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Proton goes A.I. crazy, Ubuntu goes all SNAP, Vibe-coded Linux compatible kernel - Linux Weekly News (tilvids.com)
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Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:54 Sponsor: TuxCare 02:14 Proton makes worrying move stowards AI 07:30 Ubuntu pushes Core Desktop again 11:16 Firefox 159, 160, and ad campaign 14:02 X.org dev praises the design of Wayland 16:10 SystemD adds Rust support for new modules 17:34 Rocky Linux creator wrote his own kernel using AI 20:27 Bottles dev talks vibe cloned software, AI and other projects 23:59 Fedora 45 delayed again 25:12 Spotify Client for GNOME 26:27 Flathub shuts down their Forums 28:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links Proton makes worrying move stowards AI https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-is-re-interviewing-staff-about-how-they-use-ai-and-their-jobs-could-depend-on-the-answers https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

Ubuntu pushes Core Desktop again https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/accelerating-ubuntu-core-desktop/90547

Firefox 159, 160, and ad campaign https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-firefox-159-improves-linux-wayland-support-adds-new-tab-search/ https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-160-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/come-back-to-firefox/

X.org dev praises the design of Wayland https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jamey-Sharp-Praises-Wayland

SystemD adds Rust support for new modules https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/44324

Rocky Linux creator wrote his own kernel using AI https://itsfoss.com/news/ginux/

Bottles dev talks vibe cloned software, AI and other projects https://itsfoss.com/interview/mirko-brombin-raven/ https://useraven.org

Fedora 45 delayed again https://linuxiac.com/fedora-linux-45-delayed-again-new-release-date-set-for-november-3/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/EWDOYT6TOMFY4XPL5MJC2QWCDJBOR6MU/

Spotify Client for GNOME

https://linuxiac.com/meet-riff-an-open-source-spotify-client-built-for-gnome/

Flathub shuts down their Forums https://docs.flathub.org/blog/discourse-deprecation

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I found out about Proton yesterday, reading much of the article (the rest was behind a paywall), and it is absolutely gut-wrenching. I have been a loyal, paying customer of theirs for years now, and have recommended their services to people when the opportunity arose. GenAI is poison, once it comes out that even for a while they used it to develop their applications and services without anywhere close to enough human oversight, it casts doubt about the security and privacy they have promised all these years.I could live with them using AI to help streamline some of the more boring and repetitive tasks in programming, not happy about it, but I could live with it. But if genAI becomes the main driver of programming with barely any human oversight, if any at all, I can not reconcile that with the Proton as it has presented itself thus far. GenAI is anathema to what I have valued about Proton, and I sincerely hope the backlash grows such that Andy Yen has to either reverse course or is outright removed from his position for this. If there is anyone displaying "loser thinking" here, it's him and his fellow executives pushing for this.

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