Speeding Up Mistakes | LINUX Unplugged 655

Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!
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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike (strike.me)
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM (fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov)
• SCaLE 23x | Registration (register.socallinuxexpo.org/reg23) — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 (planetnix.com) — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup (meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting/events/313050140)
• stahnma (Michael Stahnke) (github.com/stahnma)
• Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily (softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/08/flox-n…)
• Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael (amazon.com/Pro-OpenSSH-Michael-Stahnke/dp/1590…)
• Nix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALE (socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/nix…)
• github.com/stahnma/mandatoryFun
• Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/kelseyhightower.com/post/3mfa…) — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.
• distrostru's gatus config (github.com/jonocodes/configs/blob/ed66d056e2b1…)
• Status Page On Demand | Gatus (gatus.io)
• MimiClaw (github.com/memovai/mimiclaw#architecture) — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.
• hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices (github.com/hrwtech/openclaw-esp32)
• Pick: WebsocketCAM (github.com/UmerCodez/WebsocketCAM) — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream
• Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge (github.com/ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge) — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.
• Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp (github.com/ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp) — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server
• Pick: wechsel (github.com/JustSomeRandomUsername/wechsel) — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders
• wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching (github.com/JustSomeRandomUsername/wechsel-exte…)