Thanks to WINE, Proton, and Valve's hardware, a significant milestone has been achieved with 90% of Windows games running on Linux, making nine out of ten Windows games accessible on a new Linux installation. Users are flocking to other platforms during the transition from the Windows 10 to 11 eras. Thank you Microsoft once again for enabling the age of Linux gaming, you are our biggest marketing partner 😉
https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high/
I saw people getting upset over Rust bugs causing issues in Ubuntu for replacements for sudo and base utils. Let me tell you, all SDKs and languages have issues. Rust, by default, avoids many issues, especially memory safety. As long as they are fixing those bugs and compatibility issues, you are good to go. This is why using an LTS release is important, and they provide an easy way to switch between GNU and Rust utils
You can now use OCI Containers on FreeBSD. Here is a quick introduction to Containers on FreeBSD operating systems using Podman which is a fully featured container engine that is a simple daemonless tool. Podman provides a Docker-CLI comparable command line that eases the transition from other container engines and allows the management of pods, containers and images. Give it a try FreeBSD users and developers. You no longer need Linux server or desktop for dev work.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/oci-containers-on-freebsd/
End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.
The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.
This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.
Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446
Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it
What is a programming language you learned and mastered, but that is now completely obsolete in your work?
The website Keep Android Open is an initiative to protest and advocate against a new policy by Google which bans slideloding apps. The goal is to pressure Google to reverse or modify this policy to protect the open nature of the Android platform and the ability to sideload or use 3rd party app stores without excessive restrictions https://keepandroidopen.org
Anti bloat IDEs. The good old days when you didn't need an internet connection, an API key/LLM subscription to write more bloat. People still built awesome games, apps, and solved real life scientific problems.
Over the next 24 months, GitHub will be migrating its entire infrastructure to Azure. This infrastructure priority will result in delays to some feature development. This is the last step to kill the complete independence of Github and tighten up the grip on GitHub. https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-azure-over-feature-development/
I still use `pip` and requirements.txt. What about you?
Despite generating $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, OpenAI reported a net loss of $13.5 billion. In other words, ignore all sugar coating. They, are losing money heavily https://www.techinasia.com/news/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025
They abandoned the goal cancer cure to produce only rewritten text, images, and 10 second meme videos. They're burning capital on millions of GPUs. The classic VC model. Outspend rivals and use others' copyrighted work without solving a single critical problem. No human suffering solved
which one are you? depending upon the correct choice you may be able to join my Grill / Barbecue else we can’t be friends 🤣
they are asking for a valid question 😂
What’s the most disturbing, scary linux or unix command you’ve seen or executed ever?
the best mouse ever
junior dev: can you please give me an example of useful comments in my code?
Me: sure, good comments look like this ⤵️
oryx is a TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux that can do:
+ Real-time traffic inspection and visualization.
+ Comprehensive Traffic Statistics.
+ Firewall functionalities.
+ Metrics explorer.
+ Fuzzy search.
A good tool for sysadmins, developers and IT folks. https://github.com/pythops/oryx
For those in IT, what was your experience asking for a raise?
Paperless-ngx is a community supported opensource document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper. It is a free and opensource app
https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx?tab=readme-ov-file
UK users of Reddit, X, Insta, FB, Bluesky, TikTok, and many other popular platforms are now facing problems. They are being forced to verify their age using government issued IDs and a selfie. All of these for-profit corporations may use this information further for profit or may not even store user information securely. This is a nightmare scenario for many, and I wouldn't be surprised if other governments adopt similar laws.
If any random app asks for government issued IDs with a selfie, it's a major red flag. 🚩 Do not provide them. Please share this warning with all your friends/family. You should only provide government issued ID when it's for something critical, such as:
* Getting a passport
* Obtaining a citizenship card
* Acquiring a driving license
* Opening bank accounts
Any other request for your ID by any app will likely lead to it being leaked or sold, putting everyone at risk. It's a sad reality
The Tea app is vibe-coded and has over 4 million users. Users' private data was breached, and all government-issued verification IDs, photos, and private messages were leaked. This is why you need a good team of experienced developers, IT and infosec folks to secure your infrastructures. You can’t just vibe code using AI and get away with poor jobs. Now they are going to use the same shity AI in government and everywhere and we will see more such things. What a mess
Intel pull out of Germany, Poland, and Costa Rica as new CEO shrinks the company by a third. They are firing 24000 employees this year 😱 https://www.theverge.com/news/713388/intel-q2-2025-leave-germany-poland-costa-rica I am not sure if we will see any Intel production in next 10 years and eventually open source oses like Linux or BSD will drop support too if they go completely out of business.
My IT career spans back to the days we FTP'd straight to production. Pretty sure my first gray hair sprouted right then. And that, my friends, is how you know you're seasoned 🤣
The happiest IT or developer folks I know are all retired ones. I don't think it is a coincidence.
The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice.
The Danish government said on Thursday it would strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities with what it believes to be the first law of its kind in Europe https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence