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How the accidental chicken farmer pulled it together and built the ultimate chicken fort. Plus, the conclusion to the AI trial of the year. 

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• Musk has lost his case against OpenAI in the most anti-climactic way possible. Less than 2 hours of jury deliberation despite 3 weeks of testimony and hundreds of documents. The jury didn't weigh in on whether Musk was right or wrong, they just said he fa
• One word statement from Elon Musk's lawyer Marc Toberoff to reporters walking out of the courtroom: "Appeal."
• the AI trial of the century ending with procedural whimper rather a bang; the jury agreed that Musk was too late but never weighed in on the questions of whether OpenAI did was legitimate.
• Sawyer Merritt: Marc Toberoff on today's verdict: "I have a one-word reaction: Appeal. This war is not over. We firmly believe what happened with OpenAI was wrong on a very basic level that you can't raise millions of dollars in a publicly subsidized charity, and when it suits you, just turn into a for-profit operation where the officers and directors of the charity enrich themselves to the tune of billions..."
• I'm seeing lots of confusion about why the statute of limitations issue came to a trial at all. Musk and OpenAI disagreed about when Musk could have reasonably become convinced that OpenAI was "stealing a charity," as he alleges.

• Call Me Medley By: Kurtisdrums

Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat's AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat.

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• Enabling long-term stability: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium
• Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system — Fedora Hummingbird primarily utilizes an image-based workflow, similar to containers, but also runs in virtual machines and even on bare metal. If you’ve been following Project Hummingbird‘s work on container images, or Project Bluefin’s work on the operating system, you already know the model. Fedora Hummingbird applies this model all the way down to the host OS.
• Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system - Fedora Discussion
• After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops — Now, Fedora has voted on an initiative called Fedora AI Developer Desktop that will spawn AI-flavored Fedora Atomic Desktops.
• Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative — After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the Fedora Council had voted to approve the initiative; however, a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board.
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• Pick: BudsLink — BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds.
• BudsLink on Flathub
• Pick: yamlcast — YAMLCast turns a YAML description of a terminal screencast into an animated GIF.
• Pick: lightroom-cc-on-linux — Reproducible recipe for running Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine 11.8 staging. Researched and verified end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7.

eBay dodged a bullet this week, and we dig into the wild story of GameStop’s attempted hostile takeover. Plus, we start plotting summer plans and do a quick check-in on the Musk v. Altman trial.

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• This is the End of Week Two of Musk v Altman Trial
• Shivon Zilis, Mother of Musk's Children, Testifies in OpenAI Trial
• OpenAI Trial Enters Final Week
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies in OpenAI Trial
• Sam Altman Takes the Stand in Trial Against Elon Musk
• eBay History
• eBay to Acquire PayPal
• eBay 2016 Annual Report
• eBay 2021 Annual Report
• eBay 2025 SEC Filing
• GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion
• GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen on $56B eBay Offer
• GameStop Makes $56 Billion Bid for eBay
• eBay Spurns GameStop’s Offer as Not Credible or Attractive
• Land with a Box on It
• Triangle House
• What Does a $20M Home Look Like?

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• Lord Have Mercy by Right Said Fred

Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.

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• Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.
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• NomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.
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• Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation
• Pick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.
• Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.
• Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.
• AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD
• FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve

The Musk v. Altman trial is getting messy fast — and nobody’s walking away clean. Musk wants the story to be a stolen mission. OpenAI wants it framed as a sore-loser lawsuit from a rival.

Plus, Chris finds his perfect Starter Bunker, and Ang ruminates on the eternal problem of photo management.

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• Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models | The Verge
• Joe Lonsdale on AI regulation: National review should be as limited and targeted as possible - YouTube
• Musk wanted to settle with OpenAI just days before their courtroom showdown, new filing says - YouTube
• Every day new evidence is added to the Musk v Altman trial - YouTube
• Starter Bunker
• A Tiny House for Chris

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• Temptation By: The Paisley Daze

We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge!

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• Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root." — Theori
• Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root - Xint — "A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017." — Xint
• Linux Kernel Bug Explained - Jorijn — "CopyFail is more portable. One script, every distro, no offsets. Dirty Pipe needed kernel ≥ 5.8; Copy Fail covers 2017–2026." — Jorijn"Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and default seccomp do NOT block the syscall used." — Jorijn
• Ars: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars Technica
• Sysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — Sysdig
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• The Register: Crypto Flaw
• Kernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel Commit
• Buggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017)
• DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internals
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• PSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan Wildeboer
• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released — "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sets the example for providing best-in-class resilience while simultaneously embracing innovation and the advancement of open source." — Jon Seager, VP Ubuntu Engineering
• The Future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager — "Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values." — Jon Seager
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• Ubuntu AI Features Throughout 2026 - Phoronix — "Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful — Microsoft should take note." — ZDNet
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• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #942
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• 9to5Linux: Opt-In LLM Tools
• uutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
• LINUX Unplugged 636: Engineering the Future
• LiveCD fails to start X session on QEMU · Issue #354 · ghostbsd/issues
• Monty's “rescue” drive NixOS config
• Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report
• Pick: NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
• Pick: Defuse — Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally.
• Defuse on Flathub

With a full LinuxFest Northwest crew is still in the mix, we dig into our favorite kind of drama, big tech email leaks. Then, Chris explains why he’s skipping conference talks this year.

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• 1988 - Olive Garden Commercial - YouTube
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• Elon Musk And Sam Altman Go To Court — Everything You Need To Know - YouTube
• Musk v. Altman: Jury selected in trial that could alter AI's future - YouTube

• Mr. Videoman By: Prosperous Soul

With a full LinuxFest Northwest crew is still in the mix, we dig into our favorite kind of drama, big tech email leaks. Then, Chris explains why he’s skipping conference talks this year.

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• Musk v. Altman: Jury selected in trial that could alter AI's future - YouTube
• Internal Tech Emails on X: "Satya Nadella texts Sam Altman January 14, 2023

• Mr. Videoman By: Prosperous Soul

After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event.

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• Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain
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• Pick: Updo — Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications.
• Pick: Pake — 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.

Chris is one month into chicken dad life, almost nothing has gone as planned, and we react to Tim Cook stepping down.

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• Cool Birds
• Bird Setup in the RV
• Signs of Coccidiosis
• We Found Him: An Interview with Saxsquatch - Riot Fest
• Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO - YouTube
• Apple's Tim Cook Shares Community Letter After Announcing Plans to Step Down as CEO - MacRumors
• John Ternus to Succeed Tim Cook as Apple CEO, Faces AI and Product Challenges - Bloomberg

• Cold Hearted By: snju