w33k in g33k: February 20, 2026
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Sean P. McAdam
đ¤ Artificial Intelligence \ Large Language Models
- Simon Willisonâs Weblog: Rodney v0.4.0
- Lifehacker: These Three Claude Premium AI Features Are Now Available for Free
- “File creation in Claude”: Ability to create “Word documents, PowerPoint slideshows, Excel spreadsheets, & PDFs”
- “Claude Connectors”: Allows you to connect Claude to “other apps, sites, & services.”
- “Claude Skills”: “With Skills, you can “teach Claude how to complete specific tasks in a repeatable way” (in the words of the official support document). In old-school computer talk, they might be referred to as macros: batches of set instructions that Claude can repeat whenever you need something doing in a particular way.”
Games
- WCCF Tech: Nintendo Once Again Brings DMCA Hammer Down on Switch Emulators, But Eden Is Fighting the Notice:
- Citron: This domain is down, but this site is active. But… no downloads.
- Eden: Downloads still available at: GitHub: eden-emulator / Releases
- Kenji-NX: Android release repo is down, but the rest is active: GitHub: Kenji-NX / Releases
- MeloNX: Has links to Ryujinx: emu
- Pine: GitHub repo is DMCA’ed
- Pomelo: Repo on GitHub id down, but not GitLab
- Ryubing
- Ryujinx
- Skyline: No current releases available?
- Sudachi
- Sumi
- Suyu
- Yuzu
- WCCF Tech: Star Trek: Voyager â Across the Unknown Review: I do still have to finish watching Voyager, but i wanted to look into the new Star Trek game.
IT Security
- Malwarebytes Labs: Betterment data breach might be worse than we thought: Shiny Hunterswas the group involved. “We analyzed some of the data and found one particularly worrying CSV file with detailed data on 181,487 people. This file included information such as:
- Full names (first & last)
- Personal email addresses (e.g., Gmail)
- Work email addresses
- Company name & employer info
- Job titles and roles
- Phone numbers (both mobile & work numbers)
- Addresses & company websites
- Plan detailsâcompany retirement/401k plans, assets, participants
- Survey responses, deal & client pipeline details, meeting notes
- Financial needs/interests (e.g., requesting a securities-backed line of credit for a house purchase)
- Help Net Security: Microsoft Defender update lets SOC teams manage, vet response tools
đ§ Linux
- Help Net Security: MOS: Open-source modular OS for servers and homelabs: “MOS is a free modular OS built on a Devuan base that provides a web UI and API for system monitoring, storage pooling, container orchestration, and virtualization.”
- GitHub: ich777 / mos-releases: “The primary goal of MOS is to provide a simple, reliable, and lowâoverhead platform for selfâhosting, virtualization, and homelab environments.”
- IT’S FOSS: Reverse Engineering Linux Distro REMnux Marks 15 Years With Major v8 Release Featuring AI Agent Support
- IT’S FOSS: Why and How I am Using Emacs for Writing My Next Novel: I want to look at other CLI text editors instead of always going to
nano. - IT’S FOSS: 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch
- IT’S FOSS: Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming
- Phoronix: Sabayon Linux Creator Now Developing Gentoo-Based, Immutable matrixOS
- GitHub: lxnay / matrixos: “matrixOS personal Gentoo-based deployment”
- Bunsen Labs: I think this used to be Carbon Linux or something similar & kept forgetting to come back & test this out. It was the distro i used back on my eeePC
Miscellaneous
- Gizmodo: The Future of âStar Trekâ Comics Is Ready for a New Next Generation (Exclusive)
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- Germ Network: Germ DM for AT Protocol is Live!: “Germ DM for atproto is live in public beta for all to enjoy, and Bluesky users can now drop directly into end-to-end encrypted DMs from Germ DM buttons on friendsâ profiles. As Bluesky experiments with integrating compatible apps from across the AT Protocol Atmosphere, Germ DM becomes its first connected end-to-end encrypted messaging service. Get it all set up in the Germ DM app, available in the App Store.”
- I know i’m in the TestFlight for this, but now that it’s “official” \ “public”, i’ll see how much use i might get out of it.
- Germ Network: Germ DM for AT Protocol is Live!: “Germ DM for atproto is live in public beta for all to enjoy, and Bluesky users can now drop directly into end-to-end encrypted DMs from Germ DM buttons on friendsâ profiles. As Bluesky experiments with integrating compatible apps from across the AT Protocol Atmosphere, Germ DM becomes its first connected end-to-end encrypted messaging service. Get it all set up in the Germ DM app, available in the App Store.”
Self-Host Weekly (20 February 2026), by Ethan Sholly
- GitHub: mudkipme / MoeMemosAndroid: “An app to help you capture thoughts and ideas”
- GitHub: timothepoznanski / poznote: v.4.8.0
- Poznote
- I’ve been using Poznote a bit so i wanted to see what’s been added in the new version.
- GitHub: jamcalli / Pulsarr: “Pulsarr: Real-time Plex watchlist monitoring and content acquisition tool. Seamlessly sync Plex watchlists with Sonarr and Radarr, featuring intelligent predicated content routing, multi-instance support, Discord, and Apprise notifications. Automate your media library management with a modern, user-friendly interface.”
- GitHub: owenlejeune / ArrMatey: “A modern, all-in-one mobile client for managing your *arr stack. Built using KMP with native Jetpack Compose UI for Android and SwiftUI for iOS.”
- I’ve been keeping an eye out for something to replace an iOS app that was discontinued & integrated with the *arr’s. LunaSea was the app.
- GitHub: jezzlucena / caderno: “A privacy-first, self-hosted digital journal web application.”
- More notes \ journal services to try…
- GitHub: MickyGX / launcharr: “Launcharr is a Plex-authenticated homepage and control center for the Arr stack, download clients, and companion tools.”
- GitHub: karl-cta / onyka: “Self-hosted note app. Encrypted, real-time collab, ephemeral Sparks. Docker or Node.js.”
- onyka
- ALL THE NOTES…
- GitHub: Timmoth / RackPeek: “CLI tool to discover, manage, and document your IT infrastructure and home lab.”
- RackPeek
- Apparently some drama around this one… YouTuber pretty much ripping it off without credit?: “Earlier this week, tech YouTuber Raid Owl announced in a now unlisted video the release of Home Lab Hub, a blatantly vibe coded web app and flagrant dupe of RackPeek â a relatively new and similar project for documenting infrastructure that had been introduced to the YouTuber just a few days prior.”
- GitHub: afairgiant / MediKeep: “A lightweight, self-hosted application for managing your personal medical information. Keep your health records organized and accessible while maintaining complete control over your data privacy”
- “This project was formerly known as Personal-Medical-Records-Keeper and has been renamed to MediKeep.”
- I admit… i do use Apple Health for a lot because of the integrations, Apple Watch, etc. But i still want to look into this.
- GitHub: we-promise / sure: “The personal finance app for everyone. NOT affiliated with or endorsed by Maybe Finance Inc.”
- Sure: “The personal finance app for everyone. Sure is an all-in-one personal finance platform. Track, optimize, grow, and manage your money through every stage of life.”
- This was forked from maybe-finance / maybe that was archived Jul 27, 2025
- GitHub: seerr-team / seerr: “Open-source media request and discovery manager for Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby.”
- seerr Docs
- I believe i set this up a few months ago when it was announced, but haven’t done anything with it. Time to go back & take a look.
- Bitwarden: Security through transparency: ETH Zurich audits Bitwarden cryptography against malicious server scenarios