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Discussion
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Emby) went proprietary) but you wouldn’t guess that from the release post). Never mind, the Plex media server) alternative has already been forked under the name of Jellyfin). Good luck to the developers (and unlike the Emby people, we mean it). Forks can turn out great, Libre Office) came from Open Office) after the Oracle Sun acquisition) and now it’s the open source office suite.
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Mycroft) is to postpone delivery) of the Mark II) due to manufacturing issues, from this December to Q1 2019. No refunds, for anyone put off by this. Hopefully when it comes, it will be better for it, to compete with the likes of Amazon Alexa).
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Firefox) version 64 is out) with multiple tab selection but without the killed off Live Bookmarks). Is it because of Pocket)? Not as big as the Quantum 57) release.
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Microsoft to discontinue EdgeHTML) (via hacker news)) and base its Edge) browser on Blink). They have an interest in the Blink ecosystem because of Electron) ecosystem - very nicely explained on Coder Radio). Microsoft’s decision left many people and organizations like Mozilla) worried about the future of the internet). Edge is going to join the club with Opera), Vivaldi), Brave) and other Blink-based browsers. Are we going back to the terrible old days of Internet Explorer 6)? Browser specific CSS). Duck Duck Go) it if you don’t want to Google) it - and go JavaScript) - free on DDG Lite). Or if you are a master ninja of the search engines, use Searx) to bind them all and unleash true power with DDG bangs)!
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Konsole) now fully supports) Emoji) characters (_via Phoronix) _ ). This is rather nice for Telegram-CLI) and Oh My Zsh). alias 🤣='play_linux_lads.sh'.
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Fedora) is to take time from their 6 months release cycle to fix up their infrastructure - interview on Linux Unplugged).
Feedback
From Marko: Termux), a terminal emulator for Android. Get it on F-Droid) or Google Play).
Ian on Telegram asked for predictions:
Shane: Trump (not linking him) will make the US government Linux and Open Source. He will swap Twitter for Mastodon).
Mike: The UK will issue their own version of Linux, to take back control.
Boners
Donation Links (‘tis the season)
EDRI) - European digital rights
DRI) - Digital Rights Ireland
FSF) - Free Software Foundation
FSFE) - FSF Europe
EFF) - Electronic Frontier Foundation
ORG) - Open Rights Group, the EFF’s sister organisation in the UK
KDE)
VideoLAN) - VLC mainly, but they do a lot of codec development too
Drinks
Mike: Smithwick’s Red Ale)
Shane: Lyons Tea) out of a Linux Lads mug)
Conor: Bru Red Ale)
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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq) which was released under the CC BY NC SA License).