Dispatches
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11 Sep 2026
Dispatch #16
Can a tiny open-weights model drive the agentic installer on a GPU-less laptop? We tried 1B, 2B and 3B models: only the 3B follows the install skill, and at 15 to 20 tok/s it is still too slow to be pleasant. Plus a preview of the seamless installer (a full clone of the system it installs, playable while installing) and a report from the Sovereign Stacks unconference in Lisbon.
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4 Sep 2026
Dispatch #15
A conversational installer: you talk to an agent, it probes the hardware, takes hostname, disk, encryption and the rest in any order, partitions with disko and has you running in 10 to 20 minutes — and because it is a full coding agent underneath, it can change anything else too. Plus cosmic-comp as the default compositor, config edits after install, and faster installs from a smaller closure.
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28 Aug 2026
Dispatch #14
The integrations settings GUI gets collapsed sections, clearer background-task state and relevance-sorted fields; banquette's shared canvas now syncs window positions between participants; nix-wormhole ships a build to a friend with a one-time code over croc; and Project Zero's @clanker can deploy itself, hold its own accounts and open pull requests against its own config.
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21 Aug 2026
Dispatch #13
Hermes reaches your phone over SimpleX Chat, with steadier MCP and Signal integrations and permission prompts for risky actions; the settings and integrations windows get atomic saves, honest buttons and live toggles; a banquette spike explores multiplayer shared desktops; and Project Zero returns as @clanker, a self-hosted bot loose in our Zulip.
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14 Aug 2026
Dispatch #12
Hermes boots dependably in its MicroVM and ships as a Clan service with a getting-started guide; integrations become self-contained sandboxed building blocks, with private web search through SearXNG, a reshaped Signal integration and a more stable Proton; and the first prototypes reach past a single machine toward a shared Space.
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6 Aug 2026
Dispatch #11
Hermes becomes the distro's default agent, shedding 50k lines of home-grown harness while keeping the sandboxing primitives; the default model lineup gets refreshed with g9v3, qwen3.5, minicpm5 and nemotron3-nano; and a new Offline Wiki skill answers queries against any zim without Internet.
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30 Jul 2026
Dispatch #10
Thinking beyond the OS: quiet week of bug fixes while Hermes cooks, a first sketch of what a Space is, Project Zero lets an agent build infrastructure from scratch on Hetzner, and Qwen 3.6 punches far above its weight.
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24 Jul 2026
Dispatch #9
A short update: Hermes lands as a sandboxed agent (WIP branch), a hardened `spaces.profile = "server"` server profile arrives, the project moves its git forge to git.geninf.io, and a public forum opens at personal.computer.
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16 Jul 2026
Dispatch #8
Sandboxed skills open up to other agents via MCP (e.g. Nous Research's Hermes), the voxterm-tuner voice-input GUI ships, and a single BIP39 mnemonic restores a whole machine with spaces-restore.
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9 Jul 2026
Dispatch #7
New agent sandbox lands (per-agent systemd units + Landlock), agent frontend explorations, voice input Tuner GUI, streaming STT with Nemotron.
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3 Jul 2026
Dispatch #6
Re-architecting agent/model/MCP communication for security, live audio transcription, Genode microvm progress, new release ISO.
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25 Jun 2026
Dispatch #5
Agent sandboxing with Landlock, better audio support, llama-swap hardening, pi-chat polish, new release ISO.
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19 Jun 2026
Dispatch #4
New forge on Tangled, voice integration, harness rework, desktop & web agents, new models.
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12 Jun 2026
Dispatch #3
Installer visual identity, voice input upgrades, mobile PWA, new Gemma models.
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5 Jun 2026
Dispatch #2
Spaces OS gets its name, first users, sway support, standalone agent + skills.
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17 May 2026
Dispatch #1
First dispatch: agentic desktop, harness, server, and OS distribution.