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• Pop!_OS Mattermost — An excellent place to engage if you want to bring COSMIC to a distro near you.
• iced — A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
• Smithay — A smithy for rusty wayland compositor
• Testing COSMIC — The easiest way to test COSMIC DE currently is by building a systemd system extension.
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• Portal:Kalpa - openSUSE Wiki — openSUSE MicroOS Desktop Gnome was renamed to openSUSE Aeon, and the Plasma Desktop version is being renamed to openSUSE Kalpa.
• pop-os/kernelstub: A simple EFI boot manager manager for Linux
• Alpaca — GTK App to Chat with local AI models
• Alpaca on FlatHub

Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• Boltz — Privacy First, Non-Custodial Bitcoin Exchange.
• bcachefs — bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem.
• bcachefs Erasure coding — Bcachefs takes advantage of the fact that it is already a copy-on-write filesystem. If we're designing our filesystem to avoid update-in-place, why would we do update-in-place in our RAID implementation?
• bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups.
• bachefs Compression — Unlike other filesystems that typically do compression at the block level, bcachefs does compression at the extent level - variable size chunks, up to (by default) 128k.
• bcachefs Encryption — bcachefs uses AEAD style encryption (ChaCha20/Poly1305), where each encrypted block is authenticated with a MAC, with a chain of trust up to root (the superblock), and every encrypted block has a unique nonce.
• bcachefs Snapshots — bcachefs provides Btrfs style writeable snapshots, at subvolume granularity.
• (2015) [ANNOUNCE] bcachefs - a general purpose COW filesystem — It's taken a long time to get to this point - longer than I would have guessed if you'd asked me back when we first started talking about it - but I'm pretty damn proud of where it's at now.
• Kent Overstreet's Patreon
• Unplugged Core Membership
• Jupiter Signal PROMO 2024 — $3 off a month forever.
• Webamp — Winamp 2 re-implemented for the browser.
• Webamp on GitHub — Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browse.
• The Official JB BBS! — vt52 hosts our new official JB BBS! `telnet http://pebkac.lol`

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• FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper
• The Coder Robe — The Coder Robe is back and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear.
• 192 Brewing Company — Mt. Vernon is proud to offer strictly Washington-made beers, wines and ciders. We rotate through guest taps from local breweries and feature a variety of red and white wines, as well.
• power-profiles-daemon Issue: Choppy GNOME animations when using “balanced power” mode on Intel platform
• krunvm — Create microVMs from OCI images.
• ViMusic — An Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.
• GRC SpinRite
• Moonlight Game Streaming
• https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout — Zero Downtime Deployment for Docker Compose
• Podcasting 2.0 Introduction - Blubrry Podcasting
• NEW in Podverse 4.12.0 🥳 — Major audio and video playback fixes, faster app performance, value-for-value streaming for videos.
• boxxy — boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.
• This week in KDE: The best Plasma 5 version ever

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• GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile OS.
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• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
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• LUP 462: One Cosmic Collaboration — From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet.
• HP Dev One — From preinstalled Linux Pop!_OS to a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One is designed with powerful features and tools to help you code your way.
• Pop!_OS Tutorials
• Phoronix Test Suite for Docker
• Workstation Test Suite - OpenBenchmarking.org
• Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org
• Unigine Superposition Benchmark - OpenBenchmarking.org
• Superposition benchmark - UNIGINE
• Phoronix Test Suite — Linux Testing & Benchmarking Platform, Automated Testing, Open-Source Benchmarking.
• Geekbench5
• Brent’s Hugo Build Times · Issue #349
• Linux Kernel Build Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev One
• Workstation Benchmark Comparison - X250 vs. Dev One
• Geekbench CPU - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev One
• Geekbench Vulkan Score - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev One
• Unigine Superposition Benchmark - LENOVO X250 vs HP Dev One
• Pointiest Stick — Adventures in Linux and KDE
• dwm — dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.
• Pick: systeroid — A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface.

Plus Valve and AMD team up to improve Linux performance and the duct-tape solution holding our server together.

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• AMD + Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design — Along with other optimizations to benefit the Steam Deck, AMD and Valve have been jointly working on CPU frequency/power scaling improvements to enhance the Steam Play gaming experience on modern AMD platforms running Linux.
• Linux has finally hit that almost mythical 1% user share on Steam again — If we take how many monthly active users Steam has which Valve reported at over 120 million at the start of this year, that would give us an estimated 1,204,000 monthly active Linux users on Steam.
• Watch Ingenuity explore intriguing Raised Ridges in new video
• Chris Hijacks Fedora 34 (Image Gallery)
• Bedrock Linux — Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions. Bedrock integrates these components into one largely cohesive system.
• Bedrock Linux: Frequently Asked Questions
• Linux Action Show 316 — Introducing Bedrock Linux
• Bedrock Linux presentation at Ohio Linuxfest 2012
• Chris Fisher on Twitter — I joined the @latenightlinux boys to cover my @syncthing setup that just hit the two-year mark, and we chat a little @teamsilverblue, the problem of OSS grifting, and more.
• JB Telegram
• JB Mumble
• Pick: imgdupes — Find and delete near-duplicate images based on a perceptual hash.

Plus we try out Mint 20, cover some big Gnome fixes, and a very handy open source noise suppression pick!

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• CutiePi Tablet - Raspberry Pi, Untethered by Phoebus Torralba — Kickstarter
• CutiePi Is World’s Thinnest, Hackable Raspberry Pi Tablet, Available for Pre-Order Now
• CutiePi Shell - The UI for the CutiePi tablet
• GNOME’s Window Rendering Culling Was Broken Leading To Wasted Performance
• Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon RELEASED
• linuxmint/warpinator: Share files across the LAN
• Snap Store — Linux Mint User Guide documentation
• Monthly News – May 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
• The Hunt for the Oryx Pro [Video]
• System76 Blog — Things We Love About the New Oryx Pro
• Oryx Pro - System76 Store
• New high-end Linux laptop: System76’s Oryx Pro packs latest Intel Core i7 H-series CPU
• Jeremy Soller on Twitter: “Spying on I2C traffic”
• Ubuntu Touch Q&A 78
• UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device
• cadmus: A GUI frontend for @werman’s Pulse Audio real-time noise suppression plugin
• werman/noise-suppression-for-voice: Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph’s RNNoise
• RNNoise: Learning Noise Suppression
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!

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 the story behind exFAT coming to Linux, and the big desktop performance improvements landing next week.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Drew DeVore, and Ell Marquez.

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• XKCD Forum Hacked — The security breach occurred two months ago, according to security researcher Troy Hunt who alerted the company of the incident, with unknown hackers stealing around 562,000 usernames, email and IP addresses, as well as hashed passwords.
• Examining exFAT — Linux kernel developers like to get support for new features — such as filesystem types — merged quickly. In the case of the exFAT filesystem, that didn't happen; exFAT was created by Microsoft in 2006 for use in larger flash-storage cards, but there has never been support in the kernel for this filesystem. Microsoft's recent announcement that it wanted to get exFAT support into the mainline kernel would appear to have removed the largest obstacle to Linux exFAT support. But, as is so often the case, it seems that some challenges remain.
• Waypipe Is Successfully Working For This Network-Transparent Wayland Apps/Games Proxy — Waypipe development was successful this summer by student developer Manuel Stoeckl who was working on the effort as part of this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Waypipe is successfully working now for running Wayland games/applications over the network using this proxy mechanism and supports features like compression, multi-threading optimizations, and hardware-accelerated VA-API for video encode/decode across the network.
• GSOC 2019 - M. Stoeckl's website — Waypipe supports many quality of life features, including a user-friendly command line wrapper for ssh, hardware accelerated video encoding, transfer compression with either LZ4 or Zstd, and a method to reconnect applications when the ssh connection breaks. With more recent kernels and versions of Mesa that support DMABUFs (GPU-side buffers), it can proxy programs that render images using OpenGL.
• What to Expect in GNOME 3.34, Out Next Week - OMG! Ubuntu! — GNOME 3.34 makes it MUCH easier to create app folders in the GNOME Shell ‘Application Overview’, i.e. the grid of app shortcuts you see when pressing the All Apps icon on the Ubuntu Dock.
• GNOME 3.34's Mutter Lands A Last-Minute Performance Fix For NVIDIA — Canonical's Daniel van Vugt who is known for his many GNOME performance optimizations over the past two years has been toying with this NVIDIA fix/optimization the past few months and merged the code this morning to Mutter. This change that landed is the removal of GLX threaded swap wait handling for the NVIDIA binary driver.
• Geometric Picking Finally Lands In GNOME/Mutter 3.34 For Lowering CPU Usage — This is about cursor movement and now avoiding OpenGL/GPU usage for the color picking operations. That logic is now being done on the CPU without OpenGL but turns out is more efficiently done this way and is able to cause a measurable drop in CPU usage when moving the mouse cursor and especially when moving around windows.
• Geometric (OpenGL-less) picking · GNOME / mutter · GitLab) — By avoiding OpenGL and the graphics driver we also reduce CPU usage. Despite reimplementing the logic on the CPU, it still takes less CPU time than going through GL did.
• GTK, Adwaita, and Vendor Styles - Platform - GNOME Discourse — After the BoF, we decided to continue the discussion and find actionable items to move things forward to improve Adwaita itself, the situation for app developers, and the experience for downstream vendors that wish to ship a distinct visual style. We decided that continuing here on Discourse is a good plan to keep the discussion persistent and centralized.
• The Need for a FreeDesktop Dark Style Preference - GUADEC 2019 - Videos — Cassidy has been observing and researching dark styles in consumer software for several months, and conducted a user study with over 1,500 participants. In this talk he shares his research, observations, prior art, and requirements for a dark style preference on FreeDesktop platforms.
• gamemode — GameMode is a daemon/lib combo for Linux that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS and/or a game process.
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019 – Linux Academy — On September 17th Linux Torvald first released the Linux Operating System Kernel on September 17th, 1991 so we are celebrating by offering free training for you to increase your Linux Skills.
• Texas Cyber Summit — October 10th-12th in San Antonio, Texas.
• Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party | Meetup — Join us for a meet and greet with fellow Texas Cyber Summit attendees and a belated celebration of Ell and Allie's Birthdays! There will be good food, good friends, and we hope some good conversation.
• Level1Linux Channel
• Chatting With Alex and Chris From The Self Hosted Podcast! - Level1Linux
• cpufreq - GNOME Shell Extensions — This is a lightweight CPU frequency scaling monitor and powerful CPU management tool. The extension is using standard cpufreq kernel modules to collect information and manage governors. It needs root permission to able changing governors.
• i7z — A better i7 (and now i3, i5) reporting tool for Linux.
• CPUFREQ Extension
• throttled — Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux.
• Re: [X1C6/T480s] low cTDP and trip temperature in Linux - Page 9 - Lenovo Community — The good news: This problem is being very actively investigated and we (Lenovo) hope to have a solution soon.
• Jupiter.Gallery — Our self-hosted photo gallery powered by Lychee. Send your photos to chz at jupiterbroadcasting.com.
• Lychee — A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
• Audio in Linux question — Is there something lacking in our ALSA/JACK/PuleAudio stack that I'm not aware of? We obviously can do pro audio production, given Ardour, REAPER and even Audacity. What's missing?
• zFRAG by LostTrainDude — Defrag your mind by manually defragging a virtual Hard Disk, sector by sector, or enable the AUTODEFRAG to sit back and watch it do it on its own.
• meshroom: 3D Reconstruction Software — Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision Photogrammetric Computer Vision framework.