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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.
• Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration — This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton of customisation and flexibility. To get started, you’ll need an instance of Home Assistant running with the ESPHome add-on as well as the Home Assistant companion app on your mobile phone to receive notifications when someone presses the doorbell button.
• Alex in Chicago, Aug 10, 2023 | Meetup
• The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance — "The U.K. government wants to grant itself the right to scan every message online for content related to child abuse or terrorism—and says it will still, somehow, magically, protect peoples’ privacy. That’s simply impossible. U.K. civil society groups have condemned the bill, as have technical experts and human rights groups around the world."
• U.K. civil society groups
• human rights groups around the world
• WhatsApp, Signal, and the UK-based Element
• Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law — "End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats," Apple argued in a statement to the media.
• Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Snowflake ❄️ — Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call.
• Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking — Instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected.
• AdGuard Home
• NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
• UnifiedPush — UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.
• NextPush - Server App — UnifiedPush provider for Nextcloud - server application
• UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
• Proton Drive — Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data.
• SimpleLogin — Open source anonymous email service
• Simple NixOS Mailserver
• Proton Calendar
• EteSync - Secure Data Sync — Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
• Nextcloud + DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ has been successfully tested with Nextcloud.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.
• Nextcloud - Online collaboration platform — Regain control over your data
• Send — Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.
• nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end — A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project.
• FreeTube — The Private YouTube Client
• NewPipe - a free YouTube client — NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.
• yattee — Privacy-oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
• libredirect — A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
• Aegis Authenticator - Secure 2FA app for Android — Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.
• SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random) — Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy.
• Element — A secure communications platform built around you.
• PrivacyGuides.org
• PrivacyTools.io
• Surveillance Self-Defense - EFF
• Funding Developers With Lightning
• Tailscale on GL.iNet Routers — Tailscale feature available since V4.2.
• Nix-on-Droid — Nix-on-Droid brings Nix package manager of NixOS fame to your mobile device.
• InvidTUI — InvidTUI is an invidious client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.

Plus what really happens on a 64-bit Linux box when you run 32-bit software, some very handy picks, our reaction to the new Raspberry Pi 4 and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• These 5D Glass Discs Store 360 TB Of Data For 13.8 Billion Years — Researchers at the University of Southampton have showcased their new nanostructured glass discs that have the ability to store digital data for billions of years. The university announced that they've managed to build a device that can store huge amounts of data on small glass discs using laser writing
• The Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster | Ars Technica — The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has launched. It's a pretty big upgrade from the Raspberry Pi 3, with the company claiming that the device can provide "desktop performance comparable to entry-level x86 PC systems."
• Is 4 GB The Limit For The Raspberry Pi 4? | Hackaday — It’s not the lack of an Oxford comma that caught his eye, but the tantalising mention of an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 4. Could we one day see an extra model in the range with twice the memory? It would be nice to think so.
• Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit – Raspberry Pi — Full desktop computer kit - just connect to HDMI display(s)
• Steam is dropping support for Ubuntu, but not Linux entirely | PC Gamer — Last Friday, a developer at Valve announced that Ubuntu Linux 19.10⁠—which is due to come out this October—won't be supported by Steam. Valve is still supporting Linux, just not future versions of the Ubuntu operating system.
• Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter — Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases will not be officially supported by Steam or recommended to our users. We will evaluate ways to minimize breakage for existing users, but will also switch our focus to a different distribution, currently TBD.
• Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS | Ubuntu — Thanks to the huge amount of feedback this weekend from gamers, Ubuntu Studio, and the WINE community, we will change our plan and build selected 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS.
• What it takes to run a 32-bit x86 program on a 64-bit x86 Linux system — Suppose that you have a modern 64-bit x86 Linux system (often called an x86_64 environment) and that you want to run an old 32-bit x86 program on it (a plain x86 program). What does this require from the overall system, both the kernel and the rest of the environment?
• Nextcloud — The self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control
• NextCloud Phone Sync
• NextCloud workflow scripts
• Nextcloud Registration Plugin
• NextCloud Keep or Sweep
• Nextcloud News
• Nextcloud file-drop — Convenient and secure file exchange for enterprises.
• Install Nextcloud for Linux using the Snap Store
• NextCloud docker-compose examples
• LinuxServer.io NextCloud docker image
• CSRF Check Failed · Issue #768 · nextcloud/ios
• lexicon — Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way.
• ARandR: Another XRandR GUI — ARandR is designed to provide a simple visual front end for XRandR. Relative monitor positions are shown graphically and can be changed in a drag-and-drop way.