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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
• 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
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• 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.
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Plus community news, a reality check on Linux gaming, and some shiny new hardware.

Special Guests: Jason Evangelho and Peter Ammon.

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• Pretty much every recent Windows Phone is now hackable
• Fedora 31 Isn't Expected To Be Delayed After All — Since November the developers behind Fedora Linux had been discussing whether to significantly delay or even cancel Fedora 31 so they could spend around one year working on re-tooling how the distribution is crafted and work on other fundamental changes. But it turns out now they have decided against this big shake-up delay
• Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF — The proposal is quick to acknowledge the intent isn't for tracking users but only counting and this UUID wouldn't be re-used by other systems.
• Linux 5.0 is on the way — The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0
• Track Chris and Lady Jups
• GNU ed 1.15 released
• Bash 5.0 release available
• Fish Shell 3.0.0 — Fish 3 is a major release, which introduces some breaking changes alongside improved functionality.
• Peter (@ridiculous_fish) | Twitter
• "Would totally skip Linux." — We shipped Planetary Annihilation on Win, Mac, and Linux. Linux uses we're a big vocal part of the Kickstarter and forums. In the end they accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets
• Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets | Hacker News
• Jason Evangelho on Twitter — Re: Adobe Premiere on Linux. I have a call next week with both Bill Roberts (Sr. Director Product Management) & Patrick Palmer (Principal Product Manager). They reached out to ME. I think a genuine effort is being made here to listen to & understand various perspectives.
• Jason Evangelho @ Forbes
• Entroware Apollo 14"