Late Night Linux – Episode 341

Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, ...  Show more

The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale ...  Show more

There have been major Rust developments in the Linux Kernel; we discuss what's new and how it will impact the future. Plus, we're joined by a special guest.

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We tested out the OpenWRT One and tried it in a unique use case. Then, Wes goes back to 1999 to solve a problem.

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Why was DeepSeek banned by Italian authorities? What internal proprietary DeepSeek data was found online? What is "DeepSeek" anyway? Why do we care, and what does it mean? Did Microsoft just make OpenAI's strong model available for free? Google explains how generative AI can be a ...  Show more

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include China forcing Apple to remove VPN apps from the Chinese App Store, Wi-Fi vs. LTE networking, the open workspaces in Apple Park, Glenn's new letterpress project, the HomePod OS leak and iPhone D22, and more.