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We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own.

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• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• 6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCs
• SystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
• Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access.
• Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.
• Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features?
• aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust.
• netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.
• Greg's nixos-config
• Self-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.
• pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.
• What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It
• v4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages.
• Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in files
• Metadata Cleaner on FlatHub
• Pick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3
• Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.
• littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for Linux
• Pick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android

Some of our favorite parody news from around the web, plus a stinky chicken update, and a nostalgic lookback at GPS navigation tech for our cars.

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• 1986: Satellite Navigation for Cars of the Future BBC Archive - YouTube
• In-Car Sat Nav? Without a Satellite? In 1971? BBC Archive - YouTube
•  The Onion
• Ninja Parade Slips By Town Unnoticed Once Again - YouTube
• American Baked Potato Association Study Finds It Best To Load ’Er Up - The Onion
• Babylon Bee | Fake News You Can Trust
• 42-Minute Delay As Dad Asked To Empty Cargo Pants At TSA Checkpoint | Babylon Bee
• Grandma Announces She Has Finally Joined MyFace | Babylon Bee
• Sudo Satirical
• Man Disillusioned With Firefox Vows to Build Own Internet
• If Ozempic Commercials Were Honest | [Ozempic, GLP-1, Monjauro Parody] - YouTube
• Cozy Little Fixer Upper
• The Center of a Home is Key
• Bumpy in Bellingham

• I'm A Celebrity By: Right Said Fred

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

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• LFNW2026 Schedule
• Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
• Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
• Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
• Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
• Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
• Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
• Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
• Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
• opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
• Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
• Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
• NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
• Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
• NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
• Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
• Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
• Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
• Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
• Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
• Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

The Artemis II crew is headed back to Earth, and they've already made history. We'll look at the highlights, tech issues, and how that ride around the dark side went. 

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• Wordle
• Artemis II Crew Speaks From Space
• Artemis II Crew Speaks From Space — Intense Unexpected Moment
• Two Microsoft Outlooks
• Houston, Bluetooth Won't Pair
• Artemis II Astronaut Finds Two Outlook Instances Running on Computers
• Moment NASA Loses Contact With Artemis II Crew
• Artemis II Distance Record Clip
• Artemis II Crew Headed Back to Earth After Lunar Flyby
• Crew Reestablished Contact With Mission Control After Expected 40-Minute Communications Blackout
• Artemis II: What's on the Menu?
• A Visual Guide to Artemis II and Previous Missions to the Moon
• First Photo of Lunar Eclipse From Artemis II Crew Looks Almost Too Good to Be Real
• Emotional Artemis II Moment as Crew Names Moon Crater “Carroll”
• MUSIC: I Need a Little By The Retrograde
• Almost Nothin but Dreams
• Need a Bit of Tidy
• Now This Is a Compound for Chickens

The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents.

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• Preferring Local OSS LLMs
• Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B
• Open Models have crossed a threshold
• Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind
• Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
• Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face
• mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
• hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
• goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
• Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
• LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
• OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
• Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
• Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project
• googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
• Tunarr API Reference
• Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival
• Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
• Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
• Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

Chris' farm has new management, and they are extremely small. Six baby chicks, instant family buy-in, and the start of a whole new adventure.

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• LFNW2026 - Back to Root
• Raising Chickens For Dummies
• 5 Things To Feed Your Chickens So They Lay Eggs All Year - YouTube
• The most important chicken keeping advice I'll ever give you. - YouTube
• Omlet Eglu: The Chicken Coop That Will Make You a Better Chicken Parent - YouTube
• Our Chicken Tunnels, Coop, and Run Setup around the Garden - YouTube
• The fancy solution: Eglu Pro Extra Large Chicken Coop with Runs | Omlet
• NASA prepares for Artemis II launch - YouTube
• Artemis II Explained | 2026 Mission to the Moon - YouTube
• Very Tiny Living in NY
• A Kids Idea of a Castle

• Disco Swag - By: The Doerfels

Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps.

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• This Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter Broadcasting
• Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security
• Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub
• Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | Ubuntu
• There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium
• Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.
• ErsatzTV/next
• Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.
• Threadfin
• xTeVe
• Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.
• Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.
• awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV
• Tunarr API Reference
• LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.
• turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.
• Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs
• GeneBean's Cage Kiosk
• GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup
• Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux
• alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME
• Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
• nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS
• Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.
• Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

Chris and Ang imagine the next chapter after the kids leave home, Brent survives a packed week, and we dig into a fantastic batch of calls.

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• EMPTY NEST - Opening Theme Song Credits 
• Nightingale — Karaoke from your music library
• Onion House
• Disaster-resilient Luxury
• This Home Survives EF5 Tornadoes, Wildfires, and Costs $0 to Heat. 
• The LA Flex

• Justin Lantrip • If I Could See The Future

The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.

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• Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
• Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
• OneCal
• PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
• PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
• RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
• KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
• ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
• raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
• cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
• systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
• Azuay Province - Wikipedia
• Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
• Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
• Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
• Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

Self-driving cars are closer than most people realize, and they’re already out on the road with you. We dig into the latest robotaxi hype, the skepticism, and the road trip that changed our minds.

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• Students help classmates stay engaged with 'Fidgets for the Future' 
• Where to check out Tesla’s Cybercab during SXSW
• Tesla now has a car with no steering wheel - YouTube
• Are Driverless Freight Trucks the New Way to Transport Goods? - YouTube
• Tesla falls after senators voice skepticism about FSD and lack of lidar - Sherwood News
• Tesla cofounder ousted by Musk calls autonomous driving feature ‘crap’ and ‘way too immature’ for the road | Fortune
• Full Self-Driving (Supervised) Vehicle Safety Report | Tesla
• Chris' FSD Miles
• Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving - YouTube
• Lucid unveils Lunar Robotaxi in bid to challenge Tesla's Cybercab in the autonomous ride hailing race
• Robotaxi | Tesla
• FSD V14.2.2.5 vs Oversized Load: I can’t get over how often this is happening on 14.2.2.5. 
• Man explains why the Tesla Model Y has completely taken over Norway’s roads
• Tesla has revealed that the Model Y was #1 best-selling car overall in the world in 2025 for a third year in a row
• A Compund for a Brent King
• Big Island Vibes for a Big Price
• Triple Geodesic Dome House With a 20-Foot Indoor Waterfall