Podcast Season 4 Episode 15
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Title: World Standards Day
In this episode: DRM comes to Firefox. Fedora gets open source. Assange is assuaged and Javascript finally comes home. Plus – neurons and cyclical arguments about KDE.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Widevine CDM in Firefox enables DRM. Fedora runs on Risc-V. Julian Assange has lost his internet. The Javascript Foundation has joined the Linux Foundation and Quarklabs audits Veracrypt.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- A selection of from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode.
- Ioangogo: Umm, this is soon http://www.linux-presentation-day.org
- zmoylan-pi: reading Nano’s manual: http://staffwww.fullcoll.edu/sedwards/Nano/UsefulNanoKeyCommands.html
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TraceyC: I found a script that will save and restore windows positions for Ubuntu
http://askubuntu.com/questions/631392/saving-and-restoring-window-positions - Ioangogo: and this is a verry intresting gtk3 radio player – https://github.com/haecker-felix/gradio
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james_olympus: The Windows 10 market share fell in September
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/06/windows_10_market_share_ifelli_in_september
- Graham:
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Mixing up corked red wine with cellophane can remove much of the corked taint.
- Press alt and right/middle click in a window for easy resizing.
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- Ben:
- Enter ~ . kills ssh.
- Tmux.
- SELinux is horrible.
- Pi-hole: https://pi-hole.net/.
- A selection of from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode.
- Mike:
- MicroG, a free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries.
- Andrew:
- Thunderbird, the email client.
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Huge thanks to Kenny for sharing their thoughts. If you want Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to mike@linuxvoice.com.
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Why is KDE just so awesome? (yes, guess who writes these disappointingly terse notes)
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:04:46
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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Graham Morrison
A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.
Brilliant tip by Ben re Pi-Hole. Just set it up on a spare Raspberry Pi. What a joy to remove ads and i’s like lightning load web pages that were previously bundled with adds and very slow to load
I tried many email clients (thunderbird, evolution, N1). While evolution was a decent application I’ve finally settled on mutt in combination with offlineimap.
It’s just great to be able use vim like navigation and actual vim for writing emails.
Yes, I’ve been using mutt for a while now – it’s terrific. I’m using it with mbsync. It’s so quick for sorting out tonnes of email, and the search functions are great. Also, just being able plow through your emails on the train without a stable internet connection…
I agree with Andrew about Thunderbird. I moved from Mac OSX + Gmail to Linux + Thunderbird over a year ago. Having a dedicated mail application is so nice. Also, Thunderbird + Enigmail gpg plugin is fantastic!
As you where asking why people don’t like KDE:
for me the reasons are (in comparison to Gnome2 that I started with and really liked and now with Unity that I still try to make my peace with) are:
– KDE is less clear and clean. The programs are larger, there is lots of configuration options and you really need some time to get everything right. For example in K3B (the only KDE program that I have installed) you have three panes. Each has two small buttons for detach and close. In the settings menu you have 4 different submenus. If you change some settings you are asked, if next time you want to start with the previous settings, the default settings or something else that I have forgotten.
I liked the comparison with VIM/EMACS and for the same reason I don’t use any of them.
As I use more than one computer, there is quite some benefit in having everything nice out of the box.
– When I changed from Windows to Gnome, I was surprised, that in almost all settings dialogues there was no ‘apply’-button. Settings are applied immediately. Not that it would be a big deal, but I really like that. And KDE feels like Windows in this regard.