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Linux Wayback Machine | LINUX Unplugged 333 Dec 24, 2019

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Open source won the last decade, but what if it hadn’t? We look back at some major milestones and reflect on a world where they never existed.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

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Brunch with Brent: Catherine Kretzschmar | Jupiter Extras 42 Dec 24, 2019

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Brent sits down with Catherine Kretzschmar, professional music teacher, coding bootcamp enlistee, and humanist celebrant, for an in-person connective chat on the relationship between music and coding, the quality-of-life implications of ever-evolving home automation, an intro to humanist celebrancy, and more.

Catherine is a good friend of the Jupiter Broadcasting family and wife of Alex Kretzschmar, co-host of Self-Hosted.

Special Guest: Catherine Kretzcschmar.

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Linux Action News 137 Dec 22, 2019

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Canonical releases a "mini-cloud" on your workstation, the KDE ecosystem has some big news, and the smart home might have just become more open.

Plus Firefox's new DoH partner, and signs of life from the Atari VCS.

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Firefox adds 2nd DoH partner — Program Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements that Respect User Privacy
Apple, Google, and Amazon are teaming up to develop an open-source smart home standard
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
Ikea previews its improved 2020 smart home experience
Z-Wave is making a huge change so it doesn’t get left behind in the smart home wars - The Verge — It’s turning into a fully open standard, according to Silicon Labs.
Canonical Releases Multipass 1.0 As "A Mini-Cloud On Your Workstation" — "a mini-cloud on your workstation using native hypervisors of all the supported plaforms (Windows, macOS and Linux), it will give you an Ubuntu command line in just a click ("Open shell") or a simple multipass shell command, or even a keyboard shortcut."
Krita Receives Epic MegaGrant — Epic, the makers of the Unreal game engine, have supported Krita with a $25,000 MegaGrant
A Kubuntu-Powered Laptop Is Launching In 2020 For High-End KDE Computing — A Kubuntu laptop is launching soon that is aiming for a high-end Linux laptop experience atop the KDE flavor of Ubuntu.
KDE Launch Video & Wallpaper Competitions with Linux PCs as Prizes
Guidance for Atari VCS Content Developers — Initial procedures announced for more independent game and app developers to start creating and planning now for earning a place in the Atari VCS storefront.

Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter Extras 41 Dec 20, 2019

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Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 2 we explore Jason's various voice acting roles, his approach to embodying roles like The Joker, the setup in his Linux-only audio recording studios, the power in collaborative innovation, examining yourself through meditation, and more.

Special Guest: Jason Spisak.

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Larry Two-tails | User Error 81 Dec 20, 2019

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The future of Internet video, the best way to develop open source software, skills vs talents, and our favourite types of animal companions.

00:00:24 What is likely to knock YouTube off its iron throne?
00:09:12 Is it really Open Source software if it’s not developed collaboratively?
00:20:54 What's the one thing you wish you could do well but are terrible at?
00:33:18 Dogs or cats?

Lucas’ Arts | BSD Now 329 Dec 19, 2019

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In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects, including the upcoming SNMP Mastery book.

Interview - Michael Lucas

Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv

Special Guest: Michael W Lucas.

WLED Changes the Game | Self-Hosted 8 Dec 19, 2019

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Sometimes one project can lead to a hundred more. We celebrate Home Assistant's new release, the inclusion of the WLED integration and fall down the DIY project rabbit hole.

Plus some clever power solutions, cheap LED light strips, and a test drive of Project Off-Grid.

We recorded our first ever live stream to accompany this where we flash an ESP8266 board in seconds using WLED and esptool. This can be found on YouTube.

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Hass.io - Home Assistant — Hass.io turns your Raspberry Pi (or another device) into the ultimate home automation hub powered by Home Assistant. With Hass.io you can focus on integrating your devices and writing automations.
Home Assistant Community Store — HACS gives you a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom needs.
Omni 20c+ 100W USB-C/Wireless Charging — Portable Power Bank with USB Hub
ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
Home Assistant Smart LEDs using WLED and ESP8266 — A platinum level Home Assistant integration for the WLED project was released with version 0.120 on Nov 20th 2019. I'm going to walk you through flashing a D1 Mini (though the same steps apply for a NodeMCU too) using Linux. You can probably expect this process to take about 5-10 minutes.
WLED: Control WS2812B RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 over WiFi! — A fast and feature-rich implementation of an ESP8266/ESP32 webserver to control NeoPixel (WS2812B, WS2811, SK6812, APA102) LEDs!
LED strips - Google Sheets
0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor
Self-Hosted Live Hack Livestream Recording — DIY ESP device based LEDs just got a whole lot easier.

The WSL Secrets | LINUX Unplugged 332 Dec 17, 2019

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Big things are coming to Microsoft's WSL so we get the inside scoop on what's just around the corner.

Plus a few new GNOME features, some Arch server follow up, and more!

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Hayden Barnes.

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Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter Extras 40 Dec 17, 2019

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Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 1 we chat about everything from Jason's deep motivations behind his Linux projects, to patents vs. open source, digital independence and the nature of human endeavor. A few additional voices join us throughout for good measure...

Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 comes our way this Friday.

Special Guest: Jason Spisak.

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Jason Spisak - IMDb
Lycoris (formerly Redmond Linux) - Wikipedia
Lindows/Linspire - Wikipedia
Symphony OS & Mezzo Desktop - Wikipedia
Symphony OS - ArchiveOS
Home Assistant - Open source home automation
WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel
Linux Unplugged 331: apt install arch-linux — Brent's first WireGuard project
Linux Unplugged - Episodes tagged "WireGuard"
Self-Hosted 7: Why We Love Home Assistant
Elementary OS
PINE64
System76 - Linux Laptops, Desktops, and Servers
MrChromebox — Custom coreboot firmware and firmware utilities for your Chromebook/Chromebox
GalliumOS
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam - The Guardian
The Unbelievers - IMDb — Renowned scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss cross the globe as they speak publicly about the importance of science and reason in the modern world.
Jason Spisak
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Linux Action News 136 Dec 15, 2019

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The first desktop Office 365 app arrives, Ubuntu commits to current and future Raspberry Pi boards, and why the near-term future of Linux gaming looks a bit rocky.

Plus, our concerns with Google's clever long-term Fuchsia strategy.

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Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux — Starting today, Microsoft Teams is available for Linux users in public preview, enabling high quality collaboration experiences for the open source community at work and in educational institutions. Users can download the native Linux packages in .deb and .rpm formats.
Zulip 2.1: Open source team chat — Zulip is the world’s most productive team chat software, used by thousands of teams as an alternative to Slack, HipChat, Mattermost and IRC. Zulip's unique topic-based threading combines the immediacy of chat with the asynchronous efficiency of email-style threading, and is 100% free and open source software.
Why Zulip - The best group chat
Updated images of Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4 — With the new images, USB ports are now fully functional out of the box on the 4GB RAM version of the Raspberry Pi 4.
Eben Upton on Twitter — Raspberry Pi numbers get stale fast. We sold our thirty-millionth unit some time last week (we think Tuesday).
Eben Upton on Twitter — The average is much closer to $35. I believe we're at pretty much exactly one billion dollars.
Google's Fuchsia to support Chrome OS tablet 'Flapjack' — Chrome OS won’t be the only operating system this device supports, as Google’s Fuchsia OS team is also looking to support the “Flapjack” tablet.
Flutter gathers pace
Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made a theoretically huge announcement: he wanted Twitter to stop being a self-contained platform and start delivering content from a decentralized system
A decentralized Twitter would bring the company back to its past
Twitter Makes A Bet On Protocols Over Platforms
DXVK To Enter Maintenance Mode — Not because it's considered feature complete and bug-free, but because the main developer considers that DXVK has become a "fragile, unreliable and frustrating maintenance nightmare".
Feral's Lead Vulkan Developer Leaves The Company For Sony
NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020 — Start looking forward to March when NVIDIA looks to have some sort of open-source driver initiative to announce -- likely contributing more to Nouveau

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