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  • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • ๐Ÿ“ป LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root โ€” April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
  • Preferring Local OSS LLMs
  • Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B
  • Open Models have crossed a threshold
  • Gemma 4 โ€” Google DeepMind
  • Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
  • Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-CRACK ยท Hugging Face
  • mesh-llm โ€” Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
  • hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you โ€” The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop โ€” it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
  • goose โ€” An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
  • Lobehub โ€” The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
  • LibreFang โ€” LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
  • OpenHarness โ€” OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
  • Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents โ€” Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
  • Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project
  • googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI โ€” One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
  • Tunarr API Reference
  • Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival
  • Pick: single-file-cli โ€” CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
  • Pick: html-to-markdown โ€” Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
  • Pick: skim โ€” Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

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