657: Slop to Slap

What this episode covers

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape. Support Core Contributor Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together SCaLE 23x — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference. SCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more. LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Flox.dev Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle. Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE Cindy Cohn | SCALE noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world. DeepComputing — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++ mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland) The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3 Pick: qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT Pick: mtr — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2 MTR - Welcome Home Brent