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• AndrewPaglusch/Nebula-Ansible-Role — Nebula VPN Overlay Network Installer With Ansible
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• nebula-vpn-helm — Helm chart for managing Nebula VPN
• vpn-dashboard-react-nebula — This project demonstrates a secure, lightweight, peer-to-peer VPN architecture using the Nebula overlay network integrated with a React-based front-end dashboard.
• ChrisLAS/bluenix — Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
• Linkwarden — ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
• Announcing Linkwarden 2.11
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• Soltros-OS — My personal RPM-OStree based OS.
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• [Bug]: "External link" should point to the audio file
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• 5 Best Reference Management Tools for Linux in 2024
• Zotero — Your personal research assistant
• Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
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• Nextcloud Conference 2024: call for speakers - Nextcloud
• Nextcloud Conference 2024 - Nextcloud
• Berlin with Brent: September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Fri, Sep 13, 2024 | Meetup
• notch on X — Alright, that's enough spyware in my OS. Do I go desktop Mac, or do I have the energy to go full Linux? Not sure, but I'm tired of my operating system treating me like the product.
• DHH on X — If I have such a fundamental misalignment with where Apple has gone, why stay? I think that was the question I finally just asked myself for the umph-teenth time, and realized I didn’t have a good answer that wasn’t just based on comfort.
• For the Love of Linux — In this podcast episode, REWORK host Kimberly Rhodes talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals and CTO, about his personal shift from using Apple products to exploring Linux and Windows platforms. He discusses the expanded platform integration at 37signals, which now includes all three operating systems.
• DHH on X — The big "Year of Linux on the Desktop" will be 2025. Snapdragon X chips will be ready. Folks will be sick of AI shoved into every crevasse of their life. Thank heaven for disagreeable nerds refusing to bend the knee to the corporate agenda!
• Linux as the new developer default at 37signals — I've personally been having a blast over the last few months digging deeper and deeper into the Linux rabbit hole, and it's been a delight discovering just how good its become as developer platform.
• Introducing Omakub — Omakub turns a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully-configured, beautiful, and modern web development system by running a single command.
• Xournal++
• Flameshot
• Pinta
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• Omakub list of installed apps
• Omakub — An Omakase Developer Setup for Ubuntu 24.04 by DHH
• Omakub on GitHub
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• devenv — Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
• squid
• GeneBean on X — My dad was so happy with his desktop after I switched him to #Pop_OS! that he had me do the same to the laptop he takes on trips. Thanks for such a stellar distro @system76
• Walkthrough of Nix Install and Setup on MacOS by zmre on YouTube
• Wildspaces.work — Wildpsaces.work is designed for remote workers interested in reconnecting with community and working from new and wild places.
• Chris' Amazon Tablet — 10.1 Inch Android 13 Octa-core with 8(4+4) GB+128GB Tablets, 5MP+8MP Camera, Bluetooth 5.0
• Fully Kiosk Browser Lockdown
• Jellyfin Media Player — Desktop client using jellyfin-web with embedded MPV player. Supports Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
• helipad-flake — A Nix flake to provide a helipad package and NixOS module. Intended for use with nix-bitcoin.
• kthresher: Tool to remove unused kernels in Debian/Ubuntu
• Kopia — Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software
• Pick: Multiplex — Multiplex is an app to watch torrents together, providing an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party.
• weron — weron provides lean, fast & secure overlay networks based on WebRTC.

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• After losing contact with its helicopter, NASA put the entire Mars mission on hold — Mars is only going to get colder and darker for the next 10 weeks as winter deepens.
• Why the open source driver release from NVIDIA is so important for Linux? — Today NVIDIA announced that they are releasing an open source kernel driver for their GPUs, so I want to share with you some background information and how I think this will impact Linux graphics and compute going forward.
• NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules — NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515 driver release.
• Hector Martin on Twitter — So NVIDIA "released" their kernel driver as open source. By which they mean, they moved most of it to firmware and made the open source driver call into it. There are almost 900 functions implemented in the 34MB firmware, give or take, from what I can see. Broadcom vibes...
• Longhorn on Twitter — Note that the 30MB+ firmware supports multiple GPU generations, and that’s an important factor. (If you see the elf sections, there’s ones for Turing, Ampere DC, Ampere customer and Gnext)
• Linux Action News 240 — NVIDIA has announced its plans for an open-source GPU driver. Christian Schaller, the Director for Desktop, Graphics, Infotainment and more at Red Hat, gives us the inside scoop on this historic announcement.
• Tailscale raises $100M… to fix the Internet — This is not our first rodeo. We don’t know where the economy or the market are going. We don’t want to be pressured into juicing growth numbers beyond where they belong. We don’t want to put revenue ahead of quality, because our stats say quality is where all our growth comes from.
• sshuttle — where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh
• Documentation · Tailscale — Welcome to the Tailscale documentation
• Guides · Tailscale
• Access a Pi-hole or Raspberry Pi from anywhere — One common use of a Raspberry Pi is to run a Pi-hole, a DNS-based ad blocking services. A typical setup is to have a Raspberry Pi in your house running Pi-hole, acting as the DNS server for your local Wi-Fi network.
• Tailscale on NixOS: A New Minecraft Server in Ten Minutes — In this article I will show how to set up a brand new Minecraft server (exposed only over Tailscale) in ten minutes
• Tailscale in LXC containers
• Set up a dogcam with Tailscale, Raspberry Pi, and Motion
• weron: Overlay networks based on WebRTC. — weron provides lean, fast & secure overlay networks based on WebRTC.
• newpodcastapps.com
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• Ansible Modules Bitwarden — Bitwarden integrations for Ansible

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• Amazon Is Hiring DXVK, Mesa & Proton Linux Developers For Luna Cloud Gaming - Phoronix — As part of the work on Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service, the company has put out job openings of great match to our audience... An Amazon engineer did confirm that this indeed is for genuine Linux gaming engineers.
• New Server Christening Get Together — Lets get together, share some foods, and power up the new Jupiter Broadcasting local server. Then stick around and listen in to a live recording of LINUX Unplugged from the studio.
• System76 Blog — Pop!_OS 21.10 has landed!
• Pop!_OS 21.10 Introduces Mini Application Menu
• Jeremy Soller on Twitter — Pop switched the build system and repositories away from http://launchpad.net to our own system http://apt.pop-os.org/release for 21.10 in order to improve our control of package updates and reduce the time to build, test, and release them. It is not related to changing bases.
• Linode Security Digest December 12-19, 2021
• Pop!_OS Auto Tiling Tutorial
• Recovery Partition - System76 Support — The Recovery Partition is a full copy of the Pop!_OS installation disk. It can be used exactly the same as if a live disk copy of Pop!_OS was booted from a USB drive.
• Add Recovery To Your Pop!_OS — If you like me, fellow reader, you may be using a more custom partition setup. Unfortunately, anything other than the default clean install on Pop!_OS means you do not get the automatically generated recovery partition of goodness. Here's a small guide over how to get the setup on an already existing install.
• casper — A hook for initramfs-tools to boot live systems.
• pop-os/launcher — Modular IPC-based desktop launcher service.
• Raycast — Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.
• Pick: n.eko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
• Ventoy — With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.

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• Rust Watch: Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive — Utilizing an in-development Flash emulator called Ruffle, we have added Flash support to the Internet Archive’s Emularity system, letting a subset of Flash items play in the browser as if you had a Flash plugin installed.
• Ruffle — Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language
• Ubuntu Web Remix Wants to Be a Chrome OS Alternative, Beta Available Now - 9to5Linux — Ubuntu Web Remix uses Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, offers support for Web apps, and you can also install regular Linux applications from Ubuntu’s software repositories.
• FydeOS beta brings Chromium OS to the PineBook Pro (Android app support too) - Liliputing — The developers say they plan to add support for more ARM-based systems in the future.
• We’re Building the Future of GNOME — Our plans for 2021 are even more ambitious and involve sustaining our ongoing work while building up new initiatives and support for the growing GNOME project and community.
• GNOME Foundation Planning For More Initiatives In 2021 - Phoronix
• Fedora’s i3 team is working on an official Fedora Spin for Fedora 34 : Fedora
• i3 Kickstart files :: Fedora Docs Site
• Fedora 34 to Introduce KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM - debugpoint.com — The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) approved the recent proposal to provide a Fedora 34 KDE Plasma Spin for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) architecture.
• Fedora 34 Might Try To Use PipeWire By Default To Replace PulseAudio/JACK - Phoronix — For a while now Fedora has offered PipeWire packages but not yet used by default when it comes to audio handling. A pending change proposal for Fedora 34 would now route all audio through PipeWire rather than the existing JACK and PulseAudio.
• PulseAudio 14.0 Released With Better USB Gaming Headset Support — PulseAudio 14.0 comes with many changes compared to PulseAudio 13.0 that shipped all the way back in September of 2019.
• PulseAudio 14.0 Release Notes
• ASUS Offers First Motherboard Firmware Update Via LVFS+Fwupd For Linux Users - Phoronix — The ASUS P11C-C-4L is an EATX motherboard for the Intel Xeon E platform.
• fwupd 1.5.2 – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes — A plugin for the Pinebook Pro laptop has been added, although it needs further work from PINE64 before it will work correctly.
• Jasem’s Ekosphere: KStars v3.5.0 is Released — This release marks a significant milestone for KStars with the integration of StellarSolver, the Cross Platform Sextractor and Astrometry.net-Based Internal Astrometric Solver.
• Wave-share — Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound.
• Wave-share on GitHub — A proof-of-concept for WebRTC signaling using sound. Works with all devices that have microphone + speakers. Runs in the browser.
• Feedback: Eric’s Wonderful Workstation
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• Pick: podify — Create podcasts from anything youtube-dl can handle.
• Pick: Dev Fonts
• Hear Audio From NASA's Perseverance As It Travels Through Deep Space | NASA — A microphone aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has recorded the sounds of the spacecraft as it hurtles through interplanetary space.
• Perseverance Rover’s Interplanetary Sounds by NASA