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• Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
• Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser
• Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham — Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more.
• JPL Free Public Tours
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Jupiter.party - The JB Network Membership
• ptpython — A better Python REPL.
• IPython — A powerful interactive shell.
• bpython
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Nextjournal
• Joe’s minimal implementation of Git ~300 LOC
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Pick: dua-cli — View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
• dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust.
• parallel-disk-usage — Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer.
• dirstat-rs — (fastest?) disk usage cli, similar to windirstat.
• dutree — a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.
• F’ — A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework.
• quickemu
• Play webtorrent’s with mpv

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.

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• Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 15th Red Planet flight
• 2021 Tuxie Nominations are Open
• System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based On GNOME — Word of System76 making their "own" desktop not based on GNOME does follow some recent friction between Pop!_OS and GNOME developers over their approach to theming and customizations.
• System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME
• Carl Richell on Twitter — We celebrated 16 years of @system76 today. It was a nice surprise. This is about a third of the team. While we’ve adapted to remote work well, I miss full-company events and hope we can get back to those soon.
• It’s Been 9 Years Since Valve Rolled Out The Steam Linux Beta — Over the past nine years Valve has done an incredible job advancing gaming for Linux and allowing it to reach heights never once imagined. As we move into 2022 and ten years of Steam on Linux it will be incredibly exciting to see how Steam Deck performs in the marketplace and ultimately its impact on the Linux ecosystem.
• BattlEye Support In Good Shape With Steam Client Beta + Proton Experimental
• Kalendar is out! — Note that this is still an in-development release and that there will be bugs, features still to be added, and so on. We want your feedback — especially bug reports! These will help us improve Kalendar as much as we possible can before we can release a truly stable 1.0 version.
• Linux HATES Me – Daily Driver CHALLENGE Pt.1 - YouTube — This is part 1 in a series where Linus and Luke migrate their home workstation to Linux. In this episode, each decides which Distro they'll use, and then tries to run a game on it.
• JupiterGarage.com
• Linux Action News 214
• Self-Hosted 57
• How to fix the GSP 670 headset to make it work properly on Linux
• Akselmo’s Game
• ESOLinuxAddonManager
• Vorta for BorgBackup — Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.
• Vorta — Linux Apps on Flathub
• Vorta | Memory Alpha

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jonathan Corbet.

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• Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — Multiple custom integrations were found that allowed an attacker to steal any file without logging in. Previously implemented fixes were not sufficient.
• FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 — security update for chromium — Fedora Updates System — I gave a lot of thought to whether I wanted to continue to maintain the Chromium package in Fedora, given that many (most?) users will be confused/annoyed when API functionality like sync and geolocation stops working for no good reason. Ultimately, I decided to continue for now, because there were at least some users who didn't mind, and if I stopped, someone else would start over and run blindly into this problem.
• Introduction to Elasticsearch - YouTube
• Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog — In order to ensure open source versions of both packages remain available and well supported, including in our own offerings, we are announcing today that AWS will step up to create and maintain a ALv2-licensed fork of open source Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch | ZDNet
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Jellyfin 10.7.0 Release Changelog — SyncPlay for TV shows and Music, significantly improved web performance, an upgrade to .NET SDK 5.0 for improved performance in the backend, and more!
• Jellyfin 10.7.0 RC3
• LWN.net - Wikipedia
• Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
• Jonathan Corbet - Faces of Open Source
• Pick: polybar — A fast and easy-to-use status bar
• Pick: dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
• Pick: Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.