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UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/uk-l…
#Valve #Steam #Gaming #PCGaming
UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages
Valve, creator of Steam, now face legal action in the UK as a lawsuit has been given the go-ahead that could result in up to £656 million in damages.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
AI pull requests are making people feel crazy.
Summary: An AI bot called "Claude" posts "pull requests" (suggestions to fix and improve open source projects) on GitHub. Users are also submitting AI generated pulls and it's wasting the time of the people who need to check and approve or reject these "improvements."
In the world of GitHub doing 'pull requests' gives devs a bit of status, but AI has upended this system and destroyed trust and annoyed many people.
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Most striking in this video was the plea that people "get to know the project and the people" --
Open issues, known bugs, feature requests... it's like some people think that you could just run AI and close them all and the development would be done. But software development is a conversation: something people do together, code is just the medium.
It's like saying "I have solved birthdays since birthday bot will give everyone a cupcake and card automatically."
No you ruined birthdays.
loss32 looks like something very niche. 🕵️
loss32 is a Linux Distro Nobody Asked For (But Still Has Its Use)
This sure sounds like a meme project, but there's more to it!Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
The popular Arch-based distro CachyOS gets a new release with a significantly reworked installer gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-…
The popular Arch-based distro CachyOS gets a new release with a significantly reworked installer
The CachyOS madness hasn't quite caught on for me, but I definitely want to take a good look at what all the fuss is about soon - and there's a big new release.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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MECHBORN is a roguelike deckbuilder that fuses '90s mech anime with Greek mythology gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/mech…
#MECHBORN #IndieGames #PCGaming
MECHBORN is a roguelike deckbuilder that fuses '90s mech anime with Greek mythology
MECHBORN captured my attention with the wild sounding setting that blends elements of a '90s mech anime with Greek mythology inside a deck-builder.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4.1 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-…
#Minigalaxy #GOG #Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming
The simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4.1 is out now
Minigalaxy is a simple and to the point GOG client for Linux, making it easier to download and install all your GOG games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
“UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs”
Here we go again ey
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UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
The vote marks a stunning turn, pulling VPNs and private platforms into an age-check regime once unthinkable in a democracy.Cindy Harper (Reclaim the Net)
Plague Inc: Evolved gets a "vastly improved playing experience on Steam Deck" gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/plag…
#SteamDeck #Linux #SteamOS #PlagueIncEvolved
Plague Inc: Evolved gets a "vastly improved playing experience on Steam Deck"
Plague Inc: Evolved is a classic strategy sim that's still going strong and a new update was released to make playing it on Steam Deck even better.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
ARC Raiders latest update adds a Solo vs Squads mode, long-term Trophy Display project and lots more gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/arc-…
#ARCRaiders #Linux #Proton #SteamDeck #Gaming #SteamOS
ARC Raiders latest update adds a Solo vs Squads mode, long-term Trophy Display project and lots more
While it may not yet be the extra content many players are hoping for, the latest ARC Raiders update overall sounds pretty great actually to pull me back in.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-…
#GOG #Linux #LinuxGaming #PCGaming
GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier"
Will 2026 truly be the real year of Linux gaming on the desktop? Perhaps! And now even GOG are hiring towards building up their Linux support for GOG Galaxy.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"Actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools to increase team efficiency and code quality"
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Heroic Games Launcher v2.19 released adding ZOOM Platform, AppImage updates and more gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/hero…
#HeroicGamesLauncher #Linux #SteamOS #PCGaming #SteamDeck
Heroic Games Launcher v2.19 released adding ZOOM Platform, AppImage updates and more
Heroic Games Launcher remains as one of the best ways to play games from GOG, Epic and Amazon on SteamOS / Linux and Steam Deck with a new version out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valve released Proton 10.0-4 bringing more game compatibility to SteamOS / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valv…
#Proton #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #Steam #Valve
Valve released Proton 10.0-4 bringing more game compatibility to SteamOS / Linux
The latest stable numbered version of Valve's compatibility layer Proton has arrived. Proton 10.0-4 brings lots of fixes and new game support for SteamOS Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Friendica 2026.01 released !
Just noticed the new friendica version has been released 😀. See github.com/friendica/friendica…
For u3a.social I'll be doing an upgrade on a test instance as soon as I can and then plan for the live upgrade (I'll also want to switch to native rather than docker database).
The nice thing about test upgrades is you get to test your backups !
@U3ACommunities Computing #friendica @Friendica Support #fediverse
Release Friendica 2026.01 released · friendica/friendica
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Blutwurz" 2026.01. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains fixes for secur...GitHub
Swift development made easy.
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#opensource #ios #android #development
Good News for Mobile App Developers: Skip Is Now Open Source
The tool gets rid of its subscription model and open-sources the engine.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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"Libellum de Restitutione Purpurarum" by Pasquale Amati (1784).
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Proton's Lumo has a new feature that could be useful. ✨
itsfoss.com/news/proton-lumo-p…
I (Briefly) Tried Proton Lumo's New AI Workspaces
The feline-faced AI assistant just got a neat upgrade. 🐱Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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People Are Saying TikTok’s New Terms And Conditions Are Terrifying — Here’s What You Agreed To Share
"The alarm is a fair reaction," one privacy lawyer said.
"But one of the other most startling lines within the new TikTok terms and conditions is about what TikTok states it can learn about our lives. TikTok states it will collect sensitive user-generated information that your posts and comments might provide. This 'may include...information you disclose in survey responses or in your user content about your racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information,' according to the privacy policy."
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cURL has axed its bug bounty program.
itsfoss.com/news/curl-closes-b…
#opensource #curl #programming
cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun
Daniel Stenberg says the inflow of AI slop has become unsustainable for the curl security team to handle.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
If it doesn't have documentation (Aka slop) just ignore it... ;D
OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor / Greg Brockman said he started “getting involved politically” in 2025.
OpenAI’s co-founder and longtime president, Greg Brockman, didn’t just make a run-of-the-mill donation to the main pro-Trump super PAC — together, he and his wife Anna’s September 2025 donations equaled the largest of them all, totaling $25 million to “MAGA Inc.,” per a recent filing. The Brockmans’ donations made up nearly one-fourth of the six-month fundraising cycle.
It’s the latest in a string of examples of tech executives cozying up to President Trump’s administration, happening as the administration pushes to aggressively back the AI industry and defang state-level regulations that companies like OpenAI have largely opposed. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment...
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So much DAWWWWW!!! ❤
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NexPhone is back! 🚀
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Not An April Fool's Joke, You Can Run Linux and Windows on This Android Smartphone
This $549 rugged smartphone runs Android 16, launches Debian Linux as an app, and dual-boots Windows 11.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
“Don't worry, I've got you”
‘For Alex’
Alex Jeffrey Pretti
1988 - 2026
RIP
by illustrator MJ.Hiblen
Source: instagram.com/mjhiblenart?igsh…
Beautiful...
I am reminded of The Ode for the fallen;
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them".
Alex is drinking in #valhalla tonight
First #GoblinWeek drawing! A little goblin reaches for an abandoned truck stop hot dog.
#watercolor #sketchbook #goblin #hotdog #mastoArt
This is frustrating because the unnamed people advising that were wrong. It confuses trapping page focus in a modal to blocking users from using the rest of their browser. Also, ugh APG.
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If you find someone advising it, be wary of their UI / accessibility chops.
There is No Need to Trap Focus on a Dialog Element | CSS-Tricks
Accessibility advice around modals have commonly taught us to trap focus within the modal. Upon further research, it seems like we no longer need to trap focus within the (even in modal mode).Zell Liew (CSS-Tricks)
Chimpanzees once helped African rainforests recover from a major collapse
Most people probably think that the rainforest of central and west Africa, the second largest in the world, has been around for millions of years. However recent research suggests that it is mostly…Palm Oil Detectives
Ice cold doesn’t deter Citizens Bank ICE protestors
The goal was to raise awareness of the financial connections between Citizens Bank and the prison companies CoreCivic and The Geo Group, which the groups say are profiting from actions against immigrants to the United States.
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there's a minecraft mod called litematica that allows you to export things you've built in the game to share with others.
i've been working on a project that allows you to import these litematica schematics into vintage story. it's still at a very early stage, but i've got the basic concept working 
Litematica - Minecraft Mod
A client-side schematic mod with extra features for creative mode workModrinth
Southern Pudu Pudu puda
Darting around and hiding on the forest floor, the Southern Pudu, known as püdü or püdu in Mapudungun (the language of the indigenous Mapuche people), is the world’s second-smallest #deer species. …Palm Oil Detectives
Your Raspberry Pi can do more than projects and servers. Check out the best desktop OS choices for it.
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Your Raspberry Pi Can Be a Real Desktop (If You Pick the Right OS)
Here are the operating system choices when you want to use Raspberry Pi in a desktop setup.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
Calling all Nextcloud translators! ✏️
We need your support for our next major release to bring Nextcloud to as many languages as possible, with translations as close to 100% complete as we can get.
Read more 👉 help.nextcloud.com/t/hello-tra…
New to translating at Nextcloud and want to join the translation community? Start here👉:nextcloud.com/translation/
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Please retoot and help make Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter (v33) a truly multilingual success!
Hello Translators and Nextcloud users, next major release of Nextcloud release 32 (or Hub 25) coming soon
Hi everyone, the Nextcloud development team is in the process of preparing the upcoming major release v32.Nextcloud community
The free and open source Godot Engine 4.6 is out now with major upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-…
#Godot #GodotEngine #Gaming #OpenSource #GameDev
The free and open source Godot Engine 4.6 is out now with major upgrades
Game developers should take a look at the brand new Godot Engine 4.6 release, bringing a big refresh to the popular cross-platform open source game engine.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Thomas’s Langur Presbytis thomasi
Thomas’s Langur, also known as the North Sumatran Leaf #Monkey is famous for their bold facial stripes giving them a handsome profile. These monkeys are endemic to the lush forests of northern Suma…Palm Oil Detectives
🌟 Actualización 2026 – Directorio de personas y colectivas que hacen diseño con #SoftwareLibre 🌟
¡Ya casi termina! Tienes tiempo de sumar o actualizar tus datos hasta el 31 de enero próximo.
Este directorio es una plataforma para conectar y visibilizar a quienes utilizan recursos libres en sus proyectos de diseño. Si conoces a alguien que debería estar incluido, ¡asegúrate de compartirle la #convocatoria! sursiendo.org/2025/12/actualiz…
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Even if there was something to this, thing is:
1. you usually get better prices on Valves platform than others
2. They actually have very fast, incredibly good customer service (i.e. refund if not satisfied etc)
3. They actually contribute back to the community (Linux and all that stuff)
4. They go out of their way to keep users/customers happy in general, rather than just try to optimise for profits.
If Valve acted like EA, it would not be long before they bled sales...
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •LupertEverett
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Looking at point no. 1, I wonder if they keep saying the same wrong argument over and over again to make people believe it is true.
That price parity clause applies ONLY to Steam keys sold outside Steam.
If you don't believe me, look up on how Valve vs. Wolfire case went on that same point.
Or to this particular game dev who is able to sell their game on EGS cheaper than Steam.
(Warning: Twatter link ahead)
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Soskopp
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Valve being a consumer darling and pushing hard against Microsoft's PC gaming monopoly doesn't mean they can't do wrong.
I don't know enough to have an opinion in this case, but I hope it will be ruled in favor of the law.