BitKeeper goes Open Source! Unity implements SDL, Google blocks the Pirate Bay, and PulseAudio becomes usable?
Notes:
Steam Controller and why it’s the best thing!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/353370/
- Physically, it’s a bit bulky.
- Maybe too much for someone with my “particular configuration”©Jordan Cwang.
- It still brings up my inability to touch the right trigger and the face buttons at the same time.
- Nothing new there. It was the same way with the SHIELD Controller and I beat Dark Souls several times over with the latter.
- What The Mistress does which the SHIELD didn’t, is it inherently allows me to rebind any and all buttons on a per-game basis.
- Including those games that normally wouldn’t allow you to do that.
- Hyper Light Drifter comes to mind.
- Including those games that normally wouldn’t allow you to do that.
- And, if you happen to be a sociable person and have friends, you can take your Areolas to their place and the moment you pair/plug in the controller, it’ll pull your mappings (for all of your games, too) from your account.
- And the degree you can map things to even the regular buttons and the analog stick is… unprecedented.
- The Mistress compares to other controllers like PC gaming compares to console gaming.
- I guess the same could be said of the Steam Machines as whole.
- The Mistress compares to other controllers like PC gaming compares to console gaming.
- Very good job VALVe! Now you need to start marketing those Steam Machines properly.
Skeep
https://github.com/stanfieldr/ghetto-skype
- Remember Franz from last week? It does this and has a tray icon too.
- This is open sauce.
- The main interest I saw with Franz was with Slack, Skype is still usable under Linux, even if heavily unsupported
- They both use the Electron Framework.
- I guess if you don’t want to risk people spying on you, you shouldn’t use either!
- This isn’t how Electron works, but … I guess it would be possible given enough efforts?
- Skype inherently spies on you. As do all of the other IM clients, except maybe pidgin if you’re using XAMPP.
- The services themselves? Yes! But the clients (even Pidgin using proprietary services) don’t do anything other than providing a way to access those services
- Skype inherently spies on you. As do all of the other IM clients, except maybe pidgin if you’re using XAMPP.
- This isn’t how Electron works, but … I guess it would be possible given enough efforts?
Fedora wearing hipsters
https://www.gnome.org/news/2016/05/red-hat-donates-servers/
- So… How far will they screw up GNOME 4, now that they have the hardware to do it even faster?
- GNOME 4: Now with QT!
- Gnome has been a Red Hat project (unofficially) for a while now.
- And that’s a good thing, one other desktop being supported by a large company is Unity. In my opinion, both are really great desktops.
PATS
https://www.patreon.com/linuxgamecast
Renaud Lepage kicked in for the LWDW to make it happen.
- Let’s get Strider to thank him personally in French
- Something along the lines of “Renaud, please help me! Pedro and Venn have kidnapped my mother and are forcing me to do this show”
- Omlette du fromage?
- PSA: If your pledge was declined you no can has Patreon posts.
- Maybe it hasn’t reached the mainstream version yet, since both Chrome and the Fox still open it just fine on my end.
- Same.
- The Pirate Bay team is currently working on fixing the issue
Fart noises
http://freedompenguin.com/articles/how-to/pulseaudio-toilet-full-roses
- I wouldn’t call it a toilet full of roses.
- I would go with something like a seemingly perfectly functional sink that every now and again sprays drainage water all over your face, because someone plumbed the intake and drain through the same pipe.
- That pipe being ALSA.
- It all boils down to “use pavucontrol”, you may have heard this as well on a weekly gaming podcast
- “Historically, most issues I’ve seen are user error”
- Bzzzzt! Historically Pulse was a steaming pile of nope and until recently you were better off using anything elks.
- If you haven’t played with it in the last two years have another go.
Finger on the
http://www.webupd8.org/2016/03/how-to-stream-audio-to-chromecast-or.html
- With all its problems, Pulseaudio still lets you do really cool stuff
- Or you could drop $4.99 and use Plex.
- Not saying this isn’t a wicked neat project.
Open Bits
https://www.bitkeeper.org/
- The latest BitKeeper release has made the code open-source under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.
- From the lads who indirectly brought you Git.
- A bold move… 11 years too late.
SDL?! In my Unity?
https://twitter.com/natosha_bard/status/729776999254896640
- From the announcements they made a couple weeks ago, it seemed like they were writing everything from scratch. Glad to see they know better than that!
- I would like to think it was the result of the community screaming something along the lines of “are you HIGH?!”
- Wow, I may even be able to play Road Redemption soon!
- And a day later, it was working on Wayland with nouveau:
3mil
https://letsencrypt.org/stats/?3millionraymii
- I have a few certificates already, it works really well. I’m not renewing my paid SSL certificate for Lutris next month, going full LetsEncrypt!
- But where’s nginx support!?
- Even without official nginx support, I’ve still managed to configure let’s encrypt on my reverse proxy.
- 3.3mill issued certificates, only 18.6k of which were revoked.
- That’s already a better ratio than your typical commercial SSL offerings.
Blender Henry
http://www.blendernation.com/2016/05/05/hardcore-henry-using-blender-vfx/
- Blender has really made huge progress over the past couple years, to the point where it’s starting to be used in the film industry.
- That said, most of the VFX industry is already using Linux, at least on the rendering farms, whether it is with Houdini or Maya.
- “It is a very flexible tool. It includes almost every modern top technologies and has convenient and user-friendly interface”
- I learned the old jacked-up interface.
rm -rf ~/Music
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
- This week in “This is why we use Free Software”
- The concept of iTunes has always horrified me, I’m not even surprised by this story.
- If you are a Linux user using an ipod on another Windows or OSX machine, make sure you have a copy of your music library somewhere iTunes can’t access it.
- iPod support on Rhythmbox or Banshee is not a lot better
Feedback
Get it
http://linuxgamecast.com/bradley/?yWO4evL
Why?
http://linuxgamecast.com/bradley/?cmNqtXn
- The big thing is LTS.
- The render boxen =’s production and we don’t test in production.
- That left me with SUSE and Buntu.
- Thing is 99% of devels still test against 14.04LTS.
- For everything else there’s Fedora.
- I’ve been running Ubuntu for the past 10 years, it is still to this day the best Linux OS I’ve used. This includes using Unity as well.
- I’m a bit worried about the whole convergence / Ubuntu Touch / Unity 8 / Mir thing. Depending on how bad they mess things up, I might have to switch to KDE.
