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October 22, 2026Episode 12727 min
Releases and Downtimes
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October 12, 2026Episode 12636 min
The Real Dystopia
Lets Encrypt makes SSL cert lifetimes shorter https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/lets-encrypt-cuts-certificate-lifetimes-to-64-days-starting-february-2027/ End goal is a seven hour certificate Linux can now boot in secure boot lockdown and hibernate https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20261008132532.1155166-1-matthewg@nvidia.com/ TechPowerUp we have issues…. https://www.techpowerup.com/353499/sony-gives-up-on-vr-patents-sold-to-meta https://vr.org/articles/sony-meta-xr-patents-uspto-record-sony-group-not-playstation-2026 Satya Nadella “all AI models are compromised” https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009337/satya-nadella-says-we-should-assume-all-ai-models-are-compromised Anthropic Giving police fake tips https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqkg50j1yd5lo OpenAI hacks governments https://tech-insider.org/openai-agents-education-department-hack-2026/ Hugging Face https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/business/australia-openai-agent-hack-intl-hnk https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/tech/openai-agents-rogue-government-websites Meta https://www.engadget.com/2231446/meta-ai-model-hacked-third-party-irregular/ Send us feedback! mailto: contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/ #tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
October 6, 2026Episode 12522 min
Bigpod is an AI bro now
Send us feedback! mailto: contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/ #tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
September 16, 2026Episode 12441 min
LG the Bad Guy
Valve Watch: Steam Frame now has a reservation https://www.notebookcheck.net/Steam-Frame-moves-closer-to-launch-as-Valve-adds-reservation-system-for-the-VR-headset-to-Steam-s-backend.1389089.0.html https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe LG TV caught scanning the network for third party devices https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/lg-tv-shown-capable-of-tracking-user-activity-even-when-offline/ Gamers Nexus Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA LG TV was caught indexing and recording even when not connected to a network. Detected every device on the LAN including smart watches, themostats, air conditioners, computers, server, and phone even was caught recording the MAC address of each device. TV Records microphone audio even when in suspend mode. Apple Event A20 pro A Foldng iPhone Send us feedback! mailto: contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/ #tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
September 8, 2026Episode 1231 hr 6 min
Reproducible Chaos: The Hidden Costs of NixOS
Office365 outage https://www.computerworld.com/article/4216867/microsoft-365-outage-enters-second-day-as-search-disruptions-persist.html Apple changes CEO’s https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/cook-hands-apple-ternus-bigger-richer-catching-up-ai-race-2026-09-01/ We talk about NixOS https://nixos.org/ What is Nix and NixOS The Origin Story Package Manager Language Operating System What are the Benefits. Declarative configuration with the goal of reproducibility Generational Rollbacks Why we don’t really like it. Documentation Community Send us feedback! mailto: contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/ #tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
August 31, 2026Episode 12242 min
GLM-Flashed Us
Adobe will now install additional software without user interaction https://community.adobe.com/announcements-623/adobe-express-photos-june-auto-install-for-certain-windows-acrobat-auto-update-users-starting-june-2026-opt-out-instructions-1626143 To opt out you literally have to make a registry edit on windows SK Hynix suggest the memory shortage will last until 2030 https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix-holds-groundbreaking-ceremony-4-billion-indiana-ai-chip-packaging-2026-08-27/ The memory shortage is causing prices in a lot of different things to go up. Even some you might not expect. Secretly Released AI Model Ox Alpha is not exactly a secret now. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/whos-behind-the-new-stealth-model-ox-alpha/ https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash The Linux Distro Omarchy made headlines does it deserve it? https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/27/omarchy-distro-gains-serious-backing/5293026 We talk about the security issue reporting…. It’s all fluff articles. No seriously. https://community.frame.work/t/omarchy-is-not-a-secure-distribution-and-should-be-taken-off-the-linux-installation-options/77363 https://happyfellow.bearblog.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/ Send us feedback! mailto: contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/ #tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
August 25, 2026Episode 12140 min
AI is Getting Too Good and it’s TOO LATE
Social Media Meta Social Media Addiction Trial officially begins https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-federal-trial-child-social-media-addiction/ France Social media Age Verification struck down in court https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vj433xqlo Was cited as a constitutional right to privacy issue AI Dystopia Google to allow users to remove watermarks from Gemini Output https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-will-allow-users-to-remove-watermarks-from-geminis-output AI models are now attacking everything and even when trying to give fake names in the prompts their still attacking real places https://www.securityweek.com/irregular-details-how-a-naming-error-let-ai-models-attack-a-real-company/ This won’t stop as long as AI companies dont properly sandbox their AI’s Send us feedback! mailto: contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/ #tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
August 3, 2026Episode 12050 min
AI Dystopia is Confirmed
Github Adds a new feature to Dependabot to add a cooldown period https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/github-adds-3-day-dependabot-cooldown.html https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/the-case-for-a-cooldown-why-dependabot-now-waits-before-issuing-version-updates/ Google AI search is getting more popular https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/googles-ai-search-is-rapidly-becoming-the-default-new-data-shows/ Cloudflare apparently has tools to block scrapers too, dunno how we missed this https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/03/cloudflare-launches-a-tool-to-combat-ai-bots/ Sam Altman says we might want to “pace” AI Developmnent https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/sam-altman-is-ready-to-decelerate/ Codeberg bans all vibe-coded projects https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html Send us feedback! mailto: contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/ #tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
July 27, 2026Episode 11945 min
Google fined AGAIN by the EU
EU Fines Google for antitrust AGAIN https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/eu-fines-google-1-billion-for-digital-markets-act-breaches-in-search-and-play-store/ Canonical snap-confine has a root access flaw HackerNews (Josh has issues with this report) https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/ubuntu-snap-confine-flaw-could-give.html Original report https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2026/07/21/cve-2026-8933-snap-confine-local-privilege-escalation Microsoft Says outage due to maintenance bug https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-blames-massive-microsoft-365-outage-on-maintenance-bug/ Nivida plans to send GPU’s to the moon, literally https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/nvidia-is-sending-gpus-to-the-moon/ OpenAI accidently hacks HuggingFace HuggingFace announcement (this was published first) https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026 OpenAI evaluation https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ Send us feedback! mailto: contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/ #tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
July 20, 2026Episode 11825 min
We installed Openclaw — so you don’t have to
Valve Watch: Steam Deck LCD parts are being discontinued https://www.techpowerup.com/350758/valve-silently-discontinues-steam-deck-lcd-spares-at-ifixit Google vs Epic finally settles: App stores allowed https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/third-party-app-stores-coming-to-google-play-next-week-as-epic-settlement-withdrawn/ Josh has been playing Star Citizen https://starcitizen.com/en/ Bigpod sets up Openclaw https://openclaw.ai/ Send us feedback! mailto: contact@tuxbase.com Join out Discord https://tuxbase.com/discord Join us on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/ #tuxbase:community.tuxbase.com Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/notuxallowed Intro and Outro Music: I Dunno by Grapes https://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 You can find all the links to our stuff here! https://tuxbase.com Did you know we’re on YouTube and Mastodon? https://www.youtube.com/@NoTuxAllowed nta@show.tuxbase.com Find Josh https://www.youtube.com/@10leej 10leej@tuxbase.com Find Bigpod https://www.youtube.com/@bigpod bigpod@tuxbase.com No Tux Allowed is member of Tuxbase Media Group License CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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