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• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• Valve explains why it hasn’t announced release dates for its new hardware, now plans for “first half of the year” — Valve now says all three products will ship “in the first half of the year.”
• Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend — Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality.
• bcachefs-tools v1.36.1 — Interactive TUI for monitoring various filesystem internals, slowpaths and device performance, with duration and frequency tracking for various events. Helpful for diagnosing performance issues.
• bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefs
• bcachefs PSA: if you're on 1.33-1.35, upgrade asap — Several people have been hit by this, so - please upgrade asap.
• Mattermost — Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
• Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot Traffic
• Venice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative Freedom
• ThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720Q
• Code for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge — We're doing our Earth Day open-source competition again The Mad Botter INC. Once again featuring System76 hardware and this time with dual tracks for college and non-college students.
• Michael Dominick on X - Earth Day Open Source Challenge
• Red5d/podcast_mcp — MCP server for accessing Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed episode data. "I've really only tested it with JB feeds!"
• Pick: Plexus — Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices.
• Plexus-app: GitHub
• Pick: ReinschriftTodo — Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor.
• Reinschrift on Flathub

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• DECbot/nebula-cert-maker: Simple yaml and python script to create certificates for your Nebula Mesh VPN — The Nebula Cert Maker will create a new Nebula CA certificates and then generate and sign certificates for all hosts in the host list.
• Texas Linux Festival 2025
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage
• Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" — Linus Torvalds updated the maintainers file for Bcachefs and now reflects its upstream state as "externally maintained" rather than "supported".
• Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year — Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
• Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devices
• Android developer verification
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• nixos-avf-image-app releases
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• Setup SSH and Tailscale on Android 15 Linux Terminal App
• droid-nixos — NixOS VM on the Android "Terminal" app
• ttyd: Share your terminal over the web
• Introduction - Book of crosvm
• crosvm: The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor
• Android 16 New Feature Terminal (Debian 12) Actual Test: Network Configuration and Software Installation
• 💻 How to Install Android 16 Linux Terminal with GUI Mode on Your Android Phone Step-by-Step Guide
• Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!
• Android 16 Terminal Debian GUI Access Tool — This script is specifically designed for terminal environments on Android 16 systems, enabling quick configuration of graphical interface access for Debian 12. After configuration, you can access the native Debian 12 GUI environment within the Android terminal from your PC through the following steps
• wansview 2K Security Cameras Wireless — Outdoor-2.4G WiFi Home Security Cameras via Remote Control with Phone APP for 360º View, Color Night Vision, 24/7 SD Card Storage.
• Thingino — Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras.
• themactep/thingino-firmware: Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameras
• paperless-upload-thunderbird — Add-On for Thunderbird to upload PDF directly to paperless-ngx
• distrostu's nix config
• Flameshot — Open source screenshot software
• Hyprshot — A utility to easily take screenshots in Hyprland
• blendOS — Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomic
• Frigate NVR — Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.
• Pick: Kvaesitso — A search-focused, free and open source launcher for Android
• Jonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS — I use the Kvaesitso launcher.

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• Why openSUSE - openSUSE Wiki
• The Nobara Project — The Nobara Project, to put it simply, is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it.
• Who Wants To Be a Millionaire — Test your knowledge to see if you can answer all questions and win $1 million. Have fun!
• Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Questions and Source Code