Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.



News/discussion

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late

“Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it”

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian



















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Does language choice actually matter?















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It’s another hot questions episode! Tech we’d use if we rebuilt everything from scratch, career advice to our past selves, how much of our jobs we could do from our phone, and the qualities we’ve seen in great managers.















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A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.



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News/discussion

HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that’s been widely criticized by astronomers

Feels like all of us need to pay way more attention to the new rules affecting EU and US folk, requiring all new cars to include a driver monitoring camera aimed at your face



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We were asked about picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.

















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Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.



Discoveries

Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert)

open-apollo

Ovine

EndeavourOS















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