When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.

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• Toronto Meetup - JB Colony Events
• Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.
• Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef Bacik
• Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.
• Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel
• syncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏
• Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.
• Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.
• Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
• Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTube
• Hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS
• Keybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2
• Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3
• Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Formatter
• Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Home
• Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Shared
• Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Hosts
• LibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.
• Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.
• Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other tools
• sst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.
• Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68
• flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy
• NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655
• Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.
• Papra - Demo
• Pick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
• Pick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!

Angela’s obscure holiday obsession and how Chris accidentally became the Mayor of Milk Town.

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• Sulfur smell in water - I have well & septic 
• What are some ways to remove iron and sulfur from your home’s tap water without using harsh chemicals? - Quora
• Water Filtration – MobileMustHave.com
• 425 Newbury St #218, Boston, MA 02115 
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• Now YOU Can say you DO Live in a Glass House!
• INSIDE a $7,100,000 Modern GLASS HOUSE

• Poster BY: Cheap Suits

Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.

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• Podverse — A FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.
• Podverse - GitHub
• Texas Linux Festival 2025 - CFP extended to August 18!
• Nix Pipe Operator by piegamesde [RFC 0148]
• libexpr: experimental pipe operators by rhendric
• Nix Vegas on GitHub
• NixVegas/badge — Rebuild the world at DEF CON with the Nix Badge
• AND!XOR 5n4ck3y
• ANDnXOR/ANDnXORDC33Badge
• NixOS Search - Packages - ztool
• ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — Chris' vibed-only, riced-up Hyprland desktop running atop NixOS.
• crush — The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘
• Cursor - The AI Code Editor
• Void: an open source Cursor alternative
• gerbrent/storenix — NixOS configs for a store, containing two locations and multiple hosts. Please help me!
• Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - Instagram
• Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - YouTube
• HomeBox — A simple home inventory management software
• sysadminsmedia/homebox — A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home User
• Forester Notes
• Designing tools for scientific thought
• jimsalterjrs/sanoid: — policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.
• btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
• Breez - Bitcoin in Every App
• gPodder - Music Assistant
• GeneBean's Linux-specific NixOS aliases — GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
• GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
• Alby Hub — Alby Hub is a self-custodial, open source lightning wallet that connects to apps
• Pick: ffshare — An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing them
• Pick: Actual Budget — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
• SimpleFIN
• Connect to your bank - SimpleFIN Bridge

Governments worldwide think your privacy is adorable but outdated. Say hello to mandatory selfies and ID checks, and goodbye to anonymous cat memes.

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• Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet
• Chris Middleton on X: "🚨 UK’s Online Safety Act just came into effect, promising a “safer” internet. It’s a lie. This law threatens YOUR privacy, free speech, and democracy and paves the way for a surveilled, censored web. Want to know how bad it gets? 🧵
• YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections
• First Steam, now itch.io has been forced to start delisting adult games
• Grand Theft Auto "Potentially At Risk" Of Being Delisted By Payment Processors
• ZOOM Platform also had payment processor issues, say they "have no plans to remove any titles" | GamingOnLinux
• Suspects accused of dressing up as a bear for insurance fraud case in LA County - YouTube
• Robotic Rabbits A new hope against Everglades' python threat - YouTube
• RECALL: High Noon hard seltzers mislabeled as Celsius energy drinks - YouTube

•  Porkchops Fried by HeyCitizen

A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.

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• How to recover from BTRFS errors | Support | SUSE
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• 2018 Patch
• Git: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfile
• Git: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletion
• problematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26th
• problematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19th
• Increased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter Jung
• Null deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREELOG in newer kernel - Russell Haley
• System failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux Forums
• PATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail
• patch on for-next branch of btrfs tree
• generic: test fsync of file with 0 links and extents
• Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!
• Music Assistant Installation Instructions
• Installation Instructions
• Music Assistant Music Providers
• Music Assistant Player Providers
• Home Assistant Plugin
• Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home Assistant
• SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA US
• HomePod - Apple
• Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 Receiver
• WiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio Streamer
• Google Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI Cable
• Google Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - *** 2 PACK *** | eBay
• droans/massqueue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistant
• punxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.
• NinDTendo/homeassistantgradualvolumecontrol — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of mediaplayers over a given timespan.
• Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.
• SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.
• HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.
• LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
• rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies
• rustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Server
• rustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravo
• rustdress in nixpkgs
• Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity
• Plausible Slop Timecode Link
• Death by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.se
• Pick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!
• PlexRipper Docs
• Pick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2
• Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget
• AmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods

A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.

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• btrfs-zero-log(8) — btrfs-progs — Debian Manpages — This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay.
• 2018 Patch
• Git: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfile
• Git: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletion
• problematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26th
• problematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19th
• Increased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter Jung
• Null deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREELOG in newer kernel - Russell Haley
• System failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux Forums
• PATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail
• patch on for-next branch of btrfs tree
• generic: test fsync of file with 0 links and extents
• Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!
• Music Assistant Installation Instructions
• Installation Instructions
• Music Assistant Music Providers
• Music Assistant Player Providers
• Home Assistant Plugin
• Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home Assistant
• SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA US
• HomePod - Apple
• Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 Receiver
• WiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio Streamer
• Google Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI Cable
• Google Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - *** 2 PACK *** | eBay
• droans/massqueue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistant
• punxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.
• NinDTendo/homeassistantgradualvolumecontrol — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of mediaplayers over a given timespan.
• Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.
• SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.
• HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.
• LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
• rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies
• rustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Server
• rustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravo
• rustdress in nixpkgs
• Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity
• Plausible Slop Timecode Link
• Death by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.se
• Pick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!
• PlexRipper Docs
• Pick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2
• Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget
• AmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods

Our take on the Tea app leak, how wearing shirts with phrases on them could be a red flag, and why we're skeptical about Sam Altman's claims of his biggest AI fear.

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• Tea app security breaches reveal private chats and photo ID
• Tea dating app breach bigger than previously thought, company says - CBS News
• "Tea" App Hacking: 72,000 images leaked, including photo IDs - YouTube
• Sam Altman says it's insane that banks still accept voice prints for authentication. 
• Chuck E. Cheese arrest leaves impression on Florida family: 'Does this mean Chuck E.’s gone forever? - YouTube

• Bloodshot Lies FUNK By: The Doerfels

A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.

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• F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
• Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
• Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
• Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
• Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
• Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
• The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
• bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
• Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
• EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
• Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
• Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
• Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
• The first half of the 6.16 merge window
• The second half of the 6.16 merge window
• Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
• Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
• Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
• Supporting kernel development with large language models
• Fending off unwanted file descriptors
• Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
• Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
• DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
• LLM generated git-resolve.sh
• Aidan's NixOS Flake
• Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
• SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
• Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
• Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

Surprising skills that you never saw coming, forcing AI into the workflow, and the pet rampage running the streets.


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• ROLLING HILLS MISSILE SILO
• Ghislaine Maxwell's hideout is for sale. This is where she "fled to a bedroom when the feds rang the doorbell
• This Seattle House Has A Nose For Range Hood
• What Stockton officials are doing after receiving complaints of roaming pig - YouTube

• Against All Love By: FM Rodeo

Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.

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• Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
• ODROID-H4 – ODROID — A powerful and versatile board that supports Intel's latest Alder Lake processors with AVX2 extensions. It features DDR5 memory, 4 SATA ports, dual BIOS, and up to 3 display outputs.
• Home Assistant Yellow
• UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS
• MINISFORUM S100 Mini PC Stick
• GEEKOM Air12 Mini PC
• Nebula Quick Start
• Debugging with Nebula SSH commands
• Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
• Upgrading a Nebula network to IPv6 overlay addresses
• Using Dedicated Relays for Total Connectivity
• nebula NixOS Module
• norohind.nebula: — Ansible role to manage nebula vpn hosts
• dracut-nebula — dracut-nebula integrates the Nebula overlay networking tool (VPN, tunnel) into the initramfs
• nebula-gen: — Simple script to initialize a CA and quickly sign host keys and certificates for the Nebula VPN
• AndrewPaglusch/Nebula-Ansible-Role — Nebula VPN Overlay Network Installer With Ansible
• nebula-lighthouse-service — This server is a public Nebula VPN Lighthouse Service. You can use it in case you don’t have a publicly accessible server to run your own Nebula Lighthouse.
• 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
• Linkwarden Browser Extension
• neko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
• Soltros-OS — My personal RPM-OStree based OS.
• Miniflux — Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
• miniflux/v2 — Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
• [Bug]: "External link" should point to the audio file
• feat(rss): fallback to enclosure URL when entry URL is missing
• 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"
• winapps — Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.