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• Jupiter Broadcasting Buzz Community
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• Jupiter Garage SWAG
• AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker
• Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
• Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place. — Chat with teammates and specialized agents in one shared space, then move straight into planning, project management, coding, and PRs. Create agents tailored to your workflows, let them collaborate with your team’s agents, and keep the work that used to be scattered across chat, trackers, and dev tools in one place.
• buzz on GitHub
• Feature Request: Support external agent systems (non-ACP) for real-time communication in Buzz communities
• [Bug] Remote Agent Missing from @ Mention Autocomplete Across Machines
• Teknium 🪽 on X: "@jack Hit me up if you want us to submit any PRs or make hermes more compatible with Buzz!"
• feat(agents): add Hermes ACP and external-agent integration by NYTEMODEONLY
• feat(acp): Hermes runtime discovery and durable session load by joelbrilliant
• docs(acp): document Buzz host integration by NYTEMODEONLY
• MeshBBS — Meshbbs revolutionizes communication on mesh networks by bringing the beloved Bulletin Board System experience to Meshtastic devices. Exchange messages, participate in forums, and build communities over long-range, low-power radio networks, all without traditional internet infrastructure.
• Electroverse Map | EV Charging Stations
• Pick: PipeWire Controller — A native GTK4/libadwaita control center for PipeWire

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• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
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• Jupiter Garage SWAG
• AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker
• Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
• Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting - YouTube
• Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off - The Reg
• Re: Linking Patchwork with Sashiko? - Linus Torvalds — AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
• sashiko — Agentic review of Linux Kernel code changes
• SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a Programmable, Private, Browser-based, Open Source, Self Hosted, Personal Knowledge Database.
• logseq — A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
• Big update: Logseq is splitting into two versions
• Logseq public roadmap
• Logseq DB Version Docs
• Logseq DB Version Changes
• Nixbook OS — A set-and-forget modern operating system designed for simplicity, speed, and peace of mind.
• odysseus — A self-hosted AI workspace for chat, agents, research, documents, email, notes, calendar, and local model workflows.
• fwtop — Real-time router/firewall traffic visualizer TUI for Linux (interfaces, conntrack, firewall drops)
• hister — Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP.
• 3D[S]tageVibes
• Artemis Qt — Artemis Qt is an enhanced cross-platform client for NVIDIA GameStream and Apollo/Sunshine servers. It brings the advanced features from Artemis Android to desktop platforms.
• Apollo — Sunshine fork - The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device.
• RustDesk — Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
• rustdesk - GitHub — An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
• NoMachine — The fastest and highest quality remote desktop you have ever tried.
• Sunshine — Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
• Moonlight PC — GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link)

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• AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker
• Jupiter Garage SWAG
• Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
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• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-16 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
• Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview
• Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support
• June 16th 2006 AppleTalk Removed from Kernel — AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing.
• linux-netdev/mod-orphan — Linux networking modules removed from the kernel due to lack of maintenance and high bug count
• Netatalk — Netatalk is a Free and Open Source file server that uses the AFP protocol.
• Basilisk II — Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator.
• MacOS 8: Internet Archive
• Apple, Inc.. Macintosh Classic Desktop Computer. 1989 - MoMA
• ChrisLAS/chooser — chooser is the AirTalk AppleTalk service browser for LINUX Unplugged. It uses TailTalk's userspace AppleTalk stack to run NBP lookups and displays discovered services in a terminal UI inspired by the classic Mac OS Chooser.
• jrouter — Home-grown alternative implementation of Apple Internet Router 3.0
• marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html — GlobalTalk is the nickname we’ve given to the practice of using an ancient Apple Internet Router software package to bridge your local AppleTalk network (of vintage computers and printers) to the global network of the internet and other people’s vintage computers and printers. While nothing is stopping you from using this all year, usage primarily spikes in March for #MARCHintosh.
• bramble — A password manager that keeps your secrets on your own devices. No account, no server holding your vault, no company to get breached and leak everything. You hold the vault, you hold the password, and that's it.
• MeatPi WiCAN Pro: Connect Any Car to Home Assistant! Probably... - YouTube
• La Gendarmerie sous Linux depuis 17 ans : les leçons à en tirer - Supersonique Studio SARL
• Qu'est-ce que NixOS, la distribution Linux que l'État pourrait utiliser ?
• adelolmo/hd-idle — Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down Utility
• Gentleman-Programming/engram — Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI.
• distributed-llama: Distributed LLM inference. — Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference. More devices means faster inference.
• MacPick: Morph — Morph, from Gryphon Software was the first commercial morphing program for PCs. With this program you specify related points between two images and the software will morph the two images together at different levels. The program can export the results to a movie file.
• WinWorld: Gryphon Morph 1.00
• MacPick: LegacyAI from Manticore Software — ChatGPT for vintage 68k, PowerPC, and Intel Macs
• MacPick: Dark Castle — Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles.
• MacPick: CrystalQuest — The first color game for the Macintosh, in which the player controls a small, circular spaceship which must travel around the screen collecting crystals.
• Pick: mcp-beam — mcp-beam is a MCP server (stdio transport) for casting local files and media URLs to Chromecast and DLNA/UPnP devices on your LAN.
• Pick: Go2TV — Media Casting Made Easy

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• Clanker Therapy Highlight - YouTube
• Clanker Therapy Full Member Recording
• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD!
• Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
• FORScan — A software scanner for Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, designed to work over ELM327 and J2534 Pass-Thru compatible OBD adapters.
• MeatPi WiCAN-PRO OBD Scanner — Built on the robust ESP32-S3 platform, WiCAN PRO runs the powerful, open-source WiCAN firmware.
• argunix: Webhook-driven Nix CI for GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo
• PearPass - Your Open-Source Password Manager
• olmec's nixos-router config
• Pick: Ulanzi TC001 Smart Pixel Clock — The full-color LED screen supports custom icons, bringing time and weather to life in a way that’s both retro and modern — making it the most unique visual statement on your desk.
• ULANZI TC001 Smart Pixel Clock
• Pick: awtrix3 — Custom firmware for the Ulanzi Smart Pixel clock or self-made AWTRIX displays.
• Pick: Mouzi — Mouzi is a silent, elegant file organizer that lives in your system tray and keeps your Downloads folder (and any other folder) automatically tidy. It runs quietly in the background, monitors selected folders, and moves, renames, or sorts files based on customizable rules.
• Mouzi - Organize Downloads Folder Automatically

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
• Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
• OneCal
• PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
• PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
• RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
• KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
• ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
• raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
• cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
• systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
• Azuay Province - Wikipedia
• Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
• Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
• Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
• Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

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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
• PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32. This project adds on/off control via soldering, as the serial communication is currently read-only. It is based on the work of timmchugh11 and builds on the reverse engineering efforts of Ray Jones.
• Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab
• timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome
• OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
• anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.
• Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter
• ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple
• Home Assistant
• ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systems
• nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
• NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs
• Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board
• agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation. Works out of the box with Claude/Codex/OpenCode
• camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents to visit sites that are usually blocked
• chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents
• firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools
• LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox
• Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP
• Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files. Great for saving space by rough cutting your large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. It lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard many gigabytes of data without doing a slow re-encode and thereby losing quality.
• LosslessCut on GitHub
• LosslessCut on Flathub
• Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
• Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss?
• TUI Challenge Rules Discussion Thread
• Red Hat Summit 2025 Homepage — May 19-22 2025 in Boston, MA
• Red Hat Summit 2025: Execs Tout Opportunities In Open Source AI, Virtualization Migration — OpenShift Virtualization has seen almost triple the number of customers, with the number of clusters deployed in production more than doubling and the number of virtual machines managed by the offer more than tripling.
• Agentic AI, LLMs and standards big focus of Red Hat Summit
• Red Hat Summit: Key Innovations for IT Channel Partners
• Unlock what’s next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025 — Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available for use with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
• Red Hat Launches the llm-d Community, Powering Distributed Gen AI Inference at Scale — Red Hat’s vision: Any model, any accelerator, any cloud.
• Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 with Supercharged Intelligence and Security Across Hybrid Environments — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 delivers a paradigm shift in enterprise operating systems with image mode.
• 10.0 Release Notes | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 10 | Red Hat Documentation
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Officially Released, Here's What's New — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.
• RHEL 10: Leading the future with AI, security and hybrid cloud
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GA
• SiFive Collaborates with Red Hat to Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux for RISC-V — The developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is initially available for use on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform.
• Red Hat AI on Hugging Face
• FIPS 203/204/205 — These standards specify key establishment and digital signature schemes that are designed to resist future attacks by quantum computers, which threaten the security of current standards.
• Virtualization success stories: Join Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization's momentum in 2025
• llm-d — llm-d is a Kubernetes-native high-performance distributed LLM inference framework
• What is vLLM? — vLLM is an inference server that speeds up the output of generative AI applications by making better use of the GPU memory.
• Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode leverages the bootc tool to build and deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Bootc stands for bootable container, and the image will include the kernel, bootloader, and other items typically excluded from application containers.
• Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Overview
• Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta
• Bluefin — Featuring automatic image-based updates and a simple graphical application store, Bluefin is designed to get out of your way. Get what you want without sacrificing system stability.
• KongrooParadox's nixfiles — This was my second nixos release since getting into Nix last year (February I think), and this strategy made it really painless. No surprises about deprecated options since I saw these cases slowly when these changes hit unstable.
• yazi: Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O
• jira-cli - Feature-rich interactive Jira command line
• browser-use — Make websites accessible for AI agents
• Thomato's TUI Resources
• Pick: RamaLama — Make working with AI boring through the use of OCI containers.
• ramalama on GitHub — RamaLama is an open-source developer tool that simplifies the local serving of AI models from any source and facilitates their use for inference in production, all through the familiar language of containers.