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Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics.
This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.
I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!
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Mint disables unverified apps, Recall hacked already, KDE as ks for feedback
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00:00 Intro
01:30 Linux Mint disables unverified flatpaks
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4719
06:35 Windows Recall is already hacked
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/06/05/0040225/hacker-tool-extracts-all-the-data-collected-by-windows-new-recall-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
08:42 Google wants its own Windows Recall like feature
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2358215/google-is-working-on-a-version-of-recall-too.html
13:43 KDE wants you to help them set their goals
https://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2024/06/05/what-should-kde-focus-on-for-the-next-2-years-you-can-propose-a-goal/
15:42 elementary OS 8 updates
https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-june-2024/
19:26 Thunderbird making solid progress on Exchange support
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/05/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-may-2024/
22:03 Proton pass is available for Linux
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/proton-pass-for-linux
24:46 Nouveau drivers will gain more features
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Misc-6.11-Nouveau-Intel-NPU
26:36 Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon Macs
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/vk13-on-the-m1-in-1-month.html
29:24 Open AI employees warn about the dangers of AI
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-right-to-warn-open-letter-ai-risk/
33:32 Duck Duck GO offers anonymous AI chatbots
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/duckduckgo-offers-anonymous-access-to-ai-chatbots-through-new-service/
35:33 Linux passes the 2% market share on Steam
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/linux-user-share-on-steam-breaks-2pc-thanks-to-steam-deck/
39:09 Outro
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GNOME has plans, EU investigates OpenAI for GDPR violations, Ubuntu Real Time
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00:00 Intro
01:40 Unknown trouble at the GNOME foundation
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-149/
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/05/31/gnome-development-initiative-update/
09:25 EU looks into AI tools GDPR potential violations
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/eu-chatgpt-taskforce-a-road-to-gdpr-enforcement-on-ai
14:28 F-Droid, micro G and /e/ band together
https://linuxiac.com/mobifree-challenging-the-tech-giants/
17:32 AWS is strangling some Fedora mirrors
http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2024/05/where-did-5-million-epel-7-systems-come.html
20:02 Fedora installer delayed again
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Anaconda-Web-UI-Fedora-42
23:35 Internet archive & wayback machine being targeted by DDOs
https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/28/internet-archive-and-the-wayback-machine-under-ddos-cyber-attack/
26:13 WSL gets graphical settings
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/wsl-gui-settings-apps-coming-soon
28:58 Real Time Ubuntu is now available
https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-24-04-now-offers-a-real-time-kernel-but-there-is-a-catch/
30:55 RavynOS tries to run macOS apps on BSD
https://ravynos.com/
34:23 Rhino Linux is back with a rolling Ubuntu
https://rhinolinux.org/news-13.html
37:30 Steam Deck now has 15 000 games
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-hits-15000-games-rated-playable-and-verified/
41:19 Outro
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GNOME's 5 year plan, Windows Recall is a nightmare, Qualcomm beats Apple?
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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 -
Firefox data collection, France bans TikTok (sort of), Google AI is scary
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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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Cosmic update, new attack bypasses VPNs, ClearLinux beats everything else?
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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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No, NixOS isn't dying. GNOME icon & funding issues, everyone hates Windows 11
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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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I’m not a huge Linux user myself. I’ve dabbled in it for fun, but couldn’t get into it. Still a fun experience though. This creator (Nick) provides content in a way that’s refreshing without being overly opinionated or off the cuff rantings I’ve had with most tech news podcasts/creators.
Most people (apparently not a lot of us according to the latest episode) that are coming here probably are coming from the YouTube Channel. Obviously, you won’t get the fun easter eggs he puts in the videos (You still haven’t taken over the world yet. It’s been on your calendar forever) While this podcast is an expanded version of said YouTube channel, it still feels like it’s a compressed version of the important Linux and overall tech news (which is a GOOD thing).
My name is also Nick, so from one Nick to another, keep on keeping on.