Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:54 Sponsor: TuxCare

02:14 Proton makes worrying move stowards Al

07:30 Ubuntu pushes Core Desktop again

11:16 Firefox 159, 160, and ad campaign

14:02 X.org dev praises the design of Wayland

16:10 SystemD adds Rust support for new modules

17:34 Rocky Linux creator wrote his own kernel using Al

20:27 Bottles dev talks vibe cloned software, Al and other projects

23:59 Fedora 45 delayed again

25:12 Spotify Client for GNOME

26:27 Flathub shuts down their Forums

28:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links

Proton makes worrying move stowards Al

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-is-re-interviewing-staff-about-how-they-use-ai-and-their-jobs-could-depend-on-the-answers

https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

Ubuntu pushes Core Desktop again

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/accelerating-ubuntu-core-desktop/90547

Firefox 159, 160, and ad campaign

https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-firefox-159-improves-linux-wayland-support-adds-new-tab-search/

https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-160-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/come-back-to-firefox/

X.org dev praises the design of Wayland

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jamey-Sharp-Praises-Wayland

SystemD adds Rust support for new modules

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/44324

Rocky Linux creator wrote his own kernel using Al

https://itsfoss.com/news/ginux/

Bottles dev talks vibe cloned software, Al and other projects

https://itsfoss.com/interview/mirko-brombin-raven/

https://useraven.org/

Fedora 45 delayed again

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-linux-45-delayed-again-new-release-date-set-for-november-3/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/

devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/EWDOYT6TOMFY4XPL5MJC2QWCDJBOR6MU/

Spotify Client for GNOME

https://linuxiac.com/meet-riff-an-open-source-spotify-client-built-for-gnome/

Flathub shuts down their Forums

https://docs.flathub.org/blog/discourse-deprecation

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[–] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

Reasons why BSDs especially NetBSD getting more users or first time trying users.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    I use Trisquel, one of the FSF approved distros. So far it seems to have held up well against a lot of the less inviting changes in the Linux space, but it is based on Ubuntu. I do wonder how much longer it will hold up until I end up making the jump to a BSD system. Not the fault of the developers, just that the flow of the base system is too strong to fight against forever.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I didn't watch the video but I hope the Proton CEO had low blood sugar while saying this bs it is egregious.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    damn proton ceo sounds deranged

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago

    There are folks in the occult space that think LLM's are possessed by evil spirits. Yeah, I know, make of that what you will.

    BUT, when I see folks at the top and the way they talk about this stuff, my rational mind kind of wavers and you see people who are just completely and totally absorbed with these things. Maybe them occult folks are on to something. 🙃

    Scary to see, it is like alzheimer's disease in how it eats away at the persons autonomy below but unlike that disease, it still maintains enough cognition for them to be functional in society. For better or worse.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    Ubuntu trying hard to thanos SnapD themselves from existence.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 days ago (11 children)

    Are there any good news even lately. Every day I wake up to a new CVE, the list of things in the post title isn't encouraging either.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

    CVEs mean the issues are getting found and fixed instead of sitting on a three letter agency's arsenal.

    and all the end-user has to do is update.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    There's something interesting, if not encouraging:

    AlpineBSD is an operating system based on the NetBSD kernel with a userspace inspired by Alpine Linux and the objective to use as little AI-generated software as possible.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    This is skeptical. NetBSD is already the most anti-AI BSD out there. They clearly ban AI-generated content (code and email). One exception is that their core team can sign off AI-generated pull requests, but so far they never did.

    AlpineBSD has four tiers of exposure in their package registry so that the user can choose how tainted they want their system to be. This is less ideal if the goal is to not have slop in the system.

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  • The tainted package repos are separated from the clean ones, akin to the way Debian handles non-libre software.

    Honestly, it's a good compromise: the base system is clean, and the rest can be cleaned up over time as alternatives and forks are created.

    I'd also like to point out that it's not strictly a proper BSD, as it often prefers GNU and BusyBox in the userspace.

    What excites me most is the proof of concept here; I'm considering trying to make a Arch-like OS built on the NetBSD kernel.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago*

    There are good news too, but those doesn't NEED to be told to everyone. A CVE is very important to get it out as fast and to many possible. But if something good happens, it doesn't have the urgency and need to reach everyone in short possible time. Plus bad news are for most people more interesting and get you clicks too, just to add to the fuel. And Ai doesn't help with that either.

    Therefore its only natural that we see more bad news than good news.

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  • [+] -26 points 2 days ago (21 children)

    ai company goes ai crazy, wow never saw that coming /s

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  • [–] 38 points 2 days ago (19 children)

    Proton wasn't an Ai company before.

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  • [+] -34 points 2 days ago (18 children)

    lumo

    but please do the denial/semantics thing just as proton fanboys always have

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  • [–] 20 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    Sorry, I missed the "/s" (which stands for sarcasm) in your original reply. I wasn't being toxic in anyway, just wanted clarify that Proton wasn't an Ai company before the recent forced Ai usage, because it looked like you wouldn't know what you talking about.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (14 children)

    proton fanboys

    Lol that's not a fuckin thing in the least

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    i have definitely seen proton fanboys.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    Like 10 years ago? What qualifies? If we're talking anything like apple fanboys I've seen nothing remotely like that

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  • [–] -1 points 2 days ago (9 children)

    You have either been living under a rock for years, or you are deliberately delusional.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    You are either lying or hanging out in weird places but sure let's make it a character flaw of mine

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    Irony is no doubt often lost on you

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (2 children)

    Yes you are intelligent hahah

    Edit: also I am very stupid. You can tell because I think a few people (who acknowledge criticism) recommending proton among a sea of criticism is not fAn BoIs Me SmArT u DuM. On the plus side you are now forever tagged in my client as "super smart"

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