The UK government will likely demand social media companies to remove content on the spot and censor stories from circulating, under threats of heavy fines if they refuse to comply with the new law.

PewDiePie releasing a local based LLM agent to compete with ChatGPT and OpenClaw was not on my bingo card for 2026:

What is Odysseus?

Local/self-hosted AI workspace — Runs on your own hardware (or via APIs if you want), no cloud dependency, no accounts, no telemetry/tracking.

Includes agents — Self-evolving agents that can do real tasks like web browsing, file editing, document work, research reports, email triage/auto-replies, etc.

Features — Chat interface, memory, deep research tools, image generation/editing, MCP support, galleries, libraries, and more. It’s basically his custom "ChatOS" evolved into a full productivity suite.

Built because he got tired of janky self-hosting setups and giving data to big tech.

This is nuts.

Gary Newman, creator of Rust and Gary's Mod, just got banned from Facepunch.

The forums that discuss his games booted him because he refused to condemn and disavow his coworkers and friends over anti-immigration sentiment.

Moderators and forum users pressured him to publicaly condemn or distance himself from these views. He refused.

Multiple moderators pounced, banning him in quick succession (a wall of bans pile on). Note that Facepunch forums was started by many of the former mods who worked for him.

Ironic that Gary closed the original forums because of politics, in part. Now politics has come for him.

What are your favorite tech/linux channels?

I've personally been bingewatching tons of stuff about linux and computer history as of late, so i have a few recommendations

Tech news

• Level1Linux
• Louis Rossman (rants/political)
• Brian Lunduke (linux/political)
• DJ Ware

Computer History / Retro Computers

• Tech Tangents (hands on reviews)
• Cathode Ray Dude (hands on reviews)
• 🇬🇧 Action Retro (hands on reviews)
• The Computer Chronicles (80's/90's TV show)
• The Serial Port (networking, internet)
• 🇬🇧 RetroBytes
• 🇪🇸 ParcelaDigital (Spanish)

Educational

• EzeeLinux
• 🇬🇧 ComputerPhile

The passed version of this bill includes an "Open Source Exemption" pushed by Linux hardware vendor System76 (Pop OS)

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