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No Tux AllowedMETA sails the High Seas (allegedly)
Distro Challenge https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/meta-pirated-and-seeded-porn-for-years-to-train-ai-lawsuit-says/…
No Tux AllowedSystemd is a Success
systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success https://blog.tjll.net/the-systemd-revolution-has-been-a-success/#fnr.1 Google merges ChromeOS and…
No Tux AllowedMIPPING About Gemini's Tubes
Challenge Update Global Foundries buys MIPS https://mips.com/blog/mips-and-globalfoundries-powering-the-next-wave-of-physical-ai/ Study finds youTube has a…
No Tux Allowed127.0.0.1 is tracking you
Trump wants to cut EU internet??? Spoiler Alert No, but could he https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-eu-internet-europe-us-trade-war-data-cyber/…
No Tux AllowedWe Done Googled It
Android changes AOSP again https://cyberinsider.com/privacy-focused-grapheneos-warns-google-is-locking-down-android/ Graphene OS Response…
No Tux AllowedSigning WWDC
2 Vulnerabilities found in Secure Boot https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/unearthed-in-the-wild-2-secure-boot-exploits-microsoft-patches-only-1-of-them/…
No Tux AllowedJosh Watched Redhat Summit
SentinelOne Goes Down for 7 hours after https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/sentinelone-last-weeks-7-hour-outage-caused-by-software-flaw/ New…
No Tux AllowedIt's AI for All the Things
New phones latest and greatest feature https://gizmodo.com/your-phones-next-big-innovation-is-a-dedicated-ai-button-2000607787 Pen and paper tests are coming…
No Tux AllowedBigpod Watched Microsoft Build
FTC orders GoDaddy to secure it’s crap https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-finalizes-order-requiring-godaddy-to-secure-hosting-services/ Mozilla…
No Tux AllowedBuy An Intel GPU Dammit
Microsoft Oppsie Daisy https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-kb5058379-update-triggering-bitlocker-recovery-after-install/ Intel shows off…
No Tux AllowedPwning Steam
pwn2own conference day 1 both Windows 11 and Redhat linux compromised https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-11-and-red-hat-linux-virtualbox-hac…
No Tux AllowedTime to discuss the USA
Students are more concerned about AI than teachers https://www.technewsworld.com/story/ai-raises-bigger-concerns-for-students-than-teachers-admins-study-179695…
No Tux AllowedExcellerating Linux
Wikipedia adds AI https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Multigenerational/Artificial_intelligence_for_editors KDE Sprint discusses no more LTS releases, the…
No Tux AllowedStick a Fork in It
EU v Google & Facebook https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-fined-570-million-meta-228-million-breaching-eu-law-2025-04-23/…
No Tux AllowedPlucky Buggy 42's
Canonical Ships 25.04 https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin Also Fedora 42 releases…
No Tux AllowedWhat is Linux Anyway?
OpenAI helps spammers, spam https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/openais-gpt-helps-spammers-send-blast-of-80000-messages-that-bypassed-filters/ Lets talk…
No Tux AllowedEmails, Cameras and BASIC
Mozilla to roll a Office 365/Gmail alternative? https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/thunderbird_pay_services/ Microsoft Turns 50 and Bill Gates releases…
No Tux AllowedUbuntu gets a bit Rusty
Ubuntu to drop coreutils https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995 Plex Price Change…
No Tux AllowedThis Podcast is a Year Old
See how we’ve grown https://op3.dev/show/15fd0a4c-646f-50ca-99c4-a4abcaef354a M4 Macs using the wrong CPU cores for heavy tasks…
No Tux AllowedInterview with Tomaž Zaman, Mono Technologies Part Two
You can find our guest at: https://bsky.app/profile/zaman.io https://www.youtube.com/@tomazzaman Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord…
No Tux AllowedInterview with Tomaž Zaman, Mono Technologies Part One
You can find our guest at: https://bsky.app/profile/zaman.io https://www.youtube.com/@tomazzaman Send us feedback! mailto:contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord…
No Tux AllowedGoodbye Skype, You Won't be Missed
Goodbye Skype https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/on-may-5-microsofts-skype-will-shut-down-for-good/ Freedesktop.org lays out it’s plans for migration…
No Tux AllowedOpening the Gates of Linux
Reddit to enable paywalls https://www.reddit.com/r/RDDT/comments/1ip2tf5/amaa_video_reddits_q4_2024_earnings/ Amazon Disables ebook download capability…
No Tux AllowedDownstream Packaging Issues and We finally talk AI
Gnome Dev says Gnome Software might one day remove RPM support https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/463#comment-955714 OBS Studio raises an issue with…
No Tux AllowedGatekeeping Linux
Hector Martin steps down from the Linux kernel sighting gatekeeping. https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/02/07/1332241/asahi-linux-lead-developer-hector-martin-…
No Tux AllowedLinux is apperently security threat, Let's enrypt ends expiery notifications and Backdooring backdoors
Linux for some time banned as Cybersecurity threat on Facebook https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews Ending Support for Expiration…
No Tux AllowedWINE 10 Released, GTK4 is not Actually Broken, Bambu Attemps Vendor LockIn, and Paypal gets Fined for Being Cheap
WINE 10 Releases enabling Wayland and Windows ARM Support https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0 GTK4 Apps seem to be broken with pango 1.56…
No Tux AllowedThe Year of the Linux Desktop
Today we’re joined by Matt from The Linux Cast Looking Forward to 2025 Cosmic Desktop Release SteamOS General Release Windows 10 EOL More ARM Linux Laptops?…
No Tux AllowedCES, linux foundation and chromium and bigpod breaks his laptop
Linux foundation bands together Chromium stakeholders https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/google-meta-microsoft-and-…
No Tux AllowedEU goes USB C, FTC to investigate Microsoft, Meta to add more AI, and Samsung shows off a new Refridgerator
Josh has hardware issues… again so lets talk his insane temporary solution EU Makes USB the Standard of Choice…
No Tux AllowedLinux 6.12 benchmarks, Intel Arc BattleMage, Ransomware again and Of course end of year predictions
Phoronix Makes Linux 6.12 Look Pretty good https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-66-612-lts/3 Ascension Healthcare Suffered an Attack form Ransomware…
No Tux AllowedTPLink, Captcha, Axiom and Broken Homelabs.
TPlink might be banned https://www.techspot.com/news/106011-tp-link-routers-could-banned-us-over-national.html CAPTCHA Might be in trouble…
No Tux AllowedThunderbird, Mozilla, Cheating in Poker, and a New Steam Machine?
Thunderbird Turns 20 https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/12/celebrating-20-years-of-thunderbird/ Mozilla removes “Do Not Track” as it was ineffective…
No Tux AllowedNAS Getting Started
New Intel GPU in the house https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/12/intel-targets-budget-friendly-1440p-gaming-with-249-and-219-arc-b500-gpus/ A NAS we don’t…
No Tux AllowedMicrosoft Windows 365 Link and conversation Martin Wimpress Wimpy of Ubuntu Mate fame
Microsoft Windows 365Link https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/microsoft-builds-a-349-mini-desktop-but-only-for-accessing-windows-in-the-cloud/ Guest…
No Tux AllowedGoogle Cracks Down on SEO, Australia Hates Facial Recognition, and Good Guy Redhat
Google to crack down on “Parasitic SEO” sites: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/google-cracks-down-on-parasite-seo-punishing-established-publishers/…
No Tux AllowedMicrosoft announces Hyperlight, Record Labels fight ISPs, SuperMicro Loses Money
Microsoft introduces Hyperlight https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11/07/introducing-hyperlight-virtual-machine-based-security-for-functions-at-scale/…
No Tux AllowedMozilla Cuts Staff, EU Fines Apple, and ARM cancels Qualcomm like it's 2018
Mozilla Layoffs https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/mozilla-foundation-axes-30-staff-axes-advocacy-division EU fines Apple over it’s app store…
No Tux AllowedMalibal: Skill Issues
Malibal v. Coreboot https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-project/ And the Responses…
No Tux AllowedGetting a Little Savvy with Nik
Good bye ReiserFS with linux 6.13 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-To-Drop-ReiserFS Linus is Tired of “Buggy Hardware and Theoretical Attacks”…
No Tux AllowedLinux is Free, if You Value Your Time With Distrotube
Microsoft has enabled Recall in 24H2 https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-11-24h2-is-finally-here-and-microsofts-calling-it-a-full-os-swap-its-just-…
No Tux AllowedGoogling Gnome.io
Links: Gnome Funding https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/07/update-from-the-board-2024-10/ Judge Says Google Must Allow 3rd Party App Stores on Google Play…
No Tux AllowedTwo Linux users One CUPS CVE
Links: CUPS CVE 9.9? Eh maybe not that high but it’s pretty interesting. https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/ Also…
No Tux AllowedThe Wild History of a "Distrohopper"
Opensearch joins the Linux Foundation https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-opensearch-software-foundation-to-foster-open-collaborati…
No Tux AllowedWe've Done Ublue it Now
Ubuntu graphical Permission Manager https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Snap-Permissions Gnome looking a new Executive Director…
No Tux AllowedYubi Key's are Vulnerable???
Yubi Key’s are Vulnerable??? https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2024-03/ Bigpod’s Mastodon Adventures JellyFin https://jellyfin.org/ Send…
No Tux AllowedWhining about Bcachefs in Mono
WINE takes over Mono https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Gives-Mono-To-Wine Torvalds Regrests merging Bcachefs…
No Tux AllowedJust Stop it Already!
Links: Stop killing Games https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ Manjaro is shipping Cosmic, is this actually the next great desktop?…
No Tux AllowedMonopolizing Google
Google is a Monopoly PDF CrowdStrike RCA https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf…
No Tux AllowedThings end, Things suck
Funtoo is Dead https://forums.funtoo.org/topic/5182-all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end/ ToDo Apps suck Josh is gonna make a Distro, maybe We’re monetizing…
No Tux AllowedStriking Microsoft with the Crowd
CrowdStrike https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/major-outages-at-crowdstrike-microsoft-leave-the-world-with-bsods-and-confusion/…
No Tux AllowedOpen Sourcing The Government with an AI Waifu
Switzerland to use open source software only https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland the law…
No Tux AllowedMastodon Struggles and Light Themes
Self hosting mastodon https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/ Dark Theme vs Light theme…
No Tux AllowedSnapping Reddit with a Busy Flathub
We have a guest today! Zaney joined me while Bigpod is recovering from a his recent secret mission. Josh gave up on debian, it lasted about 4 weeks or so…
No Tux AllowedPatch Your Sh!t
Fedora finally dropping python 2, update openSSH NOW! AI so prevalent M$ostf is delaying it, and Some JavaScript stuff! Links: Fedora 41 potentially dropping…
No Tux AllowedTemperature and Privacy First Servers
Josh’s server room got way to hot we also talk about privacy and selfhosted applications Send us feedback! contact@tuxbase.com Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno…
No Tux AllowedRecalling Linux Mobile
Windows Recall https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-steps-with-recall-aa03f8a0-a78b-4b3e-b0a1-2eb8ac48701c Linux Phones…
No Tux Allowed2024 The Year of the Linux Desktop?
Linux > 2% market share? maybe https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ Google Search Algorithm Leaks?…
No Tux AllowedLets Make Some Content!
Josh’s first week with Ubuntu has been troublesome. Automagic suspend causing system to hang and crash NetworkManager randomly stopping? But no error output in…
No Tux AllowedUbuntu Is Not Actually That Bad...
Josh switched from Gentoo to Ubuntu and of course we talk about it. And we discuss programming languages and of course Bigpod is the only one of us who can…