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Painpoints to Profits | Coder Radio 413 May 12, 2021

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Chris struggles with his nature, while Mike shares some sage developer advice that everyone should hear before using a platform like AWS.

Then we react, strongly, to Docker charging to skip updates.

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Hacker Accessed AWS for $50k+ – AWS Ignoring Me — My business has used AWS for around 3 years and our normal usage is $1k per month in EC2 and S3. In early March a hacker accessed our AWS account through my login via an IP address in Austria (I'm in Austin, TX). They spun up 3 large instances of EC2 which began charging us $1k-$2k per day.
Changing How Updates Work with Docker Desktop 3.3 — If you use Docker Desktop at work you may need to skip a specific update. For this reason, Pro or Team subscription developers can skip notifications for a particular update when a reminder appears.
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt on Twitter — ...ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now??
Dieu Cao on Twitter — The snooze interval is once a day. I'm asking our comms team if they can update the existing blog post to be more explicit about the behavior that you won't see these until two weeks after an update becomes available and then once a day after that.
Nick Statt on Twitter — This is really key. Apple’s lawyer says "Apple did not establish the 30 percent,” but rather game companies did back around 2003 when digital distrbuition was starting.
“30% was, as Epic’s integrate documents will show, industry standard."
Ben Bajarin on Twitter — Basically, they want to argue that macOS being more "open" yet still employing strong security and privacy stands in contrast to their argument about the policies on iPhone and iOS app store.
The 10 Best Practices for Remote Software Engineering
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Distro in the Rough | LINUX Unplugged 405 May 11, 2021

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We’re taking a look at an underdog distro. We may have found a diamond in the rough with a few tricks up its filesystem.

Plus our review of the ODROID-Go Super an Ubuntu-powered handheld, and our tools for laptop battery health.

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Sensory’s custom voice assistant debuts on a Linux-based microwave — Sensory announced that its 100 percent locally processed TrulyHandsfree technology can be used to create custom voice assistants without sacrificing privacy, as demonstrated in a new Linux-based Farberware FM11VABK microwave.
Ask LUP Anything - AskLUP.COM
ODROID-GO Super
ODROID-GO Super Dim Gray
EmulationStation — A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard!
ODROID Image for ES
SegaCD missing BIOS (linked) - ODROID
JB Telegram
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Open Letter: DistroWatch and Nitrux — For the better part of three years, we have remained silent about your ongoing efforts to affect people’s perception of our Linux distribution continuously. We have tried our best not to engage with your evident hostility and disregard to inform your viewers and visitors about correct facts of the Linux distributions you display on your website, especially ours. However, we have decided to take a stance. It is today, the 6th of May, that we gallantly demand you to stop.
Uri's Blog: Unpopular Opinion Penguin #3: The Empire Strikes Back — I’m here to take a look at the newest “review” that our lovely haters (let’s call them for what they are) at DistroWatch published on their website some weeks ago.
DistroWatch.com: Nitrux
Nitrux — Nitrux is a Linux desktop distribution directly based on Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes NX Desktop and NX Firewall on top of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and MauiKit Applications.
Meet Nitrux: The Most Beautiful Linux Distribution Ever?
Nitrux on Twitter
MauiKit — A free and modular front-end framework for developing fast and compelling user experiences.
Kirigami UI Framework — Build beautiful, convergent apps that run on phones, TVs and everything in between.
Changelog: Nitrux 1.4.0
NX Desktop — NX Desktop is a customization layer for Plasma 5.
AppImageHub — Here are 1200 apps (and counting) that you can run on Linux without installation.
Installing other DEs in Nitrux — During last month’s release of Nitrux, we made available a minimal ISO to let users install Nitrux and also install a different desktop environment and a selection of applications than the ones we include by default.
NX Software Center — A GUI to install and manage AppImages.
Nitrux: pnx — pnx (lowercase; originally Pacman for Nitrux) allows users to install software from Linux distributions that use the Pacman package manager on other Linux distributions that don’t use it without interfering with the distributions default package manager.
What’s Nitrux? The future. - with Uri Herrera
Linux Spotlight - Uri Herrera of NitruxOS
Feedback: PrivateBin — A minimalist, open-source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.
PrivateBin Docker Setup
Feedback: PIE Bin — Pre-Internet Encryption for Text.
Feedback: CryptPad — CryptPad is the Zero-Knowledge real-time collaborative editor.
CryptPad Installation Guide — This guide is about installing a public CryptPad instance available on the internet.
Pick: TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life.
Pick: TLPUI — A GTK user interface for TLP written in Python.
Fedora — TLP 1.3.1 documentation

Linux Action News 188 May 09, 2021

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We start you off with the headlines that matter this week, then share our thoughts on Audacity's new owners proposing user tracking.

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Linux 5.10 LTS Will Be Maintained Through End Of Year 2026 — Linux 5.10 as the latest Long Term Support release when announced was only going to be maintained until the end of 2022 but following enough companies stepping up to help with testing, Linux 5.10 LTS will now be maintained until the end of year 2026.
Visual Studio Code April 2021
Native wayland support with newest electron — Use --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland.
VMware Prepares Linux Driver For Next-Gen Virtual GPU — With SVGA v3 also comes the ability to enjoy 3D guest acceleration on 64-bit ARM.
Audacity ‘scared and excited’ to be bought and brought under Muse Group’s roof, promises to stay free and open source — Veteran audio editor Audacity has been purchased by Muse Group, although its new management has pledged to keep the platform free and open source.
‘A massive middle finger’: Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
Audacity Telemetry and Why Free Software Means Better Privacy – Purism — The ultimate reason that free software means better privacy is the fact that users can remove any code that violates their privacy and use the rest.
The Audacity Pull Request
Policies/Telemetry Policy - KDE Community Wiki
[pdf] IEEE Statement — One of the PC members briefly mentioned a possible ethical concern in their review, but that comment was not significantly discussed any further at the time; we acknowledge that we missed it.
LKML: Kees Cook: Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident — This report summarizes the events that led to this point, reviews the "Hypocrite Commits" paper that had been submitted for publication, and reviews all known prior kernel commits from UMN paper authors that had been accepted into our source repository. It concludes with a few suggestions about how the community, with UMN included, can move forward.

Plex Skeptics | Self-Hosted 44 May 07, 2021

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Plex announces some big plans that make us a little nervous, Alex solves Chris's tablet performance woes, and we chat about Prometheus.

Plus, our thoughts on Duplicati alternatives and more.

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Plexamp Release — This probably deserves a bigger version bump than just 0.0.1 as it encompasses a whole lot of upgrades under the hood which greatly improve performance 58 and unlock a lot of stuff for the future.
Plex Plans To Place All Legal Streaming Options (and Piracy) Into One Interface — After completing a growth equity round of $50m, Plex has announced plans to become a one-stop-shop for movies and TV. The goal is to at least partially solve one of the most annoying problems in today's legal streaming market by placing all content in a single searchable interface. By default, this will also include users' 'pirate' libraries, an interesting proposition that could yield results.
Infuse 7 - An Elegant Video Player — Infuse's powerful, super-efficient playback engine supports just about every video file ever created including: MKV, MP4, AVI, ISO, DVD, BDMV, and many, many others.
How to install install LineageOS on a 2015 7" Amazon Fire tablet — This is a guide for getting LineageOS (an older and unofficial version) onto an Amazon Fire 2015 7" tablet (also known as the 5th generation 7" Amazon Fire or under the internal codename "ford").
LineageOS – LineageOS Android Distribution
Prometheus — Power your metrics and alerting with a leading open-source monitoring solution.
Healthchecks.io — We notify you when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and scheduled tasks don't run on time.
Monitoring VMware clusters using Prometheus and Grafana | by Michael Kotelnikov — rometheus and Grafana have always been great opensource tools to monitor every aspect of your environment no matter how detailed you want your information, and no matter the scale of your environment. Prometheus will be gathering the metrics, and Grafana will be presenting the graphs and details you would like to see.

Context in Comprehension | Coder Radio 412 May 05, 2021

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From adventures in learning, a recipe for great collaborations, to creativity and problem-solving in tech. It's a deep dive chat with Wes Payne.

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You've Got Mail | LINUX Unplugged 404 May 04, 2021

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It's episode III, Return of the Email. Everyone says never host your own email, so we're doin it.

We just have one last job to complete.

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elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today — Developers and testers, it’s the day you’ve been waiting for: elementary OS 6 Beta is available now!
elementary Builds
Get Involved with elementary OS — Everything that we make is 100% open source and developed collaboratively by people from all over the world. Even if you're not a programmer, you can get involved and make a difference.
Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! — Audacity has just joined Muse Group, a collection of brands that includes another popular open source music app called MuseScore.
(Video) I’m now in charge of Audacity. Seriously.
Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
RainLoop docker-compose YAML
roundcubemail-docker — Resources to build Docker images for Roundcube Webmail
Documentation / Configuration / RainLoop Webmail
(Video) PipeWire: The New Multimedia Service, Now Ready for Automotive
(Video) LUP 272 OG PipeWire Interview Oct 23, 2018 — The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future.
Pick: Rentry.co — Rentry.co is a markdown pastebin service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.
Pick: procs — A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

Linux Action News 187 May 02, 2021

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A spicy mix of distro news, including Rocky Linux's first milestone release, and our follow-up on the University of Minnesota’s kernel ban.

Plus a major step in Apple M1 GPU support.

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FAQ: CentOS Stream Updates — CentOS Stream 9 will launch in Q2 2021 as part of the RHEL 9 development process.
Fedora Linux 34 is officially here! — Following the introduction of BTRFS as the default filesystem on desktop variants in Fedora Linux 33, we’ve introduced transparent compression on BTRFS filesystems.
Fedora 34 Changes
Gnome40
DefaultPipeWire
XwaylandStandalone
WaylandByDefaultForPlasma
BtrfsTransparentCompression
EnableSystemdOomd
Remove Support For SELinux Runtime Disable
UnifyGrubConfig
An update on the UMN affair — None of the three patches that contained real bugs were accepted by maintainers, though the reasons for rejection were not always the bugs in question. The paper itself has been withdrawn and will not be presented in May as was planned.
Owncast Streaming Application | Linode Marketplace | Linode
“Full disclosure” from the University of Minnesota — The researchers at the University of Minnesota have posted a description of the work they did as part of their "hypocrite commits" project. It includes a list of the buggy commits they posted and how they were handled.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 arrives — The latest version of Red Hat's flagship Linux operating system is designed to be deployed on the computing edge.
Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 Released For This New RHEL Alternative — The first release candidate of Rocky Linux 8.3 is out, the project's inaugural release as a new binary-compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Rocky Linux 8.3 Release Candidate 1 — The intent of a release candidate is for the community to test and validate expected functionality of Rocky Linux and report any bugs if present.
CentOS replacement distro AlmaLinux gets commercial support options — CloudLinux Inc has announced that it will offer commercial support for the AlmaLinux community distribution. The new support plans will include regular patches and updates for AlmaLinux's kernel and core packages, patch delivery SLAs, and 24/7 incident support.
Commercial Support for AlmaLinux OS from CloudLinux — CloudLinux Inc will start providing multiple support options for AlmaLinux OS in May 2021.
8.4 Beta of AlmaLinux Released — This is a BETA release and should not be used for production installations. The provided upgrade instructions should not be used on production machines, unless you don't mind if something breaks. 😉
Ubuntu Bug Breaks EFI on 21.04 Update With Older Machines — The exact nature of the hardware likely to fail is still unclear. Canonical software engineer Dave Jones suggested modern machines would be unaffected but older machines such as a ThinkPad 420 from 2011 and a MacBook Air from 2012 were affected by the bug.
elementary OS 6 Beta Available Today — Developers and testers, it’s the day you’ve been waiting for: elementary OS 6 Beta is available now! We first started talking publicly about elementary OS 6 in August of last year.
New Spectre Exploits Beat All Mitigations: Fixes to Severely Degrade Performance — Researchers from two universities have discovered several new variants of Spectre exploits that affect all modern processors from AMD and Intel with micro-op caches. Existing Spectre mitigations do not protect the CPUs against potential attacks that use these vulnerabilities.
PDF: I See Dead ﾂｵops: Leaking Secrets
M1 Mesa Driver Upstreamed — I’ve begun a Gallium driver for the M1, implementing much of the OpenGL 2.1 and ES 2.0 specifications. With the compiler and driver together, we’re now able to run OpenGL workloads like glxgears and scenes from glmark2 on the M1 with an open-source stack. To top it off, the compiler and driver are now upstreamed in Mesa!
mesa - Add asahi Gallium driver

The Misadventures of Mad Mikhail | Coder Radio 411 Apr 28, 2021

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Mike has a few stories to share, but more importantly a very hard lesson he's going to make sure you damn sure you learn.

And Chris has a breakthrough after spending the weekend with WSL's GUI Linux apps.

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10 Questions to ask in a Job Interview — Spoiler alert: “What’s the culture like here?” is definitely NOT one of them.
Apple's M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model — If you want to buy a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, Apple will sell you an M1. Want a Mac Mini? You get an M1. Interested in the iMac or the new iPad Pro? You get an M1.
The Initial Preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux — GUI app support now lets you use your favorite Linux GUI applications as well.

Hidden Features of Fedora 34 | LINUX Unplugged 403 Apr 27, 2021

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The new release of Fedora has more under the hood than you might know. It's a technology-packed release, and nearly all of it is coming to a distro near you.

Plus the questions we think the University of Minnesota kernel ban raises, and more.

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