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• Linux Has Become Complicated and Limiting (Gnome, Wayland, etc.)

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• LINUX Unplugged 387: Tumbling Into the New Year!
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• Launch keyboard — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.
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• Photonix Demo
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• PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism is a privately hosted app for browsing, organizing, and sharing your photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way.
• Piwigo — Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.
• FileRun File Manager — Self-Hosted File Sync and Sharing.
• exiftool - bulk join json with jpg from Google Takeout
• How To Correctly Export And Migrate Away From Google Photos
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• Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
• ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world
• Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem
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• Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
• Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year
• r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward?
• r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”?
• Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.
• unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈

Plus some useful things Mozilla is working on and Cassidy joins us to tell us about elementary OS' big choice.

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• Office Depot rigged PC malware scans to sell unneeded $300 tech support — Office Depot and a partner company tricked customers into buying unneeded tech support services by offering PC scans that gave fake results.
• Bye Bye vi: GNU/Linux Distros Drop Support
• The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 20 Years of Community-led Development "The Apache Way"
• Reducing Notification Permission Prompt Spam in Firefox — According to our telemetry data, the notifications prompt is by far the most frequently shown permission prompt, with about 18 million prompts shown on Firefox Beta in the month from Dec 25 2018 to Jan 24 2019. Not even 3% of these prompts got accepted by users.
• Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web — Today, we announce the start of a new standardization effort — WASI, the WebAssembly system interface.
• A Real-Time Wideband Neural Vocoder at 1.6 kb/s Using LPCNet — It’s the first time a neural vocoder is able to run in real-time using just one CPU core on a phone (as opposed to a high-end GPU) with quality that is much better than existing very low bitrate vocoders and comparable to that of more traditional codecs using a higher bitrate.
• elementary AppCenter + Flatpak — We’re excited to announce that elementary will be joining the larger independent open source movement and adopting Flatpak for AppCenter and our third-party developer ecosystem.
• NGINX and F5: Our Continued Commitment to Open Source — Just to repeat that. F5 is committed to the NGINX open source technology, developers, and community.
• Raspberry Pi Keyboard and Mouse — I’m delighted to announce the official Raspberry Pi keyboard with integrated USB Hub, and the official Raspberry Pi mouse.
• DIY Pro Audio Kit for Raspberry Pi
• Ubuntu MATE 18.04 Beta 1 for Raspberry Pi — We are preparing Ubuntu MATE 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) for the Raspberry Pi. With this Beta pre-release, you can see what we are trying out in preparation for our next (stable) version.
• What’s Free at Linux Academy — April 2019
• UK Open Source Awards — Now in their 6th year, UKOSA is a free non-profit event that celebrates and acknowledges the contributions from the community of technology experts that make open source such a powerful and unstoppable disruptive force in the current technology landscape.
• Feedback: is compiling faster?