California and Colorado legislated that Linux distributions, being free and open-source, are exempt from the age verification in operating systems, unless they are proprietary like SteamOS (and Windows).

Too bad the systemd developers already complied with fascism in advance before the bills were even finalized.

Will Lennart Poettering and his followers now please remove the birthDate field from systemd?

P.S.: If you reply with any variation of "You need to calm down," I will block you.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/

#fascism #surveillance #AgeVerification #Linux #systemd

google had to level up by killing RSS and XMPP before they could gain enough XP to kill email.

once they're done with that they will move on to the final boss of killing the web.

“I Did Not Come to This Kids Party for an AI Sermon - Justin Ribeiro, Ph.D.”

https://justinribeiro.com/chronicle/2026/05/21/i-did-not-come-to-this-kids-party-for-an-ai-sermon/

"The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/

This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.

Today #CERN released its #KiCad component library to the public.
They are licensed CERN-OHL-P-2.0
Thank you OSPO ❤️ for getting this done.

Originally the library is made in Altium and will also be maintained in Altium. The repo only contains files that have been automatically converted.

It is a database library which contains only fully specified parts. There are lots of weird connectors. Have fun exploring.

https://home.cern/computing/cerns-kicad-component-library-now-open-source/

Yesterday a colleague from GNU shared this great link about "Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives."👇

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
#noAI