OpenClaw, MCP Bridges, and Agent Security

Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here!

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
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• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• stahnma (Michael Stahnke)
• Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily
• Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael
• Nix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALE
• stahnma/mandatoryFun
• Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.
• distrostru's gatus config
• Status Page On Demand | Gatus
• MimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.
• hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices
• Pick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream
• Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.
• Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server
• Pick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders
• wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching