Apple Killed the YouTube Star | The Launch 🚀 55
Apple is bringing video to Apple Podcasts, promising seamless switching between watching and listening. Why Chris isn’t convinced the bigger picture will play out the way Apple hopes. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River!⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with FountainWeb Zap This Episode: Web Zap the Show However you Want!Become a Member:Monthly Jupiter.Party Discount - Only for The Launch!Annual Jupiter.Party Discount - Launch Exclusive! Show Notes: Apple Podcasts Video SwitchingApple Announces Video PodcastsPublish Video to Apple PodcastsApple Video Podcast DemoApple Podcasts Video DetailsMake Video Podcasting OpenAI-Written Rental Listing2024 AI in 2026 Crazy Photo“Fixer Upper” Lake City HomeThe Purple Paradise MansionMusic:Apex By: Empath Eyes
Creating Discord in the Matrix | LINUX Unplugged 654
We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party MeetupDiscord to roll out age verification next monthHack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photosDiscord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter ThielNULLFS and OPENTREENAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0OPENTREENAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With ContainersAll about initramfspivot_root implementation and constraintsTrueNAS ScaleZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.Github: ZimaOSClan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management frameworkWhat is Clan? - Documentationclan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clanConnecTen internetCase Study: Fortress Outdoor RouterPick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.
Creating Discord in the Matrix | LINUX Unplugged 654
We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party MeetupDiscord to roll out age verification next monthHack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photosDiscord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter ThielNULLFS and OPENTREENAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0OPENTREENAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With ContainersAll about initramfspivot_root implementation and constraintsTrueNAS ScaleZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.Github: ZimaOSClan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management frameworkWhat is Clan? - Documentationclan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clanConnecTen internetCase Study: Fortress Outdoor RouterPick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.
Discord's Discord | The Launch 🚀 54
Discord is rolling out mandatory face scans, and the internet is furious. The debate is loud about privacy, safety, and backlash. But a quieter incentive is driving this move, and almost no one is talking about it yet. CALL 1-774-462-5667 Boost This Episode: Grab Sats with River!⚡ Strike Makes it Quick it Grab Sats in 100s of Countries Boost with FountainWeb Zap This Episode: Web Zap the Show However you Want!Become a Member:Monthly Jupiter.Party Discount - Only for The Launch!Annual Jupiter.Party Discount - Launch Exclusive! Show Notes:LynsaTac Shower ThermometerOver the Door Shower Caddy2 Tier Soap Dish HolderFrameless Shower Door Bottom Seal for Glass DoorsRain-X 630542 Shower Door Water RepellentMr. Clean Magic Eraser SpongeOxygenics 26488 BodySpa RV Handheld ShowerDiscord will require a face scan or ID for full access next monthDiscord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users - Ars TechnicaHas anyone packet sniffed the age verification thing? Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs - Ars TechnicaDiscord will gate features behind age verificationDiscord to Debut Its First Mobile Ads Amid IPO ChatterDiscord reports positive numbers in early Quests measurement testQ4 2025 PitchBook Analyst Note: Discord IPO Preview - PitchBookYouTube Music adding 'AI Playlist' with text prompts"YouTube Premium and @YouTubeMusic YouTube Music Adds AI Playlist Generator for Premium UsersAll basement No ProblemsInvest in People?Music:Hey Love! By: Marína Ósk
The Kernel Always Wins | LINUX Unplugged 653
The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actually works.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come TogetherPasadena Linux Party MeetupValve explains why it hasn’t announced release dates for its new hardware, now plans for “first half of the year” — Valve now says all three products will ship “in the first half of the year.”Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend — Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality.bcachefs-tools v1.36.1 — Interactive TUI for monitoring various filesystem internals, slowpaths and device performance, with duration and frequency tracking for various events. Helpful for diagnosing performance issues.bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefsbcachefs PSA: if you're on 1.33-1.35, upgrade asap — Several people have been hit by this, so - please upgrade asap.Mattermost — Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot TrafficVenice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative FreedomThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720QCode for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge — We're doing our Earth Day open-source competition again The Mad Botter INC. Once again featuring System76 hardware and this time with dual tracks for college and non-college students.Michael Dominick on X - Earth Day Open Source ChallengeRed5d/podcast_mcp — MCP server for accessing Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed episode data. "I've really only tested it with JB feeds!"Pick: Plexus — Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices.Plexus-app: GitHubPick: ReinschriftTodo — Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor.Reinschrift on Flathub