In 1896, critics claimed the bicycle was "the devil’s advance agent." In 1860, doctors swore trains traveling over 30 mph caused "instant insanity." Today, the panic has a new face and a $20 million price tag.

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• Anthropic to Donate $20M to AI Regulation-Backed PAC (Reuters)
• Anthropic CEO Pushes Regulation Favoring Big Companies (Reason)
• Context: Anthropic & OpenAI Plan IPO (YouTube)
• Anthropic CEO: AI Will Surpass Humans Soon
• Claude Identifies as DeepSeek — stevibe on X
• Anthropic Can De-Anonymize Users — Lukasz Olejnik on X
• AI’s Biggest Builders Are Now Its Biggest Lobbyists (Forbes)

• Does the Bicycle Make Women Cruel?
• Edison Brings Electricity to New York City
• The 1912 War on Fake Photos
• War of the Worlds Panic Was Anti-Radio Propaganda
• Victorian Fear of Railway Madness

• Reese’s Family Member Accuses Hershey of Cheaper Ingredients
• Grandson of Reese’s Inventor Criticizes Hershey (AP News)

• Obama Says Aliens Are Real (Short)
• Obama Clarifies Alien Comments

• Dirt and Sand — Strange Love

Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!

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• stahnma (Michael Stahnke)
• Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily
• Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael
• Nix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALE
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• Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.
• distrostru's gatus config
• Status Page On Demand | Gatus
• MimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.
• hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices
• Pick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream
• Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.
• Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server
• Pick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders
• wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching

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.

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• Apple Podcasts Video Switching
• Apple Announces Video Podcasts
• Publish Video to Apple Podcasts
• Apple Video Podcast Demo
• Apple Podcasts Video Details
• Make Video Podcasting Open
• AI-Written Rental Listing
• 2024 AI in 2026 Crazy Photo
• “Fixer Upper” Lake City Home
• The Purple Paradise Mansion

• Apex By: Empath Eyes

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?

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• Discord to roll out age verification next month
• Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
• Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
• NULLFS and OPENTREENAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
• OPENTREENAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
• All about initramfs
• pivot_root implementation and constraints
• TrueNAS Scale
• ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
• Github: ZimaOS
• Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
• What is Clan? - Documentation
• clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
• ConnecTen internet
• Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
• Pick: 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.

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?

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• Discord to roll out age verification next month
• Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
• Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
• NULLFS and OPENTREENAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
• OPENTREENAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
• All about initramfs
• pivot_root implementation and constraints
• TrueNAS Scale
• ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
• Github: ZimaOS
• Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
• What is Clan? - Documentation
• clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
• ConnecTen internet
• Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
• Pick: 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 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.

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• LynsaTac Shower Thermometer
• Over the Door Shower Caddy
• 2 Tier Soap Dish Holder
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• Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
• Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users - Ars Technica
• Has anyone packet sniffed the age verification thing? 
• Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs - Ars Technica
• Discord will gate features behind age verification
• Discord to Debut Its First Mobile Ads Amid IPO Chatter
• Discord reports positive numbers in early Quests measurement test
• Q4 2025 PitchBook Analyst Note: Discord IPO Preview - PitchBook
• YouTube Music adding 'AI Playlist' with text prompts
• "YouTube Premium and @YouTubeMusic 
• YouTube Music Adds AI Playlist Generator for Premium Users
• All basement No Problems
• Invest in People?

• Hey Love! By: Marína Ósk

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.

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• Valve 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/bcachefs
• bcachefs 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 Traffic
• Venice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative Freedom
• ThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720Q
• Code 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 Challenge
• Red5d/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: GitHub
• Pick: 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

All the bot hype has resulted in some hilariously bad security vulnerabilities. Who could have seen that coming? We'll cover some of the worst.

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• Seahawks fans from around the world descend on Bay Area for Super Bowl 2026 - YouTube
• Pro Football Champion 2026 Predictions & Odds | Polymarket
• Moltbook: Where AI agents go to socialize with peers - YouTube
• Reuters: Moltbook social media site for AI agents had major security hole
• “You all do realize @moltbook is just a REST API and you can literally post anything you want there”
• RentAHuman.ai - Hire Humans for AI Agents | MCP Integration
• Git & GitHub Crash Course for Beginners [2026] - YouTube
• Git and GitHub - Full Course - YouTube
• Cups and Saucers For All
  Kinda Creepy Kings Palace in Utah
• Don't Judge A Book by its Cover in New Mex

• Row Your Boat: Justin Lantrip

We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade.

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• LINUX Unplugged 650: This Old Network — We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...
• OpenWrt Wiki - Ad blocking
• AdBlock-fast — AdBlock-Fast is a high-performance ad-blocking service for OpenWrt that integrates with Dnsmasq, SmartDNS, and Unbound.
• OpenWrt Wiki - Supported Hardware Table
• Abe's volition — This is a public, sanitized version of my Abiverse repository for people to use and run their own Abes
• OpenClaw — Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.
• Introducing OpenClaw
• openclaw on GitHub 🦞
• openclaw security Issues
• Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90% – University College London
• moltbook — the front page of the agent internet
• SeloraBox - NixOS Edition — SeloraBox is a self-configuring home automation appliance based on NixOS, featuring automated installation, device claiming via QR code, and self-updating configuration management.
• nixtcloud: Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled — Nixtcloud turns a Raspberry Pi or NanoPi NEO3 into a privacy-first, zero-config personal cloud — powered by NixOS, Nextcloud, and peer-to-peer remote access via Holesail. Built for the self-hosting crowd who want full control without constant babysitting.
• Holesail.io - Open Source P2P Reverse Proxy
• Pick: ml-sharp-pinokio — One-click 3D Gaussian Splatting generation from a single image.
• Pick: Gradia — Gradia helps you get your screenshots ready for sharing, whether quickly with friends or colleagues, or professionally with the entire world.

People are buying Mac minis to run a bot. Seriously. We explain the ClawdBot (now Moltbot) frenzy, what it does, and why some folks are convinced this definitely requires a $700 Mac.

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• Tesery - Tesla Premium Accessories Store
• Amazon.com: How Amazon Automotive helps you find the perfect fitting parts: Automotive
• Moltbot — Personal AI Assistant
• BIG NEWS: We've molted! Clawdbot → Moltbot Clawd → Molty Same lobster soul, new shell.
• Architecture - Moltbot
• clawdbot is a security nightmare - YouTube
• ClawdHub
• Ocean Bunker
• Hangar Home

• self-improving-agent — ClawdHub
• gog — Google Workspace CLI for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Sheets, and Docs.
• excel — ClawdHub
• remind-me — ClawdHub
• auto-updater — ClawdHub
• humanizer — ClawdHub
• weather — ClawdHub
• github — ClawdHub
• agent-browser — ClawdHub

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