Late Night Linux – Episode 98

How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumblings, a packed KDE Korner, and more.   News NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal Ubuntu community drama Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council after body shrinks to single member – Mark Shuttleworth Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel   Admin Check out Paddy’s new show Tabs, Not Spaces Check out Jono Bacon’s book club   Fixing the Internet Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker urges European Commission to seize ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity EU lawmakers say it’s time to go further on tackling disinformation Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet   KDE Korner KDE Plasma 5.20 Will Alert You If Your Disk Is Failing, New Bluetooth page & in 20.12 (while out) Annotations in Spectacle Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland Akademy makes the magic happen: Check Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu & Fri / Fri Wrap       Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here