A major PHP flaw puts servers everywhere at risk; so we hack ours. Meanwhile, open source helps debloat our smart TVs.

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• CVE-2026-109618 - PHP RCE via OOM corruption
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• Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let Hackers Gain Root Access Across Servers
• PHP: OOM corruption advisory
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• PHP's October 23 follow-up
• Steal My Bitcoin - a PHP RCE challenge! — Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over. Have fun!+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916
• People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
• CleanYourTV — Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.
• CleanYour.TV: remove ads and bloat from Android TV and Google TV
• cleanyourtv/addons/frigate-glance
• cleanyourtv/addons/smart-home
• cleanyourtv/addons/tv-hub
• humblemuzzu/dumbtv — Take the ads, tracking and clutter out of your Fire TV over ADB, no root. Every step can be undone. Comes with its own open-source home screen.
• Amazon.com: Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen
• The LLM-gen-AI Elephant in Our FOSS Room :: SeaGL 2026 :: pretalx
• KSMBD: Critical Unpatched Linux Kernel Flaws Accidentally Disclosed on Public List
• android-nixpkgs: Nix-packaged Android SDK
• LCARS - Wikipedia
• agent-shell - Emacs Agent Shell — Brings your favorite AI agents to Emacs, keeping you at home.
• HouseWaves — Home Assistant Whole-Home Multi-Room Speakers
• LeadStinger
• Niri — A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
• Umbriel — Umbriel is a Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, master, and floating layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.
• NetBird - Open Source Zero Trust Networking
• noblepayne/meshSidecar: Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services
• Vero V - OSMC — Vero V is OSMC’s fifth flagship streaming media player that’s designed for fast, “future-proof” 4K playback, including AV-1 and HDR formats. It uses an AMLogic S905X4 processor with 4GB RAM and 32GB eMMC storage, and it connects with HDMI 2.1, gigabit Ethernet, and Wi‑Fi.
• HelixNotes - GitLab — A local, open-source Markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.
• Pick: Telescope — Use your phone's camera as a webcam on Linux or Windows, telephoto and wide lenses included.
• Telescope features.md - Telescope Docs
• Telescope: your phone as a webcam on Linux & Windows
• Pick: plex2jellyfin — Migrate your Plex library to Jellyfin and keep it clean forever. Mass rename, dedupe, consolidate, then a daemon guards new downloads.

A new documentary reveals KDE's 30-year underdog story. Plasma pioneer Aaron Seigo joins us to look back, and explore what's next with Plasma 6.8.

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• KDE at 30 - KDE Community
• Plasma 6.8 30th Anniversary Edition - Release Notes — Plasma 6.8 is released on a very special day: KDE’s 30th birthday. Today we celebrate three decades of the KDE community providing the world’s greatest free and open-source software.
• KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs
• KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs │ Full Film Coming October 14th
• KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote - Jan 18, 2008
• Aaron Seigo - GitHub
• ArcGIS for Elixir — Convenient access to Esri ArcGIS APIs for applications written in the Elixir programming language.
• Sparking a Fire | Linux Action Show s20e06 - YouTube — Aaron Siego joins us to talk about the new open source KDE powered tablet that he and his team are working on! Find out how hard you want one, after this week's episode!
• Culture of Shiny | LINUX Unplugged 25 — Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software community. And even your own humble hosts have been afflicted with from time to time.
• KDE Connect — Enabling all your devices to communicate with each other.
• Local-First Software — Experience apps that work offline, keep your data private, and sync seamlessly across your devices. Your data stays with you, not locked in the cloud.
• jellyProxyKiosk — LCARS Jellyfin info front-end
• Pick: RememberWindowPositions — Remember window positions for apps in KDE Plasma 6+. Especially useful for multi-window applications such as browsers.
• Pick: Konveyor — Konveyor turns Plasma into an endless, scrollable row of windows. Nothing overlaps, nothing gets buried, and the rest of your desktop stays exactly the way you like it.

We've turned our Steam Deck into a security monitoring system; Monitor your property, identify people, pets, and vehicles with detailed daily intelligence briefings. All local.

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• Texas Linux Festival 2026
• Frigate NVR
• blakeblackshear/frigate — NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras
• Frigate Documentation
• Frigate Releases
• Frigate Object Detector Configuration
• Ultralytics YOLO11 Documentation
• llama.cpp
• Ollama
• Ultralytics YOLO11
• ultralytics/yolo11 - GitHub — Ultralytics YOLO11 discovery and quickstart for detection, segmentation, classification, pose, OBB, and tracking.
• cage-kiosk/cage: A Wayland kiosk
• TomBursch/kitchenowl - GitHub — KitchenOwl is a self-hosted grocery list and recipe manager. The backend is made with Flask and the frontend with Flutter. Easily add items to your shopping list before you go shopping. You can also create recipes and add items based on what you want to cook.
• dahjah/muse-vm-hacks — Basic repo with what you need to go from a bare chat interface with your muse agent to an ssh-accessible VM with the nix package manager and full tailscale access (muse ships with a stipped down version
• Pick: wtfi2 — Live, visual network-path diagnostic that pinpoints exactly where your Wi-Fi connection dies — and how to fix it. Rust + ratatui TUI.
• Pick: SpaceScan — Fast disk-usage explorer for Linux: sunburst chart, keyboard-driven table, and text/CSV/JSON reports. Accurate like du, safe cleanup, 10 languages.
• Pick: Vermouth — A native C++/Qt Linux launcher for Windows, Steam, GOG and retro games. 2.3 MB installed. Zero bloat. KDE-first.
• Pick: RAWmakase — 📸 Free, fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
• ArtCraft — Open Source Tools and Models for Makers, Builders, and Creatives (aka open source Adobe clones)
• storytold/lightcraft - GitHub — An open-source non-destructive photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

Millions of people may already be using Linux by proxy, so we went digging through their strange little cloud desktops to see if we can turn them into servers.

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• SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot Agent Tops 400,000 Users After First Month - Bloomberg
• Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads
• OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers
• What Is the Meta Muse Secure VM? Sentinel, Egress, Risks
• How We Built Safety Into Muse | Meta AI Research
• Pick: hw-monitor — Linux desktop application designed to monitor various aspects of your computer's hardware.
• Pick: tincan-cli — Serverless peer-to-peer voice and text chat for your terminal.

KDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years.

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• Sovereign Tech Fund Invests Over €1 Million in KDE Software Development
• KDE and AI, and you, and me – Adventures in Linux and KDE
• What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE - YouTube
• What Even is Ocean?
• Akseli Lahtinen on Union for QtWidgets
• StyleKit talk at Akademy 2026
• Framework Laptop 12
• KDE Linux at 2: what we've learned and how it can help you
• QA infrastructure in KDE
• KDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us?
• KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs — Full Film Coming October 14th
• What's Happening in KDE Remote Desktop — Improved Unattended Mode and More
• This Week in Plasma: Bi-Directional RDP Clipboard Sync
• This Week in Plasma: So Many Ways to Click and Scroll
• This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026
• KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM Infrastructure
• Framework's Fedora KDE Plasma Laptop 12 Guide
• systemd 262
• A review canary in systemd's contributor instructions
• Linux Live Update documentation
• LUO userspace API
• memfd_create(2)
• FluxCast — Miracast/WFD ecosystem platform with .deb and AUR packages.
• fluxcast-flake
• JB Gulf Coast Meetup Room
• Nixarr — Media Server Nixos Module
• Nixflix — Nixflix is a declarative media server configuration manager for NixOS
• garage — S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments.
• Pick: Cliparr — Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server, or from a local video file opened directly in your browser.
• Cliparr: Plex and Jellyfin providers
• Cliparr: local file or direct media URL
• Cliparr: export settings
• Cliparr: subtitles
• Mediabunny — A complete JavaScript media toolkit for the browser
• KyleTryon/gifenc: fast GIF encoding
• Pick: fdroidcl — A command-line F-Droid desktop client
• space-elevator — Space Elevator gets you to orbit. What you do up there is your business.

We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe.

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• Texas Linux Festival 2026
• Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD
• My Last Quest - Launch 84
• RustFS — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
• Announcing RustFS 1.0.0 GA - RustFS Blog
• rustfs - GitHub — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
• Amazon.com: Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen - 4K UHD, Google TV, 32GB Memory, Dolby Vision & Atmos, WiFi 6, HDMI 2.1, Fast Streaming, Compact and Powerful : Electronics
• Macintosh SE/30 - Wikipedia
• Love Down Babylon
• Armada — The Open Source, Encrypted Discord Alternative
• absorb — A cross platform Audiobookshelf client for Android and iOS
• Lissen: Audiobookshelf Client
• GrakovNe/lissen-android — Minimalistic Android client app for Audiobookshelf
• wizarr - GitHub — Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc.
• vikunja — The task manager you actually own.
• zj-radar — A Zellij sidebar that shows Claude Code, Codex, and other AI-agent status across every tab.
• Pi - GitHub
• Pi — AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
• Zoboomafoo - Wikipedia
• Pick: flakelet — Run systemd services from Nix flakes and update them independently of the host system
• Pick: ffdash — A TUI for batch AV1 & VP9 video encoding with hardware acceleration, real-time progress monitoring, and full control over quality settings. Made to work as a viable encoding dashboard over SSH. · GitHub
• Pick: Chompass — Private calorie tracking for Android and the browser. Bring your own AI key, or run Gemma 4 on-device.

We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.

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• Jupiter Broadcasting: Ultimate Home Theater PT 1 — 17 years ago, Chris Builds the Ultimate Home Theater. Part one goes into using OTA HD and recording it with MyTH.
• Wizarr — Wizarr is a automatic user invitation system for Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. Create a unique link and share it to a user and they will automatically be invited to your media Server! They will even be guided to download the client and instructions on how to use your requests software!
• Seerr — Seerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with the media server of your choice: Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby. In addition, it integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr.
• Maintainerr — Maintainerr makes managing your media easy. No longer will you have to worry about your precious hard drive space being taken up by media, that isn't even being watched.
• Tracearr — Real-time analytics and intelligent detection for Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby. Free, open source, self-hosted via Docker.
• jellarr — Declarative configuration engine for Jellyfin — apply and sync server settings from YAML via the Jellyfin API.
• Jellyfin 12.0
• Release 12.0 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• Query Performance Improvements by Shadowghost · Pull Request #16062 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• [Group] Jellyfin 10.11.x performance issues · Issue #15685 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• State of the Fin 2026-05-24
• Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy
• Scanner Refactoring · jellyfin/jellyfin-meta · Discussion #125 · GitHub
• Jellyfin - Project Leadership Changes — Don't worry, no jellyforks here.
• On My Jellyfin Resignation - Joshua M. Boniface
• Migration fails upgrading from 10.11.11 to 12.0 unstable: UNIQUE constraint failed: Users.NormalizedUsername · Issue #17458 · jellyfin/jellyfin · GitHub
• Jellyswarrm: Bring all your Jellyfin servers together — Reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place. If you’ve got libraries spread across different locations or just want everything together, Jellyswarrm makes it easy to access all your media from a single interface.
• Smriti — photos without a server
• ChivukulaVirinchi/photovault — Smriti is offline-first photo library for your drives. No server, no cloud. On-device face recognition, Google Photos Takeout import. Windows/macOS/Linux.
• Commodore - The Future We Were Promised — In 1982, we made computers fun. In 2026, we’re making tech fun again.
• go-vikunja/vikunja: The task manager you actually own.
• Vikunja: The task manager you actually own
• automatic-ripping-machine — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.
• Ripping Movies Automatically With ARM - YouTube
• OpenMouse — Free, open source mouse configurator
• OpenLogi
• OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.
• Pick: pelagica — Pelagica is a web, desktop, and TV client for Jellyfin built using React. It aims to provide a fast, modern, and customizable user experience for browsing and watching your media library. It's available as a self-hosted web app, a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a TV app for Samsung Tizen, LG webOS and Apple TV.
• Wails — Build beautiful, performant applications using Go and modern web technologies. One codebase. Three platforms. No browsers.
• Pick: tether — Tether aims to support all of the Apple Continuity features on Linux that are technically possible. If you've migrated away from macOS but still carry an iPhone, Tether provides the missing ecosystem integration.
• Pick: ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote or local iCalendar files (like time tables of your school/university or event files of your sports team).
• ICSx⁵ — ICSx⁵ is an Android app to subscribe to remote (Webcal) or local iCalendar files.

Brent has two hours to build a great website, and the solution he finds feels more like a Linux tool than a modern web framework. Naturally, Wes takes it too far.

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• Covered Bridge Cookies — Our cookies have no trans fats and are made with the best ingredients from Vermont based companies. Butter from Cabot, Chocolate from Barre Callebaut of St Albans, and we always use unbleached and unbromated flour along with natural flavorings. We use small batch production techniques that produce an unmistakable home made taste unlike mass-produced cookies.
• Zola — Your one-stop static site engine. Forget dependencies. Everything you need in one binary.
• gerbrent/brentgervais.ca — Landing page for Brent Gervais, built with Zola
• JB Zola Demo Site
• jupiterbroadcasting.com-zola repo — Weekend speedrun port of the JB site to Zola.
• Zola Documentation
• Zola CLI Usage
• Zola Directory Structure
• Zola Installation
• Zola Search
• Zola GitHub
• Zola Changelog
• WintermuteOS — A personalized declarative desktop built from NixOS, Wayland/Hyprland, and QuickShell.
• SwapMarket — Non-custodial Bitcoin swaps marketplace. Swap between different Bitcoin layers while staying in full control.
• SwapMarket/swapmarket.github.io - GitHub — Decentralized and trustless marketplace for Boltz-compatible Bitcoin swap providers.
• Alby Hub CLI — CLI for managing Alby Hub
• trynix — Boot any package nixpkgs ever shipped, in this tab. Pick a package and a version from 13 years of nixpkgs history; its closure is fetched from cache.nixos.org into an x86_64 Linux virtual machine (QEMU compiled to WebAssembly) and you get a shell with the package on PATH. Nothing runs on a server.
• Any Nix package, live in your browser | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
• fzakaria/trynix: Boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser.
• Your executable is a SQLite database | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
• Actually Queryable Executables | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
• hughhowey/neo — A novel-writing tool created by a novelist.
• nives — An AI assistant for Home Assistant that remembers. One add-on, and the memory stays on your own machine.
• nives-omarchy — Talk to your Home Assistant house in plain language, from your Omarchy desktop.
• Pick: OpenMouse — OpenMouse runs entirely in your browser over WebHID — DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB, for dozens of gaming mice, with no accounts, no installs, and no telemetry sent anywhere.
• OpenMouse Supported Devices
• Pick: Wallos — Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker
• Wallos on GitHub — Open-source, self-hostable personal subscription tracker. Visualize your recurring expenses, manage your budget, and save money.

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

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• 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

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. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() 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
• Sched_ext'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.

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• 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.