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• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
• Frigate NVR
• Coral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-C
• Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
• Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.
• DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.
• DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."
• Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service
• Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces
• aurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repository
• salvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.
• archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux community
• TaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.
• shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.
• Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kelly
• mkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
• CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
• MOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch Button
• Minoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave Button
• Brent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebean
• add master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-config
• Pick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outages
• Pick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktops
• Pick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Noah Chelliah.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024 — An annual open-source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group, the Information Technology department at BTC, Cascade STEAM, and Jupiter Broadcasting.
• Bellingham Technical College — At BTC, we're here to help you access the hands-on education that can give you an advantage in today's job market.
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Downloads Now Available — Ubuntu 24.04 is an exciting Long Term Support (LTS) update with this new Linux distribution release being powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, making use of Netplan for networking on the desktop, features the modernized desktop OS installer, various performance optimizations, and a ton of new features.
• x32-proxy — UDP and Web Socket proxy server for Behringer and Midas digital mixer control.
• LinuxFest Northwest YouTube
• Peyton’s GitHub
• Electromagnetic Field — A non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers.
• completenoob's NixOS ZFS on Root Setup — Install NixOS with ZFS on root on a ThinkPad T470 with 24gb Ram and a 1TB nvme ssd.
• radio-browser.info — This is a community driven effort (like wikipedia) with the aim of collecting as many internet radio and TV stations as possible. Any help is appreciated!
• Pick: Playlifin — A tool to convert a Youtube Music playlist to a Jellyfin playlists.
• Pick: Playlifin Voyager — Playlifin Voyager is a tool to export and import playlists from and to your Jellyfin Server.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — The global money app for fast, safe payments and bitcoin. Get sats easy.
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Grab the Fountain app and listen live, boost along, and more.
• Shufflecake — Plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux
• System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | Meetup
• Jupiter Extras: Nostr Workshop — Our Nostr workshop. We’ll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions.
• 24.05 Call for Release Manager & Editor - NixOS — Both roles are fulfilled in tandem, meaning you get paired with an experienced partner, who already filled the role during the previous release.
• HiddenVM — Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace. — HiddenVM is a simple, one-click, free and open-source Linux application that allows you to run Oracle's open-source VirtualBox software on the Tails operating system.
• Tails
• VeraCrypt
• Defeating Plausible Deniability of VeraCrypt Hidden Operating Systems — This paper analyzes the security of VeraCrypt hidden operating systems.
• How To Emulate Persistent Memory using the Linux "memmap" Kernel Option
• kexec [ArchWiki]
• Unplugged Core Membership
• PodHome.FM — Unlimited Shows and Episodes
• PodBean Example: This Week in Bitcoin Podcast
• Atuin - Magical Shell History — Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin
• I quit my job to work full time on my open source project — The 22nd of December was my last day leading the infrastructure team at PostHog. Going forwards, I’m starting a company and working full time on Atuin.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Is Arch Linux suitable for server environment? — Probably the biggest issue with Arch as a server operating system is that it's not clear where and when applications may break after an upgrade. More often than not, you have to keep up with what's going on in the wiki and on the forums before doing any sort of upgrade
• Unplugged Tuxies - 2023
• ⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING?
• Get your Tuxies "I Voted" sticker from TheGoldenDragon — $2 Digital Sticker
• Texas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open-source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State. Much like SCALE in Los Angeles, Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, and Linux Fest Northwest – and an ever-growing list of successful regional shows.
• Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention — On February 2nd, the base-devel package group has been replaced by a meta package of the same name.
• Git migration announcement
• Git migration completed — We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳
• [Arch News] Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
• Linus’s law — In software development, Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
• The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores — In our experiments, these performance bugs caused many-fold performance degradation for synchronization-heavy scientific applications, 13% higher latency for kernel make, and a 14-23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used commercial database.
• The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed – The HFT Guy
• The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores | Hacker News
• sched: Update normalized values on user updates via proc · torvalds/linux@acb4a84 · GitHub — This patch updates the internally used scheduler tuning values that are normalized to one cpu in case a user sets new values via sysfs.
• BackTrack Linux
• Flatseal
• Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project — Contributor license agreements (or CLAs for short) have gained a lot of visibility in recent years as some prominent open-source projects have opted to adopt them. If all the cool kids are doing it, should your open source project? Probably not. Here’s why
• Strike Global Now

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox’s Wayland Backend Soon — So as we near the end of 2023 or going into early 2024, it's looking like we're nearing the point of finally having native Wayland support with the upstream Firefox builds.
• LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
• Ubuntu 23.10 Released — This is the release where the team aims to land as many major changes as possible to ensure that the community has the chance to take them for a spin and provide feedback for further refinement ahead of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
• Brave New Trusted Boot World — This document looks at the boot process of general purpose Linux distributions. It covers the status quo and how we envision Linux boot to work in the future with a focus on robustness and simplicity.
• Fitting Everything Together — Let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, and uniformity.
• Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur): Best New Features — Key highlights of Linux Kernel 6.5 include WiFi 7 support, and MIDI 2.0 compatibility.
• Ubuntu 23.10 is Available to Download, This is What’s New
• Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10 — Overall though Ubuntu 23.10 is a nice upgrade for those making use of Intel Arc Graphics and sticking to the kernel/Mesa default versions as shipped by Ubuntu. If you are more advantageous, upgrading to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel can mean some very nice performance wins across various OpenGL and Vulkan workloads.
• Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations — We have identified hate speech from a malicious contributor in some of our translations submitted as part of a third party tool outside of the Ubuntu Archive. The Ubuntu 23.10 image has been taken down and a new version will be available once the correct translations have been restored.
• Why You Can’t Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10
• Bug: chrome-gnome-shell extension fails to detect native host connector
• Tiling Assistant GNOME Extension — An extension which adds a Windows-like snap assist to GNOME. It also expands GNOME's 2 column tiling layout.
• Wyse Terminal Picture
• WiFi232 — An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer
• Pick: tags — A simple text tagger.
• Tags on Flathub — Create tags with color schemes and give color to your logs or text files

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Ask Noah Show 354 — Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered!
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Postponed
• LinuxFest Northwest Meetups
• Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube]
• “Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀 — Nextcloud Hub 6 has evolved into a robust collaboration platform that empowers organizations and individuals to work seamlessly while ensuring data privacy.
• Element X — Element X isn’t just the fastest Matrix client ever - it’s up to 6000x faster than any other Matrix client.
• Element X preview is now on Android too!
• sliding-sync Proxy — An implementation of MSC3575.
• MSC3575: Sliding Sync (aka Sync v3) — This MSC outlines a replacement for the CS API endpoint `/sync`.
• Matrix Community Summit 2023 — Join us from Thu, 21st to Sat, 24th September 2023!
• Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
• Atari VCS Base — Featuring AMD Raven Ridge 2 APU and AMD Ryzen processor GPU with 8GB DDR4 RAM (upgradable), and 32GB eMMC fixed internal storage.
• BeardedTek/linode-dyndns — Linode Dynamic DNS Updater
• Pick: yazi — ⚡️ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Spokane Linux Love, Sat, Sep 16, 2023, 1:00 PM | Meetup — It's finally happening! Let's get together at Iron Goat Brewing.
• Best laptops for NixOS - Help - NixOS Discourse
• Mobile NixOS
• Devices List — Mobile NixOS
• Iron Goat Brewing
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Sponsorship Prospectus — LinuxFest Northwest 2023 will be held October 20-22, 2023 at Bellingham Technical College. The Fest is a free and open community event dedicated to provide and support educational activities related to Linux and Open Source Software.
• NixOS friendly hosters - NixOS Wiki
• Install and Configure NixOS on a Linode | Linode Docs
• Star-History — We know, you can't fully trust a project's GitHub stars alone. It is, however, a good way to determine if a tool is an adequate one and if it's likely to grow, if you use it correctly.
• disko — NixOS is a Linux distribution where everything is described as code, with one exception: during installation, the disk partitioning and formatting are manual steps. disko aims to correct this sad 🤡 omission.
• nixos-anywhere — You can then initiate an unattended installation with a single CLI command. Since nixos-anywhere can access the new machine using SSH, it's ideal for remote installations.
• Immutable infrastructure for mutable systems — I erase my systems at every boot.
• NixOS Series 4: "Stateless" Operating System — Here's the question: is it really necessary to store the contents of /etc on the disk drive? They're going to be regenerated on each reboot or config switch anyway.
• NixOS ❄: tmpfs as root — One fairly unique property of NixOS is the ability to boot with only /boot and /nix. Nothing else is actually required. This supports doing all sorts of weird things with your root file system.
• Nixos and Erasing My Darlings
• Impermanence - NixOS Wiki — Impermanence in NixOS is where your root directory gets wiped every reboot (such as by mounting a tmpfs to /). Such a setup is possible because NixOS only needs /boot and /nix in order to boot, all other system files are simply links to files in /nix. /boot and /nix still need to be stored on a hard drive or SSD.
• impermanence: Modules to help you handle persistent state on systems with ephemeral root storage [maintainer=@talyz]
• Example ZFS + tmpfs root configuration
• NixOS on Btrfs+tmpfs
• A plan to stabilize the new CLI and Flakes incrementally — Ever since the closing of RFC 49, we've had the new CLI and Flakes marked as experimental, with no clear plan forward.
• project Stratis
• Backups - Perfect Media Server
• Podverse GitHub — Podverse has a bounty out for Android Auto.
• Jay Sam Bee in Philadelphia NixOS Bounty — Jay has a bounty for getting Wallabag on NixOS.
• Self-Hosted 102: NixOS is a bit Flakey
• completenoobs.com
• OpenStreetMap.org — OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
• OSMand.net
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• OSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
• Street­Complete — Help to improve the OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete!
• nixpkg.py

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• Berlin with Brent Meetup — Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:00 PM
• Berlin Buds on Matrix
• Things are Changing | Office Hours 32 — We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.
• Linux Action News 299 — Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
• Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — Behind the scenes, the Canonical team has been actively exploring the benefits of Ubuntu Core beyond the realm of IoT, most notably in the context of developers and daily users.
• ubuntu-core-desktop on GitHub — This directory contains an image of Ubuntu Core 22 with the GDM display manager loaded into the boot file system.
• Actions · canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub
• canonical/workshops on GitHub — Workshops provides a user friendly interface to create and manage LXD containers as well as provides a full featured terminal.
• Workshops on the Snap Store
• Snikket Dev's take on XMPP and Embrace Extend Extinguish
• snikket-server: Image builder for Snikket server
• Snikket Chat — Simple, secure and private messaging.
• OLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and Expo — OLF is returning on September 8-9, 2023!
• Magnolia Mayhem’s CaterCloud
• Support LINUX Unplugged on Conshax
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• kz6fittycent/BobRossQuotes: A bunch of quotes from Bob Ross
• Bob Ross Quotes - Snap Store

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• Why I left Rust
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before.
• Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles.
• Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
• Adopting Bitcoin 2023
• LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE.
• Bitcoin Dad Pod
• Polaris — Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.
• Polaris Demo
• docker-polaris: Small docker of Polaris based on Alpine Linux
• Polaris on Google Play
• Polaris Android on F-Droid
• Polarios on App Store
• Lapce — Lapce is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.
• Lapce on Flathub
• Lapce packaged in Nix
• Lapce Plugins
• flosse/text-editors-written-in-rust
• xi-editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
• awesome-alternatives-in-rust: A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
• awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.
• BitFocus Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Please Run That — A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
• Pick: turtle — Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.
• Chris Interviewed on Mere Mortals — In Conversation #90, Chris and I discuss: what it's been like to have 25+ podcasts, the current nosedive in advertising, how value for value is creating a richer experience for podcasters, his mindset in analyzing technological ideas, the coming pain from the messed up financial system, why Bitcoin/AI won't be as impactful as the internet and traveling across the US in an RV.

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Spotify App Stops Working for Linux Users
• GrapheneOS version 2023051600 Released — Add initial Contact Scopes feature as an alternative to granting the Contacts permission... Add production ready Pixel 7a support.
• GrapheneOS Discussion Forum: Version 2023051600 Released
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — Our new Contact Scopes feature is now available in the Alpha channel. It provides a way to avoid granting the Contacts permission for apps requiring it. It's similar to our Storage Scopes feature replacing needing any of the media/storage permissions.
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 53 released.
• Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin issued a lengthy post encouraging users of this Apple Silicon focused Linux distribution to stop using X.Org as Wayland is the future.
• RHEL 9: Deprecated functionality — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases.
• r/linux: The whole X11 vs. Wayland thing… — Whilst I get Wayland is the future I have a bunch of issues with it. Off the top of my head…
• Rustdesk ‘wontfix’ a naive privilege escalation on Linux
• The LUP Odroid H3+ Chassis — I recently got an Odroid H3+ and desperately needed a chassis for it so I decided to make one. Since I am a long-time listener and a big fan of the Linux Unplugged podcast I wanted to pay tribute to it.
• Live APRS Map
• Podcast Guru — The simple & free podcast player for Android & iOS
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• yt-fts: Youtube Full Text Search — Search all of a YouTube channel's subtitles from the command line

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• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two April Meetups: Raleigh - April 8th and Olympia - April 29th.
• LinuxFest Northwest on Twitter — Call for Speakers is open from March 5th through June 4th, so if you are interested in being a speaker please submit a proposal now!
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023: Call for Speakers
• Logseq — A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base. Logseq is the open toolbox for workflows that deal with lots of information.
• logseq-publish — Publish your Logseq graph with a GitHub Action.
• logseq-schrodinger — A plugin to export pages in Logseq to Hugo.
• logseq-searchable — A quick utility to conduct OCR parsing on images and insert the result as a property.
• SimpleX Chat — The first messenger without user IDs.
• SimpleX on Google Play
• SimpleX APK
• SimpleX on iOS
• SimpleX TestFlight preview for iOS
• SimpleX CLI
• SimpleXMQ — A reference implementation of the SimpleX Messaging Protocol for simplex queues over public networks.
• LFNW Matrix Chat
• gping — Ping, but with a graph.
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Codex.docs — Free Docs app powered by Editor.js ecosystem
• Editor.js — Free block-style editor with a universal JSON output

Plus, Brent's extended stay in Berlin has led to some developments you won't want to miss.

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• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
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• c-base interface — welcome onboard c-base
• matelight: — Show text and gifs on mate crates.
• Raleigh-Durham Pizza Party! — Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3pm EST
• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup — Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM PDT
• Podverse Call for Help
• LINUX Unplugged 486: Goodbye, Google
• Immich — Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone
• KDE Connect — Enabling communication between all your devices. Made for people like you.
• iodé — The Eco Friendly Smartphone Protecting Your Privacy
• Berlin Buds Matrix Room
• LibreSign — Libre digital signature app for Nextcloud.
• Develop for Nextcloud — Have you always wanted to learn how to develop apps for your Nextcloud? These tutorials should flatten your learning curve.
• Berlin with Brent | LINUX Unplugged 503
• Nextcloud Cookbook on iOS
• nextcloud/cookbook — A library for all your recipes. It uses JSON files following the schema.org recipe format.
• Nextcloud AIO — Nextcloud AIO stands for Nextcloud All In One and provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Jupiter Broadcasting Community Links
• Jupiter Jobs Matrix Room
• New JB Contact Page
• Patreon Problems Thread on Twitter
• A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal
• immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
• Donate to GrapheneOS
• Duplicacy: A new generation cloud backup tool — Duplicacy backs up your files to many cloud storages with client-side encryption and the highest level of deduplication.
• duplicity — Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Pick: carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
• Fathy Boundjadj: Forking Chrome to render in a terminal — It's snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

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• The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
• Steam Linux Market Share
• Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022
• Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub Beta Site
• Flathub-Codethink Collaboration
• [GNOME Software Mock-up] Patronage by Tobias Bernard
• How (and why) I minted 314 NFTs To Support Open Source Projects
• The Log4j security flaw could impact the entire internet. Here’s what you should know
• Log4j Vulnerability Detection: One year after Log4Shell
• LibRedirect
• Get Together — Get Together is an open source event manager for local communities.

Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more.

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• Apple Limits iPhone AirDrop Function Used for Protests in China
• Magic Earth — Free Maps & Navigation App
• Top 10 reasons to use Debian as your Linux distro
• Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of ‘move fast and break things’, and version 11 is no different
• ProtonPlus — A simple Wine and Proton-based compatiblity tools manager for GNOME.
• ProtonUp-Qt — Install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda & more for Steam and Wine-GE & more for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
• Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki
• The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
• Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!
• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code

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• Computer Chronicles - Intel 486 — In 1992, the big issue was - is it worth the money to upgrade my 386 PC to the new 486 chip? This program looks at the performance of the new Intel 486 and helps users decide.
• GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project.
• GrapheneOS: Supported Phones
• GrapheneOS: Features Overview
• Sandboxed Google Play overview for GrapheneOS
• Lockscreen bypass fixed in November’s update - discovered by GrapheneOS in June
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We independently discovered the Android lockscreen bypass fixed in Android's November security update while working on features like a duress PIN/password.
• A week with GrapheneOS exposed my over-reliance on Google
• GrapheneOS Initial Impressions
• Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS
• HERE WeGo — Maps & Navigation
• Fountain on Twitter — More sats = higher signal⚡️📡
• Hot on Fountain
• DAVx⁵ — CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV for Android
• Bitwarden: Top 10 Burning Questions on 2FA
• n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
• Install NVIDIA Drivers on Debian 11
• deemix — deemix is a barebone deezer downloader library built from the ashes of Deezloader Remix.
• lidarr-on-steroids
• nostr — The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
• Pick: Upscaler — Upscale and enhance images.
• Frog by Tender Owl
• Frog on Flathub
• A Science Project — “Make the 486 Great Again!”
• Linus Torvalds bids 486 Linux adieu — It's been fun, but Linus Torvalds thinks it's time for 486 Linux to leave computers behind and go to museums.

Plus we take a look at Ubuntu Unity as it becomes an official flavor.

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• Canonical Accepts Ubuntu Unity as Official Ubuntu Flavor Starting with Ubuntu 22.10 — The Ubuntu Unity 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release is expected to see the light of day as an official Ubuntu flavor on October 20th, 2022.
• [vote] Re: Ubuntu Unity as an official flavor
• Ubuntu Unity
• Office Hours 11 — We're pushing our new website to production live on the show today. We have no idea how things will turn out - but we're taking you along for the ride either way!
• JB Meetups
• JB Matrix West Coast Crew
• Baller Boost Jingles — Send us your feedback via GitHub
• Mac vs. PC Ad
• macOS malware development surged by over 1,000% in 2020
• Increased Enterprise Use of iOS, Mac Means More Malware
• Report Finds Surge in Malware Aimed at MacOS - Security Boulevard
• macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance — In the last six months macOS malware protection has changed more than it did over the previous seven years.
• Desktop Market Share
• Is any virus protection software needed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
• Linux devices ‘increasingly’ under attack from hackers, warn security researchers
• Brunch with Brunch
• Harmonoid — Plays and manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy.
• LINUX Unplugged 409 — Launch Your Memories Into the Future.
• Google Photos is so 2020

Plus, we announce who will be joining us at JPL in September.

Special Guest: Cassidy James Blaede.

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• GNOME launches a new “telemetry” program to improve GNOME
• gnome-info-collect repository — gnome-info-collect is a simple client-server application used for collecting information on GNOME systems. The data will be used to improve GNOME, specifically by informing design decisions, influencing where resources are invested, and generally helping us to understand users better.
• Self contained flake for gnome-info-collect courtesy of kenji
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups
• JB Matrix westcoastcrew Meetup Room
• Hot on Fountain
• Mobilizon — Mobilizon is a tool that helps you find, create and organize events.
• Endless OS — Comes preloaded with over 100 apps and essential tools so you have all you need, even when there's no internet access.
• Keybase
• May 7th 2020: Zoom Acquires Keybase
• MSGConvert — A .MSG to mime/mbox converter
• VisiData — VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.
• googerteller — audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google.
• Espanso — Tired of typing the same sentences over and over? Discover the incredible power of a full-blown text expander.
• New Jupiter Broadcasting Website

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• Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Saturday, April 9, 2022
• Self-Hosted 65: Failing at Scale — Alex gives the new TrueNAS SCALE a go and hits a snag. Plus the future Home Assistant update that has Chris so concerned he might stop updating forever.
• Umbrel — a personal server for everyone — Run your personal server with a Bitcoin and Lightning node in your home, self-host open source apps like Nextcloud and Matrix to break away from big tech, and take full control of your data. For free.
• Ukraine / Україна on Twitter — Stand with the people of Ukraine. Now accepting cryptocurrency donations.
• Ukraine Solicits BTC, ETH, USDT Crypto Donations After Russian Invasion
• Tutorial — Change Umbrel docker compose to point to block storage.
• Writeup of Umbrel Security Tradeoffs
• Node hardening
• Umbrel troubleshooting
• Everything you need to know about Umbrel’s new license
• Value 4 Value Calculator
• BoostCLI — Command line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value
• BoostBots — Bots which posts Booots.
• Breez — Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments

We take the opportunity to expand on the overall effort to solve Linux fragmentation.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Neal Gompa, and Will Thompson.

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• Pocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life. Pocket P.C. is your hacker terminal on-the-go.
• On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication – Will Thompson’s GNOME-ish blog — There is a blog post doing the rounds asserting that Flatpak Is Not The Future. The post is really long, and it seems unlikely that I and the author will ever agree on this topic, so I’m only going to talk about a couple of paragraphs about disk usage and sharing of runtimes between apps which caught my eye.
• Bustle — Graphical D-Bus message analyser and profiler.
• Gnome Initial Setup
• Endless OS Foundation — Our mission is to help all people and communities connect with technology.
• Will sometimes does other stuff and writes about it
• Flatpak Is Not the Future - Ludocode — Flatpak calls itself “the future of application distribution”. I am not a fan. I’m going to outline here some of the technical, security and usability problems with Flatpak and others. I’ll try to avoid addressing “fixable” problems (like theming) and instead focus on fundamental problems inherent in their design. I aim to convince you that these are not the future of desktop Linux apps.
• docker-slim — Don’t change anything in your Docker container image and minify it by up to 30x
• Flatseal — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.
• Bruch with Brent with Stuart Langridge — Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source’s “final mile”, the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more.
• Seeking contractors for work on Flathub project — GNOME has a donor who is interested in supporting financial sustainability for app developers and removing barriers to an inclusive ecosystem. Flathub would like to use these funds to work with a contractor for a short-term project and make steps towards supporting application developers being able to request payments (whether donations or subscriptions).

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• Email from Purism — As previously announced, we will be increasing prices for all new orders of the Librem 5 in stages (the phone will be priced at $1199 from all orders received on or after Nov 1st, 2021 and we expect this price to go upward to $1299 in March 2022) as component prices change and as we deliver greater quantities of product.
• Linux Phones | Madaidan’s Insecurities — Linux phones lack any significant security model and the points from the Linux article apply to Linux phones fully. There is not yet a single Linux phone with a sane security model.
• Linux kernel needs more phones and tablets, says developer — "Especially for guys even running upstream kernel on RPI CM4 like me, more ARM devices with upstream kernel support will just be more happiness. Not to mention this also means super long time support, way longer than the lifespan of those devices."
• Steam Deck dev-kits are on the move Valve say, as some already have it — "All packaged up and ready for devs! This is one of the limited batches of Steam Deck dev-kits heading out today for partners to test their games."
• POKE 756,224 on Twitter — @ChrisLAS I admire your quest to get Linux running on your Thinkpad with the same battery life and perf you get on Windows. I've gotta admit, I've given up and just run Windows on mine, and the ugly truth is that Windows 11 is, for my needs anyway, really nice!
• Pick: Flatseal — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.

Plus some community news, handy picks, emails, and more. It's a special edition of the Unplugged show.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done — Documents filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware last week suggest a settlement payment of just $14.25 million will see the matter closed.
• ChrisLAS on Twitter — "My spot to record in Arizona today."
• Ventoy Adds a Web GUI — Ventoy now ships with a web-based graphical user interface since version 1.0.36.
• Ventoy — Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
• “Apps For GNOME” Launches To Highlight GNOME Apps — There hasn't been a comprehensive, modern, user-friendly web-site for outlining all of the GNOME apps and inviting participation until now with this Apps for GNOME.
• Apps for GNOME — Discover the best Apps for GNOME.
• nebula — A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security.
• TheOrangeOne's Blog — Nebula mesh network - an introduction.
• Jon the Nice Guy's Blog — Nebula Offline Certificate Management with a Raspberry Pi using Bash.
• Nebula-Cert-Maker — A script that allows you to create new host certificates and keys.
• Gardiner Bryant on YouTube — I wasn't prepared for how much growth System76 has experienced in the year and a half since my last visit.
• Stickers | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Pick: psst — Fast and multi-platform Spotify client with native GUI.

Plus, we set up private and secure location tracking and tell you how and why.

Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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• NASA is mapping out plans for bigger, more capable Mars helicopters — One concept is the Mars Science Helicopter, advocated as a way to greatly expand the exploration zone on Mars — including possible deep dives into Red Planet caves.
• This Week in Linux - TuxDigital — This Week in Linux is a weekly news show that covers the latest news in the world of Linux. We cover a wide variety of topics from application / distro releases to Linux Gaming and even news about core system items like the Linux kernel itself.
• Destination Linux Network — DLN is a media network powered by Linux & Open Source designed to bring passionate creators together to spread our love of open-source, technology, and Linux.
• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup Meetup
• Colony Tracker . LIVE — Track the Colony and join us for Micro Meetups!
• OwnTracks — OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location. You can build your private location diary or share it with your family and friends. OwnTracks is open-source and uses open protocols for communication so you can be sure your data stays secure and private.
• What it does - OwnTracks Booklet
• HTTP - OwnTracks Booklet
• Example: OwnTracks recorder in a container on Fedora with Let’s Encrypt and nginx
• Installing Owntracks recorder on FreeBSD – Dan Langille’s Other Diary
• Rocky and Gred Spin BS to avoid coming on LUP
• Current sitting CentOS Board Member Recomends People use AlmaLinux — Hey guys .. Igor and all .. I want to wish you all the very best. And for anyone out there who wants to move from CentOS Linux 8 to another downstream RHEL community build , this is the definitely the one I would recommend. I have known the Cloud Linux team for a while .. and I very much trust them.
• IRC Transcript from LUP 413
• Greg was too busy talking to the Reg to come on the show
• Feedback: Michael Staggs on Twitter — @ChrisLAS You mentioned recommending Deepin to new users. I know in current political climate, China and security are hotbutton issues, but I don't feel we can give Deepin a pass on security. So bad that OpenSUSE audit team won't audit them anymore.
• Portal:Deepin/Security Issues
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup(s)
• JB Telegram
• JB Mumble

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• Salt Lake City Meetup
• Denver Meetup
• Christian Schaller on Twitter — We been working closely with NVidia over the last year to prepare the ground for full NVidia driver Wayland support, including XWayland. Today NVidia released the first beta driver of that work.
• Xwayland support in Fedora with the NVIDIA 470 series driver — Please help us test this support for hardware acceleration with the NVIDIA proprietary driver in Xwayland, and report issues for Xwayland in Fedora bugzilla.
• NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver BETA
• Fedora Cloud Btrfs By Default - Fedora Project Wiki — For cloud installs of Fedora, we want to provide advanced file system features to users in a transparent fashion. Thus, we are changing the file system for the Cloud Edition to Btrfs so we can leverage its features and capabilities to improve the quality of experience for Cloud users.
• Pagure Commit: Use Btrfs for Fedora Cloud Edition
• Pacstall — The AUR for Ubuntu
• pacstall on GitHub
• pacstall-programs
• Henryws on GitHub
• makedeb — Create Debian archives from PKGBUILDs.
• mpm — makedeb package manager
• junest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.
• x11docker — Run GUI applications and desktops in docker. Focus on security.
• How to Run GUI Applications in a Docker Container
• jessfraz/dockerfiles — Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.
• Nix, the purely functional package manager
• NixOS
• pacapt — An ArchLinux’s pacman-like wrapper for many package managers.
• Can I make use of other containers like debian or arch - Desktop / Silverblue - Fedora Discussion
• Martin Pitt's Blog — Public lightweight sway developer desktop with OSTree and podman/toolbox.
• Fedora 34 Toolbox Containerfile
• Running Wine in Archlinux-based podman container

Plus the outrageous bounty on a beloved Linux desktop app.

Special Guest: Gary Kramlich.

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• Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web’s inventor is selling its original code as an NFT — Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the basis of the languages and protocols underpinning the internet as we know it: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Universal Document Identified (URI).
• Meetup: Salt Lake City — Saturday, August 7, 2021, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM PDT.
• Meetup: Denver — Friday, August 20, 2021, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PDT.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page
• Pidgin: the universal chat client — Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time.
• Pidgin contributors: grim — Long time contributor, author of Guifications, and a founding member of the plugin pack.
• Zerodium on Twitter — We’re looking for #0day exploits affecting Pidgin on Windows and Linux. Bounty: $100,000.
• ZERODIUM — Limited-Time Bug Bounties and Temporarily Increased Payouts
• Linux 5.14 Mainline Should Work With The Raspberry Pi 400 — No kernel driver changes were needed since it's basically very close to the Raspberry Pi 4 but the updated DTS configuration is needed for the 1.8GHz clock rate, a different WiFi chip, and power off handling via GPIO.
• XFS To Enjoy Big Scalability Boost With Linux 5.14 — The big numbers are seeing the transaction rate go up from around 700k to 1.7M commits per second and a reduction in flush operations by 2~x orders of magnitude less for metadata heavy workloads that don't enforce fsync.
• Archive of old versions of Linux — Thanks to Mediactive Network for hosting this website.
• Mandrake 10.1 Visual Tour
• Xandros 3.0 Desktop Gallery
• Red Hat 9’s Classic Look
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS — Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.
• Damn Small Linux — Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.
• BackTrack Linux — BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use.
• TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life
• auto-cpufreq — Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
• Did you know that you can 100% legally get & run WordPerfect for free? — But there is a catch – of course: they're both very old and hard to run on a modern computer. I'm here to tell you how to get them and how to install and run them.

We just have one last job to complete.

Special Guest: Danielle Foré.

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• elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today — Developers and testers, it’s the day you’ve been waiting for: elementary OS 6 Beta is available now!
• elementary Builds
• Get Involved with elementary OS — Everything that we make is 100% open source and developed collaboratively by people from all over the world. Even if you're not a programmer, you can get involved and make a difference.
• Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! — Audacity has just joined Muse Group, a collection of brands that includes another popular open source music app called MuseScore.
• (Video) I’m now in charge of Audacity. Seriously.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• RainLoop docker-compose YAML
• roundcubemail-docker — Resources to build Docker images for Roundcube Webmail
• Documentation / Configuration / RainLoop Webmail
• (Video) PipeWire: The New Multimedia Service, Now Ready for Automotive
• (Video) LUP 272 OG PipeWire Interview Oct 23, 2018 — The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future.
• Pick: Rentry.co — Rentry.co is a markdown pastebin service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.
• Pick: procs — A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

Plus our take on Ubuntu 21.04, become a master of your schedule with our pick, and a Garage Sale update.

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• Hirsute Hippo Release Notes — These release notes for Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu and its flavours.
• Ubuntu 21.04 Release Date & New Features - OMG! Ubuntu!
• Announcing the Ubuntu Desktop Team Indaba (AMA) - April 23, 2021 @ 3PM UTC — This will be a live stream featuring members of the Ubuntu Desktop Team and members of the community. We will include special guests from the community as well as take questions from via live chat.
• LINUX Unplugged 396: How Linux Got to Mars — Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.
• Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars — The drone, called Ingenuity, was airborne for less than a minute, but Nasa is celebrating what represents the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
• NASA Helicopter Hovers Over Mars In 1st Powered Flight On Another Planet
• Humans have just flown a rotorcraft on an alien planet for the first time in history.
• Linux Action News 185 — The major shift in the Linux landscape this week that was hardly noticed, and our thoughts on COSMIC from System76.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• docker-mailserver — A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker.
• Docker Mailserver Docs
• DMARC Guide | Global Cyber Alliance | Email Authentication Made Easy
• GitHub - calendso/calendso: The open-source Calendly alternative.
• System76 Blog — COSMIC to Arrive in June Release of Pop!_OS 21.04 — What is COSMIC? It’s a refined solution that makes the desktop easier to use, yet more powerful and efficient for our users through customization.

Plus an update on Jupiter Broadcasting going independent, community news, and more.

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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• Google Online Security Blog: Rust in the Android platform — We're excited to announce that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) now supports the Rust programming language for developing the OS itself.
• Mike Kelly on Twitter — I’ve been curious to try out @rustlang and wanted to celebrate @LinuxUnplugged episode 400… so I combined both in a silly fun little project. Check it out… a mini-website powered by Rust… @ChrisLAS and @wespayne would be proud!
• Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed — During a high-speed spin test of the rotors on Friday, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration.
• Work Progresses Toward Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars — Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue, concluding that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity’s flight control software is the most robust path forward.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Mailcow.email — The mailserver suite with the ‘moo’ – 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕.
• Mailcow: dockerized documentation
• SOGo — SOGo is a fully supported and trusted groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards.
• Zimbra: Open Source Secure Private Business Email & Collaboration
• Mail-in-a-Box Setup Guide
• Jupiter Garage
• GNOME Designers Explore a ‘Bottom Bar’ Layout for GNOME Shell

Plus the tech behind Shells.com, community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guests: Mathieu Comandon and Zlatan Todorić.

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• 68k.news — Headlines From the Future
• Linux Action News 182 — GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release. Plus the facts around RMS’s return to the FSF board, and our analysis of the situation.
• Episode 118 — Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.
• AlmaLinux OS Stable Release is live! — We are very happy to announce that today we are releasing the first AlmaLinux OS stable version. That's right, you can go right ahead and download the stable version and use it everywhere you need a stable, reliable, Linux distribution.
• Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week — Ubuntu and its flavors will be participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th.
• Shells — Personal Workspaces Powered by Cloud Computers.
• An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
• JB Telegram Group
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Lutris — Open Gaming Platform
• [Mathieu's Blog] Not on the same page — The disconnect I feel between what I want to deliver in what I build and what the users asks for is now too big to ignore. In some way, I already knew it would be the case before I even started Lutris. I knew that what I was trying to achieve wasn’t in line with how Linux users usually behave…
• Feedback: Cockpit
• Feedback: Covid Appointment Script

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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

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• Virtual x86 — v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. Machine code is translated to WebAssembly modules at runtime in order to achieve decent performance.
• The Linux desktop is boring again — Where I was once a constant "fiddler" with my desktop, I now want the interface to work how I want it to work, but still look the way I want it to look. I'm more of a minimalist now, so GNOME suits my needs on both levels quite well. However, I find myself rather bored with the Linux desktop.
• What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34 — Christian F.K. Schaller — The big ticket item we have wanted to close off on was Wayland, because while Wayland has been production ready for most of us for a while, there was still some cases it didn’t cover as well as X.org.
• Christian Schaller on Twitter — 2020 was a year where we focused a lot on polishing what we had and getting things past the finish line and Fedora Workstation 34 is going to be the culmination of that effort in many ways.
• GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors — As part of this headless native back-end is also the ability to create virtual monitors via command-line options for debugging and other purposes. This also allows creating virtual monitor PipeWire streams.
• What’s New in Libhandy 1.2
• Reinventing tabs — In GNOME 40, Epiphany will feature a new tab bar. This isn’t just a restyling of the old one, but a ground-up rewrite.
• My geek stuff blog: Maps and GNOME 40
• GNOME 40 & your extension – GNOME Shell & Mutter
• OBS Studio on Wayland
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
• JB Telegram Group
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• Pick: ebpfsnitch — eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch and Douane but utilizing modern kernel abstractions - without a kernel module.
• Feedback: Docker Socket Security
• Feedback: How to exit big picture mode
• Telegram App Is Booming but Needs Advertisers, and $700 Million Soon

Plus how Archive.org uses Linux, and more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl George, and Neal Gompa.

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• tsukae — Show off your most used shell commands
• GNOME Shell X11Gestures Wxtension — Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension.
• TouchEgg — Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.
• Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 — Sent out on Saturday by independent developer Ronald Tschalär was the latest reverse-engineered, open-source driver code that gets the Touch Bar and ALS support working for MacBook Pro 13,* / 14,* / 15,* models.
• Internet Archive Infrastructure — Jonah Edwards breaks down how the Internet Archive works, behind the scenes.
• jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• liamg/traitor — Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins.
• Don't expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) — Docker primarily works as a client that communicates with a daemon process (dockerd). Typically that socket is a UNIX domain socket called /var/run/docker.sock. That daemon is highly privileged; effectively having root access. Any process that can write to the dockerd socket also effectively has root access.
• Feedback: Minecraft Bedrock Bridge
• GeyserMC — Enable clients from Minecraft Bedrock Edition to join your Minecraft Java server.
• Feedback: Audio Hardware
• Feedback: Episode 394
• Feedback: Arch Discussion

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.

Plus our thoughts on the recent Btrfs FUD, a bunch of feedback, and a handy pick.

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• [ANNOUNCE] nano-5.5 is released
• Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable — Ubuntu 21.04 will do away with the existing practice on Ubuntu Linux systems of making new user home directories world-readable.
• Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression — Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Ventoy — An open-source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
• Ventoy on GitHub
• Feedback: openSUSE and FOSS Adventures
• Feedback: Neon Success Story
• Feedback: Next Tuesday
• Feedback: ThinkPad X12 Detachable
• ThinkPad X12 Detachable | Windows Tablet | Lenovo US
• Feedback: Google forms?!
• Feedback: System76 Prediction
• Pick: PGHoard — pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling that stores backup data in cloud object stores.

Plus Dan and Cassidy from elementary OS join us to discuss version 6.0.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:45 Intro
2:25 KDE Neon 20.04
4:17 Mozilla Resturcturing
8:21 elementary OS 6
18:29 Housekeeping
20:00 Matrix
22:33 Silver Salvage
29:43 Matrix Server Punishment Test
33:04 Clients Galore
35:06 Secure By Default
43:56 Outro
45:08 Post-Show

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• Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
• KDE neon rebased on 20.04
• Mozilla is laying off 25% of their employees
• Large part of Mozilla’s Sec Team Laid Off
• Let’s Talk elementary OS 6 ⋅ elementary Blog
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: "Pulled an old Mac Pro out of storage for today’s @LinuxUnplugged live test.
• 2009 Mac Pro | eBay
• apple-history.com / Mac Pro (Early 2009, Dual CPU)
• Matrix - An open network for secure, decentralized communication
• Element - encrypted group video calls end-to-end encryption team messaging
• Element Web App

Plus community news, feedback, and more.

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• Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8 - Phoronix
• Feedback from David: Trackball for RSI
• Standing Desks from Autonomous
• MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse
• Debian: GRUB2 UEFI SecureBoot vulnerability - ‘BootHole’
• A long list of GRUB2 secure-boot holes
• There’s a Hole in the Boot
• Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches
• Valve Hires Former Emulator Developer To Work On Open-Source Graphics For Linux
• Nvidia-Arm Deal Would Be a Technology ‘Disaster’
• Invitation to Play Along | PINE64
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• LUP LUG Mumble Server Info
• Fullscreen JB IRC Chat - bit.ly/jupiterchat
• Jabra Elite Active 65t Tech Specs
• Amazon.com: Jabra Elite Active 65t Earbuds
• PulseAudio Loopbacks and Virtual Sinks
• PulseAudio Hacks for Zoom
• Shure SM58-LC Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone
• Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset
• ATR2100-USB - Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone | Audio-Technica
• Booth Junkie Review: Audio Technica ATR-2100 USB review
• Feedback: Another reason to love MX Linux

Plus we debate if OpenWrt is still the best router solution, and chew on Microsoft's new SELinux competitor.

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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 a big batch of feedback that kicks off some wide-ranging discussions.

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• FOSS Responders — COVID-19 is impacting the open source industry in many ways. If you or your community has been impacted, please let us know
• Seems that NVIDIA silently axed their GTC talk about Nouveau?
• Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely
• Lemur Pro - System76
• Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• FOSS Talk Live 2020 has been cancelled. — It seems very unlikely that London will be functioning by June so I have made this difficult call. I'm very sorry to anyone who has made travel and accommodation arrangements but I trust that everyone will understand why this had to be done.
• TXLF 2020 Rescheduled — Given the recommendations by public health officials, we have decided to not have Texas Linux Fest on May 2020 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. We are currently investigating opportunities to bring parts of Texas Linux Fest online.
• Unfilter is Back
• TurnKey GNU/Linux — a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions.
• Sandstorm — an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications
• Bitnami Stack
• YunoHost — easily manage a server for your friends, association or enterprise.
• Dedicated Platform Package Manager — an easy way to install and manage server applications.
• Home Assistant Add-ons - Home Assistant
• Feedback: Backup software tips?
• Feedback: mac Apps and Little Snitch
• Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel Extensions
• Feedback: Life at Microsoft
• Feedback: Mint Success
• Feedback: Mastodon
• Feedback: The Windows Burden

Plus our impressions of the latest GNOME release, community news, app picks, and more.

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• Linux Kernel’s Floppy Disk Code Is Seeing Improvements In 2020
• elementary #AppCenterForEveryone on Twitter — Due to travel restrictions and for the safety and well-being of our contributors, we are postponing the AppCenter for Everyone sprint that was planned to take place March 12–19. We are coordinating making alternate arrangements with attendees and will provide more info soon
• Daniel Foré on Twitter — I’m really bummed that we had to postpone an in-person sprint, but we still hit the ground running today and got a lot done.
• Eager Beavers vs the Winter Storm — Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Manjaro KDE will be factory-default of PinebookPro - Manjaro ARM / Announcements - Manjaro Linux Forum
• npm is joining GitHub - The GitHub Blog — Looking further ahead, we’ll integrate GitHub and npm to improve the security of the open source software supply chain, and enable you to trace a change from a GitHub pull request to the npm package version that fixed it.
• Protect our Speech and Security Online: Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Bill — The so-called EARN IT Act (S. 3398) is anti-speech, anti-security, anti-innovation, and unnecessary. Let’s tell Congress to reject it.
• Government ist trying to ban encryption again : linux
• GNOME 3.36 Release Notes
• GNOME 3.36 Released with New Lock Screen, Better Performance - OMG! Ubuntu! — The new release even manages to sneak in a couple of unexpected, but very welcome, changes too, like a new GNOME Extensions app.
• Jupiter Extras: Behind the Scenes: LINUX Unplugged
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• No LFNW this year
• WSLConf: The first conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux goes virtual
• El Reg gets some unexpected lessons from WSLConf — Microsoft celebrated the conclusion of a successful - and suddenly virtual - Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) conference by switching the forthcoming Build event to a digital affair as well. The Register spoke to those behind the first WSLConf about hitting the big red button with mere days to go.
• Microsoft Reactor. Learn. Connect. Innovate.
• pivpn — The Simplest VPN installer, designed for Raspberry Pi.
• Break Timer

Plus community news, a concerning issue for makers, an Arch server follow up, and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Jeremy Stott, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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• The makers of Jif peanut butter team up with Giphy to try to settle the GIF/Jif debate once and for all
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter: After several months of development we are happy to announce Manjaro Linux 19.0 release, named Kyria!
• Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design’s silent arrival
• Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Alex’s Blog: FAA Remote ID Proposal
• FPVFC FAQ on FAA Remote ID NPRM - December 2019
• Proposed Rule: Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems
• Introducing the Uber SSH Certificate Authority - Uber Security + Privacy - Medium
• bless: Repository for BLESS, an SSH Certificate Authority that runs as a AWS Lambda function
• How Uber, Facebook, and Netflix Do SSH
• stoggi/sshrimp: 🦐SSH Certificate Authority in a Lambda (on the barbie)
• “Zero Trust SSH” - Jeremy Stott (LCA 2020) - YouTube
• linux.conf.au 2020 | Presentation: Zero Trust SSH
• Keybase SSH
• hallow: A SSH Certificate Authority designed for use with AWS native environments
• BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security – Google Research
• collascii - A collaborative ascii canvas
• Ly - a TUI display manager
• ChrisLAS Cast
• Ubuntu Podcast

Plus an easy way to snapshot any workstation, some great feedback, and an extra nerdy command-line pick.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Drew DeVore.

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• Google slams Samsung for making changes to Linux kernel code
• Mitigations are attack surface, too
• Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong (archive.org cache)
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Timeshift: system restore tool for Linux
• Timeshift 19.08.1 does not apply file/folder exclude/include settings
• New Users and Linux Mint
• T480 Fingerprint Reader?
• Cockpit and ZFS
• Bcachefs prediction feedback
• jc: This tool serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq.
• Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century | Brazil’s Blog
• Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong

Plus the big little updates coming to Ubuntu MATE, some Pi pontification, and some significant changes for Wireguard.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• openSUSE Election Commitie Set to Open Vote on Project Name
• Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Release Notes
• Fedora Workstation 31 – Whats new — Christian F.K. Schaller
• GameMode improvements for GNOME 3.34 and Fedora 31 by Christian Kellner
• WireGuard to port to existing Crypto API
• Oggcamp 19 - Panel questions needed
• October Free Courses
• Texas Cyber Summit
• Birthday Party at Two Brothers BBQ
• How old is the #Linux install on your current computer?
• What I do after a fresh install of Fedora Workstation : Fedora
• GitHub - e-minguez/laptop_install: Utils to reinstall a new laptop easily
• yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager
• Direnv - unclutter your .profile
• Ncurses Telegram Client
• GitHub - X0rg/CPU-X: CPU-X is a Free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.
• CentOS7 Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Support - CentOS
• CentOS Mirror
• Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu Server / Desktop 18.04.3 Image (unofficial)

Plus Mozilla's been labeled an Internet Villian, we deep dive into the tech behind all the controversy and how you can self-host secure DNS.

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• Red Hat, Inc. on Twitter — As #RedHat's acquisition by @IBM closes, Red Hat will maintain independence and neutrality to give customers freedom, choice and flexibility.
• IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future — Joining forces with IBM gives Red Hat the opportunity to bring more open source innovation to an even broader range of organizations and will enable us to scale to meet the need for hybrid cloud solutions that deliver true choice and agility.
• Ubuntu-Maker Canonical’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked — An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories.
• Ubuntu Security on Twitter — We can confirm that on 2019-07-06 there was a Canonical owned account on GitHub whose credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities.
• Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4 — After reports started popping up on the Internet, Raspberry Pi cofounder Eben Upton admitted to TechRepublic that "A smart charger with an e-marked cable will incorrectly identify the Raspberry Pi 4 as an audio adapter accessory and refuse to provide power." Upton went on to say, "I expect this will be fixed in a future board revision, but for now users will need to apply one of the suggested workarounds. It's surprising this didn't show up in our (quite extensive) field testing program."
• Firefox 68.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes — Dark mode in reader view expands so that windows are also dark on the controls, sidebars and toolbars.
• Linux Millionaire Question Form — Jupiter Broadcasting wants to create a fun game for Linux enthusiasts to test their knowledge on the depths of technology and Linux history. Please help by providing us your thoughtful questions and suggested answers!
• Linux Academy on Twitter — The AWS #DevOps Professional certification exam has just been updated with new emphasis on the AWS #Developer Tools suite.
• Choose Linux 12: Regolith, Rosa, and Antsy Alien Attack — Two new hosts join Joe to talk about a nice i3 implementation and an amazing arcade game written in Bash.
• Linux Academy is Hiring!
• Passing the AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam — Whether you need the Cloud Practitioner certification for work or as a personal goal, studying and staying on track is hard because life gets in the way. Join this study group and we’ll help you pass the exam by meeting on a bi-weekly basis and going over the main topics covered in the certification exam.
• Emma on Twitter — Hey @system76 fans! I'm looking for a few people to join the HAPPINESS TEAM at System76!
• Understanding Burnout Study Group
• ISPA announces finalists for 2019 Internet Heroes and Villains: Trump and Mozilla lead the way as Villain nominees — Mozilla, for their proposed approach to introduce DNS-over-HTTPS in such a way as to bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls, undermining internet safety standards in the UK.
• How to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox | ZDNet — The DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol is currently the talk of the town, and the Firefox browser is the only one to support it.
• DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)  |  Public DNS  |  Google Developers — Google Public DNS provides two distinct DoH APIs
• Public recursive name server - Wikipedia — List of public DNS service operators
• DNS Over HTTPS Proxy — A set of python 3 scripts that supports proxying DNS over HTTPS as specified in the IETF Draft draft-ietf-doh-dns-over-https.
• DNS Privacy Project
• dnscrypt-proxy 2 — A flexible DNS proxy, with support for modern encrypted DNS protocols such as DNSCrypt v2 and DNS-over-HTTPS.
• Running a DNS over HTTPS Client — There are several DNS over HTTPS (DoH) clients you can use to connect to 1.1.1.1 in order to protect your DNS queries from privacy intrusions and tampering.
• curl/doh — A libcurl-using application that resolves a host name using DNS-over-HTTPS (DOH).
• RFC 7858 — Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security
• DNS Security with DNSCrypt — While OpenDNS has provided world-class security using DNS for years, and OpenDNS is the most secure DNS service available, the underlying DNS protocol has not been secure enough for our comfort.
• DNSSEC – What Is It and Why Is It Important? - ICANN — Engineers in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the organization responsible for the DNS protocol standards, long realized the lack of stronger authentication in DNS was a problem. Work on a solution began in the 1990s and the result was the DNSSEC Security Extensions (DNSSEC).
• DNS Security and Privacy — Choosing the right provider — However, with all great options out there (eg: 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9), come great responsibilities. Which provider to choose? Which protocol to choose? DNSCrypt? DNS over HTTPS or TLS? What about DNSSEC? …
• pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements — Those who want to get started quickly and conveniently may install Pi-hole using the following command
• Configuring DNS-Over-HTTPS on Pi-hole - Pi-hole documentation — DNS-Over-HTTPS is a protocol for performing DNS lookups via the same protocol you use to browse the web securely: HTTPS.
• Segmentation fault on raspberry pi 2 model b · Issue #38 · cloudflare/cloudflared
• DevilsPie — A totally crack-ridden program for freaks and weirdos who want precise control over what windows do when they appear. If you want all XChat windows to be on desktop 3, in the lower-left, at 40% transparency, you can do it.
• Devilspie2 — Devilspie2 is a window matching utility, allowing the user to perform scripted actions on windows as they are created.

Plus why openSUSE is looking at a renaming, and if we’d pay for Firefox Premium.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• VLC 3.0.7 and security - Yet another blog for JBKempf — We just released VLC 3.0.7, a minor update of VLC branch 3.0.x. This release is a bit special, because it has more security issues fixed than any other version of VLC.
• Renaming openSUSE — The primary motivation for a name change is, as described by openSUSE board chair Richard Brown, trademarks. Since "openSUSE" contains "SUSE", the company will have to retain a significant amount of control over what the foundation can do with its own name, which "makes such things rather complicated".
• openSUSE:Board election rules - openSUSE Wiki — The openSUSE board has currently six seats: Five members get elected by the community and an appointed chairperson.
• Introducing Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation — This means that after just over 5 years since the initial work on Matrix began, we are proud to have finally exited beta!
• Firefox Premium Coming Later This Year, But Will You Pay for It? — “We will probably launch some new services first and then we will think carefully about which model makes the most sense, while ensuring the best user safety. Firefox and many security features and services, like ETP [Enhanced Tracking Protection], will still be free.”
• Mozilla working on Firefox premium subscription offering — Mozilla is looking into options that would result in the launch of a paid-for version of Firefox this autumn. It has been reported that Mozilla CEO, Chris Beard, said that the company is aiming to launch the premium offering by October, with features like a VPN and secure cloud storage built-in - justifying a subscription fee.
• LINUX Unplugged - Blog - BSides San Antonio 2019 — I’m writing this post the day after BsidesSATX and it’s almost like the day after Christmas. BsidesSATX is the conference I look forward to all year because I get to see all of my Infosec family.
• JediMammoth on Twitter
• LinuxAcademy.com on Twitter — The AWS #DevOps Professional certification exam has just been updated with new emphasis on the AWS #Developer Tools suite.
• BSD Now 301 — GPU passthrough on bhyve, confusion with used/free disk space on ZFS, OmniOS Community Edition, pfSense 2.4.4 Release p3, NetBSD 8.1 RC1, FreeNAS as your Server OS, and more.
• FOSS Talk Live 2019
• The Friday Stream Episode 6: Mic And Coke — The funniest 17 seconds from Texas Linux Fest and we learn some remarkable things about our crew’s past.
• UnOfficial Hacker Family Dinner - Bsides San Antonio
• Back to the Basics: Linux Permissions 101 — Join Alex Juarez (Rackspace) and Ell Marquez for an introduction to Linux permissions! Whether you are brand new or have been doing Linux for a while or even professionally there will be something for you.
• New Mobile Video Player Experience and Fire TV - Linux Academy Blog
• Jupiter Broadcasting Sticker Pack
• swlistener/M6CIH on Twitter — @ChrisLAS @wespayne one for the JB team to have a look at for the tinfoil hat brigade?
• Resilient Linux – A resilient Debian GNU/Linux derivative for indestructible installations — A Debian GNU/Linux (Stretch) derivative with a unique partitioning scheme crafted for maximizing the strength against filesystem corruption: ISO9660 system partition is read-only by design at filesystem-level.
• Resilient Linux on GitHub
• marco-buratto/resilientlinux-usb-installer — Resilient Linux USB Installer is the deployment system for writing Resilient Linux onto a USB key.
• liveng — liveng 1.0 documentation — A live operating system allows booting from a removable medium, such a USB key, without the need of being installed to the hard drive.
• MuhammedKpln/chob: An universal app search tool for Linux — Chob is an helper tool for searching application accross platforms (Flathub, Snapcraft and AppImage)
• Only 5.5% of all vulnerabilities are ever exploited in the wild — The research -- considered the most extensive of its type to date -- found that only 4,183 security flaws from the total of 76,000 vulnerabilities discovered between 2009 and 2018 had been exploited in the wild.

Plus some great picks, community news, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Ell Marquez, and Martin Wimpress.

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• Announcing the evolution of the Red Hat Certified Engineer program — In the updated program, we are shifting the focus to automation of Linux system administration tasks using Red Hat Ansible Automation and will be changing the requirements for achieving an RHCE credential.
• Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development - Google I/O 2019 — Learn how Chrome OS gives you a secure, safe sandbox for the Web, Android, and Linux through Chrome OS design principles, Sandboxing Chrome, ARC++, and Linux (Crostini). This session will also cover ways to handle challenges to high performance and tradeoffs with safety.
• Pop!_OS featured on Linus Tech Tips Linux gaming episode as preferred Linux distribution
• The first Devuan Conference - report, videos and interviews — The submarine looking building gave home to an event gathering open source super heroes and all sorts of magical creatures because to quote the first Devuan docsprint in December 2016 from a booklet called ‘Software freedom your way’ : “We must apply thought and attention to software development and we share responsibility, as users and developers of software systems, to foster values of cooperation in the spirit of science, human cultures, and the diversity of life.”
• Ubuntu Still Working On ZFS Install Support, But Not In Time For 19.04 — For the past number of months we've seen Canonical developers working on ZFS support in the Ubuntu desktop and ZFS root partition support so that the Ubuntu desktop could (optionally) be installed to a ZFS On Linux partition.
• TechSNAP Episode 401: Everyday ZFS — Jim and Wes sit down to bust some ZFS myths and share their tips and tricks for getting the most out of the ultimate filesystem. Plus when not to use ZFS, the surprising way your disks are lying to you, and more!
• Linux Academy Limited Time Sale!
• LFNW Telegram Group
• Simplot Careers
• Our Trip to Dell | LAS 464 — Is Dell’s new hardware a sign of serious commitment to Linux or a large company’s hedge against market changes? We go inside Dell, get exclusive access to the teams & people behind many of Dell’s products that run Linux & find out. Plus we discuss Ubuntu dropping Unity for Gnome, Lightworks’ latest release & more!
• DiscoDingo ReleaseSchedule — Final release on April 18th, 2019.
• Ubuntu Releases
• Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) Beta
• PartyLoud — PartyLoud is a tool to create fake internet traffic in order to mitigate tracking on local networks.
• Wes' PartyLoud Demo
• ncspot — Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
• iwd — iwd (iNet wireless daemon) is a wireless daemon for Linux written by Intel that aims to replace WPA supplicant.
• Xfce Blog
• ElectronPlayer — An Electron Based Web Video Services Player. Supporting Netflix, Youtube, Twitch, Floatplane And More.
• ElectronPlayer on GitHub
• spotifyd: A spotify daemon — An open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon.

Plus we fall down the openSUSE rabbit hole when Ell updates us on her desktop challenge.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, Ell Marquez, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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• KDE Plasma 5.15: Lightweight, Usable and Productive — Discover, Plasma's software and add-on installer, has received tonnes of improvements to help you stay up-to-date and find the tools you need to get your tasks done.
• CVE-2019-5736: runc container breakout (all versions) — However, it *is* blocked through correct use of user namespaces (where the host root is not mapped into the container's user namespace).
• Container Bug Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access on Host Machine — The container bug, CVE-2019-5736, affects runc, the underlying container runtime for Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, cri-o and other container software, which means that nearly everyone running containers is affected.
• Doomsday Docker security hole uncovered | ZDNet
• Linux Coin Miner Removes All Other Malware and Miners
• Fedora logo redesign — The current Fedora Logo has been used by Fedora and the Fedora Community since 2005. However, over the past few months, Máirín Duffy and the Fedora Design team, along with the wider Fedora community have been working on redesigning the Fedora logo.
• Fedora's FESCo Approves Of A "Sane" Approach For Counting Fedora Users Via DNF — Baked over the past month was a new privacy-minded plan for counting users via DNF that relies upon a "countme" bit that will be incremented weekly or so and not have any UUID as originally envisioned
• Fedora 30 Will Get Bash 5.0 But Yum's Death Sentence Postponed To F31
• Draft Fedora 31 schedule available – Fedora Community Blog — After some discussion before the end of the year, we decided not to go with an extended development cycle for Fedora 31.
• SCALE Saturday Dinner JB Meetup — Let's eat and be merry at P.F. Changes Saturday night of SCALE17x!
• Containers: What you need to know; so you know what you need to know - Ell Marquez at S
• Elementary Staging COPR Repo — This repository contains packages of official elementaryOS projects which are not (yet) ready for inclusion in fedora as official packages.
• Ellopunk/OSchallenge - openSUSE — Ell's openSUSE journey notes.
• Pantheon Desktop on Fedora — The Pantheon desktop environment is the DE that powers elementaryOS. It builds on GNOME technologies, but utilizes components that were written from scratch in vala, using the GTK+3 toolkit.
• UberWriter — It's a simple markdown editor that offers a lot of features.
• solVItaire — An implementation of the classic solitaire games Klondike and Spider which has some nice to use vi(1) like keybindings, but can also be played with standard cursor keys, the number pad/row or even the mouse.
• VIM Adventures — Learn VIM while playing a game!
• Solvitaire As a SNAP
• FireQOS Reference
• FireQOS New User Tutorial

We also have a batch of big community news, and the case for the cloud killing Open Source.

Special Guests: Alessandro Castellani and Brent Gervais.

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• OggCamp 19 — OggCamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities.
• OggCamp on Twitter
• Remote Code Execution in apt-get — A vulnerability in apt allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a machine installing any package. The bug has been fixed in the latest versions of apt.
• Why does APT not use HTTPS?
• Turkish ISP Swapped Downloads of Popular Software with Spyware-Infected Apps
• Which block I/O scheduler is the best? We asked eBPF. — I set out expecting to see differing distributions of latencies for each block scheduler, but ultimately found that I didn’t understand low-level systems behavior to the degree I thought I did.
• Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass. — Windows 10 developers have been gifted yet another way of running Linux on their desktop in the form of Canonical's Multipass.
• Microsoft Employee Hints at Windows Core OS Open Source Components
• TechSNAP Episode 395: The ACME Era
• LinuxFest Northwest 20th Anniversary
• LFNW Telegram Group
• LinuxFest Northwest Parking Lot BBQ Meetup
• SCALE 17x
• SCALE Telegram Group
• Texas Linux Fest 2019
• Public Speaking: A repository of resources about public speaking, specifically in the context of software development and IT conferences.
• Linux Operating System Fundamentals — Have you heard of Linux, but don't really know anything about it? Are you a non-technical person just wanting to know what this 'Linux' thing is? Then this course is for you.
• Akira: Native Linux App for UI and UX Design
• Akira on Kickstarter
• Exponent episode 159 — Inverted Pyramids
• Late Night Linux – Episode 55 — Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises?
• AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
• Open source confronts its midlife crisis

Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our final Dropbox XFS hack.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller.

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• NASA runs KDE
• Are people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility for large company's to vet dependency themselves, such as this package event-stream
• International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable.”
• LinuxFest Northwest 2019 — LinuxFest Northwest is an annual Open Source event co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group and the Information Technology department at Bellingham Technical College
• SnapRAID — SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures.
• mergerfs — A featureful union filesystem.
• Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed — It's about trying to re-tool the distribution and restructure the way its developed to rely more upon automated testing, improving the release processes, and related infrastructure to make it more scalable and better for the longer-term.
• Fedora Mailing-Lists: Lifecycle objective - problems, solutions, and proposal
• Fedora Wiki: Objectives/Lifecycle/Problem statements
• Current 12-18 Month Community Objectives
• Fedora Council Charter
• Dropbox Filesystem Fix — Fix the filesystem detection in the Linux Dropbox client.

Plus the latest community updates, a new timeline for the Librem 5, tempting new Chromebooks, and some top picks.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Eric Hendricks.

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• Airplane Mode: A box designed to seduce you into digital disconnection
• LMDE 3 “Cindy” Cinnamon released!
• GNOME Tweaks 3.30
• Purism Pushes Back The Librem 5
• Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
• ZeroPhone: $50 open source smartphone
• Google won’t patch flaw in old versions of Android
• Android collecting 10 times more data than iOS, claims study
• $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
• Linux Kernel Developer Criticizes Intel's Meltdown Disclosure
• ​Linus Torvalds talks frankly about Intel security bugs | ZDNet
• Linux 4.19 lets you declare your trust in AMD, IBM and Intel
• Proven: An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts powered by Keybase
• rat: Compose shell commands to build interactive terminal applications
• tcpdump101.com: Build packet capture syntax online