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• Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync
• fogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commit
• Flathub No LLM Policy — We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.
• Reword LLM policy to make it clear it's not allowed - flathub-infra
• Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTube
• GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator - Phoronix
• QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix
• Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 - Phoronix
• Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI - Phoronix
• GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week - Phoronix
• mnemosyne: The Zero-Dependency, Sub-Millisecond AI Memory System for Hermes Agents and Everyone Else!
• Markdown First: A Proposal for the Agent-Readable Web — BitCryptic
• Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
• Pick: OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.

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• Warp — Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code.
• Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery — "This patchset was kindly tested by a user from India who accidentally wiped one drive out of a three drive filesystem with no replication on the family computer - it took a couple weeks but we got everything important back."
• Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches — "[...] but hey, if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap."
• Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME
• F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation — Switch the default desktop experience for Workstation to KDE Plasma. The GNOME desktop is moved to a separate spin / edition, retaining release-blocking status.
• Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation - Fedora Project Wiki
• 412linux.io — N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick Sync
• Pick: FreeTube — FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.
• FreeBSD Speedruns — The zero-to-desktop FreeBSD speedrun category records the time taken from the first boot of a FreeBSD image, through installation, to the display of a desktop environment or window manager.
• FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge — The operations and commands that needed to be done took me 1:33 and installation of base.txz/kernel.txz datasets took 0:28. Downloading and installing needed pkg(8) packages took 2:22 of time.