🔥 Burning Mesh is preparing 100 custom-built Meshtastic nodes using Seeed's XIAO nRF52840 & SX1262 Dev Kit — to gift at Burning Man 2025 🏜 No Wi-Fi, no SIMs — just off-grid, low-power, LoRa-based mesh networks designed to keep the community connected across Black Rock City.

Ok, so, I guess we’re going all 8-bit themed in Cake Wallet 😍

Censorship is increasing, domains seized, sites shadowbanned, speech throttled. The internet’s naming layer is the choke point. Handshake fixes this. A decentralized root zone No ICANN No kill switch. Own your name. Own your voice. #Handshake #FreeSpeech #CensorshipResistance

Accrescent depends completely on donations to run. Today we share a significant update in our new blog post on the future of Accrescent. Link below 👇

Qubes OS 4.3.0-rc1 is available for testing qubes-os.org/news/2025/08/1…

Today is the day! Read all about our development progress, view our roadmap for the future, and check out the new projects we're releasing as open source in our new blog post! Link below 👇

Introducing Jan-v1: 4B model for web search, an open-source alternative to Perplexity Pro. In our evals, Jan v1 delivers 91% SimpleQA accuracy, slightly outperforming Perplexity Pro while running fully locally. Use cases: - Web search - Deep Research Built on the new version

Since we published our blog post on the future of Accrescent, donations have increased dramatically. According to the rates in that post, we should now be able to fund full-time development through at least May 2026! Thank you to our community for your monumental support!

At #DEFCON33, #Meshtastic ran its biggest mesh yet—2K+ nodes, thousands of msgs & an unexpected live vulnerability demo. Lessons learned ✅ Big plans for security, identity & UX. Full recap 👉 meshtastic.org/blog/that-one-… #Cybersecurity #OpenSource

Looking for a Linux Distro master for a new Flipper One We’re building a new Flipper One — it's a Linux-based ARM computer, and we want to make a custom Linux distro for it. Because it’s an embedded system, we don’t want to rely on legacy update methods like Debian’s APT. Why

🚀 TrueNAS 25.10 “Goldeye” coming in October! Simpler installs, Terabit Ethernet for AI/ML, and enhanced virtualization make this the most powerful TrueNAS yet. Beta launches this August, with full release in October. Read full blog here: bit.ly/47uSdDE

There is no official FFmpeg crypto coin. Ignore any posts saying there are.

FFmpeg I'm literally shocked there's no ffmpeg CLI command for generating a new cryptocurrency.

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The July Update is up at the Convex Strategies website! A little look at the standard justifications for Sharpe World muted performance. Also, further thoughts on factors driving the Hunger Games competition for debt issuance. convex-strategies.com/2025/08/18/ris…

🚨 FFmpeg 8.0 has been released! 🚨 It has many new features and bugfixes such as APV and ProRes RAW decoding, numerous Vulkan encoders and decoders, VVC decoding features etc. We have also upgraded our project infrastructure. ffmpeg.org

📡 No cell signal. No Wi-Fi. Still connected. That’s the power of Meshtastic , an open-source mesh protocol built on LoRa.

Open source, open tags, open mind :)

We've received the Pixel 10 we ordered and have confirmed it supports unlocking, flashing another verified boot key and locking again. Our Pixel 10 support will likely only be possible to complete after we finish porting to Android 16 QPR1 which is being released in September.