680: Go Hack Yourself

Episode Links

• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Jupiter Garage SWAG
• AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker
• Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member’s Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
• Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
• TXLF 2026 Full schedule
• TXLF 2026
• SCALE 24x CFP — The CFP closes November 1, 2026.
• Nix Vegas 2026 Talks
• OpenSSH 10.5 Fixes Security Flaws as Project Responds to AI-Assisted Bug Discovery — OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes, as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases.
• openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 — Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes.
• OpenAI Talk at Black Hat USA 2026 — The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI
• HexStrike AI MCP Agents
• TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.
• topgrade — Upgrade all the things
• magnusoverli/opencode — AI-Powered Configuration Assistant for Home Assistant
• Home Assistant God Mode — YouTube
• cbbs_pi — A vintage CBBS-style bulletin board system emulator for macOS, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi.
• Mother Hen App
• rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy - Inside Rust Blog
• Covered Bridge Cookies
• Cluckwork — Poultry farm management — starting with egg-producing layer operations, with architectural headroom for broilers, pullets, breeders, live bird sales, meat products, and hatchery modules.
• Slack Dumper — Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges.
• Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunch
• Pick: iDescriptor — Cross-platform, open-source and free idevice management tool written in Rust and Qt.
• iDescriptor on GitHub
• iDescriptor on Flathub
• iDescriptor in Nix Packages
• Pick: KiwiFS — Searchable, structured, versioned markdown. Plug in an agent in 30 seconds — or self-host with a single binary.