Sink Your Claws In | LINUX Unplugged 661

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Links:
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike (strike.me)
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM (fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov)
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root (linuxfestnorthwest.org) — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• Preferring Local OSS LLMs (blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2026/titit-loc…)
• Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B (x.com/stevibe/status/2040472614892974277)
• Open Models have crossed a threshold (linkedin.com/pulse/open-models-have-crossed-th…)
• Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind (deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4)
• Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device (huggingface.co/blog/gemma4)
• Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face (huggingface.co/dealignai/Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-C…)
• github.com/michaelneale/mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
• hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you (github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
• github.com/block/goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
• Lobehub (github.com/lobehub/lobehub) — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
• LibreFang (github.com/librefang/librefang) — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
• github.com/HKUDS/OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
• Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents (phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-AI-Agent-Governance) — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
• Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project (genai.owasp.org/2025/12/09/owasp-genai-securit…)
• googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI (github.com/googleworkspace/cli) — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
• Tunarr API Reference (tunarr.com/api-docs.html#latest/tag/channels)
• Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival (itbrief.co.uk/story/euro-office-launches-as-eu…)
• Pick: single-file-cli (github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli) — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
• Pick: html-to-markdown (github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown) — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
• Pick: skim (github.com/noblepayne/skim) — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.