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Linux Action News 214 Nov 07, 2021

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Significant changes at GitHub, Ubuntu starts work on a new desktop tool, why WirePlumber is a big deal, and we bust some Red Hat FUD.

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Nat Friedman quits as CEO of GitHub — GitHub CEO Nat Friedman announced today he's leaving the organization on November 15 and will be replaced by chief product officer Thomas Dohmke.
GitHub gets a new CEO
Google Will Now Pay $31,337 To $50,337 For New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities — Google is effectively tripling its previous reward amounts and promise to honor it for at least the next three months. They are hoping these $31,337 or $50,337 rewards will encourage more security researchers to explore the kernel and report their findings.
Ubuntu is Building a New Firmware Updater App — This new GUI utility is being built using Flutter and Dart, further cementing Ubuntu’s commitment to go all in on Flutter for future desktop apps. The tool will be distributed as a Snap and provide a Ubuntu-style front-end to the fwupd tool and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service.
canonical/firmware-updater
Desktop Team Updates - Monday 1st November 2021 - Desktop / Team Updates
Ubuntu Continues Work On Flutter+Dart Written Firmware-Updater Utility
Asahi Linux Boots on M1 Pro — Linux on the M1 Pro status: boots to a shell with working USB ports
Working: SMP, IRQs, IPIs, framebuffer console, DART, USB, USB-PD, I²C, GPIO. Next I'm looking at PCIe (WiFi & SD card reader).
Apple M1 PCIe Driver Leads The PCI Changes For Linux 5.16
WirePlumber in Fedora 35 — Today marks an exciting day as Fedora 35 has now been released, with WirePlumber as the default session manager for PipeWire!
Master your PipeWire streams with WirePlumber | Linaro Virtual Connect Fall 2021
LXQt 1.0.0 Desktop Environment Released After 8 Years of Development — The LXQt team proudly announced today the release and general availability of the LXQt 1.0.0 desktop environment as a major release bringing new features and improvements.
LXQt 1.0 Released For Lightweight Qt5 Desktop
Release 1.0.0 · lxqt/lxqt
Red Hat to hire fewer senior engineers after budget frozen — Next year, IBM's Red Hat plans to cut back on hiring senior engineers in an effort largely aimed at controlling costs.
Next year, IBM’s Red Hat plans to cut back on hiring senior engineers in an effort aimed largely at controlling costs. : linux
The first fruits of CentOS Stream: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Beta
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Enters Beta with Exciting New Features and Many Improvements

Alex Deletes it All | Self-Hosted 57 Nov 05, 2021

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Troubleshooting goes very wrong for Alex, and he puts his backups to the ultimate test.

Plus, monitoring your freezer in Home Assistant, building a self-hosted Notion alternative, and more.

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SONOFF CC2531 USB Zigbee Dongle — The CC2531 USB dongle is a fully operational USB device which provides a PC interface to IEEE802.15.4 / ZigBee application
Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker
Alex Kretzschmar on Twitter — Let the drive burn in commence!
Obsidian — Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
MkDocs — MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file. Start by reading the introductory tutorial, then check the User Guide for more information.
Drone CI — Drone is a self-service Continuous Integration platform for busy development teams.
2021.11: Icon picker, device links and entity categories
Home Assistant 2021.11 Release Party
Home Assistant on Twitter — We encountered a daylight savings bug last weekend when Europe transitioned last weekend. A restart will resolve the issue. If you are yet to transition to a new summer/winter time, update to 2021.10.7.
tuya-home-assistant

The Oppenheimer Problem | Coder Radio 438 Nov 03, 2021

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After a little async Ruby chat and developer morality struggle, Chris explains how macOS Monterey has lapped Linux with a critical workstation feature.

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Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete — Looking through the lawsuit, the scope and shamelessness of Google's greed would appear to be stark. Project Bernanke, for example, is claimed to take data from publishers' ad servers to boost Google's own services. Project NERA, to create a "not owned but operated" walled garden for users if they used any Google service. "Project Jedi" was allegedly meant to freeze out independent ad exchanges by using insider knowledge, and in "Jedi Blue", Google is alleged to have conspired with Facebook to parcel out the goodies between themselves.
fasterthanlime 🌌 on Twitter — "Ok so, I just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and I have to say that either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we'll find out which."
Async Ruby — Async Ruby adds new concurrency features to the language; you can think of it as "threads with none of the downsides". It's been in the making for a couple of years, and with Ruby 3.0, it's finally ready for prime time.
Explaining Ruby Fibers — A fiber is simply an independent execution context that can be paused and resumed programmatically. We can think of fibers as story lines in a book or a movie: there are multiple happenings involving different persons at different places all occurring at the same time, but we can only follow a single story line at a time: the one we’re currently reading or watching.
How macOS is more reliable, and doesn’t need reinstalling — This layout segregates the contents of the system into files which don’t change, except in a macOS update, and everything else which does.
Low Power Mode — The downside of any Low Power Mode feature will be reduced performance. This is generally easy to quantify via benchmarks, and the Mac's low power mode is not an exception
Erase all content and settings — Open System Preferences and check the menu bar to launch the Erase Assistant. In short, it retains the system data volume (originally introduced in Catalina) and formats the paired data volume, destroying your encryption keys in the process so that no data can be recovered from the drive.
Window management — Clicking and holding the green stoplight button when an app is in full-screen mode presents some additional options, too. In Big Sur, this menu will only offer to exit full-screen mode, but in Monterey you can send a Split View window into its own separate full-screen view, or you can replace one half of a Split View window with another app. And there’s also a setting that makes the menu bar stay at the top of the screen even when you’re using full-screen mode, instead of hiding-and-showing as it does by default.
Some Older Macs Reportedly Bricked After Installing macOS Monterey — At least ten separate posts (1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) on Apple Support Communities contain users complaining that as they were attempting to update their Mac to ‌macOS Monterey‌, the Mac went completely black and they're unable to turn it on.

The Real Beefy Miracle | LINUX Unplugged 430 Nov 02, 2021

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We check-in with Fedora Project lead Matthew Miller on the state of the project, then conduct our exit interview with Fedora 34, and review Fedora 35.

What's new, what's changed, and what's broken. It's a Fedora special.

Special Guests: Matthew Miller and Neal Gompa.

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Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust — I've been working on a new operating system kernel Kerla, written from scratch in Rust which aims to be Linux-compatible at the ABI level. In other words, support running unmodified Linux binaries!
Roving With Perseverance - NASA Mars — Displays including full-scale models of Perseverance and the Ingenuity Mars helicopter will be on exhibit in museums across the country
The Museum of Flight – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program — NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter models will be on display, October 30, 2021 - April 3, 2022
Remote desktop and screen casting in Wayland - GNOME Wiki! — Remote desktop functionality is not implemented in mutter but in GNOME Remote Desktop. GNOME Remote Desktop currently supports "screen share", also known as "remote assistance" mode through VNC or RDP. VNC support is provided via LibVNCServer and RDP support is provided via FreeRDP.
GNOME remote desktop RDP setup guide — The RDP server in gnome-remote-desktop currently doesn't have the UI to setup yet. To be able to use the RDP server, the server certificate, private keyfile and credentials therefore need to be created manually.
Zoom Supports Continued Access for Basic Users with Advertising Program
Worth the wait: Fedora Linux 35 is here! — We switched the default audio system to PipeWire in Fedora Linux 34, and now we’re improving this by adding the new WirePlumber session manager. WirePlumber allows for more customization of the policy and rules for audio and video. It provides a richer development experience and adds bindings for most languages.
WirePlumber 0.4.4 documentation — WirePlumber is a modular session / policy manager for PipeWire and a GObject-based high-level library that wraps PipeWire’s API, providing convenience for writing the daemon’s modules as well as external tools for managing PipeWire.
Tom Wagner / Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
Common F35 bugs - Fedora Project Wiki
DNF System Upgrade :: Fedora Docs
Fedora Spins Prereleases
Fedora Docs
Changes/Restart User Service after Upgrade - Fedora Project Wiki
Fedora Flathub Filter List
Plasma Discover rpm-ostree_backend
Ryujinx - Nintendo Switch Emulator — Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator created by gdkchan and written in C#.
Ryujinx on GitHub
Ryujinx Setup & Configuration Guide

Linux Action News 213 Oct 31, 2021

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New Raspberry Pi hardware has a few surprises, the most impressive things in Linux 5.15, and our reaction to classic functionality under consideration for removal from Fedora.

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New product: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 — Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W uses the same Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC die as the launch version of Raspberry Pi 3, with Arm cores slightly down-clocked to 1GHz, bundled into a single space-saving package alongside 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM.
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with Ubuntu Server 21.10 support is here
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Launches As Newer, Faster $10 Single Board Computer
Microsoft Edge finally arrives on Linux – “Official” build lands in repos — We’re happy to see Edge for Linux finally make Stable and Official status, because we find it handy to have two distinct browsers on any operating system platform we use.
Element One - Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place — Element One is a huge step change. It’s a very affordable, unlimited usage way for people to have all of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place - that’s a combined three billion users!
Element 1.9.1 - Chat Export is finally here!!
The 15 Most Interesting Linux 5.15 Kernel Features From NTFS3 To KSMBD — Linus Torvalds went ahead and released Linux 5.15 today on Halloween rather than delaying the kernel for another week.
Linux 5.15 Released
Fedora considers removing NIS support — The change proposal does note that: "For some users this change may be a bit disruptive and it may require some learning curve for switching to alternative solutions".
What is the support status of Network Information Service — As seen from the RHEL8.3 release notes the yp rpms (ypserv, ypbind, yp-tools) have been marked as deprecated. Furthermore those components will no longer be available in RHEL-9.
Fedora 35 Cleared For Release Next Week — Confirmation of Fedora 35 being ready to ship next week was announced today.

Microsoft War Stories | Coder Radio 437 Oct 27, 2021

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Chatting about the week's .NET news leads us into a blue-tinted tale of woe. When Microsoft taketh, they also giveth. But is it enough?

Plus, which MacBooks we did or did not buy.

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Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry — .NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms
Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP — Going forward, UWP will only receive “bug, reliability, and security fixes,” and not new features, Microsoft says, indicating that it is now deprecated.
vscode.dev Visual Studio Code for the Web — Now when you go to https://vscode.dev, you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser. Open a folder on your local machine and start coding.
Apple Announces 'Tech Talks' Where Developers Can Interface With Apple Experts — Apple says that developers can use the sessions to dive into technical content, get answers to questions, and seek one-on-one meetings for guidance. Sessions will be held online from Apple locations around the world in multiple time zones, including Bengaluru, India; Cupertino, California; London; Mexico City; São Paulo; Seoul, South Korea; Shanghai; Singapore; Sydney; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Tokyo.
MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max impressions — New chips, familiar ports, and actual volume buttons — it might be love
14-inch MacBook Pro review: A Mac Pro in your backpack — I’ve spent the last week with a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Max processor with 32 GPU cores and 64 GB of RAM. And I’m happy to report, it’s true—all of it.
PTP Changes by SpaceX

Starlink's Linux Secrets | LINUX Unplugged 429 Oct 26, 2021

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We attempt a live production over Starlink, and dig into the secrets of this giant Linux network in space.

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Some users experienced data loss on 21.10
Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap Default in 21.10
How to Remove Firefox Snap from Ubuntu (21.10 +) And Alternatives
Element One — Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place.
Space Exploration Technologies on GitHub
Summary of SpaceX Software AMA
Stack Overflow Blog — Network protocols in orbit: Building a space-based ISP
starlink-grpc-tools — This repository has a handful of tools for interacting with the gRPC service implemented on the Starlink user terminal (AKA "the dish").
Set a Static Route for the App to talk to the Dish
Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
Starlink Coverage Tracker
Croc — A tool that allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders.
crocgui — A nice simple GUI for croc, designed for mobile use.
kdeconnect-ios — Native iOS port of KDE Connect.

Linux Action News 212 Oct 26, 2021

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Major performance milestones are being hit with new code inbound for Linux, Plasma and GNOME desktops are set to run Wayland on NVIDIA's binary driver, and why the SFC's new GPL fight could have implications for you.

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Newest Linux Optimizations Can Achieve 10M IOPS Per-Core With IOuring — These optimizations today were primarily within the kernel's block / NVMe / IOuring code but also some touching the memory management code. All of these optimizations he has been pursuing for achieving the best possible per-core I/O performance can be found via linux-block's perf-wip branch.
Jens Axboe on Twitter — That’s it. 10M IOPS, one physical core. #io_uring #linux
Linux 5.15 Delivers Many Features With New NTFS Driver, In-Kernel SMB3 Server, New Hardware — Here is a more detailed look at all of the Linux 5.15 changes coming for this next stable kernel.
Linux 5.15 Lands Memcg Performance Regression Fix
Apple Silicon PCIe Driver Queued For Linux 5.16
Linux 5.16 To Support The 2021 Apple Magic Keyboard
KDE Plasma Readies Its NVIDIA GBM Support, Fingerprint Authentication Added — Initial support for the NVIDIA driver with KDE Plasma 5.23.2's GBM back-end. In conjunction with the NVIDIA 495 Linux driver beta exposing Generic Buffer Manager support, Plasma 5.23.2+ will play nicely with that new driver support on Wayland.
NVIDIA 495 Linux Beta Driver Released With GBM Support
Fedora 35 has Wayland + GBM + NVIDIA
Copyleft Compliance Projects - Software Freedom Conservancy — Software Freedom Conservancy, a nonprofit organization focused on ethical technology, is filing the lawsuit as the purchaser of a product which has copylefted code. This approach makes it the first legal case that focuses on the rights of individual consumers as third-party beneficiaries of the GPL.

Feeling Wyze | Self-Hosted 56 Oct 22, 2021

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Local self-hosted video capture with AI object detection just got easy. Morgan joins us to detail his Frigate setup and its optional tight integration with Home Assistant.

Plus, our new favorite up time monitoring tool and an easy way to add Tailscale and other apps to OPNsense with community plugins.

Special Guest: Morgan Peterman.

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OPNsense Repo — Welcome to my custom community repository, offering a couple of packages and plugins which are not available in core and even wouldn’t fit.
Michael @mimu_muc
Uptime Kuma — It is a self-hosted monitoring tool like "Uptime Robot".
Frigate — A complete and local NVR designed for Home Assistant with AI object detection. Uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection locally for IP cameras.
Frigate integration for Home Assistant
Morgan's Config 1
Morgan's Config 2
Morgan's Config 3
Wyze Doorbell Camera
(3) WallPanel and Alarm Panel Application Maintainers Wanted — I am looking for an individual or individuals to take over these projects. WallPanel is very popular for displaying the Home Assistant home page. Alarm Panel integrates with the Home Assistant Alarm component and the Alarmo integration.
Fully Kiosk Browser Lockdown
Plex Meta Manager — Plex Meta Manager is a Python 3 script that can be continuously run using YAML configuration files to update on a schedule the metadata of the movies, shows, and collections in your libraries as well as automatically build collections based on various methods all detailed in the wiki.
infra/roles/ktz-plexmetamanager at master · IronicBadger/infra

The Diablo is in the Details | Coder Radio 436 Oct 20, 2021

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Why mastering your development environment can be a tricky feat, and a server outage brought to you by the late 1990s.

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Apple announces 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro — The M1 Pro chip is an upscaled version of the M1 chip, with up to 200 GB/s memory bandwidth, up to 32 GB RAM, and more than double the number of transistors. Apple said the CPU performance is about 70% faster than M1, and GPU performance is about double. M1 Max doubles RAM to 64 GB, and doubles the GPU size to 32 cores.
Diablo II: Resurrected Outages — tl;dr: Our server outages have not been caused by a singular issue; we are solving each problem as they arise, with both mitigating solves and longer-term architectural changes.
Blizzard Reveals Source Of Diablo II: Resurrected Server Issues — Blizzard has published a detailed post about the issues and hoo boy, they're complicated
THE DECLINE OF DJANGO — Let's face it, it’s not very exciting to be a Django developer today.
Python Programming - The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2021 Infographic
Facebook Newsroom on Twitter — Right now 30+ journalists are finishing up a coordinated series of articles based on thousands of pages of leaked documents. We hear that to get the docs, outlets had to agree to the conditions and a schedule laid down by the PR team that worked on earlier leaked docs.
Facebook Says AI Will Clean Up the Platform. Its Own Engineers Have Doubts — AI has only minimal success in removing hate speech, violent images and other problem content, according to internal company reports
Facebook posts strange thread suggesting major revelations about to come out

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