3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (594+ words) Starling is a new open source Linux desktop environment. One developer built it by directing Claude for about six months, ending up with a working desktop that boots into its own session with a compositor and window manager. Don't think…...

3+ hour, 26+ min ago   (859+ words) Running local AI models has become surprisingly accessible. Install Ollama, pull a model, and you can start chatting with it in minutes. That's exactly how I began my journey with local AI. Using an LLM directly in terminal is okayish…...

7+ hour, 20+ min ago   (595+ words) Open source projects have mostly split into two camps on AI. Some keep a human in the loop, letting contributors use whatever tools they want as long as they take responsibility for the result. Others have gone further and banned…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (876+ words) From the Git repo's README to blogs, Markdown is everywhere in the tech world in general. I have been using Markdown for years. That's what I use for writing the articles here. While I often write directly in the CMS,…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (577+ words) OpenUK recently published its AI Openness report, and buried inside the 40-page document is a big ask from the UK government. Build Britain its own foundation that holds code, governance, and standards the way the Linux Foundation (LF) does in…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (611+ words) Jellyfin, the local media server solution that makes people forget that Plex even exists, is going through a major shakeup in its development team's organizational structure. In a forum post published a few days ago, founder Joshua Boniface confirmed that…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (512+ words) Michael Catanzaro is stepping away from managing GNOME's security issue tracking, a role he has held largely by himself since November 2020, with support from Red Hat. He calls the work mostly administrative, following each report from the moment it lands…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (500+ words) Humble Bundle and O'Reilly have put together a pay-what-you-want Linux collection called Linux: All the Things (partner link), and it's built to take you from basic command-line comfort to container orchestration across fifteen eBooks. O'Reilly doesn't really need an introduction....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (559+ words) No! It will take quite some time, and you will perish before that happens. Elon Musk has announced that X's entire codebase will go open source once xAI wraps up an internal review for security vulnerabilities. He says they will…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (495+ words) Testing experimental software is a hassle right now. You either wait for a stable release, or you dive into the pit of nightly builds hoping the whole thing doesn't fall on your head. That gets worse on image-based systems like…...