Special Guests: Aneesh Agrawal, Eelco Dolstra, Kelsey Hightower, Mike Kelly, Ron Efroni, and Ross Turk.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• River - Buy Bitcoin. Easy & Secure.: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Flox - Nix for Simplicity & Scale — Flox is all about simplifying your development workflow—think reproducible, portable dev environments powered by Nix, but without the steep learning curve. Whether you’re a solo coder or part of a big team, Flox lets you manage and share environments effortlessly, so you can focus on building great software instead of wrestling with setup headaches.
• Planet Nix
• Talk - Kelsey Hightower's Perspective on Nix
• Talk - Aneesh from Anthropic - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It
• Talk - Eelco Dolstra Intros Configurable Flakes
• Talk - Mike Kelly - Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
• Eelco Dolstra - Configurable Flakes
• Aneesh Agrawal - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
• Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower: An Outsider’s Look at Nix
• Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
• Why do people love NixOS so much? | Mike Kelly
• How to convert an old ChromeBook into a NixBook | Mike Kelly
• Olympia Mike's Nixbook | GitHub
• Flox | Nix in the Wild
• The NixOS Foundation Board Announced
• Guilty Pleasures | The Launch 🚀 13
• Pick: pyatv: A client library for Apple TV and AirPlay devices — This is an asyncio python library for interacting with Apple TV and AirPlay devices. It mainly targets Apple TVs (all generations, including tvOS 15 and later), but also supports audio streaming via AirPlay to receivers like the HomePod, AirPort Express and third-party speakers. It can act as remote control to the Music app/iTunes in macOS.
• Pick: atv-desktop-remote: A simple app to allow you to control an Apple TV from your desktop — The latest version works with tvOS 15 and up. It requires Python 3 to be installed on the system to work properly.

Special Guest: Producer Jeff.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Meshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
• Bitcoin Vets: Establish communications via meshtastic & ham radio network
• Meshtastic in the air — Avery Airfield in Spruce Pine which is running air delivery of critical supplies to HLZs in the AO is now equipping flights with Meshtastic airborne nodes which significantly increases coverage of vital communications.
• Heltec V3
• 27100 Cell holder
• MPPT Solar Charge controller for 1S cells
• 25 Watt Solar Panels
• Project Box
• Pole Mounts
• Programmable GPS
• Preferred 27100 Cells
• 2nd choice 21700 Cells
• Tdeck
• GPS
• Battery
• 3D printed case files
• Screw inserts for case
• m2 screw kit, nice to have for these kind of projects (threaded for inserts above)
• 5 dbi antenna
• 2 dbi antenna
• 5.8 dbi antenna
• SMA - RPSMA adapters if needed
• 12' SMA cable
• Wiseblock RAK
• Hundreds Weigh in on FCC NextNav Petition for 900 MHz Band Change — At issue is a NextNav petition filed in April to the FCC to expand the power level, bandwidth and priority of its licenses in the 902 to 907 and 918 to 928 MHz bands in the United States—a band currently in use by UHF RFID, Z-Wave, Zigbee, LoRa and numerous other wireless technologies. Additionally, NextNav proposes to use 5G connectivity over the relatively low bandwidth.
• Consumer Choice Center submits FCC comments to protect radio frequency for open-source projects and amateur radio
• meshbbs — This is a BBS project to run on a meshtastic node. The system allows for message handling, bulletin boards, mail systems, and a channel directory.
• nostrastic — Bridge to publish Nostr posts and send/receive DMs over LoRa using Meshtastic.
• Home Assistant and Meshtastic — On this page, we'll guide you through the process of creating Meshtastic MQTT sensor entities within Home Assistant. Whether you want to keep an eye on battery levels, environmental conditions, or even receive notifications from your mesh network, these integrations provide you with the tools to make it happen.
• T-Watch S3
• awesome-meshtastic — A curated list of amazingly awesome Meshtastic resources
• MeshMap - Meshtastic Node Map
• Meshtastic Routing Issues & Deployment Scenarios - YouTube
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Nix-ld: A clean solution for issues with pre-compiled executables on NixOS
• nix-ld on GitHub
• DIYmall 2 Sets 915MHZ ESP32 Lora V3 WiFi+BLE Development Board — WiFi LoRa 32 is a classic IoT dev-board. The newly launched V3 version retains Wi-Fi, BLE, LoRa, OLED display, and other functions
• LILYGO T-Echo Meshtastic LoRa SX1262 — NRF52840 module, SX1262 wireless transceiver BME280 temperature pressure sensor, GPS RTC, NFC, LoRa

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• Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS — A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer).
• Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 — Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287.
• Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the Internet
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• nodeboard — Your Ultimate Digital Inventory Manager
• Lightning Pay
• activate-linux — The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux
• Install Frog on Linux | Flathub — Extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes by taking a picture of the source.
• Clapgrep — Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time...