Alan Pope
@popey.me
Developer Relations at Tessl Podcaster on @linuxmatters.sh Previously at Anchore, Orcro, Axiom, Canonical.
"Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America" Great to see, if true. As always, this is a little difficult to accurately calculate. linuxiac.com/linux-deskto...
Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
Statcounter reports Linux at 10.65% of desktop usage in North America, with Cloudflare data lending further support to the milestone.
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Some company sent us this terracotta poo-shaped air freshener in a box labelled “You’re the shit!”. It lives in the loo. No idea who sent it. It smells lovely tho.
Every time I see this advert on the tube for Thermomix, it makes me think of Theranos, Juicero, and ReadyMix Concrete.
Cliff Saran of Computer Weekly on OpenUK's AI Openness report, calling out 📢 the need for a UK-based open source foundation for the UK's AI future. 🇬🇧🔧 Read the article here: www.computerweekly.com/news/3666462... #AI #sovereignty #opensource #openmodels #openweights #opensourceai #openuk #openhq
TIL Netflix has a page to see your entire watch history. I scrolled to the bottom to see what I watched first back in 2013... The Inbetweeners: "First Day", apparently. Link: www.netflix.com/settings/vie...
Episode 86 of Linux Matters: Moodling the Fediverse in Europe 🐧️🎙️ Martin is on a break, Mark leaves the country to conduct experiments with Moodle, and Alan buys a portable gaming device (not that one).
Moodling the Fediverse in Europe
Martin is on a break, Mark leaves the country to conduct experiments with Moodle, and Alan buys a portable gaming device (not that one).
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Naming software is hard. Unrelated, sometimes I have the mind of a 14 year-old. snapcraft.io/rusty-wormhole
Install Rusty Wormhole on Linux | Snap Store
Get the latest version of Rusty Wormhole for Linux - wormhole reimplemented in rust
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We're hosting the Zed Community meetup at our London event space this evening. Looking forward to all the demos! luma.com/riygjcls
Zed x Tessl Meetup: We ❤️ Demos · Luma
Your build deserves a crowd. Join us for an evening of live demos from the community, including from the Zed and Tessl teams. We love seeing the craft behind…
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CEO of OpenUK, Professor @Amanda Brock tells ITPro that the industry is still grappling with AI as a novel force and different projects are handling it in different ways. 🤖 Read the article here: www.itpro.com/software/ope... @itpro.com #openuk #opensource #opensourceai
Will AI ring the death knell for open source?
With projects facing fresh challenges in the AI era, the path forward remains murky
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This pair of cinema seats is quite the choice, given how many empty seats there are elsewhere. Perhaps they're 'optimising the neural processing' of the film. Or maybe just snogging. Would you sit way up there? #SpiderManBrandNewDay
Wrapping up a work week away from home. BroadVent, the organisers, left a little treat for us all. ❤️
Episode 85 of Linux Matters: Clearing the Decks 🐧️🎙️ Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit, Martin updates Jivetalking, and Mark is a fun guy.
Clearing the Decks
Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit, Martin updates Jivetalking, and Mark is a fun guy.
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Panel: "The impact of AI on open source software development", moderated by Chris Plank, the panel brings together Paula Kennedy, Mike McQuaid, Keith Bergelt, and Justin Cormack, at SOOCon26 On The Road Edinburgh on June 5. stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills
"Sovereignty and Open Source" is incredibly topical, and our panel at SOOCOn26 got deep into the conversation about what open source is. Watch here: stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #aisovereignty #datasovereignty #opensource #opensourceai #collaboration #ai
Our ever-growing body of reporting is led by Dr Jennifer Barth, Research Director, who works closely with our CEO, Professor Amanda Brock, and Research Manager Karan Saini, in the shaping and delivery of our reports. Look forward to a Sovereignty Report this week and an AI Openness update in July.
You wouldn't npm install a package with no author or version history. Snyk reckons 36% of public agent skills carry prompt injection techniques. Krzysztof Huszcza (Snyk) + Simon Maple (Tessl), tomorrow 15:15 UK. luma.com/ainative-d5jb
Your Coding Agent Just Installed Something You Didn't Vet. Now What? · Luma
Live Webinar Your Coding Agent Just Installed Something You Didn't Vet. Now What? Securing the AI Skill Supply Chain with Snyk + Tessl You wouldn't npm…
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Does any song in history contain more cowbell than Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round"? I don't think so. youtu.be/O4rBsG-akyI
Took the wife and "kids" (aged 19 and 22) to the cinema this evening to see #ToyStory5 Loved the story, and the new characters. A great way to spend an evening, only 10 people in the screening. www.imdb.com/title/tt2935...
Toy Story 5 (2026) ⭐ 7.7 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
1h 42m | PG
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Canonical have announced Myna. Local speech-to-text dictation for #Ubuntu Desktop, landing in 26.10. Press a shortcut, talk, watch the words appear. Runs on your machine, no audio leaves it. Named after the bird that mimics human speech. Of course it is. discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducin...
My #Ubuntu forums archive viewer now has the capability to browse all the old posts that have been archived by Canonical, after the site was shutdown. Enjoy.
Ubuntu Forums Archive Viewer
Browse 1,963,098 archived threads from the old Ubuntu Forums.
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Episode 84 of Linux Matters: DOSing about with games 🐧️🎙️ Mark plays DOS games, Martin discoveres a new editor (again), and Alan makes an events app
DOSing about with games
Mark plays DOS games, Martin discoveres a new editor (again), and Alan makes an events app
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Oof 2 btw www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Li...
Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
Just a day after Arch Linux developers believed they got their malware AUR incident under control with 1,500+ packages affected by malware, another round of of AUR malware is now being discovered
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Oof btw. discourse.ifin.network/t/400-aur-pa...
400+ AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit
Last Updated: 2026-06-12T04:22:42Z (UTC) What’s Happening It appears a new AUR package maintainer (arojas) adopted and infected 408+ packages. The compromise was reported and other AUR maintainers have been working to remove the infected packages. The affected packages were modified with preinstall scripts to use npm to install the atomic-lockfile package, a malicious payload. Here’s an example of the change: This blog has a deep dive into the attack. Actions If you don’t use Arch (b...
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When Trigger sits on fence posts like this, it makes me think of how some people in the office use chairs.
Here are some of our best bits from “State of Open Con on the Road”, Edinburgh, last week. Thanks again, NatWest, for hosting. #opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills #stateofopencon #soocon26 #openuk #openhq #aiscotland #AI #aimodels #aiagents
It turns out e-ink displays don't have to refresh slowly... This engineer made a controller to allow one to refresh at 60fps. It's quite remarkable.
How I made a 60fps Eink Monitor, the Modos Flow
My latest open source project, though a bit different this timeGet it on CrowdSupply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flowSpecial thanks to Alex...
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Here's a recording of a lightning talk I gave at the #UbuntuSummit a couple of weeks ago. All about SnapScope and vibe coding things. It's quite lighthearted. Enjoy! Thanks to @canonicalltd.bsky.social for inviting me! youtu.be/7H2QnP34f54 #ubuntu
SnapScope | Ubuntu Summit 26.04
In this lightning talk, Alan shares how to build production-grade developer tools using advanced generative AI techniques without manual code intervention, a...
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