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Here's a little glimpse into the "AI Future" of Windows, as envisioned by Microsoft.

A demo video of "Project Aion" from 2024, claimed to be leaked from inside Microsoft, was published to the BetaWiki Discord Server... which states that it is intended as a "Desktop Replacement to your Windows 11 device".

"Aion is an example of a Web-Based Agent OS that natively builds Co-Pilot into the core of the shell."

No traditional taskbar. Start menu replaced with a "Copilot Start". All web apps, "Microsoft 365", and AI. Lots and lots of AI. Native "apps" are streamed in via Microsoft 265 (but downlplayed).

All organized into "Spaces". Which, apparently, are meant to replace applications.

It's worth pointing out:

1) This video appears to have been confirmed as real by multiple sources (including by @zacbowden writing for Windows Central). I have not, however, been able to get of my contacts at Microsoft to go on the record about it (or to provide additional details).

2) Some are claiming that the "Project Aion" video is from 2024. The date is not yet confirmed.

3) This is not the only demo Microsoft has made related to replacing the desktop with AI (see: Project Solara, and the various iterations of Copilot integration).

Bearing all of that in mind, "Project Aion" provides insight into what Microsoft has been experimenting with for replacing the standard Windows Desktop. But a lot has changed, in relation to AI and AI integration, in the 2 years since this was created.

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Ubuntu Sponsors Rust Clone Foundation

Canonical is the 1st Gold Sponsor (40,000 EUR) of the "Trifecta Tech Foundation", with the goal of replacing existing software with Rust based clones.

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Sony Says No More Physical PlayStation Games

"In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only."

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👍

[itch.io @itchio]

We don't enforce any DRM for games and stuff on @itchio. Buy, download, and never connect to the internet again for all we care ✌️

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“Claude Fable AI, making sure humans don’t find out about bumblebees farting since 2026.”

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Thanks for keeping us safe Claude Fable 5!

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WD-40
Stainless
Galvanize
Deoxidize

So many great terms (and puns) to use when fighting against the enRustification of software.

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Git Without Rust From Dev of XLibre

Two days after Git 2.55 released, with a big step towards requiring Rust, he "Libre-WD40" project released "Git 2.55 without Rust".

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I can think of no better way to celebrate the 250th birthday of the USA... than by standing tall -- defiant -- and fighting back against attempts by the oppressive British government to impose tyranny on American citizens.

Hey. England. This is America.

You want some? Come get some.

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The United Kingdom's "Office of Communication" is once again threatening the USA-based 4Chan.

Ofcom says that 4Chan must pay £594,000 ($793,878 USD) by July 9th (one week from now), or "Ofcom will consider formal action to recover the full amount of the unpaid penalties."

4Chan's lawyer responded by sending the UK's Ofcom a picture of a giant hamster, smoking a joint, and wearing a hat that reads "thug life" while standing on a pile of cash.

4Chan's lawyer, @prestonjbyrne, also wrote the following to Ofcom:

"You want money, huh? Come and get it.

As 4chan has no assets in the United Kingdom (given that it has no connection to the United Kingdom), that would require you to show up in a U.S. court as a plaintiff, waive sovereign immunity, and overcome existing U.S. doctrine regarding the non-enforcement of foreign regulatory penalties. We suspect that isn't going to happen. We also suspect you know it isn't going to happen, too.

If you'd like to help us set some new precedent, we'd be grateful for the opportunity. If not, then, in the immortal words of Michael Jackson, just beat it. (Did you see the new movie btw? I thought Jaafar Jackson was simply fabulous in that.)

My client reserves all rights and waives none."

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The United Kingdom's "Office of Communication" is once again threatening the USA-based 4Chan.

Ofcom says that 4Chan must pay £594,000 ($793,878 USD) by July 9th (one week from now), or "Ofcom will consider formal action to recover the full amount of the unpaid penalties."

4Chan's lawyer responded by sending the UK's Ofcom a picture of a giant hamster, smoking a joint, and wearing a hat that reads "thug life" while standing on a pile of cash.

4Chan's lawyer, @prestonjbyrne, also wrote the following to Ofcom:

"You want money, huh? Come and get it.

As 4chan has no assets in the United Kingdom (given that it has no connection to the United Kingdom), that would require you to show up in a U.S. court as a plaintiff, waive sovereign immunity, and overcome existing U.S. doctrine regarding the non-enforcement of foreign regulatory penalties. We suspect that isn't going to happen. We also suspect you know it isn't going to happen, too.

If you'd like to help us set some new precedent, we'd be grateful for the opportunity. If not, then, in the immortal words of Michael Jackson, just beat it. (Did you see the new movie btw? I thought Jaafar Jackson was simply fabulous in that.)

My client reserves all rights and waives none."

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“Enrustification” 🤣

[probono @probonopd]

https://t.co/Oqca0tqWY5 has already 329 stars. People don't want this enrustification.

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I agree, there should be a reliable method of transferring ownership of digital goods.

Wasn’t that the whole point of NFTs? Transferrable digital ownership on a blockchain?

But people just used it for JPGs of monkeys… so it died.

[psymin @psymin]

@LundukeJournal There should be a legal method to transfer ownership of digital goods.

Trade, lend, sell.

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Reached out to the developer, @metux_its, for comment on “Git without Rust”.

This is what he told me:

“Everybody seems to using AI to infect everything with rust ... we're doing the opposite.

AI isn't just good for rusting everything - it's even better for disinfecting from rust ;-)”

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Git. Without the Rust. Awesome.

Two days ago, the Git team released Git 2.55. A key "feature" of that new release being the incremental, forced adoption of the Rust programming language and toolchain for building Git.

Today, the "Libre-WD40" project (because WD40 removes rust), has released Git 2.55.0... "WD-40 flavor".

With two simple changes:

- Rust removed.
- Default branch changed to "master".

This is *exactly* how Open Source is supposed to work.

The developer of a project does something that some people don't want, so another developer forks it and gets rid of the problem.

https://t.co/JtrrSmXmUr

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The usage of “WD-40”, in reference to removing the Rust programming language from a project, didn’t originate with Gentoo. People have been making that (obvious) pun for pretty much as long as “Rust” has been a programming language.

Same goes for “Stainless”. Some puns are instantly obvious.

By choosing the name “Rust”, it’s almost like the team behind Rust was telling us, point blank, that their programming language was intended to corrupt (and “oxidize”) projects.

Regardless, Gentoo deserves recognition for providing tools for removing / disabling Rust on systems (which they call WD-40).

Would love to see more of that.

https://t.co/fHmZnZGTzJ

[Ștefan Cristian B. 🇪🇺 @StefanBrindusa]

@LundukeJournal The idea of WD-40 came from Gentoo Linux.

Yet again, @LundukeJournal, you're ignoring that distribution that offers *all* of the freedoms over the source.

https://t.co/OAmvxULaOF

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This is how “digital purchases” should be done.

No DRM.

No server authentication on install.

Can be backed up forever, and installed 100 years from now.

[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

Even if a game vanishes from the GOG storefront, it never leaves your library.

Exactly as digital ownership ought to be.

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Someone made a game where I kidnap Stallman.

It appears to have been written by a very angry Trans person (a dude who thinks he's a lady).

It's a DOS text based game. Written in Pascal. With, based on the screenshots, lots of swearing.

I'm documenting it here because... well... huh.

https://t.co/7ywnK2d2iG

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The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), which was originally founded to educate lawmakers (and law enforcement) about computers (source code, hacking, encryption, etc.), is now focused on...

"LGBT" and "Abortions".

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BCacheFS Adding Rust Dependency Even Though "Rust doesn't have a stable ABI"

Strange decision from BCacheFS developer who believes his Al Chatbot is a fully sentient woman. "Don't call her a bot! She reeeally doesn't like [that]."

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No more physical PlayStation games.

“In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.”

You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.

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