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In this one, we end up going deeper with the whole AI thing than we ever intended to. As it happens, news, our projects and tinkering and everything else just takes us down this path. We promise, though, it'll be worth it.

First up, Linus has gone full vibe code? Well... not really. If there's one guy that we'd expect to do a good job with shepherding an LLM to good results, it's him. But what does this mean for the Linux Kernel in the future? We'll find out.

Then, our journey into using AI-based Linux distros takes us to Makulu and Luma, but Luma turns out to still need a few weeks to bake. We'll come back to it, and in its place, Omarchy shows up. But even then, the focus strays away because Omarchy isn't really what's interesting about Omarchy!

Finally, what's next? Software development is dead... or so they say. We're still skeptical of the claim but it's hard to argue with the results. We'll follow this one along too, but at least ArtCraft is impressing some. Reverse engineering code just got scary for the big boys, but information wants to be free, right?

Coming up in this episode

The Kernel Is Lost!

We're Vibin with Makulu

And playing ContainerCraft

0:00 Cold Open

3:15 Is It Vibes or Assistance?

24:04 A Desktop CatAIstrophe

1:15:16 An Agentic Future

1:38:44 Next Time

1:40:42 Stinger

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Kernel Vibes

Linus turns to AI

Vibe coded vs. AI-assisted

Programming Obituary

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AI in my distro?

Makulu

Electra AI Center
### Luma

Lots of hype but early days. Check back later.

Ari
### Omarchy

Lots of sizzle. Carefully crafted scripts strung together.

Not everything worked as expected.
### You can add AI anywhere - Local on your machine

OpenCode

LMStudio

GPT4ALL

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What is in the future?

Artcraft

craft-apps Docker Image

ZDNet's thoughts

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In this episode we start out bantering about Gentoo and how it's not ebuilding/packaging Chromium anymore!

Then, in the meat of the show, we open with Firefox and its new 'facelift' which really just turns out to be a theme you can disable, a little more on the Chromium/Gentoo front, and Orion is now DEAD?! Why?

Next up, Cloudflare is diving into the ACME protocol business and directly competing against Let's Encrypt and the others that were doing just fine by themselves. Is this just a conspiracy to upsell you?

And finally, our questions about Caddy got responses, and we have to learn a whole lot to be able to answer them. We're one step closer to deciding how we're going to solve this problem. But until then, Caddy stays crusty. More opinions wanted! Is Fedora really EVERYONE'S favorite?

James Dean will fix everything.

0:00 Cold Open

2:03 Firefox Comes Full Squircle

35:27 Let's EnCloudflare

57:16 Y'all Really Like Fedora

1:16:08 Next Time

1:22:59 Stinger

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Firefox got its hair did... again

Let's Encrypt's days are numbered

Look at the little Bootc's

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Browser Watch

Firefox's new interface

Orion is dead

Save Us Servo!

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Cloudflare enters the certificate chat

Let's Encloudflare

Quantum safe certs

We've all heard of Let's Encrypt. Did you know about ZeroSSL? Cloudflare is coming for you.

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Follow-up on Caddy

pauldoo on Matrix

pauldoo uses a Fedora bootable container (bootc)

It is defined as a systemd quadlet

pauldoo uses a uCore image

TeamLinux01 on Discord

TeamLinux01 also uses Podman and uses Github actions to provide a Hugo static page

All of it is behind Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) which does the certificate management.

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Today in User Space

We end up covering quite a range of topics. First up, a question. When you want to use Caddy from the distribution's repo, it can't really be Ubuntu because it's old and crusty. We talk through a few options, but want to hear from you! Fedora? Arch? Alpine? What do you recommend?

Then, three months of pent up rage, aggression, worry and ethical concerns in and around AI and LLMs. This is a bit of a ride, and it has our usual meandering vibe to it, but it brings up so many good questions that there aren't any good answers to. Underneath it all, yes, we know that there are environmental issues as well as ethical ones, but neither of those are stopping many from using the technology. So where do we go from here? Those are the questions and thoughts we get into.

And finally, Internet Explorer! Thought it was dead? Think again. It's still a zombie, but even that will come to and end in a couple of years. We use this as a springboard to talk about Orion and Servo, and take a few shots at Google because they deserve it ;)

Overall, a great show, if a little long, but a good time was had which means we're just gonna keep doing it over and over again. Hope you enjoy!

Coming up in Season 7 Episode 1

Leo needs a new caddy

Will AI Doom Us All?

Time for Internet Exporer ESR?

0:00 Cold Open

3:28 A Crusty Ol' Caddy

30:27 Bad Decisions but More Faster

1:16:00 RIP IE, SMH

1:32:28 Next Time!

1:35:18 Stinger

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Leo's Caddy

Caddy Web Server

There are several install options.

Caddy is written in Go so just swapping the binary is possible.

Should Leo use Arch, Ubuntu Server, Fedora Server, or something else?

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AI, what is responsible use?

kernel.org uses Anubis

Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies.

AI keeps comitting crimes... Should they face charges?

Who gets the Kidney?

Linux on PS5 dev quits

Intel stops bug bounties.

Security Through Obscurity was never good, but now it's dead

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Internet Explorer is dying... in 3 years

Techspot article

Remember Silverlight?

W3C

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Coming up in this episode

Ubuntu's Ups and Downs

An KDE Linux Chat with Nate Graham

0:00 Cold Open

1:37 Ubuntu's Ups and Downs

24:04 The Present and Future of KDE Linux (with Nate)

1:08:43 AI and Unenforceable Policies (with Nate)

1:47:18 Next Time: Season 7!

1:53:47 Stinger

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Today in User Space we start out by covering a couple of the newest Ubuntu issues. Namely, the outages, but that alone wasn't terrible, until you added update failures that prevent folks that needed to from patching themselves against Copy Fail! Some good things, too, though. PS5 Linux is bringing all the nostalgia back from the PS3 era of full Linux desktop enjoyment.

Then, we let a guest, Nate Graham of KDE, crash the back half of the show, and it goes quite long! In the first half we hear everything from why Snaps could, but ultimately don't work for KDE Linux, Printing, and the possible future cadence of the OS once there's a full release (and more, of course). We actually split the interview in two to be a little more digestible and postable later on.

In the second half of the interview, we discuss our thoughts on AI, what's good (and mostly bad) about it all, and how KDE and Nate look at submissions and humanity. What we don't need, it seems, is unenforceable policies. Then, a couple final questions like what's up with Full Disk Encryption?

Let us know if this type of thing is what you'd like to hear more of.

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Ubuntu's Ups and Downs

Ubuntu's AI Ambitions

Ubuntu's DDoS

Discourse Post about the DDoS

PS5-Linux (based on Ubuntu)

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Interview With Nate Graham

Nate's Blog

KDE Linux

KDE Linux Wiki

KDE Discuss

KDE Linux Matrix

KDE Bug Tracker

This Week In Plasma

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🔭Next Time🔭 We're On Break

We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we plan to check in on Kagi, Orion and our KDE Linux journey.

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Coming up in this episode

LP Cam RAM is here

Closing the open source

Get your stars aligned

0:00 Cold Open

1:32 LPCAMM2 Might Change the Game

26:48 Malus in Wonderland

41:22 Reaching for the Stars

1:19:39 Next Time

1:23:26 Stinger

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Today in User Space we get excited for the future of Low Profile memory with LPCAMM2 showing up lately in the Framework 13 Pro's Intel boards

giving speed and power savings we've never seen before. On paper, it's as good as the Mac unified memory, but will it actually live up to the hype on the new Intel chips?

Then, we find out Malus is out here copying open source software and adjusting it enough that it becomes... liberated? Described as 'satire,' this tool, at least on its surface, does seem to do exactly what it says on the tin. But why?

And finally, we spend a lot of time talking about Ubuntu 26.04's release, and it turns out, some of the highlights are really interesting. Password feedback lets us meander into a much longer security debate about shoulder surfing, why TPM's and encryption are good, actually, the Gnome Resources app, which is surprisingly good, but we forgot to remember about it, and then we try to figure out when the right time to update really is.

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LPCAMM2 Memory is gaining traction

LPCAMM2 memory

Nextgen Framework

Framework 13 configurator

More of this will help the RAM situation

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Open Source can be magicked into Closed Source without Violating Copyright (Left)

Malus

archive.today link to 404 Media article

But shouldn't it be Public Domain?

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Ubuntu 26.04

OMG Ubuntu coverage

Release Announcement

Rust Coreutils update

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