LUP 627: The 2 a.m. Rescue¶
- Air Date: 2025-08-10
- Duration: 84 mins 38 secs
About this episode¶
Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.
Your hosts¶
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Episode links¶
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Podverse — A FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.
- Podverse - GitHub
- Texas Linux Festival 2025 - CFP extended to August 18!
- Nix Pipe Operator by piegamesde [RFC 0148]
- libexpr: experimental pipe operators by rhendric
- Nix Vegas on GitHub
- NixVegas/badge — Rebuild the world at DEF CON with the Nix Badge
- AND!XOR 5n4ck3y
- ANDnXOR/ANDnXOR_DC33_Badge
- NixOS Search - Packages - ztool
- ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — Chris' vibed-only, riced-up Hyprland desktop running atop NixOS.
- crush — The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘
- Cursor - The AI Code Editor
- Void: an open source Cursor alternative
- gerbrent/storenix — NixOS configs for a store, containing two locations and multiple hosts. Please help me!
- Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - Instagram
- Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - YouTube
- HomeBox — A simple home inventory management software
- sysadminsmedia/homebox — A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home User
- Forester Notes
- Designing tools for scientific thought
- jimsalterjrs/sanoid: — policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.
- btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
- Breez - Bitcoin in Every App
- gPodder - Music Assistant
- GeneBean's Linux-specific NixOS aliases — GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
- GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
- Alby Hub — Alby Hub is a self-custodial, open source lightning wallet that connects to apps
- Pick: ffshare — An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing them
- Pick: Actual Budget — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
- SimpleFIN
- Connect to your bank - SimpleFIN Bridge
Tags¶
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