Linux After Dark – Episode 124

Linux After Dark – Episode 124

Video by The Late Night Linux Family via YouTube
Linux After Dark – Episode 124

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The most precious machine in our stack of laptops and PCs, excluding anything we actually use regularly. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-124/

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Photo Time with Chris Marquardt #19 – Playful

Photo Time with Chris Marquardt #19 - Playful

Video by TWiT Tech Podcast Network via YouTube
Photo Time with Chris Marquardt #19 - Playful

This event is made possible by the support of Club TWiT members. Learn more, and join us, at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Join Leo Laporte and Chris Marquardt as they review listener photo submissions for the ‘Playful’ theme, discuss the latest updates in digital and film photography, and share their passion for the craft.

This Month’s Assignment: Playful
• Submit photos to the The Tech Guy Flickr group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/techguy
• Please tag it as ‘TGplayful’

Send in your questions: https://tfttf.com/ptq

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How a Five-Person Team Built the Go-To Streaming App on Meta Quest

How a Five-Person Team Built the Go-To Streaming App on Meta Quest

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How a Five-Person Team Built the Go-To Streaming App on Meta Quest

The BeamXR team treats their Store on Meta Quest rating like a core product feature. ⭐

It helps drive organic discovery, builds trust with new users before they download, and is a major reason ‘BeamXR Live’ has become the go-to streaming app on Quest.

We’re diving into the technical and marketing decisions that helped BeamXR find their niche and hit one million minutes viewed in the first 12 weeks after launching ‘BeamXR Live.’

Link in the comments. 🔗

#VR #MetaQuest #VRDev #XR

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Linux Mint Comes With a FREE TV App?! – And 9 More You Missed (I Use #7 Every Day)

Linux Mint Comes With a FREE TV App?! - And 9 More You Missed (I Use #7 Every Day)

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Linux Mint Comes With a FREE TV App?! - And 9 More You Missed (I Use #7 Every Day)

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Did you know Linux Mint ships with a built-in TV app, instant phone-to-PC file sharing, and one-click system snapshots — all preinstalled? In this video I break down 10 underrated, built-in Linux Mint apps that quietly make it the most "complete out of the box" Linux distro around. No extra downloads, no hunting through forums — these Cinnamon desktop tools are already sitting in your menu.

IPTV Channels:
https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv

Switch to the local version of YT DLP in settings.

We cover the hidden gems most people completely ignore: Warpinator (AirDrop-style local file transfer for Linux), Hypnotix (free built-in live TV / IPTV player), Sticky Notes, Timeshift (system snapshots and backups), Web Apps (turn any website like YouTube, ChatGPT, or Google Docs into a desktop app), System Information, Nemo (the most powerful Linux file manager + Nemo Actions), Driver Manager (easy Nvidia and proprietary drivers), Update Manager, and Celluloid. If you’re new to Linux Mint — or a long-time user who skipped past these — you’ll find a tool or two you wish you’d discovered sooner.

Whether you’re a Linux beginner, a distro hopper, or a daily driver, these built-in Mint apps show why Linux Mint feels so polished out of the box. Watch till the end for the one app I use every single day.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 #01 Warpinator
02:12 #02 Hypnotix
03:42 #03 Sticky notes
04:30 #04 Timeshift
05:39 #05 Web Apps
07:47 #06 System Information
08:48 #07 Nemo
10:06 #08 Driver Manager
10:58 #09 Update Manager
12:23 #10 Celluloid

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💬 Which built-in Mint app do you use the most, and which one did you sleep on until today? Let me know in the comments.

#LinuxMint #Linux #LinuxMint22 #Cinnamon #OpenSource #LinuxForBeginners #Warpinator #Timeshift #Hypnotix #LinuxApps #Nemo #LinuxTex

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Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Video by OpenAI via YouTube
Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Health is one of the most meaningful ways people use ChatGPT.

Every week, more than 230 million people turn to ChatGPT for help with health and wellness questions: making sense of health information, understanding lab results, preparing for appointments, navigating insurance, building healthier habits, and figuring out what to ask next.

With GPT‑5.5 Instant, we’re seeing a substantial step forward in health, with improvements in recognizing when urgent care may be needed, asking for relevant context, explaining uncertainty, and making complex information easier to understand. On our most challenging health evaluations, GPT‑5.5 Instant now performs at a level comparable to our frontier Thinking models. Because it is available to all free users in ChatGPT, more people can benefit from these improvements.

That progress reflects both advances in model capabilities and the physician-led work behind our health evaluations. Across our efforts, a global network of physicians helps define what “good” looks like in real-world health situations by reviewing example model responses, describing ideal behavior, and identifying failure modes. Working with physicians gives us a way to measure progress in health and improve how ChatGPT responds over time.

Learn more: https://openai.com/index/improving-health-intelligence-in-chatgpt/

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Building a Queryable Data Lake with Kafka, Iceberg, and ClickHouse

Building a Queryable Data Lake with Kafka, Iceberg, and ClickHouse

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Building a Queryable Data Lake with Kafka, Iceberg, and ClickHouse

Query your data where it lives using Iceberg and ClickHouse! Watch this quick tutorial to build a real-time pipeline that skips the ETL entirely.

Check out the GitHub Gist: https://gist.github.com/waltribeiro/ebd72b3a088003c7736bc35a2e08ff78

Learn how NetApp Instaclustr helps teams run analytics pipelines that query data in place – using open source technologies you already know. Check out the free trial https://console2.instaclustr.com/signup

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o1js: A Developer-Friendly Path to Zero-Knowledge Applications, Florian Kluge #FOSSASIA Summit 2026

o1js: A Developer-Friendly Path to Zero-Knowledge Applications,  Florian Kluge #FOSSASIA Summit 2026

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o1js: A Developer-Friendly Path to Zero-Knowledge Applications,  Florian Kluge #FOSSASIA Summit 2026

Zero-knowledge proofs are one of the most powerful technologies in Web3, enabling privacy, scalability, and verifiable computation. But building zero-knowledge applications can seem complex and intimidating. This talk introduces o1js, an open source TypeScript SDK that makes developing zkApps accessible to everyday developers.

Learn the fundamentals of zero-knowledge applications, how proofs work within modern dApp architectures, and how o1js simplifies the development experience using familiar TypeScript tooling. Through practical examples, you’ll see how to build privacy-preserving smart contracts and Web3 applications without needing deep cryptography expertise.

Whether you’re a Web3 developer, blockchain enthusiast, or software engineer curious about zero-knowledge technology, this session provides a practical introduction to zkApps, zk proofs, Mina Protocol, and modern privacy-focused application development.

FOSSASIA Summit 2026 held in Bangkok, is Asia’s leading Open Source tech conference featuring sessions on #AI, #Cloud, #DevOps, #Open Hardware, #Security, #Web #Mobile Technologies, #Web3, and #Databases. Learn more: http://summit.fossasia.org

Session slide: https://eventyay.com/ev/88882f3e/talk/TWVXX3XVH01R/

#FOSSASIA #FOSSASIASummit #opensource #FOSS

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CNCF On-Demand: Introduction to OpenTelemetry Kotlin

CNCF On-Demand: Introduction to OpenTelemetry Kotlin

Video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] via YouTube
CNCF On-Demand: Introduction to OpenTelemetry Kotlin

In this session, Jamie Lynch (senior software engineer at Embrace and a maintainer in the OpenTelemetry Kotlin SIG) introduces OpenTelemetry Kotlin, a Kotlin Multiplatform implementation of the OpenTelemetry specification. With it, developers can now capture telemetry on various platforms, including JVM, Android, iOS, and JavaScript, using a consistent Kotlin API. The new Kotlin SDK has two modes of operation: compatibility mode, which wraps OpenTelemetry Java, and implementation mode, which uses Kotlin Multiplatform.

Jamie also covers a step-by-step guide on setting up the Kotlin SDK, instrumenting an application with traces and logs, and exporting telemetry data.

The OpenTelemetry Kotlin project is new, and Jamie encourages the CNCF community to contribute, whether through code, feedback, or documentation, to stabilize and enhance the SDK. He shares the priorities for the Kotlin SIG, including stabilizing the logging and tracing APIs and developing instrumentation for widely-used libraries like Ktor.

You can help the OpenTelemetry Kotlin project by:
* Trying the project in your app and giving feedback
* Joining the #otel-kotlin channel in the CNCF slack
* Giving feedback at https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-kotlin/issues
* Writing code or documentation that helps progress the implementation

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MCP vs. FDC3: Why AI Agents Still Need Desktop Interoperability | Rob Moffat

MCP vs. FDC3: Why AI Agents Still Need Desktop Interoperability | Rob Moffat

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MCP vs. FDC3: Why AI Agents Still Need Desktop Interoperability | Rob Moffat

Rob Moffat (Chief Architect at FINOS) maps out the intersection of workspace interoperability, open-source AI deployment, and multi-cloud security frameworks. He compares MCP (Model Context Protocol) with FDC3, tracks the rollout of the Common Cloud Controls (CCC) live validator tool, and reveals how open-source standards prevent multi-vendor lock-in at the desktop and infrastructure layers.

🇬🇧 Join us in London! Dive into FDC3 Con and CCC working sessions on June 23-24, ahead of OSFF London on June 25, 2026: https://hubs.ly/Q041YV9Z0 (Use Code: 26YTOSFFLN20C)

🕒 Timestamps:
0:00 AI Integration Realities: MCP vs. FDC3 Context Paradigms
0:41 Podcast Intro, Key Dates, and Global Showcase Streaming
1:25 Shout-Out to Our Key Sponsors and Foundation Supporters
2:50 The Evolution of FDC3: Moving Past the 2.0 Era into Context Sharing
4:15 Why Request-Response Frameworks Fail at Complex Desktop Interop
5:40 Empowering AI Agents with the FDC3 Semantic Context Matrix
7:22 Introducing FDC3 Con: What to Expect at the Dedicated London Workshop
8:50 Common Cloud Controls (CCC): Standardizing the Infrastructure Defense Layer
10:35 The Hyperscaler Drift: Translating Security Requirements Natively
12:15 Unveiling the CCC Live Validator: Testing Configurations via Code
14:40 Breaking Down Multi-Vendor Lock-In from the Desktop to the Cloud
16:15 Getting Involved: How to Contribute to Open Banking Workspaces
18:10 Logistics and Free Pass Perks: Food, Networking, and Community Benefits

📊 The Problem: Fragmented API Protocols and Multi-Cloud Configuration Drift
Financial technology stacks are heavily fractured at both ends of the architecture. On the desktop, the emergence of Model Context Protocol (MCP) handles basic request-response data queries but misses the rich, stateful orchestration layer needed to tie legacy banking applications together. Meanwhile, at the infrastructure layer, cloud security teams are forced to manually translate uniform security constraints into completely distinct vendor syntaxes, creating systemic compliance drift and massive platform team overhead.

🏗️ The Solution: Unified Context Surfaces and Open Compliance Validators
Rob Moffat details how open-source abstractions are resolving fragmentation at every level of the financial enterprise:

FDC3 as the Agent Interface: Providing an operational workspace framework that allows AI agents to read, interact with, and seamlessly drive multi-application workflows natively without massive API custom coding.

Common Cloud Controls Taxonomy: Building a vendor-agnostic catalog that translates core compliance mandates into predictable, repeatable infrastructure configurations.

The CCC Live Validator: Rolling out code-driven validation tools that automatically check native cloud environments against the master CCC schema to detect configuration drift instantly.

⚙️ Why This Matters for Financial Engineering

Securing the Desktop Supply Chain: Ensuring that as banks add AI assistance to trade execution or client onboarding screens, those tools use pre-vetted semantic security context lines.

Neutral Governance Pipelines: Bypassing proprietary SaaS cloud-security products in favor of open, community-maintained validation infrastructure that scales natively across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

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#FINOS #OSFFLondon #FDC3 #CommonCloudControls #MCP #CloudSecurity #Interoperability #FinTechArchitecture #MultiCloud

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AI is NOT Replacing Knowledge Work: The Human Edge

AI is NOT Replacing Knowledge Work: The Human Edge

Video by Open Data Science and AI Conference via YouTube
AI is NOT Replacing Knowledge Work: The Human Edge

While AI may replace some skills, there are tons more that only a human can do.

Want to learn more about AI in person? Check out ODSC AI East 2026, coming to Boston this April 28th-30th: https://hubs.li/Q041BP6P0

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSCAI

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