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THE WHEEL HAS SPOKEN
Sometimes we can't decide on a title for our episodes, so we let the wheel choose.
Ever Wonder How Ubuntu's Snaps Got Started? Here's Your Answer.
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All the history you ever wanted to know about Ubuntu's Snap packages, how they're related to earlier Snappy and Click apps, and what the original intent of it all really was!
I'm Tired, Boss π©
C'mon Nicole. Does this really work?
Google continues to show us why it chose to abandon its old motto of βDonβt Be Evil,β as it becomes more and more enmeshed with the military-industrial complex. Most recently, Google has removed four key points from its AI principles. Specifically, it previously read that the company would not...
A distinction between the outward brand and a contributor mascot could provide some balance
Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?
The hurdles are higher than you might imagine
Open source project chief hits out at 'social media brigading'
We've got everything on tape!
Now to patch it all together and hit the Publish button everywhere.
Looking forward to Monday. Season 5 is on its way. π
The Fated Linux Dual-Boot Killing Update Is Here
I've turned off Secure Boot a little while ago because enrolling keys is annoying at best, so it shouldn't matter much, but the AMD improvements that are bundled in here make it important.
I suppose I'll see if I can get Fedora to boot through Secure Boot after all this.
The Season's Over! Time to Get Back to Work π
Been letting the accessory things wither for a little bit, but, at least over here, the news should start flowing again. I might also try to get another couple live streams going outside of the usual 2 week cadence. π
The History of Xz (and the "Hack"!)
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Nextcloud Hub 8 (version 29) is here!
Regain control of your time with Hub 8: improvements all around Hub, new apps, new AI features, new level of performance and comfort.
This seems to be a pretty great release.
If they are to be believed:
I'm most hyped about the performance improvements. π
Error 504 when viewing only subscribed community posts
Logged in and subscribed to a dozen communities. Clicking on "Subscribed" results in a spinning circle that goes away after ~30 seconds, but the posts never display.
Firefox developer tools provides message: "504 Gateway" or "Timeout occurred while waiting for a slot to become available" for url https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/api/v3/post/list?page=1&%3Blimit=20&%3Bsort=New&%3Btype_=Subscribed&%3Bauth=
Viewing subscribed communities individually works as does viewing "Local" and "All" communities.
So AT&T has been out all morning...
It's finally back up. Guess what just showed up in my email!
What should I say? π
You may have noticed we didn't drop an episode today
One of the bugs got us, so stay tuned while we heal up. The MATE history will be here before you know it :)
Oops!... I Broke It Again
Don't mind me folks. I'm out here just breakin the Lemmy. So if you noticed some downtime today around 2PM CST, oops. π
Dan saved me from myself, so we should be good again.
Org mode for note taking
Org-mode. Complex so you don't have to be. A versatile organisational system with immense capabilities.
First time I'm writing so, first of all thanks for the show and the space here to talk about Linux and FOSS, it's really great!
I wanted to mention org mode for note taking, although it might not be what Leo is looking for, is worth having a look at it (also in case you really go for the history of note taking apps).
Org mode is the favorite tool of Emacs geeks such as me. Check out the link, it has pretty nice features: markup sintax, organization and agenda, code blocks with sintax highlighting and executation, export to several formats like html, pdf, odt... and a very long etc. Of course, all works well within Emacs. However there are more and more tools external to Emacs that deal well with it, for example github, gitlab and codeberg render it automatically like the markdown files.
About the portability, there are several apps created to deal with it. The favorite for mobile seems to be orgzly. Although I prefer and use Zettel Notes, which could
The History of KDE (from a little before 1996 to Plasma 6 RC1)
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This one was a grueling process, but was made so much easier because KDE does a pretty amazing job of keeping almost all of their own historical resources. Only a handful of archive.org links show up here.
Take a look and enjoy the stroll down memory lane.