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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike (https://strike.me/) • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM (https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov) • Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.com (https://sessionize.com/planet-nix-2026/) • SCaLE 23x | Registration (https://register.socallinuxexpo.org/reg23/) • NetAlert X (https://netalertx.com/) — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found. • NetAlertX Docs (https://jokob-sk.github.io/NetAlertX/) • NetAlertX GitHub (https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX) • NetAlertX docker-compose.yml (https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docker-compose.yml) • NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX (https://gist.github.com/noblepayne/8d03d07f44219d73d4abdb9c5430a6b3) • Home Assistant - NetAlertX Docs (https://jokob-sk.github.io/NetAlertX/HOME_ASSISTANT/) — NetAlertX comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices. • home assistant mqtt documentation (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/) • ntfy.sh (https://ntfy.sh/) — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST • Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker (https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto) • Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking (https://pi-hole.net/) • ESPresense (https://espresense.com/) • mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55 (https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook/issues/55) • Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project (https://www.choosingalicense.com/) • License Selector - OpenLicr (https://openlicr.com/en-US/selector) • LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform (https://licensehub.org/en/licenses/compare) • Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison (https://osssoftware.org/blog/open-source-licenses-explained-a-comparison/) • GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses (https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses/tree/master) — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses. • Podverse Alpha (https://alpha.podverse.fm/) • Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap (https://pod.link/podcasting2.0/episode/UEMyMC0yNDY) — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame • Pick: MQTT (https://mqttx.app/) — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox • MQTTX GitHub (https://github.com/emqx/MQTTX) • MQTT X on Flathub (https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.emqx.MQTTX) • Pick: mqtt5-explorer (https://github.com/Omniaevo/mqtt5-explorer) — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker. • MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub (https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.Omniaevo.mqtt5-explorer) • Pick: Unify (https://github.com/DenysMb/Unify) — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami • Unify on Flathub (https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.denysmb.unify) • Pick: web-app-hub (https://github.com/pvermeer/web-app-hub) — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita. • Web App Hub on Flathub (https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.pvermeer.WebAppHub) • Pick: Home-manager Webapps (https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4921387) — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system