Linux

The ultimate ESP system, VoIP & RTC capture and troubleshooting, overpriced keyboards, making arcade cabinets even more fun, some notable distro releases, avoiding CAPTCHAs, and more.   Discoveries ESPhome Homer/Sipcapture solaar logitech G PRO BGFX The Great Crypto Scam Vanilla OS EndeavourOS Cassini Mozilla changes Firefox’s user agent because of Internet Explorer 11 useragents.me   Feedback Snikket       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Real hope for a local-only voice assistant, Matrix learns an age-old lesson about funding FOSS, 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop, Mozilla is about to catch up to the Mastodon trend, there definitely won’t be a Raspberry Pi 5 this year (honest), and KDE Korner.   News With voice assistants in trouble, Home Assistant starts a local alternative LineageOS 20 released The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [Feb 2019 – Upton: “I don’t have a route to do something this year”] [Jun 2019 – Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35] 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative   KDE Korner Gear 22.12  (Gwenview has a new docs page), KDEnlive 22.1, Tokodon 23.01 Rewritten Spectacle in 23.04 & Fractional wayland + multiscreen fixes & some holiday updates  & end of year goodies and finally a 2022 overview Kraft v1.0 & it can be run on WSL KDE Fundraiser & KDEnlive Funraisers successes! Linux App Summit Brno April 21-23 2023         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2022 predictions, and make some new ones for 2023.         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

It’s our 2022 in review episode which features Linux in space, gaming wins and fails, Raspberry Pi drama, the year of user-facing AI, Canonical and Microsoft, the rise of Mastodon, and more.           Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.     Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Loads of discoveries including picking the best DNS server for your connection, Telnet on the Amiga, some synth thing, markdown notes, and fixing downloaded Twitter data. Plus your feedback about Red Hat and IBM, containers and firewalls, Signal alternatives, and more.   Discoveries dnsdiag ZiModem KnobKraft twitter-archive-parser silverbullet One Thing Well   Feedback ksuperkey Firewalld and Podman – Protecting Your DB docker will happily bypass your firewall Session Signal issue Prosody IM           Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Particle physics depends on software that’s maintained by one retiree, another argument about AI, YouTube disrespects Creative Commons, we find an excuse to laugh at Musk, KDE Korner, and more.   News Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence FORM (symbolic manipulation system) – Wikipedia GPT-3 Business Email Generator by Danny Richman AI writes Terraform Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User Twitter turns its back on open-source development   KDE and Xfce Kornerx Xubuntu Development Update December 2022 Xfce 4.18 Looks Exciting Finalizing rpm-ostree support in Discover Introducing KIO AFC Plasma Mobile Gear 22.11 is Out This week in KDE: Humongous UI improvements This week in KDE: custom tiling Help KDE hire more people! Status of the 15-Minute Bug Initiative October/November in KDE Itinerary           Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.     Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

An application firewall, reverse engineering with a better and scriptable version of Wireshark, getting the most out of webcams on Linux, running the latest kernel on a ten year old phone, moving away from mailing lists, KDE Korner, and the best distro of 2022(?)   Discoveries  Portmaster tshark Will’s reverse engineering efforts cameractrls PostmarketOS on a Samsung Galaxy S III   Mailing lists are on the wane The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists   KDE Korner Jonathan Esk-Riddell’s report from Prague and Scarlett’s too Push notifications for KDE NeoChat E2EE progressingNate’s Update: Welcome in Plasma       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.     Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Python comes to Arduino, a look at the new version of Fedora Silverblue, Linux helps Windows work with old printers, running your own Mastodon instance, remastering Ubuntu ISOs, and more. With guest host Alan Pope (popey).   News Arduino Announces Official MicroPython Support Announcing Fedora Linux 37 OpenPrinting keeps old printers working, even on Windows LibreOffice and blockchain: What cool things are possible?   Running your own Mastodon instance Popey tells us about running ubuntu.social         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.     Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Some great discoveries including traffic shaping, USB over IP, speech to text, and a funny Firefox extension. Plus Graham talks to Ken VanDine, the engineering manager for Ubuntu Desktop.   Discoveries  Sad Servers Really Awful OSS Incidents AI to BS USB/IP protocol — The Linux Kernel documentation USB/IP Project Wondershaper Nerd Dictation nerd-dictation on GitHub   Ken VanDine Graham sits down with the Ken the Ubuntu desktop engineering manager at the Ubuntu Summit to talk about Snaps, desktop, WSL, Steam, and more.         Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Mastodon usage explodes in the wake of Musk ruining Twitter, AI training fair use is about to be legally tested, Signal tries to be Snapchat, KDE Korner, and more.   News Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them Twitodon Pick an Instance Helper GitHub Copilot litigation The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress Signal thinks it’s Snapchat What happened to signal-desktop? – snap – snapcraft.io snap automatic updates can now be ‘held’ indefinitely (currently beta/edge) Mozilla Ventures: Investing in Responsible Tech SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency-related projects to be removed   KDE Korner A New ‘KDE Control Centre’ Widget Inspired by iOS KDE For Creators Tiling Work Kate Treats, Outlines & smarter Krunner           Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here