It’s our 2022 in review episode which features Linux in space, gaming wins and fails, Raspberry Pi drama, the year of user-facing AI, Canonical and Microsoft, the rise of Mastodon, and more. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications... Read More
Modding a Game Cube with a Raspberry Pi Pico, writing a book about cross-platform and cross-architecture development, and the struggles of self-hosted security camera footage. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Loads of discoveries including picking the best DNS server for your connection, Telnet on the Amiga, some synth thing, markdown notes, and fixing downloaded Twitter data. Plus your feedback about Red Hat and IBM, containers and firewalls, Signal alternatives, and more. Discoveries dnsdiag ZiModem KnobKraft twitter-archive-parser silverbullet One Thing Well Feedback ksuperkey Firewalld... Read More...
With the holiday season upon us, we talk about all the tech that we have to have with us when we travel. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Particle physics depends on software that’s maintained by one retiree, another argument about AI, YouTube disrespects Creative Commons, we find an excuse to laugh at Musk, KDE Korner, and more. News Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence FORM (symbolic manipulation system) – Wikipedia GPT-3 Business Email Generator by Danny Richman... Read More...
Alan Pope (popey) joins us to discuss building and fostering a positive and productive community. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
An application firewall, reverse engineering with a better and scriptable version of Wireshark, getting the most out of webcams on Linux, running the latest kernel on a ten year old phone, moving away from mailing lists, KDE Korner, and the best distro of 2022(?) Discoveries Portmaster tshark Will’s reverse engineering efforts cameractrls PostmarketOS on... Read More...
The Linux setups from the past that we miss the most, and why they are all ones that gave us the freedom to tinker and learn. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Python comes to Arduino, a look at the new version of Fedora Silverblue, Linux helps Windows work with old printers, running your own Mastodon instance, remastering Ubuntu ISOs, and more. With guest host Alan Pope (popey). News Arduino Announces Official MicroPython Support Announcing Fedora Linux 37 OpenPrinting keeps old printers working, even on Windows... Read More...
Martin has created a new desktop environment and a container tool, Gary has been clustering Raspberry Pis, and Hayden has been playing with the new Microsoft Arm box. Butterfly Turing Pi Windows Dev Kit 2023 machinespawn See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS... Read More
Some great discoveries including traffic shaping, USB over IP, speech to text, and a funny Firefox extension. Plus Graham talks to Ken VanDine, the engineering manager for Ubuntu Desktop. Discoveries Sad Servers Really Awful OSS Incidents AI to BS USB/IP protocol — The Linux Kernel documentation USB/IP Project Wondershaper Nerd Dictation nerd-dictation on GitHub... Read More...
Why do we stick with Linux and FOSS, even when our faith is tested? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
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.
