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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• 6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCs
• SystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
• Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access.
• Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
• Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features?
• aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust.
• netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
• Greg's nixos-config
• Self-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.
• pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
• What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It
• v4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages.
• Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in files
• Metadata Cleaner on FlatHub
• Pick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3
• Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.
• littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for Linux
• Pick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android

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• Virtual x86 — v86 emulates an x86-compatible CPU and hardware. Machine code is translated to WebAssembly modules at runtime in order to achieve decent performance.
• The Linux desktop is boring again — Where I was once a constant "fiddler" with my desktop, I now want the interface to work how I want it to work, but still look the way I want it to look. I'm more of a minimalist now, so GNOME suits my needs on both levels quite well. However, I find myself rather bored with the Linux desktop.
• What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34 — Christian F.K. Schaller — The big ticket item we have wanted to close off on was Wayland, because while Wayland has been production ready for most of us for a while, there was still some cases it didn’t cover as well as X.org.
• Christian Schaller on Twitter — 2020 was a year where we focused a lot on polishing what we had and getting things past the finish line and Fedora Workstation 34 is going to be the culmination of that effort in many ways.
• GNOME 40 Introducing Headless Native Backend, Virtual Monitors — As part of this headless native back-end is also the ability to create virtual monitors via command-line options for debugging and other purposes. This also allows creating virtual monitor PipeWire streams.
• What’s New in Libhandy 1.2
• Reinventing tabs — In GNOME 40, Epiphany will feature a new tab bar. This isn’t just a restyling of the old one, but a ground-up rewrite.
• My geek stuff blog: Maps and GNOME 40
• GNOME 40 & your extension – GNOME Shell & Mutter
• OBS Studio on Wayland
• Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
• JB Telegram Group
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• Pick: kmon — Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
• Pick: ebpfsnitch — eBPFSnitch is a Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. It is inspired by OpenSnitch and Douane but utilizing modern kernel abstractions - without a kernel module.
• Feedback: Docker Socket Security
• Feedback: How to exit big picture mode
• Telegram App Is Booming but Needs Advertisers, and $700 Million Soon

Plus a big batch of feedback that kicks off some wide-ranging discussions.

Special Guests: Danielle Foré and Neal Gompa.

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• FOSS Responders — COVID-19 is impacting the open source industry in many ways. If you or your community has been impacted, please let us know
• Seems that NVIDIA silently axed their GTC talk about Nouveau?
• Update: NVIDIA GTC 2020 Announcements Postponed Entirely
• Lemur Pro - System76
• Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• FOSS Talk Live 2020 has been cancelled. — It seems very unlikely that London will be functioning by June so I have made this difficult call. I'm very sorry to anyone who has made travel and accommodation arrangements but I trust that everyone will understand why this had to be done.
• TXLF 2020 Rescheduled — Given the recommendations by public health officials, we have decided to not have Texas Linux Fest on May 2020 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, TX. We are currently investigating opportunities to bring parts of Texas Linux Fest online.
• Unfilter is Back
• TurnKey GNU/Linux — a free Debian based library of system images that pre-integrates and polishes the best free software components into secure, easy to use solutions.
• Sandstorm — an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications
• Bitnami Stack
• YunoHost — easily manage a server for your friends, association or enterprise.
• Dedicated Platform Package Manager — an easy way to install and manage server applications.
• Home Assistant Add-ons - Home Assistant
• Feedback: Backup software tips?
• Feedback: mac Apps and Little Snitch
• Little Snitch and the Deprecation of Kernel Extensions
• Feedback: Life at Microsoft
• Feedback: Mint Success
• Feedback: Mastodon
• Feedback: The Windows Burden