
583: Nix on Easy Mode
10/07/24 β’ 76 min
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Wes gives his shell superpowers to solve a tricky problem. Then, we share an update on our favorite Google Photos alternative, including breaking changes and a great new way to run it.
Sponsored By:
- Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
- Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
- 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
Links:
- π₯ Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- π» LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- bda in the Nix Nerds Matrix Chat with Python Woes
- Install a couple of Python packages : r/NixOS
- Anyone using python UV on NixOS? : r/NixOS
- devenv β Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
- devenn's direnv integration
- POLL: Do you use any tools to "move between machines"?
- Immich Release v1.117.0
- NixOS Immich Module
- Immich Nix Package
- immich-machine-learning.nix
- LINUX Unplugged 476: Canary in the Photo Mine
- LINUX Unplugged 409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future
- Annual Membership β Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
- Meshtastic Matrix Chatroom β Chatastic for Meshtastic.
- nixy β Nixy is a Hyprland NixOS configuration with home-manager, secrets and custom theming all in one place. It's a simple way to manage your system configuration and dotfiles.
- I'm not sure if Jeff can be called a Producer
- Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
- DistroStu's Computer Keyboards! Talk on YouTube
- Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition β This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any pr...
Wes gives his shell superpowers to solve a tricky problem. Then, we share an update on our favorite Google Photos alternative, including breaking changes and a great new way to run it.
Sponsored By:
- Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
- Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
- 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
Links:
- π₯ Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- π» LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- bda in the Nix Nerds Matrix Chat with Python Woes
- Install a couple of Python packages : r/NixOS
- Anyone using python UV on NixOS? : r/NixOS
- devenv β Fast, Declarative, Reproducible and Composable Developer Environments using Nix
- devenn's direnv integration
- POLL: Do you use any tools to "move between machines"?
- Immich Release v1.117.0
- NixOS Immich Module
- Immich Nix Package
- immich-machine-learning.nix
- LINUX Unplugged 476: Canary in the Photo Mine
- LINUX Unplugged 409: Launch Your Memories Into the Future
- Annual Membership β Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
- Meshtastic Matrix Chatroom β Chatastic for Meshtastic.
- nixy β Nixy is a Hyprland NixOS configuration with home-manager, secrets and custom theming all in one place. It's a simple way to manage your system configuration and dotfiles.
- I'm not sure if Jeff can be called a Producer
- Seattle GNU/Linux Conference
- DistroStu's Computer Keyboards! Talk on YouTube
- Nix from First Principles: Flake Edition β This guide is a beginner's guide to Nix and related tooling, focusing on the newer nix command, and flake.nix compared to older tools like nix-env and default.nix. It does not require any pr...
Previous Episode

582: On the CUPS of Disaster
We explain the one-packet attack on CUPS and discuss its real-world implications. Plus, a Meshtastic update and more.
Sponsored By:
- Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
- Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
- 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
Links:
- π₯ Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- π» LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS β A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printersβ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print job is started (from that computer).
- Marcus Hutchins Scan finds 107,287 servers responding to the UDP port 631 β Instead of relying on Shodan data, I performed my own internet-wide scan using a distributed network of servers. This resulted in discovering drastically more exposed cups-browsed instances, causing my total count to rise from 13,289 to 107,287.
- Shodan on X: 75,000 exposed CUPS daemons on the Internet
- Annual Membership β Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
- nodeboard β Your Ultimate Digital Inventory Manager
- Lightning Pay
- activate-linux β The "Activate Windows" watermark ported to Linux
- Install Frog on Linux | Flathub β Extract text from images, websites, videos, and QR codes by taking a picture of the source.
- Clapgrep β Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time...
Next Episode

584: Captain Meshtastic and the Solar Cowboy
After building nodes, climbing roofs, swapping antennas, and even some war driving, it's time for our Meshtastic deep dive!
Sponsored By:
- Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
- Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
- 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
Links:
- π₯ Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- π» LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Meshtastic β An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
- Bitcoin Vets: Establish communications via meshtastic & ham radio network
- Meshtastic in the air β Avery Airfield in Spruce Pine which is running air delivery of critical supplies to HLZs in the AO is now equipping flights with Meshtastic airborne nodes which significantly increases coverage of vital communications.
- Heltec V3
- 27100 Cell holder
- MPPT Solar Charge controller for 1S cells
- 25 Watt Solar Panels
- Project Box
- Pole Mounts
- Programmable GPS
- Preferred 27100 Cells
- 2nd choice 21700 Cells
- Tdeck
- GPS
- Battery
- 3D printed case files
- Screw inserts for case
- m2 screw kit, nice to have for these kind of projects (threaded for inserts above)
- 5 dbi antenna
- 2 dbi antenna
- 5.8 dbi antenna
- SMA - RPSMA adapters if needed
- 12' SMA cable
- Wiseblock RAK
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