687: Linux by Proxy

Chris (0:50)

Hello, friends, and welcome back to your weekly Linux talk show. My name is Chris.

Wes (0:54)

My name is Wes.

Brent (0:55)

And my name is Brent.

Chris (0:57)

Hello, gentlemen. Coming up on the show today, we're digging into those weird little desktop VMs that are hiding behind all of these new strange consumer bot platforms, and we'll see what we can do with them that they probably don't want us to do with them. Then we'll round out the show with some great boosts, some great picks, some great feedback, and a lot more. So before we get to any of that, let's say time appropes to our virtual lug. Hello, Mumble Room.

Hey, Chris. Hey, Wes. Hello. Hi. Hello.

Wes (1:27)

Strong.

Chris (1:28)

Yeah, it's very good.

Brent (1:29)

We're going to need a bigger room.

Chris (1:29)

Hello. Oh, and the quiet listening is getting a little bigger, too. Hello. And of course, shout out to everybody watching live, making it a Tuesday on a Sunday.

Wes (1:37)

Makes it special.

Chris (1:38)

Also, good morning to our friends over at Define's Networking. Go to define.net slash unplugged and meet Manage Nebula from Define Networking. A decentralized VPN. A VPN?

Wes (1:48)

No.

Chris (1:49)

We should call it a DPN. a decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love and use ourselves. And Nebula was originally created to securely connect Slack's global infrastructure. So it's been designed from day one for serious scale, serious performance, and serious security. And you get strong encryption. You get a decentralized architecture with no central traffic bottleneck or big tech login plane. And you get the option to self-host your own lighthouse. That way you are in full control of discovery, names, and all of that. So if you're just connecting your home lab or a global enterprise, you've got to check it out. Nebula gives you privacy, resilience, and speed.

Resources are just like unbelievable what Nebula needs. Sips it. Sips it. If you're on a limited connection, you're going to really love that. You've got CPU constraints. You're really going to love it. Who doesn't want something that uses less resources anyways? See what I'm saying. Try it for free. 100 hosts. No credit card required. Go to defined.net slash unplugged.

It's defined.net slash unplugged. Big thank you to Defined for sponsoring the Unplugged program. And thank you for everybody who supports the show by supporting our sponsor. You're kind of, you know, second-order sponsor in there.

Wes (2:55)

I feel like we should also thank them for continuing to make our networks work so well.

Chris (2:58)

Yeah, there's that too.

Well, we have some news for you all. We have some news. A brand new Clanker Therapy 2, what we have been building, is out on YouTube and for audio. And, of course, there's a bootleg version for our members to get the complete stream. That'll all be linked in our show notes. Been getting pretty good feedback so far.

Wes (3:20)

Yeah, right. We put it in the extra show and then, right, yeah, your membership, you can go to a page. We'll have more.

Chris (3:24)

Yes.

Wes (3:25)

And stay tuned. Hopefully something we'll be doing more often.

Chris (3:29)

Yes. Yes, more Clanker Therapies. What we've been doing is using meetup.com slash jupyterbroadcasting to announce them and then just streaming them at jblive.tv. You don't need a Meetup account to actually watch the stream, but we've been kind of organizing.

Wes (3:44)

Just a single place for details for now.

Chris (3:46)

And if you watch this week's Clanker Therapy, you will get a bit of the story behind something we're announcing today, a brand new resource for our community that we're very excited about. and I want you to go to uplink.jupiterbroadcasting.com where we now have a two-minute voice note that you can leave us all using built-in in-browser technology and it will send us a note. It lets you record very briefly so you can just allow your audio device, make a two-minute recording when you are done. You can play it back and double-check or delete it if you don't like it. And then you give us a name and tell us what you've been working on, what your project is you want to talk about. And if you wanted to go to the Clanker Therapy stream, you choose what are you building. If you wanted to go to Linux Unplugged, you choose Linux Unplugged. And optional contacted note, and you can send your update. And we will get a voice note from you. And we'll incorporate some of them into future episodes. We won't play all of them for airtime. But we'll play some future voice notes. So it's uplink.jupiterbroadcasting.com.