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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Syncthing — Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
• 2024 Tuxies.Party — New category based on your feedback, and we've cleared out the hall of fame, all distros and desktops up for a vote!
• BlueBubbles
• Davx5
• Location | Home Assistant Companion Docs
• Garmin Forerunner 265
• Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.
• OSS-DocumentScanner: Android document document scanning app
• Simple Mobile Tools
• Simple-Calendar
• 2FAS - the Internet's favorite open-source authenticator
• FUTO Keyboard
• Releases · futo-org/android-keyboard
• streamyfin: A Jellyfin client build with Expo
• Tubular: A fork of NewPipe that implements SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike.
• Fossify - fork of SimpleMobileTools
• Soundcore Motion 300 by Anker
• LubeLogger
• Self-Hosted 127: Can't Fix What You Don't Track
• Mealie.io — Self-hosted Recpie Managment
• Self-Hosted 135: Rebuilding For the Last Time
• pinchflat: Your next YouTube media manager
• Self-Hosted 134: YouTube Unplugged
• Embrace Alby Hub - phasing out Alby’s shared wallet | Alby User Guide — In the beginning of 2024, we shared our vision in "Where Does Alby Fly From Here". Since then we launched Alby Hub, your self-custodial wallet accessible from anywhere to integrate with dozens of apps. We’ve also launched Alby Go - the easiest-to-use mobile app to connect your Alby Hub and use your sats on the go.
• Wes' half-finished Alby Hub Flake
• Alby Go — The easiest mobile app to use bitcoin on the Go and that works great with Alby Hub.
• Alby Go - Apps on Google Play
• Breez App — The Breez mobile app is a favorite of Lightning wizards and rookies alike. With a non-custodial Lightning node running on your mobile device, digital cash register, podcast player, and its own marketplace, the app delivers a standard-setting UX with 100% bitcoin DNA under the hood.
• Membership Black Friday Sale 30% off
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• turboscribe.ai
• Discount Bandit — Self Hosted product tracker for Amazon, Walmart And many more
• Discount-Bandit on GitHub
• Discount-Bandit docker-compose.yaml
• Fountain on X — Music discovery isn’t what it used to be. Fountain Radio makes it fun again. Wave goodbye to algorithmic playlists and say hello to a new communal listening experience powered by Bitcoin and Nostr. Fountain Radio is live in version 1.1.8 now. Here's how it works 👇

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• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• 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
• Membership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!
• 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.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Privacy friendly ESP32 smart doorbell with Home Assistant local integration — This project is aimed at being simple while allowing a ton of customisation and flexibility. To get started, you’ll need an instance of Home Assistant running with the ESPHome add-on as well as the Home Assistant companion app on your mobile phone to receive notifications when someone presses the doorbell button.
• Alex in Chicago, Aug 10, 2023 | Meetup
• The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance — "The U.K. government wants to grant itself the right to scan every message online for content related to child abuse or terrorism—and says it will still, somehow, magically, protect peoples’ privacy. That’s simply impossible. U.K. civil society groups have condemned the bill, as have technical experts and human rights groups around the world."
• U.K. civil society groups
• human rights groups around the world
• WhatsApp, Signal, and the UK-based Element
• Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law — "End-to-end encryption is a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats," Apple argued in a statement to the media.
• Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Snowflake ❄️ — Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call.
• Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking — Instead of browser plugins or other software on each computer, install Pi-hole in one place and your entire network is protected.
• AdGuard Home
• NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
• UnifiedPush — UnifiedPush is a set of specifications and tools that lets the user choose how push notifications* are delivered. All in a free and open source way.
• NextPush - Server App — UnifiedPush provider for Nextcloud - server application
• UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol
• Proton Drive — Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted Swiss vault for your files that protects your data.
• SimpleLogin — Open source anonymous email service
• Simple NixOS Mailserver
• Proton Calendar
• EteSync - Secure Data Sync — Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync for your contacts, calendars, tasks and notes.
• Nextcloud + DAVx5 — DAVx⁵ has been successfully tested with Nextcloud.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.
• Nextcloud - Online collaboration platform — Regain control over your data
• Send — Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.
• nitter: Alternative Twitter front-end — A free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Inspired by the Invidious project.
• FreeTube — The Private YouTube Client
• NewPipe - a free YouTube client — NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.
• yattee — Privacy-oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
• libredirect — A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.
• Aegis Authenticator - Secure 2FA app for Android — Aegis Authenticator is a free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens for your online services.
• SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random) — Other apps have user IDs: Signal, Matrix, Session, Briar, Jami, Cwtch, etc. SimpleX does not, not even random numbers. This radically improves your privacy.
• Element — A secure communications platform built around you.
• PrivacyGuides.org
• PrivacyTools.io
• Surveillance Self-Defense - EFF
• Funding Developers With Lightning
• Tailscale on GL.iNet Routers — Tailscale feature available since V4.2.
• Nix-on-Droid — Nix-on-Droid brings Nix package manager of NixOS fame to your mobile device.
• InvidTUI — InvidTUI is an invidious client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.

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• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• Bitwarden: Bitwarden is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to store, share, and sync sensitive data.

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• Computer Chronicles - Intel 486 — In 1992, the big issue was - is it worth the money to upgrade my 386 PC to the new 486 chip? This program looks at the performance of the new Intel 486 and helps users decide.
• GrapheneOS — The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project.
• GrapheneOS: Supported Phones
• GrapheneOS: Features Overview
• Sandboxed Google Play overview for GrapheneOS
• Lockscreen bypass fixed in November’s update - discovered by GrapheneOS in June
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — We independently discovered the Android lockscreen bypass fixed in Android's November security update while working on features like a duress PIN/password.
• A week with GrapheneOS exposed my over-reliance on Google
• GrapheneOS Initial Impressions
• Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS
• HERE WeGo — Maps & Navigation
• Fountain on Twitter — More sats = higher signal⚡️📡
• Hot on Fountain
• DAVx⁵ — CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV for Android
• Bitwarden: Top 10 Burning Questions on 2FA
• n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
• Install NVIDIA Drivers on Debian 11
• deemix — deemix is a barebone deezer downloader library built from the ashes of Deezloader Remix.
• lidarr-on-steroids
• nostr — The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.
• Pick: Upscaler — Upscale and enhance images.
• Frog by Tender Owl
• Frog on Flathub
• A Science Project — “Make the 486 Great Again!”
• Linus Torvalds bids 486 Linux adieu — It's been fun, but Linus Torvalds thinks it's time for 486 Linux to leave computers behind and go to museums.