LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Nixcon North America”

551: AI Under Your Control

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:00:00 -0800

Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

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Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
Warp Terminal: Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.
FlakeHub.com: FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.
1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 21
🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
Yard House Menu
Fountain.fm
Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.
Stable Diffusion 3 — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.
Deedy on X — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)
AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying
Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone."
ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma
gemma.cpp — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models.
InvokeAI — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process.
Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.
NixOS-WSL
Texas LinuxFest 2024
TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link
LFNW2024 - Ready or not… — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College
LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted
LINUX Unplugged Membership
ryantm/agenix — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
Mic92/sops-nix — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers

546: What You’re Missing about NixOS

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 21:00:00 -0800

Trying NixOS can be fraught with complexity, half-completed guides, and boring videos. Even if you never plan to switch to NixOS, we invite you to come along for a hype-free ride that digs into one of the most rapidly developing areas of Linux.

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💥 Get Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
First NixCon North America!
Southern California Linux Expo 21x — SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area.
SCALE 21x Registration
FOSDEM 2024 - Feb 3-4 — FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!
Getting started with NixOS by Mike Kelly — I previously wrote Why do people love NixOS so much? to try and explain the advantages of using Nix. So now let’s dive in and actually do an install!
Zero to Nix — Your guide to learning Nix and flakes.
Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition
distrobox — Use any linux distribution inside your terminal.
distrobox in nixpkgs
Building SnowflakeOS ISO
Icicle Installer
Jake Hamilton on Mastodon — I'm happy to announce that #SnowflakeOS and its related projects from @vlinkz is joining #SnowfallOrg!
Snowfall — Making nix better one project at a time.
Snowfall on GitHub
Snowfall Flake — Simplify Nix Flakes on the command line.
Unplugged Core Membership
Boltz.Exchange — Easily move between on-chain, Lightning, and Liquid
t2linux — Linux support for Apple devices with the T2 security chip.
Mac-on-Linux
pick: Spotube — Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron!
Pick: Cider — A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind.

541: Out with a Bang

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 14:30:00 -0800

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter!

Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

Special Guest: Kenji Berthold.

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538: Surprisingly Smooth Transition

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:00:00 -0800

PipeWire hits 1.0, and Wim Taymans joins us to reflect on the smooth success of PipeWire. Plus the details on the first NixCon North America, and more.

Special Guests: Wim Taymans and Zach Mitchell.

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🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies!
⚠️ Did we miss something in the 2023 Tuxies?
How to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes
First NixCon North America! — We envisage NixCon North America as a complement to the core NixCon in Europe, enriching the global Nix community through more localized events. This event is not just a conference; it’s a celebration of our growth, diversity, and the shared passion for Nix.
Southern California Linux Expo 19
Purchase a SCALE Pass
One time Fiat donation for JB @ SCaLE 21x
🎉 PipeWire 1.0 🎉 — PipeWire 1.0 retains API/ABI compatibility with the long-lived PipeWire 0.3.xx series. PipeWire 1.0 delivers improved time reporting for less jitter in ALSA when using IRQ mode, various module fixes, Bluetooth LC3 codec and compatibility improvements, improved transport and time handling for JACK, optimized buffer re-use with JACK, and a variety of other improvements.
PipeWire 1.0.0 (El Presidente)
LINUX Unplugged 370 — PipeWire Progress
SpiralLinux — SpiralLinux is a selection of Linux spins built from Debian GNU/Linux, with a focus on simplicity and out-of-the-box usability across all the major desktop environments.
grub-btrfs — Include btrfs snapshots in the Grub menu.
timeshift — System restore tool for Linux.
timeshift-autosnap-apt — Timeshift auto-snapshot script for Ubuntu and Debian
Ubuntu Desktop with btrfs-luks, auto-apt snapshots with Timeshift
jordan-bravo's Nix config
ladder — Selfhosted alternative to 12ft.io. and 1ft.io bypass paywalls with a proxy ladder and remove CORS headers from any URL.
Pick: whisper 🎤 → 🎧️ — Listen to your mic - with PipeWire. This app does more or less the same thing as Helvum does, but with a simple UI.
Whisper on Flathub
Helvum on Flathub — Helvum is a graphical patchbay for PipeWire.