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Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics.
This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.
I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!
This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.
I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!
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Feb 12, 2023 • 46min
Windows is spyware, Fedora adds Flathub, AI tool violates FOSS
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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
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Feb 4, 2023 • 43min
A peek at Cosmic DE's design, Mint + Wayland, elementary OS 7 released
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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/
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Jan 28, 2023 • 47min
New EU law hurts FOSS, GNOME 44 alpha, Chrome beats Firefox
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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
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Jan 21, 2023 • 50min
Linux Foundation's metaverse, Stable Diffusion sued, KDE 5.27 Beta
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Timecodes and links:
00:00 Intro
01:43 Linux Foundation is trying to build an open metaverse
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/open-metaverse-foundation
https://www.openmv.org/on-the-path-to-an-open-metaverse/
07:09 Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit
12:50 Adobe clarifies their use of user data regarding AI
https://petapixel.com/2023/01/18/adobe-says-it-isnt-using-your-photos-to-train-ai-image-generators/
15:53 KDE Plasma 5.27 beta is now out for testing
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.26.90/
21:27 GNOME telemetry data shows it needs a notification tray
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2023/01/18/gnome-info-collect-what-we-learned/
27:38 India builds the Ministry of Truth
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/india-proposes-social-media-firms-rely-on-fact-checking-by-government-agencies/
https://www.altnews.in/pib-fact-check-blunders-again-incorrectly-declares-up-stf-advisory-on-chinese-apps-as-fake-news/
32:11 The new Ubuntu installer looks identical to the old one
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-new-flutter-installer-first-look
35:32 Fedora wants your feedback on their new installer
https://fedoramagazine.org/anaconda-web-ui-storage-feedback-requested/
39:11 Wikipedia gets a new redesign that looks the same
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/wikipedia-redesign-vector-2022-skin.html
43:36 Gaming News: AyaneoOS is coming, and Stadia is now dead
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ayaneo-confirm-their-linux-based-ayaneo-os-arrives-this-year/
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/18/googles-stadia-shuts-down-today/
49:09 Outro
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Jan 14, 2023 • 47min
Apple isn't private, Mastodon loses users, Mozilla joins the fediverse
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Timestamps and links:
00:00 Intro
01:39 Apple fined for violating their user’s privacy
https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-france-ads-fine-illegal-data-1849950163
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-fined-1-mln-euros-by-paris-commercial-court-over-app-store-practices-2022-12-19/
https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558
06:42 Google settles yet another privacy violation
https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-23-million-dollar-search-privacy-settlement
09:51 Newly arrived Mastodon users aren’t all sticking around
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/jan/08/elon-musk-drove-more-than-a-million-people-to-mastodon-but-many-arent-sticking-around
14:57 Mozilla joins the fediverse
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/
18:11 New full AMD laptop being announced by System76
https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin-teaser
21:40 GNOME lets you test a new UI change with an extension
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/try-gnome-44-focus-indicator-animation
27:01 GNOME weekly updates
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/01/twig-77/
30:06 UnityX brings customization to Unity DE
https://unityd.org/unityx-7-7-testing/
33:59 KDE Weekly updates
https://pointieststick.com/2023/01/06/this-week-in-kde-big-ui-improvements/
36:35 PopOS makes performance better for potato computers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/pop_os_zram-update
39:42 Chromium now scrolls correctly on Linux
https://linuxiac.com/chromium-109-update-brings-faster-scrolling-to-linux-users/
41:08 Gaming News: FOSS Nvidia driver, Dolphin emulator gets better
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/gamecube-and-wii-emulator-dolphin-got-a-big-speed-boost-for-steam-deck/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/the-open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-begins-to-run-games/
45:40 Outro
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Jan 7, 2023 • 43min
Arch isn't N°1, X.org dying, Meta fined €390M: Linux & Open Source News
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🕰️ 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
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