Late Night Linux – Episode 317

Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.

Molly’s personal website (mollywhite.net)

[citation needed] newsletter (citationneeded.news)

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia (citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-w…)

Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes video (youtube.com/watch?v=bRRHR1NEOqE)

Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes article (blog.mollywhite.net/become-a-wikipedian-transc…)

Web3 Is Going Great (web3isgoinggreat.com)

Best 2024 Discoveries

Thanks Matt (mattmole.co.uk) for collating our discoveries (mattmole.co.uk/LNL-Discoveries)

Will

Thingino (thingino.com)

github.com/Motion-Project/motion

Spotify Car Thing (m.youtube.com/watch?v=KbcO8K9Huz0)

Graham

Osci-render (osci-render.com)

ink – inkle’s narrative scripting language (inklestudios.com/ink)

An IDE for retro game development 8bitworkshop.com

Synth of the year, github.com/aaronaanderson/Terrain

Felim

Pikchr (pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md)

AITrack (github.com/AIRLegend/aitrack)

Klevernotes (invent.kde.org/office/klevernotes) & a very near codeberg.org/kdwarn/taskfinder

Joe

github.com/z-huang/InnerTune

StezStix Fix? (youtube.com/@StezStixFix)

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Linux Mint 22 (blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4731)

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