The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-375/

#podcast #linux #opensource

@latenightlinux AOSP sounded safe until California passed their law to force age verification to include operating systems!, which sounds like it includes AOSP and Linux.

Nice way to kill off open source, not to mention privacy.

Wonder how much of that was sponsored by Google and Apple to force people back to their online ID accounts?

We need to fight this one.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Bill Text - AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

AB 1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services.

@latenightlinux To follow up on your SETI@Home news, there is another distributed computing project, Einstein@Home, which searches for pulsars and gravitational waves, and has been running for 22 years. And they are here! @einsteinathome

https://einsteinathome.org/

Einstein@Home

@stfn We indeed are, thanks for the mention! 👋 @latenightlinux