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The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with.
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Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting less rubbish but we are skeptical, vehicles with alcohol interlocks won’t start because the manufacturer’s server is down, and whether you should virtualise a router or a NAS.
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Five‑Year Storage Design with OpenZFS: Media Refresh, Rebalancing, and Hardware Independence
News/discussion
Our commitment to Windows quality
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates
Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US
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Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.
Discoveries
AI in FOSS
systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added
New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI
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We decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest.
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The US government is drumming up fear about foreign routers, a pretty serious supply chain attack might be state-sponsored, and the safety of filesystems inside VMs.
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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage
News/discussion
US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America
National Security Determination on the Threat Posed by Routers Produced by Foreign Countries (pdf)
1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
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Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.
News
Just over a month until OggCamp!
Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety
450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters
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In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.
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Gary is concerned that he might have dug himself into a hole of on-prem vendor lock-in, despite using open source software. Plus why you should have PiKVM type device in your toolkit.
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Why passkeys aren’t the right solution to everything, Allan tells us why he loves his new Lithium Iron Phosphate UPS, Btrfs vs ZFS on root, and restricting Internet access for IoT devices on your network.
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Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence
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Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
Allan’s new Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 Portable Power Station
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Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more.
News/discussion
LibreOffice Online: a fresh start
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic
LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control
Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability
Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C
You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB
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