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586: Kexec with Determination Oct 27, 2024

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We're hot-swapping our rigs to Fedora 41; then Graham Christensen gives us the inside scoop on a new Nix distribution, and Determinate Systems' big week!

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Reboot Linux faster using kexec
Linux.com :: Reboot like a racecar with kexec
Linux 3.14 To Support EFI Kexec Capability
ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel
Defeating Secure Boot With Linux Kexec
Google Engineers Get Windows Booting When Kexec'ed Under Linux
The Future is Nix — Today, we still find ourselves sitting on the most powerful technology of our lifetimes and we can’t even decide on small steps in the direction of making it easier for folks to adopt it.
The future of software is Nix. — Today, we still find ourselves sitting on the most powerful technology of our lifetimes and we can’t even decide on small steps in the direction of making it easier for folks to adopt it.
Announcing Determinate Nix
Determinate Nix documentation — With Determinate Nix, our goal is to transform Nix from what it is today—a tool with great potential but with too many hard edges to be ready for prime time
Introducing Determinate - YouTube
Nix at work: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes — Today, we’re delighted to announce a new chapter for FlakeHub with the general availability of two new features: FlakeHub Cache and private flakes.
Graham Christensen on X — Yesterday at work we launched a binary cache that goes beyond bytes in a bucket. This launch means you can deploy to brand new cloud environments with two lines of userdata:
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lobe-chat — an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers
Dnote: A Simple Command Line Notebook
plastic — NES emulator in rust with egui and TUI
cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
plastic-flake

585: Choosy Moms Choose Ubuntu Oct 20, 2024

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Wes got Mom a new Linux laptop, and he lets her pick the distro. Plus, we take a look at the new Ubuntu 24.10, and why we think this release might be a good sign for the future.

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Ubuntu 24.10 - Oracular Oriole
Ubuntu Unity
AMD Framework 13
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imagegenius/docker-immich — Monolithic (Single) Docker Container for Immich
rramiachraf/dumb — Private alternative front-end for Genius.
qdm12/gluetun: — VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.
SCaLE 22X Call for Papers
SCaLE CFP Feedback Livestream
cli-ai — A simple command-line AI assistant that translates natural language into shell commands. Supports all Windows and Unix-based systems (Linux, MacOS).

584: Captain Meshtastic and the Solar Cowboy Oct 13, 2024

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After building nodes, climbing roofs, swapping antennas, and even some war driving, it's time for our Meshtastic deep dive!

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Meshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
Bitcoin Vets: Establish communications via meshtastic & ham radio network
Meshtastic in the air — Avery Airfield in Spruce Pine which is running air delivery of critical supplies to HLZs in the AO is now equipping flights with Meshtastic airborne nodes which significantly increases coverage of vital communications.
Heltec V3
27100 Cell holder
MPPT Solar Charge controller for 1S cells
25 Watt Solar Panels
Project Box
Pole Mounts
Programmable GPS
Preferred 27100 Cells
2nd choice 21700 Cells
Tdeck
GPS
Battery
3D printed case files
Screw inserts for case
m2 screw kit, nice to have for these kind of projects (threaded for inserts above)
5 dbi antenna
2 dbi antenna
5.8 dbi antenna
SMA - RPSMA adapters if needed
12' SMA cable
Wiseblock RAK
Hundreds Weigh in on FCC NextNav Petition for 900 MHz Band Change — At issue is a NextNav petition filed in April to the FCC to expand the power level, bandwidth and priority of its licenses in the 902 to 907 and 918 to 928 MHz bands in the United States—a band currently in use by UHF RFID, Z-Wave, Zigbee, LoRa and numerous other wireless technologies. Additionally, NextNav proposes to use 5G connectivity over the relatively low bandwidth.
Consumer Choice Center submits FCC comments to protect radio frequency for open-source projects and amateur radio
meshbbs — This is a BBS project to run on a meshtastic node. The system allows for message handling, bulletin boards, mail systems, and a channel directory.
nostrastic — Bridge to publish Nostr posts and send/receive DMs over LoRa using Meshtastic.
Home Assistant and Meshtastic — On this page, we'll guide you through the process of creating Meshtastic MQTT sensor entities within Home Assistant. Whether you want to keep an eye on battery levels, environmental conditions, or even receive notifications from your mesh network, these integrations provide you with the tools to make it happen.
T-Watch S3
awesome-meshtastic — A curated list of amazingly awesome Meshtastic resources
MeshMap - Meshtastic Node Map
Meshtastic Routing Issues & Deployment Scenarios - YouTube
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Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS
nix-ld on GitHub
DIYmall 2 Sets 915MHZ ESP32 Lora V3 WiFi+BLE Development Board — WiFi LoRa 32 is a classic IoT dev-board. The newly launched V3 version retains Wi-Fi, BLE, LoRa, OLED display, and other functions
LILYGO T-Echo Meshtastic LoRa SX1262 — NRF52840 module, SX1262 wireless transceiver BME280 temperature pressure sensor, GPS RTC, NFC, LoRa

583: Nix on Easy Mode Oct 06, 2024

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Wes gives his shell superpowers to solve a tricky problem. Then, we share an update on our favorite Google Photos alternative, including breaking changes and a great new way to run it.

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bda in the Nix Nerds Matrix Chat with Python Woes
Install a couple of Python packages : r/NixOS
Anyone using python UV on NixOS? : r/NixOS
devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
devenn's direnv integration
POLL: Do you use any tools to "move between machines"?
Immich Release v1.117.0
NixOS Immich Module
Immich Nix Package
immich-machine-learning.nix
LINUX Unplugged 476: Canary in the Photo Mine
LINUX Unplugged 409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future
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Meshtastic Matrix Chatroom — Chatastic for Meshtastic.
nixy — Nixy is a Hyprland NixOS configuration with home-manager, secrets and custom theming all in one place. It's a simple way to manage your system configuration and dotfiles.
I'm not sure if Jeff can be called a Producer
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
DistroStu's Computer Keyboards! Talk on YouTube
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition — This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any prior Nix knowledge, and instead builds up the Flake based world from first principles, so that it can serve as an introduction to Nix itself, as well as the concept and uses of Flakes.
NixOS & Flakes Book — Want to know NixOS & Flakes in detail? Looking for a beginner-friendly tutorial? Then you've come to the right place!
EtchDroid — An application to write OS images to USB drives, on Android, no root required. Use it to make a bootable operating system USB drive when your laptop is dead.
EtchDroid on Github

582: On the CUPS of Disaster Sep 29, 2024

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We explain the one-packet attack on CUPS and discuss its real-world implications. Plus, a Meshtastic update and more.

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Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS — A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer).
Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 — Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287.
Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the Internet
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nodeboard — Your Ultimate Digital Inventory Manager
Lightning Pay
activate-linux — The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux
Install Frog on Linux | Flathub — Extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes by taking a picture of the source.
Clapgrep — Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time...

581: The Linux Escape Hatch Sep 22, 2024

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What if we had to abandon ship and stop using Desktop Linux? We've come up with a master plan, and put it to the test.

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Meshtastic Linux-Native Application
MeshMap — Meshtastic Node Map
LINUX Unplugged 269 — What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.
The Dawn of Haiku OS — Haiku, unlike its more established competitors, is exceedingly good at tackling one of the toughest challenges of modern computing: multicore microprocessors. Let's take a look at why that is, how Haiku came to be, and whether the operating system running on your computer really performs as well as it should.
Haiku Project History
Haiku R1/beta5 Release Notes — The fifth beta for Haiku R1 over a year and a half of hard work to improve Haiku’s hardware support and its overall stability, and to make lots more software ports available for use.
docker-qemu-haiku — A Docker image for the Haiku operating system.
golang-haiku/go — The Haiku port of the Go programming language for upstream support. Changes are made in 'golang-1.11-haiku' or 'golang-haiku-master'.
Using the remote app server | Haiku Project
JB Haiku Server
Lighttpd
DHH Talks Apple, Linux, and Running Servers
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dadjoke-cli
colmena
spectorus' NixOS Config
Pick: rustpad — Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required
Is the Nostr moment officially here?

580: Brent's Boogie Bus Broadcast Bash Sep 15, 2024

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The things we like in the new Nextcloud release, and we attempt to upgrade our production server live—from a big blue bus.

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OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for WireGuard Creator Jason Donenfeld
OpenSats Lightning Node
Nextcloud Hub 9
Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9 - the world's leading open source collaboration platform! - YouTube
Day 1: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
Day 2: Nextcloud Community Conference 2024 - YouTube
Nextcloud Community Conference 2024
Mailvelope — Mailvelope is a browser add-on that you can use in Chrome, Edge and Firefox to securely encrypt your emails with PGP using webmail providers
Nextcloud Server Releases
nextcloud/docker: ⛴ Docker image of Nextcloud
Bug: Unable to update background execution mode: conflict between new type (mixed) and old type (string)
VLESS
hacompanion: Daemon that sends local hardware information to Home Assistant.
LNXlink: 🖥 Effortlessly manage your Linux machine using MQTT.
Waycheck — Waycheck is a simple graphical application that connects to your Wayland compositor and displays the list of Wayland protocols that it supports, along with the list of protocols that it doesn't.
Supersonic — A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for Subsonic and Jellyfin music servers.

579: Lost & Found Sep 08, 2024

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Secret moments from the show you've never heard before. We kick off with some hardware hurdles, then dive into the news and share a few surprising stories.

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578: Young and the Rustless Sep 01, 2024

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Rust meets Linux in a clash of coding cultures. Why some developers are resisting, and where things go from here.

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Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Sat, Sep 14, 2024
Berlin Buds on Matrix
Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters'
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_Dev China 2024
Rust for filesystems — At the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Wedson Almeida Filho and Kent Overstreet led a combined storage and filesystem session on using Rust for Linux filesystems.
Filesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet and Wedson Almeida Filho
Asahi Lina: "I think people really don't appreciate just how incomplete Linux kernel API docs are, and how Rust solves part of the problem."
One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" — One of the several Rust for Linux kernel maintainers has decided to step away from the project. The move is being driven at least in part due to having to deal with increased "nontechnical nonsense" raised around Rust programming language use within the Linux kernel.
[PATCH 0/1] Retiring from the Rust for Linux project - Wedson Almeida Filho
On Rust, Linux, developers, maintainers — There's been a couple of mentions of Rust4Linux in the past week or two, one from Linus on the speed of engagement and one about Wedson departing the project due to non-technical concerns. This got me thinking about project phases and developer types.
The revival of the Linux C++ discussion
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Thank you Core Contributors
BrewHouse by the Lake – Amsterdam Brewery Shop
BITCOIN WELL — The fastest and safest way to buy bitcoin in Canada
The new JB server - KTZ systems — Join Alex, Chris, and Brent as we fly to Toronto to deploy our shiny new colo server in Canada. We'll be deploying the 45homelab HL15 server.
Projectivy Launcher
Aerial Views Screensaver
OpenEBS — OpenEBS is a modern Block-Mode storage platform, a Hyper-Converged software Storage System and virtual NVMe-oF SAN (vSAN) Fabric that is natively integrates into the core of Kubernetes.
oppy1984's Satoshi Survey
Coder Radio 582
Keybase Filesystem Storage Limits
I Don't Care for Gnome
DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ DAVx⁵ – CalDAV / CardDAV / WebDAV for Android
Flock 2024 Universal Blue: Building the Future using Fedora Atomic
Pick: Shotcut - New Version 24.08
Install Shotcut on Flathub — Shotcut supports many video, audio, and image formats via FFmpeg and screen, webcam, and audio capture. It uses a time-line for non-linear video editing of multiple tracks that may be composed of various file formats. Scrubbing and transport control are assisted by OpenGL GPU-based processing and a number of video and audio filters are available.
Bonus Pick: Butler — Access your Home Assistant dashboard from a native companion UI, integrating better with your OS.
Butler on GitHub
Rust for Linux revisited
Redox OS — Redox is a Unix-like general-purpose microkernel-based operating system written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel, a full set of programs and be a complete alternative to Linux and BSD.