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Should We Care About Libre? | Ask Noah Show 82

Angela Fisher — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:20:53 +0000

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What’s a Distro? | LINUX Unplugged 191

chris — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 22:11:55 +0000

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Voice calls come to Telegram

That‘s why we’ve improved the key exchange mechanism. To make sure your call is 100% secure, you and your recipient just need to compare four emoji over the phone. No lengthy codes or complicated pictures!

Each time you make a Voice Call on Telegram, a neural network learns from your and your device‘s feedback

Explaining Containers in Pictures

An elegant vim distribution inspired by spacemacs

What is space-vim?
space-vim is a vim distribution for vim plugins and resources, compatible with Vim and NeoVim.
It is inspired by spacemacs and mimics spacemacs in a high level, especially in the whole architecture, key bindings and GUI.

Spacemacs

Libreboot no longer opposes the GNU project or FSF. We have made peace.

Over the past six months, the Libreboot project has been in a state of discord. After an issue with a transgender employee at the FSF escalated, Libreboot publicly left GNU with little consultation from the community. Relations with so many people were strained. Friendships broken, lines of code never written: the chaos needs to come to an end.

With all of this in mind, were the allegations against the Free Software Foundation true? Perhaps. Perhaps not. At this point, it doesn’t matter. Indeed, it is unlikely that Libreboot will ever rejoin GNU, but feuding in an already fragmented community helps nobody. The world of free software is shrinking and under attack. Though the FSF may make mistakes from time to time, so do we. We do not need another divide.
No more “royal we”. No more notorious surprises. No more late night “typofixes”.

Transparency and collaboration are the way forward.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Fedora to HN: We got what you want

Over the last few years I do feel we managed to nail down what the major pain points are and crossed them out one by one or gotten people assigned to work on them. So a lot of the items people asked for in that thread we already have in Fedora Workstation or have already in our roadmap. So I thought it would be nice to write them up and maybe encourage people to take a look at Fedora Workstation if you haven’t done so already.

Handling of DPI scaling and HiDPI
Multitouch gestures
Battery life
UEFI issues
Something like Redshift
Wayland

Report: Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

Research from web analytics company StatCounter found Android now accounts for a larger share of internet usage than Windows for the first time. During March 2017, Android users represented 37.93 percent of activity on StatCounter’s network versus 37.91 percent for the Microsoft operating system. It’s a small gap for sure — and it refers to usage not necessary users — but it marks a notable tipping point that has been inevitable for the past couple of years.

The wider Android-Windows trend has been evident for some time. Windows dominated, and continues to dominate, the desktop landscape, but worldwide PC sales have declined for the past five years to reach the same levels as 2008. In contrast, sales of smartphones continue to grow, and Android is the operating system for the lion’s share of internet users worldwide. Growth is highest in emerging markets like India. There, Apple has increased its sales but remains a niche player, with Android accounting for upwards of 90 percent of smartphones.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Using Linux in the Real World

Discovering my inner curmudgeon: A Linux laptop review

Quick refresher: I’m a life-long Mac user, but I was disappointed by Apple’s latest MacBook Pro release. I researched a set of alternative computers to consider. And, as a surprise even to myself, I decided to leave the Mac platform.

If you’re in the market for a new laptop, by all means check this one out. However, I’ll be selling my Spectre x360 and going back to my mid-2012 MacBook Air. It’s not HP’s fault or because of the Linux desktop. The problem is how I value my time.

In contrast, I’ve spent the past two years learning how to play the piano. It’s required rote memorization and repeated physical exercises. By spending time practicing piano, I’ve opened myself up to ideas that I couldn’t appreciate before. I’ve learned things about music that I couldn’t comprehend in the past. My retraining efforts have expanded my horizons. I’m skeptical that adopting HP hardware and the Linux desktop could have a similar effect on me.

Other User’s Stories

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been sharing various users’ stories about their own personal migration to Linux.
This is Brian Hall’s story of switching to Linux.

Linux at work

For those of you with Linux-related jobs:
How much of it really involves Linux (and not Windows)?
(Workstations) Can you pick your own distribution?
(Servers) When new systems are being deployed, do you have any influence on > which distribution will be installed?
Are you able to do your work with a Linux-based development machine at least?

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

What makes a ‘Proper’ distribution?

Do you have to build your own binaries?
Does it take a large team be to taken seriously?
What makes Ubuntu Popular?

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Boot Free or Die Tryin’ | LINUX Unplugged 190

chris — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:59:27 +0000

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Zero Terminal: A Tiny Linux PC That You Can Build Using Raspberry Pi And Smartphone Keyboard

_The DIY tech inventor NODE has created a handheld all-in-one computer that runs __Linux. It’s made using the new Raspberry Pi Zero W, some 3D printed parts, and an iPhone 5 slider keyboard. He has also posted the details of the project on his website to help you make your own computer._

Security Update for the LastPass Extension

Over the weekend, Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy reported a new client-side vulnerability in the LastPass browser extension.

Announcing Rockstor 3.9.0

We’ve just wrapped up a fun release cycle, and it’s my pleasure to announce Rockstor 3.9.0. Our community has been really active and we’ve prioritized nicely to improve on a few different areas. 6 contributors have come together for this release and besides working on new features and bug fixes, we made significant improvements to code quality.

FreeNAS Adopts Docker

FreeNAS Corral is 100% free and Open Source, building on the success of the FreeNAS Open Source project. FreeNAS Corral is fully committed to the Open Source development model, being based exclusively on Open Source technologies, and its storage services are designed to be fully compatible with FreeNAS 9.10.

Features include a rewritten middleware architecture, a modern graphical user interface, support for Docker containers, its own built-in hypervisor that supports virtualization with full ZFS integration, and a powerful command line interface.

Migrating from 9.X to FreeNAS Corral – FreeNAS

FreeNAS Corral now supports Docker containers for doing all of its “application hosting” and existing jails/plugins data will simply continue to live in the jails/dataset in the ZFS volume but will be inactive, since jails are no longer used in Corral.

Moving on from iXsystems and the future of FreeNAS / Corral | FreeNAS Community

I’m going into the nanotech / biomedical field, for a complete career change of pace and hopefully the opportunity to do things that will substantially improve quality of life for a lot of people

So long and thanks for all the fish | FreeNAS Community

One week from today I’ll be concluding my time at iXsystems. It’s been a very enjoyable 7 years and I have really enjoyed working on FreeNAS since iXsystems sponsored the rewrite of FreeNAS with the 8.0 version (released in early May 2011, five and a half years ago!)
+ You can Still download and Use FreeNAS 9.10

Download the current stable release of FreeNAS (9.10)

Linux Academy

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This handheld Linux PC is actually a Raspberry Pi with iPhone keyboard

Designed and prototyped by DIY tech inventor and YouTuber N-O-D-E, the Zero Terminal is an all-in-one computer that is offers remarkable portability and functionality in an impressively compact body.

Acer Travelmate 4150 retrofitting to Raspberry Pi Laptop: Part 1 – LCD and cleanup – Code and Unicorns

Hackers Exploit Ubuntu Linux, Microsoft Edge, Safari at Pwn2Own

While Pwn2Own has always taken aim at web browsers, the 2017 event is the first that provided Linux, and specifically the Ubuntu 16.10 Linux distribution, as a target. Researchers did not shy away from Linux’s first time at Pwn2Own, taking direct aim at the open-source operating system.

Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

The utterly predictable _vulnerability advisory_on the Full Disclosure mailing list details CVE-2017-7240 — aka “Miele Professional PG 8528 – Web Server Directory Traversal.” This is the builtin web server that’s used to remotely control the glassware-cleaning machine from a browser.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Let’s Spend Wes’ Money

beefy but reasonably sized laptop?
ultrabook/netbook with a new desktop at home?
What are the most important stickers to get for a new machine?

#ProjectSputnik — $200 off Dell XPS 13 developer edition configs! https://t.co/qSl4emltS8 not sure how long this is will be going on for

— Barton George (@barton808) March 28, 2017

Electromagnetic plated system76 logo approved today. PVT complete. Galago production starting soon. pic.twitter.com/PD56VWvObu

— Carl Richell (@carlrichell) March 28, 2017

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Should Wes Build a Rig?

ultrabook/netbook with a new desktop at home?
Thunderbolting Your Video Card

Yes, that’s right, I paid $500 for an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure to fit a $600 video card, all to enable a plug-in upgrade of a GPU on a Skull Canyon NUC that itself cost around $1000 fully built. I know, it sounds crazy, and … OK fine, I won’t argue with you. It’s crazy.

Cheap and Painless eGPU Thrills on a 2013 MacBook Pro

To summarize, using only…

An AKiTiO Thunder2 PCIe Box ($220)
An EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC ($140)
A 120W 12V/10A power adaptor with a 5.5×2.5mm plug and center positive polarity ($35 — though buy it from a seller with Prime in case it’s the wrong one! This listing used to have a Prime seller, but I don’t see them anymore. Also, HN has pointed out that this may be a far better adaptor, even if it’s not sold on Amazon.)

…you can assemble a painless, hack-less eGPU build and use it with your late-2013 15″ dGPU MacBook as a relatively inexpensive graphics upgrade compared to building a PC from scratch or buying a console. (Cheaper still if you wait for rebates or use an older/weaker X50 card.)
Caveat emptor: the same build might not work so well — or at all! — on other MacBook models or even with a different driver version. In other words, what worked for me might not work for you! Remember that eGPU on TB2 is not officially supported and mostly works by accident, though clearly it can work very well.

[coreboot] Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230

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NextCloud’s Can of Worms | LAS 460

chris — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:12:54 +0000

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Founder of Nextcloud, founder of ownCloud, Free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member, photographer and founder of openDesktop .org

Nextcloud scanning people’s owncloud and nextcloud instances for security vulnerabilities.

Security Holes: German Parties and Ministries Vulnerable To Hacking Attacks

“While researching the product versions being used, his employees noticed that many customers were using disturbingly old software in order to store their data on the web. Karlitschek then informed the Cert emergency team at BSI. He says it was clear to him after the politically motivated hacker attacks in the U.S. that this was also “an explosive issue.”

While developing the security scanner we had a look at the state of security of private cloud servers online. Many administrators might not be aware how easy it is to get a list of servers on the web! Services like shodan.io provide the ability to search for specifics and it is simple to get a list of tens of thousands of instances and look at them.

Nextcloud scanning people’s owncloud and nextcloud instances for security vulnerabilities and alerting “security organizations” about vulns. : selfhosted

Reporting that information to a third party after that is pretty hard to justify in my mind regardless of whatever ‘greater good’ argument you can make regarding internet security. That is simply not the way white hats work. You can’t report vulnerabilities to a third party without trying to contact the party in question first.

This is doubly important because it appears you picked up some residential users by accident. Nearly everyone on this sub does /r/selfhosted because they don’t like third parties to hold their info. The whole idea of a private cloud to protect privacy is the #1 selling point on your own website. On top of the privacy concerns, nearly every home user running nextcloud is doing so against their ISPs TOS. That makes the privacy issues doubly important because they could lose the ability to host their cloud altogether.

EDIT: I’d like to further add, that the integrity of an OSS project is entirely dependant on trusting the devs. Very few people have the time of skill to go through all the code themselves and so trusting OSS is akin to trusting the devs that run the show. If we can’t trust the devs, it may as well be closed source. Again, especially in this sub, there is a reason people like to use OSS. It’s pretty hard to justify using nextcloud if people can’t trust the devs to be open and transparent.

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Runs Linux

Gemini PDA Android & Linux keyboard mobile device

Planet Computers introduces the Gemini PDA from Planet Computers on Vimeo.

Gemini is an ultra-thin clamshell mobile device with fully integrated tactile QWERTY keyboard, that fits in your pocket. Designed for Android, it also features a dual boot Linux option. Gemini is fully equipped with 4G, WiFi & Bluetooth enabling both data communications and mobile phone calls.

Desktop App Pick

Tweet Nest

A browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets

Distro of the Week

Plasma 5 ISO Update March

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We are proud to announce a fresh new Update for our Plasma 5 version of Neptune 4.5.

This version brings the latest and greatest of the Plasma 5 world to you. This includes Plasma 5.8.5 together with the desktop fix for contextmenu aswell as Dolphin 16.12.2, Kdenlive 16.12.2, Chromium 56, Icedove 45.6.

— NEWS —

Libreboot calls on AMD to release source code and specs on new Ryzen platforms

Just imagine what would happen if AMD started to produce cheap, affordable
libre hardware, to the point where Libreboot could start supporting newer systems
from AMD. The possibilities are endless! People would jump towards AMD
and AMD’s sales would go through the roof, while we in the libre hardware
community would finally have systems from a manufacturer that cares for
our freedoms to use our computers without proprietary software.

Firefox 52 Released with WebAssembly Support, Enhanced Sync

Firefox drops NPAPI support in this release (a change we’ve known about for a long time) for everything bar Adobe Flash. While this sounds trivial it does mean that GNOME users can’t install GNOME extensions from the GNOME Extensions website using Firefox as-is, as of this release.

Firefox 52 kills plugins – except Flash – and runs up a red flag for HTTP • The Register

The browser will now only run Flash. Anything else reliant on the Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) is now verboten. Which means Silverlight, Java and Acrobat are gone, daddy, gone.

GNOME Shell integration – Chrome Web Store

Chrome OS Has Double the Marketshare of Regular Linux in USA

Chrome OS usage is up by over 50% compared to the previous year, when the thin-client OS hit a then-high of 2.02%.

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Laptop Reviewed on LAS – Sold on Ebay

Hi Noah! This isn’t really a question about the product. I just wanted to contact you. It’s hilarious because in the LAS episode, you were asked how and when do you run into LAS fans… well, here I am!

I’ve been on the market for an x260 since you unveiled your purchase in LAS episode 422, so I was shocked and excited to see the first great priced one I came across (fully equipped with WWAN too!) that wasn’t 720p belonged to you! Happy to be buying from you! Even more happy to escape 4GB of ram soldered and be able to use GNS3 on my laptop without sweating

Please be sure to mention your impressions of the X270 on LAS if you get the chance I also have two requests if you don’t mind:

Please keep the LAS sticker on the windows key!

You don’t need to load windows on it, if you haven’t already! 100% Linux here.

The laptop remains as pure as the day you got it and installed Linux without a single boot into Windows! That’s good news

I’ll make a post on /r/linuxactionshow when I receive the laptop

p.s. I find it quite funny that the laptop is priced the same as the Galago Pro 13″ starting price Even though you posted this before SCALE.

-Mark

Name Stefan
Subject New Format Feedback
Message:

Hey there Chris and Noah,

First and foremost: I love the show, keep up the great work.

In my opinion the new show format is perfect for attracting new viewers, because there is nothing more disappointing on youtube than clicking on a video and having to listen trough like 40 min of random stuff before you get to the the actual information you want to hear about.

That said, I also have an Idea for the show notes (and yes I know this is a lot of work, but it would be very convenient for the viewers): timestamps for different topics during the show like “Bad Voltage” (https://www.badvoltage.org/2017/02/23/2×04/) does.

e.g. [00:14:22] Disassembled: Gitlab…

So if I wanted to listen to the Gitlab story first I could skip to that time, or if I don’t want to hear > about Gitlab on yet another Podcast I could skip to the next timestamp.

Just to be clear, I don’t want to tell you how to publish your Podcast, I’m just saying it would be convenient.

Also, an idea for an app pic:

Because I know you guys love CLI tools: Pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)
Pandoc is for text what ffmpeg is for audio/video or imagemagic is for pictures
It translates every text format you’ll ever use into every other text format you’ll ever want. You could even convert HTML to epub (gigantic wikipedia pages into eBooks)

Cheers
Stefan aka thefenriswolf

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