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Episode 126: Tangential Perfection
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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Discussion - Chat with Liam Proven from The Register
Liam's Register page
Dev Class
Blocks & Files
The Next Platform
SCO Xenix
Aaron Swartz
Dennis Ritchie
Lasermoon Linux-FT
Caldera
Novell
Ximian
David Mills obituary
Nejsem kaktus, musím pít - I'm not a cactus, I have to drink. 🌵🍺
Mission of Gravity
The Tane...
Episode • 27 August 2024 • 53m and 31s
Episode 125: Zorin It to Win It
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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Discussion
Conor and Shane talk to Artyom Zorin of Zorin OS, 15 years after the distro's first release.
Zorin OS
Compiz
A video of Compiz in it's glory daysThe paid-for Zorin OS Pro Edition
Zorin Grid
Public Money? Public Code
Munich's LiMux
Zorin OS upgrades
Contact Us
We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You...Episode • 14 August 2024 • 33m and 43s
Episode 124: Politics After Eight
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
Conor mentions an ARM laptop from Schenker that Tuxedo Computers will sell, Shane talks about messing with tiling in Cinnamon, we chat about politics and polarisation in open source, and then Amolith mentions the book club he's starting with our editor Jake.
Events
Dublin Maker 2024, 31 Aug - 1 Sep FOSSY 2024, 1-4 Aug Amolith's talk, Mitigating MITMs in XMPP, was accepted \o/Discussion
Schenker shows off a Linux laptop prototype with Snapdragon X Elite at Computex 2024 (via Liliputing) gTile, a window tiling extension for GNOME turned into...Episode • 29 July 2024 • 34m and 57s
Episode 123: Cloudy with a Chance of Games
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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The lads chat about Theia, a VS Code-like IDE from the Eclipse Foundation, and its growing ecosystem (including an integrated plugin marketplace!), the Hypnotix IPTV app from Linux Mint, FOSS video games, and game/animation engines.
Discussion
Theia IDE VS Codium Open VSX Registry Theia Cloud Theia Adopter Story: The new Arduino IDE 2.0 Gitpod GitHub Codespaces Hypnotix SuperTuxKart: On the way towards 1.5… and 2.0! Xonotic 0 A.D. Mindustry OpenTTD OpenRA Zero-K Beyond All Reason Liblast Godot three.js Hoot Sc...Episode • 26 June 2024 • 25m and 28s
Episode 122: A Look Inside Our Drawers
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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Discussion
Conor's watch
The Android games console
Acer C710 Chromebook
ThinkPad X200
Raspberry Pi model post on Wkipedia
Home Assistant
ROCKPro64
Original Pinebook
Pinebook Pro
PinePower desktop power supply
Pinecil soldering iron
PineTime
Sony something something XM3
MX Master mouse
FRITZ!Box 7530
Game Boy Advance SP
DS...
Episode • 4 June 2024 • 29m and 53s
Episode 121: Note to Self
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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Whilst Mike was away, Amolith, Conor and Shane discussed Logseq and note taking, Automatic buying Beeper, Proton buying Standard Notes, chat platforms and social networks.
Discussion
LogSeq
Obsidian
Dataview plugin
Org Mode
Syncthing
Joplin
LogSeq sync
Simplenote
Beeper bought by Automattic (via Ars Technica)
Beeper
Automattic
Signal
Telegram
reddit's old interface<...
Episode • 16 May 2024 • 41m and 28s
Episode 120: VideoLads
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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With Shane and Mike away, Conor and Amolith talk to Vibhoothi from the VideoLAN project (of VLC fame).
Discussion
OggCamp 2024
Back door in xz leads to SSH server compromise
NIST page
The Register article
Evan Boehs's blog post
Chat with Vibhoothi
Google Summer of Code
VideoLAN GSoC programmeAV1
rav1e AV1 encoder written in Rust
Mozilla's 2020 layoffs
<...Episode • 1 May 2024 • 31m and 11s
Episode 119: Boxing up a Distro
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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Mike has been fighting with Windows. Conor is curious about Bluefin. Mike has a plastic notebook and Conor got a new watch.
Discussion
Boxes
Running Windows 10 in Boxes
Sleuth Kit Autopsy
Project Bluefin
Introductory video
Homebrew
Input Remapper
BoxBuddy
Ptyxis terminal
Rocketbook
OnePlus Watch 2
Garmin Instinct 2 Solar
Amazfit
Contact Us
...Episode • 24 April 2024 • 47m and 36s
Episode 118: KDE Plasma 6 and the Future of AI Avatars
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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News
KDE MegaRelease 6 (KDE.org)
KDE PLASMA 6 review: was it worth the wait? (The Linux Experiment, YouTube)Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media (TechCrunch)
GNOME 46 shipped with experimental support for variable refresh rate (Phoronix)
Finds
AI avatar generator (HuggingFace.co)
Interesting Linux apps (It's FOSS)
Contact Us
We have a store We are on Telegram ...Episode • 7 April 2024 • 36m and 49s
Episode 117: Read All About It
Episode edited by Jake Bauer - thanks!
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Discussion
Conor was quoted in the Irish Times about the Dublin Linux install fest
NixOS
SnowflakeOSSwatch Internet Time
Republican calendar Mostodon bot
Stardate
Julian calendar
Biel in Switzerland
i3
EndeavourOS
Sway
Contact Us
We have a store We are on Telegram And on Mastodon And on Matrix You can email us on show@ And despite rumours to...Episode • 6 March 2024 • 26m and
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