We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76's CEO.

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• Pop!OS 24.04 LTS Released — This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment.
• Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams and EPG data with elegance and control.
• IPTV Link Search — Public IPTV live channels, m3u8 links are updated daily.
• Streamtest.in
• ptv-org/iptv — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world
• iptv/PLAYLISTS.mdb
• epg — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.
• iptv-epg.org
• TiviMate IPTV Player — Easy to use for beginners and deeply customizable for power users, TiviMate blends speed, clarity, and control into a seamless viewing experience.
• M3U IPTV — Stream your IPTV channels on the go or on Android TV.
• DangoPlayer — A fast video player and IPTV client for Android and TV
• iPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longest
• Chillio IPTV Smart Player App — New app, paid if you want quad box
• Open TV — IPTV player with many features.
• html-iptv-player — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlist
• hypnotix — An M3U IPTV Player
• IPTVnator
• VidGrid — watch multiple news channels in your browser
• M3U Magic • Free Private IPTV Player
• ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server
• kptv-fast — A high-performance streaming service aggregator that combines multiple free streaming platforms into a single M3U playlist and EPG. Perfect for use with Channels DVR, Plex, or any IPTV client.
• Pick: Jellify-Music — A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React Native
• Pick: DockerComposeMaker — DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!
• Demo Docker Compose Generator
• Pick: Leantime — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

A mass executive exit is tearing through Apple’s leadership ranks. The biggest shake-up since Steve Jobs is unfolding in real time, and we think we know why now.

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• Apple's executive shake-up continues. - YouTube
• The Apple Executive Exodus Visualized 
• Apple chip chief weighs exit: Report - YouTube
• Apple chip leader Johny Srouji squashes exit rumors - YouTube
• Tim Cook Tells WIRED No Specific Time, but Sooner than Later
• Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook, FT reports | REUTERS - YouTube
• Tim Cook says he plans to retire within the next 10 years - AppleTrack
• When will Tim Cook leave Apple? | Trade on Kalshi
• Cult Compound Ready to Go
• Brutalism isn't just for Governments House

• Man! It's Christmas By: Jimmie Bratcher

Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.

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• bcachefs 1.33.0
• Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."
• Kent Overstreet - Patreon
• bcachefs — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.
• LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
• Git or not a Git man page?
• proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOS
• Pick: Dotfiles Installer — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
• ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wiki
• dotfiles-installer: GitHub
• Pick: SSH-Studio — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.
• LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features

Chris is suiting up for the biggest fight of the winter, and what he’s up against might surprise you.

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• TSA says travelers with no REAL I.D. face a hefty fee - YouTube
• Health Watch: Norovirus - YouTube
• Doctor's Best PepZin GI, Zinc-L-Carnosine Complex
• Another Crack at a Classic Idea…
• The Prepper Route

• Cold Hearted By: snju

We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.

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• Jellyswarrm — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together
• LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrm
• pangolin — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.
• Pangolin | Secure Access Platform
• NixOS Search - Options - Pangolin
• Youtarr — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin
• Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/Youtarr
• Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
• dawarich CHANGELOG.md
• CVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbdsessionrpcmethod() attempts to lock sess->rpclock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe.
• SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address.
• ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blog
• ksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)
• ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)
• doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoC
• GrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stance
• GrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryption
• France's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy Tech
• Seems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.
• Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down
• Bcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It Means
• Red Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” Strategies
• Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube
• 2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTube
• Pick: Gopher64 — Highly compatible N64 emulator.
• Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang.
• Install Gopher64 on Linux | Flathub

Yet more Flock camera drama from one secret button trick. Meanwhile, Flock clones are spilling into bathrooms, RF trackers, and every “smart safety” gadget in sight. It’s getting bigger, not smarter.

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• Researchers say Flock cameras are easy to hack - YouTube
• We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds. - YouTube
• Flock Camera Vulnerability: It's Worse Than You Think
• Washington court rules Flock Safety camera images are public records 
• Stanwood, Sedro-Woolley appeal Flock public records decision | HeraldNet.com
• $8 License Plate Privacy Tip that really works! Privacy taught by a real-world Private Investigator. - YouTube
• More than 600 Flock camera locations in Hampton Roads are public for the first time. See the map. – The Virginian-Pilot
• Yakima organization urging city leaders to turn off Flock traffic cameras - OPB
• Columbia’s use of Flock cameras raises concerns | Local | columbiamissourian.com
• Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs)| Definition & Benefits｜Getac
• Gunshot Detection and License Plate Reader Security Alert
• CHP warns Flock over sharing of surveillance data with federal government | KTVU FOX 2
• Oakland Committee Rejects $2.25M Surveillance Contract with Flock Safety - Davis Vanguard
• Wireless Intrusion Detection System for Rogue Devices | Inpixon
• Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 1: The Big Bird - YouTube
• Do you need a land use permit if it's underwater half the day?
• I Love a House w/a Theme!

• Voodoo Queen By: Abel James

Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective.

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• ngrok — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
• Jellyswarrm — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
• Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
• declarative-jellyfin full example
• Zigl3ur/jellyhub — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
• Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
• LSchallot/JellyRoller — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
• kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
• Pick: subgen — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.

AI panic, hype, and confusion don’t just sprout out of the ground. We break down the four-part method behind the narrative keeping everyone spun up. After this, you’ll never hear an AI headline the same way again.

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• US Mint in Philadelphia to press final penny
• U.S. Mint ends production of the penny - YouTube
• Anthropic CEO warns that without guardrails, AI could be on dangerous path - YouTube
• Why Anthropic's AI Claude tried to contact the FBI - YouTube
• Bobiverse Series by Dennis E. Taylor
• Bobiverse (5 book series) Kindle Edition
• R-Hpharma Sitcom By Rpodcast
• Developer Convicted for Kill Switch That Activated When He Got Fired
• An AI Podcasting Machine Is Churning Out 3,000 Episodes a Week 
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  • Dallas-Fort Worth News and Info Tracker
• Search results for "Quiet Please" 

• Comet For Two By: Shane Philips

We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.

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• Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
• Steam Controller — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.
• Steam Machine — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)
• Steam Frame — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library
• “The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”
• Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine
• FEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 Linux
• FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64
• Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHub
• PLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home Automation
• Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1
• About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.
• libvirt: The virtualization API
• libvirt - ArchWiki — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).
• Category:Virtualization - NixOS Wiki
• Virt-manager - NixOS Wiki
• Libvirt - NixOS Wiki
• Pick: easyeffects — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
• EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / Kirigami
• Easy Effects on Flathub
• Marcel Repo Email

Flock cameras are back in the headlines, and not in a good way. We called it, and now the stories are flying in.

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• Inside the Growing Trend of Homeowners Creating Dumb Homes - YouTube
• "Dumb homes" are the latest design trend
• Open Home Foundation
• Aurora police show how Flock cameras work behind the scenes - YouTube
• Flock Recenty Partned with Ring and Planning AI
• Woman says police used Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse her of theft - YouTube
• Dystopian Town Sends Lying Cop To Innocent Woman's Home - YouTube
• Dystopian Town Sends Lying Cop To Innocent Woman's Home - The Civil Rights LawyerThe Civil Rights Lawyer
• Denver mayor extends license plate camera contract without council approval - YouTube
• Washington city turns off license plate readers after records request - YouTube
• Hillsborough cancels Flock cameras contract over data concerns - YouTube
• They call it.. The Illuminati Guest House

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