More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.   News Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers Announcing the Open Home Foundation tea.xyz causes open source software spam problems, again A thread about people who need to run Windows Microsoft starts ..read more

How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds.   Voice of the masses How do you keep your Linux systems secure?   News German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating   Discoveries rembg Photopea nvtop Giada OMG! Ubuntu article about login sound Joe’s video of the laptop booting with the sound (play -v 0.9 –mag ..read more

There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux Family! Subscribe to the All Episodes feed How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise Everything I know about the XZ backdoor resear ..read more

The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Voice of the masses What’s the main reason you use open source software?   Discoveries  PiKVM Kitty Pro-54 (live link here cmajor The Arch wiki knows all         ..read more

Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.   News Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap! Stop the line? Manual review of all new snap name registrations KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user’s files CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms – Krebs on Security Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner b ..read more

What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more.   Voice of the masses What’s pulling you away from open source, and what will pull you back? Follow us on Mastodon and you can reply to future questions.   Discoveries  Telstar ps_mem cookiecutter GPlates Mirroring Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu Home assistant remote control from your Garmin watch T ..read more

The BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of Plasma 6 we let Félim do a short KDE Korner.   News Stepping back into the refreshingly free world of Linux – The Irish Times Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on ..read more

An open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping, a static site generator for people migrating away from Bandcamp, hello world in every possible language, a synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope, why we are pretty down on macOS, and more.   Discoveries  spotube AudioTube Nuclear Reactor Simulator trippy Faircamp Joe’s music hello world osci-render       Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VP ..read more

Great news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts,  the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, Xfce is finally moving towards Wayland, Kubuntu sticks with KDE 5 for the LTS, Mozilla makes changes at the top, and more.   News Unattended updates for everyone, F-Droid 1.19 is here The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement Introducing Sudo for Windows! Ubuntu Core Desktop Debut No Longer Planned for April Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your p ..read more

Chris from ExplainingComputers joins us to discuss his Promoting Linux: An End-User Manifesto video. We talk about being an advocate and not a gatekeeper, being tolerant of other people’s choices, accepting that not everyone can use Linux, spreading the word that Linux has improved over the years, contributing where you can, and more. Plus why the Raspberry Pi bubble has burst, and the present and future of RISC-V.       Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/l ..read more