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The Trouble with Tablets | Coder Radio 451 Feb 02, 2022

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Microsoft's cold war with Apple is revealed in court filings this week, and Google thinks they've got the next hit on their hands, which sounds a lot like the old hit.

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FOSS Patents: 35 U.S. states and Microsoft support Epic Games against Apple in Ninth Circuit — 35 U.S. states led by Utah and Microsoft have officially thrown their weight behind Epic's appeal through amicus curiae briefs filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
FOSS Patents: Biden Administration backs Epic Games against Apple in Ninth Circuit #FreeFortnite antitrust appeal — The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, speaking on behalf of the United States of America, has filed the following brief, formally in support of neither party but practically supporting some of the most important elements of Epic's appea
Samsung Led Smartphone Shipments For 2021, Beating Out Apple — Samsung retook the top spot for smartphone shipments in 2021, holding 20% market share globally after shipping 272 million phones during the year.
Apple Reports Record 1Q 2022 Results — For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $123.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $34.6 billion, or $2.10 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $111.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $28.8 billion, or $1.68 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.
Supply chain issues killed iPad sales in the first quarter of 2021 — iPad generated 7.2 billion in revenue, down 14% year over year due to very significant supply constraints, but customer demand was very strong across all models.
Google says Android tablets are the future, starts staffing up new division — Google is building Android 12L, a mid-cycle update of Android dedicated to tablet and foldable functionality.

Who Wants to be a Satoshionaire Land of the Snow Edition | Jupiter Extras 83 Feb 02, 2022

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Brent's in the hot seat and plays to win 1000 Satoshis, while Wes adds a little color commentary.

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Linux Did This First | LINUX Unplugged 443 Jan 30, 2022

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We all take it for granted, but it is one of the best things about Linux. We share the history of the live CD, how it all got started, and the times it saved our bacon.

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Linux Live Kit is a set of shell scripts which allows you to create your own Live Linux!
K3b — K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application.
Finnix — Finnix is the original utility live Linux distribution. Write it to a USB flash drive or burn it to a CD, boot it, and you're seconds from a root prompt with hundreds of utilities available for recovery, maintenance, testing and more.
Finnix 123 released
Cluster Knoppix
Apps.com
Richard Brown on Twitter — Rebrand and rescope; Old expanded support was just RHEL and just for purpose of holding customers over until they migrated to SLE; Liberty includes CentOS and Leap, and doesn’t require customers to move to SLE.
sc-im — Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal.

Pulling the Rug Out | Self-Hosted 63 Jan 28, 2022

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Alex has a new high-quality self-hosted music setup, and Chris solves complicated Internet problems.

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Aeotec Z-Wave Smart Switch 7 — Aeotec’s smallest, best-certified smart plug built with Gen7, Z-Wave Plus, S2, and SmartStart. 30% smaller than past smart switches at only 2.4x1.5x1.2 inch - so small that it doesn’t block other power outlets!
Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music — Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service
Lidarr — Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new albums from your favorite artists and will interface with clients and indexers to grab, sort, and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of existing files in the library when a better quality format becomes available.
AMD — RandomNinjaAtk/amd is a Lidarr companion script to automatically download music for Lidarr
Plexamp
finamp
Google will shut down your free G Suite account — Google announced yesterday (Jan. 19) that all users of the G Suite "legacy free edition" would need to "to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription" by July 1, 2022 in order to keep using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and the Google office suite, including Docs, Sheets and Slides.
Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown
Google relents: Legacy G Suite users will be able to migrate to free accounts
Let's Encrypt is revoking lots of SSL certificates in two days — Let's Encrypt will begin revoking certain SSL/TLS certificates issued within the last 90 days due to a bug, starting January 28, 2022. The move could impact millions of active Let's Encrypt certificates.
ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow | Meetup — Join us at the studio up in Arlington for a hang and chow. Attendees are encouraged to bring their favorite dish or at least an appetite.
Mobile Internet Bundles — Most bundles come with everything you need to get you online and connected
PepVPN - Peplink — PepVPN is our foundation VPN engine. It is ideal for establishing a secure tunnel over any WAN link and is probably the world’s easiest VPN technology.
Speedify VPN review
PDF: SpeedFusion and PepVPN — Our patented SpeedFusion technology powers enterprise VPNs that tap into the bandwidth of up to 13 low-cost cable, DSL, 4G LTE/3G, and other links connected anywhere on your corporate or institutional WAN.

Linux Action News 225 Jan 27, 2022

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The big disruption that looks like a bust, a security issue you need to pay attention to, and some great news for the Steam Deck.

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Nvidia is reportedly preparing to abandon its $40 billion takeover of Arm — The deal has faced close scrutiny from regulators around the world, who worry it would give Nvidia an unfair advantage in the semiconductor industry.
SiFive Shifting Production Focus To Next-Gen HiFive Development Board — "With such great ecosystem adoption, demand has exceeded our already high expectations, and we’re close to selling out our production inventory. Given the challenge of supply chain issues that we overcame for the first run of these boards (issues that we continue to face), we’ve decided to focus on the next generation SiFive HiFive development systems rather than trying to put together another build of the HiFive Unmatched platform in 2022."
Linux system service bug gives root on all major distros, exploit released — Qualys has uncovered a truly dangerous memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, CVE-2021-4034. Polkit, formerly known as PolicyKit, is a systemd SUID-root program.
Major Linux PolicyKit Security Vulnerability Uncovered: Pwnkit
KDE-Powering Qt’s New Framework Lets Developers Bring Ads Into Their Apps — Qt, the framework that powers the KDE desktop, is announcing support for ads in client-side applications.
Qt Digital Advertising Platform
Steam Deck launches February 25, weekly purchase invites planned — Valve has today officially announced their Steam Deck handheld will launch officially on February 25.
Steam Dynamic Cloud Sync — Dynamic Cloud Sync is now live on Steam, and it's a first for any gaming platform currently in operation. It appears to be inspired by a specific use case: playing your favorite PC game on the go via the Steam Deck, then resuming that same game later on your home PC.
Valve sponsors more work to improve Linux graphics drivers

MetaWave | Coder Radio 450 Jan 26, 2022

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The audience hits us in the face with some hard truths, and then we dig into Microsoft's fox-like moves to snatch up Activision Blizzard on "the cheap."

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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device — Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $95.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion
Microsoft Effort to Buy Activision Spurred by Misconduct Fallout at Gamemaker
Bobby Kotick interview — Bobby Kotick has been CEO of Activision Blizzard since its inception in the merger of Activision and Blizzard in 2008, and he was also CEO of Activision for decades before that. He engineered the $5.9 billion acquisition of King, maker of Candy Crush Saga, in 2015.
"The deal that will change the industry forever" — This is not only the biggest games M&A deal of recent years, or even the past decade, but the largest in the industry's history.
Xbox on Twitter — Xbox is committed to our journey for inclusion in every aspect of gaming. We hold all teams to this commitment. We’re looking forward to extending our culture of proactive inclusion to the great teams across Activision Blizzard.
Vivek Sharma on Twitter — What a time to be alive! Some thoughts on Microsoft + ActiveVision with my usual caveat of these being my own musing and nothing much to do with our work at Meta
marak 🗿 on Twitter — What's up @Github? Ten days since you removed my ability to publish to NPM and fix the Infinity Zalgo bug in colors.js
Duane O'Brien on Twitter — The crux of this thread is: we sponsored faker.js, I don't think it helped the maintainer much, we didn't get any notice, and I'd do it all again.
faker - Open Collective
Dutch Regulator Says Apple's Plan for Third-Party In-App Payments is Insufficient — As a result, the ACM has hit Apple with an initial 5 million euro fine as a consequence, and fines will continue to be assessed at 5 million euros per week up to a maximum of 50 million euros until Apple complies.
Introduction to Celery — Celery communicates via messages, usually using a broker to mediate between clients and workers. To initiate a task the client adds a message to the queue, the broker then delivers that message to a worker.

Liberty Leaks and Lies | LINUX Unplugged 442 Jan 23, 2022

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SUSE had an awkward week; we breakdown the very mixed launch of SUSE Liberty Linux.

Plus, we've cracked what's driving Linux Distribution adoption these days.

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Flathub to verify first-party apps and allow developers to collect monies — Flathub is going to gain a way to process and verify apps from first-party teams. As in, developers who directly publish their app and manage the Flatpak package process for Flathub.
SUSE Liberty Linux Announced For Mixed Linux Environments — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments.
SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux — SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments.
Consistent-Lab-5595 comments on Suse Liberty Linux announcement - Is this a RHEL or CentOS clone ?
New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition — Linux Mint 20.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025.
Edge ISO available for Linux Mint 20.3 — This image is made for people whose hardware is too new to boot the 5.4 LTS kernel included in Linux Mint 20.3. It ships with kernel 5.13.0-25 instead.
mainline: A continuation of the free version of ukuu. — A tool for installing the latest Linux kernels on Ubuntu-based distributions.
All Roads Lead to Arch: The Evolution of Linux Distros Used for Gaming Over Time — Ubuntu used to be a juggernaut, a staple in the world of Linux Gaming. Ubuntu was the default go-to distro for many users for probably a decade. It’s still an important distro at almost 20% share in our graph, but it’s not the first one anymore.
Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
Canonical hiring a Desktop Gaming Product Manager for Ubuntu Linux
Fountain podcast app
Pick: ssh-tools — Making SSH more convenient.

Linux Action News 224 Jan 20, 2022

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We explain SUSE Liberty Linux and contemplate why the community seems to be selecting distributions with newer kernels.

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LVFS Activity Going Wild Ahead Of New Security Disclosure Requiring Firmware Update — Last summer LVFS shot up with activity and when that huge uptick in LVFS activity occurred it ended up being due to Dell BIOS/UEFI updates due to new security vulnerabilities.
Fwupd 1.7.4 Supports More Hardware For Firmware Updating On Linux — The Fwupd 1.7.4 release adds firmware branch support for ModemManager devices, support for firmware engineers to be able to patch files at known offsets, and a variety of bug fixes.
GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Testing — The next development release in the GNOME 42 cycle will be the beta version, currently scheduled for release on mid-February. The final release of the GNOME 42 desktop environment is expected on March 23rd, 2022.
GNOME 42.alpha released — The gnome-desktop module can be built against GTK 4 now and the internals were split in 3 libraries.
SUSE Liberty Linux Announced For Mixed Linux Environments — With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get trusted support with optional proven management tools that are optimized for mixed Linux environments, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and as you would expect openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Wine 7.0 Released with Tons of Improvements, Including a New Theme — This release represents a year of development effort and over 9,100 individual changes.
The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 7.0
Intel’s Former Vulkan Driver Lead Dev Lands Great Role For Improving Linux Graphics — "I’m now free to put my effort wherever it’s needed in the stack without concern for corporate priorities."
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Planning To Stick With Linux 5.15 By Default — In the discussion over Ubuntu 22.04's GNOME plans, it was mentioned by Sebastien Bacher of Canonical that "the plan is to use 5.15 for the LTS but the oem and hwe variants will get 5.17 as some point."
oss-security - Linux kernel: Heap buffer overflow in fscontext.c since version 5.1 — Exploitation relies on the CAPSYSADMIN capability; however, the permission only needs to be granted in the current namespace. An unprivileged user can use unshare(CLONENEWNS|CLONENEWUSER) to enter a namespace with the CAPSYS_ADMIN permission, and then proceed with exploitation to root the system.
CVE-2022-0185- Red Hat Customer Portal
CVE-2022-0185 | Ubuntu
All Roads Lead to Arch: The Evolution of Linux Distros Used for Gaming Over Time — Not only has Arch Linux gained progressively some share to be solidly at 20% now for several months, but the whole landscape looks a lot like Arch derivatives now. Manjaro is almost as big as Arch (but seems to be stagnating in adoption below 20%) and Garuda Linux and EndeavourOS add 6-7% to the mix. In effect, almost half of the gamers on ProtonDB are running some form of Arch.
Linux Mint’s Brand New Edge ISO is Available to Download! — Linux Mint 20.3 now offers a separate Edge ISO for the Cinnamon Edition to help users with latest-gen hardware.

Monetized Misery | Coder Radio 449 Jan 19, 2022

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Emboldened by his success, Mike takes a victory lap. Little does he know it's all virtual.

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JetBrains Fleet — Built from scratch, based on 20 years of experience developing IDEs. Fleet uses the IntelliJ code-processing engine, with a distributed IDE architecture and a reimagined UI.
Hillel is teaching a workshop on Twitter — Okay, we've all seen this meme, so what's the story behind it? Was it a real book, and was it actually intended for children?
Mommy Why Is There A Server In The House- Animation - YouTube
Internal Tech Emails on Twitter — Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs
Dare Obasanjo on Twitter — Apple’s approach to allowing 3rd party payments for IAPs in Netherlands will follow Google’s approach in South Korea.
Developers will still need to pay Apple a fee even if they use Stripe,etc. Google reduced their fee by 4% meaning there’s zero benefit.
Dare Obasanjo on Twitter — Apple & Google are going to tell developers “Fine instead of 30%, the fee is now 26% and after giving Stripe 2.9% + 30¢ plus a worse UX, you’ll be worse off”.
This is a diabolical way to meet the letter but not the spirit of laws. World class legal judo.
Apple's AR/VR headset could be priced above $2,000 — A Friday report indicated that Apple was having trouble with its rumored AR/VR headset due to overheating, camera, and software challenges, which could make the company delay its plans to unveil its Mixed Reality headset this year. Now, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is back with some more tidbits regarding the product.

Microsoft is now the Disney of Video Games | Jupiter Extras 82 Jan 18, 2022

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We react to Microsoft gobbling up yet another game studio, chat about Crypto.com's recent $15M hack, the massive failure YouTube just admitted, and a few personal crew stories.

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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard — Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $95.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion, inclusive of Activision Blizzard’s net cash. When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. The planned acquisition includes iconic franchises from the Activision, Blizzard and King studios like “Warcraft,” “Diablo,” “Overwatch,” “Call of Duty” and “Candy Crush,” in addition to global eSports activities through Major League Gaming. The company has studios around the world with nearly 10,000 employees.
Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 25 million subscribers
Crypto.com Suffers Hack for At Least $15M in Ethereum — The crypto exchange has reportedly lost at least $15 million in Ethereum, and security experts believe the true losses could be much higher.
Coinbase NFT Marketplace Will Enable Purchases With Mastercard — Crypto exchange Coinbase has announced a partnership with Mastercard to address the 'pain points' of purchasing NFTs.
Intel to Unveil 'Ultra Low-Voltage Bitcoin Mining ASIC' in February — One of Intel's "highlighted chip releases" at the conference is entitled "Bonanza Mine: An Ultra-Low-Voltage Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining ASIC." The session is scheduled for Feb. 23.
YouTube Shuts Down Original Content Group — “We will honor our commitment for already contracted shows in progress and creators who are involved with those shows should expect to hear from us directly in the coming days,” Kyncl wrote in the message posted to Twitter.
Susanne Daniels Exits YouTube as Global Originals Head — Susanne Daniels is exiting YouTube after nearly seven years at the Google-owned global video-sharing company. The YouTube global head of original content will depart in March.
Apple retakes top spot in global smartphone market in Q4 2021 — Apple accounted for 22% of worldwide smartphone shipments in Q4 2021, thanks to strong demand for the iPhone 13.

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