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Our favourite smells, whether we use dark mode, and whether there’s any meaning to life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
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Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses.
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Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don’t hate it
Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite – Tuan-Anh Tran
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
No right to relicense this project
Hide from Meta’s spyglasses with this new Android app
Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
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The importance of having and sticking to correct development processes, what can go wrong when you don’t, and how to fix the problems you might end up with.
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We recently talked about backing up Shane’s homelab, but this time it’s the turn of enterprise backups. Risk management, cloud and hybrid environments, planning for realistic disaster scenarios, convincing the finance people what’s required, and more.
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An exciting new cold storage technology seems to be getting closer, Nvidia seemingly wants a slice of the laptop hardware action, why you (and your users) should definitely not use LLMs to “generate” passwords , and whistleblowing when sensitive customer data isn’t being taken seriously.
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ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox
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Data stored in glass could last over 10,000 years, Microsoft says
Nvidia plans a Windows PC SoC, setting up direct competition with Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD
Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design
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We were asked about whistleblowing when sensitive customer data isn’t being taken seriously.
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The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries.
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Intel Hiring More Linux Developers – Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack
Discoveries
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The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with Linux?
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Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab.
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Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads
News/discussion
AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year
Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
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Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.
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Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro
Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches
KDE Korner 4
A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk “the KDE is forcing systemd!” hoax
KDE endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles
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People often like to talk down Electron, but it is really that bad? There may be better ways to use Web technologies to make desktop apps, but isn’t having Linux versions of apps a good thing no matter how they are made?
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