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KDE receives 200,000 USD-donation from the Pineapple Fund

“We will use the funds to further our cause to make Free Software accessible to everyone and on all platforms. The money will help us realize our vision of creating a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy”.

More diagnostics data from desktop

“We want to be able to focus our engineering efforts on the things that matter most to our users, and in order to do that we need to get some more data about sort of setups our users have and which software they are running on it,”

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Secure By Default: Disk Encryption

For System76 and Pop!_OS, they hope to ship the new installer as part of the 18.04 release in April, barring any last-minute hold ups. For elementary OS, we’d love to ship it in Juno (and are working toward that goal), but we do have a backup plan to ship the existing installer if we don’t feel the new one is ready yet.

• Encryption · elementary/installer Wiki · GitHub

GNOME’s New System Monitor Tool is Available to Try in Bionic

Well, don’t get too excited. Despite being in development for a while the app doesn’t quite deliver on the lure of the early mock-ups. For instance, it doesn’t provide historical data (yet) or offer any stats on power usage.

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​Bogus Linux vulnerability gets publicity

GoSecure claims it’s discovered Chaos: a Stolen Backdoor Rising Again.

Why OpenStreetMap is in Serious Trouble

It may appear at first that this article is a comprehensive list of everything I find wrong with OSM. It’s not.

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Tech Talk Today is Back

• Twice a week.
  • Start of the week, and end of the week editions.

Why T3 and not Plan B, or another Linux only show?

We put Tech Talk Today on hiatus back in September of 2016. And still there is no tech news and lifestyle show that represents the perspective of someone in the open source community. This is always bothered me, there are lots of good tech shows… But they all have a strong silicon valley bias, and typically can’t see beyond the apps on their smartphone.

Looking at the near-term future…

We have a content problem. I’m going to be traveling to SCALE, LinuxFest NW, and I hope, doing more interviews like I did at Microsoft and others recently.

So I’m launching a limited run of Tech Talk Today, one season, 10 episodes.

Please give it a listen, it should be a fun romp with a bit of a story arc as I get my butt to SCALE.

• T3 RSS Feed: https://techtalk.today/rss

Patrons will get T3 exclusives.

I’ll be trying out some new stuff with this show (like seasons, limited run, and a LOT more) so I’m keen to get the take of my Patrons.

• Come say hi at SCALE

• SCALE 16x | 16x

Pasadena Convention Center, March 8 – 11, 2018

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Back from the SNAP Sprint

snap install –classic skype

Firmware Telemetry for Vendors

We’ve shipped nearly 1.2 MILLION firmware updates out to Linux users since we started the LVFS project.

• Phoning home after updating firmware? – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes

Some key points:

• We don’t share the IP address with the vendor, in fact it’s not even saved in the MySQL database
• The MachineId is a salted hash of your actual /etc/machine-id
• The LVFS doesn’t store reports for firmware that it did not sign itself, i.e. locally built firmware archives will be ignored and not logged
• You can disable the reporting functionality in all applications by editing /etc/fwupd/remotes.d/*.conf
• We have an official GDPR document too — we’ll probably link to that from the Privacy panel in GNOME

Beta Released

This latest update in our continuous innovation stream delivers many new features and enhancements to help secure your data, simplify the system and application lifecycle, and streamline your cloud journey

The Open Brand Project

@Kernellinux @ChrisLAS red hat logo change is in the works. Feedback welcomed from all. Can you mention this in a show or two?https://t.co/ZPUEGaRi1K

— Alex Kretzschmar (@IronicBadger) February 5, 2018

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Fedora Atomic

Fedora Atomic provides the best platform for your Linux-Docker-Kubernetes (LDK) application stack.

• Dusty Mabe (@dustymabe) | Twitter

Atomic OpenShift Engineer for Red Hat. Fedora Atomic WG member. Passionate about open source.

• Fedora 27 Atomic Released

• An Introduction to Fedora Atomic Workstation

  Features:

• Multi-Architecture Support: Fedora 27 Atomic Host is available for 64-bit ARM and Power8 processor architectures as well as 64-bit Intel (i.e. AArch64, ppc64le and x86_64). Not only are we distributing ISOs and cloud images for all three architectures, we will also be providing two-week OSTree updates for them as well.

• Containerized Kubernetes: As planned, the Kubernetes binaries have been removed from the base image for Atomic Host. This change both shrinks the base image size, and allows users to install the container orchestration platform and version of their choice, whether it’s Kubernetes, OpenShift, or something else. Look for a blog post tommorrow on how to migrate your Kubernetes install.
• Atomic Workstation Updates: For over a year, Fedora contributors have been experimenting with an RPM-OStree build of Fedora Workstation, with all of their applications running in containers or Flatpaks. This build, now called “Atomic Workstation”, will be receiving regular updates starting with this release.
• One Big OverlayFS2 Volume: New Atomic Host systems will now get a single filesystem volume by default, which will share binaries, system containers, and OCI/docker containers using OverlayFS2. Users who need to partition container images and storage onto a separate volume can still do so using kickstart options and container-storage-setup configuration.

• OSTree Package Layering Improvements: RPM-OStree has added two capabilities supporting modifying individula systems: remove and replace overrides, and LiveFS layering.

• Project Atomic

Use immutable infrastructure to deploy and scale your containerized
applications. Project Atomic builds OSes, tools, and containers for
cloud native platforms.

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About AppCenter Payments

One of the primary goals of developing AppCenter Dashboard was to build a sustainable app ecosystem. I don’t think it’s a surprise to anyone that although the AppCenter ecosystem is growing, nobody can make a living on it yet. That’s what we mean when we say “sustainable”. Writing apps is a real, hard, full-time job. If we want to see more high-quality, Open Source apps then we need to prioritize getting third-party app developers paid.

Linux Kernel Release Model – Linux Kernel Monkey Log

This post describes how the Linux kernel development model works, what a long term supported kernel is, how the kernel developer’s approach security bugs, and why all systems that use Linux should be using all of the stable releases and not attempting to pick and choose random patches.

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  KDE neon

KDE neon is a rapidly updated software repository. Most users will want to use the packages built from released software which make up our User Edition. KDE contributors and testers can use the packages built from KDE Git in the Developer Editions. It uses the foundation of the latest Ubuntu LTS (16.04).

• KDE Plasma 5.12.0 LTS, Speed. Stability. Simplicity. – KDE.org

Tuesday, 06 February 2018. Today KDE releases a Feature update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.12.0.

Plasma 5.12 LTS is the second long-term support release from the Plasma 5 team. We have been working hard, focusing on speed and stability for this release. Boot time to desktop has been improved by reviewing the code for anything which blocks execution. The team has been triaging and fixing bugs in every aspect of the codebase, tidying up artwork, removing corner cases, and ensuring cross-desktop integration. For the first time, we offer our Wayland integration on long-term support, so you can be sure we will continue to provide bug fixes and improvements to the Wayland experience.

The list of new features in Plasma 5.12 LTS doesn’t stop with improved performance. You can also look forward to the following:

• Wayland-only Night Color feature that lets you adjust the screen color temperature to reduce eye strain
• Usability improvement for the global menu: adding a global menu panel or window decoration button enables it without needing an extra configuration step
• KRunner can now be completely used with on-screen readers such as Orca
• Notification text is selectable again and allows you to copy links from notifications
• The weather applet can now show the temperature next to the weather status icon on the panel
• Clock widget’s text is now sized more appropriately
• System Activity and System Monitor display per-process graphs for the CPU usage
• Windows shadows are horizontally centered and larger by default
• The Properties dialog now shows file metadata
• The Icon applet now uses favicons for website shortcuts
• The Kickoff application menu has an optimized layout

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• Netflix US on Twitter: “To the 53 people who’ve watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?”

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Does Systemd Makes Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable?

We are a small team at _ungleich_and we simply don’t have the time to fix problems caused by systemd on a daily basis. This is even without calculating the security risks that come with systemd. Our objective is to create a great, easy-to-use platform for VM hosting, not to walk a tightrope.

Context on Conservancy’s Filing for Summary Judgment with the TTAB

Therefore we’ve proceeded today with the most expedient defense available to us:
a summary judgment motion which can be read on the USPTO’s website. As a
non-lawyer, I explain in this blog post some details of that motion and its
supporting documents in more mundane, non-legal terms.

We filed a motion for summary judgment today against SFLC's motion to dismiss our trademark. https://t.co/z64bOLCBjW

— Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) December 12, 2017

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Snaps & automatic updates prove popular with email client, Mailspring

In the latest interview with a snap developer, we spoke to Ben Gotow who is the lead maintainer of Mailspring, a free, modern email client for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Originally started and open-sourced by Nylas in California, Ben took on the project earlier this year after Nylas changed course and stopped development. Mailspring has more than 10k active users on Linux, and will offer the snap as the preferred install method beginning from this week.

“The vision for Canonical is to provide the platform that you see everywhere other than the personal domain. We won’t make a dent in phone or PCs. But pretty much your entire data center runs Linux and every other thing in the room is running Linux,” Shuttleworth said. “Can we help deliver that innovation and do it in a format that is secure, reliable and very, very cheap? That’s an interesting set of challenges.”

Spaceman Shuttleworth Finds Earthly Riches With Ubuntu Software

“Afronaut” Mark Shuttleworth has become as billionaire from his bet on Ubuntu Linux software https://t.co/8CBiRBcOnF pic.twitter.com/ANp5ahIvLu

— Bloomberg (@business) December 12, 2017

Steam now lets developers know how many users want their game on Mac and Linux

Valve has made a change to the developer side of Steam that gives developers a breakdown of the different platforms people choose when adding a game to their wishlist.

This is helpful because it also shows platforms that the game does not currently support, letting the developer know how much interest there is for ports on platforms other than Windows. This is obviously only limited to PC operating systems, so Mac, Linux, and SteamOS.

LinuxFest Northwest 2018

LinuxFest Northwest, an annual Open Source event in Bellingham, WA USA, features presentations and exhibits on free and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions & applications, InfoSec, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional!

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Open Source Replacements for Centralized Services and Platforms

It’s all about the platform, building the biggest platform, with the most engaged users, with the most control.

YouTube is a platform, Patreon is also a platform. It feels like the walls are closing in tighter and tighter than ever. 

Early Linux users watched this as Microsoft used the position of their platform to keep Linux off the desktop. 

But now these platform wars happen at an exponential rate across every tech category. Recently Google started blocking YouTube on Echo Show's because Amazon doesn't sell Nest cams and Chromecasts (amongst others). 

It's always the users that lose these platform wars, and the large corporations don't care about the collateral damage.

But are we starting to see the cracks in these platform's grip?

• YouTube Demonetization Screenshot Leaks + Secret YouTube Meeting

Open Source YouTube Replacement

PeerTube

Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser with WebTorrent and Angular.

We can’t build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo… with a centralized software. One organization alone cannot have enough money to pay bandwidth and video storage of its server.

So we need to have a decentralized network (as Diaspora for example).

But it’s not enough because one video could become famous and overload the server.
It’s the reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load.
Thanks to WebTorrent, we can make P2P (thus bittorrent) inside the web browser right now.

Open Source Patreon Replacement

Liberapay

Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform.

Dash Crypto Currency — Dash

At Dash’s core is a unique fully-incentivized peer-to-peer network. Miners are rewarded for securing the blockchain and masternodes are rewarded for validating, storing and serving the blockchain to users.

Masternodes represent a new layer of network servers that work in highly secure clusters called quorums to provide a variety of decentralized services, like instant transactions, privacy and governance, while eliminating the threat of low-cost network attacks.

Open Source Twitter Replacement

Mastodon

The world’s largest free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network

Matrix

An open network for secure, decentralized communication.

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Gentoo Challenge Check-In

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An update on the Android problem [LWN.net]

Android has been a great boon to the kernel community, having brought a
great deal of growth in both the user and the development communities. But
Android has also been a problem in that devices running it ship with
kernels containing large amounts (often millions of lines) of out-of-tree
code. That fragments the development community and makes it impossible to
run mainline kernels on this hardware.

The problematic side of Android was discussed at the 2017 Maintainer Summit; the picture that resulted is
surprisingly optimistic.

Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled

Even devices that had been reset to factory default settings and apps, with location services disabled, were observed by Quartz sending nearby cell-tower addresses to Google. Devices with a cellular data or WiFi connection appear to send the data to Google each time they come within range of a new cell tower. When Android devices are connected to a WiFi network, they will send the tower addresses to Google even if they don’t have SIM cards installed.

Intel Does an Audit of ME, finds some Problems

As a result, Intel has identified several security vulnerabilities that could potentially place impacted platforms at risk. Systems using ME Firmware versions 11.0/11.5/11.6/11.7/11.10/11.20, SPS Firmware version 4.0, and TXE version 3.0 are impacted.

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Linux 4.14 arrives and Linus says it should have fewer 0-days

Said robot is an automated vulnerability-checker that scours kernel code for issues. With version 4.14 slated to be the next kernel version to receive Long Term Support, and that support now running for six years instead of two, a more secure release will be widely welcome._

• 0-Day Test Service | 01.org

If there is any failure during the build stage, 0-Day will bisect the failure to the first code patch that introduces the failure. That patch author is then notified with the failure information and the steps to reproduce the problem. This allows developers to reproduce the problem in their local environments and to verify their fixes.

bcache destroys filesystems

Using bcache can destroy the filesystem. Mine was gone after 3rd non sucesfull try to mount the rootfs. It was not possible to recover any file.

Google Code Archive – Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.

VidCutter 5.0 Released With Improved UI, Frame Accurate Cutting

If you want split video, trim video, or join video clips into a single montage then Vidcutter is ideal. The app lets you perform these tasks, as well as many more, quickly and easily.

VidCutter is a Qt5 application that uses the open-source FFMpeg media engine.

Parlatype

Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favourite text application.

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Audit your Linux box with Lynis

• Lynis – Security auditing tool for Unix/Linux systems – CISOfy

Lynis is an open source security auditing tool. Used by system administrators, security professionals, and auditors, to evaluate the security defenses of their Linux and Unix-based systems. It runs on the host itself, so it performs more extensive security scans than vulnerability scanners.

• How to Perform Security Audits With Lynis on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOcean

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Kicking off the Gentoo Challenge. For REAL.

• Stage tarball – Gentoo Wiki

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