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  • Accessibility Committee: August 2026

    August’s Accessibility Standards & Compliance meeting was short and sweet, largely due to summer vacations. Highlights included committee updates, with Kaci stepping down to focus on her new role and new location. Congrats, Kaci. We’re now looking for a new community member to join the committee. If you’re interested, please reach out on Thunderbird A11y (accessibility). The meeting also included progress updates on accessibility annotation guidelines for designers.

    Thunderbird A11y Matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/#tb-a11y:mozilla.org

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  • Linux passes 10% market share? AI hijacking is the new SEO - Linux Weekly News

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      Timestamps:

      00:00 Intro
      00:55 Sponsor: SquareSpace
      02:26 Did Linux pass 10% market share in North America?
      06:09 AI models being fed ads and poisoned content
      10:09 Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8
      13:28 KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Wayland
      15:27 Valve prepares Lepton and FEX for the Steam Frame
      16:50 Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging area
      19:16 Nvidia now sponsors LVFS
      20:45 Bottles gets massive update
      23:11 Union KDE theming engine makes good progress
      25:53 New nasty Linux vulnerability
      27:47 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

      Links:

      Linux passes 10% market share in North America

      https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-america#monthly-202506-202607
      https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/linux-didnt-just-eat-10-of-windows-market-share-ai-bots-are-inflating-the-numbers/
      https://www.usa.gov/website-analytics/

      AI models being fed ads and poisoned content

      https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640
      https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/the-poison-ai-movement-wants-to-corrupt-chatgpt-and-gemini-to-make-them-useless-but-it-comes-with-a-huge-risk-of-collateral-damage

      Hybrid GPU systems will get much better with Plasma 6.8

      https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/07/31/fixing-multi-gpu.html

      KDE now has a tool to change gamma and RGB on Wayland

      https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/wayland-and-kgamma/

      Valve prepares Lepton and FEX for the Steam Frame

      https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/lepton-and-fex-get-prepared-for-the-steam-frame-release/

      Linux kernel rejects LLM generated patches for staging area

      https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Staging-Reject-LLMs

      Nvidia now sponsors LVFS

      https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2026/08/04/nvidia-is-now-supporting-the-lvfs/

      Bottles gets massive update

      https://linuxiac.com/bottles-65-released-with-over-100-changes-for-windows-apps-on-linux/

      Union KDE theming engine makes good progress

      https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-08/union-summer-2026-update

      New nasty Linux vulnerability

      https://github.com/V4bel/Zapscape

      #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro #linuxnews

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    • Sausalito

      A video of Sausalito, CA, USA, from back in the day, using a Canon point and shoot camera.

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    • What is a Tree Lobster?

      Yet another video fresh from the slop mill, this time on an animal that's been done over and over again before on other platforms. Oh and yeah I forgot to mention a bunch of stuff that might've made this more coherent, but that's a past me problem.

      Transcript:

      Ayo what’s up, I cannot think of a good introduction this time, so I’ll just say this video is about a peculiar animal species, one from Australia no less. Dryococelus australis, or, the tree lobster. Now, assuming you know basic animal anatomy, you may realize this is an insect given the 6 legs and 2 antennae, and not a crustacean as in the case of an actual lobster. And yes, although you’d be correct in saying that, this creature is technically still a crustacean since all true insects evolved directly from early crustaceans that left the water during the mid Paleozoic, in addition to the line between vernacular concepts of ‘bug’ and ‘shellfish’ are hazy to the point of nearly being synonyms, hence why the words locust and lobster both have the same root. The species of interest here is a member of the order Phasmatodea, the lineage comprising stick insects and leaf insects, distinguished by their mimicry of plants, large body size, completely herbivorous diet, and absent or poor flight ability. They are related to crickets, grasshoppers, mantises, earwigs, and cockroaches, all of which were formerly classified together in the singular order Orthoptera, given that they all go through a nymph stage, have mandibles, and are usually not aquatic, thus distinct from the other insect orders such as Odonata, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, or Hemiptera. But enough with higher level taxonomy, let me explain tree lobsters specifically. The Lord Howe species, originally named Karabidion australe by french naturalist Xavier Montrouzier in 1855, was native to the titular Lord Howe island during its discovery, existing alongside the other fauna in the Australasian realm such as kangaroos or emus found on mainland Australia. Tree Lobsters are not to be confused with the similar looking wetas or wetapunga of New Zealand, which are likewise giant herbivorous cricket-like insects in this area of the world, but unlike the tree lobster which is a member of the Phasmatodea, wetas belong to true order Orthoptera just as crickets or grasshoppers. I should specify that they used to live on Lord Howe Island since the animal has unfortunately been rendered extinct there due to a myriad of human caused factors, namely the introduction of black rats that ate both adults and the nymphs of the tree lobster. Evidently, people also used them as fishing bait and probably ate the critters directly, though that last part is just an inference based on how often large insects appear in cuisine, even the bible has several mentions of locusts as a food item. Either way, only 2 years after the rats were introduced, the species was declared extinct in 1920, and it would remain that way for some 80 years. That was until 2001, when a group of researchers or something stumbled upon an island with a funny name that just so happened to possess a relict population of 24 individual tree lobsters living under a single paperbark tree at 100 metres up the rugged island. 2 breeding pairs were collected to found a captive population that was raised in Melbourne Zoo, allowing their numbers to bounce back after their perceived extinction, and there is now thousands of them distributed between zoos and other animal conservation facilities in cities such as Budapest, San Diego, Bristol, Toronto, and Prague. Besides being rare and having a unique story, not much distinguishes Lord Howe island stick insect from its relatives on the mainland, but the novelty of a species coming back so abruptly remains fascinating. Anyway, that’s all from me today, see you next time.

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    • Arch under attack, Framework laptop 13 Pro looks good for Linux, GoG on Linux - Linux Weekly News

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        Timestamps

        00:00 Intro
        00:51 Sponsor: Joplin
        03:04 ARCH under attack
        06:34 Valve sponsors work to bring FOSS AMD Drivers to Windows
        09:31 Framework laptop 13 Pro looks solid for Linux
        13:12 GoG working on a Linux client
        15:09 GNOME's session restore won't land in GNOME 51
        16:52 Fedora working on a conflict of interest policy
        19:35 New full desktop environment written with AI
        22:00 New patches improve gaming performance on AMD
        25:05 Debian now has 5 proposals to handle AI contributions
        27:39 Keychron builds open source mouse firmware
        29:17 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

        Links:

        ARCH under attack

        https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/arch-linux-disables-aur-package-adoption-to-stop-malware-flood/
        https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/DRDEU3JUSC72CB265XHXPFA3DFSLXPBP/

        Valve sponsors work to bring FOSS AMD Drivers to Windows

        https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win32.html
        https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win?tab=readme-ov-file#vulkan-drivers

        Framework Laptop 13 pro looks solid on Linux

        https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro/11
        https://frame.work/products/laptop13pro-amd-ai300/configuration/new
        https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/framework-laptop-13-pro-review-much-better-battery-much-worse-price/

        GoG working on a Linux client

        https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/

        GNOME's session restore won't land in GNOME 51

        https://linuxiac.com/gnome-is-building-session-save-and-restore-but-it-wont-make-gnome-51/

        Fedora working on a conflict of interest policy

        https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/conflict-of-interest-guidelines-policy-draft-feedback-please/197508

        New full desktop environment written with AI

        https://starling.build/

        New patches improve gaming performance on AMD

        https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Better-1p-Lows

        Debian now has 5 proposals to handle AI contributions

        https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

        Keychron builds open source mouse firmware

        https://itsfoss.com/news/keychron-zgm-mouse-firmware/

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      • Design System Governance Committee: July 2026

        In the July 28 Bolt Design System Governance Committee meeting, we shared updates on the public GitHub repository, design token tooling, Storybook integration, and the July change log for the design-library in Figma. The community Q&A focused on how we’re adapting Material 3 components for the Thunderbird Android app and responded to a question on potential alignment with Firefox’s Nova design system.

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      • Egos ruining Open Source projects, distros vs software conflicts - Linux Weekly News

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          Timestamps:

          00:00 Intro
          00:41 Sponsor: Proton Mail
          01:43 Upstream vs distros debate kicks off again
          05:16 432 CVEs published in 2 days by the Linux kernel team
          08:20 Flathub reviewers leaving
          11:18 Flathub's AI slop ban was probably the right call
          13:11 Collabora talks about their work on the Steam Frame OS
          14:51 GNOME changes how they handle CVEs
          17:22 Firefox 153 released with containers
          19:18 LibreOffice explains why MSOffice formats aren't really open
          22:00 JellyFin loses multiple contributors
          23:11 Libx11-compat trying to keep legacy apps alive on systems without x11
          25:04 How AI is changing open source
          29:44 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

          Links:

          Upstream vs distros debate kicks off again

          https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-and-gnome-calendar-clash-resurfaces-months-later/
          https://gitlab.com/linuxmint/pins/mint/gnome-calendar/-/work_items/1
          https://tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-would-hostile-distributions-go-to-hurt-upstream/

          432 CVEs published in 2 days by the Linux kernel team

          https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/22/linux-kernel-team-publishes-432-cves-in-two-days/5276497

          Flathub reviewers leaving

          https://bbhtt.in/posts/flathub-leave/
          https://bbhtt.in/posts/taking-a-pause/

          Flathub's AI slop ban was probably the right call

          https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/flathub-ai-slop-ban-data

          Collabora talks about their work on the Steam Frame OS

          https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/building-an-arch-linux-aarch64-port-for-holo-core.html

          GNOME changes how they handle CVEs

          https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/07/20/some-changes-to-gnome-security-tracking/

          Firefox 153 released with containers

          https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/firefox-153-new-containers-feature

          LibreOffice explains why MSOffice formats aren't really open

          https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/

          JellyFin loses multiple contributors

          https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes
          https://linuxiac.com/jellyfin-loses-project-leader-and-core-team-member-in-major-shake-up/

          Libx11-compat trying to keep legacy apps alive on systems without x11

          https://www.phoronix.com/news/libx11-compat

          How AI is changing open source

          https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2026/07/23/how-ai-is-changing-open-source/

          #linuxnews #technews #linux

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        • Linux Distros need to stop shipping outdated, unsupported applications

          Check out TuxCare's Rebootless patching and save on maintenance for your Linux fleet: https://tuxcare.com/enterprise-live-patching-services/kernelcare-enterprise/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_campaign=Kernel Care&utm_term=The Linux Experiment

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            Timestamps:

            00:00 Intro
            00:51 Sponsor: TuxCare
            02:00 Mint vs Apps: the problem
            09:28 It is allowed
            12:21 Older versions done right
            14:49 Users are harmed by this
            18:39 Devs are harmed by this
            21:25 Distros do this already, selectively
            23:06 Distros need to evolve now
            25:31 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

            #linux #linuxdistro #linuxdesktop

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