Intro
Hello everybody. This is Episode-25 of FalseTrue Digest.
Here is a fresh batch of interesting articles from around the internet. Lots happening in the kernel world with AI discussions, and the self-hosting scene keeps growing.
Stories
https://naclcon.com/ - NaClCON, the History of Hacking conference, held May 31-June 2 at Carolina Beach — celebrating the people and moments that shaped hacker culture
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073761/ - Dirk Hohndel and Linus Torvalds fireside chat at Open Source Summit NA 2026 discussing AI’s impact on kernel development — Torvalds notes 20% more commits in recent releases
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/ - VCF East 2026 at InfoAge celebrating the era when computing moved from labs into homes and classrooms
https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-05-22/ - Plex tripling its lifetime pass price to $750 starting July 1 — sparking debate about the value of self-hosted media alternatives
Programming
https://blog.herlein.com/post/programming-languages-intersection/ - Greg Herlein on how five factors now drive language choice: adoption, job market, LLM code gen quality, concurrency, and deployment complexity
https://github.com/emacs-elfeed/elfeed/discussions/586 - Elfeed preparing for 4.0 release with renamed hooks, Compat 31 dependency, and groundwork for a new database format
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993 - Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) — the usual treasure trove of side projects and experiments
https://forgejo.org/2026-01-release-v14-0/ - Forgejo v14.0 released with inline issue filters, CodeMirror replacing the old web editor, and stateless CSRF protection
Emacs
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/06/2026-06-01-emacs-news/ - Sacha Chua’s Emacs News roundup for June 2026 — Emacs Carnival theme is “Underappreciated Emacs Built-ins”
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/05/2026-05-25-emacs-news/ - May 25 Emacs news featuring ox-skills for managing AI agent skills in Org-mode
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/05/2026-05-11-emacs-news/ - May 11 Emacs news covering Dired, Doom, Elisp, Org-Roam and new packages
https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/june-18-emacs-chat-with-ross-a-baker/ - Upcoming Emacs Chat with Ross A. Baker scheduled for June 18
AI
https://lwn.net/Articles/1073761/ - Linus Torvalds on AI-generated bug reports flooding the kernel security list — “a love-hate relationship with AI”
https://www.techloy.com/americas-200-ai-coding-tool-just-met-a-3-chinese-rival-glm-4-7/ - Zhipu AI’s GLM-4.7 open-source coding model scores 84.9% on LiveCodeBench, beating Claude Sonnet 4.5, at $3/month
https://www.devflokers.com/blog/open-source-ai-projects-may-2026-roundup - Open-source AI projects roundup for May 2026 including ARIS adversarial research harness from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Unix, Linux, BSD and free software scene
https://lwn.net/Articles/1074172/ - Linux kernel 7.1-rc5 released — development marching on after the 7.0 milestone
https://lwn.net/Articles/1075346/ - LWN discussion on hot patching in the kernel
https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/23/mdo_on_FreeBSD_15_and_Moving_to_FreeBSD_From_Ubuntu.shtml - Moving to FreeBSD 15 from Ubuntu — a user experience perspective
https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/03/Sharing_Standards_and_Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml - Discussion on sharing, standards, and the state of free/libre/open-source software in 2026
Marginal, Indie, Selfhosted
https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-06-05/ - Self-Host Weekly covering Home Assistant 2026.6, Mastodon hosting, Jellyfin, and Proxmox updates
https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-05-29/ - Self-Host Weekly on Ansible-HandsOn and community self-hosting projects
https://www.makeuseof.com/plex-just-tripled-its-lifetime-price-to-750-heres-the-free-alternative-that-actually-works/ - Plex tripled its lifetime price — here’s the free Jellyfin alternative
https://danubedata.ro/blog/self-host-gitea-forgejo-github-alternative-2026 - Self-hosting Gitea or Forgejo as a lightweight GitHub alternative in 2026
https://www.opensourcealternatives.to/blog/best-self-hosted-apps - Best self-hosted apps in 2026 — the community tracked over 1,000 new open-source self-hosted projects in 2025 alone