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Mining the Logs | Coder Radio 444 Dec 15, 2021

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The broader software problem the Log4Shell vulnerability reveals, and the story of how Chris lit his Coder robe on fire... While wearing it.

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Apple Silicon Guide — A guide covering Apple Silicon including the applications, libraries and tools that will make you a better and more efficient with your Apple Silicon powered device.
notes.jupiterbroadcasting.com — This site is a searchable archive of the show notes for the all Jupiter Broadcasting shows. Home to the best shows on Linux, Open Source, Security, Privacy, Community, Development, and News.
How does Jupiter Broadcasting's notes site work? — It was a normal (for 2021) Sunday evening back in July, I was minding my own business, obviously doing something super cool, when I spotted a message from a certain badger-y fellow in the Self Hosted show’s Discord
Hackers start pushing malware in worldwide Log4Shell attacks — When the Log4j application parses these logs and encounters the string, the bug will force the server to make a callback, or request, to the URL listed in the JNDI string. Threat actors can then use that URL to pass Base64-encoded commands or Java classes to execute on the vulnerable device.
Microsoft quietly told Apple it was willing to turn big Xbox-exclusive games into iPhone apps — In reality, Microsoft was willing to play along with many of Apple’s demands — and it even offered to bring triple-A, Xbox-exclusive games to iPhone to help sweeten the deal.
What’s in Apple’s iOS 15.2, iPadOS 15.2? Nude-Image Detection — In order for the feature to work, parents need to enable it on a family-sharing account.
Linux Action News 219: Log4Shell Coverage — The Log4Shell vulnerability is making waves this week; we'll explain why and break down how it works.

Hop on Pop | LINUX Unplugged 436 Dec 14, 2021

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We each try out the new Pop_OS! and Carl Richell from System76 joins us to get into the details.

Plus why we feel Pop might be the new Ubuntu.

Special Guest: Carl Richell.

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Amazon Is Hiring DXVK, Mesa & Proton Linux Developers For Luna Cloud Gaming - Phoronix — As part of the work on Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service, the company has put out job openings of great match to our audience... An Amazon engineer did confirm that this indeed is for genuine Linux gaming engineers.
New Server Christening Get Together — Lets get together, share some foods, and power up the new Jupiter Broadcasting local server. Then stick around and listen in to a live recording of LINUX Unplugged from the studio.
System76 Blog — Pop!OS 21.10 has landed!
Pop!OS 21.10 Introduces Mini Application Menu
Jeremy Soller on Twitter — Pop switched the build system and repositories away from http://launchpad.net to our own system http://apt.pop-os.org/release for 21.10 in order to improve our control of package updates and reduce the time to build, test, and release them. It is not related to changing bases.
Linode Security Digest December 12-19, 2021
Pop!OS Auto Tiling Tutorial
Recovery Partition - System76 Support — The Recovery Partition is a full copy of the Pop!OS installation disk. It can be used exactly the same as if a live disk copy of Pop!OS was booted from a USB drive.
Add Recovery To Your Pop!OS — If you like me, fellow reader, you may be using a more custom partition setup. Unfortunately, anything other than the default clean install on Pop!_OS means you do not get the automatically generated recovery partition of goodness. Here's a small guide over how to get the setup on an already existing install.
casper — A hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
pop-os/launcher — Modular IPC-based desktop launcher service.
Raycast — Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.
Pick: n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
Ventoy — With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.

Linux Action News 219 Dec 12, 2021

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The Log4Shell vulnerability is making waves this week; we'll explain why and break down how it works.

Plus, some good news for the Desktop and systemd-homed gets one step closer.

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GNOME 42 To Finally Allow Input Events To Happen Full-Rate — Up to now GNOME Shell has been compressing pointer motion events so they are synchronized to the monitor refresh rate, which can be anywhere from around 30 to 144 events per second depending upon display.
An Eventful Instant – GNOME Shell & Mutter
Do not throttle input in wayland event delivery
FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE Announcement — The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/12 branch.
systemd 250 Is Coming With A Boat Load Of New Features — systemd 250 is packing a rather large number of new features and changes across the board for this dominant Linux init system and service manager.
Log4Shell — RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j2, a popular Java logging package
Apache - The ASF on Twitter — “Did you know that Ingenuity, the Mars 2020 Helicopter mission, is powered by Apache Log4j? https://t.co/gV0uyE1ylk #Apache #OpenSource #innovation #community #logging #services
Tom (^-^) on Twitter
Kevin Beaumont on Twitter — “Starting a new thread for log4j security vulnerability and fallout. Spoiler: although this emerged as a Minecraft issue (lol) there is going to be impacts across a wide range of enterprise software for some time.”
Log4jAttackSurface MEMES

Reptilian Power Play | Coder Radio 443 Dec 08, 2021

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We peak in on one of the nastiest corporate moves in a while, and Chris has a big confession.

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Miami Wants to Be Crypto Capital of U.S. - YouTube — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who said earlier last month he would take his next paycheck "100% in Bitcoin,"
Relegendable keycaps for your macropad — One at work and one at home, both run QMK, firmware that allows me to program the macropad with my own shortcuts.
Advantage2 Wired Ergonomic Keyboard for Mac & PC
Absolute Zero has a great system for productivity — Search engines can be great for discovery of new information so long as you know how they work, but they are sorely lacking in the information recall department. One of the best productivity hacks for me to address information recall has been to use the following system.
New York CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call — The CEO of New York-based online mortgage lender Better.com has sacked a total of 900 employees with immediate effect during a now-viral Zoom call.
Vishal Garg CEO of Better.com fires 900 employees over Zoom meeting - footage - YouTube
A freelancer’s dilemma — It begins by being clear about what you own, what you’re good at it and what gives you satisfaction.
Apple has a crafty plan to crack the business market — The company is preparing a business-only offer through which organizations will be able to get a 13-inch MacBook Air for as little as $30 a month.
Apple Business Essentials want to help your SMB manage all your devices — Now available in beta, Apple Business Essentials offers device management, 24/7 Apple Support and iCloud storage in flexible subscription plans for small businesses with up to 500 employees.
Use New Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV — The availability (in preview) of EC2 M1 Mac instances lets you access machines built around the Apple-designed M1 System on Chip (SoC).
GitHub - geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook — This playbook installs and configures most of the software I use on my Mac for web and software development. Some things in macOS are slightly difficult to automate, so I still have a few manual installation steps, but at least it's all documented here.
’MiamiCoin’ cryptocurrency is a potential game-changer — The South Florida city is the first municipality to accept cryptocurrency contributions through CityCoins, which the mayor says may one day take the place of taxes

Desktop Burnout | LINUX Unplugged 435 Dec 07, 2021

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This was not the year of the Linux Desktop. We’ve been slacking on the mailbag, so we go on a feedback frenzy and answer some hard questions about desktop Linux.

Special Guests: Carl George and Martin Wimpress.

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Jupiter Extras: Cryptocurrency Chat with Chris
Introducing CentOS Stream 9 — CentOS Stream is a continuous-delivery distribution providing each point-release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
EPEL 9 is now available! — This is the culmination of five months of work between the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Infrastructure and Release Engineering team, and other contributors.
Linux Action News 218
Linux Action News 064
LINUX Unplugged 387: Tumbling Into the New Year!
Changes/Switch RPMs to zstd compression - Fedora Project Wiki
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Pick: audapolis — An editor for spoken-word audio with automatic transcription.

Cryptocurrency Chat with Chris | Jupiter Extras 77 Dec 06, 2021

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Taken from Monday's Coder live stream, Chris reacts to discovering that the city of Miami has its own crypto coin. As the conversation goes on it turns into a broader discussion about how cryptocurrency gets a bad reputation, and why that reputation is completely divorced from the reality of the technology.

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CityCoins — MiamiCoin — MiamiCoin gives citizens and supporters the power to support, improve and program the Magic City.
Cash App - Bitcoin

Linux Action News 218 Dec 05, 2021

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Industry-changing open-source project releases, and why the new CentOS Stream 9 might be more noteworthy than you realize.

Special Guest: Carl George.

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Blender 3.0 Released — Blender Foundation announces the release of Blender 3.0, to mark the beginning of a new era for open source 2D/3D content creation.
Blender - YouTube
Blender 3.0 Shines As A Huge Update For This Leading Open-Source 3D Modeling Software
Blender 3.0 is out now with a visual refresh, huge new features
Firmware “Best Known Configuration” in fwupd — These are used by server vendors to identify a known-working (or commercially supported) set of firmware on the machine. This is currently opt-in for each vendor to avoid the UI clutter on the components view, and so if you’re a vendor reading this post and realize you want this feature, let me know and it’s two clicks on the admin panel.
FWUPD Linux Firmware Updater Prepares “Best Known Configuration” Feature
Linux Vendor Firmware Service Serves Up 40 Millionth Download
Introducing CentOS Stream 9
CentOS Stream 9 Now Available To Live On The Bleeding-Edge Of RHEL9
EPEL 9 is now available

I Tried to Love Portainer | Self-Hosted 59 Dec 03, 2021

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We try out a couple of very popular Docker GUI's and report back, and discuss our biggest Self-Hosted regrets.

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LINUX Unplugged 433: The Lessons of Jellyfin — We revisit some old assumptions about the open-source Plex-alternative, Jellyfin. We each try it out, and along the way, gain a few insights about open source.
Portainer — Accelerate container adoption and reduce time-to-value on Docker and Kubernetes with a smart, self-service management portal, allowing you to deliver containerized applications from the data centre to the edge
lazydocker — The lazier way to manage everything docker. A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library.
lazydocker screenshots
Dozzle — Dozzle is a real-time log viewer for docker containers.
What’s New In Docker Compose v2? — Docker Compose v2 was announced at DockerCon 2021. It promises big changes to the Compose experience by integrating it into the docker CLI. v2 also comes with new convenience features to help you manage your container stacks.
Monolithic docker-compose files filtered with profiles — This post will provide an overview of using profiles with docker-compose to address multiple services within a monolithic file.
1.4 Display Port KVM Switch — Have you ever wanted a KVM switch that doesn’t suck, supports DisplayPort 1.4 (3840x2160@120hz / 8k @ 30hz ) and USB3?
Listen. No KVM is perfect BUT our customers tell us -- The Level1Techs KVMs are pretty darn good.

Touched by the Bar | Coder Radio 442 Dec 01, 2021

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Mike visits Pallet Town and comes back with some SQLAlchemy performance wisdom to share. Meanwhile, struggling with a lack of performance, Chris has kicked the tires of his new M1 Max MacBook Pro and is ready to share his counter-narrative take on the new hardware.

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Ditto — Ditto is an extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time.
Maccy — Maccy is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps the history of what you copy and lets you quickly navigate, search, and use previous clipboard contents.
SUSE-Cafe: Personal Color scheme for KDE Plasma 5 — Coffee lovers rejoice! I'm sharing my personal color scheme. Simple, easy on the eyes, and chocolatey!
Advanced Visual Studio Code for Python Developers — During this tutorial, you’ll learn how you can configure, extend, and optimize VS Code for a more effective and productive Python development environment. After finishing this tutorial, you’ll have a variety of tools to help you be more productive using VS Code. It can be a powerful tool for rapid Python development.
Pallet Town: SQLAlchemy Performance I — SQLAlchemy is the standard ORM toolkit for Python programs and it can be a little intimidating, especially for folks who haven’t done much database development. It also, like just about every ORM, is laden with pitfalls for developers who haven’t deal with even medium-scale database-powered applications. Once you get some of the basics down, these three tips should help you avoid those pitfalls.
Parallels Desktop 17 — Support for VirGL in Virtio GPU which enables Linux 3D acceleration out of the box in supported Linux distributions, brings visual performance improvements, and allows using the Wayland protocol in Linux virtual machines.

Endlessly Flat | LINUX Unplugged 434 Nov 30, 2021

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The Director of EndlessOS joins us to respond to recent Flatpak criticism.

We take the opportunity to expand on the overall effort to solve Linux fragmentation.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Neal Gompa, and Will Thompson.

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Pocket Popcorn Computer — Finally, a handheld Linux device with a high-definition 1080p display and large battery life. Pocket P.C. is your hacker terminal on-the-go.
On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication – Will Thompson’s GNOME-ish blog — There is a blog post doing the rounds asserting that Flatpak Is Not The Future. The post is really long, and it seems unlikely that I and the author will ever agree on this topic, so I’m only going to talk about a couple of paragraphs about disk usage and sharing of runtimes between apps which caught my eye.
Bustle — Graphical D-Bus message analyser and profiler.
Gnome Initial Setup
Endless OS Foundation — Our mission is to help all people and communities connect with technology.
Will sometimes does other stuff and writes about it
Flatpak Is Not the Future - Ludocode — Flatpak calls itself “the future of application distribution”. I am not a fan. I’m going to outline here some of the technical, security and usability problems with Flatpak and others. I’ll try to avoid addressing “fixable” problems (like theming) and instead focus on fundamental problems inherent in their design. I aim to convince you that these are not the future of desktop Linux apps.
docker-slim — Don’t change anything in your Docker container image and minify it by up to 30x
Flatseal — Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.
Bruch with Brent with Stuart Langridge — Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source’s “final mile”, the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more.
Seeking contractors for work on Flathub project — GNOME has a donor who is interested in supporting financial sustainability for app developers and removing barriers to an inclusive ecosystem. Flathub would like to use these funds to work with a contractor for a short-term project and make steps towards supporting application developers being able to request payments (whether donations or subscriptions).

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