How a fingerprint reader stopped my AI agent from running wild
For the six months before I wired up a wireless fingerprint reader, I had a recurring morning ritual: I would check git, find that an agent had pushed to a remote I…
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Omarchy Shadowfetch and Gnoppix each make a different bet about trust
If you read the marketing pages for the AI-focused Linux distros that showed up in 2026, you would think the question is which one has the best features. It is not. The…
Patrick Volkerding just shipped the first Slackware 16 alpha
The Slackware 16 alpha is the kind of release I want to read slowly before reacting to. Patrick Volkerding (Slackware’s long-time lead maintainer) tagged Alpha 1 on September 5, 2026, which lands…
the ur project is the lesson clear linux never published
You can ship a technically excellent Linux distribution for years and still lose the contributors you needed. Kok spent eight years at Intel on Clear Linux OS before starting The Ur Project.…
For Honor shows why Steam Deck compatibility is rented
A green “Play” button on a Steam Deck is not a long-term promise. It tells a player that the software runs under the current arrangement. It does not tell anyone that a…
barney is dohertys answer to omarchy, not to your distro needs
If you have ever wondered whether a Linux distribution is something you build or something you download, the answer is usually “both, on different days”. Ikey Doherty’s Barney lands on the build…
Firefox 155 and Debian 13 reward boring, user-first choices
Linux news is easiest to misread when every item arrives as a feature announcement. A faster browser, a major Debian deployment, a phone bridge, and an office suite without artificial intelligence can…
how a compiler flag pushed CERN off Red Hat and onto Debian
A migration that started with a toolchain decision Engineers at CERN are pulling more than 2,200 industrial computers and embedded controllers off of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and onto Debian 13. The…
AEO tooling is mostly noise until you measure referral traffic
A maintainer writing docs that AI answers cite without ever sending a visitor back is the new version of an old problem, and most of the AEO (Answer Engine Optimization, the practice…
Stop auditing the model and start auditing the stack
The audit your AI workload is missing is not the one your vendor demo covers. Most teams I have looked at recently treat AI security as a separate discipline, hand it off…