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• F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
• Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
• Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
• Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
• Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
• Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
• The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
• bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
• Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
• EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
• Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
• Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
• Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
• The first half of the 6.16 merge window
• The second half of the 6.16 merge window
• Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
• Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
• Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
• Supporting kernel development with large language models
• Fending off unwanted file descriptors
• Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
• Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
• DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
• LLM generated git-resolve.sh
• Aidan's NixOS Flake
• Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
• SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
• Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
• Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

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• OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for WireGuard Creator Jason Donenfeld
• OpenSats Lightning Node
• Nextcloud Hub 9
• Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9 - the world's leading open source collaboration platform! - YouTube
• Day 1: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
• Day 2: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
• Nextcloud Community Conference 2024
• Mailvelope — Mailvelope is a browser add-on that you can use in Chrome, Edge and Firefox to securely encrypt your emails with PGP using webmail providers
• Nextcloud Server Releases
• nextcloud/docker: ⛴ Docker image of Nextcloud
• Bug: Unable to update background execution mode: conflict between new type (mixed) and old type (string)
• VLESS
• hacompanion: Daemon that sends local hardware information to Home Assistant.
• LNXlink: 🖥 Effortlessly manage your Linux machine using MQTT.
• Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
• Supersonic — A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for Subsonic and Jellyfin music servers.

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• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android — Amazon’s new operating system is also based on a flavor of Linux, and is using a more web-forward application model. App developers are being told to use React Native as an application framework, which allows them to build native apps with Javascript-powered interfaces,
• webOS Open Source Edition — The open-source software platform built for smart and connected devices of tomorrow.
• Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies
• ⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING IN THE 2023 TUXIES?
• 2023 Tuxies Sticker by TheGoldenDragon
• GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure — The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest.
• GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund
• Sovereign Tech Fund — The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure. Our goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem. We focus on security, resilience, technological diversity, and the people behind the code.
• Recession-hit Germany is facing a flurry of global headwinds: Goldman Sachs
• KDE’s 6th Megarelease - Alpha — It has been nearly 10 years since the last big release of our flagship Plasma desktop environment, and the time has come again. KDE is making available today the Alpha version of all the software we will include in a megarelease scheduled for the end of February 2024.
• KDE Timeline of major releases - Wikipedia
• Schedules/Plasma 6 - KDE Community Wiki
• Plasma 5.27.80 complete changelog
• This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording – Adventures in Linux and KDE — Yep you read that right, we’ve decided to throw the lever and go Wayland by default! The three remaining showstoppers are in the process of being fixed and we expect them to be done soon–certainly before the final release of Plasma 6.
• KDE neon Plasma 6 ISOs
• KDE neon Unstable downloads
• KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released, Plus KDE Frameworks & KDE Gear
• nix-bitcoin — nix-bitcoin is a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
• Jonas Nick — Jonas Nick has been a Bitcoin developer with Blockstream since 2015. He is also a contributor to free and open source projects like Bitcoin Core, libsecp, rust-bitcoin and many others.
• Jonas Nick talk on nix-bitcoin - YouTube
• nevoyu's Nix Config
• International Space Station Abandons Windows In Favour Of Debian — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable – one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could,” explained Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor involved in ISS operations.
• Ground command to major tom, please do a push up - YouTube
• KDE Activities: How To - Nicco/YouTube

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• 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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• Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration — This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton of customisation and flexibility. To get started, you’ll need an instance of Home Assistant running with the ESPHome add-on as well as the Home Assistant companion app on your mobile phone to receive notifications when someone presses the doorbell button.
• Alex in Chicago, Aug 10, 2023 | Meetup
• The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance — "The U.K. government wants to grant itself the right to scan every message online for content related to child abuse or terrorism—and says it will still, somehow, magically, protect peoples’ privacy. That’s simply impossible. U.K. civil society groups have condemned the bill, as have technical experts and human rights groups around the world."
• U.K. civil society groups
• human rights groups around the world
• WhatsApp, Signal, and the UK-based Element
• Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law — "End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats," Apple argued in a statement to the media.
• Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Snowflake ❄️ — Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call.
• Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking — Instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected.
• AdGuard Home
• NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
• UnifiedPush — UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.
• NextPush - Server App — UnifiedPush provider for Nextcloud - server application
• UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
• Proton Drive — Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data.
• SimpleLogin — Open source anonymous email service
• Simple NixOS Mailserver
• Proton Calendar
• EteSync - Secure Data Sync — Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
• Nextcloud + DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ has been successfully tested with Nextcloud.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.
• Nextcloud - Online collaboration platform — Regain control over your data
• Send — Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.
• nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end — A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project.
• FreeTube — The Private YouTube Client
• NewPipe - a free YouTube client — NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.
• yattee — Privacy-oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
• libredirect — A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
• Aegis Authenticator - Secure 2FA app for Android — Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.
• SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random) — Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy.
• Element — A secure communications platform built around you.
• PrivacyGuides.org
• PrivacyTools.io
• Surveillance Self-Defense - EFF
• Funding Developers With Lightning
• Tailscale on GL.iNet Routers — Tailscale feature available since V4.2.
• Nix-on-Droid — Nix-on-Droid brings Nix package manager of NixOS fame to your mobile device.
• InvidTUI — InvidTUI is an invidious client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.

Plus, Wes has a new device, and Brent wants answers.

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• Chris' Workstation neofetch
• Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard — Black. Wired, Comfortable, Ergonomic Keyboard with Cushioned Wrist and Palm Support. Split Keyboard.
• Magic TrackPad
• NixOS Remote Desktop
• FOUR Displays
• U.S. Intelligence Has Admitted Amassed Data on ‘Nearly Everyone’ — A newly declassified report confirms that the government has unprecedented insight into our lives through smartphones, cars, web browsing, and other tech.
• DNI Haines Statement on Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
• ODNI Senior Advisory Group Panel Declassified Report on Commercially Available Information
• Millions of Americans’ personal data exposed in global hack
• US government agencies hit in global cyberattack
• Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear by Michael Bazzell — This textbook is PROACTIVE. It is about starting over. It is the complete guide that he would give to any new client in an extreme situation.
• Have I Been Pwned — Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach.
• Stalkerware Resources and Help – Darknet Diaries — It’s a nightmare scenario that’s alarmingly common. Your spouse, partner, ex, co-worker, or vengeful person is determined they want to spy on you. To follow you everywhere you go digitally. They might have access to your location, the cameras in your home, your emails. It’s extremely violating and horrible. Here are a few resources that can help if you’re in this situation.
• Darknet Diaries — True stories from the dark side of the Internet.
• Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Surveillance Self-Defense | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We’re deprecating SeedVault and will be replacing it with a new implementation. SeedVault was created by a member of the GrapheneOS community in 2017 based on our design for it. Unfortunately, it has been taken over by an untrustworthy group of developers without aligned goals.
• GrapheneOS/platform_external_seedvault
• SeedVault - Calyx Institute
• seedvault-app/seedvault — A backup application for the Android Open Source Project.
• How to use SeedVault Backup for Android
• immich — Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.
• DAVx5 — Sync your contacts, calendars and tasks. Get live-access to your WebDAV Cloud files. All-in-one CalDAV/CardDAV/WebDAV solution for Android
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: go2tv — Cast media files to UPnP/DLNA Media Renderers and Smart TVs.

Special Guest: Noah Chelliah.

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• DebianBookworm — Bookworm is the development codename for Debian 12, released on 2023-06-10.
• Debian 12 “Bookworm” Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
• For the LAS Time | Linux Action Show 468 - YouTube
• Ask Noah
• ThinLinX
• JMP: Your phone number on every device
• SouthEast LinuxFest — For the regulars and newbies, please review our schedule to get a feel for what’s happening at this year’s events. For the newbies, be sure to read our About Us page to understand a bit more about the event in general.
• SELF 2023 Schedule
• southeastlinuxfest - YouTube
• Argon ONE V2 Case for Raspberry Pi 4 — The Argon ONE Case is now better than ever as it has many new features
• comma — Comma runs software without installing it.
• org-roam
• Taking org-roam everywhere with logseq
• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge
• SUSE Partners with Collabora to Deliver Commercial LibreOffice Support
• Send a Boot from web with Alby — Top off Alby, then head over to the Podcastindex.org
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost right from the web at the Podcast Index with Alby.
• Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
• fractal on GitLab
• FluffyChat — FluffyChat is an open-source, nonprofit and cute matrix messenger app. The app is easy to use but secure and decentralized.
• NixOS for the Impatient — This post is about how I set up NixOS.

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• Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice [LWN.net] — Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has let it be known that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, and the future of its support in Fedora is unclear as well.
• The distribution model is changing
• The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support — Estimated Monthly Costs - ~$9000 / month for hosting cache.nixos.org
• NixOS 23.05 released
• Introducing NixOS Anywhere
• Nixos-anywhere: install nixos everywhere via ssh — 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.
• Quickstart - nixos-anywhere
• Disko Examples
• NetBird — NetBird is an open-source VPN management platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
• netbird GitHub repo — Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network with SSO/MFA and simple access controls.
• Nix-portable — Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured
• Nix-bundle — Bundle Nix derivations to run anywhere!
• nix-user-chroot: Install & Run nix without root permissions
• Nix Release 2.10 (2022-07-11)
• Nix Portable: Nix - Static, Permissionless, Install-free, Pre-configured - Announcements - NixOS Discourse
• Send a Boost with Alby — Top off Alby, and then boost from the Web.
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• KTailctl — A GUI for the Tailscale mesh network.
• SABnzbd

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

Special Guest: Ryan Huber.

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• NixOS 22.11 Released
• VERY Simple NixOS NGINX Config
• NixOS Manual: SSL/TLS Certificates with ACME — NixOS supports automatic domain validation & certificate retrieval and renewal using the ACME protocol. Any provider can be used, but by default NixOS uses Let's Encrypt. The alternative ACME client lego is used under the hood.
• NixOS Manual: Configuring Nginx for Pleroma
• go-acme/lego — Let’s Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go.
• hackclub’s proxyparty
• Easily Deploy a Mastodon Server with Linode's Marketplace
• Defined Networking is Open for Business — On behalf of everyone here at Defined Networking, I’m excited to announce that our cloud managed version of Nebula is now available to everyone!
• Automating Nebula Host Creation with the API
• Try Defined Networking’s Managed Nebula
• LINUX Unplugged 329: Flat Network Truthers — Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.
• Trakt — Track what you watch and when.

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

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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• New Flathub Site in Beta - Big Things Coming — [...] next steps are to flesh out the donation infrastructure with the aim to allow app pages to have their own link to donation/purchase.
• Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux — I think this whole situation shows why creating native games for Linux is challenging. It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.
• The Offending glibc Commit
• A glibc Bug
• The ABI status of ELF hash tables — If EAC were free software, of course, chances are there would already be a patch circulating to deal with the problem. As it is, only its owner can deal with this problem directly. Meanwhile, though, there is another workaround available: distributors can easily patch the glibc build to restore the DT_HASH section and make the problem go away for now.
• Jupiter JPL Meetup Form
• JB Meetups
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Endless OS — The Endless Operating System is simple and easy for anyone to use. It is fully equipped with essential apps to learn, play, work and connect.
• Different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS — What are the different methods to run a non-NixOS executable on NixOS? I'd like to see also the manual methods.
• nix-ld: Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
• vscode with extensions nix package
• vscode FHS compatible
• toolbox-vscode — Toolbox Visual Studio Code integration
• Self-Hosted 67: The No Container Theory — Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and boost into the show.
• Heroic Games Launcher — Heroic is an Open Source GOG and Epic games launcher for Linux, Windows and macOS. Also available on the Steam Deck!
• Heroic Games Launcher | Flathub

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• London Meetup — Alex from Self-Hosted will be in the UK in August and is proposing a meetup in London on August 6th at 2pm GMT (meetup.com is based off JBs Pacific Time).
• HP Dev One — Get ready for a laptop that’s customized for the way you code. Featuring preinstalled Pop!_OS Linux and a tuned Linux keyboard with a Super key, HP Dev One was designed with developers in mind.
• HP Preparing An AMD-Powered Linux Laptop Powered By Pop!_OS
• HP teamed up with System76 for the HP Dev One laptop with Pop!_OS Linux
• Bringing bcachefs to the mainline — Bcachefs is a longstanding out-of-tree filesystem that grew out of the bcache caching layer that has been in the kernel for nearly ten years. Based on a session led by Kent Overstreet at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), though, it would seem that bcachefs is likely to be heading upstream soon. He intends to start the process toward mainline inclusion over the next six months or so.
• Bcachefs Principles of Operation
• Tow-Boot — Tow-Boot a user-friendly, opinionated distribution of U-Boot, where there is as few differences in features possible between boards, and a "familiar" user interface for an early boot process tool.
• OpenSats — Support contributors to Bitcoin and other free and open source projects.
• Pick: Briar — Secure messaging, anywhere.

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• After losing contact with its helicopter, NASA put the entire Mars mission on hold — Mars is only going to get colder and darker for the next 10 weeks as winter deepens.
• Why the open source driver release from NVIDIA is so important for Linux? — Today NVIDIA announced that they are releasing an open source kernel driver for their GPUs, so I want to share with you some background information and how I think this will impact Linux graphics and compute going forward.
• NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules — NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515 driver release.
• Hector Martin on Twitter — So NVIDIA "released" their kernel driver as open source. By which they mean, they moved most of it to firmware and made the open source driver call into it. There are almost 900 functions implemented in the 34MB firmware, give or take, from what I can see. Broadcom vibes...
• Longhorn on Twitter — Note that the 30MB+ firmware supports multiple GPU generations, and that’s an important factor. (If you see the elf sections, there’s ones for Turing, Ampere DC, Ampere customer and Gnext)
• Linux Action News 240 — NVIDIA has announced its plans for an open-source GPU driver. Christian Schaller, the Director for Desktop, Graphics, Infotainment and more at Red Hat, gives us the inside scoop on this historic announcement.
• Tailscale raises $100M… to fix the Internet — This is not our first rodeo. We don’t know where the economy or the market are going. We don’t want to be pressured into juicing growth numbers beyond where they belong. We don’t want to put revenue ahead of quality, because our stats say quality is where all our growth comes from.
• sshuttle — where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh
• Documentation · Tailscale — Welcome to the Tailscale documentation
• Guides · Tailscale
• Access a Pi-hole or Raspberry Pi from anywhere — One common use of a Raspberry Pi is to run a Pi-hole, a DNS-based ad blocking services. A typical setup is to have a Raspberry Pi in your house running Pi-hole, acting as the DNS server for your local Wi-Fi network.
• Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes — In this article I will show how to set up a brand new Minecraft server (exposed only over Tailscale) in ten minutes
• Tailscale in LXC containers
• Set up a dogcam with Tailscale, Raspberry Pi, and Motion
• weron: Overlay networks based on WebRTC. — weron provides lean, fast & secure overlay networks based on WebRTC.
• newpodcastapps.com
• Podverse
• Breez — Send a Boost without switching Podcast apps. All powered by Lightning Network.
• Ansible Modules Bitwarden — Bitwarden integrations for Ansible

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Special Guests: Matthew Miller and Neal Gompa.

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• Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust — I've been working on a new operating system kernel Kerla, written from scratch in Rust which aims to be Linux-compatible at the ABI level. In other words, support running unmodified Linux binaries!
• Roving With Perseverance - NASA Mars — Displays including full-scale models of Perseverance and the Ingenuity Mars helicopter will be on exhibit in museums across the country
• The Museum of Flight – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program — NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter models will be on display, October 30, 2021 - April 3, 2022
• Remote desktop and screen casting in Wayland - GNOME Wiki! — Remote desktop functionality is not implemented in mutter but in GNOME Remote Desktop. GNOME Remote Desktop currently supports "screen share", also known as "remote assistance" mode through VNC or RDP. VNC support is provided via LibVNCServer and RDP support is provided via FreeRDP.
• GNOME remote desktop RDP setup guide — The RDP server in gnome-remote-desktop currently doesn't have the UI to setup yet. To be able to use the RDP server, the server certificate, private keyfile and credentials therefore need to be created manually.
• Zoom Supports Continued Access for Basic Users with Advertising Program
• Worth the wait: Fedora Linux 35 is here! — We switched the default audio system to PipeWire in Fedora Linux 34, and now we’re improving this by adding the new WirePlumber session manager. WirePlumber allows for more customization of the policy and rules for audio and video. It provides a richer development experience and adds bindings for most languages.
• WirePlumber 0.4.4 documentation — WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire and a GObject-based high-level library that wraps PipeWire’s API, providing convenience for writing the daemon’s modules as well as external tools for managing PipeWire.
• Tom Wagner / Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
• Common F35 bugs - Fedora Project Wiki
• DNF System Upgrade :: Fedora Docs
• Fedora Spins Prereleases
• Fedora Docs
• Changes/Restart User Service after Upgrade - Fedora Project Wiki
• Fedora Flathub Filter List
• Plasma Discover rpm-ostree_backend
• Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch Emulator — Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator created by gdkchan and written in C#.
• Ryujinx on GitHub
• Ryujinx Setup & Configuration Guide

Plus our thoughts on the perfect Linux laptop right now, and the clever initiative Valve just launched for the Deck.

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

Plus new details about the Steam Deck everyone has missed, and an old friend stops by the show with an update.

Special Guest: Danielle Foré.

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• Amazon’s Astro home robot is like having Alexa on wheels — Amazon claims the Astro can do a wide variety of things you might want from a home robot. It can map out your floor plan and obey commands to go to a specific room. It can recognize faces and deliver items to a specific person.
• “Intel Software Defined Silicon” Coming To Linux For Activating Extra Licensed Hardware Features — The Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver is for supporting the "post-manufacturing mechanism for activating additional silicon features."
• One of the Steam Deck’s biggest hurdles just disappeared: EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound — While developers would still need to patch their games, this immediately means some of the most popular games on Steam are now theoretically within reach, including Apex Legends, Dead by Daylight, and War Thunder, which are all among the top 25 games on Steam.
• Syscall User Dispatch — The Linux Kernel documentation — Compatibility layers like Wine need a way to efficiently emulate system calls of only a part of their process - the part that has the incompatible code - while being able to execute native syscalls without a high performance penalty on the native part of the process. Syscall User Dispatch brings the filtering of the syscall dispatcher address back to userspace.
• Steam Deck :: FAQ
• Poll: Which “server” distro should we go with next? — So it's time to replace our garage server... We've been running Arch, and so far it's worked mostly great. Should we keep pushing our luck, or try something new?
• PowerEdge R820 Rack Server Details
• PhoneTrack - Nextcloud Apps — PhoneTrack is a Nextcloud application to track and store mobile device's locations.
• Pick: tubearchivist — Your self-hosted YouTube media server.

Plus, an update on Matrix and the recent upgrades we made to our server.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Joshua Strobl.

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• Building an Alternative Ecosystem | Joshua Strobl — While we have been consistent in this vision, though certainly not without flaws in its execution, we have seen a significant shift from GNOME’s development efforts and vision being focused from their desktop experience, to a heavier focus on mobile-to-desktop application scalability and a more touch-oriented, almost iPadOS like user experience that does not (in our opinion) provide the most optimized experience for laptop and desktop users.
• The Truth they are not telling you about “Themes” – Rust in Peace — There seems to be some confusion when it comes to libadwaita’s stylesheet and coloring APIs.
• Red Hat’s Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35 - Phoronix — Fedora Workstation 35 will hopefully be out at the end of October (currently the beta is running behind schedule) and when it does ship it's once again at the bleeding-edge of Linux features.
• GNOME 41 has new multitasking settings!
• SeaGL is coming up soon, and is virtual this year — November 5th & 6th, 2021
• This Week in Matrix
• Spaces: The next frontier — Using Spaces and Subspaces to build hierarchies effectively turns Matrix into a global decentralised filesystem for conversations and other real-time data!
• toger5/TheBoard — A collaborative Whiteboard powered by the [matrix] protocol and infrastucture.
• Matrix Live
• Compressing Synapse database | Levans’ workshop — Anyone running a federating instance of the Matrix homeserver Synapse will likely have seen this: synapse is database-hungry. It tends to take a lot of space. In this post, I'm documenting how I shrunk my homeserver database from 100GB to a little under 8GB, during a long maintenance cleanup.
• Pick: Wayfire — Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
• Garuda Wayfire Download

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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 chat with Daniel Foré and Cassidy James Blaede about the just released elementary OS 6.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Jim Salter.

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• elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now — It’s been a long road to elementary OS 6 but it’s finally here. elementary OS 6 Odin is available to download now. And it’s the biggest update to the platform yet!
• Valve working with AMD to support Windows 11 on Steam Deck — “There’s work looking at TPM just now. We’ve focused so much on Windows 10, so far, that we haven’t really gotten that far into it. Our expectation is that we can meet that.”
• Valve dumped Debian Linux for Arch Linux with SteamOS 3 because surprise - faster updates — "We were making a bunch of updates and changes to specifically make sure that things work well for Steam deck, and Arch just ended up being a better choice for them."
• Web UIs for WireGuard That Make Configuration Easier
• wireguard-manager — wireguard-manager enables you to build your own vpn under a minute.
• easy-wg-quick — Creates Wireguard configuration for hub and peers with ease.
• wg-manage — An awesome command-line tool to manage Wireguard configurations.
• dsnet — Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation.
• dsnet-gui — A simple gui for dsnet.
• subspace — A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI.
• subspacecommunity/subspace — A fork of the simple WireGuard VPN server GUI community maintained.
• wg-ui — WireGuard Web UI for self-serve client configurations, with optional auth.
• wireguard-ui — Wireguard web interface.
• wg-easy — The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI.
• drago — Securely connect anything with WireGuard® and manage all your networks from a single place.
• WireGuard Home Assistant Community Add-on — WireGuard is pretty simple, however, can be quite complex for user that isn't familiar with all terminology used. The add-on takes care of a lot of things for you (if you want).
• autowire — Automatically configure Wireguard interfaces in distributed system. It supports Consul as backend.
• wiresteward — Wireguard peer manager with OAuth2.
• wireguard-p2p — A tool for setting up WireGuard connections from peer to peer.
• wesher — Wireguard overlay mesh network manager.
• netmaker — Netmaker is a platform for creating and managing fast, secure, and dynamic virtual overlay networks using WireGuard.
• wiretrustee — Connect your devices into a single secure private WireGuard®-based mesh network.
• headscale — An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server.
• innernet — A private network system that uses WireGuard under the hood.
• Pro Custodibus — Pro Custodibus is a SaaS with a web GUI that makes it easy to add users and devices to WireGuard VPNs, manage their configuration, and monitor their usage.
• New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows — The WireGuard VPN project announced a major milestone for its Windows users today—an all-new, kernel-mode implementation of the VPN protocol called WireGuardNT. The new implementation allows for massively improved throughput on 10Gbps LAN connections—and on many WI-Fi connections, as well.
• 2.5 Admins
• JingPad A1 (DVT) review, part 1
• PIck: ethr — Ethr is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & ICMP.

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• Pick: termbin.com — Netcat-based command line pastebin.

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 our reaction to RMS's return to the FSF, some big project updates, picks, and more!

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Danielle Foré.

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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

We've tallied the audience votes for the best open source projects, desktops, distros, editors, games, and much much more.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Nate Graham.

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• Adventures in Linux and KDE
• DS920+ — Scalable NAS with SSD cache acceleration capability.
• find.synology.com
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Plus Alexi Pol joins us for two big updates from the KDE community.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
1:30 Intro
1:49 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:56 Linux Action News Returns!
4:17 Ubuntu 20.10 Embraces Active Directory
7:26 DebConf 2020
12:58 Pipewire Progress with Wim Tayman
23:26 SPONSOR: Linode
25:28 Akademy 2020
33:41 Housekeeping
36:19 SPONSOR: Unplugged Core Contributors
38:08 Jono Bacon's Book Club
39:05 Feedback: Alpine Server Challenge
40:15 Feedback: Remote Office
44:05 Picks: SC-IM
45:11 Picks: Present
47:30 Outro
48:49 Post-Show

Special Guests: Aleix Pol, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Wim Taymans.

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• YARH.IO MKI: Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld
• Linux Action News is BACK: Linux Action News 153
• Ubuntu 20.10 Adding Active Directory Support To The Installer
• The Problems Debian Is Facing In 2020
• PipeWire Is In Increasingly Great Shape - Ready For More User Testing
• PipeWire Late Summer Update 2020 — Christian F.K. Schaller
• Launching Pipewire! — Christian F.K. Schaller
• PipeWire GitLab
• PipeWire Homepage
• WirePlumber, the PipeWire session manager
• LUP 272: Prepare for Pipewire
• Akademy 2020 — Friday 4th to Friday 11th September
• Brunch with Brent: Aleix Pol
• Aleix Pol on Twitter
• BigBlueButton - Open Source Web Conferencing
• The Linux App Summit Call for Papers
• Coder Radio
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• ‘People Powered’ Book Club - Jono Bacon
• Feedback: Server challenge
• Feedback: Remote Office
• Self-Hosted 24: OPNsense Makes Sense
• Setup a secure (SSH) tunnel as a systemd service
• What no one needs: An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal
• present: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects.
• Why I Link to WayBackMachine Instead of Original Site - Hawaii GenTech - Big Island Website Management and Tech Assistance
• (WaybackMachine Link) Why I Link to WayBackMachine Instead of Original Site - Hawaii GenTech

Plus, we attempt to combine two internet connections with Linux live from the woods!

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
1:07 Intro
1:55 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru
2:35 Lenovo Linux Laptops
11:21 Raspberry Pi Storage Speedup
13:31 SPONSOR: Linode
17:45 Linux Unplugged Core Contributors
18:58 Fedora 33 Bug-a-Thon
20:55 Using Two Internet Connections in Linux
25:11 Policy Routing
28:32 Net-ISP-Balance
31:46 Diving into Policy Routing
33:42 Speedify
39:35 Feedback
40:32 Pick: tunshell
43:16 Outro
45:46 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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Links:

• Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon | GamingOnLinux
• Linux Patch Proposed To Double Raspberry Pi 4 Transfer Speed To eMMC/SD Storage - Phoronix
• Unplugged Core Contributors
• (Test Week) Fedora 33 Btrfs Test Day" - Fedocal
• Dual 4G LTE Router for Public Transportation MAX Transit Duo- Peplink
• Bonding internet connections
• VPN Bonding - Simon Mott
• Aggregate internet links with mlvpn
• MLVPN Docs
• engarde: A go network utility to create a reliable IP tunnel over multiple connections
• WireGuard: Multi Link / VPN Bonding
• Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control: Routing for multiple uplinks/providers
• Net-ISP-Balance: Load-balance your Internet connection across two or more ISPs for improved bandwidth and reliability
• Improve Your Multi-Homed Servers with Policy routing
• A Quick Introduction to Linux Policy Routing
• Policy Based Routing: Concepts and Implementation
• Task-centered iproute2 user guide
• An older pure-iptables approach
• Simple policy routing load-balancing script
• Foolsm - Foobar Link Status Monitor
• Shorewall has multi-ISP support too
• How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
• Speedify
• Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix Quick Start Guide – Jay Tuckey’s Blog
• TimeToogo/tunshell: Remote shell into ephemeral environments 🐚 🦀
• Ubuntu Podcast
• The New Show

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Drew DeVore, Neal Gompa, and Philip Muller.

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• WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD
• Microsoft President Brad Smith Acknowledges They Were Previously Wrong On Open-Source
• Craig Loewen on Twitter: "@satyanadella has just announced that WSL will include GPU compute support, and GUI application support! Get ready for more WSL announces and details today
• Craig Loewen on Twitter: “@Kiview @thezigpc @cinnamon_msft @satyanadella Our initial prototypes use Wayland”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: “WSL2 is getting GUI support, pass-through GPU support, and a new way to easily install.”
• Hayden Barnes on Twitter: "More glimpses of GUI support for WSL 2 from @shanselman and @cinnamon_msft
• DirectX ❤ Linux | DirectX Developer Blog
• Windows Terminal 1.0
• Windows 10 Is Getting Its Own Built-In Package Manager
• PineTab pre-orders open in late May
• PineTab running UBPorts with 5.6 kernel and Lima graphics drivers
• ManjaroBook AMD Ryzen
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Join us on Telegram
• Pi-hole v5.0 is here!
• Inside the Brotherhood of Pi-hole Ad Blockers
• Linux Mint Success from Zachary
• Pi Boot question from Kamil
• Raspberry Pi 4 USB Boot Config Guide for SSD / Flash Drives
• XPS Feedback Request
• Pick: multi-boot ISO USB
• Ventoy: just copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it!

Plus an Arch server update, and Chris orders the new Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeremy Soller, and Philip Muller.

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Links:

• Inkscape 1.0
• Promo video: Inkscape 1.0 is here! - YouTube
• Return of the Lite - an impressively powerful, lightweight and compact 11” Linux laptop - Manjaro Linux Forum
• Compare Laptops - Find the best Linux Laptop – Star Labs®
• Buy a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera – Raspberry Pi
• Cloud Playground now supports Ubuntu 20.04!
• Cloud Playground comes to ACG for Business
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar!
• Televised Table Reads Promo
• Televised Table Reads Twitter
• Lemur Pro Pictures on @instachrislas
• Lemur Pro Speakers Question from Eddie
• Internal Overview - System76 Technical Documentation
• Lemur Pro Peformance Benchmarks
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Just got done putting @system76’s Lemur Pro through the ultimate battery endurance test. 12 hours of working from the woods, no power outlets, live streaming with @OBSProject. I’ll tell you how it went on tomorrow’s @LinuxUnplugged
• Ovenell’s Heritage Inn
• Useful Lemur Pro docs
• Audio Recorder Tip from Mike
• Audio Recorder
• sound - Capturing ONLY desktop audio with ffmpeg - Ask Ubuntu
• FFmpeg Devices Documentation: PulseAudio
• Feedback from Jason: New Hosted Wireguard Service
• Tailscale: Private networks made easy

Plus Ubuntu's Director of Desktop Martin Wimpress covers the details everyone missed in 20.04.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Matthew Miller, and Neal Gompa.

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Links:

• Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience
• Wimpy on Twitter: There are new ✨ features in #Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 that no one is aware of or talking 🙊 about, so here they are; straight from the horses mouth 🐴 Also, a little peek behind the curtain 👀 regarding how OEM requirements help shape desktop #Linux 🐧
• What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?
• LINUX Unplugged 350: Focal Focus
• Lenovo is Bringing Fedora Linux to its ThinkPad Laptops
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• ACG launches Cloud Playgrounds for B2B
• Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36
• Fedora 32 Schedule: All Tasks
• Fedora Release Life Cycle
• Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week
• Fedora 32 ChangeSet
• Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller
• GNOME 3.36
• Login and unlock in GNOME Shell 3.36
• Enable Earlyoom
• Previously covered on LINUX Unplugged 348: OK OOMer
• Change firewalld default to nftables
• Make iptables-nft preferred iptables implementation
• Nftables: a new packet filtering engine (2009)
• The return of nftables (2013)
• Why nftables
• And maybe it will be eBPF before long anyway… (2018)
• Adopting sysusers.d format
• DNF Better Counting
• Enable FSTrim Timer
• Restart services at end of rpm transaction
• Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed
• GCC 10
• GCC’s New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10 - Phoronix
• Static analysis in GCC 10 - Red Hat Developer
• GLIBC 2.31
• LLVM 10
• Python 3.8
• Retire Python 2
• Fedora 32 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Engaged In Some Healthy Competition Over Performance
• Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance
• Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME
• Fedora Alternate Architectures
• Fedora Magazine Mentions Better Rock64 Support
• Bonus Pick: bashtop

Plus what we're playing recently, community news, a handy self-hosted music pick, and more.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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Links:

• Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
• AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Amassing Improvements For Linux 5.8
• NVIDIA released the 440.82 stable ‘Long Lived’ Linux driver - helps DOOM Eternal on Steam Play Proton
• Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
• Risk of Rain 2
• Raft
• Raft on Steam
• GitHub is now free for teams - The GitHub Blog
• Nat’s comment on HN
• Road to 20.04
• ZFS/Zsys Code Seeing Important Performance Fix Ahead Of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• The Resilience of the Voyagers
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• RockPro64
• 4GB SBC ROCKPro64
• 12V 5A Power Adapter AC
• WD Blue SN550 250GB NVMe
• NVME PCIe Adapter M.2
• Manjaro ARM on the ROCKPro64
• Additional images available for the RockPro64 - Debian, Armbian, Slackware, CentOS, etc
• Benchmarking Example
• telnet.linuxunplugged.com
• RockPro64 Wiki
• RockPro64 Forum
• RockPro64 IRC
• Beets - the media library management system for obsessive music geeks.

Plus we celebrate Wireguard finally landing in Linux, catch up on feedback, and check out the new Manjaro laptop.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Philip Muller.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Daily Build
• WireGuard 1.0.0 for Linux 5.6 Released
• LUP Started Covering WireGuard in June of 2016
• Manjaro InfinityBook Pro 15
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter — "Our #Intel based @ManjaroLinux by @TUXEDOComputers is now available for pre-orders.
• Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry
• Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features
• Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance
• EXT4 Gets Performance Work While XFS Gets 32-Bit Fixes For Linux 5.6
• F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life
• Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6
• USB4 Support Lands In The Linux 5.6 Kernel
• Linux 5.6 Is The First Kernel For 32-Bit Systems Ready To Run Past Year 2038
• VirtualBox Shared Folder Driver Seeks Inclusion In Linux 5.6
• User Error 88
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• Feedback: Arch to FreeBSD?
• Feedback: Pi4 Fixes
• Raspberry Pi 4 Rev 1.2 Fixes USB-C Power Issues, Improves SD Card Resilience
• Feedback: Pi4 Projects
• Raspberry Pi NAS SATA Adapter Stackable X828 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD Cluster – Geekworm
• Feedback: Downsides of JSON in the Shell
• LINUX Unplugged 341: Long Term Rolling
• JC: JSON in the Shell
• Long Term Rolling Feedback
• Feedback: Try NixOS already!
• Feedback: Timeshift Story and Question
• Armbian – Linux for ARM development boards

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Why you should replace Windows 7 with Linux | Vivaldi Browser
• Pacman Candy Easter Egg
• Cheap DIY LED Light Strip | Self-Hosted Live Hack - YouTube
• Boston Dynamics Parkour Robot

Plus some big community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux
• Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux | VentureBeat
• Black Friday Sale is almost done!
• NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020
• WireGuard VPN is a step closer to mainstream adoption
• How to setup your own VPN server using WireGuard on Ubuntu
• Chris Noticed his Manjaro mirrors were REALLY slow this AM
• Christmas Student Contest! | The Mad Botter — We are running a contest for High-School students to win a System76 Thelio Linux PC on us. To qualify you must be a US high-school student with your parents permission to participate and write a small FOSS project and publish it on GitHub.
• Perfect Plasma Setup - From Basic to Brilliant - YouTube
• Jupiter Extras: Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
• WireGuard
• Snapper
• pacupg
• snap-pac: Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like openSUSE’s YaST
• Docker + systemd-network Surprise - Bootloader Blog
• Docker - ArchWiki
• A reliable fix to Docker not keeping it’s IPV4 address on Arch - VADOSWARE
• ubuntu - Docker service starts before ZFS - Server Fault
• grub-btrfs: Include btrfs snapshots in the grub menu
• Feedback: Arch Update Catch-Up Tips

Plus community news, first impressions of Google Stadia, listener feedback, and some great picks.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Guus Sliepen, and Ryan Huber.

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Links:

• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Trying out @GoogleStadia before today’s @LinuxUnplugged.
• Google is Working to Bring Mainline Linux Kernel to Android
• Linux 5.5 Crypto Code Has The Changes To Usher In WireGuard - Phoronix
• System76 Superfan 3 Article
• Photo Gallery for System76 Superfan 3
• Pinebook Pro Article
• Jupiter Extras: popey on ThinkPads
• Jupiter Extras - NOW ON YouTube
• Tinc VPN
• Tinc - ArchWiki
• Install tinc VPN for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
• Introducing Nebula, the open source global overlay network from Slack
• Slack’s open source Nebula overlay network tool can solve multi region connectivity woes - TechRepublic
• Nebula on GitHub
• Feedback: CLI Autocomplete?
• fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder
• Fish Shell
• Liam writes… Hi Chris, I have also been experiencing random lag…
• Profile-sync-daemon: Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
• Feedback: Forum?
• wee-slack: A WeeChat plugin for Slack.com. Supports threads and reactions, synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, etc..
• Girens for Plex - Linux Apps on Flathub

Plus the future of OpenPGP in Thunderbird, a disappointing update for the Atari VCS, and a shiny new Spotify client for your terminal.

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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Links:

• Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft’s New-Found Love for Linux - OMG! Ubuntu!
• Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird
• Game over: Atari VCS architect quits project, claims he hasn’t been paid for six months • The Register
• Jupiter Extras: Self-Hosted: Reverse Proxy Basics
• September Free Courses
• Texas Cyber Summit
• Birthday Party at Two Brothers BBQ
• subspace: A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI
• RaspberryPiWireguard: Install and configure WireGuard on Raspberry Pi (and others)
• wireguard: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout on raspberry pi 4 : WireGuard
• vpnac.org
• Rigellute/spotify-tui: Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
• C* Music Player

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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Links:

• 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 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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Links:

• 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

Plus Clear Linux aims to build the ultimate Linux desktop based on Xfce, and it looks like GNOME is closing the performance gap.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais.

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Links:

• Clarity in the Desktop | Clear Linux* Project — Clear Linux* recently introduced a series of updates that incorporate a developer-optimized desktop experience. This experience is built upon Xfce 4.12, created with the goal of enabling you to get what you need perform your work quickly and efficiently.
• Reiser4 File-System Port To The Linux 4.20 Kernel — Edward Shishkin, the last main Reiser4 developer involved and former employee of Hans Reiser's Namesys company, has updated his Reiser4 kernel tree where there is now the few code changes necessary to get the file-system kernel module building for Linux 4.20 along with a patch containing a fix.
• Chrome OS to test early GPU support for Linux apps
• The Many Features Coming To The Wine 4.0
• GNOME Shell Desktop Gaming Benchmarks

Plus some surprising community news, a few great picks, and more!

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Links:

• ProtonMail is auctioning a Lifetime Account to support WireGuard
• Mir 1.1 Released With EGLStreams Support To Work With NVIDIA's Binary Driver
• ASUS is releasing encrypted kernel sources for the ZenFone Max Pro M1, Max Pro M2 and Max M2
• Keyboardio: A Startling Discovery — On the one hand, there's a lot of money missing. We think there's a decent chance that money has vanished never to be seen again. Products that we said we sent you...simply never existed. We're genuinely sorry about that.
• User Error
• Linux Academy supports St. Jude's — For each Learning Activity that you complete between 12/16 and 12/26, Linux Academy will donate $1 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital this holiday season.
• LinuxFest Northwest — 20th Anniversary! Past, Present & Future
• LINUX Unplugged Blog - System76 Factory Tour
• Meet the New Linux Desktop Champion: System76 Thelio
• Feedback: Xrandr tip for wimpy
• Feedback: Try minidlna
• ReadyMedia - ArchWiki
• Feedback: How can we tolerate systemd?
• Microsoft/ethr: Ethr is a Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & HTTP.
• remove.bg: A tool to remove background from image
• Streama - Self hosted media server

Plus we check in on Ubuntu 19.04, start the search for an Emby replacement, and how to use Reddit on the commandline.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Links:

• Fire effect for the Keyboardio Model 01 keyboard
• Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists
• chrimbus_'s self hosted streaming questions — Yo @ChrisLAS / @ubuntupodcast I'm tired of depending on our internet to play movies for the kiddo. I was trying to rip some dvds tonight using VLC and AcidRip in hopes to run them off a home server. Either the video ends up glitchy af or no audio. Any suggestions?
• Beta source code missing · Issue #3479 · MediaBrowser/Emby
• Annoucing Jellyfin - a free software fork of Emby — After the announcement of Emby transitioning to a proprietary model, a number of us decided to fork it to focus on delivering a free software media solution
• Streama: Self hosted streaming media server.
• Ubuntu 19.04 Release Date & Planned Features — The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019.
• GNOME Shell In Ubuntu 19.04 Should Be Faster
• Ubuntu Desktop 19.04 Cycle | Trello
• ​Canonical makes Kubernetes moves — Canonical wants to make it darn clear that, besides being the leading cloud Linux distributor, it's also a major Kubernetes player.
• Proposed Energy Aware Scheduling For The Linux Kernel Revised A Tenth Time — The ARM Linux developers continue working on Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the mainline Linux kernel to better handle systems with asymmetric CPU topologies
• Mike's systemd udev fix
• Which two names work best for the Jupiter Broadcasting Automation system?
• LinuxFest Northwest 2019
• WireGuard for iOS - TestFlight
• How to easily configure WireGuard - Stavros' Stuff
• Use Reddit In The Terminal With RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)
• Easily Convert Audio File Formats with SoundConverter
• sshuttle: Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
• corkscrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies
• Test utility for cve-2018-1002105