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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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We were asked about ZFS and VMs in the homelab.
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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.
News
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
Automox Turnkey Results
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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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Sean tells us about a recent catastrophe in his Kubernetes homelab (that’s really home prod). What went wrong, how did he fix it, and how can he avoid it happening again?
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Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops.
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OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability
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We were asked about how we set up disk encryption on laptops.
A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption – Ars Technica
Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation
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The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion
Linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
AI controls are coming to Firefox
Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source
I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
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With the price of RAM and storage through the roof, what are we going to do when it comes to supporting people who come to us for IT advice?
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Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a laptop properly.
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ZFS vs Btrfs: Architecture, Features, and Stability
News/discussion
Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fas
Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys
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We were asked about backing up a laptop properly.
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The best museums we’ve been to, the people we admire, and our weirdest train journeys. With Gary from Linux After Dark.
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