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• XZ Utils Backdoor Vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094): Comprehensive Guide
• The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
• Who is ‘Jia Tan,’ the coder behind the XZ Utils Linux backdoor?
• Reflections on Distrusting xz
• The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons. — The Linux kernel does not accept anonymous contributions due to legal reasons.
• Kernel.org Docs on contributions — It is imperative that all code contributed to the kernel be legitimately free software.
• Elon Musk wants to ‘authenticate all real humans’ on Twitter.
• Elon Musk claims alien identity, links human brain function to AI purpose
• Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID
• Elon Musk can show the world how to really do ID
• World ID
• Nostr: All Your Silos Are Broken
• Nostr Iceberg Meme
• NIP-01
• Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers
• Navigating the social graph — In this paper, you will find a definition of the social graph, principles for thinking about it, and practical ideas for using it for DoS prevention, social discovery, anti-impersonation, accurate ratings, and more.
• Highlighter — Highlighter is like Substack & Patreon but on Nostr.
• Satlantis — Satlantis is like Trip Advisor, meets Instagram and Google Places.
• HiveTalk — Free Video Calls, Messaging and Screen Sharing
• zap.stream — Twitch alt powered by value for value and Nostr
• ostrGit — A truly censorship-resistant alternative to GitHub that has a chance of working.
• Blogstack — Write decentralized blogs over relay using nostr w/ ⚡ lightning tips.
• Ditto — Ditto is a Nostr community server. It has a built-in Nostr relay, a web UI, and it implements Mastodon's REST API.
• UseNostr
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• Decentralized publishing for the web
• Nostr Apps
• Nosta — New to Nostr? You're in the right place. Here you can easily set up your profile, discover apps, and browse other profiles.
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• SpeechNote — Speech Note let you take, read and translate notes in multiple languages. It uses Speech to Text, Text to Speech and Machine Translation to do so.
• rhasspy/piper: — A fast, local neural text to speech system.
• Starship — The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
• starship on GitHub
• ZSH Docs: ZDOTDIR
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• WSL 2 distros are now supported on Windows Server
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• Dish begs FCC to deactivate Starlink setups used in moving vehicles
• SpaceX: Starlink Risks Becoming ‘Unusable’ If Dish Gets 12GHz Spectrum
• JB London Meetup - Aug 5 “6pm London time”
• London Colony Meetup - Matrix chat room
• Linode Guides — Migrate a PostgreSQL Database to a Managed Database
• Tech Talk: 2007 Linus Torvalds on git
• Oh My Git! — An open source game about learning Git!
• Getting started with Git: Terminology 101
• Tech With Tim - Git And GitHub in ~30 Minutes
• JB GitHub - Website Rebuild Ideas & Explorations · Discussion #8
• Git Tutorial for Beginners - Git & GitHub Fundamentals In Depth
• Cleanup by Brent · Pull Request #29
• GitKraken
• awesome-git — A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things.
• ungit — The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
• Hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites
• Celebrating 15 years of Git — An interview with Git maintainer Junio Hamano
• Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser — Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more.
• Office Hours 6: Peer to Peer Future — Interview with Mitch Downey, co-founder of Podverse.
• Fountain 0.4.0 — Listen to Earn, Promotions & Paid Likes
• gpodder.net — gpodder.net is a libre web service that allows you to manage your podcast subscriptions and discover new content. If you use multiple devices, you can synchronize subscriptions and your listening progress.
• Source for gpodder.net
• GPodder Sync in the Nextcloud App Store
• Podverse: Podcasting 2.0 certified player for Android, F-Droid, iOS, and the web.
• [Album] The New Deal
• TinyPilotKVM: Control any computer remotely.

Plus we review what might just be your next Linux laptop, and explain why systemd is coming for your /home.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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• Ubuntu Touch on the Pinebook
• CentOS 8.1905 — Hello and welcome to the first CentOS-8 release. The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproducible platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• CentOS Stream — CentOS Stream will be a rolling-release Linux distro that exists as a midstream between the upstream development in Fedora Linux and the downstream development for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is a cleared-path to contributing into future minor releases of RHEL while interacting with Red Hat and other open source developers. This pairs nicely with the existing contribution path in Fedora for future major releases of RHEL.
• Transforming the development experience within CentOS — The CentOS Stream project sits between the Fedora Project and RHEL in the RHEL Development process, providing a "rolling preview" of future RHEL kernels and features. This enables developers to stay one or two steps ahead of what’s coming in RHEL, which was not previously possible with traditional CentOS releases
• Reinventing Home Directories — The concept of home directories on Linux/UNIX has little changed in the last 39 years. It's time to have a closer look, and bring them up to today's standards, regarding encryption, storage, authentication, user records, and more.
• Twitch Becomes Premiere Sponsor of the OBS Project | OBS — We are excited to announce that Twitch is now officially sponsoring my work on the OBS Project! Since 2012 we've maintained a great relationship with Twitch and their engineers. They've always been good to us, and we've always helped each other whenever needed. Twitch has always been one of the biggest supporters of our project, and now it's official.
• Free Courses at Linux Academy — On September 17th Linux Torvald first released the Linux Operating System Kernel on September 17th, 1991 so we are celebrating by offering free training for you to increase your Linux Skills.
• Texas Cyber Summit — October 10th to the 12th in San Antonio Texas.
• Unofficial Hacker Family Dinner & Unbirthday Party | Meetup — Join Chris, Wes, Chz and Ell for a meet and greet with fellow Texas Cyber Summit attendees and a belated celebration of Ell and Allie's Birthdays! There will be good food, good friends, and we hope some good conversation.
• System76 Adder Workstation — For content creators, researchers, and gamers.
• Adder WS Quickstart Guide
• Sys76addws-memspeed Benchmarks
• Sys76AdderWS-fio Benchmarks
• Sys76AdderWS-graphics-magick Benchmarks
• Clevo PB50RC-G
• Starship Is A Minimal And Fast Shell Prompt Written In Rust - Linux Uprising Blog
• Starship — The cross-shell prompt for astronauts