Late Night Linux – Episode 336

Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functionality until they made a public stink about it, WSL is now open source, there’s a new open source command-line text editor in Windows, and more.

News

Investing in what moves the internet forward (blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next)

Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub (phoronix.com/news/Firefox-On-GitHub)

Firefox Security Response to pwn2own 2025 (blog.mozilla.org/security/2025/05/17/firefox-s…)

When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why (infosec.exchange/@dymaxion/114530993777386949)

Servo Browser Engine Now Rendering Gmail & Google Chat, Decides Against AI Contributions (phoronix.com/news/Servo-Gmail-Now-Works)

Valve’s huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds (theverge.com/news/673114/valves-huge-steam-dec…)

SteamOS 3.7.8: Go Country – Steam News (store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/8…)

SteamOS (store.steampowered.com/steamos)

Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. (nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-uplo…)

Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/nextcloud-accu…)

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source (blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/…)

Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/microsoft-take…)

Edit is now open source – Windows Command Line (devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now…)

Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories (github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749)

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