And why everyone will be looking for an open-source LastPass alternative.

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• AmpliPi - Home Audio System — Kickstarter — One thing that sets apart the AmpliPi design is that we have made it open source, from the software, to the firmware, to the schematics. The REST API and Web App are written in Python and run on a Raspberry Pi 3+ Compute Module.
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• Windows Refund Day — For those who hadn't heard the story, February 15th 1999 was windows refund day. It was a worldwide day when open source OS users went to microsoft's offices to return their unused licenses of windows that they were forced to acquire since they were bundled with the machine they bought.
• VLC 4.0 is coming later this year with a new UI, focus on online video and security — The new version will also focus more on playing videos from the Internet, relying on extensions to find third-party content. The team is also working on a version of VLC that will work inside the browser (based on WebAssembly).
• The Movie Database (TMDb)
• Facebook’s Linux Desktop Choice Is Fedora But Ramping Up CentOS Stream — Among the reasons Facebook is now pursuing CentOS Stream on the desktop is to serve as a stable rolling-release, binary compatibility, punctual security updates, and its close relationship with Fedora.
• Changes to LastPass Free - The LastPass Blog — Starting March 16th, 2021, LastPass Free will only include access on unlimited devices of one type, Desktop or Mobile.
• KeePass Password Safe
• Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager | Bitwarden
• 1Password Linux
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter — We updated #PlasmaMobile to the latest #Plasma 5.21 stable release. This comes with the latest 5.10 LTS kernel and updated development packages. Checkout the latest software by @kdecommunity powered by @ManjaroLinuxARM for your #Pinephone!
• Manjaro on Shells.com
• JupiterBroadcasting Telegram Group
• The Opinion Dominion Episode 28 — A wild Chris Fisher appears… for an interview.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Plasma 5.2 — Apart from the numerous improvements in stability, there are quite a few Plasma components that are getting much better support in Wayland. KRunner, for example, is now able to list all open windows in Wayland, a new component in the panel’s system tray informs you of the keyboard layout, and we now support features required for GTK 4, so all GTK 4 applications will now work.
• M.2 Enclosure for SATA NGFF SSD
• Feedback: Arch Upgrade Tips
• Feedback: Arch on the laptop of Chris’ son
• SonoBus — SonoBus is an easy to use, open-source, application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.

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

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, and Martin Wimpress.

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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?