2 years ago Sonny Piers was out of nowhere removed from the GNOME Foundation board and banned from the GNOME Foundation, this demolished trust in the organization and now Sonny has decided for the first time to publicly speak on the matter.

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Sonny Piers Ban: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/updates-to-the-gnome-foundation-board-of-directors-roster/22201
Sonny Piers Blog: https://blog.sonny.re/retrospective-as-gnome-director
Steven Deobald Post: https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2026/05/31/stay-and-fight/
Robert McQueen Candidacy: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/2026-board-candidate-robert-mcqueen/35308
GNOME Fund: https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/gnome
KDE Fund: https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/kde
Tobias Bernard Post: https://mastodon.social/@tbernard/113792715412102767
Holly Leaves Foundation: https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2024/07/12/gnome-foundation-announces-transition-of-executive-director/
Steven Leaves Foundation: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/08/29/thanks-and-farewell-to-steven-deobald/

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LTS Linux distros are something that a lot of people use but at the same time a lot of people completely misunderstand what there function actually is.

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A few years back I put out a video on some really dumb software licenses but that wasn't all that's out there so lets talk about some more.

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Bad Licenses: https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses
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For a long time now a basic feature of OBS has been completely broken under Wayland and finally one more piece is in place to make it finally happen.

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CEF Issue: https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/2804
Fix Issue OBS: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/9369
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Recently Flathub added a new LLM policy basically blocking all AI apps, except not all at all because there's a massive exception for existing apps and anything deemed "well maintained". For good reason because a lot of what's already on Flathub has AI code in it.

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Gnome Extension Policy: https://gjs.guide/extensions/review-guidelines/review-guidelines.html#extensions-must-not-be-ai-generated
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Slop Submissions: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+label%3A%22AI+Slop%22
New AI Policy: https://github.com/flathub-infra/documentation/commit/992f57b30de98ddbd5e80959e9672998c83c8c97
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Canonical has been diving more and more into the Flutter toolkit and now they've decided to take over maintenance responsibility from Google but I wonder if that's all there is to it.

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There's been a situation going on in Rsync following the creator and now back as lead maintainer Tridge introducing Claude into the code base and a bunch of new issues being discovered, some of which happen to be regressions but it turns out that a happened to be older problems and the Github exploded.

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Issue 896: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/896
Issue 897: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/897
Issue 905: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/905
Issue 910: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/910
Issue 915: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/915
Issue 900: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/900
Issue 922: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/922
Issue 927: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/927
Issue 988: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/899
Mastodon Post: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390
Github Issue: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705
Related Github Issue: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/934
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Excalidraw is a popular infinite whiteboard application, even though it is open source it's sadly a web based tool and Drawy aims to replicate the core functionality but with C++ and qt

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Between GNOME 2 and 3 were the first major defining changes the environment and at the time this lead to the creation of something called GNOME Fallback, but did you know it was still being worked on today as GNOME Flashback

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It's time for the next part of the LTT Linux challenge, this time the goal is to complete a sequence of tasks and to my surprise it mostly just worked without any serious hitches at least caused by the presenters.

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