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Linux Action News 180 Mar 13, 2021

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The A-Team assembled to make open source more trustworthy, why we might be about to find out how much SUSE is worth, and some essential project updates.

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Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service — The Linux Foundation, with the support of Google, Red Hat, and Purdue University, is launching a service called sigstore to help developers sign the code they release.
Linux Foundation announces new open-source software signing service
Introducing sigstore — Installing most open source software today is equivalent to picking up a random thumb-drive off the sidewalk and plugging it into your machine.
rekor: Signature Transparency Log — Rekor's goals are to provide an immutable tamper resistant ledger of metadata generated within a software projects supply chain.
Fulcio: SigStore WebPKI — fulcio is a free Root-CA for code signing certs - issuing certificates based on an OIDC email address.
cosign: Container Signing — Container Signing, Verification and Storage in an OCI registry.
Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
German software company SUSE targets pre-summer IPO — SUSE is targeting a pre-summer initial public offering in a deal that may value the private equity-backed company with German roots at 7-8 billion euros ($8.3-9.5 billion), people close to the matter said.
SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO
VirtIO Sound Driver Coming — The virtual sound driver for VirtIO has been queued up into the sound-next code ahead of the Linux 5.13 merge window this spring.
GNOME 40 Introducing Virtual Monitors — This headless native back-end that was merged today into GNOME 40's Mutter allows for running the native back-end atop a render node in a headless configuration without a physical display attached.
GRUB 2.06 Release Candidate Available For Testing — Among the changes coming with GRUB 2.06 are expanded Btrfs RAID support, LUKS2 encrypted disk support, the BootHole patches and other security work,
Progress Report Asahi Linux — To adapt the Apple world into a devicetree world, we are developing m1n1.
Current status of the Corellium team's effort — Wifi now works on Linux on the M1.

Password Shaming | Self-Hosted 40 Mar 12, 2021

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We react to Home Assistant password shaming us and then reflect on the OVH fire while attempting to solve a "growing" cloud problem.

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Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm — The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centres in Strasbourg, in eastern France, and damaged another, the company said.
Pwned passwords and secrets - Home Assistant — We are using the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service for detecting leaked or compromised secrets, like passwords.
Troy Hunt: Home Assistant, Pwned Passwords and Security Misconceptions — Two of my favourite things these days are Have I Been Pwned and Home Assistant. The former is an obvious choice, the latter I've come to love as I've embarked on my home automation journey. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently.
Validating Leaked Passwords with k-Anonymity — Cloudflare continues to support Pwned Passwords by providing CDN and security functionality such that the data can easily be made available for download in raw form to organisations to protect their customers.
crt.sh — Certificate Search.
Shelly 2.5 — No HUB required – Connect Shelly 2.5 directly to your Wi-Fi at home.
filebrowser: 📂 Web File Browser — filebrowser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit your files.
Tandoor Recipes — Today i am happy to announce that I have released a new version which finally gives the application its well deserved name and logo: Tandoor Recipes.

Not Found | Coder Radio 404 Mar 10, 2021

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Mike reveals his secret project to Chris, who has several probing questions.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — Mesa announcing something new tonight and someone we all know and love who has great hair is going disapprove of the architecture!
CoderBytes — New super secret project landing page.
Open Bug Bounty — Free Bug Bounty Program and Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure.
Michael Dominick on Twitter — I’m submitting a talk entitled “OpenSUSE Evangelism and The @ChrisLAS Challenge” 😈
ReSharper — The Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers
dotUltimate — All .NET tools, ReSharper C++, and JetBrains Rider, together in one pack
Michael Dominick on Twitter — Damn.... working in #CSharp is just a pleasure.... #Tempation. Does anyone know a lot about how @dotnet #Linux binaries compare in comparison to #cpp ones? I am reconsidering some of my choices here....
The iMac Pro has been discontinued — Apple confirms the meaning behind "while supplies last" note in online store.
Apple discontinues the iMac Pro — More notably, the iMac Pro is a product from a different time, and represents a path Apple ultimately chose not to take with the Mac. When Apple announced in April 2017 it would make a new Mac Pro and was recommitting to its core pro customers, the iMac Pro was about to be announced. When it shipped that December, it felt very much like an interim step, a computer that was built as the replacement for the Mac Pro, only to have the Mac Pro survive after all.
MWC Barcelona Conference Planning for 50,000 In-Person — As reported by Bloomberg, GSMA, the organizer of MWC Barcelona, says that it plans to hold the conference in-person between June 28 and July 1, with expectations of up to 50,000 attendees.

How Linux Got to Mars | LINUX Unplugged 396 Mar 09, 2021

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Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.

Plus the challenges Linux still faces before its ready for mission-critical space exploration.

Special Guest: Tim Canham.

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Debian running on Rust coreutils — tldr: uutils/coreutils is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang.
uutils/coreutils — An attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust.
Steam Link now available on Linux — Special thanks to Collabora for helping make this possible.
Steamlink Repo
Steam Link on Flathub
Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games to Run on Linux — Proton has been receiving many updates in the past few months as well, with the introduction of the Soldier Linux runtime container and Proton Experimental on top of the regular Proton releases.
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NASA’s Perseverance Drives on Mars’ Terrain for First Time — NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover performed its first drive on Mars March 4, covering 21.3 feet (6.5 meters) across the Martian landscape. The drive served as a mobility test that marks just one of many milestones as team members check out and calibrate every system, subsystem, and instrument on Perseverance.
[Video] Cassini Burns into Saturn After Grand Finale
Curiosity — NASA’s Mars Exploration Program
nasa/fprime — A flight software and embedded systems framework.
Wind River VxWorks RTOS
Field-programmable gate array - Wikipedia
JPL CubeSat ASTERIA — ASTERIA (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics) was a technology demonstration and opportunistic science mission to conduct astrophysical measurements using a CubeSat.
Pick: ocenaudio — Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.
Pick: nativefier — Make any web page a desktop application.
Linux Action News 179 — Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.
Post-show Pick: Jellyfin 10.7.0 — Note: Non-reversible database changes. Ensure you back up before upgrading.

Linux Action News 179 Mar 07, 2021

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Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.

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Canonical: Flutter Is The Default Choice For Future Ubuntu Apps — Along with the new installer, Ken Vandine, Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Desktop, Canonical revealed that the out-of-the-box experience for devices preloaded with Ubuntu will also be powered by Flutter.
Ubuntu on Twitter — Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps. @kenvandine, Engineering Manager, is here to tell you about some of Canonical’s contributions to Flutter at #FlutterEngage.
Getting started with Flutter on Ubuntu
Version 2 of Google’s Flutter toolkit adds support for desktop and web apps
The Linode network model — As we worked on expanding our global network, three things were non-negotiable: maintaining vendor diversity, balancing flexibility and control, and incorporating Linux starting at the network level as much as possible.
Chrome (Chromium) release cycle shortened to 4 weeks, Chrome(ium) gets “Extended Stable” release every 8 weeks — We are excited to announce that Chrome is planning to move to releasing a new milestone every 4 weeks, starting with Chrome 94 in Q3 of 2021.
Chrome Moving To A 4-Week Release Cycle
(2019) Mozilla Shifting Firefox To A Four-Week Release Cycle
Linux Mint may start pushing high-priority patches to users — Besides looking for available updates, the Manager will also track cases where updates are overlooked. This will include metrics on when updates were last applied; when were packages last upgraded; and how many days have passed since a particular update was made available.
Linux Mint Finds Many Of Its Users Are Running Behind On Security Updates
Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon
Update your computer! – The Linux Mint Blog
A warning about 5.12-rc1 — This merge window, we had a very innocuous code cleanup and simplification that raised no red flags at all, but had a subtle and very nasty bug in it: swap files stopped working right. And they stopped working in a particularly bad way: the offset of the start of the swap file was lost. Swapping still happened, but it happened to the wrong part of the filesystem, with the obvious catastrophic end results.
That Linux 5.12 Severe Data Corruption Bug Hits Intel CI Systems - Issue Caused By Swap File
Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels
Save the Date! | Container Plumbing Days — The Container Plumbing Days will be a 2-day event to investigate, discuss, hack, learn, and celebrate the “lower-level” open source container technologies, everything from the container runtime on down to the Linux kernel.

Forbidden | Coder Radio 403 Mar 03, 2021

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After we pine about the way things used to be, Mike shares why he is developing a fondness for C++.

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Michael Dominick on Twitter — "Of all my machines, the humble Lemur has once again become my daily driver. Great machine from the folks at @system76."
GIGABYTE M27Q 27" 170Hz 1440P KVM Gaming Monitor — 170Hz Refresh Rate, 0.5ms (MPRT) Response Time
Rust: "Move fast and break things" as a moral imperative — Rust breaks a lot of stuff, and in ways that are difficult to fix
Facebook Just Admitted It Has Lost the Battle With Apple Over Privacy — The company launched an ad campaign that shows just how worried it is about Apple's upcoming privacy changes.
Gmail for iOS Updated for the First Time in Three Months — After neglecting the app for several months, Google today finally updated Gmail on the App Store for the first time in exactly three months.
Stadia version of Terraria is back in production after developer reconciles with Google — The co-creator previously announced it was canceled
Why TMB Chose C++ in '21 — We went with C++. Before you flip your lid, here’s why.

The Waybig Machine | LINUX Unplugged 395 Mar 02, 2021

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It's our worst idea yet. We share the password to our brand-new server and see who can own the box first. Whoever wins gets a special prize.

Plus how Archive.org uses Linux, and more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Carl George, and Neal Gompa.

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tsukae — Show off your most used shell commands
GNOME Shell X11Gestures Wxtension — Enable GNOME Shell multi-touch gestures on X11 with this extension.
TouchEgg — Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transform the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.
Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021 — Sent out on Saturday by independent developer Ronald Tschalär was the latest reverse-engineered, open-source driver code that gets the Touch Bar and ALS support working for MacBook Pro 13,* / 14,* / 15,* models.
Internet Archive Infrastructure — Jonah Edwards breaks down how the Internet Archive works, behind the scenes.
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liamg/traitor — Automatic Linux privesc via exploitation of low-hanging fruit e.g. gtfobins.
Don't expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) — Docker primarily works as a client that communicates with a daemon process (dockerd). Typically that socket is a UNIX domain socket called /var/run/docker.sock. That daemon is highly privileged; effectively having root access. Any process that can write to the dockerd socket also effectively has root access.
Feedback: Minecraft Bedrock Bridge
GeyserMC — Enable clients from Minecraft Bedrock Edition to join your Minecraft Java server.
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Linux Action News 178 Feb 28, 2021

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Red Hat is still in damage control mode, a new hacker laptop called Framework makes bold promises, and what Google is spending money on in the Linux kernel.

Plus why we've recently switched back to Firefox, and more.

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Red Hat Announces Free “RHEL For Open-Source Infrastructure” — Eligible organizations will be able to enjoy no-cost RHEL for use within their infrastructure for continuous integration, web servers, and more.
Red Hat returns with another peace offering in the wake of the CentOS Stream affair: More free stuff
Red Hat Announcement — Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations
Red Hat opens the door for both VMs tand containers in its latest OpenShift release
Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 Blurs The Line Between VMs And Containers — With OpenShift 4.7, Red Hat attempts to simplify the migration of virtual machines to containers.
Red Hat OpenShift 4.7 Is Now Available
OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 release notes
[Video] What’s new in Red Hat OpenShift 4.7
Introducing the Framework Laptop — We’re here to prove that designing products to last doesn’t require sacrificing performance, quality, or style.
Framework Laptop
Google Funds Linux Kernel Developers to Focus Exclusively on Security — Silva and Chancellor’s exclusive focus is to maintain and improve kernel security and associated initiatives in order to ensure the world’s most pervasive open source software project is sustainable for decades to come.
Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection — In today’s release, we added multiple picture-in-picture views, available on Mac, Linux and Windows, and includes keyboard controls for fast forward and rewind. Total Cookie Protection stops cookies from tracking you around the web by creating a separate cookie jar for every website.
Firefox 86.0 released
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We run Arch BTW | Self-Hosted 39 Feb 26, 2021

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Our favorite LastPass alternative, why more boxes might be better than one, and we confess to an undying love.

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Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust — This is a Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients*, perfect for self-hosted deployment where running the official resource-heavy service might not be ideal.
bitwardenrs server Docker
Changes to LastPass Free — As a Free user, your first login on or after March 16th will set your active device type. You’ll have three opportunities to switch your active device type to explore what’s right for you.
How to Self-Host the bitwarden_rs Password Manager | Linode
DDoSers are abusing the Plex Media Server to make attacks more potent — Plex Media servers using SSDP let DDoSers amplify attacks by a factor of 5.
Intel GVT-g — Intel GVT-g is a technology that provides mediated device passthrough for Intel GPUs (Broadwell and newer). It can be used to virtualize the GPU for multiple guest virtual machines, effectively providing near-native graphics performance in the virtual machine and still letting your host use the virtualized GPU normally.
Ghost Membership Software: Sustainable revenue for publishers
Ghost Docs — The Docker image for Ghost is an unofficial community package maintained by people within the Ghost developer community.
systemd-homed — systemd-homed is a systemd service providing portable human-user accounts that are not dependent on current system configuration.
3D Printing a custom Vantrue S1 dash cam bracket for a Golf R
Prusa3D - Open-Source 3D printers by Josef Prusa
Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

Payment Required | Coder Radio 402 Feb 24, 2021

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We open the robe and share some vintage career origin stories.

And we save Mike's soul by answering a few emails.

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Coder Radio Episode 400 Poster — Celebrate 400 episodes of Coder Radio with this word cloud tribute poster.
The Coder — Look and feel comfortable, while kicking ass. Life is better in a robe.
Keychron K3 Ultra-slim Wireless Mechanical Keyboard — Keychron K3 Ultra-slim Wireless Bluetooth Mechanical Keyboard has included keycaps for both Windows and macOS, and users can hotswap every switch in seconds with the hot-swappable version.
Keychron K3 review — If you need the lightest and smallest low-profile mechanical keyboard, Keychron's new K3 fits the bill.
Keychron K3 Travel Pouch
Keychron K6 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard — Crafted to maximize your workspace with an ergonomic design, while retaining all necessary multimedia and function keys. The hot-swappable version offers the freedom to easily personalize your typing experience without soldering.
RSI Work Regime — When Chris mentioned his ongoing battle against RSI on episode 401, it got me thinking about a few coding techniques I rely on.
Start with a niche — One of the most common mistakes is to ignore niches and just try to attract all kinds of customers. It’s essential to find 1-2 ponds to start from and then expand to the other, larger, and more promising lakes and oceans
Announcing .NET 6 Preview 1 — Our unification efforts offer something for all .NET developers. If you are desktop app developer, there are new opportunities for you to reach new users. If you are a mobile app developer, you will benefit from using the mainline .NET tools and APIs while targeting iOS and Android platforms. If you are a web or cloud developer, it will be easier to expose services to .NET mobile apps and share code with them.

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