No Tux Allowed

By Tuxbase Media Group

A Tech Podcast about tech things, rambles, and sometimes a penguin.

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February 23, 2026Discord has Pushed Our Buttons
David J. Farber, Passes Away at 91
NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technology/david-farber-dead.html
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Farber
Social Media is on Trial and it Might Actually Mean Something
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/22/tech/social-media-addiction-trial-tobacco-moment?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
Discord Mandates Age Verification, and Teamspeak is Overwhelmed
https://kotaku.com/discord-alternative-teamspeak-age-verification-check-rivals-2000669693
Ubiquity is Enabling Russia
https://hntrbrk.com/ubiquiti/
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Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
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Find Josh
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No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
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1h 13min
February 17, 2026Delays, vulnerabilities and launches
Think of a title josh- “Commercially Motived” Actors Use Gemini Prompts to gain “Knowledge:
Google
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/distillation-experimentation-integration-ai-adversarial-use
Arstechnica
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/attackers-prompted-gemini-over-100000-times-while-trying-to-clone-it-google-says/
Ars and Google Speculate this is to distill training data for their own chatbot? Or maybe something more…
WPvivid Backup & Migration plugin for WordPress has critical CVE
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wordpress-plugin-with-900k-installs-vulnerable-to-critical-rce-flaw/
CVE-2026-1357 impacts all versions of the plugin up to 0.9.123
WordPress security company Defiant say that only sites with the non-default “receive backup from another site” option enabled are critically impacted.
Did you Know Amazon has a Starlink Competitor called “Amazon Leo”?
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-amazon-4500-leo-satellites-starlink-competition/
Already has over 3000 satellites in orbit
Valve Watch
The Steam Deck is Out of Stock
https://kotaku.com/its-becoming-impossible-to-buy-a-steam-deck-sold-out-valve-prices-ram-shortage-2000667790
Newegg reportedly marked up the price $100 but still sold out.
Even out of stock in Japan
We Discuss alternatives to the Steam Deck
Lenovo Legion Go S (Runs SteamOS)
ASUS ROG Ally (Most Powerful)
Ayaneo Air Plus (Cheapest)
Nintendo Switch
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Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed
[email protected]
Find Josh
https://www.youtube.com/@10leej
[email protected]
Find Bigpod
https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod
[email protected]
No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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27min
February 09, 2026Intel, Notepads, and Games
Notepad++
Original Post
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Clarification Update
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarification-security-incident/
Intel to “make GPU’s”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/intel-will-start-making-gpus-a-market-dominated-by-nvidia/
https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-ceo-says-company-will-make-gpus-has-hired-lead-executive-2026-02-03/
For those not aware, ARC GPU’s already exist and are made by TSMC, this is talking about Intel actually making the GPU dies themselves.
Stop killing Games gets 1.3 Million Signatures verified
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/final-count-for-stop-killing-games-petition-verifies-1-3-million-of-its-1-4-million-signatures-well-above-the-minimum-to-be-formally-considered-by-eu-politicians/
Valve Watch
Steam Machine Pricing
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/ram-shortage-delays-valves-steam-machine-desktop-and-steam-frame-headset/
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Join out Discord
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https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed
Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed
[email protected]
Find Josh
https://www.youtube.com/@10leej
[email protected]
Find Bigpod
https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod
[email protected]
No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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35min
February 02, 2026 Space is a lonely place
SpaceX requests up to 1 Million Datacenter satallites
https://www.theverge.com/tech/871641/spacex-fcc-1-million-solar-powered-data-centers-satellites-orbit
Valve faces nearly 1 Billion Dollar lawsuit in UK
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/video-game-giant-valve-facing-uk-lawsuit-over-pricing-commissions-2026-01-26/
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Join out Discord
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Support us on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed
Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed
[email protected]
Find Josh
https://www.youtube.com/@10leej
[email protected]
Find Bigpod
https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod
[email protected]
No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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27min
January 27, 2026Just talking with brodie
https://www.youtube.com/@BrodieRobertson
https://www.youtube.com/@BrodieOnGames
https://www.youtube.com/@BrodieRobertsonReacts
https://www.youtube.com/@TechOverTea
Send us feedback!
mailto:[email protected]
Join out Discord
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Support us on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed
Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed
[email protected]
Find Josh
https://www.youtube.com/@10leej
[email protected]
Find Bigpod
https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod
[email protected]
No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
AI, Linux, bigpod, NoTuxAllowed, Valve, Steam,Open Source, OSS, FOSS, Free software
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1h 37min
January 19, 2026No One Wants an AI PC?
Valve Watch: Valve amended Hardware Survey
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-amended-the-steam-survey-for-december-2025-linux-actually-hit-another-all-time-high/
Gaming on Linux Charts:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
Dell says customers don’t want an AI PC
https://www.theverge.com/news/857723/dell-consumers-ai-pcs-comments
CES Watch: Lego Smart Bricks
https://www.ign.com/articles/lego-says-smart-brick-is-here-to-stay-and-responds-to-questions-and-concerns-around-abandoning-non-digital-play
Logitech software broke on MacOS
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/logitech-options-plus-g-hub-macos-apps-break-after-certificate-expires/
Logitech patch
https://support.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/37493733117847-Options-and-G-HUB-macOS-Certificate-Issue
Riot forcing players to update UEFI to play games
https://www.techspot.com/news/110663-riot-forcing-valorant-players-update-their-pc-firmware.html
Bigpod deploys a fancy new home network
Send us feedback!
mailto:[email protected]
Join out Discord
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Support us on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed
Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed
[email protected]
Find Josh
https://www.youtube.com/@10leej
[email protected]
Find Bigpod
https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod
[email protected]
No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1h
January 13, 2026MongoBleed Isn't that Bad
MongoBleed
https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/news/mongodb-server-security-update-december-2025
Cloudflare has a new action plan after dealing with recent outages
https://blog.cloudflare.com/fail-small-resilience-plan/
Ars details the worst offenders of “Enshitification”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/as-internet-enshittification-marches-on-here-are-some-of-the-worst-offenders/
According to Steam, Linux is 3.19%
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-December-2025-Survey
Send us feedback!
mailto:[email protected]
Join out Discord
https://tuxbase.com/discord
Support us on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed
Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed
[email protected]
Find Josh
https://www.youtube.com/@10leej
[email protected]
Find Bigpod
https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod
[email protected]
No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1h 1min
January 05, 2026Spotting Libxml2
Libxml2 finds new maintainers
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/libxml2-narrowly-avoids-becoming-unmaintained/
Project that use libxml2: Chromium, Webkit, Android, iOS, Linux Desktop Environments, libvirt, LibreOffice, PHP, Python (lxml), Ruby (Nokogiri), Perl, Inkscape (svg support), VLC, ffmpeg
Meta uses the Steam Deck CPU Scheduler
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meta-SCX-LAVD-Steam-Deck-Server
VOD of the talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFItEHbFEwg
Spotify Scraped by Pirate Group Anna’s Archive
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/pirate-group-annas-archive-says-it-has-scraped-86-million-songs-from-spotify/
https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Netflix is the new Spotify
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/netflix-is-betting-on-podcasts-to-become-the-new-daytime-talk-show/
Send us feedback!
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Join out Discord
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Support us on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed
Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed
[email protected]
Find Josh
https://www.youtube.com/@10leej
[email protected]
Find Bigpod
https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod
[email protected]
No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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35min
December 29, 2025Predicting 2026
Mozilla backpedals on AI?
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/
2026 Year of the Linux Desktop?
https://dominickm.com/2026-will-be-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/
Will Josh and Bigpod understand Quantum Computing Enough to actually talk about it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing
AI and Data Centers? Bubble pop This year or Next year?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/24/the-year-data-centers-went-from-backend-to-center-stage/
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Join out Discord
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Support us on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed
Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed
[email protected]
Find Josh
https://www.youtube.com/@10leej
[email protected]
Find Bigpod
https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod
[email protected]
No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
...more
40min
December 22, 2025 Talking with Purpose with distrotube
Distrotube:
https://www.youtube.com/@distrotube
Send us feedback!
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Join out Discord
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Support us on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed
Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes
https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626
You can find all the links to our stuff here!
https://tuxbase.com
Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon?
https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed
[email protected]
Find Josh
https://www.youtube.com/@10leej
[email protected]
Find Bigpod
https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod
[email protected]
No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group
License CC BY-SA 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
...more
1h 17min

FAQs about No Tux Allowed:

How many episodes does No Tux Allowed have?

The podcast currently has 97 episodes available.