Late Night Linux

We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and more. Plus Joe gives up on KDE. We mentioned Launcher Manager.   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 23th April at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 19 and send in more non-Linux questions for us. Check out the Conversations in Code podcast.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out if you’re part of Chrome’s latest experiment, KDE Korner, and more.   News Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support Signal finally updates public server code after months of silence US Government Sues Decentralized Content Platform LBRY Over $11M in Token Sales Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war LineageOS 18.1 based on Android 11 is here for nearly 60 devices Mozilla partners with NVIDIA to democratize and diversify voice technology Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant program Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment Bad Voltage 3×26: Luminiferous Aether popey to leave Canonical   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 23th April at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 19 and send in more non-Linux questions for us. Graham was on Linux Unplugged 400 talking about brewing beer with Linux.   KDE Korner Announcing KDE’s Qt 5 Patch Collection SoK: Improving Kirigami Docs KHamburgerMenu       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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

The lengths that we’ve all been to for a smooth home media setup, your feedback about SUSE and NFTs, and we hear from some actual young people who use Linux.   Home media setups MythTV, Pis, x86 boxes, and grown-up solutions like the Firestick How to Stream Netflix, Disney Plus, and more on raspberry pi 4 widevine   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 9th April at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 18 Check out Joe’s albums   Feedback Follow-up on getting young people into FOSS, more on why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, we hear from loads of SUSE users, and a potential use for NFTs. Will mentioned the openSUSE Virtual Conference 2021.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.   News Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies Announcement video An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions An open letter in support of RMS PHP repository moved to GitHub after malicious code inserted under creator Rasmus Lerdorf’s name Audacity 3.0.0 Released The End of AMP Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week elementary Developer Weekend   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 9th April at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 18   KDE Korner KDE Dev Tries Gnome 40 Kall kFor PapersK : Akademy QT6 is gettin’ going     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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

What’s changed about Linux and FOSS in the last crazy year, a new private search engine on the horizon, and your feedback about all sorts.   A new hope for search? Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 26th March at 10pm UK time. Details here.   A year on from The Event Almost a year to the day since the UK went into its first lockdown we discuss what this last crazy 12 months has changed about Linux, FOSS, open standards, and privacy.   Feedback Follow-up on the Framework laptop, KDE offline updates, GNOME’s popularity, getting kids into FOSS, 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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more.   News Steam Link now available on Linux SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO Canonical Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps NASA Mars helicopter lead on Linux Unplugged   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 26th March at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 17.   NFTs Non-fungible tokens: a passing fad, a serious investment opportunity, or a dystopian nightmare? NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions Stop this digital ownership madness. NFTs are bullshit. And the stupid makes me angry The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world Jack’s first tweet is for sale The climate controversy swirling around NFTs   KDE Korner Elisa on the desktop and the phone… you could say… konvergence Save and load plasma config Nico Love Video Series Frameworks 5.80 is out     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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   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  

Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more.   RISC OS with the Pi 400 Will has a new Raspberry Pi 400 and has been trying out RISC OS.   Mint’s update problem Update your computer! Vague update   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on Thursday 11th March 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out the latest recording on LNL Extra.   Feedback Follow-up on messaging including Pidgin plugins, why GNOME is such a popular choice for distros, email on Android, and a possible reason for slow Xubuntu shutdowns.       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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS projects, Xfce news, and KDE Korner.   News Linux has made it to Mars Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection Introducing the Framework Laptop Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on Thursday 11th March 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out the latest recording on LNL Extra.   Xfce Xorner Xubuntu 21.04 Progress Update And Now For Something Completely Different   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile Documentation Offline Updates       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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks.   Messaging Overload Our thoughts on a recent blog post by popey about all the different messaging apps and services that he uses.   Feedback Follow-up on Debian, progressive web apps, and supporting Firefox.   Linux on Chrome OS devices We are joined by Chris Pearse from Hither Green IT to talk about hacking Chromebooks and Chromeboxes to run “proper” Linux distros like GalliumOS and POP!_OS. He mentioned MrChromebox.     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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and more in the news, plus the usual Kool Kapers in KDE Korner.   News Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS Pitchforks set to Stun Visual Studio Code comes to Raspberry Pi Patch in this commit Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep Martin Wimpress, Ubuntu Desktop Lead, is Leaving Canonical LibreOffice 7.1 “Community” Edition Released Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police NewPipe 0.20.10 released: Sepia Search for PeerTube, chapters for YouTube and tabs for everyone! K-9 Mail is looking for funding k9mail.app Terraria port for Stadia cancelled after owner locked out of Google Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 26th February 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.   KDE Korner Make a KDE Theme With No Code & part 2 (Blog) Plasma 5.21 approaches Kate colour picker & project tools Checksums are important     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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   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