Late Night Linux – Episode 260

It’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, and some tough love for Mozilla.   Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time! Subscribe to the Late Night Linux Family All Episodes Feed Will’s post that made it to Hacker News etc   2023 News Good news Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight Maverick Mars chopper has survived way past its warranty – now it’s time for a sequel Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible   Gaming Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks Graham talked about his Steam Deck OLED on LNL258 Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November   Enshittification Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees Incus 0.1 has been released LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA Incorrect license information for the LXD snap Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams. We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan Fedora Program Manager layed off (what that role was) Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future What Reddit Got Wrong Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law   Fediverse Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration   Mozilla Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI A quarter century of Mozilla Firefox’s protection against fingerprinting Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android Introducing Solo, an AI website builder for solopreneurs       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here