// ITS FOSS — LINUX & OPEN SOURCE
Local AI Weekly #9: The Computer Says No
Three weeks ago, I wrote that if you can reverse engineer it, it's open source. Looks like the frontier labs didn't love that idea.
Claude Code users are hitting "safety checks" in the middle of decompiling things. Some Codex users got warnings and account restrictions for poking at their own smart TVs. 404 Media calls it a crackdown on the coolest thing people were doing with AI and I agree with them.
This is precisely the reason why local AI and open source/weight models are going to be the next big thing for people who want control over their data and computer.
So this edition is about who gets to say 'no' on your machine.
Remember Playtron, the Linux gaming OS from Cyanogen co-founder Kirt McMaster? It rebranded as Kora in July 2025 and has now unveiled Kora OS, a Linux desktop pitched at people who primarily use AI.
Here's the catch. Kora OS will be free when it ships in 2027, but the money comes from subscriptions that bundle AI models and agent services. Cortex and the desktop interface are proprietary. So it's Linux-based, not open, and only "local when possible".
Kora won't be the only one. Omarchy is already there and so do openKylin and openEuler. There will be more distros offering AI-first opearting systems.
You know that "Yes, and don't ask again" option in Claude Code? It saves an allow rule in .claude/settings.local.json inside your project. Sometimes that rule is the exact command you approved, password or token included, in plain text.
Security firm Apiiro searched public GitHub and found 104,185 copies of the file.
The bug report about this goes back to August 2025. A bot closed it as "not planned" after 60 days of no activity. So the same tool that won't help you decompile your own TV firmware will happily remember your production database password.