Late Night Linux

Initial Steam Machine reviews are broadly positive, Jellyfin is losing some key project leaders, Sony deletes more movies that people “bought”, why you probably shouldn’t wipe your phone when the US authorities ask for access, Graham repurposes some discarded crypto hardware to play arcade games, Félim gets that old game working, a great terminal music player, and more.



News

Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux – initial thoughts

Jellyfin Project Leadership Changes

Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them

US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82



Discoveries

AMD BC250 Documentation

Cholo

kew

Screenshot of kew in action















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With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.



News/discussion

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late

“Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it”

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian



















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Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.



Discoveries

Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert)

open-apollo

Ovine

EndeavourOS















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Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.





News

Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date

OpenMandriva Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

KDE at 30

















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A great example of accessibility features benefitting more than the target audience, a new version of the classic game Nethack, checking for bufferbloat, and Windows 10 limps on in discoveries. Then Félim’s question about the perceived value of open source goes in unexpected directions.



Discoveries

quick drag

Nethack 5

check your bufferbloat

opnsense help

Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable















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