I am happy them to announce the new release too. :-) To me there is no single standout feature to get excited about. Its mostly about bug fixes, security isseu fixes and a few user experience improvements (which probably undersells what has been done in this release). If I look at it again, following is affecting me and interesting:

Cheesequake has added code so you can use Cut on a layer group. This will allow you to cut the same section of all layers in the group, provided they are rasterized and not locked. Jehan made further improvements to this code.

Nice. Looks like a good alternative. Its first release is only a month old (or new). I first thought this is a fork, but looks like a new project. And its completely written in Bash instead Go. Its a wrapper script around asciinema and tmux. It is quiet new and it uses constructs such as rm -f -- "$_SVHS_TEMP_CAST" without extensive checking if this is okay to do so, which I am not a fan of. But I don’t see anything else worrying about.

I’m probably just cautious because I got burned a lot… alive.

On the left side of the window you can switch to “Online Files”. By default it is set to “Local Files”, I think. Maybe that’s the “issue”?

But that is most likely documented, right? This is not a surprise. Does it download Chrome from the web or is it a dependency on the system and installs it without permission? Does it inform the user doing that? I never installed Invidious myself, so I don’t know the details about this project.

My point is, in example a tool to log your key presses is not automatically a bad tool that steals what you type. If I use a program that’s the entire point of doing my key presses recording and showing me on screen, then I’m not surprised it can do that.

I’m not really deep into Kdenlive (or video editing) and have no idea. Does this have anything to do with the Markers at Gaps feature?

So many useful quality of life improvements.

Markers At Gaps: I don’t understand why this is useful.

I don’t think there are wrong questions, if they meant to be curious and no trolling. But besides that, my refined question (you reply to) is actually what you suggest. Because to me, this is not really in the spirit of Open Source. But, if you don’t like this question in the form I asked, I mean your suggestion is pretty much what I question myself (and its more direct).

Agreed. I understand that, but my question wasn’t meant to be a technical one. It was more like “is this still spirit of Open Source, if the core application is not part of the source, and it does all of that without permission”. At least those Windows tools you mention, are using part of the operating system without doing something without permission (hopefully).

I don’t think this is legal to do so, at least here in Europe/Germany.

Sounds like Marvel to me.

Ai tool isn’t a proof, so this cannot be used in definitive tests. The absence of something is not proof it isn’t there, you just didn’t found it. On the other side, it cannot proof you have an issue, it can just find signs of, so a real doctor have to look into it for proof. I do not think this can be used for insurance, even if the tool was quiet accurate in finding signs.

https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema is an alternative almost as much popular as vhs. I used it in the past after removing vhs, but its years ago and don’t know how they actually compare. Someone recommended this in the comments few weeks ago, I had completely forgotten about it. I recommend asciinema instead vhs, if you want record and playback terminal sessions without videos involved. I think you can even edit and make changes to the recording, as it is just a text file: https://docs.asciinema.org/manual/asciicast/v3/ (its based on a newline delimited JSON format)

I mean they live and work there, and all business and contracts are done there. This is not an individual who can react and just go to a different country to live on, its affecting everyone in the company and all partners. Off course they have to comply if the law goes through. I personally don’t blame them that they are prepaired for such a case, and do not downplay their work and fight because of that.

Yeah, that was misunderstood. I said or meant “they was fighting against the law, so they can make an exemption”. To make it clear, the linked article from System76 goes into more detail. I just wanted bring attention to this, because the original linked article on tomshardware does not mention them.

I don’t think that is a problem for Microsoft, especially because they would want your ID and age, tracking you as much as possible already. Also you don’t just change the Kernel just like that, there are licenses attached, drivers and other stuff. From technical point of view, in current implementation it is probably impossible. Let alone Microsoft would face issues with compatibility. If we put the technical difficulties aside, I don’t even think Microsoft is against this law and pretty much wants it.

Why do you assume that Microsoft doesn’t want to comply?

BTW System76, the company behind their Linux laptops and the Linux desktop COSMIC, was fighting hard against the law to make exemptions for Open Source software. That’s important for them, because System76 operates in California. So I think they are big part to thank for here: Colorado and California Exempt Open Source from Age Attestation (May 2026)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system

From 2019 to 2024, versions 1 to 4.3 (4.5 TV) of the operating system were built by integrating the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) with OpenHarmony, allowing it to support both HarmonyOS and Android apps.[11] The current iteration of HarmonyOS became known as HarmonyOS NEXT (later it was renamed HarmonyOS 5 in launched of Pura X). HarmonyOS NEXT was announced on August 4, 2023, and officially launched on October 22, 2024.[12] It also replaced the OpenHarmony multi-kernel system with its own HongMeng Kernel at its core and removed all Android code. Since version 5, HarmonyOS only supports apps in its native “App” format.[13][14]

HarmonyOS 5.x+ both discards the common Unix-like Linux kernel and replaces the previous multiple-kernel, kernel agnostic system from OpenHarmony with its own bespoke HarmonyOS microkernel as a single framework.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS

I predicted this for long time! Just like Microsoft purchased Github, I was expecting one of the big Ai companies (including Nvidia) to buy Hugging Face. Because that’s what big tech companies do, if they are allowed to.