LINUX Unplugged

689: First Kontact

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:45:00 -0000

A new documentary reveals KDE's 30-year underdog story. Plasma pioneer Aaron Seigo joins us to look back, and explore what's next with Plasma 6.8.

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KDE at 30 - KDE Community
Plasma 6.8 30th Anniversary Edition - Release Notes — Plasma 6.8 is released on a very special day: KDE’s 30th birthday. Today we celebrate three decades of the KDE community providing the world’s greatest free and open-source software.
KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs
KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs │ Full Film Coming October 14th
KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote - Jan 18, 2008
Aaron Seigo - GitHub
ArcGIS for Elixir — Convenient access to Esri ArcGIS APIs for applications written in the Elixir programming language.
Sparking a Fire | Linux Action Show s20e06 - YouTube — Aaron Siego joins us to talk about the new open source KDE powered tablet that he and his team are working on! Find out how hard you want one, after this week's episode!
Culture of Shiny | LINUX Unplugged 25 — Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software community. And even your own humble hosts have been afflicted with from time to time.
KDE Connect — Enabling all your devices to communicate with each other.
Local-First Software — Experience apps that work offline, keep your data private, and sync seamlessly across your devices. Your data stays with you, not locked in the cloud.
jellyProxyKiosk — LCARS Jellyfin info front-end
Pick: RememberWindowPositions — Remember window positions for apps in KDE Plasma 6+. Especially useful for multi-window applications such as browsers.
Pick: Konveyor — Konveyor turns Plasma into an endless, scrollable row of windows. Nothing overlaps, nothing gets buried, and the rest of your desktop stays exactly the way you like it.

688: Eyes on Deck

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:17:00 -0700

We've turned our Steam Deck into a security monitoring system; Monitor your property, identify people, pets, and vehicles with detailed daily intelligence briefings. All local.

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Texas Linux Festival 2026
Frigate NVR
blakeblackshear/frigate — NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras
Frigate Documentation
Frigate Releases
Frigate Object Detector Configuration
Ultralytics YOLO11 Documentation
llama.cpp
Ollama
Ultralytics YOLO11
ultralytics/yolo11 - GitHub — Ultralytics YOLO11 discovery and quickstart for detection, segmentation, classification, pose, OBB, and tracking.
cage-kiosk/cage: A Wayland kiosk
TomBursch/kitchenowl - GitHub — KitchenOwl is a self-hosted grocery list and recipe manager. The backend is made with Flask and the frontend with Flutter. Easily add items to your shopping list before you go shopping. You can also create recipes and add items based on what you want to cook.
dahjah/muse-vm-hacks — Basic repo with what you need to go from a bare chat interface with your muse agent to an ssh-accessible VM with the nix package manager and full tailscale access (muse ships with a stipped down version
Pick: wtfi2 — Live, visual network-path diagnostic that pinpoints exactly where your Wi-Fi connection dies — and how to fix it. Rust + ratatui TUI.
Pick: SpaceScan — Fast disk-usage explorer for Linux: sunburst chart, keyboard-driven table, and text/CSV/JSON reports. Accurate like du, safe cleanup, 10 languages.
Pick: Vermouth — A native C++/Qt Linux launcher for Windows, Steam, GOG and retro games. 2.3 MB installed. Zero bloat. KDE-first.
Pick: RAWmakase — 📸 Free, fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
ArtCraft — Open Source Tools and Models for Makers, Builders, and Creatives (aka open source Adobe clones)
storytold/lightcraft - GitHub — An open-source non-destructive photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

687: Linux by Proxy

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:14:00 -0700

Millions of people may already be using Linux by proxy, so we went digging through their strange little cloud desktops to see if we can turn them into servers.

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SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot Agent Tops 400,000 Users After First Month - Bloomberg
Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads
OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers
What Is the Meta Muse Secure VM? Sentinel, Egress, Risks
How We Built Safety Into Muse | Meta AI Research
Pick: hw-monitor — Linux desktop application designed to monitor various aspects of your computer's hardware.
Pick: tincan-cli — Serverless peer-to-peer voice and text chat for your terminal.

686: Stop Desktop Slop

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:04:00 -0700

KDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years.

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Sovereign Tech Fund Invests Over €1 Million in KDE Software Development
KDE and AI, and you, and me – Adventures in Linux and KDE
What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE - YouTube
What Even is Ocean?
Akseli Lahtinen on Union for QtWidgets
StyleKit talk at Akademy 2026
Framework Laptop 12
KDE Linux at 2: what we've learned and how it can help you
QA infrastructure in KDE
KDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us?
KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs — Full Film Coming October 14th
What's Happening in KDE Remote Desktop — Improved Unattended Mode and More
This Week in Plasma: Bi-Directional RDP Clipboard Sync
This Week in Plasma: So Many Ways to Click and Scroll
This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026
KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM Infrastructure
Framework's Fedora KDE Plasma Laptop 12 Guide
systemd 262
A review canary in systemd's contributor instructions
Linux Live Update documentation
LUO userspace API
memfd_create(2)
FluxCast — Miracast/WFD ecosystem platform with .deb and AUR packages.
fluxcast-flake
JB Gulf Coast Meetup Room
Nixarr — Media Server Nixos Module
Nixflix — Nixflix is a declarative media server configuration manager for NixOS
garage — S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments.
Pick: Cliparr — Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server, or from a local video file opened directly in your browser.
Cliparr: Plex and Jellyfin providers
Cliparr: local file or direct media URL
Cliparr: export settings
Cliparr: subtitles
Mediabunny — A complete JavaScript media toolkit for the browser
KyleTryon/gifenc: fast GIF encoding
Pick: fdroidcl — A command-line F-Droid desktop client
space-elevator — Space Elevator gets you to orbit. What you do up there is your business.

685: Pool Party

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:59:00 -0700

We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe.

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Texas Linux Festival 2026
Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD
My Last Quest - Launch 84
RustFS — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
Announcing RustFS 1.0.0 GA - RustFS Blog
rustfs - GitHub — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
Amazon.com: Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen - 4K UHD, Google TV, 32GB Memory, Dolby Vision & Atmos, WiFi 6, HDMI 2.1, Fast Streaming, Compact and Powerful : Electronics
Macintosh SE/30 - Wikipedia
Love Down Babylon
Armada — The Open Source, Encrypted Discord Alternative
absorb — A cross platform Audiobookshelf client for Android and iOS
Lissen: Audiobookshelf Client
GrakovNe/lissen-android — Minimalistic Android client app for Audiobookshelf
wizarr - GitHub — Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc.
vikunja — The task manager you actually own.
zj-radar — A Zellij sidebar that shows Claude Code, Codex, and other AI-agent status across every tab.
Pi - GitHub
Pi — AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
Zoboomafoo - Wikipedia
Pick: flakelet — Run systemd services from Nix flakes and update them independently of the host system
Pick: ffdash — A TUI for batch AV1 & VP9 video encoding with hardware acceleration, real-time progress monitoring, and full control over quality settings. Made to work as a viable encoding dashboard over SSH. · GitHub
Pick: Chompass — Private calorie tracking for Android and the browser. Bring your own AI key, or run Gemma 4 on-device.

684: You Ain't Ready For This Jelly

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:02:00 -0700

We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.

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Wizarr — Wizarr is a automatic user invitation system for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. Create a unique link and share it to a user and they will automatically be invited to your media Server! They will even be guided to download the client and instructions on how to use your requests software!
Seerr — Seerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with the media server of your choice: Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. In addition, it integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr.
Maintainerr — Maintainerr makes managing your media easy. No longer will you have to worry about your precious hard drive space being taken up by media, that isn't even being watched.
Tracearr — Real-time analytics and intelligent detection for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Free, open source, self-hosted via Docker.
jellarr — Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API.
Jellyfin 12.0
Release 12.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
Query Performance Improvements by Shadowghost · Pull Request #16062 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
[Group] Jellyfin 10.11.x performance issues · Issue #15685 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
State of the Fin 2026-05-24
Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
Scanner Refactoring · jellyfin/jellyfin-meta · Discussion #125 · GitHub
Jellyfin - Project Leadership Changes — Don't worry, no jellyforks here.
On My Jellyfin Resignation - Joshua M. Boniface
Migration fails upgrading from 10.11.11 to 12.0 unstable: UNIQUE constraint failed: Users.NormalizedUsername · Issue #17458 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
Jellyswarrm: Bring all your Jellyfin servers together — Reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.
Smriti — photos without a server
ChivukulaVirinchi/photovault — Smriti is offline-first photo library for your drives. No server, no cloud. On-device face recognition, Google Photos Takeout import. Windows/macOS/Linux.
Commodore - The Future We Were Promised — In 1982, we made computers fun. In 2026, we’re making tech fun again.
go-vikunja/vikunja: The task manager you actually own.
Vikunja: The task manager you actually own
automatic-ripping-machine — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.
Ripping Movies Automatically With ARM - YouTube
OpenMouse — Free, open source mouse configurator
OpenLogi
OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
Pick: pelagica — Pelagica is a web, desktop, and TV client for Jellyfin built using React. It aims to provide a fast, modern, and customizable user experience for browsing and watching your media library. It's available as a self-hosted web app, a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a TV app for Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and Apple TV.
Wails — Build beautiful, performant applications using Go and modern web technologies. One codebase. Three platforms. No browsers.
Pick: tether — Tether aims to support all of the Apple Continuity features on Linux that are technically possible. If you've migrated away from macOS but still carry an iPhone, Tether provides the missing ecosystem integration.
Pick: ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team).
ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote (Webcal) or local iCalendar files.

683: Website Speedrun

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:09:00 -0700

Brent has two hours to build a great website, and the solution he finds feels more like a Linux tool than a modern web framework. Naturally, Wes takes it too far.

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Covered Bridge Cookies — Our cookies have no trans fats and are made with the best ingredients from Vermont based companies. Butter from Cabot, Chocolate from Barre Callebaut of St Albans, and we always use unbleached and unbromated flour along with natural flavorings. We use small batch production techniques that produce an unmistakable home made taste unlike mass-produced cookies.
Zola — Your one-stop static site engine. Forget dependencies. Everything you need in one binary.
gerbrent/brentgervais.ca — Landing page for Brent Gervais, built with Zola
Zola Documentation
Zola CLI Usage
Zola Directory Structure
Zola Installation
Zola Search
Zola GitHub
Zola Changelog
WintermuteOS — A personalized declarative desktop built from NixOS, Wayland/Hyprland, and QuickShell.
SwapMarket — Non-custodial Bitcoin swaps marketplace. Swap between different Bitcoin layers while staying in full control.
SwapMarket/swapmarket.github.io - GitHub — Decentralized and trustless marketplace for Boltz-compatible Bitcoin swap providers.
Alby Hub CLI — CLI for managing Alby Hub
hughhowey/neo — A novel-writing tool created by a novelist.
nives — An AI assistant for Home Assistant that remembers. One add-on, and the memory stays on your own machine.
nives-omarchy — Talk to your Home Assistant house in plain language, from your Omarchy desktop.
Pick: OpenMouse — OpenMouse runs entirely in your browser over WebHID — DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB, for dozens of gaming mice, with no accounts, no installs, and no telemetry sent anywhere.
OpenMouse Supported Devices
Pick: Wallos — Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker
Wallos on GitHub — Open-source, self-hostable personal subscription tracker. Visualize your recurring expenses, manage your budget, and save money.

670: There's Chickens in that Nebula

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:15:00 -0700

Leave the farm without killing the chickens, or losing remote access? We dig into how we pulled it off: Frigate, local automation, sun-tracking coop doors, and a network that shrugged off an ISP outage.

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Agent Op Guild on Matrix
Outdoor Electrical Water Resistant Enclosure - Amazon
Sipeed NanoKVM IP-KVM - Amazon
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
Smart Automatic Chicken Coop Door with WiFi
Omlet Developer Console
WLED Project
Generic MagWLED-1 WLED Controller
WS2812B LED Light Strip
LED Strip Diffuser Channel
Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Q Sensor ZSE11 800LR
AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor for Home Assistant
Anyone successfully using the MiCS 4514 Gas Sensor? - Reddit
Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Power Strip ZEN20 800LR
Amcrest 5MP Turret POE Camera
Amcrest 8-Port POE+ Switch
go2rtc
Frigate
We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
Pick: Zooz ZEN05 Outdoor Smart Plug – ZOOZ
Pick: Works with Home Assistant Certified Devices — Every product listed here has been rigorously tested by our team to ensure a great experience with Home Assistant, all backed by a brand committed to long-term support. All these products put privacy and local control first.

682: Oops! All Shells!

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:31:00 -0700

Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.

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Quickshell — Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.
Caelestia — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop.
end-4’s configuration
Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor
Omarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH
omacom/omarchy - Github
The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News
Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy News
Hyprland — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHub
omarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar.
Home Assistant for Omarchy — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4
syncshell — See sync health, open folders, control the service, and install or update Syncthing from the Omarchy bar.
syncshell-dms: — Read-only Syncthing monitoring plugin for DankMaterialShell
Dank Linux — A Modern Desktop for Wayland.
Dank Linux Docs
TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History).
Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
How to get a TomTom API key - TomTom Docs
FileBrowser Quantum - GitHub
FileBrowser Quantum — The best free self-hosted web-based file manager with source configuration, modern authentication, office support, and lightning-fast search.
Open Book Touch — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language.
Pick: dankcalendar — Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app.
DankCalendar on Flathub
Pick: Homelable — Visual Homelab Mapper & Monitor
Homelable — Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, interactive network diagram with live status monitoring.
homelable-hacs — Home Assistant integration for Homelable

681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 16:30:00 -0700

Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.

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Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
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Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs
Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
[REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT
reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex.
Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches
Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3
Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems
Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes
Syncthing GitHub
Rclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces.
LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex.
A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names.
dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests
Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware
Pick: ssh-clipboard — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.

680: Go Hack Yourself

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:20:00 -0700

We turn HexStrike’s red team agents loose on our systems, as OpenSSH warns that AI-assisted bug hunting is already changing the security race.

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TXLF 2026 Full schedule
TXLF 2026
SCALE 24x CFP — The CFP closes November 1, 2026.
Nix Vegas 2026 Talks
OpenSSH 10.5 Fixes Security Flaws as Project Responds to AI-Assisted Bug Discovery — OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes, as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases.
openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 — Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes.
OpenAI Talk at Black Hat USA 2026 — The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI
HexStrike AI MCP Agents
TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
topgrade — Upgrade all the things
magnusoverli/opencode — AI-Powered Configuration Assistant for Home Assistant
Home Assistant God Mode — YouTube
cbbs_pi — A vintage CBBS-style bulletin board system emulator for macOS, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi.
Mother Hen App
rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy - Inside Rust Blog
Covered Bridge Cookies
Cluckwork — Poultry farm management — starting with egg-producing layer operations, with architectural headroom for broilers, pullets, breeders, live bird sales, meat products, and hatchery modules.
Slack Dumper — Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges.
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunch
Pick: iDescriptor — Cross-platform, open-source and free idevice management tool written in Rust and Qt.
iDescriptor on GitHub
iDescriptor on Flathub
iDescriptor in Nix Packages
Pick: KiwiFS — Searchable, structured, versioned markdown. Plug in an agent in 30 seconds — or self-host with a single binary.

679: The Last Shutdown

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:20:00 -0700

An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.

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Pick: LAN-Orangutan — LAN Orangutan is a lightweight network scanner with persistent device labeling, multi-network support, and Tailscale integration. Built by 291 Group.
LAN Orangutan — Lightweight Network Scanner
Pick: LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
LocalSend on Flathub
Pick: oxproxion — Android LLM chat interface for OpenRouter models or locally served models using Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX LM or Hermes Agent.
Cherokee Scout Reservation
How-To Meshtastic BBS! Off-Grid Email?
TC2-BBS-mesh — A BBS server for Meshtastic for posting bulletins, sending mail to users, and channel directory.
herdr — the runtime your coding agents live on

678: Entropy Ain't Easy

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:25:00 -0700

Seven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers.

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Linux 7.2-rc5 announcement
Linux 7.2 changelog
Linux 7.1 changelog
7.2 merge window
Btrfs large folios and DIO fix
strncpy removal
i486 removal
Dreamcast fixes
Cache-aware scheduling
Fairer GPU scheduler
NVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibility
AMD ROCm regression
Dreamcast vs i486
Btrfs DIO regression reports
Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue | COINKITE Blog
Bitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research says
Flowchart of the Linux RNG
dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
Pick: TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
Pick: cfait — A fast and powerful, offline-first task manager for your terminal, desktop, and phone.
Cfait on Flathub
Cfait on F-Droid

677: We Got a Buzz

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:30:00 -0700

Block’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next.

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Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
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Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place. — Chat with teammates and specialized agents in one shared space, then move straight into planning, project management, coding, and PRs. Create agents tailored to your workflows, let them collaborate with your team’s agents, and keep the work that used to be scattered across chat, trackers, and dev tools in one place.
buzz on GitHub
Feature Request: Support external agent systems (non-ACP) for real-time communication in Buzz communities
[Bug] Remote Agent Missing from @ Mention Autocomplete Across Machines
Teknium 🪽 on X: "@jack Hit me up if you want us to submit any PRs or make hermes more compatible with Buzz!"
feat(agents): add Hermes ACP and external-agent integration by NYTEMODEONLY
feat(acp): Hermes runtime discovery and durable session load by joelbrilliant
docs(acp): document Buzz host integration by NYTEMODEONLY
MeshBBS — Meshbbs revolutionizes communication on mesh networks by bringing the beloved Bulletin Board System experience to Meshtastic devices. Exchange messages, participate in forums, and build communities over long-range, low-power radio networks, all without traditional internet infrastructure.
Electroverse Map | EV Charging Stations
Pick: PipeWire Controller — A native GTK4/libadwaita control center for PipeWire

675: Sloppy Agent Roasting

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:00:00 -0700

Wes' brother's PC is toast, making this the perfect moment to switch him to Linux. If our ambitious plan doesn’t scare him away first.

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Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
Storyboarder — Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.
MCP-NixOS — Model Context Protocol for NixOS
Spud Router — An open-source router-on-a-stick that you can manage from a browser, a terminal CLI, or directly from your AI agents
Le Potato AML-S905X-CC
MacSurf — A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. Real CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, native HTTPS — built with CodeWarrior on the Carbon API.
Karpathy's llm-wiki
Hermes llm-wiki SKILL.md
camply - the campsite finder ⛺️ — a tool to find campsites at sold out campgrounds through sites like recreation.gov
Pick: OpenTogetherTube — Enjoy YouTube together. Real-time synchronized playback. Optional voting system. Dark theme. No sign up required. All Open Source. It's never been easier to watch videos together.
opentogethertube on GitHub
Pick: TypeType — Privacy-respecting video platform to watch Youtube.
TypeType on GitHub
Pick: metube — Self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp, for downloading media from YouTube and dozens of other sites.

674: LAN Before Time

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:30:00 -0700

The kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves.

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Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-16 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview
Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support
June 16th 2006 AppleTalk Removed from Kernel — AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing.
linux-netdev/mod-orphan — Linux networking modules removed from the kernel due to lack of maintenance and high bug count
Netatalk — Netatalk is a Free and Open Source file server that uses the AFP protocol.
Basilisk II — Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator.
MacOS 8: Internet Archive
Apple, Inc.. Macintosh Classic Desktop Computer. 1989 - MoMA
ChrisLAS/chooser — chooser is the AirTalk AppleTalk service browser for LINUX Unplugged. It uses TailTalk's userspace AppleTalk stack to run NBP lookups and displays discovered services in a terminal UI inspired by the classic Mac OS Chooser.
jrouter — Home-grown alternative implementation of Apple Internet Router 3.0
marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html — GlobalTalk is the nickname we’ve given to the practice of using an ancient Apple Internet Router software package to bridge your local AppleTalk network (of vintage computers and printers) to the global network of the internet and other people’s vintage computers and printers. While nothing is stopping you from using this all year, usage primarily spikes in March for #MARCHintosh.
bramble — A password manager that keeps your secrets on your own devices. No account, no server holding your vault, no company to get breached and leak everything. You hold the vault, you hold the password, and that's it.
MeatPi WiCAN Pro: Connect Any Car to Home Assistant! Probably... - YouTube
La Gendarmerie sous Linux depuis 17 ans : les leçons à en tirer - Supersonique Studio SARL
Qu'est-ce que NixOS, la distribution Linux que l'État pourrait utiliser ?
adelolmo/hd-idle — Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down Utility
Gentleman-Programming/engram — Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI.
distributed-llama: Distributed LLM inference. — Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference. More devices means faster inference.
MacPick: Morph — Morph, from Gryphon Software was the first commercial morphing program for PCs. With this program you specify related points between two images and the software will morph the two images together at different levels. The program can export the results to a movie file.
WinWorld: Gryphon Morph 1.00
MacPick: LegacyAI from Manticore Software — ChatGPT for vintage 68k, PowerPC, and Intel Macs
MacPick: Dark Castle — Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles.
MacPick: CrystalQuest — The first color game for the Macintosh, in which the player controls a small, circular spaceship which must travel around the screen collecting crystals.
Pick: mcp-beam — mcp-beam is a MCP server (stdio transport) for casting local files and media URLs to Chromecast and DLNA/UPnP devices on your LAN.
Pick: Go2TV — Media Casting Made Easy

673: 8 Hidden Steam Machine Details

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:15:00 -0700

Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine.

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Texas Linux Fest 2026 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-01 23:59 (US/Central)
SeaGL 2026 CFP
CarolinaCon 2026 - CFP Open!
carolinacon/infra: Infrastructure used to run parts of carolina con
Valve Steam Machine Review - GamersNexus
SteamOS 3.8 - Steam News
Valve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUs
Steam Machines will only come with one 16GB stick of RAM - Tom's Hardware
Steam Controller developer interview — Valve talks design, the learning curve, and the lack of kernel drivers | Tom's Hardware
Valve Developer Hardware Talk PDF
2015 Steam Machine - Wikipedia
meshcore-ha — Home Assistant integration for monitoring and controlling MeshCore radio networks.
Re-Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA.
SONE on Flathub
Re-Pick: high-tide — Libadwaita TIDAL client for Linux
Pick: coppwr — coppwr displays and provides control over many aspects of PipeWire as directly as possible in an organized and visual way. It can help with debugging and diagnosing a PipeWire setup or with developing software that interacts with PipeWire.
coppwr on Flathub
Pick: dn-tool — dn-tool is a control-plane CLI that enrolls and unenrolls Linux hosts in a defined.net Managed Nebula network. It calls the defined.net REST API to create and delete host records and obtain single-use enrollment codes, then orchestrates the proprietary dnclient daemon — which it downloads and verifies at runtime. It is strictly control plane: it never reimplements Nebula and never replaces dnclient.

672: The Kernel Is Not a Museum

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:30:00 -0700

Your favorite open source projects have been busy. We round up the new releases worth knowing about, plus the big kernel changes headed your way soon.

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KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements - Phoronix
Plasma 6.7 - KDE Community
See what's next for Firefox — Firefox.com
systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer
Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
myna: Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop.
Linux 7.1 Annouced by Linus on Sunday June 14th — Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the newstoday is 7.1.
Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here's What’s New - 9to5Linux
Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization - Phoronix
Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released with New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED, and Major Code Cleanup | Linux Journal
The first half of the 7.2 merge window - LWN.net
Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things - Phoronix
Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation - Phoronix
Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More - Phoronix
AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed - Phoronix
Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support - Phoronix
soltros/Cabinet — Cabinet is a lean, high-performance "File Locker" designed for self-hosting. It prioritizes a fast web experience, mobile-first design, and simple file management without the bloat of complex syncing engines.
Distro Stu's Nix Router Config
Pick: Fluxcast — Stream your Linux desktop to a Smart TV via Miracast/WFD, DLNA, or Chromecast.
Pick: audible-cli — A command line interface for audible package. With the cli you can download your Audible books, cover, chapter files.
Pick: Import-To-AudioBookShelf — A utility to take books which you legally purchased from Audible and move them into Audio BookShelf
Pick: quipclipper — Find and cut lossless clips from movies & TV by searching the subtitle dialogue.

671: Windows Without Windows

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:45:00 -0700

We found the best way for a Linux user to manage Windows: keep it remote, keep it contained, and touch the desktop as little as possible.

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Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
FORScan — A software scanner for Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, designed to work over ELM327 and J2534 Pass-Thru compatible OBD adapters.
MeatPi WiCAN-PRO OBD Scanner — Built on the robust ESP32-S3 platform, WiCAN PRO runs the powerful, open-source WiCAN firmware.
argunix: Webhook-driven Nix CI for GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo
PearPass - Your Open-Source Password Manager
olmec's nixos-router config
Ulanzi TC001 Smart Pixel Clock — The full-color LED screen supports custom icons, bringing time and weather to life in a way that’s both retro and modern — making it the most unique visual statement on your desk.
ULANZI TC001 Smart Pixel Clock
awtrix3 — Custom firmware for the Ulanzi Smart Pixel clock or self-made AWTRIX displays.
Mouzi — Mouzi is a silent, elegant file organizer that lives in your system tray and keeps your Downloads folder (and any other folder) automatically tidy. It runs quietly in the background, monitors selected folders, and moves, renames, or sorts files based on customizable rules.
Mouzi - Organize Downloads Folder Automatically

670: There's Chickens in that Nebula

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:15:00 -0700

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Agent Op Guild on Telegram
Agent Op Guild on Matrix
Outdoor Electrical Water Resistant Enclosure - Amazon
Sipeed NanoKVM IP-KVM - Amazon
Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
Smart Automatic Chicken Coop Door with WiFi
Omlet Developer Console
WLED Project
Generic MagWLED-1 WLED Controller
WS2812B LED Light Strip
LED Strip Diffuser Channel
Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Q Sensor ZSE11 800LR
AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor for Home Assistant
Anyone successfully using the MiCS 4514 Gas Sensor? - Reddit
Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Power Strip ZEN20 800LR
Amcrest 5MP Turret POE Camera
Amcrest 8-Port POE+ Switch
go2rtc
Frigate
We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
Pick: Zooz ZEN05 Outdoor Smart Plug – ZOOZ
Pick: Works with Home Assistant Certified Devices — Every product listed here has been rigorously tested by our team to ensure a great experience with Home Assistant, all backed by a brand committed to long-term support. All these products put privacy and local control first.

Episode 12: Debating Debian Decisions | LINUX Unplugged 12

Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:21:45 -0700

Upstart or systemd which will Debian choose? We’ll discuss the inherent benefits and disadvantages of both, and the larger ramification Debian’s decision will have on the Linux ecosystem.

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Episode 11: Bankrupt Linux News | LINUX Unplugged 11

Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:05:53 -0700

The recent outburst from Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth have put the poor state of Linux news coverage into sharp focus. The media’s attention to the cult of personalities damages the Linux community.

We’ll discuss what pressures push this trend forward, despite the need of a balanced dialog in an open community.

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Episode 10: The Ubuntu Hangover | LINUX Unplugged 10

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:59:19 -0700

What does a post Ubuntu world look like, which distro would rise to the top? Our specially crafted team of armed and dangerous Linux users weigh in.

PLUS: Rise up against your bearded distro gatekeepers! If you’re an experienced Linux user, it might be time to break out of your distro box and help push upstream forward.

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Episode 9: The Ubuntu Situation | LINUX Unplugged 9

Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:57:08 -0700

Is the traditional release model failing Ubuntu? Perhaps there is a better way to harness the rapid progress of Linux then static releases. With their focus on mobile, and a rather lackluster release around the corner, we debate if Ubuntu’s switch to Unity is costing them now.

Plus we chat about Linux usage among kids, and tools to learn more about Linux and technology, and more.

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Episode 8: Cloud Guilt | LINUX Unplugged 8

Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:20:16 -0700

Should Linux users be anti-cloud? Why do so many of us feel guilty for using the”cloud”?

This week will dig into this conundrum and maybe even solve this more and more complex question.

Plus a little KDE vs Gnome debate, moral pirates, and even RMS’ workflow.

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Episode 7: Full SteamOS Ahead | LUP 7

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:37:19 -0700

Valve has announced SteamOS, and we have our analysis of how this will impact the Linux ecosystem at large, the challenge Valve faces, and the reasons Valve is the right company to pull this effort off.

Plus the real reason for iTunes, re-thinking Google, and a lot more!

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Episode 6: The Android Problem | LINUX Unplugged 6

Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:06:18 -0700

Is that exploit in your pocket? This week we'll ask if Android is Stallman's worst nightmare, making Tivo look like a quaint abuser of Linux. And how Linux is poised to push past it's current limitations over the next few years.

Then it's your feedback, and our follow up!

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Episode 5: Wrath of Linus | LINUX Unplugged 5

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:14:16 -0700

We break down what has Linus so upset, and the Internet in an NSA induced fever. Plus GOG makes a public statement about Linux that has us scratching our heads, and your feedback.

Then if we had a format, we’d be breaking it with our review of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s first episode, Emissary.

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Episode 4: Are Linux Users Cheap? | LINUX Unplugged 4

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:19:04 -0700

We crunch the Steam and Ubuntu Software Center numbers and we have to ask: Are Linux users cheap? Or is the answer more complex than that?

Plus how we think Microsoft buying Nokia might impact Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS, and other open mobile startups, replacing Dropbox, and more!

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Episode 3: Go Dock Yourself | LINUX Unplugged 3

Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:27:57 -0700

After rebuilding his KDE desktop better and stronger than before, Chris and Matt dig into what really seems to be troubling the Gnome project, what really makes a desktop easy to use, and if the Ubuntu Edge campaign was a sophisticated PR stunt.

Plus the live feedback from our Mumble room, your emails, and more!

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Episode 2: Edge of Failure | LINUX Unplugged 2

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:58:12 -0700

As the final hours countdown we chat about the fate of the Ubuntu Edge camping and debate with our live callers about the bigger picture.

Plus our thoughts on the new KDE release, Steam, and a few more thoughts on elementary OS.

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Episode 1: Too Much Choice | LU1

Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:05:39 -0700

Does the Linux community lean on the age old excuse of choice, to brush of the real limitations of desktop Linux environments? We debate that, and then discuss the growing reasons to roll your own email server.

Plus we read a ton of feedback, chat with our live hangout, some tablet troubleshooting, and more!

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