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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Brent in Berlin Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin and we're having a LOW KEY meetup at the NixOS night at cbase.
• One Time Fiat Fun for SCaLE 2024
• Southern California Linux Expo 19
• Purchase a SCALE Pass 63
• First NixCon North America!
• NixCon North America | SCALE 21x
• NixCon North America Call for Proposals
• Texas Linux Fest 2024
• LFNW 2024: Ready or not
• LFNW 2024: Call for Sessions
• Jupiter Broadcasting Live Calendar
• 2023 Unplugged Tuxies
• Ollama — Get up and running with Llama 2 and other large language models locally.
• OllamaHub — Explore and Download Custom Ollama Modelfiles.
• ollama library
• Ollama Manual Install
• Ollama Docker Image
• ollama-webui
• LlamaGPT
• llama-gpt — A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device. New: Code Llama support!
• Continue.dev — An open-source autopilot in your IDE
• Refact.ai — Refact is an open-source AI coding assistant with blazing-fast code completion, powerful code improvement tools, and chat.
• 32-Bit Challenge Chat room
• Speech Note — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so. Text and voice processing take place entirely offline, locally on your computer, without using a network connection. Your privacy is always respected. No data is sent to the Internet.
• Speech Note on GitHub
• LFNW: Call for Sponsors
• Framework 13 (Intel) NixOS Module
• GeneBean's hyprland nix config
• Razer Core X - Thunderbolt™ 3 eGPU
• CompleteNoobs: Ubuntu KVM to Windows 10 - Thinkpad T470 - Razer Core X - GTX 970 -
• LINUX Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough — Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.
• Pick: Marker — Convert PDF to markdown quickly with high accuracy

We take the opportunity to expand on the overall effort to solve Linux fragmentation.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Neal Gompa, and Will Thompson.

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• Pocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life. Pocket P.C. is your hacker terminal on-the-go.
• On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication – Will Thompson’s GNOME-ish blog — There is a blog post doing the rounds asserting that Flatpak Is Not The Future. The post is really long, and it seems unlikely that I and the author will ever agree on this topic, so I’m only going to talk about a couple of paragraphs about disk usage and sharing of runtimes between apps which caught my eye.
• Bustle — Graphical D-Bus message analyser and profiler.
• Gnome Initial Setup
• Endless OS Foundation — Our mission is to help all people and communities connect with technology.
• Will sometimes does other stuff and writes about it
• Flatpak Is Not the Future - Ludocode — Flatpak calls itself “the future of application distribution”. I am not a fan. I’m going to outline here some of the technical, security and usability problems with Flatpak and others. I’ll try to avoid addressing “fixable” problems (like theming) and instead focus on fundamental problems inherent in their design. I aim to convince you that these are not the future of desktop Linux apps.
• docker-slim — Don’t change anything in your Docker container image and minify it by up to 30x
• Flatseal — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.
• Bruch with Brent with Stuart Langridge — Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source’s “final mile”, the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more.
• Seeking contractors for work on Flathub project — GNOME has a donor who is interested in supporting financial sustainability for app developers and removing barriers to an inclusive ecosystem. Flathub would like to use these funds to work with a contractor for a short-term project and make steps towards supporting application developers being able to request payments (whether donations or subscriptions).

We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out.

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• 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open!
• SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable filesystem - a first for arch? — During the Steam Deck Development live steam, Valve finally gave us some good news and said that SteamOS 3.0 will be generally available for everyone to install on their computers. They also revealed that SteamOS 3.0 will have an immutable root file system to prevent unauthorized access and use PipeWire for audio.
• Greg’s Company Buys Ads openSUSE Search Results — "Hey, @openSUSE have you been seeing a drop in downloads recently? I might know why..."
• They did this to AlmaLinux at the end of July.
• AlmaLinux AMA
• Setting up a containerized environment - openSUSE User Documentation Project
• Using the Linode Graphical Shell (Glish)
• How to switch from OpenSUSE Leap to Tumbleweed?
• Transactional Updates | Administration Guide | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
• The Transactional Update Guide
• Manpage for transactional-update — Transactional-update updates the system in a transactional way; this means updates are atomic, so either the patches are fully applied or nothing is changed. The update does not influence the running system and it can be rolled back. To activate the changes, the system needs to be rebooted. To achieve this transactional-update is using Btrfs' snapshot mechanism, combined with the default distribution tools
• YaST Online Update
• OpenSUSE System Updates
• Snapper rollback with btrfs
• openSUSE/transactional-update — Do transactional updates on openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise products with btrfs, snapshots and rollback.
• Open Build Service
• OpenSUSE Conference 2017
• Post that explains some of the drawbacks of transaction updates
• Zypper cheat sheet VERY handy and recommend it
• JupiterGarage.com
• Pick: mp4grep — Command-line tool that searches audio/video files.
• JB All Shows Feed

Plus how Archive.org uses Linux, and more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl George, and Neal Gompa.

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• tsukae — Show off your most used shell commands
• GNOME Shell X11Gestures Wxtension — Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension.
• TouchEgg — Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.
• Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 — Sent out on Saturday by independent developer Ronald Tschalär was the latest reverse-engineered, open-source driver code that gets the Touch Bar and ALS support working for MacBook Pro 13,* / 14,* / 15,* models.
• Internet Archive Infrastructure — Jonah Edwards breaks down how the Internet Archive works, behind the scenes.
• jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• liamg/traitor — Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins.
• Don't expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) — Docker primarily works as a client that communicates with a daemon process (dockerd). Typically that socket is a UNIX domain socket called /var/run/docker.sock. That daemon is highly privileged; effectively having root access. Any process that can write to the dockerd socket also effectively has root access.
• Feedback: Minecraft Bedrock Bridge
• GeyserMC — Enable clients from Minecraft Bedrock Edition to join your Minecraft Java server.
• Feedback: Audio Hardware
• Feedback: Episode 394
• Feedback: Arch Discussion

Plus we announce the official Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix server, share some great picks, and a thought-provoking email.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:35 Intro
2:03 Debian Requests Artwork
3:04 Google Kernel Code Dump
8:07 The Future of Rust
14:15 Manjaro Forum Meltdown
20:11 Matrix Server Migration
27:38 Housekeeping
28:44 Podcatcher Play-Off
29:08 Podcatcher Play-Off: Honorable Mentions
31:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Winds
33:36 Podcatcher Play-Off: Cpod
35:33 Podcatcher Play-Off: Airsonic
38:16 Podcatcher Play-Off: Shellcaster
40:15 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castero
40:42 Podcatcher Play-Off: Castget
42:27 Podcatcher Play-Off: Pocketcasts
44:22 Podcatcher Play-Off: Antennapod
45:09 Podcatcher Play-Off: Overcast
47:22 Feedback: Mac Pro as a Daily Driver
48:38 Feedback: Internet Apocalypse
57:22 Pick: Quad SATA Kit for Raspberry Pi
1:00:01 Pick: Outrun
1:02:50 Outro
1:04:30 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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• Debian turns 27! - Bits from Debian
• r/linux: Debian turns 27!
• Debian Bullseye artwork call for proposals - entries must be submitted by October 15
• Google Finally Begins Their Open-Source Dance Around Linux User-Space Threading - Phoronix
• [PATCH for 5.9 0/3] FUTEX_SWAP (tip/locking/core) - Peter
• Laying the foundation for Rust’s future | Rust Blog
• Manjaro’s new Forum
• LINUX Unplugged Matrix Community
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat
• Gnome Podcasts
• gPodder — Media aggregator and podcast client
• brtmr/podfox
• Spotify
• Winds — Winds is a modern, open-source RSS and Podcast app built using React/Redux/Node by Stream.
• CPod — A simple, beautiful podcast app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• AirSonic — Airsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music.
• shellcaster — Terminal-based podcast manager built in Rust
• castero — TUI podcast client for the terminal
• castget — A command-line podcast downloader.
• Pocketcasts
• Pocket Casts acquired by NPR, other public radio stations, and This American Life - The Verge
• Overcast
• AntennaPod
• Feedback: ‘TheFake VIP’ still uses that same Mac Pro as his daily driver — I still, to this day, run a Mac Pro just like that as my daily driver, in Windows, macOS and Linux (Arch with i3). It's still a dream machine for me.
• Feedback: Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet? — So let me ask you an important question. Would you still use Linux if there was no more internet?
• QUAD SATA KIT for Raspberry PI — Easily build your own NAS / Media-server based on Raspberry Pi 4 Description mount up to 4x 2.5" HDD or SSD
• outrun — Execute a local command using the processing power of another Linux machine.
• Debconf 20 starts this week.
• Flipper Zero — Tamagochi for Hackers

Plus our experience with Pop!_OS 20.04, Telegram's recent embarrassment, and some feedback.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Jill Bryant Ryniker.

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• Jessie Frazelle on Twitter: “You are stranded in a weird shell and you are only allowed to bring three commands, which ones do you choose: Mine -> | (gotta have pipes) awk sed”
• Ubuntu’s Server Installer Leaked Encrypted Storage Passphrase to Its Log
• Gnome is Not the Default
• Telegram annoucnes the discontinuation of blockchain project
• ELF Libs Updates
• Check out eLive Beta
• Elive info from Founder
• Elive Beta With Enlightenment Is Brilliant, but Don’t Get Lost in the Maze
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Infinite Escape Room Podcast
• Infinite Escape Room Podcast on Twitter
• System76 Blog — What’s New with Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS
• Jack Wallen’s Take on Pop!_OS 20.04
• Tiling and PaperWM from Cris
• PaperWM
• Gnome and Tiling from Richard
• Gamma’s Dotfile Tool
• git-crypt: Transparent file encryption in git

Plus we debate if OpenWrt is still the best router solution, and chew on Microsoft's new SELinux competitor.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Neal Gompa.

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• Window Maker Version 0.95.9 Released
• Microsoft announces IPE, a new code integrity feature for Linux — Microsoft says that IPE is not intended for general-purpose computing. The IPE LSM was designed for very specific use cases where security is paramount, and administrators need to be in full control of what runs on their systems. Examples include embedded systems, such as network firewall devices running in a data center, or Linux servers running strict and immutable configurations and applications.
• OpenWrt - Opkg susceptible to MITM
• Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS
• Know when we're going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Fedora nightly compose finder
• Fedora 32 Looking At Using EarlyOOM By Default To Better Deal With Low Memory Situations — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system.
• earlyoom - Early OOM Daemon for Linux — The oom-killer generally has a bad reputation among Linux users. This may be part of the reason Linux invokes it only when it has absolutely no other choice. It will swap out the desktop environment, drop the whole page cache and empty every buffer before it will ultimately kill a process. At least that's what I think that it will do. I have yet to be patient enough to wait for it, sitting in front of an unresponsive system.
• rfjakob/systembus-notify: systembus-notify - system bus notification daemon
• oomd — Out of memory killing has historically happened inside kernel space. On a memory overcommitted linux system, malloc(2) and friends usually never fail. However, if an application dereferences the returned pointer and the system has run out of physical memory, the linux kernel is forced to take extreme measures, up to and including killing processes. This is sometimes a slow and painful process because the kernel can spend an unbounded amount of time swapping in and out pages and evicting the page cache. Furthermore, configuring policy is not very flexible while being somewhat complicated.
• low-memory-monitor on GitLab
• low-memory-monitor — low-memory-monitor, as its name implies, monitors the amount of free physical memory on the system and will shoot off signals to interested user-space applications, usually session managers, or sandboxing helpers, when that memory runs low, making it possible for applications to shrink their memory footprints before it's too late either to recover a usable system, or avoid taking a performance hit.
• Nohang — Nohang is a highly configurable daemon for Linux which is able to correctly prevent out of memory (OOM) and keep system responsiveness in low memory conditions.
• Better interactivity in low-memory situations - devel - Fedora Mailing-Lists
• EnableEarlyoom - Fedora Project Wiki
• Nushell - The Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development.
• Timekpr - simple and easy to use time managing software that helps optimizing time spent at computer.

Plus community news, a concerning issue for makers, an Arch server follow up, and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Jeremy Stott, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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• The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter: After several months of development we are happy to announce Manjaro Linux 19.0 release, named Kyria!
• Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design’s silent arrival
• Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Alex’s Blog: FAA Remote ID Proposal
• FPVFC FAQ on FAA Remote ID NPRM - December 2019
• Proposed Rule: Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
• Introducing the Uber SSH Certificate Authority - Uber Security + Privacy - Medium
• bless: Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function
• How Uber, Facebook, and Netflix Do SSH
• stoggi/sshrimp: 🦐SSH Certificate Authority in a Lambda (on the barbie)
• “Zero Trust SSH” - Jeremy Stott (LCA 2020) - YouTube
• linux.conf.au 2020 | Presentation: Zero Trust SSH
• Keybase SSH
• hallow: A SSH Certificate Authority designed for use with AWS native environments
• BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security – Google Research
• collascii - A collaborative ascii canvas
• Ly - a TUI display manager
• ChrisLAS Cast
• Ubuntu Podcast

Plus an easy way to snapshot any workstation, some great feedback, and an extra nerdy command-line pick.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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• Google slams Samsung for making changes to Linux kernel code
• Mitigations are attack surface, too
• Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (archive.org cache)
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Timeshift: system restore tool for Linux
• Timeshift 19.08.1 does not apply file/folder exclude/include settings
• New Users and Linux Mint
• T480 Fingerprint Reader?
• Cockpit and ZFS
• Bcachefs prediction feedback
• jc: This tool serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq.
• Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century | Brazil’s Blog
• Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong

Plus a new Plasma focused laptop, and two powerful command-line picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• MarsCat is a Bionic Cat Powered by Raspberry Pi 3 (Crowdfunding)
• Kubuntu Focus Offers The Most Polished KDE Laptop Experience We’ve Seen Yet - Phoronix
• Kubuntu Focus
• Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release | Windows Command Line
• The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work | Drew DeVault’s Blog
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Shareware on Wikipedia
• The Origin of Shareware
• Computer Chronicles: Shareware
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
• Play DOOM Online
• PC-SIG Library (12th Edition) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Revolution OS: a 2001 documentary film that traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement
• Broot: Get an overview of a directory, even a big one
• Tizonia: cloud music from the linux terminal