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What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - Half

Half — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:39:37 GMT

@scallisto Thanks for feedback. 😃 That convinces me doing it myself, but have to compile it for ARM64 myself (no build for it as far as I see). Otherwise I cannot replace XC on my phone.

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - sbird

sbird — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:55:29 GMT

@half Have just switched and got the browser extension working, it's awesome! Thanks person 😄

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - Phalanx :archlinux:

Phalanx :archlinux: — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:32:31 GMT

@Blort @thelinuxexperiment @bitwarden @aliasvault How exactly did they "screw over"? In fact, nothing changed for most users and GPL-licensed builds are still available.

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - sbird

sbird — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:12:19 GMT

@half Just installed ChiPass, it looks awesome! I particularly like that it follows my system theme (KeePassXC doesn't, using Niri + Noctalia), will definitely switch if I can get browser extension working!

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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:06:22 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment

After seeing all the recent bullshit from #Bitwarden, the second #AliasVault does their independent security review, assuming no major issues, I'll be jumping ship. After all, if you can't trust someone to not screw over their #FOSS community, can you really trust them with all your most important passwords?

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - Half

Half — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:38:08 GMT

@scallisto They mentioned it in a pinned issue, haven't tried, yet. ChiPass supports everything that KeepassXC could do at least one year ago. Newer features are likely not included, unless they already developed those in the last 6 months the project exists.

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - sbird

sbird — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:08:53 GMT

@half Oh, didn't know ChiPass supported the browser extension! I might have to try it out soon. Not too much of a fan of KeePassXC's LLM policies, so if ChiPass works with that then I'll probably switch (it's a fork so should have equivalent functionality right?)

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - sbird

sbird — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 16:07:15 GMT

Wine on OpenBSD is super cool too! More options are always good, very happy for the BSD users 😄

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - sbird

sbird — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:59:49 GMT

The new KeePassXC update is very cool! The KeePass ecosystem is what I prefer since it's all local, no server shenanigans (Syncthing can be used for shared password database between devices, even on iOS devices with Synctrain, though I daily drive Linux and Android!)

ChiPass is also neat as an alternative to KeePassXC (it is a community fork) if you don't like the latter's LLM policies, and you also have Secrets if you use GNOME (available on mobile Linux too, awesome!). Secrets is missing features though (no favicons and limited icons, not very customisable, no browser extension support)

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - Half

Half — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:48:22 GMT

About Linux kernel, not all of them share the opinion that LLMs are really helpful in every way. There is a talk about how they affect the kernel work on a daily basis, the first 35 minutes is the talk, rest questions and answers: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q -> I don't want to know how much energy is only wasted for all these thousands of bug reports that are duplicated, already fixed, stolen from researchers that were using LLM chats and so on. How can Linus still make such a strong claims when it is clearly not that helpful? When patches even include human fails from 20 years ago, because the data is trained by the whole history of human mistakes, too?

Sad to hear about Bitwarden, but never used it. I always had the feeling this will happen. Even more sad about KeepassXC, because I used it and was happy, but never realized the vibecoding policy and I don't trust those who are not only using them on such important security applications, but especially that early. Was looking deeper into it and it seems there is an anti-AI fork called Chipass that forked the version before KeepassXC was introducing the new policy. I will look a bit deeper next days, but currently I am 80% sure to switch over to it. The browser integration for KeepassXC is not allowing LLMs and support Chi, so no issues at this front. Chi is hosted on Codeberg for those also want to give a look.

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - tracy anne

tracy anne — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:00:12 GMT

I'll stick with Kwallet. I've used it since 2000, and used it across different desktops, not just KDE. Personally I use a separate password, and prefer not to open it with my Session Password.

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - Edoardo Regni

Edoardo Regni — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:24:17 GMT

@thanius@peertube.chuggybumba.com I use llm's to find stuff or solutions for items where I am able to verify the output immediately (or with minimal effort). Example: last week I had a problem with my network interface. I prompted a (locally running) llm for the 'nmcli' commands which I hadn't used for years because I don't work as a sysadmin. The output was usable and saved me quite some 'manual-reading time'. I was able to verify the output because my internet connection was working again 😃
It is my opinion that you should limit the scope of llm's there. If you start to blindly accept the output of llm's (which happened on a big scale with the php2shell cve this week, for example) you're just using the wrong tool for the job. Accepting the output of an llm without verification is only acceptable if an incorrect output is acceptable.
The big problem with llm's is how you can abuse this technology. From a sociological point of view, it is the 'best tool ever for the (flaws in) meritocracy': it is a perfect tool to cheat your way up to a higher social class. And this is, in my opinion, the real problem. As long as llm's help people reach a better life standard by generating fake art/articles/cv's/programs/solutions to math problems/science it will be abused on the current massive scale. I have not found a solution for this problem, but I believe we should not discuss if 'ai' is good or bad ('ai' is just a subset of 'programs'. Some are useful, some are less useful) but ask 'where is, for example, an llm useful?' and learn each other to strictly limit the scope.
To make it more clear what the scope of an llm is, I would suggest to remove the word 'intelligence' because an llm has nothing to do with intelligence whatsoever (but it is a very good marketing buzzword because a user can feel himself implicitly intelligent by using this technology). The scientists who make the great podcast 'mystery ai-hype 3000' published a nice attempt: https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/. They replaced the word 'artificial intelligence' with 'probabilistic automation'. This sounds technically much more accurate, but obviously, any marketing team would rate this 0/10 😄

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - macniel

macniel — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:34:06 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment I guess that one private project Torvalds did in python with AI was all he needed to be swayed by the forbidden fruit, that is full of toxicity, anti-humanism, anti-future, and anti-intellectualism. He needs to step down, because (even though he denies it) Linux and FOSS is a social movement!

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - Little Bit Lost

Little Bit Lost — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:53:17 GMT

15:32 did that guy really leak a password?

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - Agathokles Martinios

Agathokles Martinios — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:39:55 GMT

Archmagos Torvalds has fallen into Tech-heresy, it seems.

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - Voxel

Voxel — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:13:30 GMT

He featured the new YouTube dislike button ✨

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - shortwavesurfer2009

shortwavesurfer2009 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:26:59 GMT

@thelinuxexperiment i am not at all against using AI to make software. Hoeever, that does not mean that testing is not still required. The first few versions WILL BE absolute crap and you WILL have bugs to squash. Any brand new project needsto cary the ALPHA tag until it has gone through several iterations.

What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News - Tobias Hellgren

Tobias Hellgren — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:54:59 GMT

I somewhat agree with Torvalds. Forcing the tag on every commit would be like forcing a tag for using Intellisense. However, I TRULY TRULY hope that they have a policy that they need to understand EXACTLY what the LLM changes do.