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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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• 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.

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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 the challenges Linux still faces before its ready for mission-critical space exploration.

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• Debian running on Rust coreutils — tldr: uutils/coreutils is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang.
• uutils/coreutils — An attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust.
• Steam Link now available on Linux — Special thanks to Collabora for helping make this possible.
• Steamlink Repo
• Steam Link on Flathub
• Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games to Run on Linux — Proton has been receiving many updates in the past few months as well, with the introduction of the Soldier Linux runtime container and Proton Experimental on top of the regular Proton releases.
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | Linode
• JB Telegram
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• NASA’s Perseverance Drives on Mars’ Terrain for First Time — NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover performed its first drive on Mars March 4, covering 21.3 feet (6.5 meters) across the Martian landscape. The drive served as a mobility test that marks just one of many milestones as team members check out and calibrate every system, subsystem, and instrument on Perseverance.
• [Video] Cassini Burns into Saturn After Grand Finale
• Curiosity — NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
• nasa/fprime — A flight software and embedded systems framework.
• Wind River VxWorks RTOS
• Field-programmable gate array - Wikipedia
• JPL CubeSat ASTERIA — ASTERIA (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics) was a technology demonstration and opportunistic science mission to conduct astrophysical measurements using a CubeSat.
• Pick: ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.
• Pick: nativefier — Make any web page a desktop application.
• Linux Action News 179 — Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.
• Post-show Pick: Jellyfin 10.7.0 — Note: Non-reversible database changes. Ensure you back up before upgrading.

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• Arch Conf 2020 Videos
• media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future
• Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs."
• OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference
• Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version.
• Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog
• LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware
• Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US
• SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in October
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• profile-sync-daemon — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.
• GPU-Viewer — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info.
• Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality.
• junegunn/fzf — A command-line fuzzy finder
• Fish shell — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family.
• cxreg/smartcd — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd.
• wting/autojump — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
• gsamokovarov/jump — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
• muammar/mkchromecast — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
• xat/castnow — commandline chromecast player
• xat/dlnacast — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA
• skorokithakis/catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast.
• tridactyl — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl
• philc/vimium — The hacker's browser.
• Use your ~/.local folder!
• Liquorix kernel for Debian users — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
• PipeWire nightly for Fedora users — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk.
• Firefox Adwaita Theme — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps.
• Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl
• Feedback: FreeIPA
• Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server

Plus what really happens on a 64-bit Linux box when you run 32-bit software, some very handy picks, our reaction to the new Raspberry Pi 4 and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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• These 5D Glass Discs Store 360 TB Of Data For 13.8 Billion Years — Researchers at the University of Southampton have showcased their new nanostructured glass discs that have the ability to store digital data for billions of years. The university announced that they've managed to build a device that can store huge amounts of data on small glass discs using laser writing
• The Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster | Ars Technica — The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has launched. It's a pretty big upgrade from the Raspberry Pi 3, with the company claiming that the device can provide "desktop performance comparable to entry-level x86 PC systems."
• Is 4 GB The Limit For The Raspberry Pi 4? | Hackaday — It’s not the lack of an Oxford comma that caught his eye, but the tantalising mention of an 8 GB Raspberry Pi 4. Could we one day see an extra model in the range with twice the memory? It would be nice to think so.
• Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Kit – Raspberry Pi — Full desktop computer kit - just connect to HDMI display(s)
• Steam is dropping support for Ubuntu, but not Linux entirely | PC Gamer — Last Friday, a developer at Valve announced that Ubuntu Linux 19.10⁠—which is due to come out this October—won't be supported by Steam. Valve is still supporting Linux, just not future versions of the Ubuntu operating system.
• Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter — Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases will not be officially supported by Steam or recommended to our users. We will evaluate ways to minimize breakage for existing users, but will also switch our focus to a different distribution, currently TBD.
• Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS | Ubuntu — Thanks to the huge amount of feedback this weekend from gamers, Ubuntu Studio, and the WINE community, we will change our plan and build selected 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS.
• What it takes to run a 32-bit x86 program on a 64-bit x86 Linux system — Suppose that you have a modern 64-bit x86 Linux system (often called an x86_64 environment) and that you want to run an old 32-bit x86 program on it (a plain x86 program). What does this require from the overall system, both the kernel and the rest of the environment?
• Nextcloud — The self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control
• NextCloud Phone Sync
• NextCloud workflow scripts
• Nextcloud Registration Plugin
• NextCloud Keep or Sweep
• Nextcloud News
• Nextcloud file-drop — Convenient and secure file exchange for enterprises.
• Install Nextcloud for Linux using the Snap Store
• NextCloud docker-compose examples
• LinuxServer.io NextCloud docker image
• CSRF Check Failed · Issue #768 · nextcloud/ios
• lexicon — Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way.
• ARandR: Another XRandR GUI — ARandR is designed to provide a simple visual front end for XRandR. Relative monitor positions are shown graphically and can be changed in a drag-and-drop way.

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• One Raspberry Pi 3 not powerful enough? Try this five Pi cluster for computing on the edge
• Xubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04 — The Xubuntu development team has now decided to go ahead and eliminate their 32-bit builds moving forward.
• Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser — Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium.
• Steam Link now in BETA on Raspberry Pi — The Steam Link app is now available in beta on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3 B+ running Raspbian Stretch
• Sputnik turns 6: Presenting the folks behind it — Thanks to the interest and support of the community, eight months later, the project became a product. On November 29, 2012 the Dell XPS 13 developer edition was born.
• Running Android in the Cloud with Amazon EC2 A1 instances — W demonstrated a fully automated solution deployed by Juju to run Android within LXD containers in the cloud and stream out the display of a  gaming app from an Amazon EC2 A1 instance to a mobile phone over the internet
• Amazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU
• iSH: The Linux Shell on iOS — iSH is a project to get a Linux shell environment running locally on your iOS device, using a usermode x86 emulator.
• iSH on GitHub
• Bleeping computer's review of iSH
• Bug #1759836 “systemd-udevd consumes 100% of CPU” : Bugs : systemd package : Ubuntu
• High cpu usage on kernel 4.14 and 4.15 from systemd-udevd which seems to be the synaptic touchpad driver
• Bluetooth adapter stopped working after upgrade to 4.14 kernel
• Clear Linux Homepage — Clear Linux OS is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution optimized for performance and security, from the Cloud to the Edge, designed for customization, and manageability.
• Intel's Clear Linux Ups Their Desktop Offering, Rolling Out New Installer
• How to Clear — Training documentation to teach users how to make a Clear Linux OS derivative distribution.
• Trying To Make Ubuntu 18.10 Run As Fast As Intel's Clear Linux
• clr-boot-manager — clr-boot-manager exists to enable the correct maintenance of vendor kernels and appropriate garbage collection tactics over the course of upgrades.