652: Have Your Bot Call My Bot
1 February 2026
We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade.
Episode Links
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
- Agenda - PlanetNix 2026
- SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code “UNPLG”
- Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
- LINUX Unplugged 650: This Old Network — We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don’t go quite as expected…
- OpenWrt Wiki - Ad blocking
- AdBlock-fast — AdBlock-Fast is a high-performance ad-blocking service for OpenWrt that integrates with Dnsmasq, SmartDNS, and Unbound.
- OpenWrt Wiki - Supported Hardware Table
- Abe’s volition — This is a public, sanitized version of my Abiverse repository for people to use and run their own Abes
- OpenClaw — Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.
- Introducing OpenClaw
- openclaw on GitHub 🦞
- openclaw security Issues
- Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90% – University College London
- moltbook — the front page of the agent internet
- SeloraBox - NixOS Edition — SeloraBox is a self-configuring home automation appliance based on NixOS, featuring automated installation, device claiming via QR code, and self-updating configuration management.
- nixtcloud: Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled — Nixtcloud turns a Raspberry Pi or NanoPi NEO3 into a privacy-first, zero-config personal cloud — powered by NixOS, Nextcloud, and peer-to-peer remote access via Holesail. Built for the self-hosting crowd who want full control without constant babysitting.
- Holesail.io - Open Source P2P Reverse Proxy
- Pick: ml-sharp-pinokio — One-click 3D Gaussian Splatting generation from a single image.
- Pick: Gradia — Gradia helps you get your screenshots ready for sharing, whether quickly with friends or colleagues, or professionally with the entire world.