LUP 629: Arch Enemies¶
- Air Date: 2025-08-24
- Duration: 78 mins 19 secs
About this episode¶
Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.
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Episode links¶
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
- Frigate NVR
- Coral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-C
- Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
- Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.
- DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.
- DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."
- Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service
- Arch Linux Status Page
- Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces
- aurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repository
- salvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.
- archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux community
- TaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.
- shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.
- Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kelly
- mkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
- CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
- MOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch Button
- Minoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave Button
- Brent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebean
- add master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-config
- Pick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outages
- Pick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktops
- Pick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle
Tags¶
ai, arch, arch user repository, aur, aurpublish, aurweb, bcachefs, cachyos, caddy, caddy-tailscale, coral, crush, ddos, denial of service, dhh, filesystems, framework, framework desktop, frigate, home automation, hyprland, hyprvibe, jupiter broadcasting, license plate recognition, linux, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llm, malware, mirrors, ml, ml accelerator, music assistant, nebula-manager, networking, nixbook, nixos, nvr, ocr, omarchy, open source, qwen, rat, salvador, security, self-hosted, self-hosting, shuthost, spectacle, spectacle-ocr, spectacle-ocr-screenshot, systemd, task management, tasktrove, trojan, txlf, vibecoding, voy, wake-on-lan, wakemypotato, warp, wifi camera, wol