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• Ask Noah Show Episode 200: Ham Radio Linux Superstation — We celebrate episode 200 by sharing our plans to serve the community better! Ham Radio has come a long way from tubes and dials. Alex Archer KC0REL joins us to discuss building the ideal ham shack on Linux!
• HAM - Official Documentary (2022) - YouTube — HAM is a short documentary that follows a group of Montanan amateur radio enthusiasts that show the loyal community of amateur radio, explore what it means to be a ham, and how they are trying to keep the hobby alive.
• FT8—What Is It and How Can I Get Started? — FT8 is one of the many digital modes often referred to as sound card modes (SCM) because they utilize a computer’s sound card to bring in audio from your radio to be processed by software to decode the information embedded in the signal.
• Amateur Radio Software For Linux | KC7NYR
• Closed Source Ham Radio Software on GNU/Linux
• awesome-hamradio — Awesome hamradio repositories.
• Ham Radio Operators Tune In to Giant Waves in the Earth’s Ionosphere | Science Mission Directorate — This new technique vividly demonstrates the effect of these waves on radio communications.
• Amateur Radio: An Integral Tool for Atmospheric, Ionospheric, and Space Physics Research and Operations
• hamnix — A collection of Amateur Radio software packaged for Nix
• Remote Ham Radio — On the air from anywhere. Big stacks. Kilowatts of power. DX has never been closer.
• ARRL - American Radio Relay League
• Studying for a Technician License
• Linux’s Slice of HAM | Linux Action Show 356
• Zeroretries substack — If you’re not yet licensed as an Amateur Radio Operator, and would like to join the fun by literally having a license to experiment with radio technology, here are some pointers:
• Chromeo: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert - YouTube
• Sam and Dave - Hold on I’m coming - YouTube
• The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (Official Audio) - YouTube
• Pink Floyd - We Don’t Need No Education - YouTube
• bluetuith — A TUI bluetooth manager for Linux.
• NixOS Search - bluetuith
• Framework Cooler Master Mainboard Case — Cooler Master and Framework team up to produce a transparent case for the Framework Laptop 13 Mainboard.
• TrustedQSL — This is the TrustedQSL project, which provides tools for digitally signing Amateur Radio QSO records.

Sponsored By:

• 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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Links:

• Why I left Rust
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023
• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Call for Speakers
• GrapheneOS on Twitter — GrapheneOS will be undergoing restructuring of the organization and development team. Daniel Micay has stepped down as lead developer and will be stepping down as a non-profit director. Features and security patches will continue to be delivered to users as rapidly as before.
• Daniel Micay on Twitter — It appears the wording above was unclear. I'm stepping down as a GrapheneOS Foundation director and as lead developer. I won't have any leadership role in the GrapheneOS project. It will take time/work to transfer my responsibilities to others, especially non-development roles.
• Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
• Adopting Bitcoin 2023
• LUP on in the top 10 charts TWICE.
• Bitcoin Dad Pod
• Polaris — Polaris is a music streaming application, designed to let you enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.
• Polaris Demo
• docker-polaris: Small docker of Polaris based on Alpine Linux
• Polaris on Google Play
• Polaris Android on F-Droid
• Polarios on App Store
• Lapce — Lapce is written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). It is designed with Rope Science from the Xi-Editor which makes for lightning-fast computation, and leverages OpenGL for rendering.
• Lapce on Flathub
• Lapce packaged in Nix
• Lapce Plugins
• flosse/text-editors-written-in-rust
• xi-editor: A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
• awesome-alternatives-in-rust: A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
• awesome-rust: A curated list of Rust code and resources.
• BitFocus Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
• Podcasting 2.0 Apps
• Alby
• LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org
• Pick: Please Run That — A Python socket app for letting a friend execute a command on your system without using a ssh server all, with a simple GUI It has active development and works OOTB.
• Pick: turtle — Turtle is a gtk4 + libadwaita frontend for pygit2 with nautilus plugin support. The project is currently in a very early development stage.
• Chris Interviewed on Mere Mortals — In Conversation #90, Chris and I discuss: what it's been like to have 25+ podcasts, the current nosedive in advertising, how value for value is creating a richer experience for podcasters, his mindset in analyzing technological ideas, the coming pain from the messed up financial system, why Bitcoin/AI won't be as impactful as the internet and traveling across the US in an RV.