Basically as the title asks. It looks like the .wtf instance is down again, and I'm starting to think more seriously about hosting my own instance. I imagine I'd have to pay for the domain name, and for a server to host it, but are there any Peertube instance hosters that can confirm if there are other costs involved?

Edit: Looks like the .wtf instance is back up, so thanks to the admin for that! However I'd still take any advice I can get on setting up an instance in case it's needed

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00:55 Sponsor: SquareSpace
02:26 Did Linux pass 10% market share in North America?
06:09 AI models being fed ads and poisoned content
10:09 Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8
13:28 KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Wayland
15:27 Valve prepares Lepton and FEX for the Steam Frame
16:50 Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging area
19:16 Nvidia now sponsors LVFS
20:45 Bottles gets massive update
23:11 Union KDE theming engine makes good progress
25:53 New nasty Linux vulnerability
27:47 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

Linux passes 10% market share in North America
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america#monthly-202506-202607
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/
https://www.usa.gov/website-analytics/

AI models being fed ads and poisoned content
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/the-poison-ai-movement-wants-to-corrupt-chatgpt-and-gemini-to-make-them-useless-but-it-comes-with-a-huge-risk-of-collateral-damage

Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8
https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/07/31/fixing-multi-gpu.html

KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Wayland
https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/wayland-and-kgamma/

Valve prepares Lepton and FEX for the Steam Frame
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/lepton-and-fex-get-prepared-for-the-steam-frame-release/

Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging area
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Staging-Reject-LLMs

Nvidia now sponsors LVFS
https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/08/04/nvidia-is-now-supporting-the-lvfs/

Bottles gets massive update
https://linuxiac.com/bottles-65-released-with-over-100-changes-for-windows-apps-on-linux/

Union KDE theming engine makes good progress
https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-08/union-summer-2026-update

New nasty Linux vulnerability
https://github.com/V4bel/Zapscape

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01:35 Espanso: Text Expander
04:12 LocalSend: Cross Platform AirDrop 05:45 SuperFile: TUI file manager
08:22 LACT: GPU graphical overclocking
10:40 GPU Screen Recorder
12:58 KDE Drawy: Easy editable Whiteboard
14:59 Easy Effects: audio effects in real time
16:30 BetterBird: Thunderbird+
20:15 Ferdium: workspaces for your online services
22:34 SpeechNote: voice transcripts & translations
25:15 BlueFerry: iMessages on Linux
26:46 F*CK: terminal command autocorrect
29:14 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:
Espanso: https://espanso.org/

LocalSend: https://localsend.org/

SuperFile: https://superfile.dev/

LACT: https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT

GPU Screen Recorder: https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/

Drawy: https://apps.kde.org/drawy/

EasyEffects: https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects

BetterBird: https://www.betterbird.eu/

Melia: https://melia.buxjr.com/

Ferdium: https://ferdium.org/

SpeechNote: https://github.com/mkiol/dsnote

BlueFerry: https://github.com/erikwb/blueferry

TheF*ck: https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

Linux market share for Desktop/Laptop PCs in North America have grown by at least four points for the last two months. Now reaching over 10%, we're seeing the dominos starting to fall and the broader culture catching up. This is proof that not only is Linux on the desktop inevitable, but that we need to keep up the good fight.

00:00 Linux market share is growing

01:00 It's not just stats counter

01:53 Steam hardware survey

02:33 Why is desktop Linux growing?

04:40 People are looking to reclaim their digital autonomy

05:16 KDE Plasma, GNOME, and software distribution

05:52 Linux just gets out of your way

07:00 Hope in a world that feels hopeless

https://inpc.cat/
https://stream.mxtthxw.art/
https://pirate.mxtthxw.art/@thekalimerashow/episodes
https://matthewsmyth.co.uk/
https://mirlo.space/inpc
https://inpc.bandcamp.com/
https://live.theindiebeat.fm/

DEF CON 32 talk on a new side-channel vulnerability affecting popular AI assistants.

The researcher shows how encrypted conversations can be inferred from network traffic, even when protected by HTTPS. Before disclosure, services like OpenAI, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Quora, and Notion were potentially at risk.

The talk explains how the attack works, demonstrates real interception examples, and shows how to identify similar vulnerabilities in other AI systems.

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In my years long journey of looking for the best FOSS instant messengers, I may have finally found two gems that are miles ahead of everything else, in the middle of all the mediocre options that are probably not worth your attention.

Delta Chat: https://delta.chat/
Fluxer: https://fluxer.app/
Mumble: https://mumble.info/
Jitsi Meet: https://jitsi.org/
Sources: https://gianmarco.gg/gallery/2026/07/fosschats2026

Music by incompetech.com and EON-PR.

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Two minute teaser for "Vessels for the Human Spirit," an upcoming feature-length documentary about the life and work of master potter and retired Syracuse University ceramics professor David MacDonald. www.davidmacdonald.com

Directed by Amilcar Navarro and Osa Atoe
www.amilcarnavarro.com
www.potterybyosa.com

The modern web can be distracting, invasive, and slow. Luckily, there's another way!

Using an RSS/Atom feed reader can really help cut out distractions. Doing so from the terminal can enhance the effect, keeping you informed without all of the adtech and algorithms.

Enter Newsboat! Newsboat is an open source fork of Newsbeuter, and is a wonderful terminal-based feed reader. I even fire it up on my old Wyse terminal in the video!

In this video, I explain how to install and configure Newsboat on Manjaro, Fedora, and Pop!_OS. It's packaged up for other distros too, and non-Linuxes like macOS (via Brew) and FreeBSD.

Shout-out to Christian from @The Digital Life for helping out my pronunciation! This video also has some footage of @Techno Tim and @Learn Linux TV , both of whom are great.

If you want to help support the channel, you can join the Patreon at https://patreon.com/VeronicaExplains. For $10/mo, I'll print your name on my dot matrix printer and put it in the video. Super neat! There's also a $1 and $5 tier- any little bit helps me spend more time making videos!

Lastly, the shirt is at https://vkc.sh/merch. I know you're wondering! 😃 Proceeds benefit the channel!

00:00 Intro
02:39 What is Newsboat, anyway?
04:38 Installing Newsboat
06:08 Configuring/adding feeds
10:27 Finding feeds with plugins
13:16 Outro

#Linux #RSS #Terminal

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I'm trying to fix the stuck tape transport in a Philips N4416 reel to reel from 1972.

Philips N4416 Service Manual (English):
https://elektrotanya.com/hfe_philips_n4416_service_en.pdf/download.html

Side note: There are several versions of the service manual floating around, the German variant I found is much shorter than the English and Dutch ones, I think it is an incomplete scan.

TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
3:13 A Tour of the Machine
8:03 Inspecting the Innards
14:34 Refurbishing the Tape Mechanism
44:32 Testing the Mechanism
50:47 More small Fixes
52:55 Reassembly
57:34 Thank you & Good Night

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OK, so GrapheneOS. I've used it for almost three years now. I've very much enjoyed taking a bit more control over my privacy. Maybe you will too.

Links for the wicked!

From GrapheneOS directly (on their website or social media):

GrapheneOS home page: https://grapheneos.org/  
GrapheneOS donate page: https://grapheneos.org/donate  
GrapheneOS supported devices: https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices  
GrapheneOS Attestation Compatibility Guide: https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide  
Reddit comment from GrapheneOS about OEMs: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1o32gpg/comment/nivsx0k/  
Regarding GrapheneOS on social media, here's one post they copy/pasted multiple times in a short window, behavior I find a little unsettling: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116092140167973707  
Another recent comment from GrapheneOS in reply to someone who was just mentioning a competitor: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116076269968876054  

App stores that aren't Google:

Accrescent home page (an app store GrapheneOS has made available in stock GrapheneOS): https://accrescent.app/  
Obtanium home page (downloading apps directly from Git or other sources): https://obtainium.imranr.dev/  
F-Droid, you probably already know about them by now: https://f-droid.org/  

About specific apps which might be helpful:

Signal APK download: https://signal.org/android/apk/  
Terence Eden's awesome blog post about Contactless Payments in Europe using Curve with GrapheneOS: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/contactless-payments-with-grapheneos/  
Organic Maps works pretty well as a general maps app: https://organicmaps.app/  
Unified Push homepage (great resource for notifications without Google Play): https://unifiedpush.org/  

Also, thank you OpenMoji for the judge lady (CC BY-SA-4.0): https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F469-200D-2696-FE0F/

Chapters:
0:00 It's like a dumbphone...
2:01 ...but it's not a dumbphone.
4:32 But... Pixel? Isn't that a Google thing?
6:26 Installing apps on GrapheneOS
8:40 Messaging with GrapheneOS
10:06 What we leave behind on GrapheneOS
12:12 Taking back my privacy and my attention with GrapheneOS
14:22 Fine... yeah there's some drama with GrapheneOS
16:29 GrapheneOS is still awesome

#android #privacy #grapheneOS

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The video is shot from a first-person perspective, showing Cynni holding a blue, plush hammerhead shark toy while playfully humming the "Jaws" theme tune. Their adorable companion, Koa, bounds into the frame. Koa is a male, chocolate brown Labrador Retriever pup, born on 25/02/2026, who features a sweet, small white strip of fur on the center of his chest. With a cheerful "One, two!", Cynni tosses the shark into a blue, shell-shaped kiddie pool filled with water.

​Koa, being an eager young dog, quickly retrieves the wet toy but immediately heads for the glass back door. Cynni lovingly redirects him, explaining that they aren't going inside because Koa is completely soaked, and they are also a bit wet from refilling the pool. They gently encourage the pup to go back to the water. As Koa happily parades around the patio tiles and black tarp with his prized shark, Cynni notes with a witty chuckle that the process of refilling the pool was apparently much more fun for him than actually playing in it.

​A spirited, loving game of chase ensues. "You're way too fast, Ko," Cynni laughs, momentarily slipping a curse about their bad back before quickly apologizing and correcting themselves. They patiently work with the growing Labrador on his "drop it" ("los") command, praising him warmly with a "Good boy" whenever he successfully surrenders the toy.

​As Koa splashes his paws and occasionally investigates the pool water, Cynni shares their plans for the day. They mention that it's currently a pleasant 22 degrees Celsius, perfect for a short play session before the weather gets too hot. Cynni explains that Koa gets to tag along to their physical therapy appointment later, which they really need for their back before the weekend. They warmly note that their car, affectionately named "Skoosh", is equipped with the "woei-woei (their playful term for the air conditioning), ensuring they will both stay nice and cool during the trip. The lovely video ends with Koa needing his shark again, and Cynni happily obliging with another countdown and a splashy toss into the water.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:41 Sponsor: Proton Mail
01:43 Upstream vs distros debate kicks off again
05:16 432 CVEs published in 2 days by the Linux kernel team
08:20 Flathub reviewers leaving
11:18 Flathub's AI slop ban was probably the right call
13:11 Collabora talks about their work on the Steam Frame OS
14:51 GNOME changes how they handle CVEs
17:22 Firefox 153 released with containers
19:18 LibreOffice explains why MSOffice formats aren't really open
22:00 JellyFin loses multiple contributors
23:11 Libx11-compat trying to keep legacy apps alive on systems without x11
25:04 How AI is changing open source
29:44 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

Upstream vs distros debate kicks off again
https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-and-gnome-calendar-clash-resurfaces-months-later/
https://gitlab.com/linuxmint/pins/mint/gnome-calendar/-/work_items/1
https://tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-would-hostile-distributions-go-to-hurt-upstream/

432 CVEs published in 2 days by the Linux kernel team
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/22/linux-kernel-team-publishes-432-cves-in-two-days/5276497

Flathub reviewers leaving
https://bbhtt.in/posts/flathub-leave/
https://bbhtt.in/posts/taking-a-pause/

Flathub's AI slop ban was probably the right call
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/flathub-ai-slop-ban-data

Collabora talks about their work on the Steam Frame OS
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-an-arch-linux-aarch64-port-for-holo-core.html

GNOME changes how they handle CVEs
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/07/20/some-changes-to-gnome-security-tracking/

Firefox 153 released with containers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/firefox-153-new-containers-feature

LibreOffice explains why MSOffice formats aren't really open
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/

JellyFin loses multiple contributors
https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes
https://linuxiac.com/jellyfin-loses-project-leader-and-core-team-member-in-major-shake-up/

Libx11-compat trying to keep legacy apps alive on systems without x11
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libx11-compat

How AI is changing open source
https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2026/07/23/how-ai-is-changing-open-source/

#linuxnews #technews #linux

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