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• LUP's Great Holiday Homelab Form
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• Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together
• LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrm
• pangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.
• Pangolin | Secure Access Platform
• NixOS Search - Options - Pangolin
• Youtarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin
• Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/Youtarr
• Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
• dawarich CHANGELOG.md
• CVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbd_session_rpc_method() attempts to lock sess->rpc_lock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe.
• SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address.
• ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blog
• ksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)
• ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)
• doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoC
• GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
• GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption
• France's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy Tech
• Seems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.
• Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down
• Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means
• Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
• Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube
• 2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTube
• Pick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator.
• Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang.
• Install Gopher64 on Linux | Flathub

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• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Meetup.com — Saturday, Oct 4 - 12:00 AM to 01:30 PM CDT
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
• Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
• Dawarich — Automatically track your daily life with Dawarich. Never forget where you went or what you did. Relive your memories with precise location data.
• LINUX Unplugged 614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking
• Dawarich API Docs
• AlbinLind/dawarich-api — A python wrapper for Dawarich
• Texas Tracker — Real-time distance tracking and movement visualization
• JupiterBroadcasting/texastracker: — A static website that tracks our trip to Texas Linux Festival 2025.
• bitchat
• A Guide To bitchat version 1.2-1.3 : r/bitchat
• Geohash Converter - Find and visualize your Geohash
• Overland GPS Tracker on the App Store
• gpslogger: :satellite: Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android.
• Zakk's (2kOS) nix config
• NotAShelf/nvf: Modular, extensible and distro-agnostic Neovim configuration framework for Nix/NixOS
• suderman's nixos — system configurations & dotfiles
• NixOS impermanence — Lets you choose what files and directories you want to keep between reboots - the rest are thrown away.
• numtide/blueprint: Standard folder structure for Nix projects — blueprint is an opinionated library that maps a standard folder structure to flake outputs, allowing you to divide up your flake into individual files across these folders. This allows you to modularize and isolate these files so that they can be maintained individually and even shared across multiple projects.
• gmodena/nix-flatpak — Install flatpaks declaratively
• Adam's (A Manzer) nix-config
• Prowlarr
• nzbhydra2: Usenet meta search
• Kieran dots
• Fortyduex's nix config
• Fortydeux's Firewire
• Brad's nix config
• Brad's SMB
• Monty's Ansible
• Monty's Nix
• Monty's NXC
• ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
• Namespace nixosModules options under "hyprvibe" to avoid potential collisions - hyprvibe Issue #10
• Pick: vtunnel — vTunnel is a tool that proxies IP traffic between guest and host networks by using the VSOCK protocol.
• Pick: Tab-Session-Manager — WebExtensions for restoring and saving window / tab states

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• libcaca – Caca Labs — A graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
• New GNOME Executive Director Named: Steven Deobald — Steven Deobald has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, succeeding interim director Richard Littauer and Holly Million, who stepped down last year after a brief tenure.
• Creation of the NixOS hardware team — TL;DR: The Steering Committee is launching the new Hardware Team to own the nixos-hardware repo, drive hardware enablement, and expand partnerships.
• Adopting sudo-rs By Default in Ubuntu 25.10 - Project Discussion - Ubuntu Community Hub — The sudo-rs project is designed to be a drop in replacement for the original tool. For the vast majority of users, the upgrade should be completely transparent to their workflow. That said, sudo-rs is a not a “blind” reimplementation.
• LINUX Unplugged 607: Ubuntu's Rusty Roadmap
• Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update — Bcachefs has introduced patches aimed at significantly improving snapshot deletion performance. However, implementing these improvements necessitates an update to an incompatible on-disk format, which must be explicitly enabled by users.
• Dawarich — Your Journey, Your Control — Visualize your location history, track your movements, and analyze your travel patterns with complete privacy and control.
• fabean/ytviewer — YouTube TUI that pulls subscriptions from YouTube API
• Pick: meshSidecar — meshSidecar provides a flexible way to integrate mesh networking capabilities with NixOS services. It allows services to participate in mesh networks without requiring direct modification of the service itself.
• Pick: ELEMENT.FM — Unlimited, GPLv3 Licensed, self-hostable podcast hosting

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• Amazon’s Astro home robot is like having Alexa on wheels — Amazon claims the Astro can do a wide variety of things you might want from a home robot. It can map out your floor plan and obey commands to go to a specific room. It can recognize faces and deliver items to a specific person.
• “Intel Software Defined Silicon” Coming To Linux For Activating Extra Licensed Hardware Features — The Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver is for supporting the "post-manufacturing mechanism for activating additional silicon features."
• One of the Steam Deck’s biggest hurdles just disappeared: EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound — While developers would still need to patch their games, this immediately means some of the most popular games on Steam are now theoretically within reach, including Apex Legends, Dead by Daylight, and War Thunder, which are all among the top 25 games on Steam.
• Syscall User Dispatch — The Linux Kernel documentation — Compatibility layers like Wine need a way to efficiently emulate system calls of only a part of their process - the part that has the incompatible code - while being able to execute native syscalls without a high performance penalty on the native part of the process. Syscall User Dispatch brings the filtering of the syscall dispatcher address back to userspace.
• Steam Deck :: FAQ
• Poll: Which “server” distro should we go with next? — So it's time to replace our garage server... We've been running Arch, and so far it's worked mostly great. Should we keep pushing our luck, or try something new?
• PowerEdge R820 Rack Server Details
• PhoneTrack - Nextcloud Apps — PhoneTrack is a Nextcloud application to track and store mobile device's locations.
• Pick: tubearchivist — Your self-hosted YouTube media server.