This week Noah gives an update on EndlessOS and why it might be the default go-to operating system for new users. Ai scams are getting worse, and the Ashi lead dev stepped down.
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00:50 EndlessOS
- Customized Gnome
- Installer
- Doesn't allow the user to hurt themselves
- Intuitive interface
- Remote Desktop
- RDP
- Reasonably Secure
- Last OS left on a computer
12:09 News Wire
- Thunderbird 135 - thunderbird.net
- Firefox - mozilla.org
- Curl 8.12 - curl.se
- Sysvinit 3.14 - github.com
- MKVtoolNix v90 - bunkus.org
- Calibre 7.25 - calibre-ebook.com
- LibreOffice 25.2 - wiki.documentfoundation.org
- Ardor 8.11 - ardour.org
- Tails 6.12 - torproject.org
- Porteux 1.9 - github.com
Slackware based Porteux has released version 1.9 - ELF/Sshdinjector.A!tr - csoonline.com
- CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Fix Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com
- Beelzebub - helpnetsecurity.com
- OpenEuroLLM - infoq.com
- Reasoning Model s1 - ceotodaymagazine.com
14:32 AI Makes Scams Worse
- AI being used to get hired, to steal information
- Video interviews are glitchy and odd
- Answers to questions are right out of OpenAI and ChatGPT
- Problem will get worse before it gets better
- Companies will respond by not hiring remotely
- The Register
24:28 AI Safety
- Competition heating up
- Need to foster AI, not restrict it
- Open Source AI
- China isn't going to back down
- Are we out of our depth with AI?
- Can't put the gene back in the bottle
34:40 Microsoft Office 365 Co-Pilot
- Users must act or pay more
- 2025 version of Clippy
- Microsoft is getting more aggressive
- Imagine if everything was "opt out"
- Can only opt out by "canceling subscription"
- Misleading marketing
- Non-CoPilot plans only available for a limited time
43:07 Ashi Linux Dev Steps down
- Still plans to contribute
- Ashi Linux is important
- Apple removed barriers to run Linux
- Linux worked pretty well on Intel Macs
- T2 Chip
- T2Linux
- New Apple chip
- Phoronix
51:30 Lossless-cut
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