Whenever you hear politicians shrieking about “protecting the children,” you can expect some awful new attempt to undermine your rights in some novel way. This is solely about emiminating anonyomity, because people like Pritzker can’t toler…
When their FOSS operating systems of choice specify that usage is not allowed in the state because they do not, will not, or cannot support his law hits the colleges, Universities, and other educational institutions the fan will be impacted…
This from the same people who think drag queen story hour is a swell way to get children on the path to transing the kids. Parental involvement be damned, of course. Lovely world they live in.
HB5511 is officially about TikTok and Instagram. Read past the press release and it’s also about your operating system. Governor JB Pritzker’s press release on HB5511 is thick with quotes from legislators and advocacy groups, and it names I…
A single line in a technical specification is turning into one of the messiest fights in the EU’s push for digital identity. The document lays out how age verification apps for the EU Digital Identity Wallet are supposed to work, and buried…
Linux just did something it hasn’t done before. According to Statcounter’s numbers for July 2026, Linux now accounts for 7.53% of desktop operating systems worldwide. That’s not a typo, and it’s not one good month getting blown out of propo…
For the first time, you can install genuinely open-source firmware on a modern AMD Ryzen desktop board, and it boots Ubuntu 26.04 without any workarounds. 3mdeb, the Polish firmware engineering shop behind the Dasharo project, shipped v0.9.…
disadvantages of using kubuntu (and I’m an avid fan) the latest installer is particularly weak and wobbly windows is enabled by default. It looks like a clown show and needs to up it’s game. KDE has been given a massive opportunity in Europ…
Valve never set out to save Linux gaming. It set out to save Valve. In 2012, Gabe Newell looked at what Microsoft was building with Windows 8 and got spooked enough to start building a way out. That way out eventually became SteamOS, then P…
Codeberg, the nonprofit code forge a lot of developers have been quietly moving to as a GitHub alternative, just voted to ban vibe-coded projects, meaning repositories that mostly consist of code written by AI rather than a human. The vote
Windows just had its worst month on record. StatCounter’s newly published numbers for June 2026 put worldwide desktop market share for Windows at 56.61%, the first time it has ever fallen below 60% in the history of the dataset. Linux close…
Windows just had its worst month on record. StatCounter’s newly published numbers for June 2026 put worldwide desktop market share for Windows at 56.61%, the first time it has ever fallen below 60% in the history of the dataset. Linux close…