Linus attempts to install a font, Blender 3.0 removes OpenCL rendering, Vizio responds to copyleft violations, and portable apps with Exodus.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
11:31 Vizio lawsuit update
17:21 Blender 3.0
23:11 Running distros in your terminal with Distrobox
27:26 Portable apps with Exodus
32:10 Linus & Luke install a font
39:41 Firefox 95 pounds sand
50:56 Music games with Pi
53:56 Emails
VIZIO case
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/nov/30/vizio-update-0/
- Shame on you Vizio!
- For violating the GPL, using Linux and open source software, and not letting the public see the code.
- I won’t be recommending your TVs anymore . . .
- Also, this is coming in an age where the right to repair is coming under scrutiny with tech companies, and the software they are using.
- The lawsuit is historic in its approach, because it focuses on consumer rights conferred by copyleft licenses and SFC is filing as a third-party beneficiary.
- All the SFC requires is that Vizio makes this code available to the public as per its licenses. Vizio won’t hear of it.
- Vizio’s filing implies that only copyright holders, and no one else, have a right to ask for source code under the GPL and LGPL.
- WAT.
- It’s beyond nonsensical to claim that a license which specifically requires you to share the sauce if you’re asked to do so regardless, is not the case.
- Part of me just wants VIZIO to release the source and stfu.
- But another part of me wants them to fight this and lose to the point where it sets a fresh precedent and reminder for these kinds of companies.
Blender 3.0
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-0/
- Blender, our favorite open source 3D/2D computer graphics and animation program just had a huge 3.0 release!
- Cycles GPU kernels now render 2-8x faster in real-world scenes.
- And I noticed immediately that the 3D viewport is much faster and more responsive.
- There are shadow improvements on low polygon game models.
- And the Shadow Catcher has been completely rewritten, and includes a pass to fully handle colored indirect light and emission.
- And a new Asset Browser which includes materials, objects, and world data blocks to keep your projects more organized.
- And in the Geometry Nodes modifier there are around 100 new nodes for interaction with curves, text data, instances, and more.
- Blender 3.0 removes OpenCL rendering but don’t worry AMD users, it still supports RDNA.
- You have RDNA don’t you?
- Linux support for HIP is also still in the works.
- The 3090 murderates everything in rendering.
- https://techgage.com/viewimg/?img=https://techgage.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Blender-3.0.0-Cycles-GPU-Render-Performance-BMW.jpg
Distro Box
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
- Another great podman wrapper!
- Perfect for running containers on your SteamOS3 Steam Deck.
- This could be handy for creating guides.
- It’s a fancy podman wrapper.
- Might be good for wrecking a Linux distro before doing it for real.
- The aim here is to simplify what Toolbox already did for podman.
- And as they claim, to give you something to break if you’re running Silverblue/Kinoite or any of the immutableFS distros.
Exodus
https://github.com/intoli/exodus
- This reminds me of the days when I would use Alien on Debian to convert Red Hat .rpms and Slackware .tgzs to .debs.
- Moving Linux apps between systems.
- What would be the advantage over say, a Flatpak?
- Not requiring the large runtime containers.
- For a one off, I can see this being useful.
- Right up until there’s another ABI change in one of the core libraries which aren’t built in this scenario.
- At which point, or if you’re looking to deploy a bunch of software onto a server, the Flatpaks will be the better option.
Fire Pooch 95 (RTheren)
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/12/firefox-95-released-with-improved-pip-mode
- The Mozilla Firefox 95 web browser has been released, with some great improvements, including lower CPU usage and better security..
- Firefox 95 introduces a new sandboxing technology called RLBox that prevents untrusted code and other security vulnerabilities from causing “accidental defects as well as supply-chain attacks.”
- RLBox helps harden Firefox against potential security vulnerabilities in third-party libraries.
- Also, site isolation is enabled to better protect users against side-channel attacks, like the infamous Spectre vulnerability.
- And page loading performance has been improved by speculatively compiling JavaScript ahead of time.
- I wonder if that reduced CPU utilization makes it so I can use Firefox to watch Crunchyroll without it freezing the whole system for full second.
Music by Committee (RTheren)
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/music-machine-multi-player-game/
- We could play the web based game of this in the Aftershowzen Saturday ;-)
- That’s £180 per launchpad.
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