Jeremy Soller

“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...

AI, government overreach, undocumented hardware, death of the PC and rise of mobile devices, etc

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

Parents are still responsible even with the laws. I had no problem getting alcohol if I wanted to before I had a valid over 21 ID.

I have no useful opinion on that. It is incredible how two of the most deadly drugs are the ones our society has decided to accept

jackpot51's comment on "Is POP OS going to cave to California/Colorado Laws Requiring Users Provide Digital ID to Use Pop OS?" Explore this conversation and more from the pop_os community

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

Release 0.18.0 · pop-os/cosmic-text Links Crate on crates.io Documentation on docs.rs Added Support for ellipsizing at the start, middle, and end of a line

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.

How AI Impacts Skill Formation AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively su...

"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

Stabilized video of Alex Pretti's murder by ICE agents YouTube video by Falkner09

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

From the law community on Reddit: Footage of the grey coat officer retrieving the gun Explore this post and more from the law community

Another angle clearly shows victim had both hands empty and was held face down when shot.

www.reddit.com/r/law/s/PgCn...

[Mature Content] From the law community on Reddit: BREAKING: Video shows ICE agents shooting an unarmed person, as agents wrestle the person to the ground, in Minneapolis, near Glam Doll Donuts. Posted by drempath1981 - 29,579 votes and 4,300 comments

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

Sometime today HOPEFULLY is the big day for cosmic desktop. I'm rooting for ya team!

#linux #cosmicdesktop

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...

Redox OS with the Orbital desktop showing a COSMIC terminal window on two monitors.

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!

MATE desktop showing mate-panel in the top and bottom, information about the installed MATE desktop in the top left, caja on the right with its information window in the bottom left.

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.

On the left, xterm showing btm output. On the right, webkitgtk3 with google open showing the browser's user-agent, which includes Redox.

New user-agent just dropped