661: Sink Your Claws In

661: Sink Your Claws In

From LINUX Unplugged by Jupiter Broadcasting

April 5, 2026 · 1h 4m · Episode 661

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The episode discusses the journey and challenges of working with open source agents.

The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington Preferring Local OSS LLMs Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B Open Models have crossed a threshold Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device Gemma-4-31B-JANG\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face mesh-llm — 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 — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — 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…

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Host: Chris Fisher

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Organizations: Managed Nebula, Defined Networking, Google DeepMind

Products: Gemma 4, Qwen3.5 27B, Gemma4 31B, hermes-agent, goose, Lobehub

Places: Bellingham, Washington

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