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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.   Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time! Subscribe to the Late Night Linux Family All Episodes Feed Will’s post that made it to Hacker News etc   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 Incus 0.1 has been released 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 What Reddit Got Wrong 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 A quarter century of Mozilla 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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The podcast covers various interesting topics, including Google's war on ad-blockers and its implications for Firefox, mobile extensions, a quick terminal tip, a VM advent calendar, extreme synth geekery, feedback on backing up photos, and a plea to stop telling about syncthing.

Discussion about Roundcube joining Nextcloud family, vulnerabilities in ownCloud, anticipation for OpenCV 5. First impressions of Steam Deck OLED and Raspberry Pi 5. Mini KDE Korner highlights updates and features. Kolide promotes secure device access for apps.

Guest host popey from Linux Matters joins the hosts to discuss various topics including an improvement to apt, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, a self-hosted way to bypass paywalls, making native apps out of web pages, bridging Zigbee devices to MQTT, and finding manufacturers for Zigbee sensors.

A guest host from Linux Matters discusses the new Steam Deck and Amazon's Linux-based OS. They also talk about great news for GNOME, the expensive cost of running Signal, GitHub's focus on Copilot, the drama at OpenAI, and updates in KDE.

Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, formatting Python code, speeding up Zsh, getting notifications through Pi Telegram bot, M1 Macbook Air problems, an epic ThinkPad collection, and more.

The podcast explores alternative operating systems if Linux wasn't available and highlights the appreciation for Linux. They discuss the RISC-V market and layoffs at SiFive. The hosts debate ad blockers and GDPR violations. The incident of a blocked DreamWorks presentation and the hope for legal action against Google and YouTube is mentioned. There is a discussion on upcoming changes to plasma widgets and a device trust solution called Kolide. Finally, the speakers share their preferences for different operating systems and the possibility of using Linux-like systems.

Topics discussed in this podcast include self-hosted Internet archive, 3D solar system browsing, Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, secure credential sharing, free modular synthesizer, Linux PDF editing, and more.

In this podcast, the hosts discuss the new version of Ubuntu, the translation incident, running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs, the leadership transition in Unity, and how to install Linux. They also talk about Android's malware scan, GNOME Foundation's new Executive Director, and developments in KDE. The podcast covers topics such as translation issues, ZFS en route feature, installing Linux on Windows, conspiracy theories, image scanners, and controversial hiring decisions.

Guest host Gary from Linux After Dark joins the podcast to discuss topics such as self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, the latest release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audio workstations, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, and Joe's new obsession with ThinkPad laptops.