Direct link to CCC video of talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-agent-ai-spy

There. That’s out of the way. I recently installed Linux on my main desktop computer and work laptop, overwriting the Windows partition completely. Essentially, I deleted the primary operating system from the two computers I use the most, day in and day out, instead trusting all of my personal and work computing needs to the Open Source community. This has been a growing trend, and I hopped on the bandwagon, but for good reasons. Some of those reasons might pertain to you and convince you to finally make the jump as well. Here’s my experience.

Link to the comic here

God Damn it MS

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In StatCounter’s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, “unknown” accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unlikely.

Source: https://xcancel.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/2011122305439596723

After dying a painful death at the hand of the iPhone’s revolutionary capacitive touchscreen, the QWERTY smartphone is rising up from the graveyard this year.

DS9 s7e24 “The Dogs of War”

I wouldn’t normally post Times articles but they seem to be the first to run this bit of rare good news.

The Flock saga continues.

See drawings in the comments of the linked post.

Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games on Linux, a major part of Valve’s Proton and now Wine 11 is finally here.

A new bill has been proposed in the US Senate that would permit artificial intelligence (AI) data center firms to bypass federal electricity regulations by building their own energy infrastructure.

Alexa users who are Amazon Prime members are reportedly being automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/comicstrips/p/379406/i-ve-been-tempted

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53211662

Reddit’s API is effectively dead for archival. Third-party apps are gone. Reddit has threatened to cut off access to the Pushshift dataset multiple times. But 3.28TB of Reddit history exists as a torrent right now, and I built a tool to turn it into something you can browse on your own hardware.

Currently, only lobbyists working more than 28 hours a month are required to register with the commissioner of the Commissioner of Lobbying.

In the past few months the MetaBrainz team has been fighting a battle against unscrupulous AI companies ignoring common courtesies (such as robots.txt) and scraping the Internet in order to build up their AI models. Rather than downloading our dataset in one complete download, they insist on loading all of MusicBrainz one page at a time. This of course would take hundreds of years to complete and is utterly pointless. In doing so, they are overloading our servers and preventing legitimate users from accessing our site.

It’s a Pennsylvania Dutch recipe.

“General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while …”

The Wine Project, a compatibility layer that enables Linux and macOS users to run Windows applications, has officially released version 11.0. The headline change is the completion of the new WoW64 architecture, which is now fully supported and considered feature-complete.

ReactOS began 2026 with another “major step” towards Windows NT 6 compatibility with updating its MSVCRT implementation from Wine for the Microsoft C Runtime DLL library. That improved support for a number of Windows applications running on this open-source OS. ReactOS is taking another step-forward now with addressing a very annoying usability issue where up until now you may need to refresh the file manager for seeing folder changes.

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