Podcast:Late Night Linux Published On: Tue Jan 18 2022 Description: A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more. News JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won’t ante up New year, new Signal CEO Mozilla backtracks on crypto donations Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web Dev of namesake app donates proceeds to charity Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days Canon forced to ship ink cartridges without chips KDE Korner Plasma 5.24 Beta out KVer Graphics & Dev Videos Gnome App ID in KDE Task Manager KDE PIM Updates and 4k LOC from Dolphin refactored out Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here