Firefox Colour Theme Adapt Add-On Firefox looks decent enough on Ubuntu, right? But it doesn’t look very colourful by default, which is where add-ons and themes come in — one I was tipped to recently is certainly eye-catching. And…

[OMG! Ubuntu] Firefox Colour Theme Adapt Add-On

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When Linus Met Linus: Insights from Torvalds’ Conversation with LTT Linus Torvalds shares stories and views about Linux in a detailed conversation with YouTube host Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips.

[Linuxiac] When Linus Met Linus: Insights from Torvalds’ Conversation with LTT

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Former Intel Open-Source Project SVT-VP9 Sees First Update In 5 Years The open-source SVT-VP9 project started by Intel as a high performance VP9 video encoder has seen its first new release in five years...

[Phoronix] Former Intel Open-Source Project SVT-VP9 Sees First Update In 5 Years

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HTML-ปรากฏชัยชนะ บนถนนยองเกในตอนเหนือ โครงการเว็บแคนาดาใหม่จะประสบความสําเร็จ.

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Slint | Cossmology Declarative GUI toolkit for native user interfaces

Slint - Declarative GUI toolkit for native user interfaces (@slint.dev)

Cossmology Profile: https://dub.sh/CpryFBk

Key People: Olivier Goffart, Simon Hausmann

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Marker Data 2.0.0 has been released! This major release brings a Liquid Glass redesign, #macos Tahoe & #FinalCutPro 12 compatibility, #Excel image embedding, and many under-the-hood improvements.

#fcp #postchat #postsky #opensource #macOSDev #SwiftUI #Swift #buildinpublic

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🐧 **Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.01 Is Out with More Accessibility Improvements**

The Emmabuntüs Collective informs 9to5Linux.com today about the general availability of Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.01 as the first point release to the latest Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 series ...

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Would people use OpenSCAD more often if the tools for creating .scads were better? Pondering open source hardware and the barriers preventing it from being more like open source software (with vetted libraries of modular components, alternatives to paid products, etc).

#OpenSCAD #Opensource #3D

[$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window As of this writing, 4,124 non-merge commits have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.19 kernel development cycle. That is a relatively small fraction of what can be expected this time…

[LWN.net] [$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window

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Audacity 3.7.6 Audio Editor Adds FFmpeg 8 Support Audacity 3.7.6 patch update introduces FFmpeg 8 compatibility, Wavelet spectrograms, middle-mouse panning, cloud upload fixes, and library updates.

[Linuxiac] Audacity 3.7.6 Audio Editor Adds FFmpeg 8 Support

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🐧 **Peropesis 3.2 keeps the CLI-only world alive with the 6.18.2 kernel, Bash 5.3, and more**

With version 3.2, Peropesis continues to deliver a fresh yet old-school Linux experience by relying exclusively on the command line interface

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Audacity 3.7.6 Audio Editor Adds FFmpeg 8 Support, Spectrogram Wavelet Analysis Audacity 3.7.6 open-source digital audio editor and recording software is now available for download with FFmpeg 8 support, Spectrogram Wavelet analysis, and other changes. Here's what's new!

[9to5Linux] Audacity 3.7.6 Audio Editor Adds FFmpeg 8 Support, Spectrogram Wavelet Analysis

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🐧 **SILE – typesetting system for Linux**

SILE (Simon’s Improved Layout Engine) is a modern typesetting system designed for producing high-quality printed documents. The post SILE – typesetting system for Linux appeared first on LinuxLinks.

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Raspberry Pi OS Now Lets You Safely Eject HDD and NVMe Drives Connected via USB Raspberry Pi OS 2025-12-04 is now available for download with the ability to safely eject HDD and NVMe drives connected via USB and other changes. Here's what's new!

[9to5Linux] Raspberry Pi OS Now Lets You Safely Eject HDD and NVMe Drives Connected via USB

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Cascade — Icons for CSS Properties An open-source icon set where every icon represents a CSS property–value pair. Copy as SVG or React component.

#Design #Launches
Cascade Icons · Hand-crafted icons for CSS properties and their values ilo.im/16bmug by Andrew Flett

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Raspberry Pi OS December Update Adds Safe USB Drive Eject Raspberry Pi OS adds safe USB HDD/NVMe eject, a new Alt-F2 run dialog in Labwc, and multiple stability fixes in its December update.

[Linuxiac] Raspberry Pi OS December Update Adds Safe USB Drive Eject

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Phase 3: Profit — The GitHub Story _Part of the ongoing_ _Big Tech’s War on Users_ _series._ Earlier this past week, GitHub announced that starting April 24th, your Copilot interaction data will be used to train Microsoft’s AI models. By default. Unless you find the setting and turn it off. It’s worth pausing on that word — _default_. Because in 2018, when Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion, developers were nervous. This was Microsoft — the company that called Linux “a cancer,” bundled Internet Explorer to kill competition, and had spent decades treating developers as a captive audience. Handing them the world’s largest code host felt like handing the keys to the commons over to a landlord. Satya Nadella knew exactly what he was walking into. So he made a promise. Specific, public, on the record — from the official Microsoft blog: > “We are committed to being stewards of the GitHub community, which will retain its developer-first ethos, operate independently and remain an open platform.” And then he invited accountability — his exact words: > “When it comes to our commitment to open source, judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today, and in the future.” Okay. Let’s do that. ## Phase 1: Collect Underpants (2018) The acquisition announcement was a carefully managed reassurance campaign. Nat Friedman — a respected open source figure, founder of Xamarin — was installed as CEO specifically to signal continuity. The message was consistent across every channel: GitHub would remain independent. Developer-first. A neutral commons. Not a Microsoft product. It worked. Developers who had started migrating to GitLab came back or stayed. The GitHub community largely gave Microsoft the benefit of the doubt. Nadella had spent years rehabilitating Microsoft’s relationship with open source and this felt like the logical extension of that goodwill. The trust was real. It was also load-bearing. ## Phase 2: ??? (2025) Seven years later, in August 2025, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced he was stepping down. Microsoft did not announce a replacement. Instead, GitHub was folded into Microsoft’s CoreAI division under Jay Parikh, executive vice president. No fanfare. No “we’re evolving the structure.” Just a reorganization that ended GitHub’s operational independence and positioned it explicitly as a component of Microsoft’s AI infrastructure. The independence promise didn’t expire with an announcement. It just quietly stopped being true. ## Phase 3: Profit (2026) On March 25th, GitHub announcedthat starting April 24th, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve Microsoft’s AI models. By default. Unless you find the setting and turn it off. What counts as interaction data is worth reading carefully: * Inputs sent to GitHub Copilot * Outputs accepted or modified by you * Code context surrounding your cursor position * Comments and documentation you write * File names, repository structure, and navigation patterns * Interactions with Copilot features * Feedback — thumbs up/down ratings And who gets it? GitHub, and its affiliates. Which, as they specifically note in their updated privacy statement, includes Microsoft. If you’re on Copilot Business or Enterprise, none of this applies to you. Your corporate contract prohibits it. You’re protected. If you’re an individual developer — open source contributor, indie hacker, someone who touches their employer’s codebase from a personal account — you’re in until you opt out. The responsibility to do so is entirely yours. ## The Reversal Is Documented This isn’t a new policy being introduced. It’s an old promise being broken. In November 2025 — four months ago — a GitHub maintainer answered this exact question in the community forums: > “By default, GitHub, its affiliates, and third parties do not use your data (prompts, suggestions, code snippets) for AI model training. This setting cannot be enabled — it’s off and stays off.” Cannot be enabled. Off and stays off. That answer is now wrong. As of April 24th, for 26 million users, it’s on and stays on unless you turn it off yourself. ## The Windows Connection Here’s where the timing becomes something more than coincidence. Five days before the GitHub announcement, on March 20th, Windows president Pavan Davuluri published what I called a landmark “we hear you” post — promising to fix Windows 11. Less Copilot. Fewer ads. Movable taskbar. A calmer OS. Same week. Different audience. Different message. The developer and enthusiast community responded cautiously but positively. Microsoft was listening. Things were changing. Same week. Same company. One hand pulling Copilot back from the Start menu. The other hand quietly routing your code into the Copilot training pipeline. I wrote in that post that a calmer cage is still a cage. I didn’t know quite how literal that was going to get, quite that fast. The consumer audience gets the soothing blog post. The developer audience gets the policy update. Different pressure release valves for different communities — but the same direction of travel underneath. ## The Class System Nobody Is Talking About Enough GitHub’s own FAQ explains the individual/enterprise split plainly: business and enterprise customers have contracts that prohibit this use of their data. Those agreements are honored. Individual users — the open source contributors, the hobbyists, the people who _built the community that made GitHub worth $7.5 billion_ — get opted in by default. One commenter on Hacker News framed it generously: this is standard B2B SaaS practice. Enterprise DPAs include ML training carve-outs that free users don’t get. That’s true. It’s also exactly the point. The community that was promised stewardship and independence is getting consumer-tier treatment. The enterprise customers paying the big contracts get the protection that stewardship actually looks like. The people who made this platform worth buying are not the people being protected by it. ## What The Developer Community Is Doing Migration guides to Codeberg and Forgejo started appearing within hours of the announcement. Not rage-tweets. Documentation. Step-by-step instructions for moving repositories, redirecting links, rebuilding CI pipelines. This matters because the switching cost is genuinely high. These aren’t casual users threatening to delete an app. These are people with years of commit history, issue threads, CI configurations, and public presence tied to GitHub. When developers with that much to lose start writing exit documentation rather than filing angry issues, that’s a meaningful signal. Worth noting: a significant chunk of the GitHub open source community is already on Linux or Mac. The Windows “we hear you” post wasn’t aimed at them and didn’t land for them. The Microsoft goodwill tour doesn’t apply to the audience most affected by this policy change. They were already skeptical. This confirms it. ## The Private Repository Sleight of Hand GitHub draws a careful distinction between data “at rest” and active interactions. Your private repository contents, sitting on their servers, are not used for training. But if you’re actively working in that private repository with Copilot enabled — your code context, your cursor position, your comments, your file structure — that’s interaction data. That’s in scope. Unless you opt out. If you’re an individual developer working on a personal account who sometimes touches your employer’s proprietary codebase, that’s worth sitting with for a moment. ## The Opt-Out Friction Problem Community reaction on Reddit and Hacker News has been pointed, with a consistent complaint beyond the policy itself: the opt-out instructions are confusing and inconsistent across different GitHub documentation pages. The setting is at: GitHub Account Settings → Copilot → Privacy → “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training” → Disabled. If you use multiple GitHub accounts, you need to do it for each one separately. Data retention if you don’t opt out: up to five years, though often shorter per GitHub’s FAQ. ## Nadella Said Judge Them By Their Actions Eight years of receipts: * 2018: GitHub will operate independently, retain developer-first ethos, remain open platform * 2021: Nat Friedman steps down, Thomas Dohmke takes over — independence maintained on paper * 2025: Dohmke out, GitHub absorbed into CoreAI, independence ends without announcement * 2026: Individual developer code routes into Microsoft AI training by default The promise was load-bearing. The trust it bought was real, and it’s been spent. Twenty-six million developers are on a platform whose terms just materially changed. Nadella said judge them by their actions. He was right to invite that. It’s the only honest standard. ## What To Do **Opt out now** if you haven’t: GitHub Settings → Copilot → Privacy → disable “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training.” Do it for every account. **Consider your architecture.** GitHub as a primary with no alternative is a single point of trust failure that just demonstrated it can fail. GitHub as a mirror to a self-hosted Gitea or Forgejo instance, or to Codeberg for public repos, is a different relationship entirely — you’re using their infrastructure as a utility without depending on their goodwill. For what it’s worth, my setup is self-hosted Gitea as the actual source of truth — my NixOS configs and other bits live there, with GitHub as a mirror mostly for shareability and discoverability. I’d already flipped the opt-out before writing this. But I’m now actively looking for a different public-facing home, and rethinking how I handle private repos entirely. I’ll cover what I actually decided to do in an upcoming home server post — but the short version is that this policy change is the thing that finally pushed me to treat private code like any other sensitive data on my infrastructure rather than something I hand to a third party and hope for the best. If you want to go the self-hosted route, Part 11 of my home server series covers setting up Gitea. If Codeberg is more your speed — hosted, nonprofit, EU-based, no VC money — there’s a solid practical migration guide on DEV written this week by someone who just did it. And if you want to self-host Forgejo specifically, this walkthrough covers the full process including CI setup via Forgejo Actions. The official Codeberg migration docs are also worth bookmarking — built-in GitHub import handles issues, PRs, labels and releases with checkboxes, not command line gymnastics. **Watch the policy.** It changed once with 30 days notice. The precedent is set. The commons was never really free. It was subsidized by developer trust that accumulated over decades and has now been drawn down in service of a $7.5 billion acquisition’s AI strategy. Judge them by their actions. Nadella’s words. Still good advice. _Find me on Mastodon at_ _@ppb1701@ppb.social_ _Part of the ongoing_ _Big Tech’s War on Users_ _series._

Phase 1: Acquire developer trust. Phase 2: ???. Phase 3: Your code trains our AI by default. The GitHub story.

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Reddit Strangers Built an Open Source Linux Handheld, And They Want Your Help A fully modular development tool that you can build, modify, and extend yourself.

[It's FOSS] Reddit Strangers Built an Open Source Linux Handheld, And They Want Your Help

#Linux #OpenSource

Proxmox Launches Datacenter Manager 1.0 With Rust-Powered Interface Proxmox releases Datacenter Manager 1.0 with centralized control, unified dashboards, and multi-cluster management for VE and Backup Server.

[Linuxiac] Proxmox Launches Datacenter Manager 1.0 With Rust-Powered Interface

#Rust #OpenSource

Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series. The Mesa point releases are typically bi-weekly but this one dragged out to nearly three weeks. In turn this…

[Phoronix] Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End

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We are One Community - Let's Create Global Transformation Together This page is about how anyone can help One Community create historic global change that will positively impact every person and living creature on this planet. We are interested in working with those…

What would an open-source world look like—and how do we build it? 🌍

This all-volunteer approach shares solutions for food, energy, housing, education, and more—designed for global collaboration.
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[$] A "frozen" dictionary for Python Dictionaries are ubiquitous in Python code; they are the data structure of choice for a wide variety of tasks. But dictionaries are mutable, which makes them problematic for sharing data in…

[LWN.net] [$] A "frozen" dictionary for Python

#Python #OpenSource

EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes The merged EXT4 changes for Linux 6.19 bring some of the most prominent feature changes in recent times for this mature and widely-used Linux file-system...

[Phoronix] EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes

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Banana Pi BPI-CM6 with SpacemiT K1 RISC-V chip design.
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cmocka 2.0 released Andreas Schneider has announced version 2.0 of the cmocka unit-testing framework for C: This release represents a major modernization effort, bringing cmocka firmly into the "modern" C99 era while…

[LWN.net] cmocka 2.0 released

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ReactOS Lands Improvements For Its USB Stack - Fixing Various Blue Screens of Death ReactOS as the open-source operating system aiming to be an "open-source Windows" by striving for binary compatibility with Windows programs and device drivers is now slightly better with its USB…

[Phoronix] ReactOS Lands Improvements For Its USB Stack - Fixing Various Blue Screens of Death

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OASIS Approves ODF 1.4, Advancing Vendor-Neutral Document Standards OpenDocument Format 1.4 is now an approved OASIS Standard, bringing new accessibility, security, and formatting improvements while preserving full compatibility.

[Linuxiac] OASIS Approves ODF 1.4, Advancing Vendor-Neutral Document Standards

#InfoSec #OpenSource

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🐧 **Enroll – fingerprint management**

Enroll offers fingerprint management for single and multi-user systems. Allows you to register, verify and delete prints. The post Enroll – fingerprint management appeared first on LinuxLinks.

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There is No Future for Online Safety Without Privacy and Security Alexander Linton on building decentralized messaging and why platform-wide content moderation is impractical on encrypted platforms.

[It's FOSS] There is No Future for Online Safety Without Privacy and Security

#InfoSec #OpenSource

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