Slop to Slap | LINUX Unplugged 657

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.
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Links:
• 💥 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
• SCaLE 23x (socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x) — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference.
• Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix room (matrix.to/#/#scale:jupiterbroadcasting.com)
• SCaLE 23x - YouTube (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh1QjGnfC2eSvaI_246…) — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.
• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root (linuxfestnorthwest.org) — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
• Flox.dev (flox.dev)
• Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub (github.com/flox/flox) — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle.
• Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE (socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/key…)
• Cindy Cohn | SCALE (socallinuxexpo.org/scale/speaker/cindy-cohn)
• github.com/noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world.
• DeepComputing (deepcomputing.io) — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V
• Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io (anyshift.io/authors/roxane-fischer)
• Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas (determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-future)
• EFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE (socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/key…)
• Cindy Cohn - SCaLE (socallinuxexpo.org/scale/speaker/cindy-cohn) — Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all the people of the world.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world (eff.org)
• llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++ (github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp)
• mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor (github.com/mangowm/mango) — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)
• The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative (opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition)
• Pick: sone (github.com/lullabyX/sone) — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3
• Pick: qmd (github.com/tobi/qmd) — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT
• Pick: mtr (github.com/traviscross/mtr) — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2
• MTR - Welcome Home Brent (bitwizard.nl/mtr)