655: Speeding Up Mistakes

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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) • SCaLE 23x | Registration (https://register.socallinuxexpo.org/reg23/) — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" • PlanetNix 2026 (https://planetnix.com/) — Where Nix Builders Come Together • Pasadena Linux Party Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting/events/313050140/) • stahnma (Michael Stahnke) (https://github.com/stahnma) • Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily (https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/08/flox-nix-and-reproducible-software-systems-with-michael-stahnke/) • Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael (https://www.amazon.com/Pro-OpenSSH-Michael-Stahnke/dp/1590594762) • Nix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALE (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/nix-and-ai-are-we-there-yet) • stahnma/mandatoryFun (https://github.com/stahnma/mandatoryFun) • Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/kelseyhightower.com/post/3mfagymp3d22i) — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools. • distrostru's gatus config (https://github.com/jonocodes/configs/blob/ed66d056e2b106235f868cdf77e129887c7c1d08/nixos/hosts/zeeba/web.nix#L153-L246) • Status Page On Demand | Gatus (https://gatus.io/) • MimiClaw (https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw#architecture) — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant. • hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices (https://github.com/hrwtech/openclaw-esp32) • Pick: WebsocketCAM (https://github.com/UmerCodez/WebsocketCAM) — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream • Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge (https://github.com/ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge) — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem. • Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp (https://github.com/ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp) — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server • Pick: wechsel (https://github.com/JustSomeRandomUsername/wechsel) — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders • wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching (https://github.com/JustSomeRandomUsername/wechsel-extension)