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01:00 Intro
Noah brought the warm weather back
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04:10 Smart Watches
Original pebble inventor
New pebble smartwatches available for preorder
ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/new-pebbleos-watches-with-more-battery-and-familiar-looks-are-up-for-preorder/)
Steve's smartwatch use case
Noah's watch
Pine Time (https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-smartwatch-sealed/)
Fitness Features
Eric Migicovsky doesn't stick with companies
AsteroidOS (https://asteroidos.org/)
BangleJS (https://banglejs.com/)
28:32 News Wire
GIMP 3.0 - gimp.org (https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/)
Digikam 8.6 - digikam.org (https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0_release_announcement/)
Peertube 7.1 - joinpeertube.org (https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.1)
Gstreamer 1.26 - freedesktop.org (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.26/)
KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.12.0/)
End of Nouveau OpenGL Driver - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/mesa-zink-nvk-switch/)
Debian Bookworm 12.10 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/#:~:text=Debian%2012.10%20was%20released%20on,release%20and%20the%20Release%20Notes.)
Ubuntu's Rust Coreutils - ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995)
GitHub Actions Hack - infoworld.com (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3847178/thousands-of-open-source-projects-at-risk-from-hack-of-github-actions-tool.html)
Open Source OSV Scanner - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/google-launches-open-source-osv-scanner/)
Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/poc-exploit-released-linux-kernel-vulnerability/)
Kagent - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/meet-kagent-open-source-framework-for-ai-agents-in-kubernetes/)
Tencent Open Source Model - bloomberg.com (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-18/tencent-touts-open-source-ai-models-to-turn-text-into-3d-visuals)
Mistral Small 3.1 - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/129697/mistral-ai-unveils-small-powerful-and-open-source-ai-model/) - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-drops-new-open-source-model-that-outperforms-gpt-4o-mini-with-fraction-of-parameters/)
29:50 Linuxrocks.online Outage
Noah's travel story
Awake for 30+ hours
Wakes up to DMs, emails, online posts, etc
Linux Rocks server is down
Linux Rocks server grew organically
Moved into Altispeed Egan MN data center
SSH connected but then kicked you out
Altispeed got pulled into it
User wasn't in the libvertd group
Organic way information spreads on the internet
Glad to see people calm down after learning someone is in the hospital
Linux Rocks is now monitored by LibreNMS
Michael is donating a new server
Thank you for polite and kind notification
To those not so kind, please consider what you are getting for free
Reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1jblofg/linuxrocksonline_been_down_for_nearly_48_hours/)
Everything was documented
49:45 Continuity Plan
Reach out to Nerd friends
Interest
Old laptops show up on Noah's desk
Enabling people through technology
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