LINUX Unplugged

680: Go Hack Yourself

We turn HexStrike’s red team agents loose on our systems, as OpenSSH warns that AI-assisted bug hunting is already changing the security race.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:Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeTXLF 2026 Full scheduleTXLF 2026SCALE 24x CFP — The CFP closes November 1, 2026.Nix Vegas 2026 TalksOpenSSH 10.5 Fixes Security Flaws as Project Responds to AI-Assisted Bug Discovery — OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes, as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases.openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 — Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes.OpenAI Talk at Black Hat USA 2026 — The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AIHexStrike AI MCP AgentsTREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.topgrade — Upgrade all the thingsmagnusoverli/opencode — AI-Powered Configuration Assistant for Home AssistantHome Assistant God Mode — YouTubecbbs_pi — A vintage CBBS-style bulletin board system emulator for macOS, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi.Mother Hen Apprust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy - Inside Rust BlogCovered Bridge CookiesCluckwork — Poultry farm management — starting with egg-producing layer operations, with architectural headroom for broilers, pullets, breeders, live bird sales, meat products, and hatchery modules.Slack Dumper — Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges.Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunchPick: iDescriptor — Cross-platform, open-source and free idevice management tool written in Rust and Qt.iDescriptor on GitHubiDescriptor on FlathubiDescriptor in Nix PackagesPick: KiwiFS — Searchable, structured, versioned markdown. Plug in an agent in 30 seconds — or self-host with a single binary.

679: The Last Shutdown

An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.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:Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubePick: LAN-Orangutan — LAN Orangutan is a lightweight network scanner with persistent device labeling, multi-network support, and Tailscale integration. Built by 291 Group.LAN Orangutan — Lightweight Network ScannerPick: LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.LocalSend on FlathubPick: oxproxion — Android LLM chat interface for OpenRouter models or locally served models using Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX LM or Hermes Agent.Cherokee Scout ReservationHow-To Meshtastic BBS! Off-Grid Email?TC2-BBS-mesh — A BBS server for Meshtastic for posting bulletins, sending mail to users, and channel directory.herdr — the runtime your coding agents live on

678: Entropy Ain't Easy

Seven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers.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:Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeLinux 7.2-rc5 announcementLinux 7.2 changelogLinux 7.1 changelog7.2 merge windowBtrfs large folios and DIO fixstrncpy removali486 removalDreamcast fixesCache-aware schedulingFairer GPU schedulerNVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibilityAMD ROCm regressionDreamcast vs i486Btrfs DIO regression reportsTechnical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue | COINKITE BlogBitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research saysFlowchart of the Linux RNGdust — A more intuitive version of du in rustPick: TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.Pick: cfait — A fast and powerful, offline-first task manager for your terminal, desktop, and phone.Cfait on FlathubCfait on F-Droid

677: We Got a Buzz

Block’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next.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:Jupiter Broadcasting Buzz CommunityWeb Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeBuzz — 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 GitHubFeature Request: Support external agent systems (non-ACP) for real-time communication in Buzz communities[Bug] Remote Agent Missing from @ Mention Autocomplete Across MachinesTeknium 🪽 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 NYTEMODEONLYfeat(acp): Hermes runtime discovery and durable session load by joelbrilliantdocs(acp): document Buzz host integration by NYTEMODEONLYMeshBBS — 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 StationsPick: PipeWire Controller — A native GTK4/libadwaita control center for PipeWire

676: Fork Around and Find Out

Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild.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:Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker 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 - YouTubeKeynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting - YouTubeLinus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off - The RegRe: 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 changesSilverBullet — 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 versionsLogseq public roadmapLogseq DB Version DocsLogseq DB Version ChangesNixbook 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]tageVibesArtemis 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 Solutionsrustdesk - 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)