• The channel unpacked Linji’s “kill the buddha” maxim as a metaphor for rejecting fixed mental constructs rather than endorsing violence, framing it as a transhumanist call to continuously update one’s models.  
• Firefox OS (B2G) nightly builds are now available for Raspberry Pi, Galaxy S II, Nexus S, and any CyanogenMod ICS+ device; development is supported by a QEMU-based emulator and the r2d2b2g browser extension.  
• A live debugging session on paperbot, the IRC bot that fetches academic PDFs, revealed that IEEE Xplore downloads fail because the Zotero IEEE translator mishandles the “stamp.jsp” iframe chain; a workaround was proposed to regex-extract the direct PDF URL from <meta name="citation_pdf_url">.  
• Participants designed a pocket-sized, Raspberry-Pi-based live-music recording rig using a USB soundcard and a ½–1 in diaphragm condenser mic, concluding that microphone placement and quality dominate fidelity far more than the recording hardware.  
• ASUS Xonar Essence soundcards were highlighted for their socketed op-amps and a USB variant, enabling DIY analog-stage upgrades for portable high-fidelity capture.  
• A security flaw in httparty/multixml (similar to CVE-2013-0156) was disclosed with a proof-of-concept gist, underscoring the need for careful XML parsing in open-source tools.  
• LittleBits, the open-source modular electronics toy company, closed a $3.65 M Series A led by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, signaling continued investor interest in maker-oriented hardware.  
• DIY infrastructure issues on diyhpl.us were catalogued: the piny repo-creation tool fails to return git URLs, post-receive hooks throw “invalid revision range,” and the new-user CGI returns HTTP 500, impeding community code hosting.