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Issue 296 (December 2022) - Protect your browser privacy!

Using Firefox, a bevvy of clever plugins and discovering the tricks and techniques used to track you we beat the trackers, stop the snoopers and stay safe online! We fire up the latest Tor 12 for complete online safety and explore Google Manifest v3.

PLUS: explore Ubuntu 22.10, terminal screencasting, advanced desktop search, automate installs with Ansible, safely delete and recover files, vector drawing packages, the future of 3D printing and loads more!

 Features

Protect your privacy

(David Rutland)
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3D printing evolution

(Alastair Jennings)
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Ubuntu Kinetic Kudu

(Nick Peers)
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Answers

Customising your KDE wallpaper, retaining a custom application desktop icon, creating a WiFi access code for guests, desktop files explained and how important is virus protection for virtual machines. (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

 Coverdisc

Hotpicks

Cozy, Etherpad-Lite, Macchina, OCRmyPDF, KOReader, PDF Arranger, Editly, OpenTTD, Picmi and Albert, Variety (Mayank Sharma)
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 Tutorials

Terminal: Screencasting

(Shashank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Cerebro - desktop search

(Nick Peers)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Kolibrios

(Michael Reed)
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Ansible - automate systems

(Matt Holder)
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Recover and delete files

(Mike Bedford)
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Publii - static websites

(Linux Format)
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Pi toi Arduino control

(Les Pounder)
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Model-train speed monitor

(Sean Conway)
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 Coding Academy

eBPF to trace disk access

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Retro plaformers

(Andrew Smith)
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Code a python catalog app

(Matt Holder)
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 Reviews

Intel Arc 750

(Linux Format)
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Ubuntu 22.10

(Michael Reed)
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The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow

(Linux Format)
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Crux

(Michael Reed)
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Raspberry Pi OS 09.2022

(Les Pounder)
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Pimoroni Tufty 2040

(Les Pounder)
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Vector drawing apps

Inkscape 1.2.1 Krita 5.1.1 Ipe 7.2.26 Xfig 3.2.8a LibreOffice Draw 7.3.6 (Michael Reed)
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 More

News: News

Microsoft has been up to its old tricks with the open source and Copilot. Google is up to its old tricks with Manifest v3 and software patents have been up to their old tricks. (Linux Format)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Introduced by Les Pounder who ponders the great Pi shortage. DeepMind teaches AI and we try for gender balance. (Les Pounder)
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