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... Read More...
Simon Butcher joins us to talk about how open source AI can be, in theory and in practice. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Docker firewall issues, Ardour’s major new feature, listening for your neighbours’ garage door openers and tyre pressure monitors, colourising old photos, complaints from new Ubuntu users, KDE Korner, and more. Discoveries rtl_433 Ardour 7 Palette.fm Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source Santa Circles Feedback Unattended upgrades doesn’t upgrade additional repository ... Read More...
It’s our Halloween Spooktacular! What scares us about Linux, what we find spooky, and what seems like witchcraft. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
It’s our 200th episode spectacular! We look back over some of the key events and trends from the last ~5 years that the show has been going. The rise of Arm and RISC-V, the death of 32-bit x86, Mozilla’s decline, the Ubuntu Phone fever dream, gaming wins, and loads more. Linode Simplify... Read More
What problems that we are currently facing will be solved with Linux and FOSS in the future, and why does it involve AI/ML? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Tracking planes that don’t necessarily want to be tracked, the catch 22 of communicating changes to FOSS users, Graham makes another terrible racket, what we do to procrastinate, and more. Discoveries ADS-B Exchange Virtual Smart Home introduce Pro tier tuning-workbench-synth tune CLI HPR New Year live show and FOSDEM podcast table ... Read More...
Is FOSS the ultimate lifeboat? If things go wrong with a tech stack, can you always just fall back on FOSS? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RISC-V laptops, KDE Korner, and more. News A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy New games were still being added last month Canonical launches free personal... Read More
Does it matter where you host your FOSS code? GitHub benefits from the network effect, but other options have their own benefits. Plus Gary explains why he doesn’t use Git. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham makes a dreadful racket, and more. Discoveries The CIA has a podcast CIA museum: Inside the world’s most top secret museum The Fuck OPNsense samplebrain Mutable... Read More...
Our worst Linux cock-ups, and what we learned from them. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more. News Listener Michael sent Joe a LMN 3 Systemd support is now available in WSL Systemd support lands in WSL Audacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over... Read More
What’s the best way to implement telemetry and metrics in open source software, and should it be opt-in or opt-out? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and more. Discoveries Navidrome ImHex Moonlight UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro AI “art” Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition Professional AI... Read More
Where do we draw the line when it comes to our ethics and our ability to put food on the table? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner. News NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions... Read More
What F/OSS means to us and why it’s important. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more. Discoveries TTS audible-activator Furnace Feedback Gadgetbridge LNL-Discoveries LNL-Discoveries – GitHub Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security... Read More...
If we could go back in time, what advice would we give our younger, less experienced counterparts about Linux and FOSS? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner. News Introducing multitasking to Arduino GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users... Read More...
It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS. Make sure to listen to part 1 first. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more. Discoveries Tauno Serial Plotter kdb-audio ChromeOS Flex is now generally available Discussion Open source isn’t working for AI Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy.... Read More...
How efficient are our whole setups – including servers, client machines, and VPSs? Could we be doing more to save energy and money? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster... Read More
There is a sustainability problem in FOSS. How do we fix it? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more. Discoveries bat Beej’s guide to network programming LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app Galaxy Buds Client Lineage problems battop Feedback Late Night Linux Discoveries code Joe’s RSS Thingy Bismuth How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries GoatCounter ... Read More...
In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more. News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS Torvalds is using Asahi... Read More
Hayden explains why he uses Windows Subsystem for Linux on a daily basis, and argues that Microsoft is a very different organisation from the one that was so hostile to FOSS 20+ years ago. He mentioned his unofficial timeline of Microsoft’s transition towards open source. See our contact page for ways to get... Read More
