Good morning — it's Saturday, October 31, 2026. The lead: Ubiquiti's 800-metre Ethernet switch. From the bench: Clover-35B, a coding model that generates in parallel blocks. Plus a headless browser built from scratch in Zig. Don't keep us a secret: forward this to a fellow home labber, or share the web version.
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Every labber knows the rule: a copper Ethernet run tops out at 100 metres. Ubiquiti announced UniFi Long-Range Switching on October 27, and its Long-Range Switch 8 PoE claims eight times that: power and connectivity up to 800 metres, using PoE+++ and a Long-Range Endpoint at the far end. That figure is Ubiquiti’s own — an independent test reached about 600 metres, not 800.
The fine print: an endpoint is required; endpoints start at $99 and are IPX5-rated with surge protection. The switch is $249 at Ubiquiti's US store ($274 with the surcharge included), in stock when checked October 30 — a list price, not a deal. For your rack: the gate camera that used to mean trenching fiber is now, on paper, one copper run.
Clover is DiffuSpace's first model, released October 28. It is a diffusion language model derived from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: instead of predicting one token at a time, it starts each block masked and resolves the confident positions in parallel — built for agentic coding, where every step's delay compounds. Honest limits: a Preview; long generations can turn repetitive, and downloads are still small.
Verdict: on the one benchmark both Clover and its Qwen base class publish in text, this is effectively a tie — the story is the parallel generation, not a score gap. Higher is better; Clover's score is first.
SWE-bench Verified: 73.6 for Clover, 73.4 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — ahead by 0.2.
Terminal-Bench 2.1: 51.7 for Clover — DiffuSpace's harness only; Qwen3.6 publishes no 2.1 score in text.
Evidence: every Clover number is the vendor's own; the Qwen score comes from Poolside's table (vendor). No independent replication yet.
Setup notes: full precision needs about 69 GB of GPU memory; the homelab path is the vendor's 4-bit build, which DiffuSpace says (vendor) runs at 101.8 tokens per second on MATH-500 on a 16 GB RTX 5070 Ti. Serves via SGLang and llama.cpp. Difficulty: fiddly.
GitHub find: a headless browser built from scratch in Zig. Lightpanda is not a Chromium fork — it is a new browser with no graphical rendering engine, made for AI agents, at 38,506 stars under AGPL-3.0. Its Docker image serves a CDP endpoint on port 9222, it has a native MCP server, and its agent mode can run against local models via Ollama or llama.cpp. On its own benchmark it claims about 16x less memory than headless Chrome — the project's numbers, not ours. One catch: telemetry is on by default.
Strix Halo with a handle. ServeTheHome's October 29 review of ASRock Industrial's AI Box-A395 covers a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 tower with 128 GB of soldered memory and a screw-on carry handle at 2.8 kg. ServeTheHome (independent) calls it the fastest system of its kind it has reviewed. No price runs here: the review links only an affiliate listing.
Why this issue has no deal. Intel's third quarter, via ServeTheHome: data-center revenue of $7.3 billion, up 78%, while the client group fell 5%, with Intel citing memory shortages — and pricing pressure expected to persist into 2027. Our sweep found no clean discount worth naming.
Immich users: take v3.3.5 at your next window. The v3.3.5 release fixes a certificate-authority compromise and carries Node.js security patches. The project says it does not believe the compromise brings an immediate danger — and still recommends updating as soon as possible.
Saturday, 8:15 AM. Your media server is down and the family is asking why. The Docker host's disk is at 100%: one container updated overnight, switched on debug logging, and wrote a single log file bigger than the rest of the library combined.
Your call:
A. Prune everything Docker will let you — images, containers, and volumes — to get space back fast
B. Stop that one container, cap and rotate its logs, clear the runaway file, then restart it and set a disk alert
C. Grow the VM's disk, restart the stack, and deal with the logging later
100 Hero Points for the right call. Your score is on the outcome page, ready to share.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
— Albert Einstein
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