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00:00 Intro

01:23 GNOME’s 5 year plan

https://foundation.gnome.org/strategicplan/

07:08 Qualcomm’s ARM CPUs beat Apple’s M3

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/snapdragon-x-elite-cpu-has-been-put-through-its-paces-early-and-appears-to-be-every-bit-as-strong-as-qualcomm-claims

10:12 Windows Recall looks like an absolute nightmare

https://www.techradar.com/computing/computing-security/windows-recall-sounds-like-a-privacy-nightmare-heres-why-im-worried

15:00 EU passes AI legislation

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-countries-back-landmark-artificial-intelligence-rules-2024-05-21/

17:28 Ubuntu 24.10 will focus on polish

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-s-24-10-dev-cycle-the-roadmap/45120

19:55 Ubuntu doesn’t like GNOME’s point releases

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-MRE-Over-Mutter-Shell

24:32 Plasma makes big progress

https://pointieststick.com/2024/05/17/this-week-in-kde-all-about-those-apps/
https://notmart.org/blog/2024/05/new-plasma-edit-mode-in-6-1/
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.05.0/

30:56 Is the “frozen kernel” model broken?

https://ciq.com/whitepaper/vendor-kernels-bugs-stability/

35:12 Firefox has a roadmap

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694

39:19 Gaming: Open source, self-hostable Stadia, Nvidia driver update

https://github.com/netrisdotme/netris

https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/224751/en-us/

43:11 Outro


Transcript

Note: this is auto-generated by Davinci Resolve, it might have errors, badly worded things, I’m not responsible if anything is not representative of what I actually said :D

Hey everyone and welcome back to this edition of the Linux and open source news podcast. I’m your host Nick and this is the show where we discuss everything related to Linux, open source, the open web, privacy and everything around those spaces. So in today’s episode we have GNOME or at least the GNOME Foundation announcing a five year plan to get more funding, to get more people on board, to get more users for GNOME. We have Windows and Microsoft announcing a new feature called Recall which looks like a privacy and security nightmare. We have Qualcomm potentially beating Apple’s latest chip in their own ARM CPUs which have full mainstream Linux support or at least they are working on that full mainstream support. We have the first inklings of AI legislation passed in the EU. We have some news about Ubuntu and some problems they might start having with GNOME. We have some big progress on Plasma and a bunch of other things. So as always if you want to learn more about any of these topics all the links that I used are in the show notes and if you don’t really like waiting for the end of the week to get these news well you can also get them in daily format from Monday to Friday if you become a Patreon member the link is in the description of the show as well. So now let’s get started. So GNOME has published a first draft of their five year plan or at least the GNOME Foundation did that. They published it to get a bit of feedback from the community, from developers, from users and other interested parties who might ship or might want to ship GNOME or to even just fund the foundation. So they divided this plan into three big goals each having three separate objectives. So the first big goal is to have explosive growth of the community of what they call creators and users. I guess creators mean developers her

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00:00 Intro

01:23 Firefox adds data collection

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

05:07 France bans TikTok to quell protests

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/french-tiktok-ban-makes-vpn-usage-soar-in-new-caledonia

08:57 Debian maintainer restricts KeePass XC features

https://linuxiac.com/debian-keepassxc-sparked-debate/

12:29 More KDE work on HDR

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/05/11/more-hdr-and-color.html

15:08 Linux kernel 6.9 is out

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-features

17:41 Linux kernel Libre 6.9 is out

https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-6-9-kernel-released-for-software-freedom-lovers

19:30 Qualcomm’s new ARM SoCs support Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Elite

22:16 Intel’s latest feature causes problems for Fedora

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-TDX-Fedora-OSS-Concerns

26:50 EU might bring antitrust charges against MS Teams

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-teams-is-facing-more-antitrust-lawsuits-in-europe

30:28 Google pushes AI everywhere

https://www.engadget.com/google-search-will-now-show-ai-generated-answers-to-millions-by-default-174512845.html

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-io-showcases-new-ask-photos-tool-powered-by-ai-but-it-honestly-scares-me-a-little

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gmails-ai-powered-email-summaries-can-dig-through-your-inbox-for-you/

35:04 NetBSD bans AI generated code

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

37:35 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, Steam Deck plugins

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/nonsteamlaunchers-steam-deck-plugin-in-testing-plus-a-way-to-remote-play-together-anything/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-NTSYNC-Broken

41:05 Outro


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00:00 Intro

01:22 New Cosmic DE update

https://blog.system76.com/post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix

05:28 GNOME funding seems fine

https://foundation.gnome.org/reports/

08:23 New attack bypasses VPNS

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

12:00 Pokemon Go players are adding fake data to OSM

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/pokemon-go-players-are-altering-public-map-data-to-catch-rare-pokemon/

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/beware-of-fake-beaches-pokemon-go/112413/43?ref=404media.co

16:06 GNOME updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-146/

19:10 elementary OS 8 should be close

https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-may-2024/

22:09 Fedora Asahi 40 is out

https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi-remix-40-is-now-available/

24:13 ClearLinux still out performs Ubuntu and Fedora

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-ubuntu2404-fedora40/6

28:08 AMD opens up more documentation

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Firmware-Docs

30:40 Valve contributes to NVK

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Explicit-Sync-Valve

33:40 Google’s Flutter layoffs are worrying for Ubuntu

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/googles-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap

37:06 Gaming: SteamOS, SteamVR, Playtron OS

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/playtron-give-a-bit-more-detail-on-the-linux-based-playtronos-and-their-plans/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steamvr-25-released-with-multiple-linux-fixes/

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/4213757668851885208

43:37 Outro


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00:00 Intro

01:35 NixOS isn’t dying, but it’s not doing well

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-is-not-dying-please-dont-spread-fear-actively/44310

https://determinate.systems/posts/on-community-in-nix/

https://paste.shark-harmonic.ts.net/paste/abd339e0-2317-402b-8d8e-97e580537263/md

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing/

09:14 GNOME breaks non GNOME apps with Adwaita icons

https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-and-icons/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288

15:33 GNOME needs some money

https://ramcq.net/2024/04/26/update-from-the-gnome-board/

18:28 Windows 11 is very unpopular

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/

21:18 Mint forks GNOME apps

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4675

26:50 Don’t upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 yet

https://linuxiac.com/do-not-try-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-at-this-time/

30:11 KDE Neon explains their failed Plasma 6 upgrade

https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/04/29/kde-neon-post-plasma-6-updates-review/

32:30 More lawsuits against OpenAI

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/30/microsoft-openai-lawsuit-copyright-newspapers-alden-global

36:56 Proton 9.0 is out

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-9.0-1

38:57 Outro


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00:00 Intro

01:17 The downfall of Google Search

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

07:07 The US really wants a TikTok ban

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/20/1245594589/house-approves-bill-tiktok-ban

https://www.techradar.com/news/tiktok-ban-will-the-app-be-banned-in-the-us-and-how-would-that-work

13:33 Nvidia contributes to NVK

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-NVK-Conservative

16:20 Ubuntu 24.04 is out

https://youtu.be/LGIWeld3Zwc

20:31 Fedora 40 is out

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

https://linuxiac.com/slimbook-fedora-2-laptop/

23:23 GNOME delivers big improvement in 46.1

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-46.1-Released

25:30 Framework wants more than laptops

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138475/framework-laptop-product-categories-new

28:58 Home Assistant is growing a lot

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/home-assistants-new-foundation-focused-on-privacy-choice-and-sustainability/

31:34 Ecosia launches their browser

https://www.ecosia.org/browser

34:39 Apple’s AI will be ethically trained

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/24/apples-generative-ai-may-be-the-only-one-that-was-trained-legally-ethically

37:47 Gaming: NVK performance, Nintendo strikes again

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Implicit-Pipeline-Caching

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/garrys-mod-forced-to-remove-nintendo-content-after-takedowns/

41:09 Outro


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00:00 Intro

01:17 Flatpak has a sandbox escape flaw

https://linuxiac.com/flatpak-patch-addresses-major-sandbox-escape-flaw/

05:08 Cosmic will be able to theme all GTK apps

https://blog.system76.com/post/hammering-out-cosmic-features

11:50 Gentoo doesn’t want AI assisted contributions

https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-council-implements-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/

15:48 Framework is struggling on software

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/

19:51 Nouveau maintainer works for Nvidia, submits more code

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ben-Skeggs-Joins-NVIDIA

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-NVIDIA-Copy-Acceleration

23:36 Ubuntu 24.04 beats Windows 11 by 20%

https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-16-windows-linux

25:46 Terraform vs OpenTofu license battle

https://thenewstack.io/opentofu-project-denies-hashicorps-allegations-of-code-theft/

28:37 Fedora & OpenSUSE wants reproducible packages

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-More-Reproducible-RPM

https://news.opensuse.org/2024/04/18/factory-bit-reproducible-builds/
https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/

32:10 Solid improvements coming to Plasma 6.1

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/12/this-week-in-kde-explicit-sync/

32:52 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, x86 on ARM emulation

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Merging-NTSYNC

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2404

41:13 Outro


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