The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and an update on Joe’s KDE experiment.

News/discussion

Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers

FSF calls Anubis malware

Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org

Two weeks of wayback

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

Discoveries

smegcli

Flagsmith

cheatsheets

privacy-redirect

CPU-X

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Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more.

News

Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones

DOGWALK Official Release

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

SUSE to roll out Sovereign Premium Support

Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

KDE Korner

Plasma Keyboard

This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles

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Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites.

Discoveries

Home Assistant Developer Environment

xLights

QLC+

Telegram snap issue

faff

PrivacyPlease

Jacob Collier

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1Password Extended Access Management

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Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more.

News

Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – potentially bad news for Steam gamers

Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit

Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit

Proposal to drop 32-bit in Fedora 44 withdrawn

Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: “We’ll Be Parting Ways”

Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy

A bug caused some major websites to break and this guy has quite a take on it

maintenance-terms

I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for having worked so hard to convince the world that the City of Munich failed with their Linux migration

Accepting donations on OpenCollective – FlightGear

Donate Less

Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI

You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling

Plasma 6.4 is much juicier than I remembered

This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore

Porkbun.com

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Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time.

Discoveries

Strudel

rsyncy

Spring

IceCream

DNS4EU

News/discussion

Two city governments in Denmark are moving away from Microsoft amid Trump and US Big Tech concerns

‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft

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X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more.

News

Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions

An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal

Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver

The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts

Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in WordPress spat

Android 16 is here, but the cool stuff is coming later

AOSP isn’t dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers

Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues

apple/container

Plasma 6.4 is nearly out!

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Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s new audio workstation is released for Linux.

News

Redis is now available under the the OSI-approved AGPLv3 open source license.

Supercharging Ubuntu Releases: Monthly Snapshots & Automation

Canonical + thanks.dev = giving back to open source developers

Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME

GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS

The GNOME Foundation has a new executive director

Google teases an Android desktop mode, made with Samsung’s help

After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More

Discoveries

Frigate 0.16 Beta 3

Auto dark mode in Plasma

Fender Studio

Porkbun.com

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Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functionality until they made a public stink about it, WSL is now open source, there’s a new open source command-line text editor in Windows, and more.

News

Investing in what moves the internet forward

Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub

Firefox Security Response to pwn2own 2025

When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why

Servo Browser Engine Now Rendering Gmail & Google Chat, Decides Against AI Contributions

Valve’s huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds

SteamOS 3.7.8: Go Country – Steam News

SteamOS

Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain.

Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux

Edit is now open source – Windows Command Line

Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories

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Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more documentation tools, and moving to a new Mastodon instance.

Discoveries

entii-for-workcubes

Learn C, Coding for Kids

Isonzo

Material for MkDocs

markata

mdq

Moving to a new Mastodon instance is very easy

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It’s the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least some positive things about the thing we land on. (It makes sense once we start).

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