• The channel debated the security model of Apache running as root, clarifying that only the parent process retains root privileges while child workers drop to www-data, making the practice widely accepted.  
• After an ext4 crash erased two days of lifelog data, fenn demonstrated a forensic reconstruction using receipts, shell/browser history, and notes, then committed to daily backups as a resilience practice.  
• kanzure released a dynamic tag cloud (http://designfiles.org/~bryan/meetlog/tags.html) generated from his personal meetlog and proposed “time-weighted” tag clouds that apply exponential decay or SuperMemo-style forgetting curves to surface recent topics.  
• Participants defined open-source hardware as requiring open CAD/schematics, Git-based revision control, perpetual redistribution rights, and fully open toolchains; RepRap and MakerBot were praised, while Tito’s $200 gel box was criticized for proprietary SketchUp files and lack of collaboration infrastructure.  
• kanzure and Houston DIYbio organizer Jacob sketched “Gnusha,” a Kickstarter-like platform (opensciencefund.org) to fund and distribute open DIYbio kits under OSD-compliant licenses, with Fundscience.org floated as a potential partner.  
• TimSchmidt announced major RepRap progress and a new 3-D printer design with a 14 × 22 inch build area, while kanzure offered to source an IBM Model M keyboard for the build.  
• Technical links shared included FCC broadband.gov feedback, synthetic-biology conference (avakado.eu), MakerBot filament backpack, RepRap Bowden paste extruder developments, PubSubHubbub/OStatus for federated status updates, and DIYbio Budapest coverage on biopunk.hu.