Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more.



News

France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away

AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing

UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype

Mythos and Cybersecurity

A few notes about the massive hype surrounding Claude Mythos

Breathless parroting of Anthropic’s bullshit from the graun

NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist



KDE Korner

KDE at 30

Tighter KDE Connect Integration

KDE Gear 26.04

















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We get into dependency management. The pros and cons of tools like Dependabot, the varying approaches with different languages and standard library sizes, the times when pinning dependencies makes sense, and more.



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Aaron and Shane share some thoughts about attending Kubecon, including the push for European sovereign cloud, how platform engineering might mitigate some of the problems AI is causing, the sense that Kubernetes is mature and boring in a good way now, and our concerns about scope creep.



Announcing the AI Gateway Working Group













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Why putting data center satellites in orbit is a terrible idea, Google might show people a made-up version of your website, and ZFS on really old Dell servers.



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News/discussion

Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right? 11 mins edited

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website



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We were asked about ZFS on really old Dell servers.















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Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers.



News/discussion

A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

TDF ejects its core developers

Let’s put an end to the speculation

Memo: Red Hat Global Engineering plans to lean in to AI

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security

Interesting GIMP numbers



















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