S12E17 – The Secret of Monkey Island

This week we’ve been doing more DIY, playing Slay the Spire and wrestling with CSS. We discuss a strictly confined snapped desktop environment, DNS over HTTPS as a snap, BT choosing Ubuntu for its 5G core and how the Ubuntu… Read more ›

This week we’ve been doing more DIY, playing Slay the Spire and wrestling with CSS. We discuss a strictly confined snapped desktop environment, DNS over HTTPS as a snap, BT choosing Ubuntu for its 5G core and how the Ubuntu 19.10 development is progressing. We also round up some events and news from the tech world.

It’s Season 12 Episode 17 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Mattias Wernér are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

Mark has been doing more DIY!
Mattias has been playing with Slay the Spire and slaving away over CSS with Visual Studio Code.

We discuss the community news:

An example snap confined “desktop”
DNS over HTTPS in a snap
BT picks Canonical Ubuntu to build 5G core
Ubuntu 19.10 Development Continues With Latest GNOME Updates, ZFS, Optimizations

We mention some events:

UbuCon Europe 2019 – Call for volunteers: 10th to 13th of October 2019 – Sintra, Portugal.
SeaGL 2019 – Call for papers: 15 to 16 of November, 2019 – Seattle Central College

We discuss the news:

GitHub blocking developers over US trade sanctions
Blender feels the love from Epic and Ubisoft and Blender Foundation also officially publishes Blender in the Snap Store.
Red Hat hold an AMA on reddit
Floppy driver now orphaned

Image taken from The Secret of Monkey Island published in 1990 for PC by Lucasfilm Games.

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