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Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — The global money app for fast, safe payments and bitcoin. Get sats easy.
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Grab the Fountain app and listen live, boost along, and more.
• Shufflecake — Plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux
• System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | Meetup
• Jupiter Extras: Nostr Workshop — Our Nostr workshop. We'll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions.
• 24.05 Call for Release Manager & Editor - NixOS — Both roles are fulfilled in tandem, meaning you get paired with an experienced partner, who already filled the role during the previous release.
• HiddenVM — Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace. — HiddenVM is a simple, one-click, free and open-source Linux application that allows you to run Oracle's open-source VirtualBox software on the Tails operating system.
• Tails
• persistent volume feature
• VeraCrypt
• Defeating Plausible Deniability of VeraCrypt Hidden Operating Systems — This paper analyzes the security of VeraCrypt hidden operating systems.
• How To Emulate Persistent Memory using the Linux "memmap" Kernel Option
• kexec [ArchWiki]
• Unplugged Core Membership
• PodHome.FM — Unlimited Shows and Episodes
• PodBean Example: This Week in Bitcoin Podcast
• Atuin - Magical Shell History — Sync, search and backup shell history with Atuin
• I quit my job to work full time on my open source project — The 22nd of December was my last day leading the infrastructure team at PostHog. Going forwards, I'm starting a company and working full time on Atuin.