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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• Konsole now fully supports Emoji characters (_via Phoronix _ ). This is rather nice for Telegram-CLI and Oh My Zsh. alias ????='play_linux_lads.sh'.

• Fedora is to take time from their 6 months release cycle to fix up their infrastructure - interview on Linux Unplugged.

• 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.

• Conor: MPV
• Shane: Mycroft, Audacity.
• Mike: Python

• 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
• Mozilla Foundation
• Linux Mint
• Ubuntu
• KDE
• Fedora
• Gnome
• VideoLAN - VLC mainly, but they do a lot of codec development too

• 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.