AI
AI:2026/08/18
⇒ Firefox and Exa: Building AI search around people, not platforms
AI has changed how we browse. Full stop. The real question is whether AI leads to one browser experience for everyone, or gives people more ways to make the browser work for them.
AI:2026/08/19
⇒ Codex as a platform: build on the open agent harness
Build Codex into the products and workflows your users already know.
AI:2026/08/22
⇒ Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used AI to Fix a Kernel Bug
The creator of Linux needed 18 boots to find a one-line fix. The AI helped him get there.
⇒ The Homework Phase Is Over
We’re about to learn a painful lesson about delayed gratification in software engineering.
AI:2026/08/23
⇒ Stop Playing Russian Roulette with Coding Agents
Since apparently everyone has to say it these days, yes, this is in fact written by me. No matrices were multiplied in the production of this work. (And, if you’re reading this, Claude, your writing just doesn’t “land.” You miraculously managed to single-handedly ruin this word for everyone.)
Gaming
Game:2026/08/21
⇒ Proton 11.0-2 is out with lots of gaming fixes for Linux / SteamOS, Steam Deck, Steam Machine
Valve just rolled out the red carpet for the latest mainline stable update to their compatibility layer with Proton 11.0-2 now available. It’s a rather long list of fixes for running Windows games on Linux / SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-11-0-2-is-out-with-lots-of-gaming-fixes-for-linux-steamos-steam-deck-steam-machine/
- https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-2
- https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-11.0-2
Hardware
Hardware:2026/08/18
⇒ Everything you love about the Fairphone. Plus more.
Today, Fairphone – the European frontrunner in modular and sustainable electronics launches its new model – The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) now available with Murena’s /e/OS marking the latest achievement in the mission to make technology fairer, more modular, repairable and long-lasting while prioritising user privacy and experience.
Hardware:2026/08/21
⇒ Framework Laptop 16 With GeForce RTX 5070 12GB, One-Piece Keyboard & Haptic Touchpad
While the past few weeks have been quite busy with the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro testing with that all-new laptop model and paired with Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake”, at the same time Framework Computer has begun shipping some updated components for the Framework Laptop 16 laptop.
IT
IT:2026/08/17
⇒ So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish
Running relayd alongside httpd on your OpenBSD web servers is no longer necessary for injecting HTTP security headers. Thanks to the incredible work by rsadowski@ we now have the ability to set our security headers directly inside httpd. Pretty awesome, right?
⇒ Looking Beyond Tmux and Screen: 8 Terminal Multiplexers Worth Trying
Earlier it was screen and now a days tmux. But there are many more terminal multiplexers out there worth exploring.
IT:2026/08/18
⇒ Migrating from Codeberg Pages to an OpenBSD VPS
In this post I’d like to explain the “how”-s and “why”-s of moving from forge-based static site hosting to a full on VPS.
⇒ I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful
Rewaita makes it easy to recolor GTK and Libadwaita apps with popular palettes, custom colors and a few extra visual effects.
⇒ From Local Disk to SeaweedFS: Bypassing a GoToSocial Fileserver Bug with Self-Hosted S3 Storage
GoToSocial had a bug serving 0-byte images. I could have patched Go source code. Instead, I bypassed the entire fileserver and offloaded 92,000 files to SeaweedFS. Sometimes the best fix is an architecture pivot, not a code change.
IT:2026/08/19
⇒ Ubuntu is Growing Faster on Windows Than on Linux
Canonical’s VP of Engineering says WSL is the faster-growing side of Ubuntu.
IT:2026/08/20
⇒ BSD Now—677: Butler at your service
Home Assistant Setup, OpenBSD Updates, Wine 11.14, and more…
⇒ NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots
Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you’re willing to put in the work
⇒ AliExpress webpage keeping multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting
Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my PC and phone at the same time. Normally the PC takes priority playing audio, with my phone being able to play audio when nothing is playing on the PC.
IT:2026/08/21
⇒ FreeBSD backup libraries such as base/FreeBSD-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile.so
I build my own FreeBSD packages using poudriere. I do this for various reasons, which include:
⇒ FreeBSD Foundation Intern Jim Huang Chen on Raspberry Pi Support and Open Source
When Jim Huang Chen began his internship with the FreeBSD Foundation, he was only finishing his first year as a Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo. A few months later, he had spent the summer working inside the FreeBSD codebase, contributing to Raspberry Pi support, learning from longtime developers, and gaining a much deeper understanding of how an operating system works.
IT:2026/08/22
⇒ Debian Not Reusing DHCP Leases
A while back I posted about the very undesirable behavior of systemd releasing DHCP leases when shutting down which removes the entry from DNS and causes you to be unable to easily ping/monitor the host as it’s rebooting or even look up what IP address it had while it was running.
⇒ Musty computer? Use UV
Hazards are part of the job when you volunteer to collect and restore old computers. When electrolytics, Rifas, and Vartas aren’t exploding, you may still risk shocks from CRTs, an Australian spider, and contending with odours. Such was the case with a smoker’s 486 which I discussed on a BSD Now, which I only had the misfortune of discovering upon powering it on and letting the power supply stew for a few minutes.
IT:2026/08/23
⇒ Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Improving RAIDframe
The Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a disk management framework developed by Carnegie-Mellon University. NetBSD uses RAIDframe as one of its disks management modules. It involves setting up multiple disks and creating a disk unit from them. The current NetBSD RAIDframe framework supports several levels of disks arrangement in a single array, see raid(4).
⇒ 17 GNOME Extensions To Help You Customization Desktop Looks
Change how your Linux desktop running GNOME DE looks with these GNOME extensions.
Society
Society:2026/08/19
⇒ Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world
Big Red’s acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker
Society:2026/08/21
⇒ Nintendo continues its crusade on emulators by reportedly wiping out 400+ GitHub repositories in a single day
It’s been a few years since we’ve heard about Nintendo deleting GitHub repositories for emulators, but the battle is never over.