Why a Revenue Share Program Is the Part Open Source Skips
Most open-source launches are about what the project will let you do. Read the source, run the binary, fork it, ship your own build. That part has become table stakes. The part…
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The Plumbing Behind Local Agents Is Finally Catching Up to the Models
Most local AI agents today are about six months ahead of their plumbing. The model gets a question right and the agent forgets it asked two steps ago. The model hallucinates a…
The Quiet Politics Behind Your Browser’s AI Sidebar
Browsers used to be a place to render web pages. Somewhere along the way they became the lobby of the building where all the rest of your software waits in line. Address…
Fedora 45 Beta is the upgrade worth testing this weekend
Why I cleared the weekend I have been quietly dreading this release. The September 15, 2026 Fedora 45 Beta is the first one in years where the jump underneath the surface felt…
Thunderbird 156 quietly closes the gap on self hosted mail OAuth
My home mail server has been the canary for Thunderbird’s custom OAuth support for about a year. Every few weeks, the desktop client pops a warning asking me to re-enter my password,…
your inbox is an audit log this local app reads it for you
The other morning I went looking for a receipt from a vendor I used once, two years ago, and the search bar surfaced eleven mailing list confirmations I had completely forgotten I…
switzerland moves 3000 government pcs off microsoft365
Most weeks, the open source news cycle feels like background hum. New kernel version. Some fork nobody asked for. A flame war about init systems on a forum somewhere. This week landed…
tidb is the third option when mysql outgrows one box
There is a specific kind of meeting that ends with the words “we should shard.” The traffic chart is climbing, the write master is sweating, and someone has just calculated that the…
omarchy quiz exposes what fans actually know in 2026
Open any Linux-adjacent feed in 2026 and Omarchy fills the frame. YouTube thumbnails, Reddit threads, the Slack channel where people argue about window managers. Some of the hype is earned. A new…
onyx launcher 1.6.3 is the minecraft launcher linux has been missing
Most Linux Minecraft players I know have a love-hate relationship with their launcher. The launcher they love works fine on Windows. The launcher they hate is the one they actually run. The…