About this episode
It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel’s lack of interest, and wins for KDE.
Gaming
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Steam Deck LCD production is ending
AI bullshit
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden
ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
FSF calls Anubis malware
It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
Mozilla
Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
An update on our Terms of Use
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Investing in what moves the internet forward
When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why
