- The Things Tim Didn't Tell Us | The Launch 🚀
Angela and Chris catch up on the hobbies that survive real life, then sweep up the WWDC 2026 details that slipped under the AI hype.
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Music10 June 2026, 1:00 am - There's Chickens in that Nebula | LINUX Unplugged 670
Leave the farm without killing the chickens, or losing remote access? We dig into how we pulled it off: Frigate, local automation, sun-tracking coop doors, and a network that shrugged off an ISP outage.
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- Outdoor Electrical Water Resistant Enclosure - Amazon
- Sipeed NanoKVM IP-KVM - Amazon
- Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
- Smart Automatic Chicken Coop Door with WiFi
- Omlet Developer Console
- WLED Project
- Generic MagWLED-1 WLED Controller
- WS2812B LED Light Strip
- LED Strip Diffuser Channel
- Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Q Sensor ZSE11 800LR
- AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor for Home Assistant
- Anyone successfully using the MiCS 4514 Gas Sensor? - Reddit
- Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Power Strip ZEN20 800LR
- Amcrest 5MP Turret POE Camera
- Amcrest 8-Port POE+ Switch
- go2rtc
- Frigate
- We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
- Pick: Zooz ZEN05 Outdoor Smart Plug – ZOOZ
- Pick: Works with Home Assistant Certified Devices — Every product listed here has been rigorously tested by our team to ensure a great experience with Home Assistant, all backed by a brand committed to long-term support. All these products put privacy and local control first.
7 June 2026, 5:00 pm - Remember the Friday Stream | The Launch 🚀 69
Angela shares her latest household gadget rabbit hole, Chris reveals a few secret plans, and we say goodbye to binge watching as the shared TV obsession fades into the algorithmic void.
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- Robotic vacuum cleaner
- The Best Robot Vacuums of 2026 | Reviews by Wirecutter
- American's David Marchick on AI disruption: Not seeing the net job loss people had predicted - YouTube
- These are the brand new disguised Automated License Plate Reader cameras in Arizona
3 June 2026, 1:00 am - Harshing rsync's Vibe | LINUX Unplugged 669
rsync's founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community's newest fault line cracks wide open.
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- Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync
- fogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commit
- Flathub No LLM Policy — We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.
- Reword LLM policy to make it clear it's not allowed - flathub-infra
- Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTube
- GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator - Phoronix
- QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix
- Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 - Phoronix
- Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI - Phoronix
- GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week - Phoronix
- mnemosyne: The Zero-Dependency, Sub-Millisecond AI Memory System for Hermes Agents and Everyone Else!
- Markdown First: A Proposal for the Agent-Readable Web — BitCryptic
- Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
- Pick: OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
31 May 2026, 5:45 pm - Holy IPO | The Launch 🚀 68
Anthropic went to the Vatican to tell the Pope their AI is experiencing "fear and grief."
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- Birds of Law Shirt
- Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)
- Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power - Vatican News
- Pope Aligns With Anthropic, Co-Founder on AI Debate
- Cheapest Home In Skagit County Listed For $45K
- A Barn with $3m Worth of Style
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27 May 2026, 1:00 am - --yolo | LINUX Unplugged 668
Brent's been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw.
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- The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
- My first 100 days at Bitwarden — Open source is the foundation of everything Bitwarden builds. The ability to audit the code, to self-host, to verify rather than simply believe are not just nice-to-haves, they are the reason Bitwarden is different from every other option in this space, and that will not change.
- AfterTouch — Bose SoundTouch Toolkit
- soundcork — Intercept API for Bose SoundTouch after they turn off the servers
- Bose SoundTouch EOL Announcement
- SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Wikia | Fandom
- Keeping Your Speakers Alive After the Bose Cloud Shutdown – AfterTouch
- Bose SoundTouch is officially dead, but your speakers may still survive - SoundGuys
- SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Support
- NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF. Managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
- nasty-top — A top-like TUI for bcachefs filesystems.
- hermes-agent - GitHub
- Hermes Agent — Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory
- Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
- Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
- Rust for Linux — Rust for Linux is the project adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.
- OpenCode Go - Low cost coding models for everyone — Go brings agentic coding to programmers around the world. Offering generous limits and reliable access to the most capable open-source models, so you can build with powerful agents without worrying about cost or availability.
- Pick: Gnome Commander — A powerful file manager for the Linux desktop environment
- Pick: halo — Terminal flow field screensaver with Perlin noise, Braille rendering, particles, and 24-bit ANSI color
- Airwolf Theme 80s Retrowave Bass Remix | Retro Visualizer | DMCA Safe - YouTube
24 May 2026, 5:45 pm - Birds of Law | The Launch 🚀 67
How the accidental chicken farmer pulled it together and built the ultimate chicken fort. Plus, the conclusion to the AI trial of the year.
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- Musk has lost his case against OpenAI in the most anti-climactic way possible. Less than 2 hours of jury deliberation despite 3 weeks of testimony and hundreds of documents. The jury didn't weigh in on whether Musk was right or wrong, they just said he fa
- One word statement from Elon Musk's lawyer Marc Toberoff to reporters walking out of the courtroom: "Appeal."
- the AI trial of the century ending with procedural whimper rather a bang; the jury agreed that Musk was too late but never weighed in on the questions of whether OpenAI did was legitimate.
- Sawyer Merritt: Marc Toberoff on today's verdict: "I have a one-word reaction: Appeal. This war is not over. We firmly believe what happened with OpenAI was wrong on a very basic level that you can't raise millions of dollars in a publicly subsidized charity, and when it suits you, just turn into a for-profit operation where the officers and directors of the charity enrich themselves to the tune of billions..."
- I'm seeing lots of confusion about why the statute of limitations issue came to a trial at all. Musk and OpenAI disagreed about when Musk could have reasonably become convinced that OpenAI was "stealing a charity," as he alleges.
20 May 2026, 8:00 am - The Enterprise Endgame | LINUX Unplugged 667
Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat's AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat.
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- Red Hat Summit 2026 Day 1 Keynote - The next platform is choice - YouTube
- Enabling long-term stability: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium
- Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system — Fedora Hummingbird primarily utilizes an image-based workflow, similar to containers, but also runs in virtual machines and even on bare metal. If you’ve been following Project Hummingbird‘s work on container images, or Project Bluefin’s work on the operating system, you already know the model. Fedora Hummingbird applies this model all the way down to the host OS.
- Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system - Fedora Discussion
- After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops — Now, Fedora has voted on an initiative called Fedora AI Developer Desktop that will spawn AI-flavored Fedora Atomic Desktops.
- Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative — After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the Fedora Council had voted to approve the initiative; however, a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board.
- Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective Discussion
- Pick: BudsLink — BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds.
- BudsLink on Flathub
- Pick: yamlcast — YAMLCast turns a YAML description of a terminal screencast into an animated GIF.
- Pick: lightroom-cc-on-linux — Reproducible recipe for running Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine 11.8 staging. Researched and verified end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7.
17 May 2026, 5:45 pm - Bid Rejected | The Launch 🚀 66
eBay dodged a bullet this week, and we dig into the wild story of GameStop’s attempted hostile takeover. Plus, we start plotting summer plans and do a quick check-in on the Musk v. Altman trial.
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- This is the End of Week Two of Musk v Altman Trial
- Shivon Zilis, Mother of Musk's Children, Testifies in OpenAI Trial
- OpenAI Trial Enters Final Week
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies in OpenAI Trial
- Sam Altman Takes the Stand in Trial Against Elon Musk
- eBay History
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- eBay 2016 Annual Report
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- GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion
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- GameStop Makes $56 Billion Bid for eBay
- eBay Spurns GameStop’s Offer as Not Credible or Attractive
- Land with a Box on It
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- What Does a $20M Home Look Like?
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13 May 2026, 1:00 am - Berkeley Suffering Distribution | LINUX Unplugged 666
Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.
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- Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.
- How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal
- Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - Ubuntu
- Dirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching Guide
- LINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge Rules
- Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.
- Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.
- FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.
- nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
- Brent's nixbsd config
- NomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.
- GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
- gershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers
- gershwin-on-freebsd live iso
- gershwin-on-debian live iso
- gershwin-on-arch live iso
- Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation
- Pick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.
- Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.
- Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.
- AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD
- FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve
10 May 2026, 7:10 pm - Safety for You, Features for Me | The Launch 🚀 65
The Musk v. Altman trial is getting messy fast — and nobody’s walking away clean. Musk wants the story to be a stolen mission. OpenAI wants it framed as a sore-loser lawsuit from a rival.
Plus, Chris finds his perfect Starter Bunker, and Ang ruminates on the eternal problem of photo management.
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- Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models | The Verge
- Joe Lonsdale on AI regulation: National review should be as limited and targeted as possible - YouTube
- Musk wanted to settle with OpenAI just days before their courtroom showdown, new filing says - YouTube
- Every day new evidence is added to the Musk v Altman trial - YouTube
- Starter Bunker
- A Tiny House for Chris
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