Thoughts and experiences from me, UK podcaster Joe Ressington
This is a list of well-known people and companies who have shilled NFTs. It’s very much not exhaustive but I’ll try to update it when I spot new offenders. Feel free to tweet me examples that aren’t on the list.
Also feel free to check out my podcast Late Night Linux where we sometimes laugh at and/or get angry about these bastards.
Jack from Twitter
People who want to defile Stan Lee’s memory
Rishi Sunak (this may not actually happen)
Warner Bros./Lord of the Rings
While Ubuntu server is officially supported on the Pi 2, 3, and 4 (including the new 8GB RAM variant of the Pi 4), getting the Ubuntu desktop running on the mini PC has so far been a community effort. Back before he became the Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu Desktop, Martin Wimpress made and maintained some Ubuntu MATE images for various Pis. Unfortunately when Ubuntu 20.04 arrived in April this year, an Ubuntu MATE image for the Pi didn’t appear.
Fast forward to May and Martin did a series of live streams on YouTube to demonstrate his tool which turns Ubuntu Server into any of the Ubuntu desktop flavours called Desktopify. This was something that he did in his spare time and so there are still no official Ubuntu Desktop Images.
On S13E11 of the Ubuntu Podcast this week, Martin dropped something of a bombshell. He said “Maybe we’re working on Ubuntu Desktop for the Raspberry Pi”. This was during a discussion of the new 8GB RAM version of the Raspberry Pi 4, and referred back to an OMG Ubuntu! article about upcoming features of Ubuntu 20.10.
Does this definitely mean Ubuntu 20.10 will be officially supported on the Raspberry Pi? Well I won’t believe it until I see an official announcement but I’m pretty hopeful from what Martin said.
If you want to hear the specific part of the episode in question, you can listen on YouTube here:
January
Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation
Mozilla “experimenting” with more ads in Firefox
Mozilla kills Test Pilot Program
Mozilla Kills Default Support for Adobe Flash in Firefox 69
Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB
MongoDB removed from major distros
Adiantum: encryption for the low end
February
We won’t see a raspberry Pi 4 in 2019
Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database
Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again
The battle between real open source vs. faux open source heats up
March
Microsoft open-sources Windows Calculator
Debian project leader candidates emerge
Google launches game streaming service called Stadia
Google forced into Android browser choice
Antitrust: Commission fines Google €1.49 billion for abusive practices in online advertising
Red Hat crosses $3B revenue mark
April
UBports Foundation finally created
Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features
Open infrastructure, developer desktop and IoT are the focus for Ubuntu 19.04
Presenting search app and browser options to Android users in Europe
Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit
May
IBM’s Red Hat acquisition moves forward
All new Chromebooks will run Linux apps
Project Mainline is Google’s new attempt to send security updates directly to your phone
Google pulls Huawei’s Android license
June
Ubuntu announce that they’ll drop i386 but then backtrack
Ubuntu to drop i386 architecture
At least some games not working without 32-bit
Important figures in the Linux world sign petition
Test and run multiple instances of snaps
OpenMandriva also dropping 32-bit
Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS
Update on Steam, Ubuntu, and 32-bit support
July
Raspberry Pi 4 USB-C issues confirmed
Firefox addons outage post mortem
August
Enhancing our ZFS support on Ubuntu 19.10 – an introduction
exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!
Richard Brown steps down as openSUSE chairman
September
Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF
Richard Stallman resigns from MIT
Stallman intends to keep leading GNU
Transforming the development experience within CentOS
October
Joint statement on the GNU Project
No radical changes in GNU Project
Google Stadia will be “faster and more responsive” than local gaming hardware
Will Cooke, the Director of Engineering for the Ubuntu desktop, has left Canonical
November
Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support
Microsoft Will Release Their Edge Web Browser For Linux
Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch
December
January
Fuchsia available for the Pixelbook
UBports release OTA 3 and are working on Android app support
Changes to AMP coming but they aren’t good enough for some web devs
Ubuntu 18.04 to revert to Xorg by default
February
Mozilla announces Project Things
First RISC-V board available to pre-order
LineageOS 15.1 is finally here
Ubuntu metrics collection will be opt-in when upgrading to 18.04
Crostini – Linux VMs on ChromeOS
Microsoft and Canonical collaborate on Ubuntu VMs
Sailfish is coming to more phones
March
Debian and Kali Linux now available in Windows 10
The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin
Microsoft facilitating yet more distros on WSL
Firefox and Chromium now available as Snaps
April
Things are going well for RISC-V
Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site
Steam Machines aren’t dead yet
Microsoft announces Linux-based OS
Chrome OS moves a step closer to proper Linux
Linux apps will look seamless in Chrome OS
Clear focus on cloud and containers
Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch
May
The other flavours could follow suit
Lubuntu finally ready to move to LXQt
Void Linux struggling as leader goes missing
Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed
It could be a while before Linux apps work well on Chrome OS
Google puts pressure on OEMs over Android patches
Android Things is finally ready for devices
Red Hat and Microsoft bring OpenShift to Azure
Malware found in (and removed from) the Snap Store
Huawei locks down its bootloaders
Endless lays off several employees
https://twitter.com/mhall119/status/1002199848823721984 https://twitter.com/ebassi/status/1002468989803663360 https://twitter.com/1nuritzi/status/1002568768256503808
June
Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 RC released
Fuchsia will support Linux apps
A first look at Ubuntu desktop metrics
RISC-V so far not as open as hoped
July
Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware
August
Dropbox Ending Support for non-Ext4 Filesystems
Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux
Google hands off Kubernetes to the community with $9M donation
Blow for Google in Oracle Android case
Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects
September
Kernel Maintainer’s Summit moved continents to accommodate Linus
Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive
Jupiter Broadcasting Joins Linux Academy
Chrome OS 70 brings native network file share support
Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier
First purpose-built distro available for WSL
Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs
At least half of Azure is running Linux
October
Red Hat’s Stratis storage project reaches 1.0
Microsoft’s Linux powered dev boards, Azure Sphere for sale
More Ubuntu statistics published
elementary OS 5.0 Juno released
MongoDB makes change to license
Google changes Android licensing policy in Europe
Linus back in charge of the kernel
November
Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu
New mid-range Raspberry Pi launched
Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported for 10 years
Canonical looking for investors
Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed
AMP Project’s new governance model now in effect
December
Xubuntu 19.04 to drop 32-bit ISO
Steam link lives on via the Raspberry Pi
Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base
Mozilla not exactly thrilled about it
Chrome and Firefox to have native Arm builds on Win10
FreeBSD ZFS File-System Code To Be Re-Based Over ZFS On Linux
Christmas is for children and those with children. Those of us who are too selfish, irresponsible, selfless or responsible to have children just get a bit of time off and an excuse to eat and drink a bit more than usual. Everyone is a winner and Christmas is great.
As an atheist it’s a bit uncomfortable to see all the Jesus stuff get thrown around but thankfully there is enough crass commercialism and obvious pagan symbolism to balance all of that. There is one elephant in the room that really gets to me though. Santa.
This is the point where I will lose most parents. “It’s just a bit of fun” or “lighten up, it’s part of the innocence of childhood” they’ll say to me. Innocence, indeed. And that’s the problem.
Children are essentially hard-wired to believe every word that their parents tell them. This makes perfect sense from an evolutionary perspective and indeed explains why something as illogical as religion persists into 2017. Children have absolute trust in their parents. This is the crux of the Santa problem.
If a child grows up believing that their parents will never lie to them and then one day they find out that Santa isn’t real, this has a deep effect on them. The faith that they had in their parents as Oracles of absolute truth is shattered. Suddenly they learn that it’s not just bad people who are dishonest; the people they love and respect the most in the world are capable of bare-faced lies. What does that mean for the adults who develop from these children?
Perhaps it’s overly dramatic to blame the impending collapse of western civilisation on a seemingly harmless white lie but I’m going to give it a go. If a child learns that it’s normal to lie, even to the people you love the most, the adult will deceive their way through life and everyone will suffer as a result.
There seems to be an axiom that some lies are necessary. Being polite when people ask awkward questions about whether they look fat etc. but to me truth is incredibly important. It’s the only hope we have as a species. Without truth we only have lies or post-truth which is a stupid way of saying lies.
So please stop lying to your children about Santa. The other parents will probably hate you but it’s a small price to pay to save humanity.