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We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned.

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• PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32.
• Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab
• timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome
• OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
• anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.
• Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter
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• Home Assistant
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• nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
• NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs
• Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board
• agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation.
• camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents.
• chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents
• firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools
• LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox
• Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session
• LFNW2026 - Back to Root
• Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40
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• Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.
• LosslessCut on GitHub
• LosslessCut on Flathub
• Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
• Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.

Green beer and ancient legends are the easy part. It’s the memories attached to the day that make it unforgettable.

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• BBC News — St. Patrick’s Day parades, dancing and Chicago river dyed green
• Chicago Tribune — Chicago celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with green river and parade
• Sam the Cooking Guy — Corned Beef Recipe Video
• Guinness-Spiked Ice Cream with Guinness Brownies
• Tiny Red House — 1222 28th St NW, Washington, DC
• $11M Massachusetts Ave NW Townhouse Listing
• Reddit Discussion — Abandoned Massachusetts Ave Mansion
• Skinny Witch House — Seattle, WA

• Shadow Man — Empath Eyes

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.

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• Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix room
• SCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• Flox.dev
• Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle.
• Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
• Cindy Cohn | SCALE
• noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world.
• DeepComputing — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V
• Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io
• Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas
• EFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
• Cindy Cohn - SCaLE — Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all the people of the world.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world
• llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
• mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)
• The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative
• Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3
• Pick: qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT
• Pick: mtr — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2
• MTR - Welcome Home Brent

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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• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• 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
• stahnma/mandatoryFun
• 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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• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• 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
• Frameless Shower Door Bottom Seal for Glass Doors
• Rain-X 630542 Shower Door Water Repellent
• Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Sponge
• Oxygenics 26488 BodySpa RV Handheld Shower
• 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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• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• 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