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Tim Cook is Fully Cooked, Apple hands the keys to a hardware guy, and the company’s next era starts with one very big AI problem.
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• Apple’s Ternus Has ‘Huge Shoes to Fill’ After Cook’s 2,300% Gain - Bloomberg
• Tim Cook’s Apple: his 10 biggest wins and misses | The Verge
• Apple Just Showed Me 50 Years of History That Nobody Has Ever Seen - WSJ
• Breathtaking Unobstructed Views
• For the Lawn Enthusiast
• Multi-Island Lifestyle

• One Fine Day By: Right Said Fred

Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.

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• Quickshell — Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.
• Caelestia — A fluid, morphing shell for your Linux desktop.
• end-4’s configuration
• Waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
• Omacom Foundation to be premier Quickshell sponsor
• Omarchy — — Beautiful, Fun & Opinionated Linux by DHH
• omacom/omarchy - Github
• The first plugin competition winners — Omarchy News
• Omacom Foundation to be exclusive Hyprland sponsor — Omarchy News
• Hyprland — An independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
• hyprwm/Hyprland - GitHub
• omarchy-radio-atlas — Explore live radio on a rotatable globe from the Omarchy bar.
• Home Assistant for Omarchy — Home Assistant Quickshell plugin for Omarchy 4
• syncshell — See sync health, open folders, control the service, and install or update Syncthing from the Omarchy bar.
• syncshell-dms: — Read-only Syncthing monitoring plugin for DankMaterialShell
• Dank Linux — A Modern Desktop for Wayland.
• Dank Linux Docs
• TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
• Dawarich — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History).
• Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
• How to get a TomTom API key - TomTom Docs
• FileBrowser Quantum - GitHub
• FileBrowser Quantum — The best free self-hosted web-based file manager with source configuration, modern authentication, office support, and lightning-fast search.
• Open Book Touch — A pocketable, front-lit, open source e-reader — for every book, in every language.
• Pick: dankcalendar — Calendar from the Dank Linux Suite. Local, Google, Microsoft, CalDAV, and iCloud calendars in one standalone app.
• DankCalendar on Flathub
• Pick: Homelable — Visual Homelab Mapper & Monitor
• Homelable — Self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, interactive network diagram with live status monitoring.
• homelable-hacs — Home Assistant integration for Homelable

Everyone loves their tech, but now that the infrastructure is showing up, nobody wants it next door.

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• Data Center Uproar Scrambles the Midterm Election
• GOP Issues Stark Warning to AI Companies
• Governors' Races Are Being Buffeted by Data Center Politics
• The Unexpected Winners of America's Data Center Boom
• Americans Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Area
• Opposition to Local Data Centers Rises Sharply
• Skagit County Commissioners Adopt Moratorium on New Data Centers
• United States Data Center Energy Usage Report: 2025 Update
• Berkeley Lab Data Center Energy Modeling and Forecasting
• Data Centers in Virginia — Economic and Infrastructure Impact Summary
• Ratepayer Protection Pledge
• Building Community-First AI Infrastructure
• The Data Center Era Reshaping America
• Data Centers "Dug Their Own Grave," Says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
• Above Ground Bunker in WA
• Tower Defense House Edition
• Data Center Song

• Bloodshot Lies Funky By: The Doerfels 

Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.

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• Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
• Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies
• Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs
• Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
• [REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT
• reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anonpipewrite() currently calls allocpage() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex.
• Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches
• Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
• The beginning of the 7.3 merge window
• Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
• Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
• Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
• Schedext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3
• Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
• Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
• Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems
• Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
• Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes
• Syncthing GitHub
• Rclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces.
• LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex.
• A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit
• MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names.
• dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests
• Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware
• Pick: ssh-clipboard — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.

Your projects, problems, discoveries, and questionable decisions take center stage as we dig into a stack of listener voicemails.

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• Merriest Christmas Contest
• How Did The Tradition of Birthdays Begin? | Pump It Up
• The AI Fixer Upper
• Main Character Syndrome House
• You Gotta Live in Cali - Anything will do Shack

• Too Many Chickens

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.

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• TXLF 2026 Full schedule
• TXLF 2026
• SCALE 24x CFP — The CFP closes November 1, 2026.
• Nix Vegas 2026 Talks
• OpenSSH 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 AI
• HexStrike AI MCP Agents
• TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
• topgrade — Upgrade all the things
• magnusoverli/opencode — AI-Powered Configuration Assistant for Home Assistant
• Home Assistant God Mode — YouTube
• cbbs_pi — A vintage CBBS-style bulletin board system emulator for macOS, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi.
• Mother Hen App
• rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy - Inside Rust Blog
• Covered Bridge Cookies
• Cluckwork — 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 | TechCrunch
• Pick: iDescriptor — Cross-platform, open-source and free idevice management tool written in Rust and Qt.
• iDescriptor on GitHub
• iDescriptor on Flathub
• iDescriptor in Nix Packages
• Pick: KiwiFS — Searchable, structured, versioned markdown. Plug in an agent in 30 seconds — or self-host with a single binary.

Starlink Mini promises to kill the deadzone, but the real story is in the tradeoffs, hidden details, and the places where it works better than you’d expect.
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• Amazon.com : Starlink Mini Battery
• ROVEDGE MK-1 Starlink Mini Battery Tripod Stand
• Starlink Mini Car Mount Suction Cup Holder
• Starlink - Home Assistant
• What are the differences between Starlink Mini and Standard 4 X? - Starlink Help Center
• Starlink Service Plans
• Starlink Mini
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• Starlink In-Motion Use
• The AI Fixer Upper
• Main Character Syndrome House
• You Gotta Live in Cali - Anything will do Shack

• Nevermind By: MOOKY

An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.

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• Pick: 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 Scanner
• Pick: LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
• LocalSend on Flathub
• Pick: 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 Reservation
• How-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

Something is living among the rocks at the farm, and as we learn how coyotes sleep, hunt, and raise their young, the trail leads uncomfortably close to the chicken coop.
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• Coyotes - Theodore Roosevelt National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
• Coexisting with Coyotes - Cuyahoga Valley National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
• Is There a Correlation Between Rodents and Backyard Chickens?

• Particular Man by Abel James

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.

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• Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
• Linux 7.2-rc5 announcement
• Linux 7.2 changelog
• Linux 7.1 changelog
• 7.2 merge window
• Btrfs large folios and DIO fix
• strncpy removal
• i486 removal
• Dreamcast fixes
• Cache-aware scheduling
• Fairer GPU scheduler
• NVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibility
• AMD ROCm regression
• Dreamcast vs i486
• Btrfs DIO regression reports
• Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue | COINKITE Blog
• Bitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research says
• Flowchart of the Linux RNG
• dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
• Pick: 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 Flathub
• Cfait on F-Droid