It is so difficult to find modern electronics without telemetry and ads. Smartphones, laptops, TVs, home routers, security cameras, cars, game consoles, e-readers, projectors, 3D printers, fitness trackers, speakers, and even some printers. Why can’t customers be free from this data collection and advertising? It’s not that we don’t care about it. There simply aren’t many alternatives, and the few that do exist are either more expensive or offer fewer features. Seriously, we need a list of products we can buy and use directly without worrying about telemetry or advertising.

The following list is updated at https://lemmy.ml/post/52706206. Please note that this list may contain errors.

• PC: Anything Linux
  • Intel Backdoor
  • AMD Backdoor
• Laptop: Framework Laptop, System76, MNT, Purism Laptops, Starlabs Laptops, TUXEDO Computers, NovaCustom, Slimbook
• Smartphone: Jolla Phone, Purism, NovaCustom Smartphones, Fairphone with /e/OS
  • Brax Phone and its Criticism
  • Google Pixel + GrapheneOS might be a better option
  • Fairphone OS collects information such as the IMEI, serial number, OS version, device model/brand, operator information, and network/cell information...
• Tablets: StarLite by Starlabs
• Smartwatch: Pinetime, Bangle.js, ZSWatch, Pebble
  • GadgerBridge is a free and open source Android application that allows you to pair and manage various gadgets such as smart watches, bands, headphones, and more without the need for the vendor application.
  • HealthyPi Move is not available yet
• Wireless headphones: Fairphone Fairbuds
  • Alternatives: IEMs (wired in-ear monitors) + wireless dongle
    • Kiwi Ears Cadenza, Truthear Gate/Hexa/Pure, Moondrop Chu 2, Fiio BTR11, Snowsky Retro Nano...
• Wireless Speakers: ?
• E-ink devices: ?
  • Open Book Touch is not available yet
  • https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-paper
  • Alternatives: CrossPoint Reader Devices require a manual CrossPoint install after purchase.
• TVs: All modern TVs upload your screen, your conversation with built-in microphones and video recordings with built-in camera 24/7.
• Projectors: Same as TV
• Game Console: Anything Linux
  • MiSTer FPGA is an open-source FPGA-based retro gaming platform, not a single commercial console. There’s no official finished console to buy.
• VR:
  • Steam Frame has telemetry but there is no better option
• Routers: OPNsense
  • Alternatives: GL.iNET collects minimal telemetry, and you can install OpenWrt on it.
  • MikroTik routers does seem to collect telemetry
• SmartHome:
  • Alternatives: Home Assistant + Zigbee / Z-Wave Devices Without WiFi
• Security cameras: ?
  • Reolink cameras collects telemetry but can be used locally.
• Printers: All modern printers put invisible tracking codes in printed pages, which can identify the exact printer and date and time of printing.
  • Openprinter is not available yet.
• 3D printers: Prusa 3D Printer, Sovol
• Cars: All modern car uploads location, speed, information on every device you have connected to your car, your contacts, in-car conversations with built-in microphones and video recordings with built-in camera 24/7
  • It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy by Mozilla
  • Slate is not available yet
• Anything else that doesn’t come with ads or telemetry built in?

Other suggestions:

• https://ryf.fsf.org/products
• https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-personal/

Google's September 2026 Pixel Update Bulletin contains patches beyond what's in that month's regular Android Security Bulletin. According to GrapheneOS, some of those extra patches touch standard Android platform code, the kind that runs on non-Pixel devices, not just Pixel-branded hardware.

None of that platform-level code has reached the regular monthly bulletin or the private preview patches other manufacturers typically draw from to get their own patches ready.

And at this rate, these won't reach non-Pixel OEMs at all until Android 17 QPR2 ships later this year in December.

The project is characterizing this as Google "gatekeeping security patches to the standard Android platform code from Android OEMs." The complaints

GrapheneOS says Android 17 QPR1 shipped new developer APIs that never made it into AOSP. This is something they claim hasn't happened since Android's Honeycomb days.

Google's API diff report backs this up. Comparing Android 17 to QPR1 shows one new package, android.hardware.hid, plus changes across sixteen others, including android.media, android.os, android.provider, android.telecom, and android.view.

GrapheneOS has ported its code to QPR1 before Google even released it, but still doesn't have permission to ship that work. For now, the project is backporting Pixel firmware, kernel drivers, userspace drivers, and HALs from QPR1 onto Android 17 instead.

On top of all that, there's a compliance issue that seems to be recurring.

Google was slow to comply with a GPL source request. GrapheneOS requested sources for a build (CD1A.260905.001.A1) on September 1, and access only came through more than two weeks later.

Why this is worrying

None of these three issues is catastrophic by itself. A three-month patch delay, a paused API rollout, a two-week wait on source code—each is the kind of thing that could pass as a one-off.

Taken together, however, they point to a recurring theme. Google is holding security fixes back from the wider Android ecosystem, withholding new APIs from AOSP for the first time in over a decade, and slow-walking GPL compliance it's required to meet.

Don't even get me started on what they are doing to the Android app ecosystem.

Google is on track to require every Android app developer, whether on the Play Store, F-Droid, or anywhere else, to register with them. Come 2027, that means handing over legal identification and signing key evidence before an app can run on any certified device.

Sideloading an unverified app following this would mean enabling developer settings, waiting through a mandatory 24-hour cooldown, and clicking past several warning screens (classic scare tactics, btw).

GrapheneOS is one of dozens of organizations that signed onto the Keep Android Open campaign opposing this, alongside F-Droid, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Free Software Foundation.

If you ask me, this Big Tech company is doing what's regrettably natural for it, clamping down open access to things so that its competition cannot benefit.

Title.

Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs.

https://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/37.1/changes

Non-Google Android OEMs and AOSP-based projects can ship yearly and QPR2 releases. There are also security backports to those releases. Security preview access is needed to ship patches without months of delay. We've had that since before our Motorola partnership via another OEM.

We already ported our code to Android 17 QPR1 since before it was released on September 15th but don't have permission to release it yet. We're working on backporting Pixel firmware, kernel drivers, userspace drivers and HALs from Android 17 QPR1 to Android 17 for now instead.

Pixel Update Bulletin for September 2026 has additional patches to standard Android platform components used by non-Pixel devices. These patches are relevant to non-Pixel devices but haven't been made available via the September 2026 Android Security Bulletin or preview patches.

Google should not be gatekeeping security patches to the standard Android platform code from Android OEMs but that's what they've started doing. Other OEMs will get these patches in December 2026 via Android 17 QPR2. We can ship them early by reverse engineering the code instead.

It would be interesting to know if Google's legal team is aware they're giving Pixels months of early access to new Android features and bug fixes including certain important security patches. Pixels being given this competitive edge over Google's OEM partners is very dubious.

Google is also once again failing to comply with our GPL source requests for weeks. We requested CD1A.260905.001.A1 sources on September 1st and were only provided access today. The kernel build IDs are the same for 17 QPR1 Beta 9 and 17 QPR1 so we have that already at least.

We could have shipped an Android 17 QPR1 update already since our port was completed. Instead, we have to deal with ongoing pain until Android 17 QPR2 is released in December 2026. This will not be an issue for Motorola since we'll have official firmware and driver code provided.

It will be far easier for us to support upcoming Motorola devices than Pixels. Qualcomm will hopefully expand MTE support beyond the highest end flagship SoC soon so we can expand to more than flagships. Pixel 11 didn't remove it from hardware, only firmware, so that's good news.

Running local LLMs on consumer AMD GPUs often comes with two pain points: configuring backend overrides (HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION) and figuring out whether Vulkan or HIP/ROCm gives better token throughput on your setup.

I created two open-source tools to solve this:

1. ROCmFix Repo: github.com/xanpavle/rocmfix

Zero-dependency Python script runnable via single-line terminal command.

Detects GPU PCI IDs directly (Windows Registry / Linux lspci) to map the correct HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION.

Automatically updates shell profiles (PowerShell, CMD, Bash, Zsh, Fish) and includes an undo command and driver diagnostic runner (rocmfix doctor).

2. InferBench Repo: github.com/xanpavle/inferbench

Automated benchmarking tool for local LLM servers (Ollama, LM Studio).

Rigorously compares Vulkan vs HIP/ROCm performance with warm-up passes, median of N runs, and cold-start VRAM unloading between test cycles.

Both projects are MIT-licensed. Check them out and let me know your benchmarking results!

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/56782117

Supply-chain through social engineering

Open source printer with refillable ink, no bullshit, accept rolls of papers.

Finally an open source printer ! I dealt with so much stupidity with printers. it warm my heart.

I do have too much joy to practice mandatory critical thinking about the release of a new project. Lets talk about it? i am not the only one to be happy about it, i have no info about the price though :/

The latest update to Calibre, the popular open-source ebook manager, features an AI-powered writing game.

Calibre v9.15’s “Create Your Own Adventure” mode, per the release notes, lets you build a fictional world and hand control of it to an AI who will manage it in real time based on your responses. A bit like old text-based RPGs, I guess.

The changelog notes, with obvious understatement, that the feature is “a little different” from Calibre’s usual fare, adding it began as a way for developers to test the tool’s AI backend before developing into “something fun to use”. Calibre Create your own adventure AI feature wizard Setting up your AI world in Calibre v9.15

Like all AI features in Calibre, it’s completely optional as it relies on you use adding an API key for a compatible LLM. To try it, go to Preferences > Toolbars and add the “Create your own Adventure” button to a toolbar. Click this to open a setup wizard.

This isn’t the first puzzling AI feature the Calibre has gained. Last month it added hooks to generate ebook covers using AI prompts and preset styles (a noir Wuthering Heights; a pulp sci-fi Barbara Cartland novel, and so on).

Calibre users are, largely, people who like reading books – most with a long backlog of titles they’re not getting through1. Folks who like using LLMs to generate fiction likely have no need for an ebook manager, and vice versa.

I do wonder if Calibre ought to focus on adding AI features that help, rather than distract: letting users sort ebooks, fix metadata or generate “playlists” of what read next based on a users’ library and tastes.

Generating slop covers, summarising books and, now, generating fiction feels2 at odds with its role. Other changes in Calibre 9.15

This update also ships with improvements that don’t cause a collective head scratch.

The Highlights panel in the ebook viewer lets you select multiple highlights and right-click them to change the style, and if a highlight has notes, you can see that note in a hover tooltip when you mouse over it (this behaviour can be disabled).

More customisations are present. A button can be added to the sidebar to change between saved window sizes, and in the cover grid you can now choose which corner of book emblems appear via Preferences > Look & Feel > Cover grid > Layout.

Plenty of bugs were fixed, including issues with Read Aloud stopping at large images, a spellcheck quirk that overlooked words with a single apostrophe and Calibre not starting for users in Alberta Canada after its recent timezone change. Where to get Calibre

Calibre is free, open-source software for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Download Calibre from the official website – on Linux, Calibre is installed and updated via a command-line script that will download a binary, unpack it to a system folder and create the various .desktop shortcuts needed to find and open it in app menus, etc.

Alternatively, you can get Calibre on Flathub, although it is an unverified build.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/corsaro

corsaro is a script written in Bash that allows the user to search for torrents in the terminal .

The functions and the data are taken from https://piratebay.live/

Opening the script, the user through the main menu, can:

• Search for a torrent

• Search for a torrent in a category

• Search for a torrent in multiple categories

• Check out top 100 torrents in a category

• Browse torrents in a category

• Browse the most recent torrents

• Repeat previous torrent search

• Browse torrent search history and repeat a search using a stored key word

• Configure the parameters of the script

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.sidhant.huesort/

I love hue

starts easy, quickly gets difficult. Don't forget to turn off night light, red shift &c to play

Beware the Computerworld's article 🙄 that's about NATO Office 🙄🙄

Nextcloud wants to close the gap with Microsoft Office with the introduction of a new Euro-Office desktop client for Windows, macOS, and Linux — one of numerous updates to its Nextcloud Hub suite.

Nextcloud has developed a desktop app for its Euro-Office-based productivity applications, filling a gap in the software suite that it pitches as a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office.

Nextcloud, one of the backers of the Euro-Office initiative, integrated the software into its Nextcloud Office suite in June. Until now, it’s been accessible via a web browser or mobile app.

The new desktop client lets users edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations locally, and sync files online for collaborative editing. It will be available for Linux, macOS, and Windows in the coming weeks.

“For organizations and individuals who prefer a traditional desktop experience, this closes one of the last gaps between Euro-Office and Microsoft Office, without handing control of their data to a non-European vendor,” Nextcloud said in a press release.

Rather than a standalone application suite, Euro-Office is designed as an integration component that’s embedded into productivity applications, such as Nextcloud Hub. Euro-Office handles document editing, while other elements such as storage and permissions managed by the wider platform.

The open-source project, which is built on OnlyOffice’s codebase, is backed by Nextcloud as well as Eurostack, Ionos, Office.eu, Proton, XWiki, and others. More than 40 individuals have contributed code to Euro-Office, according to Nextcloud, with around 15% of contributions from outside of the organizations directly involved in project.

Euro-Office supports OOXML file formats for compatibility with Microsoft Office, as well as OpenDocument Format (ODF) files, including ODT, ODS and ODP. The Document Foundation, which is responsible for development of LibreOffice, another open-source productivity suite, has previously questioned the Euro-Office initiative’s preference for Microsoft file formats over ODF.

Organizations using Euro-Office include Germany’s Deutsche Telekom Security and Destek, a Turkish IT consultancy, according to Nextcloud. Other customers in countries such as France, Switzerland, and Philippines are currently evaluating the software.

But it’s still early days for Euro-Office. Open-source software initiatives often face a challenge in gaining traction among a broad enterprise audience, said Martha Bennett, VP and principal analyst at Forrester.

“Euro-Office hasn’t really proven itself at the kind of scale that large enterprises are looking for. That’s of course not unique to Euro-Office; all potential open-source alternatives face the same issue,” she said.

“Obviously, it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation — without somebody taking the leap, it’s not possible to provide that proof.” Nextcloud Hub Summer 26 updates

Among the other announcements with the Summer 26 updates are changes to management of teams within Nextcloud Hub. An updated Nextcloud Teams app, which is now available in the app menu, provides users with an overview of the teams they belong to. Each team features a folder with shared resources such as files and tasks, which Nextcloud notes is similar to Microsoft’s approach with Teams and SharePoint.

Nextcloud now also enables the creation of team-owned files, starting with Nextcloud Collectives and Deck, with additional apps in future. The aim is to ensure that all team members can access a file, even if the creator leaves the team workspace. For admins, there are new tools to view and manage team folders, including configuring storage quotas.

Among the other announcements are updates to Nextcloud Text — a lightweight text editor available across several apps — with version comparisons, footnotes, and references available throughout a document, and inline comments. Nextcloud Tables, a database app, now has relational columns that link data in cells across multiple tables, and the ability to import and export table structure — such as columns, views, and table-based apps — without changing data.

With Nextcloud’s AI Assistant, users can now upload an image and ask questions about it or translate text, while the chatbot will also recall information across conversations.

UI improvements include a revamped search experience that displays results from across Nextcloud Hub files, messages, and events, with filter options such as date range and people. App menu icons have been updated to make apps easier to recognize, and new animations throughout the interface make navigation and interactions “feel more fluid and easier to follow,” said Nextcloud.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/67770797

Hey everyone!

I have been building and maintaining my own infrastructure around self-hosted Linux services for months. Eventually I got annoyed with editing and deploying everything manually and having difficulties sharing what I'm doing with others. So I solved both of these problems with Infrastructure as Code.

Everyone is free to study this repository. Ever wanted to see IaC in practice? Curious how to self-host certain services, automate website deployment from Git to server, make TLS SNI-based router or automate container provisioning? Then this repository is for you.

Want to know how much CPU, RAM or other resources a certain service has? You can see it yourself on my own public dashboard.

This is the first time I share my infrastructure with anyone. I'd be more than happy to discuss it, receive feedback and answer question. In the meantime, I'm writing an article to complement the code with architecture, decisions and thought behind it.

About a decade ago, I tried to index the web via the Dewey Decimal System. I had a site laid out similar to Google, where you could browse sites continuously starting from a given call, but the DDS is proprietary, and those people hate anyone who uses their IP without a license. You can Google everyone they've shutdown -- places that weren't even libraries -- for using anything similar to the DDS. I reached out to the group that manages the DDS, and was taken offline before my project even started.

With all the corporate BS lately, and people looking for alternative options, I thought I'd take a search engine old school, and we'd index like Usenet. Except with an XXX.XXX.XXX format.

Problem is, now I've got to find categories, sub categories, and local categories. Categories for animals, chat rooms, cars, construction, wrestling, etc.

I need a brilliantly created categorical system with a TLD.MLD.LLD (top level subject domain, mid level domain, and local level domain) format.

I was going to let site owners Disney Land it, by letting them create an index.json file in the root of their site, choosing for themselves where they wanted to appear in the index. Problem is, as trends change and systems become more exact, site owners would have to update their index. Which could become cumbersome.

Further, if we divided into academic disciplines, there would be things like gaming and model construction which wouldn't fit into those.

It would help if there were an already established categorization system, so that site owners didn't have choice anxiety. And then, as the site grew, site owners could recategorize themselves with user feedback.

Could you guys suggest a few categorization systems (can't be DDS), either of your own making or other sources?

I'm already looking at Usenet: https://www.livinginternet.com/u/uw_hier.htm

Edit: Current UX: https://imgur.com/a/sURm4s1

• Haven't chosen a name yet.
• Adult is probably going to be dropped, and when the site owner chooses a category, they can put it in the ADT TLD.

Hi all,

We're looking to get off Rackspace's email as the Spam filtering is pure garbage. We're going to avoid the Googles and MS's of the world, and I'm wondering if this community has suggestions for mail providers that run FOSS services (and are public about that via support), and/or are privacy focused. Note: Proton is a no-go due to having to run an IMAP middle-man service.

Thanks!

It's just a proof of concept.

https://concord.polarisocial.xyz/

A complaint-driven, consensus-based forge: development is driven by real complaints, ranked by pairwise Glicko-2 comparisons, decided through quorum consensus, executed on a phase-gated kanban board — and discovered through a first-class search surface (tags, quality, maintenance health, languages).

Governance is collective by default: maintainers exist, but direction is decided by collaborators. See docs/concord-spec.md.

Mozilla today published their Firefox 156.0 release binaries ahead of the official Tuesday announcement.

With Firefox 156 they are promoting their built-in PDF viewer as now starting up to 45% faster. Also on the performance side is improved memory and CPU usage when Firefox is displaying large JPEG images that in turn are scaled down to fit on a web page.

There are also a number of fixes in Firefox 156 like for high-sample-rate FLAC audio in MP4 failing on some websites, fixing various platform-specific issues, and other minor adjustments.

Within the Firefox 156 nightly builds was also enabling Vulkan Video decoding for newer NVIDIA GPUs on recent versions of the NVIDIA driver, but sadly that didn't make it for the Firefox 156 release with it still being gated to nightly builds.

This isn't the most exciting Firefox update for Linux users in recent history, but if wanting this latest update you can grab Firefox 156 right now via ftp.mozilla.org.

i'm searching for an audio player that is suitable for radio productions. the radio format has some talking and some music playing. the playlist of songs is prearranged, so normally no shuffling of music during the radio show.

so ideally the software would have one playlist window and one big button "play next" that plays the next song, and once the song is over it pauses. or maybe (but this is optional) it can be configured to play the next two songs, because two songs are also possible between the talking.

another way to describe it:

• you should be able to create a playlist
• you should be able to set pauses/breakpoints after one or multiple songs

nice to have:

• you can see how long the song still takes
• maybe show audio histogram or spectrogram so you now when you can start talking/have to stop talking

mixxx is quite close, but i can not find a workflow that supports the scenario above.

amarok has a stop after that song feature, but you can only set one of those stop points, i would need multiple, the idea is to setup the playlist before, but during the show, you don't want to prepare the next song or stuff, you just want to press a key, or the big button.

maybe a bash script with mpv calls and read in between would be enough, but it would be nice if a normal person could also use it, and you don't need to edit a bash script to create the playlist. and of course i've only described the happy path above, maybe it would also be nice to jump back in case you made a mistake, which would be hard with the bash script.

thanks for your input!

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/36604349

This appears to be a minor bugfix release for the recent 12.0 major.

You can find more details about and discuss this release on the official forums.

As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup of your metadata/configs before upgrading!

Shotwell 0.33 open-source image viewer and organizer for the GNOME desktop environment has been officially released today after many years of work as the first version ported to GTK4.

The biggest news for the Shotwell 0.33 release is that the application has finally been ported to GTK4 for a more modern UI experience. The GTK4 port should improve compatibility with Wayland, such as drag-and-drop exporting, and overall utilization of modern desktop portals.

Apart from the GTK4 port, Shotwell 0.33 also brings a few enhancements, such as a help overview of the keyboard shortcuts, improved image exporting, reworked printing support, support for Toasts to replace simple dialogs, and support for opening URIs with the viewer.

On top of that, it re-adds all the drag-and-drop-based features, adds system information to the viewer mode, adds a “peek password” icon to Piwigo export, adds debug information to the About dialog, allows pop-up of context menus via keyboard, and improves tab navigation.

Publishing support has been improved as well in this release with various changes, including the ability to show the external authentication wait panel everywhere and replacement of the dedicated authentication helper app with a simple web server on localhost.

There are also lots of bug fixes in Shotwell 0.33 to improve things like toolbar auto-hide in full-screen mode, icons disappearing in slideshow toolbar, setting of desktop backgrounds, send-to when sending too many images, spacing in editing tools dialogs, and adding face names.

Also improved are highlighting of faces, matching of random faces with random probabilities, the slideshow settings panel, rating filter selection by keyboard, system information not showing the OS release, “discard” in viewer not actually discarding changes, and more.

For more details about the changes included in Shotwell 0.33, check out the release announcement. Meanwhile, you should be able to install Shotwell 0.33 from your distribution’s stable software repositories or as a Flatpak app from Flathub. Also, check out the official website for more details about Shotwell.

Very interesting survey. Are desktop database managers still relevant today?

Linux Has an AI Problem (And Also an AI Obsession)

Omarchy isn’t the only distro flirting with AI — here’s the messy, fascinating landscape.

If you’ve been anywhere near Linux news lately, you’ve probably seen two things at once:

1. Distros racing to bake AI into the operating system.
2. Maintainers quitting, orphaning packages, and fighting about AI policies.

Omarchy gets a lot of attention for being “AI-agent-first,” but it is not the only Linux distribution embracing AI. Not even close.

Here’s the current vibe.

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The Distros That Are All In

Ubuntu & Fedora
Both have announced plans to integrate local generative AI support, with a big emphasis on privacy-focused, on-device inference instead of shipping everything to the cloud. Fedora also introduced Fedora Hummingbird, a container-based distribution designed for AI agent experimentation.

Red Hat Desktop
This enterprise-focused workstation is aimed at secure, production-style AI development, built on Podman Desktop and Red Hat’s hardened images and trusted libraries.

Shadowfetch Linux
This one is built around “Mission Control.” You give an AI agent a task, and it has to get your approval before any changes are locked in. It also includes an “Ice” mode that works entirely offline and a “Firebreak” feature that limits an agent’s access to only the files it needs.

Gnoppix AI Linux
Gnoppix keeps AI local and air-gapped by default, running a Mistral 7B model with no network access. Privacy-focused, no telemetry.

AI-Native Linux (AIOS)
This is an open specification for an AI-native distribution, where the core distinguishing feature is a “cognitive core” and a “policy kernel” built on top of the standard Linux base. It treats the OS as a trusted execution substrate for AI-driven actions.

openKylin
Version 3.0 brings deep AI integration, including a native AI agent called KylinBot, support for multiple mainstream AI agents, and a desktop environment designed for multimodal interaction.

ZentoraOS
Based on Linux Mint, this distro includes built-in AI capabilities out of the box using Ollama models. It’s aimed at users transitioning from Windows who want offline AI features.

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The Big Split: Debian vs. Void Linux

This is where things get spicy.

Debian: “We Neither Endorse Nor Prohibit”

In August 2026, Debian reportedly voted to allow AI-generated code in its contributions. The project’s stance was essentially: we don’t endorse these tools, and we don’t prohibit them — but contributors take full responsibility for the output.

That decision led to at least one contributor quitting in protest.

Void Linux: “Human-Made Only”

Then you have Void Linux, which went the opposite direction.

A Void maintainer reportedly orphaned 113 packages — including major ones like Kubernetes — after being reminded of Void’s policy that all contributions must be human-made. The maintainer had admitted to using AI tools for research, which violated the project’s strict guidelines. The result was a mass abandonment of packages.

Two distros. Two completely opposite reactions. Same underlying question.

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Why This Matters

This isn’t just about whether your terminal can autocomplete a shell command.

It’s about:

• Governance — who decides what counts as a contribution?
• Trust — can you trust code you didn’t see a human write?
• Attribution — where does the credit go?
• Security — AI-generated code can be wrong in very confident ways.
• Labor — are we replacing maintainers or helping them?

Linux has always been a community project. AI is forcing that community to define its boundaries in real time.

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So… Is Omarchy Alone?

No. Not even slightly.

Some distros want AI as a copilot.
Some want AI as the core.
Some want AI banned entirely.

The real question isn’t “Will Linux embrace AI?”

It’s “Which Linux, and on whose terms?”

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Tags:
linux, ai, open source, debian, voidlinux, omarchy, fedora, ubuntu , redhat, tech, linux community, ai policy, generative ai

It adds copy and quote buttons to each tweet on nitter instances (eg: xcancel).

Each button copies the tweet and formats it into commonmark markdown as used by Lemmy. Copy includes links to any attached videos or images.

Copy Demonstration

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The formatted markdown is then copied to your clipboard.

You can install it using a userscript browser extension such as Firemonkey or violentmonkey.

The user script is available at Greasyfork.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/595501-xtractor

To add additonal nitter instances simply add the following line;

// @match *://nitter.net/*

Except with the url of the instance of your choice.