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• Zuma Game Play
• Farkle Game Play
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary 
• Star Trek 25th Anniversary - Demon World - YouTube
• Star Trek™: 25th Anniversary on GOG.com
• Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force - YouTube
• Star Trek™: Voyager - Elite Force on GOG.com
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• Tornado Hits FOX 35 Orlando During Weather Report: VIDEO - Comic Sands

• Lost Cause By: Ollie

We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Flox - Nix for Simplicity & Scale — Flox is all about simplifying your development workflow—think reproducible, portable dev environments powered by Nix, but without the steep learning curve. Whether you’re a solo coder or part of a big team, Flox lets you manage and share environments effortlessly, so you can focus on building great software instead of wrestling with setup headaches.
• Planet Nix
• Talk - Kelsey Hightower's Perspective on Nix
• Talk - Aneesh from Anthropic - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It
• Talk - Eelco Dolstra Intros Configurable Flakes
• Talk - Mike Kelly - Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
• Eelco Dolstra - Configurable Flakes
• Aneesh Agrawal - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
• Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower: An Outsider’s Look at Nix
• Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
• Why do people love NixOS so much? | Mike Kelly
• How to convert an old ChromeBook into a NixBook | Mike Kelly
• Olympia Mike's Nixbook | GitHub
• Flox | Nix in the Wild
• The NixOS Foundation Board Announced
• Guilty Pleasures | The Launch 🚀 13
• Pick: pyatv: A client library for Apple TV and AirPlay devices — This is an asyncio python library for interacting with Apple TV and AirPlay devices. It mainly targets Apple TVs (all generations, including tvOS 15 and later), but also supports audio streaming via AirPlay to receivers like the HomePod, AirPort Express and third-party speakers. It can act as remote control to the Music app/iTunes in macOS.
• Pick: atv-desktop-remote: A simple app to allow you to control an Apple TV from your desktop — The latest version works with tvOS 15 and up. It requires Python 3 to be installed on the system to work properly.

We learn about Angela's guilty pleasure and Brent's life-changing news!

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• McDonald's Bagel Breakfast Sandwiches Commercial (1999) - YouTube
• Steak and egg bagels 
• Man accused of stealing, swallowing $800K diamond earrings previously stole from Tiffany & Co. - YouTube
• Suspect steals and swallows $700k worth of jewellery
• Solid gold toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace - YouTube

• Hocus Pocus By Trickster

We are digging into a superpower inside your Linux Kernel. How eBPF works, and how anyone can take advantage of it.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• eBPF Perf Tools 2019 | SCaLE 17x
• SCALE2019eBPFPerf_Tools.pdf
• Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems
• Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support
• bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018
• Full-system dynamic tracing on Linux using eBPF and bpftrace
• A thorough introduction to eBPF
• BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more — The BPF Compiler Collection: BCC or BPF Compiler Collection is a set of tools leveraging eBPF for kernel tracing, Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more.
• BCC Tutorial
• xdp-tools: Utilities and example programs for use with XDP
• ply: a dynamic tracer for Linux
• Liam's Multi-Monitor Setup
• Pick: netop — Network Top -- Help you monitor network traffic with bpf
• Pick: bpftune — bpftune aims to provide lightweight, always-on auto-tuning of system behaviour.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 110 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists
• SCALE 2025 Meetup, Sat, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PM — This year the crew at El Cholo Cafe is hosting our gathering, and their taco’s are killer!
• H12SSL-I Stuck at "bmc initiating" — Ugh - just got hit by this. I installed a NIC card and lo and behold - system would not boot. The LE1 LED flashes and turns off. It stays lit when power is applied. But there's no sign of life from the LEDM1 BMC LED. Booting produces nothing, system turns 'on' in the sense the fans power up but no output from the onboard VGA.
• First Alert Z Wave Smoke Detector — The z-wave smoke/co alarm can be implemented in residential and institutional applications. Installation settings include sleeping areas within hospitals, hotels, motels, dormitories and other multi-family dwellings
• First Alert Battery Powered Z-Wave Smoke Detector & Carbon Monoxide
• Siren - Home Assistant — The Siren integration is built for the controlling and monitoring of siren/chime devices.
• Meian Zigbee Smart Siren Alarm — 110V 220V Sirene Alarme 100dB Wireless
• Aeotec Siren 6 Z-Wave Plus S2 Enabled Zwave Siren — Pre-loaded 6 security sounds, 8 safety sounds, and 30 tones in total. Each tone is volume adjustable between 80dB and 110dB
• alarmo: Easy to use alarm system integration for Home Assistant — This is an alarm system integration for Home Assistant. It provides a user interface for setting up your own alarm system completely from the browser.
• Apollo joins the Works With Home Assistant Program — Apollo Automation is a growing family-run business rooted in the Home Assistant and ESPHome communities. And yes, they’re named after their German Shepherd, Apollo 🐕.
• Apollo Automation — Expanding Smart Home Automation Capabilities
• exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices 📱💻 🖥️⌚ — Unify your existing devices into one powerful GPU: iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, NVIDIA, Raspberry Pi, pretty much any device!

Before Jupiter Broadcasting, we worked for a local IT services company, and we have some stories to share.

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• SCALE 2025 Meetup, Sat, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
• Microsoft Dragon Copilot | Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
• Microsoft unveils Dragon Copilot, a voice-activated AI tool for doctors
• Tip Toe by Jack Holliday

We're pre-gaming two of the biggest Linux events of the year. Engineers, organizers, and surprise guests are dropping by to give us the scoop before it all begins.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCALE 2025 Meetup — El Cholo Cafe Pasadena - Saturday, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PM
• Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA at the Southern California Linux Expo.
• Flox - Your dev environment, everywhere — Flox help teams focus on building fast by providing reproducible environments that span the entire software lifecycle. With Flox, developers can create environments that contain all of the tools and frameworks they need, binding them with the software they ship into the world.
• Kelsey Hightower on X
• kelseyhightower on GitHub
• Kelsey Hightower on LinkedIn
• Robert Hernandez SCaLE Profile
• Fireside Chat: An Outsider’s Look at Nix - Ron Efroni, Kelsey Hightower
• Learn Nix the Fun Way - Farid Zakaria
• Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production -
• Planet Nix FAQ
• nix.conf - Adding GitHub Access Tokens — Access tokens used to access protected GitHub, GitLab, or other locations requiring token-based authentication.
• Olympia Mike's nixbook
• peterfajdiga/karousel: Scrollable tiling Kwin script
• YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
• paperwm/PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for GNOME Shell
• Libro.fm — Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks
• Pick: OpenAudible-To-AudibleBookShelf — This script automates the process of moving audiobook files from OpenAudible or Libation to an organized folder structure and updates AudioBookShelf accordingly. It handles file organization, metadata mapping, and interaction with the AudioBookShelf API.

Wes joins us so Chris can finally get some answers. Also, a legendary community creation rises again, and we uncover the truth about renting living things.

LINKS:

• Rent The Chicken
• Rent The Chicken brings hens, eggs to your backyard - YouTube
• Podcasting 2.0: Advanced Features for Enhanced Experiences
• Alby Go - the easiest mobile bitcoin lightning wallet
• Alby Go iOS
• Alby Go on Android
• Grab Sats at River
• Breez Mobile
• Fountain

There have been major Rust developments in the Linux Kernel; we discuss what's new and how it will impact the future. Plus, we're joined by a special guest.

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• Get started with River
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Planet Nix - Speakers
• SCALE 22x
• Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust — Yes, mixed language codebases are rough, and hard to maintain, but we are kernel developers dammit, we've been maintaining and strengthening Linux for longer than anyone ever thought was going to be possible. We've turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel creating something that no one else has ever been able to accomplish. Adding another language really shouldn't be a problem, we've handled much worse things in the past and we shouldn't give up now on wanting to ensure that our project succeeds for the next 20+ years. We've got to keep pushing forward when confronted with new good ideas, and embrace the people offering to join us in actually doing the work to help make sure that we all succeed together.
• Kees Cook on Rust in the kernel — In other words, I don't see any reason to focus on replacing existing code -- doing so would actually carry a lot of risk. But writing new stuff in Rust is very effective. Old code is more stable and has fewer bugs already, and yet, we're still going to continue the work of hardening C, because we still need to shake those bugs out. But new code can be written in Rust, and not have any of these classes of bugs at all from day one.
• Linus Re: Rust kernel policy — You are not forced to take any Rust code, or care about any Rust code in the DMA code. You can ignore it. But "ignore the Rust side" automatically also means that you don't have any say on the Rust side.
• Texas Linux Fest is back again in 2025!
• Pick: treetrum/amazon-kindle-bulk-downloader — Allows you to bulk download all your Kindle eBook in a more automated fashion. This tool allows you to create backup copies of the books you've already purchased.
• Amazon removes your right to download Kindle books
• Amazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads to your PC soon
• How to Download Kindle Books to Your Computer Before Amazon Kills the Feature
• Simplest Way to Remove DRM from Books – No Kindle Serial Number Needed!
• Pick: nping — 🏎 Nping mean NB Ping, A Ping Tool in Rust with Real-Time Data and Visualizations

The joys and headaches of self-hosting, a new Zigbee routing trick, and the ongoing BcacheFS vs. Debian showdown. Plus, why we're liking Open WebUI.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 110 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Amazon Makes It Clear That Kindle Books Are Licensed And Not Owned - Good E-Reader — “By clicking on above button, you agree to Amazon’s Kindle Store Terms of Use.” However, the text in the USA has been changed to “By placing your order, you’re purchasing a license to the content and agree to the Kindle Store Terms of Use.”
• Table Routing vs. Source Routing in ZHA — This article provides a clear breakdown of Table Routing vs. Source Routing, explaining their core differences, advantages, and potential drawbacks to help you make an informed decision. Most importantly, it will guide you on how to enable Source Routing in ZHA and explore why it could dramatically improve the stability and efficiency of your Zigbee network.
• ZHA Users: Are You Missing Out on Source Routing? — Most Home Assistant users running Zigbee with ZHA don’t even realize they’re using Table Routing - the default setting - which might be slowing down automations and flooding the network with unnecessary broadcasts.
• Open WebUI — Open WebUI is an extensible, self-hosted AI interface that adapts to your workflow, all while operating entirely offline.
• GitHub - open-webui — Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with built-in inference engine for RAG, making it a powerful AI deployment solution.
• bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups.
• Bcachefs Changes Merged Without Issue For The Linux 6.14 Kernel — So now hopefully all is well in Bcachefs land and the code will continue to be well received assuming Linus Torvalds finds no objections and there is no further friction on the Linux kernel mailing list.
• Scrub merged into master : r/bcachefs
• Bcachefs Freezes Its On-Disk Format With Future Updates Optional — The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. Besides fixes for the current kernel, it was announced today that the on-disk format for the file-system is now considered frozen in its latest development "master" branch.
• NanoKVM: The S stands for Security - YouTube — Today I'm taking a look at the Sipeed NanoKVM, a solution for remote control of a computer over a network. It does a lot of things you'd expect from a device in this class, something like a PiKVM or JetKVM, except it does all of it with no regard to data security best practices.
• Wittboy landing page
• Ecowitt - Home Assistant — The Ecowitt integration works by first creating a callback endpoint on your Home Assistant instance and then adding this configuration to the Ecowitt console so that it starts sending data.
• ShelfPlayer — ShelfPlayer is a meticulously crafted iOS and iPadOS app designed to seamlessly integrate with your Audiobookshelf library. Enjoy a captivating listening experience with its sleek interface, lightning-fast performance, and deep system integration.
• GitHub - alexmoras/hass-addon-newt — The Fossorial system - with Pangolin at its core - is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy with identity and access management, designed to securely expose private resources through encrypted WireGuard tunnels running in user space. Think self hosted Cloudflare tunnels.
• Self-Hosted 143 Boost Barn — Thank you everyone who supports the show!