LINUX Unplugged

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.

We turn HexStrike’s red team agents loose on our systems, as OpenSSH warns that AI-assisted bug hunting is already changing the security race.
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Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
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TXLF 2026 Full schedule
TXLF 2026
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.

An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.
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Pick: LAN-Orangutan — LAN Orangutan is a lightweight network scanner with persistent device labeling, multi-network support, and Tailscale integration. Built by 291 Group.
LAN Orangutan — Lightweight Network Scanner
Pick: LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.
LocalSend on Flathub
Pick: oxproxion — Android LLM chat interface for OpenRouter models or locally served models using Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX LM or Hermes Agent.
Cherokee Scout Reservation
How-To Meshtastic BBS! Off-Grid Email?
TC2-BBS-mesh — A BBS server for Meshtastic for posting bulletins, sending mail to users, and channel directory.
herdr — the runtime your coding agents live on

Seven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers.
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Linux 7.2-rc5 announcement
Linux 7.2 changelog
Linux 7.1 changelog
7.2 merge window
Btrfs large folios and DIO fix
strncpy removal
i486 removal
Dreamcast fixes
Cache-aware scheduling
Fairer GPU scheduler
NVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibility
AMD ROCm regression
Dreamcast vs i486
Btrfs DIO regression reports
Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue | COINKITE Blog
Bitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research says
Flowchart of the Linux RNG
dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust
Pick: TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
Pick: cfait — A fast and powerful, offline-first task manager for your terminal, desktop, and phone.
Cfait on Flathub
Cfait on F-Droid

Block’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next.
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Buzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place. — Chat with teammates and specialized agents in one shared space, then move straight into planning, project management, coding, and PRs. Create agents tailored to your workflows, let them collaborate with your team’s agents, and keep the work that used to be scattered across chat, trackers, and dev tools in one place.
buzz on GitHub
Feature Request: Support external agent systems (non-ACP) for real-time communication in Buzz communities
[Bug] Remote Agent Missing from @ Mention Autocomplete Across Machines
Teknium 🪽 on X: "@jack Hit me up if you want us to submit any PRs or make hermes more compatible with Buzz!"
feat(agents): add Hermes ACP and external-agent integration by NYTEMODEONLY
feat(acp): Hermes runtime discovery and durable session load by joelbrilliant
docs(acp): document Buzz host integration by NYTEMODEONLY
MeshBBS — Meshbbs revolutionizes communication on mesh networks by bringing the beloved Bulletin Board System experience to Meshtastic devices. Exchange messages, participate in forums, and build communities over long-range, low-power radio networks, all without traditional internet infrastructure.
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Pick: PipeWire Controller — A native GTK4/libadwaita control center for PipeWire