Have Your Bot Call My Bot | LINUX Unplugged 652

We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade.
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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike (strike.me)
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM (fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov)
• PlanetNix 2026 (planetnix.com) — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Agenda - PlanetNix 2026 (planetnix.com/agenda)
• SCaLE 23x | Registration (register.socallinuxexpo.org/reg23) — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup (meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting/events/313050140)
• LINUX Unplugged 650: This Old Network (linuxunplugged.com/650) — We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...
• OpenWrt Wiki - Ad blocking (openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocki…)
• AdBlock-fast (docs.openwrt.melmac.ca/adblock-fast) — AdBlock-Fast is a high-performance ad-blocking service for OpenWrt that integrates with Dnsmasq, SmartDNS, and Unbound.
• OpenWrt Wiki - Supported Hardware Table (openwrt.org/toh/start)
• Abe's volition (github.com/AIndoria/volition) — This is a public, sanitized version of my Abiverse repository for people to use and run their own Abes
• OpenClaw (openclaw.ai) — Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.
• Introducing OpenClaw (openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw)
• openclaw on GitHub 🦞 (github.com/openclaw/openclaw)
• openclaw security Issues (github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues?q=is%3Aiss…)
• Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90% – University College London (ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jul/practical-changes-coul…)
• moltbook.com/post/38a040fd-b03c-4f94-9b14-6d74… — the front page of the agent internet
• SeloraBox - NixOS Edition (gitlab.com/selorahomes/products/selorabox-nix) — SeloraBox is a self-configuring home automation appliance based on NixOS, featuring automated installation, device claiming via QR code, and self-updating configuration management.
• nixtcloud: Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled (github.com/jjacke13/nixtcloud) — Nixtcloud turns a Raspberry Pi or NanoPi NEO3 into a privacy-first, zero-config personal cloud — powered by NixOS, Nextcloud, and peer-to-peer remote access via Holesail. Built for the self-hosting crowd who want full control without constant babysitting.
• Holesail.io - Open Source P2P Reverse Proxy (holesail.io)
• Pick: ml-sharp-pinokio (github.com/francescofugazzi/ml-sharp-pinokio) — One-click 3D Gaussian Splatting generation from a single image.
• Pick: Gradia (gradia.alexandervanhee.be) — Gradia helps you get your screenshots ready for sharing, whether quickly with friends or colleagues, or professionally with the entire world.