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Feb 12, 2023 • 46min

Windows is spyware, Fedora adds Flathub, AI tool violates FOSS

🎙️ Leave your feedback here: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 👏 Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment 👕 Buy TLE Merch : https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch my Linux videos : https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 00:00 Intro 01:39 Windows 11 sends data to third parties right after install, without user consent https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-disable-annoying-ads-on-windows-11 06:11 Fedora will now use the full flathub, instead of their subset of it https://linuxiac.com/fedora-38-will-offer-unfiltered-flathub-access-out-of-the-box/ 09:38 An AI tool uses FOSS libraries without respecting their licenses https://undeleted.ronsor.com/voice.ai-gpl-violations-with-a-side-of-drm/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/voiceai_open_source/ 13:18 Stable Diffusion is now proved to regurgitate images it was trained on https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/03/1067786/ai-models-spit-out-photos-of-real-people-and-copyrighted-images/ 16:56 Mycroft, the FOSS voice assistant, will close down https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1 19:57 GNOME Software is receiving performance improvements https://feaneron.com/2023/02/07/profiling-optimizing-gnome-software/ 23:14 Thunderbird shares their roadmap and history https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/ 28:49 Malware developers are abusing Google ads to distribute their software https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software/ 32:25 Google and Mozilla are working on “real” versions of their browsers for iOS https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/googles_chromium_ios/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/mozilla_google_apple_webkit/ 37:11 GNOME Weekly updates https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/02/twig-81/ 40:00 KDE Weekly updates https://pointieststick.com/2023/02/03/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-starts-to-take-shape/ 41:49 Gaming News: ray tracing support, and SSD upgrades for the Steam Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/nvidia-vulkan-beta-5254707-supports-extension-to-help-vkd3d-proton-dxr/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/framework-begin-offering-2tb-ssd-upgrades-for-steam-deck/ 44:46 Outro 💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com
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Feb 4, 2023 • 43min

A peek at Cosmic DE's design, Mint + Wayland, elementary OS 7 released

🎙️ Leave your feedback here: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 👏 Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment 👕 Buy TLE Merch : https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch my Linux videos : https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 00:00 Intro 01:03 System 76 shares some designs for their Cosmic DE https://blog.system76.com/post/more-on-cosmic-de-to-kick-off-2023 07:09 Linux Mint teases Wayland support for Mint 21.2 https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4470 https://9to5linux.com/xfce-4-20-desktop-environment-will-finally-bring-wayland-support 11:21 elementary OS 7 HORUS is out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBxtGVoYEws 16:42 Budgie 10.7 brings a lot of cool updates https://blog.buddiesofbudgie.org/budgie-10-7-released/ 21:42 KDE Plasma Mobile apps are moving fast https://plasma-mobile.org/2023/01/30/january-blog-post/ 26:25 Google expands their open source bug bounty program https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-expands-open-source-bounties-will-soon-support-javascript-fuzzing-too/ 29:48 Microsoft and Github Copilot get a second lawsuit https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/28/23575919/microsoft-openai-github-dismiss-copilot-ai-copyright-lawsuit 33:18 The US and the EU agree on building joint AI models https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/us-and-eu-to-launch-first-of-its-kind-artificial-intelligence-agreement/97394092?redirect=1 35:13 Gaming news: less stutters and New Big Picture for everyone https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/valve-fix-dead-space-steam-deck/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ge-proton-7-48-out-now-with-updates-to-dxvk-vkd3d-proton/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/amd-gpu-driver-linux-steam-deck-big-improvement-stuttering-problems/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/heroic-games-launcher-260-out-now-adding-auto-updates-new-theme/ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3682291055854286778 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/ubisoft-broke-their-games-on-linux-desktop-and-steam-deck/ 💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com
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Jan 28, 2023 • 47min

New EU law hurts FOSS, GNOME 44 alpha, Chrome beats Firefox

🎙️ Leave your feedback here: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 👏 Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment 👕 Buy TLE Merch : https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch my Linux videos : https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 00:00 Intro 01:42 New EU laws might make using FOSS really difficult https://devclass.com/2023/01/24/eus-proposed-ce-mark-for-software-could-have-dire-impact-on-open-source/ 07:59 GNOME 44 alpha is out for testing https://9to5linux.com/gnome-44-alpha-released-with-new-stream-deck-app-file-chooser-grid-view 13:01 Firefox loses to Chrome badly in benchmarks https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks 15:42 Google’s Fuchsia OS might be in trouble https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/big-layoffs-at-googles-fuchsia-os-call-the-projects-future-into-question/ 18:09 Ubuntu Pro is now available for free for up to 5 PCs https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-pro-subscription-what-it-means-for-users/ 20:15 BlendOS looks like a very interesting distro https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-blendos-a-blend-of-arch-linux-fedora-linux-and-ubuntu 22:51 GNOME weekly updates https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/01/twig-79/ 25:39 KDE Weekly updates https://pointieststick.com/2023/01/20/this-week-in-kde-the-best-plasma-5-version-ever/ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2023/01/21/kf6-branched.html 28:35 Google presents big updates to their Flutter toolkit https://9to5google.com/2023/01/25/flutter-forward-teaser/ 31:48 The US might deal a big blow to user generated content https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/20/tech/meta-microsoft-google-supreme-court-tech-algorithms/ 37:31 Gaming news: performance improvements, Wine 8, and EA games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ea-games-playable-on-steam-deck-sims-4-jedi-fallen-order/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/more-ea-games-steam-deck-playable/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/forspoken-desktop-linux-spoof-steam-deck/ https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.0 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/direct3d-to-vulkan-translation-layer-dxvk-21-adds-hdr-support-improves-shader-stutter/ 45:54 Outro 💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com
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Jan 21, 2023 • 50min

Linux Foundation's metaverse, Stable Diffusion sued, KDE 5.27 Beta

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Jan 14, 2023 • 47min

Apple isn't private, Mastodon loses users, Mozilla joins the fediverse

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Jan 7, 2023 • 43min

Arch isn't N°1, X.org dying, Meta fined €390M: Linux & Open Source News

🎙️ Leave your feedback here: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 👏 Support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment 📹 Watch my Linux videos: : https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🕰️ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro (listen to it, it’s important) 02:00 Is Arch Linux the most popular distribution? https://linuxiac.com/most-popular-linux-distros-according-to-reddit/ 05:18 X.org is dead at that point https://www.phoronix.com/news/XServer-2022-Development-Pace 08:35 Meta gets huge fines from the EU for breaching GDPR https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/04/facebook-instagram-gdpr-forced-consent-final-decisions/ 13:56 Finally a full AMD (including GPUs) Linux computer https://9to5linux.com/meet-the-slimbook-kymera-ventus-amd-black-limited-edition-linux-pc https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-kymera/kymera-ventus-amd-6-comprar 17:08 Google is working on a moderation tool for small websites https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/google-develops-free-terrorism-moderation-tool-for-smaller-websites/ 21:13 Google is porting Android to RISC V https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/ 27:07 System76 shares more details about COSMIC https://blog.system76.com/post/2022-at-system76-a-year-in-review 29:46 GNOME application updates https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/12/twig-76/ 32:30 KDE has quality of life improvements https://pointieststick.com/2022/12/30/this-week-in-kde-end-of-year-goodies/ 35:30 The MAUI project is very much alive https://mauikit.org/blog/maui-report-20/ 37:19 Budgie and Sway get their official Fedora spins https://9to5linux.com/its-official-fedora-linux-38-will-offer-fedora-budgie-and-sway-spins 39:09 Gaming news: HDR for Linux gaming, and AMD Ray Tracing https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/latest-steam-survey-sees-a-minor-dip-for-linux-steam-deck-still-trending-nicely-overall/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/valve-dev-teases-hdr-support-for-linux-gaming/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/amd-ray-tracing-on-linux-gets-closer-with-mesa-enabling-specific-games/ 42:10 Outro 💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com

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