Late Night Linux – Episode 180

The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel’s new “features”.   News Alex’s London meetup is going to be a day earlier than originally planned. He’s still working on a venue but stay tuned and watch the meetup page!  Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations NASA’s 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot DuckDuckGo: Why our browsers won’t block Microsoft trackers DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract Brave marketing gaffe Brave’s use of Direct Mailers Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion VMware users are nervous about Broadcom acquisition Broadcom’s stated strategy ignores most VMware customers Drew’s Tweet Linux 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New CPU & GPU Features Intel’s software-defined silicon set to debut in Linux 5.18 Intel Upgrade Service   KDE Korner KDE a Google SoC participent SCAM: Lightmoon IS NOT Kdenlive. Lightmoon is MALWARE KDE ECO sprint May & Nico Fella KItinerary April/May Update KDE Goals: Wayland Job vacancy for furthering KDE in app stores           Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here