California amended their AB-1856 Age Attestation law to exclude open source software using the Colorado exemption example. Thank you to the folks in California advocating for open source. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...

It was DNS

PC Gamer: "My time with Linux has been eye-opening, genuinely. Pop! OS is such a beautiful place to be. There was never a day when I got back to the office that I wasn't looking forward to booting up my PC and getting to do some work in the Cosmic environment." www.pcgamer.com/software/lin...

After Gitlab's recent announcement I am strongly considering migrating Redox OS to Forgejo, a truly open source community maintained project. about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-...

Why even have user accounts if one missing if statement in a multi-million line kernel gives everyone root

Native COSMIC printer setup and dialog were accepted for GSOC! Big thanks to Till Kamppeter for leading the initiative. summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/202... summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/202...

> force everyone out of wfh and back into the office > turn off the gasoline pump what did they mean by this

cosmic-text 0.19.0 has been released: github.com/pop-os/cosmi...

COSMIC 1.0.11 has been tagged. There's now a toggle for workspace wrapping, file names are selected up to the extension when renaming plus many more improvements. See the change summary at: github.com/pop-os/cosmi... Released on Pop and coming to your distro soon.

The latest COSMIC frosted glass WIP.

Join me on a tour of the @system76.bsky.social Denver factory where people transform raw materials into premium desktops and keyboards. youtu.be/9366taDty-k?... Thanks Pavel Dmitriev for visiting and recording the tour.

COSMIC 1.0.9 has been released. It includes performance improvements, input method support, text ellipsizing, wifi network search in settings, screenshots saved in a separate folder, and more polish and quality of life improvements. github.com/pop-os/cosmi...

COSMIC Sync Demo www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0Q...

Colorado Age Attestation bill update: Participants submitted proposed changes including improved consumer privacy and exempting open source software. Sen. Ball responded this morning that they'll now draft potential amendments. We're making progress.

Today, I met with Colorado Sen. Ball, co-author of CO OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051. Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility. No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.

Stop calling them datacenters in space and start calling them Space Slopera

I saw someone claiming that this is short-sighted and that someone should fork it without the new policy, since it would develop at "5×" the current rate. Genuinely, if you think you can fork RedoxOS, and long term improve its development by a 5× for more than the attention span of a grifter, do it.

Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy: gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/red...

Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵

IF I WANTED CLAUDE TO CHANGE MY CODE I WOULD ASK IT MYSELF, I DON'T NEED SOMEONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE PROJECT TO ASK CLAUDE TO MAKE CHANGES THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND

“With New York’s bill, liberty is lost.” Carl Richell, Founder of US-based System76, urges New York to reject S8102A OS-level age verification ⬇️

The Redox OS February report is out! This month was exciting: COSMIC Compositor, COSMIC Settings, NodeJS, Vulkan, Complete POSIX Signals, Fixed Nushell and Helix, More Boot Fixes, Better Multi-threading, Better Package Manager, Orbital Performance Monitor and more. www.redox-os.org/news/this-mo...

There has never been a time in my life when I have been less enthused to be a programmer than now.

These are my personal opinions about the operating system age bracket law passed in California (and coming to Colorado): www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/com...

Parents should parent their children, not websites, not operating systems, and not idiot politicians writing idiot age verification laws

cosmic-text 0.18.0 has been released with support for ellipsis github.com/pop-os/cosmi...

Ground-up redesigned @system76 Thelio hardware coming soon. ☑️ 10 months of design and engineering ☑️ Over 16,000 durability test runs ☑️ Over 250 hours of thermal testing and optimization #MiraMarch

Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

The purpose of a system is what it does and what our system does, globally, is allow the powerful to avoid any form of justice

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

I saw it too:

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

What is documented in the data is *worse*. 35% used AI after being told not too, and 25% continued after getting scolded for it. It's not just deteriorating their skills, its actively making them incapable of learning them again. The fact that Anthropic of all people is publishing this is wild.

"We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average." arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

I would love for conservative commentators to say their lies while this video is playing in the background youtube.com/shorts/oD7yo...

Many ICE agents attacking one person, no vehicle involved, person is shot to death after being motionless. www.reddit.com/r/law/s/HzJ5...

I made a vow to have peace (prizes), no matter how many people I have to kill to get it. - Donald "Peacemaker" Trump

Dear contributors to projects I work on, If you are programming with LLMs under the assumption that they will fill in the gaps in your own abilities, I can assure you that they will not. I prefer to not spend my time reviewing code you submit that you do not understand. Thank you, Jeremy

Packaging of the COSMIC DE 1.0.0 has begun for AerynOS! I’m so excited to be part of the AerynOS and COSMIC Desktop story! Hopefully, I can get the PR ready tonight to have it added to our volatile stream repo!

I want you to understand: ariadne.space/2025/12/02/i...

After a few nights of reading through thousands of pages of PRMs I have finally implemented a modesetting driver for Intel HD graphics on Redox OS: gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/bas.... There is much more to do, but there is now a clear path to native hardware accelerated graphics!

There's still some weirdness but I have mate-session running on Redox. We now have GTK, X11, wayland, d-bus, and dconf ported (though there are still some bugs). With these fundamentals in place, porting software from Linux has become much easier.

New user-agent just dropped

All of the conservative candidates for the Douglas County School Board lost with an average margin of about 6.5%. This is in Lauren Boebert's congressional district. People are tired.

The `bottom` system monitor (written in Rust) is now ported to Redox OS!

CuteCosmic - Plugins to the Qt toolkit that help make Qt (and KDE) applications look and feel more at home in the COSMIC™ Desktop environment. github.com/IgKh/cutecos...

cosmic-text 0.15.0 has been released: github.com/pop-os/cosmi...