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Adding a single dependency to a Node project and seeing the impact on package-lock.json is like watching a tsunami "ripple" across the entire ocean surface of the planet.
Developers using Node don't care about software supply chain security because they simply can't.
In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.
Instead of taking any part in the monthly wayland bashing bullshit, you could just read about how electron, one of the last X11 bastions, has adjusted to wayland. Super important work!
Fedora Linux 44 Beta is out and all the Atomic Desktops variants are ready for testing: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-44-beta/
We have two important removals for this cycle:
- Dropping FUSE2 libraries and thus support for AppImages that require them.
- Dropping old polkit pkla rules support
Latest GNOME, KDE Plasma and Budgie releases are also ready.
The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries.
The end of Windows 10 and the terrible state of Windows 11 are driving more and more people to Linux. How do we help people actually manage the switch and stay with Linux?
Talarico is the real fucking deal.
"The culture wars are a smoke screen, because the real fight in this country is not left vs right, it's top vs bottom."
RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/116012138793658309
Looks like some meaningful change is finally coming to Nexcloud
I just wrote a new blog post about my migration from NGINX Ingress Controller to Envoy Gateway with Cloudflared. It goes into some pretty good detail, so it might be useful for anyone that has yet to make the jump!
https://blog.jameswynn.com/posts/2026/01/migrating-to-gatewayapi/
Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug bounty program is ending, Raspberry Pi has new underwhelming hardware, and European AWS hasn’t won Félim over. Plus a reminder about the upcoming OggCamp event, and a call for participation.
Martin Wimpress
The Late Night Linux Family
Sebastian Wick
Timothée Ravier
Carl George 
James Wynn 🧐