Darren Gregory

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Town and Country Planning pays the bills.
Wide variety of interests including sport, politics and photography www.darrenjosephgregory.com

#Ubuntu 24.10 is now out!
I took a look at the major new features in that #Linux distro, and I found it a good step towards the future Ubuntu wants to build (which you might not like…), with a healthy dose of nostalgia:

https://youtu.be/MI0cN1tuZGU?si=J8v86bTJp9oU82VB

Ubuntu 24.10: the SNAP ecosystem improves, with a touch of nostalgia

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Rachel Reeves would make a mess of any household’s finances https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/08/19/rachel-reeves-would-make-a-mess-of-any-households-finances/
Rachel Reeves keeps saying that we should manage the economy as if it were a household. That is completely wrong. But if it were true, the decisions she is making would end up destroying the finances of any household, she’s making such a mess of things.
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future
Could the US break up Google? Deepin 23, SteamOS for other devices

👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 00:00 Intro 01:37 US considers breaking up Google https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/doj-mulls-asking-for-google-breakup-after-landmark-antitrust-win 06:22 Deepin 23 is out https://linuxiac.com/deepin-linux-23-released/ 08:59 Ubuntu 24.10 has nostalgia inducing features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/ubuntu-24-10-anniversary-easter-eggs 11:31 Mozilla says they’re refocusing on Firefox https://www.fastcompany.com/91167564/mozilla-wants-you-to-love-firefox-again 15:09 Wayland screen capture protocol is done https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Merges-Screen-Capture 16:57 x86 emulator for ARM gets even better performance https://fex-emu.com/FEX-2408/ 18:58 Flathub passes 2B downloads https://docs.flathub.org/blog/2-billion-downloads-2024/ 21:54 High profile FOSS projects leave Github tokens public https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/many-top-level-open-source-projects-found-leaking-github-auth-tokens 24:25 EU’s new law could hurt open source, says Canonical https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-cyber-resilience-act-what-it-means-for-open-source 28:40 New research says AI don’t pose a threat https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-existential-threat-27543/ 32:13 Linux foundation now works on AI https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-OMI-AI-Models 34:28 Gaming: SteamOS on other devices, Wine 9.15 https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/13/24219469/valve-steamos-asus-rog-ally-steady-progress-dual-boot https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.15

The Linux Experiment Podcasts

Time for this week’s #Linux and #OpenSource News video!

I’m currently visiting the cutest little town in Brittany, so just look at the video’s title to see what it’s about!

https://youtu.be/WM2uUZoVpsE

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3rd party Bug killed Windows PCs across the world, openSUSE needs to change its name

👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 00:00 Intro 01:25 Massive third party bug paralyzes the world’s IT for hours https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et https://www.techradar.com/news/live/windows-outage-july-2024-live 07:35 SUSE asks OpenSUSE to rebrand https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7IVGVJOAO4NIQILUYI3ZUL7NHCVBDQO7/ https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/HZTCWECHJK6RBMY5KNGGY7LDLGAG7S7L/ 11:37 Solus ditches AppArmor, and snaps https://getsol.us/2024/07/15/dropping-apparmor-kernel-patches/ 15:07 GNOME 47 alpha is out https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-47-Alpha-Released 17:28 Linux kernel 6.10 is out https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/linux-kernel-6-10-new-features 19:40 Nvidia explains the transition to Open Source modules https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/16/24199636/apple-anthropic-nvidia-salesforce-youtube-videos-training-data-copyright https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/apple-isnt-using-youtube-data-in-apple-intelligence 22:43 Nobara 40 is out https://nobaraproject.org/2024/07/17/july-17-2024/ 25:35 Peertube 6.2 finally adds moderation and transcripts https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-6.2 27:39 Google’s AI apparently ignores opt-out settings https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/gemini-ai-platform-caught-scanning-google-drive-files-without-user-permission 30:15 Nvidia and other companies used Youtube data to train their AI https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/apple-isnt-using-youtube-data-in-apple-intelligence https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/16/24199636/apple-anthropic-nvidia-salesforce-youtube-videos-training-data-copyright 34:02 Gaming: Big PS2 emulator update, Wine https://pcsx2.net/blog/2024/pcsx2-2-release/ https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.13 37:35 Outro

The Linux Experiment Podcasts

New video: your usual #Linux and #OpenSource News recap, where we've seen #Windows collapse all around the world, and crash to a blue screen of death due to a third party app, we have #SUSE asking #OpenSUSE to rebrand and change their logo, and a lot more:

https://youtu.be/227EQhL4tAw

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The last time I made a comparison video between KDE and GNOME was around 5 years ago, so I decided to revisit the topic.

https://youtu.be/rwOsJa8BCcA

#Linux #OpenSource

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Shouldn’t we be celebrating recent record national savings? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/19/shouldnt-we-be-celebrating-recent-record-national-savings/ National savings - sometimes also called the national debt - have hit a record high. Shouldn’t we be celebrating this, and be asking what the government could do with all the money people want to deposit with it?
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future

I read a bunch of stuff on the various levels of security of #Linux packaging formats, whether it’s Flatpak, snaps, AppImages, or native packages.

There seem to be a lot of confusion on app verification and what it truly means, on the sandbox, on the role of a package maintainer for a distribution, so I decided to bust a few myths:

https://youtu.be/xw3NxIWpylc

BUSTING some packaging format MYTHS! App verification, sandbox, package maintainers...

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The great powers of a new prime minister with a mandate and a majority

Many previous governments have been undermined by their own hubris. But there is little to bring down a more competent government.

By me, at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/elections/general-election-2024/67173/the-great-powers-of-a-new-prime-minister-with-a-mandate-and-a-majority

The great powers of a new prime minister with a mandate and a majority

Many previous governments have been undermined by their own hubris. But there is little to bring down a more competent government