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  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.com
  • SCaLE 23x | Registration
  • NetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.
  • NetAlertX Docs
  • NetAlertX GitHub
  • NetAlertX docker-compose.yml
  • NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX
  • Home Assistant - NetAlertX Docs — 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
  • ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
  • Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker
  • Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
  • ESPresense
  • mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55
  • Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project
  • License Selector - OpenLicr
  • LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform
  • Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison
  • GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
  • Podverse Alpha
  • Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame
  • Pick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox
  • MQTTX GitHub
  • MQTT X on Flathub
  • Pick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
  • MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub
  • Pick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami
  • Unify on Flathub
  • Pick: web-app-hub — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.
  • Web App Hub on Flathub
  • Pick: Home-manager Webapps — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system

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