The Ironsysadmin News Recap for 10/17/2025

About this episode

This episode covers recent technology news including developer identification issues, supply chain attacks, and improvements in Linux gaming.

It’s END OF 10 week (let’s talk about that) F-Droid facing developer identification issues after google’s software verification announcement. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/f-droid-project-threatened-by-googles-new-dev-registration-rules/ More NPM supply chain attacks, this time from North Korea https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/north-korean-hackers-target-crypto-221509651.html Doom Dark Ages gets performance improvements and steam deck verified https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/doom-the-dark-ages-gets-a-major-performance-upgrade-for-handhelds-now-steam-deck-verified/ Gaming on linux has come a long way https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1o50o79/gaming_on_linux_keeps_getting_better_especially/ Gonna be honest, i had trouble watching the video, but he made some good points. Linux gaming has in fact come a long way, and i love seeing folks who are not already linux users giving it a try. Mastodon is working on a new “packs” feature. https://www.theverge.com/news/794988/mastodon-bluesky-starter-packs-fediverse Meant to help user onboarding, by helping them find people to follow I love this alternate approach to a curated outrage algorithm It sounds…

People in this episode

Host: Nate

Topics covered

• technology news
• Linux gaming
• developer identification
• supply chain attacks
• Mastodon features
• gaming performance improvements

Keywords

• F-Droid
• Google
• NPM
• North Korea
• Doom Dark Ages
• Linux gaming
• Mastodon
• Bluesky

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: F-Droid, Google, NPM, Steam, Gaming on Linux, Mastodon, Bluesky, The Verge

Books & works: Doom Dark Ages

Places: North Korea

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