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• SpaceCadetPinball — Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows
• Pop!_OS Raspberry Pi 4 Beta — THIS IS A BETA. Bugs are expected and re-installs are likely.
• Pop!_OS Software Engineer Job Opening (Rust)
• Valve Launches “Steam Deck Verified” Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck — Valve says they are reviewing the entire Steam catalog of games and will be categorizing each game for its level of compatibility with the Steam Deck. These ratings in turn will show up within the Steam Store and for users own game libraries.
• Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up — Meanwhile the Asahi Linux crew is preparing for their eventual bring-up of the new hardware. They have pre-ordered the M1 Pro MacBook Pro model and will be procuring the M1 Max model too.
• Hector Martin on Twitter — Asahi Linux on M1 Pro bring-up stream ~next week. Thanks to all my Patreon supporters for making this kind of thing possible!
• AlmaLinux ELevate — ELevate enables migration between major versions of RHEL® derivatives. Easily go from CentOS 7.x to any 8.x of your choice.
• AlmaLinux ELevate Demo - YouTube
• Bryan lets us know some neat functionality in the kernel…
• UTM — UTM employs Apple's Hypervisor virtualization framework to run ARM64 operating systems on Apple Silicon at near native speeds.
• ytcc — Command line tool to keep track of your favorite playlists on YouTube and many other places.
• rust-motd — Beautiful, useful MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies.
• Pick: onetun — onetun opens a TCP port on your local system, from which traffic is forwarded to a TCP port on a peer in your WireGuard network. It requires no changes to your operating system's network interfaces: you don't need to have root access, or install any WireGuard tool on your local system for it to work.

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• Microsoft Said to Discuss Discord Bid for Over $10 Billion — “Microsoft possibly acquiring Discord makes a lot of sense as it continues to reshape its gaming business more toward software and services”.
• [Video] Richard Stallman is Back
• edw · elementary Developer Weekend — This conference is our way of reaching out to app developers, sharing the knowledge we’ve all collected over the years, and providing a space to ask questions and provide feedback.
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release — Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system!
• Linux Action News 181
• Forthcoming OpenSSL release — OpenSSL 1.1.1k is a security-fix release. The highest severity issue fixed in this release is HIGH.
• Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next — While no fully-baked Rust kernel driver is ready yet, the initial merge to Linux-Next does include an example kernel module written in Rust.
• Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux — Torvalds thinks "Rust's primary first target seems to be drivers, simply because that's where you find just a lot of different possible targets, and you have these individual parts of the kernel that are fairly small and independent. That may not be a very interesting target to some people, but it's the obvious one."
• Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust [LWN.net]
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | Linode
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• Hoppy — Hoppy provides a unique public IPv4 and IPv6 address to each of your devices, allowing connectivity without limitations. If you are behind a restrictive ISP, constantly on the move, or self-hosting services, Hoppy is for you. All major platforms are supported.
• ngrok — Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
• Gist: Assign public ipv6 to wireguard clients
• WireGuard Routing and Port Forwarding
• Gist: Forward all traffic to server over WireGuard VPN
• Expose server behind NAT with WireGuard and a VPS
• How To Forward Ports through a Linux Gateway with Iptables
• FORWARD and NAT Rules
• Pick: dsnet — Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation.
• How to set up a wireguard VPN in minutes with dsnet
• Feedback: Raspberry Pi POCKIT
• Project POCKIT — PocKit is a computer made for the real, physical world. On top of its powerful, versatile Core, you can attach BLOCKS - any number of any kind - to suit your application.
• Video: A small, plug-and-play Linux computer — Project POCKIT
• GNOME 40’s Best New Features
• FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree