Niccolò Ve

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November 09Can creators finally switch to Linux?
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Links:
The September releases
Audacity 4: https://www.audacityteam.org/audacity-4/
Audacity 4.0.0 notes: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0
DaVinci Resolve 21.1 (Phoronix): https://www.phoronix.com/news/DaVinci-Resolve-21.1
Resolve Studio 21.1 readme (Blackmagic): https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/content/readme/baf7c071c0524fbf8ccc961925c9f443
GIMP 3.2.6: https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/09/10/gimp-3-2-6-released/
Krita 5.3.4: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.4-released/
Kdenlive 26.08.0: https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.0/
Affinity 3.3 (CG Channel): https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/09/canva-releases-affinity-3-3/
From LibreNews
How I do articles and videos: https://thelibre.news/how-i-do-articles-and-videos/
Announcing Plasma Studio: https://thelibre.news/announcing-plasma-studio/
My childhood dream laptop: https://thelibre.news/my-childhood-dream-laptop/
The Kdenlive fundraiser: https://thelibre.news/the-kdenlive-fundraiser/
Color, HDR, audio and tablets
12 years of Wayland color management (Collabora): https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/12-years-of-incubating-wayland-color-management.html
Plasma 6.4 (HDR calibration): https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/
Plasma 6.7 (ICC + HDR): https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/
GNOME 48 (HDR): https://release.gnome.org/48/
Krita 5.3/6.0 notes: https://krita.org/en/release-notes/krita-5-3-release-notes/
Blender 5.0 color management: https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0/color_management/
Shotcut 26.6 (HDR): https://www.shotcut.org/blog/new-release-26.6.25/
PipeWire: https://pipewire.org/
Ardour: https://ardour.org/
REAPER downloads: https://www.reaper.fm/download.php
Bitwig Studio on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/com.bitwig.BitwigStudio
Plasma 6.3 (tablets): https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/
Kernel HID-BPF tablet fixes: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/hid/bpf/progs
The apps
Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.0-released/
GIMP 3.0: https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
GIMP 3.2: https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/03/14/gimp-3-2-released/
GIMP roadmap: https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/
State of Kdenlive 2026: https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/
Graphite: https://graphite.rs/
Glaxnimate: https://glaxnimate.org/
Pros, Adobe and Affinity
DaVinci Resolve on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve
Blender: https://www.blender.org/
Linux in VFX (VFX Reference Platform): https://vfxplatform.com/linux/
Houdini requirements (SideFX): https://www.sidefx.com/Support/system-requirements/
Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, Ableton Live (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Premiere_Pro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Lightroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_InDesign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableton_Live
Plasma 6.8: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.0/
Photoshop installer on patched Wine (Phoronix): https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adobe-Photoshop-2025-Wine-Patch
Photoshop patches in upstream Wine (Phoronix): https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adobe-Photoshop-Upstream-Wine
Canva makes Affinity free (Dataconomy): https://dataconomy.com/2025/10/31/canva-merges-affinitys-apps-into-one-free-all-in-one-creative-suite
Affinity for Linux (TechCentral): https://techcentral.co.za/affinity-for-linux-canvas-next-big-move-could-reshape-the-desktop-software-market/274861/
ArtCraft (PetaPixel): https://petapixel.com/2026/10/07/someone-rebuilt-free-open-source-versions-of-photoshop-premiere-and-lightroom-using-ai/
ArtCraft (Phoronix): https://www.phoronix.com/news/Photocraft-Filmcraft-AI
Donate
Krita: https://krita.org/en/donations/
Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org/fund/
GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/donating/
Video excerpts
Krita 5.3/6.0 trailer (Krita): https://cdn.kde.org/krita/marketing/videos/krita-53-60-trailer.mp4
Kdenlive 26.08 demo (Kdenlive): https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.0/
Chapters:
0:00 September was a busy month for creative apps
1:10 Why was this so hard?
2:04 What has changed under the hood
5:27 So what about the applications?
9:02 Let's talk about DaVinci Resolve
10:40 Is Linux ready for professionals?
13:10 So can you switch?
14:35 Outtakes
17 min
November 07 Quickshell, explained by a KDE developer
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Links:
Quickshell: https://quickshell.org/
Quickshell, About: https://quickshell.org/about/
Quickshell guide, Introduction (the clock bar, live reload): https://quickshell.org/docs/v0.3.2/guide/introduction/
Quickshell changelog: https://quickshell.org/changelog/
Quickshell FAQ (breaking changes): https://quickshell.org/docs/v0.3.2/guide/faq/
Quickshell's showcase videos (excerpts shown in this video: the live-reload demo, end-4's illogical-impulse, Soramane's Caelestia): https://quickshell.org/
Quickshell on GitHub: https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell
Quickshell BUILD.md (private Qt APIs): https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell/blob/master/BUILD.md
Quickshell CONTRIBUTING.md (AI agents): https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
Quickshell's first layer-shell commit (layer-shell-qt-nokde): https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell/commit/d7610078
Quickshell's own layer-shell, 20 days later: https://github.com/quickshell-mirror/quickshell/commit/4a829498
outfoxxed, "Quickshell 0.1 has been released": https://outfoxxed.me/blog/quickshell-0-1
LWN, "A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit": https://lwn.net/Articles/1083090/
Wayland Explorer, wlr-layer-shell: https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1
Wayland Explorer, ext-session-lock: https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-session-lock-v1
KDE layer-shell-qt (private Qt header): https://github.com/KDE/layer-shell-qt/blob/master/src/qwaylandlayershellintegration_p.h
Omacom Foundation hires outfoxxed (9 Sep 2026): https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/omacom-foundation-hires-outfoxxed/
Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor (24 Aug 2026): https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-to-be-premier-quickshell-sponsor/
Omarchy Quattro crosses 200,000 ISO downloads: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/quattro-crosses-200000-iso-downloads/
Omarchy 4.0.0 release notes: https://github.com/omacom/omarchy/releases/tag/v4.0.0
Omarchy manual, shell plugins: https://github.com/omacom/omarchy/blob/quattro/manual/32-shell-plugins.md
end-4's illogical-impulse: https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland
Caelestia: https://github.com/caelestia-dots/shell
DankMaterialShell (now Dux Shell): https://github.com/duxlabs-dev/dux-shell
Noctalia v5 announcement: https://noctalia.dev/blog/announcing-noctalia-v5
Noctalia moves to its noctalia-qs fork (issue #2016): https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia/issues/2016
caelestia-kde: https://github.com/ladybug-me/caelestia-kde
caelestia-kde, KWin port architecture: https://github.com/ladybug-me/caelestia-kde/blob/main/docs/architecture/kwin_port_architecture.md
KOS (NextKde): https://github.com/NextKde/NextKde
r/unixporn: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
GitHub search, Quickshell repositories by stars: https://github.com/search?q=quickshell&type=repositories&s=stars&o=desc
Hyprland: https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland
Sway: https://swaywm.org/
niri: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri
Qt documentation, Getting started with Qt Quick applications: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qmlapplications.html
KDE Developer, Plasma widget setup: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/widget/setup/
KDE Developer, testing Plasma widgets: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/widget/testing/
KDE Developer, Plasma Style tutorial: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/theme/
KDE Plasma 6.8 announcement (Union): https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.0/
KDE Store, Plasma 6 extensions: https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=705
David Edmundson, "Trusting content on the KDE Store": https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/kde-store-content/
end-4's dependency list (Kirigami): https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland/blob/main/sdata/deps-info.md
GNOME: https://www.gnome.org/
My article on Omarchy and the Omacom Foundation: https://thelibre.news/omarchy-omacom-foundation-linux-future/
My article on COSMIC (the smart mirror): https://thelibre.news/is-cosmic-de-mogging-kde-plasma/
My article on the KDE Store theme that deleted a home folder: https://thelibre.news/the-story-behind-the-xz-backdoor-and-kde-unsafe-themes/
Announcing Plasma Studio: https://thelibre.news/announcing-plasma-studio/
Music, "Make Funk" by HoliznaCC0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/bassic/make-funk/
Chapters:
0:00 Omarchy hired Quickshell's developer
0:53 What is a shell?
2:10 What is Quickshell?
4:09 From rices to a distribution
7:03 The downsides
11:06 Why do I care?
14:35 Outtakes
16 min
November 05 Is GNOME finally getting its own stable distro?
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Links:
Adrian Vovk, "Introducing GNOME OS Preview" (16 Oct 2026): https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/10/16/gnome-os-preview/
GNOME OS download page: https://os.gnome.org/
Adrian Vovk, "GNOME OS Hackfest @ FOSDEM 2026" (18 Feb 2026): https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/02/18/gnome-os-hackfest-fosdem-2026/
Adrian Vovk, "A Desktop for All" (25 Oct 2024): https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-all/
carbonOS: https://carbon.sh/
Harald Sitter, "An Operating System of Our Own" (Akademy 2024): https://conf.kde.org/event/6/contributions/202/
Phoronix, "GNOME OS Preview Announced In Road Toward A Stable Release" (screenshot): https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-Preview
systemd-homed, Home Directories: https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/
systemd-homed.service man page: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-homed.service.html
GNOME Discourse, "GNOME OS Stable" (Dec 2025, the GNOME 49 image and Emmanuele Bassi's reply): https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-os-stable/32820
GNOME Discourse, "Gnome OS Stable version for daily use?" (Mar 2026, Valentin David's reply): https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-os-stable-version-for-daily-use/34347
GNOME release calendar: https://release.gnome.org/calendar/
Tobias Bernard, "Summer of GNOME OS" (1 Jun 2025): https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/06/01/summer-of-gnome-os/
Flathub: https://flathub.org/
Fedora Silverblue: https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/
Fedora Workstation: https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/
Ubuntu Desktop: https://ubuntu.com/desktop
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray-released/89539
KDE Linux: https://linux.kde.org/
KDE Linux, Roadmap & Lifecycle: https://linux.kde.org/docs/roadmap/
KDE Linux, History & Architecture: https://linux.kde.org/docs/background/
Nate Graham, "This Month in KDE Linux: September 2026" (1 Oct 2026): https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/01/this-month-in-kde-linux-september-2026/
Music, "Make Funk" by HoliznaCC0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/bassic/make-funk/
Chapters:
0:00 GNOME announced GNOME OS Preview
1:03 What is GNOME OS, anyway?
2:36 How did we get here?
3:32 What GNOME announced
5:11 Why isn't it called stable?
7:49 What's still missing?
8:59 Why are desktops building their own distros?
11:16 Meanwhile, at KDE
13:50 So, should you install it?
14:36 Outtakes
17 min
November 03 VLC says France's new data tax would cost it €1 million a year
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Links:
Amendment I-1358 (Assemblée nationale): https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendements/3210A/AN/1358
The vote, scrutin n° 9336: https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/scrutins/9336
Session of Friday 30 October, transcript: https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/comptes-rendus/seance/session-ordinaire-de-2026-2027/premiere-seance-du-vendredi-30-octobre-2026
Session of Friday 30 October, video (excerpts in this video): https://videos.assemblee-nationale.fr/video.19655971_6ae44b8fc51ef.1ere-seance--projet-de-loi-de-finances-pour-2027-suite-30-octobre-2026
Session of Wednesday 28 October, transcript: https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/comptes-rendus/seance/session-ordinaire-de-2026-2027/deuxieme-seance-du-mercredi-28-octobre-2026
The first part of the 2027 budget (Assemblée nationale): https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/actualites-accueil-hub/examen-de-la-premiere-partie-du-projet-de-loi-de-finances-pour-2027
The RN's 2024 amendment I-1049: https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendements/0324A/AN/1049
The RN's 2025 amendment I-783: https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendements/1906A/AN/783
VideoLAN on X: https://x.com/videolan/status/2116229135919919278
Laurent Lhardit's reply: https://x.com/LaurentLhardit/status/2116237561769419218
VideoLAN's answer: https://x.com/videolan/status/2116249504764805171
Octave Klaba (OVHcloud): https://x.com/olesovhcom/status/2116452969793151347
Klaba's post in full (MacGeneration): https://www.macg.co/services/2026/11/xavier-niel-vlc-ovhcloud-personne-ne-semble-vouloir-de-la-taxe-au-gigaoctet-312069
Xavier Niel: https://x.com/Xavier75/status/2116558449148567641
The digital services tax's receipts (amendment CF905): https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendements/2247/CION_FIN/CF905
Arcep, interconnection barometer: https://www.arcep.fr/cartes-et-donnees/nos-publications-chiffrees/linterconnexion-de-donnees/barometre-de-linterconnexion-de-donnees-en-france.html
IANA, AS number registry: https://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xhtml
RIPEstat: https://stat.ripe.net/
deb.debian.org (Fastly): https://deb.debian.org/
kernel.org on Fastly: https://www.kernel.org/introducing-fastly-cdn.html
Flathub in 2023: https://discourse.flathub.org/t/flathub-in-2023/3808
Debian mirror list: https://www.debian.org/mirror/list
Steam download stats: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
Fédération FDN members: https://www.ffdn.org/fr/membres
France's digital directorate moves to Linux (LibreNews): https://thelibre.news/new-linux-hardware-france-switches-to-linux-and-more/
The 3 November vote postponed (LCP): https://lcp.fr/actualites/budget-2027-le-marathon-de-la-partie-recettes-n-etant-pas-termine-le-vote-solennel-prevu
Last year's 404–1 vote (LCP): https://lcp.fr/actualites/budget-2026-l-assemblee-nationale-rejette-la-partie-recettes-le-texte-va-etre-transmis
The 2025 vote to double the GAFA tax (amendment I-655): https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/amendements/1906A/AN/655
Article 49 of the Constitution: https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/le-bloc-de-constitutionnalite/texte-integral-de-la-constitution-du-4-octobre-1958-en-vigueur
EU–US joint statement, 21 August 2025: https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/news/joint-statement-united-states-european-union-framework-agreement-reciprocal-fair-and-balanced-trade-2025-08-21_en
Next: https://next.ink/264997/le-parti-socialiste-a-fait-passer-sa-taxe-au-gigaoctet-a-lassemblee-nationale/
Clubic (Xavier Niel): https://www.clubic.com/actualite-637010-remonte-xavier-niel-s-en-prend-aux-deputes-ignares-incompetents-qui-ont-vote-la-taxe-sur-les-gigaoctets.html
Chapters:
0:00 Did France just vote to tax every gigabyte?
0:41 Some brief context first
2:19 What does the tax say?
4:14 Why the Socialists want this
5:56 How this tax would actually work
9:08 Why on an open-source channel?
12:06 What happens now?
14:05 Outtakes
16 min
November 02 Germany Gave KDE €1.3 Million. Here's What It Bought
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Links:
KDE, "Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development" (13 May 2026): https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/
Sovereign Tech Agency, KDE investment (€1,285,200, 2026–2027): https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/kde
KDE Discuss, the announcement thread and the list of work items: https://discuss.kde.org/t/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-over-1-million-in-kde-software-development/46970
GamingOnLinux, the full work-item list including KDE PIM: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/kde-gets-over-1-million-in-funding-from-the-sovereign-tech-fund/
The Register, 14 May 2026 (earlier STA grants, the ICC and openDesk): https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own/5240562
Akademy 2026, "An Agency, A Need of Sovereignty, and KDE's Will to Conquer the Enterprise" (Kevin Ottens and Nate Graham): https://conf.kde.org/event/11/contributions/300/
The talk's slides (PDF): https://conf.kde.org/event/11/contributions/300/attachments/181/237/an-agency-a-need-of-sovereignty-and-kdes-will-to-conquer-the-enterprise.pdf
This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026: https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/06/this-quarter-in-kde-digital-sovereignty-q2-2026/
This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q3 2026 (11 October 2026): https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/11/this-quarter-in-kde-digital-sovereignty-q3-2026/
LWN, "How KDE got funding to add enterprise features": https://lwn.net/Articles/1096245/
enioka Haute Couture: https://www.enioka.com/
My video on KDE's new goals: https://youtu.be/Cblr2ACzLBw
KDE Linux openQA (the clips): https://openqa.kde-linux.haraldsitter.eu/
My article, "Omarchy, the Omacom Foundation, and the Future of Linux": https://thelibre.news/omarchy-omacom-foundation-linux-future/
My article, "Let's talk about this EU OS": https://thelibre.news/lets-talk-about-this-eu-os/
My article, "New Linux Hardware, France switches to Linux, and more!": https://thelibre.news/new-linux-hardware-france-switches-to-linux-and-more/
My article, "Everything about the GNOME finance situation": https://thelibre.news/everything-about-the-gnome-finance-situation/
My article, "KDE Board Member Nate Graham announces for-profit company": https://thelibre.news/kde-board-member-nate-graham-announces-for-profit-company-2/
My article, "I quit my job to do this!": https://thelibre.news/i-quit-my-job-to-do-this/
Music, "Make Funk" by HoliznaCC0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/bassic/make-funk/
Chapters:
0:00 Germany is paying KDE €1.3 million
1:34 Where the money comes from
3:28 What is Germany paying for?
7:11 What the money has done so far
10:37 What happens next?
11:48 Outtakes
13 min
October 31 Can Plasma Studio Replace Lightroom Yet?
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Links:
Survey: what should raw photos get next? https://nx95587.your-storageshare.de/apps/forms/s/YozZH4JMjCAef8Dx45MTdQst
Plasma Studio on KDE Invent: https://invent.kde.org/niccolove/plasma-studio
Plasma Studio's issues: https://invent.kde.org/niccolove/plasma-studio/-/issues
"Announcing Plasma Studio" (7 Sep 2026): https://thelibre.news/announcing-plasma-studio/
The announcement video, "I Built One App for Video, Audio, Photos, Vector Art & 3D" (11 Sep 2026): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFAO3b0AeZ0
The excerpt shown, "I'm working on it, you'll get them" (8:48): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFAO3b0AeZ0&t=528s
My camera, "I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it" (16 Apr 2026): https://thelibre.news/i-made-the-next-level-camera-and-i-love-it/
The raw develop fix, commit 75b2cc96: https://invent.kde.org/niccolove/plasma-studio/-/commit/75b2cc96
Depth Anything V2 Small (Apache-2.0): https://huggingface.co/depth-anything/Depth-Anything-V2-Small
darktable: https://www.darktable.org/
darktable manual, lens correction: https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/development/en/module-reference/processing-modules/lens-correction/
darktable manual, input color profile (working profile): https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/5.6/en/module-reference/processing-modules/input-color-profile/
darktable manual, tone equalizer: https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/development/en/module-reference/processing-modules/tone-equalizer/
RawTherapee: https://rawtherapee.com/
GIMP manual, Lighting Effects: https://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-lighting.html
DIY Photography, "DaVinci Resolve 18.5 lets you relight subjects in the edit" (24 Jul 2023): https://www.diyphotography.net/davinci-resolve-18-5-lets-you-relight-subjects-in-the-edit/
The Great Sphinx of Tanis, photo by Wilfredor (Wikimedia Commons, CC0): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Sphinx_of_Tanis,_Paris_alt.jpg
"Sunset in the Dolomites" raw by MarcoNex (discuss.pixls.us Play Raw, CC BY-SA 4.0): https://discuss.pixls.us/t/sunset-in-the-dolomites-color-grading-challenge/23936
"Foggy Autumn Hills" raw by verflieger (discuss.pixls.us Play Raw, CC BY-SA 4.0): https://discuss.pixls.us/t/foggy-autumn-hills/46691
Test raws from raw.pixls.us (CC0): https://raw.pixls.us/
Music, "Make Funk" by HoliznaCC0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/bassic/make-funk/
Chapters:
0:00 Moving the light after the shot
1:34 Opening a photo
2:07 Demosaicing options
4:18 How precise is it?
5:05 Grading
8:04 Masks
8:41 What's a depth map?
11:35 Finishing a photo
12:43 What's still missing?
14:46 Outtakes
16 min
October 24 What Happens If Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Europe?
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Links:
Politico Europe, "'Absolute s–t': EU's Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials" (30 Sept 2026): https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-microsoft-teams-alternative-bad-reviews-element-pro/
ComputerBase (2 Oct 2026): https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/absoluter-scheiss-eu-mitarbeiter-wettern-gegen-teams-alternative.99642/
Brussels Signal (2 Oct 2026): https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/10/eu-officials-dismiss-absolute-sht-alternative-to-microsoft-teams-imposed-by-brussels/
Gizmodo (2 Oct 2026): https://gizmodo.com/european-commission-staff-really-dislike-their-sovereign-alternative-to-microsoft-teams-report-2000821135
The Register, the Commission's Matrix trial and France joining the Matrix.org Foundation (30 Oct 2025): https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/france_matrix/
Nicolas Dubois, "Trialing Matrix within the European Commission" (Matrix Conference 2025, media.ccc.de, CC BY-SA 4.0): https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-81512-trialing-matrix-within-the-european-commission-for-resilient-and-sovereign-communications
Euractiv, "Commission trials European open source communications software" (4 Feb 2026): https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/
OSNews (7 Feb 2026): https://www.osnews.com/story/144346/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software-matrix/
Open Source For You (Feb 2026): https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/02/eu-backs-open-source-matrix-for-secure-internal-communications/
Element, "Element Pro: Element X, built specifically for the workplace" (16 Oct 2025): https://element.io/blog/element-pro-element-x-built-specifically-for-the-workplace/
Element, "Element X and Pro updates; a glimpse into the future" (12 Nov 2025): https://element.io/blog/element-x-and-pro-updates-a-glimpse-into-the-future/
Element docs, Element Classic to Element Pro: https://docs.element.io/latest/element-server-suite-pro/migration/classic-to-pro-mobile-apps-faq/
Matrix clients: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
matrix.org, DINUM joins the Foundation (21 Oct 2025): https://matrix.org/blog/2025/10/dinum/
KDE Community Wiki, Matrix and NeoChat: https://community.kde.org/Matrix
heise, Microsoft denies mail blockade at the ICC (Jun 2025): https://www.heise.de/en/news/Microsoft-denies-mail-blockade-at-the-International-Criminal-Court-10429628.html
The Register, the ICC switches to openDesk (31 Oct 2025): https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/31/international_criminal_court_ditches_office/
heise, France's Visio (Jan 2026): https://www.heise.de/en/news/France-replaces-MS-Teams-and-Zoom-with-its-own-video-conferencing-software-11155347.html
Digital Government NL, the open-source agreement (Oct 2026): https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/new-push-for-open-source-in-government-and-education/
IO+, Willemijn Aerdts on open source (1 Oct 2026): https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/government-turns-to-open-source-for-digital-independence
heise, DAWO on NixOS (30 Sept 2026): https://heise.de/en/news/Netherlands-builds-sovereign-government-desktop-based-on-NixOS-11470450.html
Computerworld, Austrian armed forces and LibreOffice (Sept 2025): https://www.computerworld.com/article/4065856/austrian-armed-forces-switch-from-microsoft-office-to-libre-office.html
Tchap: https://tchap.numerique.gouv.fr/
LibreNews, "Matrix and FreeDesktop are calling for help": https://thelibre.news/matrix-and-freedesktop-are-calling-for-help/
LibreNews, "Let's talk about this 'EU OS'": https://thelibre.news/lets-talk-about-this-eu-os/
LibreNews, "Autistici/Inventati and the Reach of U.S. Sanctions": https://thelibre.news/autistici-inventati-us-sanctions/
Thumbnails: Berlaymont photo by Euro Pictures (CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
Chapters:
0:00 The Commission's Teams backup
1:08 What did the Commission build?
2:52 What are Matrix, Element and Element Pro?
4:53 So, how bad is it?
9:42 Do the critics have a point?
10:45 Why is the Commission doing this at all?
12:30 What are other countries doing?
15:32 So, is it absolute shit?
17:16 Outtakes
20 min
October 22 PHP's Worst Bug in Years Leaked Within a Day
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Links:
The Hacker News post that leaked the embargo, "2x PHP RCE CVEs with CVSS 10.0 Incoming" (20 Oct 2026): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167754
The author's apology, "I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry." (22 Oct 2026): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193416
The PHP Foundation's post-mortem, "Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security": https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/
PHP's pre-announcement and security advisory: https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php
GitHub advisory GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w (CVE-2026-109618): https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w
GitHub advisory GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp (CVE-2026-109619): https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp
Calif, "A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities": https://calif.io/php2shell/
Wiz Research on PHP2Shell: https://www.wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rce
NBC News, parts of Wikipedia and other sites taken offline: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/critical-vulnerabilities-php-update-systems-rcna604751
The PHP Foundation, "PHP Core Security Audit Results" (2025): https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/04/10/php-core-security-audit-results/
Sovereign Tech Agency, PHP: https://www.sovereign.tech/tech/php
The Register, "PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk": https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/22/php-blames-supply-chain-security-biz-chainguard-for-putting-huge-chunks-of-the-web-at-risk/5304611
Amazon Threat Intelligence on PHP2Shell exploitation attempts: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/amazon-threat-intelligence-identifies-php2shell-exploitation-prior-to-public-disclosure-in-madpot/
Debian DSA-6574-1: https://www.debian.org/security/dsa-6574-1
Ubuntu USN-8948-1: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8948-1
AlmaLinux, patching ahead of RHEL: https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-10-21-php2shell-cve-2026-109618-cve-2026-109619/
Red Hat, CVE-2026-109618: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-109618
CVE List V5 hourly releases (the 1,449 CVEs in one hour): https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases
Zero Day Initiative, The October 2026 Security Update Review: https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2026/10/13/the-october-2026-security-update-review
Node.js October 2026 security releases: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/october-2026-security-releases
StepSecurity, LiteLLM 1.107.0 compromised on PyPI: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/litellm-1-107-0-compromised-pypi-backdoored-wheels-credential-stealer
TechCrunch, "The internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day": https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/the-internet-is-having-a-very-bad-cybersecurity-day/
NIST, NVD operations update (April 2026): https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/nist-updates-nvd-operations-address-record-cve-growth
My article, "FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies": https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
Seth Larson, "New era of slop security reports for open source": https://sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports
Daniel Stenberg, "ignore the slop": https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/22/ignore-the-slop/
The Linux kernel's CVE process: https://docs.kernel.org/process/cve.html
Google Threat Intelligence Group, vulnerability trends in the AI era: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/vulnerability-discovery-and-exploitation-trends-in-the-ai-era
Music, "Make Funk" by HoliznaCC0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/bassic/make-funk/
Chapters:
0:00 The Hacker News post
1:07 Some brief context
2:04 The bugs in question
3:41 How these bugs were found
6:40 And then there's Chainguard
8:43 Why talk about this on a Linux channel?
10:03 The other half of the title
12:13 Are we doomed?
13:24 What can you do?
14:55 Outtakes
17 min
October 21 F-Droid is Under Threat
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Links:
Google, Android developer verification: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification
Google, verification FAQ: https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/faq
Android Help, "Learn about Android developer verification": https://support.google.com/android/answer/17065026
Android Developers Blog, August 2025 (the airport analogy, "50 times more malware"): https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html
Android Developers Blog, 19 March 2026 (the advanced flow, free accounts, the GASA figures): https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html
Android Developers Blog, 18 June 2026 (the seven stores, 30 September, 99%): https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/android-developer-verification.html
Android Authority, 1 October 2026: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-sideloading-developer-verification-first-wave-rollout-3717921/
The Register, 24 September 2026: https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/09/24/f-droid-app-store-thumbs-its-nose-at-googles-dev-crackdown/5298974
The Hacker News, June 2026: https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/google-sets-sept-30-deadline-for.html
F-Droid 2.0 announcement: https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
F-Droid, "F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree" (29 September 2025): https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
Keep Android Open (open letter and signatories): https://keepandroidopen.org/
FSFE, 28 July 2026: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260728-01.en.html
European Commission, DMA citizens' Q&A: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/citizens-and-whistleblower-portal/eu-citizens-qa_en
European Parliament, question E-001419/2026 (Christel Schaldemose): https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2026-001419_EN.html
European Commission, answer E-001349/2026 (15 June 2026): https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2026-001349-ASW_EN.html
European Commission, Apple non-compliance investigation (24 June 2024): https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_3433
Find your MEP (European Parliament): https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
My article, "Android prefers vibecoders over open-source developers": https://thelibre.news/android-prefers-vibecoders-over-open-source-developers/
My article, "Autistici/Inventati and the Reach of U.S. Sanctions": https://thelibre.news/autistici-inventati-us-sanctions/
Music, "Make Funk" by HoliznaCC0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/bassic/make-funk/
F-Droid logo (in the thumbnail) by William Theaker, Robert Martinez, Andrew Nayenko, CC BY-SA 3.0, recoloured
Chapters:
0:00 Google's new Android rules
1:25 What actually changed?
4:50 Why is Google doing this?
6:33 So what's the problem?
9:36 Is Europe really exempt?
12:51 What about Linux phones?
13:38 Will Europe stay exempt?
15 min
October 19 Is the EU KIDS Act the New Chat Control?
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Links:
EU KIDS Act, proposal text COM(2026) 681 (Council ST 13321/26): https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13321-2026-INIT/en/pdf
European Commission press release IP/26/1890 (17 Sep 2026): https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1890
Give feedback on the EU KIDS Act (Have Your Say, open until 3 Dec 2026): https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/19418-Child-online-safety-keeping-digital-spaces-accountable-and-trustworthy-EU-Kids-Act-_en
European Parliament Legislative Observatory, 2026/0286(COD): https://oeil.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2026/0286(COD)
Stop Killing The Internet, European Citizens' Initiative (register page): https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2026/000011_en
Stop Killing The Internet, signature form: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/?lg=en
Stop Killing The Internet, campaign site: https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/
netzpolitik.org on the KIDS Act (German): https://netzpolitik.org/2026/eu-kids-act-eu-kommission-will-netz-mit-alterskontrollen-zupflastern/
Chaos Computer Club on the KIDS Act (German): https://www.ccc.de/updates/2026/kids-act
Euronews, EDRi on what the KIDS Act means for adults: https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/24/the-eu-wants-to-protect-children-online-what-about-everyone-else
Euronews, where member states stand: https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/22/eu-kids-act-the-eus-plan-to-make-the-internet-safer-for-kids
WSGR, what happens next with the KIDS Act: https://www.wsgr.com/en/insights/european-commission-proposes-eu-kids-act-to-restrict-childrens-access-to-online-services.html
Tom's Hardware, California's AB 1856 open-source exemption: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt
European Parliament, 26 Mar 2026 vote on the interim regulation: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260325IPR39207/child-sexual-abuse-online-voluntary-detection-measures-will-not-be-extended
heise online, tech giants keep scanning: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Chat-control-Tech-giants-want-to-continue-scanning-despite-expired-EU-rules-11246086.html
HowTheyVote.eu, the 9 Jul 2026 second-reading vote: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775
netzpolitik.org on the 9 Jul 2026 vote (German): https://netzpolitik.org/2026/eu-parlament-freiwillige-chatkontrolle-geht-mit-verfahrenstrick-durch/
Council of the EU, interim regulation reinstated (23 Jul 2026): https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/07/23/fighting-child-sexual-abuse-online-interim-measure-protecting-children-now-reinstated/
Council note on the 29 June 2026 trilogue (ST 11501/26): https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-11501-2026-INIT/en/pdf
Council state of play, 22 June 2026 (ST 10499/26): https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10499-2026-INIT/en/pdf
Patrick Breyer on the 29 Sep 2026 trilogue: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-2-0-trilogue-update-no-mass-scanning-deal-for-now-european-parliament-stands-firm-against-search-plans/
Lewis Silkin, the Commission's answer to Stop Killing Games: https://www.lewissilkin.com/insights/2026/06/24/european-commission-stops-short-of-imposing-mandatory-requirements-following-citi-102n4yy
European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen on the EU age verification app, 15 Apr 2026 (excerpt shown in this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uryHjVMfZGg
My previous video, "Everything about Chat Control" (Dec 2025): https://thelibre.news/how-we-lost-the-fight-to-chat-control/
Why I recommend against Bluesky (the teen activity): https://thelibre.news/why-i-recommend-against-bluesky/
Music, "Make Funk" by HoliznaCC0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/bassic/make-funk/
Chapters:
0:00 Is the KIDS Act the new Chat Control?
0:52 The ePrivacy derogation, again
3:20 The trilogues
5:34 The KIDS Act
9:31 Why on a Linux channel?
12:28 What happens now?
14:30 So, is it the new Chat Control?
15 min

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