LINUX Unplugged

1. 692: Ubuntu’s Core Reset

   November 8, 20261 h 23 minEpisode 692Play next

   With Jon Seager

   Canonical’s Jon Seager joins us to unpack Ubuntu’s bold desktop reset, and what could be the biggest reimagining of Ubuntu in its history.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined …

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   Canonical’s Jon Seager joins us to unpack Ubuntu’s bold desktop reset, and what could be the biggest reimagining of Ubuntu in its history.

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   • Fixes available in -proposed pocket for CVE-2026-98432 | Ubuntu
   • CVE-2026-98432 | Ubuntu
   • Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray
   • Ubuntu 26.10 release notes
   • Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
   • Canonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop
   • enioka group
   • Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
   • Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years
   • GamingOnLinux: Core Desktop restarted, gaming plans
   • It's FOSS: Core Desktop + firmware HWE proposal
   • Why Canonical Is Reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop (explainer)
   • Releases - canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub — Ubuntu Core Desktop 26 DANGEROUS developer preview.
   • canonical/workshop - GitHub — Ubuntu-native development environments: secure, fast, composable, and agent-ready.
   • The Immutable Linux Paradox - Jon Seager
   • Ubuntu Core — Canonical's immutable, snap-based Ubuntu for desktops, servers, and edge devices.
   • Snap confinement — How strict confinement and interfaces isolate applications.
   • LXD — Canonical's system container manager, used for isolated development environments.
   • uutils coreutils — Rust reimplementation of the GNU coreutils shipped in 26.10.
   • bootc — Container-image-based OS updates, as used by Fedora's image-based desktops.
   • ntpd-rs — Full-featured Rust implementation of NTP, including NTS support.
   • imagecraft — Tool for customizing and building bootable Ubuntu images.
   • Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop - Desktop
   • Myna speech-to-text is now available as a technology preview
   • Myna - GitHub — Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop.
   • Myna - Snapcraft — Install the Myna snap.
   • Torsher — One Docker container with one database and one interface, made for the TV first.
   • koya-bar — JavaScript UI on Koya's own GPU renderer, without a browser underneath.
   • koya-os — Live ISO if you fancy trying it from USB rather than changing your current setup.
   • Pick: List All Tabs (Updated) — A Firefox extension that lists every open tab across all windows, groups duplicates and busy sites (respecting Multi-Account Containers), and lets you jump to or close tabs individually or by site.
   • zachleat/list-all-tabs: Firefox extension to list tabs, find duplicates, and close them.
   • Pick: Tangram — Tangram is a new kind of browser. It is designed to organize and run your Web applications. Each tab is persistent and independent. You can set multiple tabs with different accounts for the same application.
   • Tangram on Flathub
   • Pick: Pinchflat-NGX — An enhanced, self-hosted YouTube media manager built on Pinchflat with Material design UI, PostgreSQL support, OIDC SSO, and disk staging.

   Chapters (7)

   1. 0:00Intro
   2. 1:25PSA
   3. 3:54Interview with Jon Seager
   4. 43:51Me Talk Pretty
   5. 56:34Shout-Outs
   6. 1:06:44Picks
   7. 1:16:37Outro

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2. 691: Fedora's Hidden Upgrades

   November 2, 20261 h 21 minEpisode 691Play next

   Fedora 45 has serious upgrades under the hood; we dig in, and may have found our new favorite dashboard.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the …

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   Fedora 45 has serious upgrades under the hood; we dig in, and may have found our new favorite dashboard.

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   • Texas Meetup — Saturday Lunch · Meetup.com
   • Texas Meetup — Saturday Lunch · Colony Events Gathio
   • Fedora Linux 45 Final NO-GO: Release Delayed to November 3
   • The eMudhra Issue Was So Bad, It Delayed Fedora 45
   • Fedora 45 Beta vs Fedora 44: What Actually Changed?
   • Fedora 45 Workstation: Top New Features
   • Fedora's oo7 Secrets Swap: What Actually Changes
   • What's New in Fedora 45: GNOME 51, Plasma 6.7, and More
   • webssh — Security-focused, self-hosted SSH and SFTP workspace for homelabs and teams - multi-user, passkeys, OIDC, encrypted keys, backups, and offline-ready.
   • Termix-SSH/Termix: self-hosted, plugin-based server management — Self-hosted, plugin-based server management.
   • Project NOMAD — Offline Knowledge & AI Server — A self-contained offline server packed with encyclopedic knowledge, local AI, and essential tools, ready when the internet isn't.
   • DuarteSantos8/openGym: open-source gym tracker, App Store + APK — Free gym tracker, no ads, no subscription. Plan routines, log workouts, import from Strong, Hevy and FitNotes.
   • trailcurrentoss — Open-source, offline-capable head unit for your car.
   • nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed | Farid Zakaria's Blog — Enter the Nixpkgs multiverse. All the versions that ever existed, all in one place.
   • Pick: Hex
   • hex on GitHub — Hex is local-first voice dictation. Hold a shortcut, speak, and release. Hex transcribes on your Mac and pastes the result into the app you are using.
   • Pick: Hokum — Notifications for Wayland that look like they belong on a computer from this decade. Drawn with Rune.
   • anomalyco/hokum: Notifications for Wayland that look like they belong on a computer from this decade. Drawn with Rune.
   • Pick: PatchMon — PatchMon is an enterprise-grade platform that gives operations teams a single pane of glass to monitor, patch and secure their Linux fleet, with FreeBSD and Windows agent support.

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3. 690: The S in PHP is for Security

   October 25, 20261 h 12 minEpisode 690Play next

   A major PHP flaw puts servers everywhere at risk; so we hack ours. Meanwhile, open source helps debloat our smart TVs.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized …

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   A major PHP flaw puts servers everywhere at risk; so we hack ours. Meanwhile, open source helps debloat our smart TVs.

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   • PHP Security Release for PHP2Shell
   • PHP2Shell: PHP Remote Code Execution
   • Understanding PHP2Shell
   • CVE-2026-109618 - PHP RCE via OOM corruption
   • CVE-2026-109619 - PHP RCE via stale global state
   • Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let Hackers Gain Root Access Across Servers
   • PHP: OOM corruption advisory
   • PHP: stale global state advisory
   • PHP's October 23 follow-up
   • Steal My Bitcoin - a PHP RCE challenge! — Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over. Have fun!+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916
   • People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
   • CleanYourTV — Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.
   • CleanYour.TV: remove ads and bloat from Android TV and Google TV
   • cleanyourtv/addons/frigate-glance
   • cleanyourtv/addons/smart-home
   • cleanyourtv/addons/tv-hub
   • humblemuzzu/dumbtv — Take the ads, tracking and clutter out of your Fire TV over ADB, no root. Every step can be undone. Comes with its own open-source home screen.
   • Amazon.com: Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen
   • The LLM-gen-AI Elephant in Our FOSS Room :: SeaGL 2026 :: pretalx
   • KSMBD: Critical Unpatched Linux Kernel Flaws Accidentally Disclosed on Public List
   • android-nixpkgs: Nix-packaged Android SDK
   • LCARS - Wikipedia
   • agent-shell - Emacs Agent Shell — Brings your favorite AI agents to Emacs, keeping you at home.
   • HouseWaves — Home Assistant Whole-Home Multi-Room Speakers
   • LeadStinger
   • Niri — A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
   • Umbriel — Umbriel is a Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, master, and floating layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.
   • NetBird - Open Source Zero Trust Networking
   • noblepayne/meshSidecar: Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services
   • Vero V - OSMC — Vero V is OSMC’s fifth flagship streaming media player that’s designed for fast, “future-proof” 4K playback, including AV-1 and HDR formats. It uses an AMLogic S905X4 processor with 4GB RAM and 32GB eMMC storage, and it connects with HDMI 2.1, gigabit Ethernet, and Wi‑Fi.
   • HelixNotes - GitLab — A local, open-source Markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.
   • Pick: Telescope — Use your phone's camera as a webcam on Linux or Windows, telephoto and wide lenses included.
   • Telescope features.md - Telescope Docs
   • Telescope: your phone as a webcam on Linux & Windows
   • Pick: plex2jellyfin — Migrate your Plex library to Jellyfin and keep it clean forever. Mass rename, dedupe, consolidate, then a daemon guards new downloads.

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4. 689: First Kontact

   October 19, 20261 h 19 minEpisode 689Play next

   With Aaron Seigo

   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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support …

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   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.

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5. 688: Eyes on Deck

   October 12, 20261 h 21 minEpisode 688Play next

   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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual …

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   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

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6. 687: Linux by Proxy

   October 5, 20261 h 23 minEpisode 687Play next

   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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put …

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   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.

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7. 686: Stop Desktop Slop

   September 28, 20261 h 32 minEpisode 686Play next

   KDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our …

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   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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   • KDE/kup: Backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop
   • 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.

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8. 685: Pool Party

   September 21, 20261 h 1 minEpisode 685Play next

   We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of …

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

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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
   • 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.

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9. 684: You Ain't Ready For This Jelly

   September 14, 20261 h 8 minEpisode 684Play next

   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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your …

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   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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   • 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
   • Jupiter Broadcasting: Ultimate Home Theater PT 1 — 17 years ago, Chris Builds the Ultimate Home Theater. Part one goes into using OTA HD and recording it with MyTH.
   • 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.

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10. 683: Website Speedrun

    September 7, 20261 h 10 minEpisode 683Play next

    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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership …

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    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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    • Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
    • 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
    • JB Zola Demo Site
    • jupiterbroadcasting.com-zola repo — Weekend speedrun port of the JB site to 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
    • trynix — Boot any package nixpkgs ever shipped, in this tab. Pick a package and a version from 13 years of nixpkgs history; its closure is fetched from cache.nixos.org into an x86_64 Linux virtual machine (QEMU compiled to WebAssembly) and you get a shell with the package on PATH. Nothing runs on a server.
    • Any Nix package, live in your browser | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
    • fzakaria/trynix: Boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser.
    • Your executable is a SQLite database | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
    • Actually Queryable Executables | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
    • 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.

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11. 682: Oops! All Shells!

    August 31, 20261 h 9 minEpisode 682Play next

    Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic …

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    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

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12. 681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing

    August 24, 20261 h 35 minEpisode 681Play next

    Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of …

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    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
    • Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies
    • 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.

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13. 680: Go Hack Yourself

    August 17, 20261 h 20 minEpisode 680Play next

    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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on …

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    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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    • 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
    • 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.

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14. 679: The Last Shutdown

    August 10, 20261 h 5 minEpisode 679Play next

    An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual …

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    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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    • Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
    • 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

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15. 678: Entropy Ain't Easy

    August 3, 20261 h 16 minEpisode 678Play next

    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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put …

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    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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    • Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
    • 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

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16. 677: We Got a Buzz

    July 27, 20261 h 8 minEpisode 677Play next

    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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your …

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    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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    • Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
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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
    • 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

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17. 676: Fork Around and Find Out

    July 20, 20261 h 22 minEpisode 676Play next

    Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual …

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    Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild.

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    • Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
    • Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting - YouTube
    • Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off - The Reg
    • Re: Linking Patchwork with Sashiko? - Linus Torvalds — AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
    • sashiko — Agentic review of Linux Kernel code changes
    • SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a Programmable, Private, Browser-based, Open Source, Self Hosted, Personal Knowledge Database.
    • logseq — A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
    • Big update: Logseq is splitting into two versions
    • Logseq public roadmap
    • Logseq DB Version Docs
    • Logseq DB Version Changes
    • Nixbook OS — A set-and-forget modern operating system designed for simplicity, speed, and peace of mind.
    • odysseus — A self-hosted AI workspace for chat, agents, research, documents, email, notes, calendar, and local model workflows.
    • fwtop — Real-time router/firewall traffic visualizer TUI for Linux (interfaces, conntrack, firewall drops)
    • hister — Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP.
    • 3D[S]tageVibes
    • Artemis Qt — Artemis Qt is an enhanced cross-platform client for NVIDIA GameStream and Apollo/Sunshine servers. It brings the advanced features from Artemis Android to desktop platforms.
    • Apollo — Sunshine fork - The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device.
    • RustDesk — Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
    • rustdesk - GitHub — An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
    • NoMachine — The fastest and highest quality remote desktop you have ever tried.
    • Sunshine — Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
    • Moonlight PC — GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link)

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18. 675: Sloppy Agent Roasting

    July 13, 20261 h 38 minEpisode 675Play next

    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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic …

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    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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    • AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker
    • Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
    • 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.

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19. 674: LAN Before Time

    July 6, 20261 h 20 minEpisode 674Play next

    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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your …

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    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

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20. 673: 8 Hidden Steam Machine Details

    June 29, 20261 h 31 minEpisode 673Play next

    Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine.Sponsored By:Webroot: Webroot is cloud-based antivirus, engineered to stay out of your way. For a limited time …

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

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    • Jupiter Garage SWAG
    • AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker
    • Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
    • 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.

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21. 672: The Kernel Is Not a Museum

    June 22, 20261 h 25 minEpisode 672Play next

    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.Sponsored By:Webroot: Webroot is cloud-based antivirus …

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    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.

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22. 671: Windows Without Windows

    June 15, 202655 minEpisode 671Play next

    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.Sponsored By:Webroot: Webroot is cloud-based antivirus, engineered to …

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    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

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23. 670: There's Chickens in that Nebula

    June 8, 20261 h 6 minEpisode 670Play next

    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 …

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    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 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.

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24. 669: Harshing rsync's Vibe

    June 1, 20261 h 17 minEpisode 669Play next

    rsync's founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community's newest fault line cracks wide …

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    rsync's founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community's newest fault line cracks wide open.

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    • Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync
    • fogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commit
    • Flathub No LLM Policy — We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.
    • Reword LLM policy to make it clear it's not allowed - flathub-infra
    • Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTube
    • GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator - Phoronix
    • QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix
    • Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 - Phoronix
    • Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI - Phoronix
    • GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week - Phoronix
    • mnemosyne: The Zero-Dependency, Sub-Millisecond AI Memory System for Hermes Agents and Everyone Else!
    • Markdown First: A Proposal for the Agent-Readable Web — BitCryptic
    • Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
    • Pick: OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.

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25. 668: --yolo

    May 25, 20261 h 17 minEpisode 668Play next

    Brent's been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of …

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    Brent's been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw.

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    • The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
    • My first 100 days at Bitwarden — Open source is the foundation of everything Bitwarden builds. The ability to audit the code, to self-host, to verify rather than simply believe are not just nice-to-haves, they are the reason Bitwarden is different from every other option in this space, and that will not change.
    • AfterTouch — Bose SoundTouch Toolkit
    • soundcork — Intercept API for Bose SoundTouch after they turn off the servers
    • Bose SoundTouch EOL Announcement
    • SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Wikia | Fandom
    • Keeping Your Speakers Alive After the Bose Cloud Shutdown – AfterTouch
    • Bose SoundTouch is officially dead, but your speakers may still survive - SoundGuys
    • SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Support
    • NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF. Managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
    • nasty-top — A top-like TUI for bcachefs filesystems.
    • hermes-agent - GitHub
    • Hermes Agent — Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory
    • Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
    • Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
    • Rust for Linux — Rust for Linux is the project adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.
    • OpenCode Go - Low cost coding models for everyone — Go brings agentic coding to programmers around the world. Offering generous limits and reliable access to the most capable open-source models, so you can build with powerful agents without worrying about cost or availability.
    • Pick: Gnome Commander — A powerful file manager for the Linux desktop environment
    • Pick: halo — Terminal flow field screensaver with Perlin noise, Braille rendering, particles, and 24-bit ANSI color
    • Airwolf Theme 80s Retrowave Bass Remix | Retro Visualizer | DMCA Safe - YouTube

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26. 667: The Enterprise Endgame

    May 18, 202660 minEpisode 667Play next

    Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat's AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our …

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    Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat's AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat.

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    • The mobile experience you've been asking for - Defined Networking — The most recent mobile release brings the mobile app to parity with what you’d expect from Nebula everywhere else: persistent connections, full configuration support, custom DNS, and firewall rules.
    • Red Hat Summit 2026 Day 1 Keynote - The next platform is choice - YouTube
    • Enabling long-term stability: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium
    • Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system — Fedora Hummingbird primarily utilizes an image-based workflow, similar to containers, but also runs in virtual machines and even on bare metal. If you’ve been following Project Hummingbird‘s work on container images, or Project Bluefin’s work on the operating system, you already know the model. Fedora Hummingbird applies this model all the way down to the host OS.
    • Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system - Fedora Discussion
    • After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops — Now, Fedora has voted on an initiative called Fedora AI Developer Desktop that will spawn AI-flavored Fedora Atomic Desktops.
    • Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative — After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the Fedora Council had voted to approve the initiative; however, a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board.
    • Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective Discussion
    • Pick: BudsLink — BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds.
    • BudsLink on Flathub
    • Pick: yamlcast — YAMLCast turns a YAML description of a terminal screencast into an animated GIF.
    • Pick: lightroom-cc-on-linux — Reproducible recipe for running Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine 11.8 staging. Researched and verified end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7.

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27. 666: Berkeley Suffering Distribution

    May 11, 20261 h 17 minEpisode 666Play next

    Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on …

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    Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.

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    • Texas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TX
    • Texas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026
    • Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.
    • How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal
    • Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - Ubuntu
    • Dirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching Guide
    • LINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge Rules
    • Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.
    • Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.
    • FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.
    • nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
    • Brent's nixbsd config
    • NomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.
    • GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
    • gershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers
    • gershwin-on-freebsd live iso
    • gershwin-on-debian live iso
    • gershwin-on-arch live iso
    • Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation
    • Pick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.
    • Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.
    • Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.
    • AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD
    • FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve

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28. 665: Patch Me If You Can

    May 4, 20261 h 21 minEpisode 665Play next

    With Jon Seager

    We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge!Sponsored By:Jupiter Party …

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    We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge!

    Sponsored By:

    • Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
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    • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
    • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
    • Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root." — Theori
    • Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root - Xint — "A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017." — Xint
    • Linux Kernel Bug Explained - Jorijn — "CopyFail is more portable. One script, every distro, no offsets. Dirty Pipe needed kernel ≥ 5.8; Copy Fail covers 2017–2026." — Jorijn"Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and default seccomp do NOT block the syscall used." — Jorijn
    • Ars: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars Technica
    • Sysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — Sysdig
    • CERT-EU Advisory
    • Ubuntu Security Tracker
    • The Register: Crypto Flaw
    • Kernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel Commit
    • Buggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017)
    • DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internals
    • oss-security Disclosure
    • PSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan Wildeboer
    • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released — "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sets the example for providing best-in-class resilience while simultaneously embracing innovation and the advancement of open source." — Jon Seager, VP Ubuntu Engineering
    • The Future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager — "Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values." — Jon Seager
    • Ubuntu 26.04 Release Notes
    • Ubuntu AI Features Throughout 2026 - Phoronix — "Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful — Microsoft should take note." — ZDNet
    • Canonical DDoS Attack Update — "Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it." — arcticp, Canonical
    • Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #942
    • Canonical AI Approach - ZDNet
    • 9to5Linux: Opt-In LLM Tools
    • uutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
    • LINUX Unplugged 636: Engineering the Future
    • LiveCD fails to start X session on QEMU · Issue #354 · ghostbsd/issues
    • Monty's “rescue” drive NixOS config
    • Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report
    • Pick: NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
    • Pick: Defuse — Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally.
    • Defuse on Flathub

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29. 664: Back to Root

    April 27, 202659 minEpisode 664Play next

    After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get …

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    After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event.

    Sponsored By:

    • Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
    • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.

    Support LINUX Unplugged

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    • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
    • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
    • LINUX Unplugged 666 BSD Challenge - Rules and Regrets
    • LFNW2026 - Back to Root
    • LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Playlist - YouTube
    • LinuxFest Northwest - YouTube
    • The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max
    • Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain
    • Bear454's Fundraiser: Support for James Mason's Family
    • Pick: Updo — Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications.
    • Pick: Pake — 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.

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30. 663: The 99.8% Rescue

    April 20, 20261 h 4 minEpisode 663Play next

    We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual …

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    We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own.

    Sponsored By:

    • Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
    • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.

    Support LINUX Unplugged

    Links:

    • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
    • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
    • LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
    • 6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCs
    • SystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
    • Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access.
    • Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
    • Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features?
    • aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust.
    • netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
    • Greg's nixos-config
    • Self-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.
    • pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
    • What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It
    • v4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages.
    • Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in files
    • Metadata Cleaner on FlatHub
    • Pick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3
    • Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.
    • littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for Linux
    • Pick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android

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