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• clevis — Clevis is a pluggable framework for automated decryption. It can be used to provide automated decryption of data or even automated unlocking of LUKS volumes.
• bcachefs Encryption
• What measured boot and trusted boot means for Linux
• Automatically decrypt your disk using TPM2 — Entering the passphrase to decrypt the disk at boot can become quite tedious. On modern systems a secure hardware chip called “TPM” (Trusted Platform Module) can store a secret and automatically decrypt your disk. This is an alternative factor, not a second factor. Keep that in mind.
• Use systemd-cryptenroll with FIDO U2F or TPM2 to decrypt your disk
• Automatic LUKS 2 disk decryption with TPM 2 on Fedora
• Safe automatic decryption of LUKS partition using TPM2 | 221b
• FOSDEM 2024: Clevis/Tang - unattended boot of an encrypted NixOS system
• Clevis & Tang on NixOS Slides
• Decrypt LUKS volumes with a TPM on Fedora Linux
• Self-Hosted 127: Can't Fix What You Don't Track
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• Tribit Stormbox Micro 2 Wireless Portable Speaker: 10W
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• Iotas — Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking with optional speedy sync with Nextcloud Notes.
• LINUX Unplugged 567: So Long sudo
• Celeste — GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider
• vt52's Blog: Migrating from NixOS channels to Flakes
• FUTO Keyboard
• autossh
• LINUX Unplugged 570: RegreSSHion Strikes
• Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
• Aeon: openSUSE for lazy developers
• Grayjay — Follow Creators Not Platforms
• Grayjay on GitLab
• CrowdSec
• Bustle — Bustle draws sequence diagrams of D-Bus activity. It shows signal emissions, method calls and their corresponding returns, with time stamps for each individual event and the duration of each method call. This can help you check for unwanted D-Bus traffic, and pinpoint why your D-Bus-based application is not performing as well as you like. It also provides statistics like signal frequencies and average method call times.
• open-and-shut — Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
• Zuck Comapres AI to Linux - Open Source AI Is the Path Forward — Today, Linux is the industry standard foundation for both cloud computing and the operating systems that run most mobile devices – and we all benefit from superior products because of it. I believe that AI will develop in a similar way.

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• Getting started with NixOS by Mike Kelly — I previously wrote Why do people love NixOS so much? to try and explain the advantages of using Nix. So now let’s dive in and actually do an install!
• Zero to Nix — Your guide to learning Nix and flakes.
• Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition
• distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal.
• distrobox in nixpkgs
• Building SnowflakeOS ISO
• Icicle Installer
• Jake Hamilton on Mastodon — I'm happy to announce that #SnowflakeOS and its related projects from @vlinkz is joining #SnowfallOrg!
• Snowfall — Making nix better one project at a time.
• Snowfall on GitHub
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• Unplugged Core Membership
• Boltz.Exchange — Easily move between on-chain, Lightning, and Liquid
• t2linux — Linux support for Apple devices with the T2 security chip.
• Mac-on-Linux
• pick: Spotube — Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron!
• Pick: Cider — A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind.

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• Linux teams up with partners to overthrow Google Maps’s dominance
• Tailnet lock white paper — Tailscale implements a novel mechanism, tailnet lock, to prevent a malicious control plane from inserting itself into a network. Tailnet lock requires the verification of a cryptographic signature on all WireGuard® node keys distributed by Tailscale’s control plane.
• Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History — In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past.
• Knaves Out – Darknet Diaries — This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world.
• Dana Carvey’s The Weird Place — The Weird Place is an episodic sci-fi comedy adventure that will blow your mind. From manipulative aliens to time-traveling pirates to a power-hungry mad man with a magic globe.
• Linux Out Loud — Linux Out Loud is a community powered podcast. We take conversations from the DLN Community from places like the DLN Discourse Forums, Telegram group, Discord server and more.
• Picture of Dennis V’s Keyboard
• Announcement: Direct Alby wallet top up with MoonPay
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• Generate Let’s Encrypt Certificate with DNS Challenge and Namecheap
• Tailscale breaks DNS-over-TLS on Android · Issue #915 · tailscale/tailscale
• Moving entire Linux installation to another drive - Ask Ubuntu
• Migrate installation to new hardware - ArchWiki
• Disk cloning - ArchWiki
• NixOS Root on ZFS
• NixOS getting started - no mention of mkswap
• ZFS - NixOS Wiki
• NixOS install with ZFS — Dan’s Cheat Sheets 1 documentation
• Installing NixOS with multiple encrypted ZFS pools, decrypted with one password
• How I installed Encrypted ZFS root on NixOS
• Install NixOS on ZFS With Opt-In State
• NixOS on encrypted ZFS | The DevOps Blog
• How do you say SUSE?
• Packman
• SmartTubeNext — Ad free app for watching tube videos on Android TV boxes.
• Nobara Linux — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
• thoughtbot/rcm — rc file (dotfile) management
• GoToSocial — Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.
• JB FOSDEM 2023 Matrix Room

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• The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.
• Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS Wiki
• CentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTube
• Ubuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users?
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• EndeavourOS Issues First 2021 Release For Easy-To-Use Arch-Based Linux Distro — For those that have been meaning to try out an Arch Linux based distribution that is easy-to-use and not time consuming with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS is out with its first new spin since 2021 -- and in fact their first fresh ISO release since September.
• Our first release of 2021 has arrived – EndeavourOS
• ASUS - ROG Zephyrus G14 14" Ultra-Slim Gaming Laptop
• Linux on Laptops: ASUS Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS | Ars Technica
• AUR: snap-pac-grub — Pacman hook to update GRUB entries for grub-btrfs after snap-pac made snapshots.
• Feedback: Browser Sync
• xBrowserSync — Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
• Feedback: Gaming on Wayland
• A free, open-source future for Mailspring - Information - Mailspring Community — Today, I am excited to announce that I am open-sourcing mailsync - the C++11 core of Mailspring that performs email sync - under the same GPLv3 license used by the rest of the app, making Mailspring entirely free software.
• Pick: ht — Yet another HTTPie clone, written in Rust.
• PIck: fddf — Fast data dupe finder, written in Rust.
• Pick: bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, written in Rust.

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• bucklespring — This project emulates the sound of my old faithful IBM Model-M space saver bucklespring keyboard.
• Valve’s Steam Data For December Points To A Huge Dip For Linux Gaming Marketshare
• Valve Revises Steam’s December 2020 Linux Marketshare To 0.74% — Valve has updated their numbers and point to Linux still regressing percentage-wise but not as bad as originally reported.
• Linus Torvalds On The Importance Of ECC RAM, Calls Out Intel’s “Bad Policies” Over ECC — "The arguments against ECC were always complete and utter garbage... Now even the memory manufacturers are starting to do ECC internally because they finally owned up to the fact that they absolutely have to."
• Microsoft is building a new Outlook app for Windows and Mac powered by the web — Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft's "One Outlook" vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web.
• Bug: Mailspring is an abandoned project. · Issue #2231 · Foundry376/Mailspring · GitHub
• Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix — FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org.
• KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Released as the Last in the Series, Update Now — The Plasma-NetworkManager applet received a fix for an issue with the password entry jumping to different networks when searching for Wi-Fi networks.
• KDE Plasma 5.21 Desktop Environment to Ship with a New System Monitor App — The Plasma System Monitor app promises not only a fancier and modern user interface, but also a simpler way for monitoring system resources on your KDE Plasma-based GNU/Linux distribution.
• Get openSUSE
• SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
• New Core Contributor Promo Code: 2021
• Planner — Task manager with Todoist support designed for GNU/Linux 🚀.
• AUR (en) - elementary-planner
• Tuxies Feedback
• Tuxies Voting Suggestion
• Feedback: Gnome 40 Changes

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• System76 Launches Impressive Line Of Thelio Major Linux Workstations Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper - Including The 3990X - Phoronix
• oreboot: oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.
• Rust's Freedom Flaws
• FS#736 - [rust][cargo] trademark agreement affects user freedom
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• Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Our Accidental Home Base — Work, Life, and RV Podcast
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• PDP-7
• FOSDEM 2020 - Events
• FOSDEM 2020 - Interview with James Bottomley - The Selfish Contributor Explained
• FOSDEM 2020 - The next generation of contributors is not on IRC
• FOSDEM 2020 - The Hidden Early History of Unix
• FOSDEM 2020 - Do Linux Distributions Still Matter with Containers?
• FOSDEM 2020 - How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System
• The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates - Phoronix
• hollywood.computer: multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama
• shairport-sync: AirPlay audio player. Shairport Sync adds multi-room capability with Audio Synchronisation