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An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.

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556: The xz Backdoor Exposed 🚨 Mar 31, 2024

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We're breaking down the attack: how it works, how it was hidden, and why time was running out for the attacker.

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oss-security mailing list — Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise.
Fedora Announcement
Debian Announcement
Ubuntu Announcement
Kali Linux Announcement
Arch Linux Announcement
Gentoo Announcement
openSUSE Tumbleweeed Announcement
NixOS Unstable Discussion
Why does it take two weeks for NixOS to replace xz?
Andres Freund on Mastodon — I was doing some micro-benchmarking at the time, needed to quiesce the system to reduce noise. Saw sshd processes were using a surprising amount of CPU, despite immediately failing because of wrong usernames etc....
rwmj on Hacker News — Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of its "great new features"
A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects — Make no mistake. This is the way it works. It needs to change.
Devuan GNU/Linux on X — Devuan is not affected by the latest vulnerability caused by systemd.
systemd PR: Dynamically load compression libraries
Matteo Croce on X — I'm the author of such PR. While I absolutely didn't know that libxz had a backdoor, I really think that libraries should be loaded on-demand when rarely used, hence my change :)
Ryan C. Gordon on X — This is probably how the xz thing happened, right?
Jan Wildeboer on the Fediverse — Again the FOSS world has proven to be vigilant and proactive in finding bugs and backdoors, IMHO.
Unplugged Core Membership
TXLF is coming up! — April 12 - 13 in Austin, Texas.
LFNW coming up! — April 26 - 28
Mobile Game Ads Are Boosting Podcast Follower Counts — Wondery, iHeart and Lemonada Media are all using a non-public product from MowPod - which gives extra lives and game credits to gamers if they follow shows on Apple Podcasts from game apps.
MowPod's podcast promotion tools: tales from the bar
fortydeux's NixOS Configs
Prism Launcher — An Open Source Minecraft launcher with the ability to manage multiple instances, accounts and mods.
World Backup Day — March 31st — One small accident or failure could destroy all the important stuff you care about.
Updating Our Fiddly Bits | LINUX Unplugged 494

555: Glide like a Goose, Honk like a Moose Mar 24, 2024

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We test the Linux-first, all-AMD Sirius 16 laptop, discuss the new Hyprland release, and share a few stories from our recent trip.

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Introducing GNOME 46 — GNOME 46 is code-named “Kathmandu”, in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023.
S.O.D.A Machine (Shell On Demand Appliance) — A fusion of hardware, software, art, and hacking, all encapsulated in a project derived from recycled materials.
LINUX Unplugged on Fountain
Nostr Protocol Docs — Details on how the Nostr Protocol works and why.
Hyprland — Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release
hyprland 0.37.1 nixpkgs PR
Hyprland Release v0.37.1 on GitHub
Hyprland Release v0.37.0 on GitHub
Installing NixOS with Hyprland! - by Josiah - Tech Prose — In this guide, we will install a minimal version of NixOS with the Wayland compositor Hyprland and Waybar.
TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 — First all-AMD Linux gaming laptop with highly efficient Ryzen 7 7840HS and fast Radeon RX 7600M XT graphics.
All AMD: TUXEDO Sirius 16 - Gen1 on YouTube
Background information on the new keyboard lighting control - TUXEDO Computers
Texas Linux Festival 2024 — April 12-13, 2024 in Austin, Texas.
Scinary Cybersecurity — Your On-Demand Cybersecurity Firm.
nixos-mailserver — A complete and Simple Nixos Mailserver.
List of all NixOS Services
jus10mar10's NixOS Config
dockur/windows — Windows in a Docker container.
Unplugged Core Membership
Pick: ATLauncher — A launcher for Minecraft which integrates multiple different modpacks to allow you to download and install modpacks easily and quickly.
Pick: Dissent — Unofficial GTK4 Discord client in Go, use at your own risk!

554: SCaLEing Nix Mar 17, 2024

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We're on the ground live at NixCon and SCaLE. We catch up with old friends, and discover how Nix is devouring the Linux world one function at a time.

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nix-community/lanzaboote — Secure Boot for NixOS
Eelco Dolstra’s PhD Thesis — The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
Docker and Nix (DockerCon 2023) [YouTube]
Flox — Create development environments with all the dependencies you need and easily share them with colleagues. Work consistently across the entire software lifecycle.
flox on GitHub — Developer environments you can take with you.
Gsettings - Monitor All System Settings Change
dconf Reference Manual
foss-north — foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. We provide a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers with great audiences.
An Open Letter from NixOS Users Against MIC Sponsorship — Several members of the community are uneasy with the current happenings around the North American Gathering aimed at NixOS Users and its community (also known as NixCon [sic] NA).
pjones/plasma-manager — Manage KDE Plasma with Home Manager.
Bastard Keyboards — Custom-designed split keyboards with feature-full firmware.
Bastardkb on GitHub
Pick: nix-starter-configs — Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes.

553: Portably Predictable Productivity Mar 10, 2024

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We each bring surprise topics, a mix of hardware and software, as we prepare to hit the road for NixCon and SCaLE.

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NVIDIA SHIELD Portable — Stream PC games, play android games, run apps, movies, music, and more.
Fountain — Podcasts powered by community
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
Yard House Menu
Super Productivity — Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project.
Super Productivity on GitHub
Super Productivity Demo
fort-nix/nix-bitcoin — A collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
Podcastindex-org/helipad — This is a simple lnd poller and web front-end to see and read boosts and boostagrams.
Added settings page and webhook settings by ericpp · Helipad PR #79
noblepayne/helipad-flake — Basic nix flake for helipad.
R36S Retro Handheld — Handheld Video Game Console, Linux System, 3.5 Inch IPS Screen, 64GB
Amazon.com: Retro Handheld Game Console
ArkOS Emulators and Ports information
ArkOS Wiki
nixos-bsd/nixbsd — An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel.
Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner — Android document scanning app.
upscayl — Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy.
Pick: AnyType — The everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
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Jupiter Signal PROMO 2024 - $3 off a month forever

552: Plasma's Perfect Play Mar 03, 2024

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Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.

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HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD — The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
NVK is now ready for prime time — Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time.
FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance — The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues.
First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 21
Jupiter Broadcasting Calendar
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
Yard House Menu
Sirius 16 all Ryzen laptop from TUXEDO Computers
KDE MegaRelease 6 — With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland.
This Week in Bitcoin — A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.
42keebs.eu — Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded custom keyboard shop.
NixOS Plasma 6 PR
starcoder2 — StarCoder2 models are intended for code completion.
PromtEngineer/localGPT — Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models.
Introducing: Fountain Radio — Fountain Radio is a community station for music - powered by Bitcoin.
Pick: cpu-controller — CPU Controller for Linux is a straightforward GUI application based on PyQt6, enabling users to toggle individual CPU cores on or off in a Linux system to save battery life.
FlyGoat/RyzenAdj: Adjust power management settings for Ryzen APUs
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551: AI Under Your Control Feb 25, 2024

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Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

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Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.
Stable Diffusion 3 — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.
Deedy on X — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)
AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying
Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone."
ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma
gemma.cpp — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models.
InvokeAI — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process.
Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.
NixOS-WSL
Texas LinuxFest 2024
TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link
LFNW2024 - Ready or not… — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College
LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted
LINUX Unplugged Membership
ryantm/agenix — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
Mic92/sops-nix — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers

550: Ready Player Linux Feb 18, 2024

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Chris spends the week in a VR desktop, revealing the glitches, gains, and VR's open-source future.

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Simula One - Standalone (Preorder) — Contains detachable compute pack with SimulaOS pre-installed. Can be optionally tethered to host PCs for gaming and other purposes.
SimulaVR Headsets Delayed into 2024
Fountain.fm — Podcasts powered by community
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
Yard House Menu
Immersed — Empower Work With Spatial Computing
Immersed on Meta Quest
Immersed: Linux + Mac + PC Compatibility!
Immersed Reddit Wiki
Plasma Desktop in VR - JupiterTube — Quest 3 with the Immersed app running on KDE Neon.
HDMI Dummy Plug Display Emulator
DisplayPort Headless Ghost Display Emulator
Immersed + Linux = Life by Alexandre E Souza
umlaeute/v4l2loopback — This module allows you to create "virtual video devices". Normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another application.
Linux VR Adventures Wiki — A collection of links, useful resources and guides for the amazing world of VR on Linux.
Monado — Open Source XR Platform
OpenComposite GitLab repository
Completely stutter-free VR reprojection on Linux WITHOUT SteamVR!
nixpkgs-xr — Automated packages for XR/AR/VR tools and apps for NixOS
Monado NixoOS Module Pull Request
LFNW Schedule is LIVE
bravohotel91/ipfspodcastnode — IPFS Podcast Node for IPFSPodcasting.net
ipfspodcastnode on Docker Hub
IPFS Podcasting
The kernel becomes its own CNA — As many of you all know, I have talked a lot about CVEs in the past, and yes, I think the system overall is broken in many ways, but this change is a way for us to take more responsibility for this, and hopefully make the process better over time. - Greg Kroah-Hartman
aksiksi/compose2nix — A tool to automatically generate a NixOS config from a Docker Compose project.
arion via NixOS configuration example — Example setup running the Grocy kitchen inventory management system via linuxserver.io image and arion on NixOS.
vt52's pebkac.lol BBS
Nebula is Not the Fastest Mesh VPN — For this first public release of data, we’ve chosen to test the most popular mesh VPN options we’re aware of, so we will be comparing Nebula (in AES mode), Netmaker, Tailscale, and ZeroTier (note, this list is intentionally in alphabetical order, as additional confirmation of our commitment to fairness).
DESTEK QH3 Pressure-Free Head Strap
BOBOVR S3 Pro Super Strap Accessories, Head air conditioning and 10000
CitraVR: Port of the leading 3DS emulator — Play 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest. CitraVR is a GPL-licensed, engineless OpenXR application with all source code publicly available.

549: Will it Nixcloud? Feb 11, 2024

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Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality.

Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

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Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops
45Drives/autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness.
Ok, what is the “actual” way to install Nextcloud completely, fully, as in all the features, and best performance?
Help a newbie to make a choice - 🚧 Installation - Nextcloud community
Nextcloud All-in-One
NextcloudPi — NextcloudPi is a ready to use image for Virtual Machines, Raspberry Pi, Odroid HC1, Rock64 and other boards.
NextcloudPi | Nextcloud Conference 2022
Nextcloud - Official Docker Image
nextcloud/ansible-collection-nextcloud-admin: The ansible galaxy for your nextcloud administrative needs.
ReinerNippes/nextcloud: Ansible playbook to install nextcloud, php, nginx or apache, mariadb or postgres, redis-server, onlyoffice or collabora office
LINUX Unplugged 307 — What’s your NextCloud?
Top 10 Self-Hosted Apps - Perfect Media Server
Self-Hosted - Episodes Tagged with “nextcloud”
The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS
NixOS Nextcloud Module Docs
NixOS Nextcloud Service Source
Nextcloud Apps Packaged in NixOS
LUP’s nextcloud.nix
NixOS Nextcloud Module Options
Soltros’ Nextcloud-on-NixOS
TODO: ExecStartPost to copy off backups
First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 21
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
Yard House Menu
Eric's Nextcloud on NixOS
Eric's Collabora
Nextcloud NixOS Setup Overview
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition
hercules-ci/arion — Run docker-compose with help from Nix/NixOS
Arion documentation
GabMus / Envision · GitLab — A VR stack for Linux, recently running directly on the NVK driver and Wayland.

548: Uncomfortable Linux Truths Feb 04, 2024

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Some uncomfortable truths about using Linux, and then we introduce a new segment: Will it Nix?

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Southern California Linux Expo 19
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇 — Saturday, March 16th, 2024, 1:30 PM
Yard House Menu
FOSDEM 2024
Nextcloud NixOS Module
Nextcloud NixOS Wiki Entry
The Holy Grail Nextcloud setup made easy by NixOS · Carlos Vaz — Hosting Nextcloud has become easier over time, thanks to its docker-compose example setups and to the Snap for use mostly on Ubuntu systems. However, having a faster and more optimized setup can take some effort on these platforms. Thankfully, on NixOS it’s not hard at all, as I’ll show you.
Mitch Downey on PodcastIndex Social — I've been working on Podverse for 10 years now (I didn't even know how to code when I started), and I absolutely love what we've accomplished, but I had always hoped we would have a thriving open source community by now...
New Podcast Apps
The Open Road by Dave Jones — They [Apple] chose to respect podcaster’s choices by reading the Podcasting 2.0 tag from the RSS feed also. By making this choice, they planted their flag firmly on the side of open, RSS based podcasting.
TrueFans
Podverse
Fountain
Nix Revolution : Crafting the Ultimate Dev Toolkit - Part 1
Value 4 Value Audiobooks – oppy1984.com — For a few months now both Adam and Dave have talked about value 4 value (v4v) audiobooks [...] But after the discussion in episode #146 I decided to start writing and get my ideas out there.
Libro.fm — Pick your local bookstore to support with your purchases.
Bookshop.org — Bookshop.org works to connect readers with independent booksellers all over the world.
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547: Behind the Shelves Jan 28, 2024

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Data-hoard with purpose and manage your audiobooks and podcasts with one application, plus the lone Linux box that remains on Mars.

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audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
audiobookshelf showcase
Self-Hosted 114: Unintended Consequences
Libation: Liberate your Library — Free and open-source app to manage your Audible books. Fully supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
OpenAudible Home — Download, Backup and Manage Audible Audiobook Libraries
Readarr — Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)
r/audiobooks thread
New Releases | Audiobooks.com
New Audiobook Releases | Downpour.com
Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups | Nothing Much Happens
Announcing - First NixCon North America!
NixCon NA 2024 Schedule is Live! — March 14 – 15, 2024
Southern California Linux Expo 21
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM — The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!
Yard House Menu
Administrator Bill Nelson announces the end of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has announced that the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has come to an end. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history by achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. Despite initial plans for up to five flights, the helicopter has exceeded expectations and executed an impressive 72 flights on the Red Planet. NASA pays tribute to its accomplishments, which have far exceeded what was thought possible and have paved the way for future flights in our solar system.
Legacy of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter - YouTube
#ThanksIngenuity – NASA’s Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye - YouTube — The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter flew for the last time on Jan. 18, 2024, and NASA concluded its flight operations after post-flight imagery confirmed damage to at least one of the rotorcraft’s rotor blades that rendered it no longer capable of flight. As the historic mission comes to its end, Ingenuity’s team reflects on some of their favorite moments and memories from the helicopter’s time on Mars.
Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap — The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward.
Zellij — A terminal workspace with batteries included
nix-flatpak — Declarative flatpak manager for NixOS inspired by declarative-flatpak and nix-darwin's homebrew module. NixOs and home-manager modules are provided for system wide or user flatpaks installation.
Smart AudioBook Player — The app is designed specially for playing audio books.
ShelfPlayer — A beautifully designed Audiobookshelf client that feels right at home on iOS 17.
hass-audiobookshelf — Adds sensors for an Audiobookshelf server to Home Assistant to show connection and active sessions
LINUX Unplugged 522: Practical Privacy
BadaBoomBooks: An audiobook organizer — Quickly organize audiobooks using a terminal and web-browser
audiobookshelf-sonos: Play your audiobooks from Audiobookshelf on your Sonos speakers — A standalone server that adds support for listening to an Audiobookshelf library on Sonos speakers. Built on top of the Sonos Music API (SMAPI).

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