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Why do you use Linux? Why do you want to use Linux? This week Noah and Steve dig into their technology past and reflect on why a technologist would choose Linux and Open Source over the proprietary alternatives.

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01:08 Why I Use Linux - Ryan

• Opened my eyes
• Wide open
• Allows me to choose how to use my computer

02:40 405 Error "Method Not Allowed"

• DICOM Software
  • requires activation
  • activation server went away
• Online Game Activation
  • direct to drive
  • companies take the game with them
• Memories taken
• Steve's Story
  • Windows put you in a sandbox
  • Linux is nerdy and different
  • Unix philosophy
  • 2 parts Linux and Open Source
  • Reading source code
• Windows got better then worse
• 2 main professional automation systems
• Build systems independently then tie together
• Ruling things out
  • X10
  • zigbee
• Ruled in
  • ZWave
  • Shellys
• Home Assistant update broke Orbit Panels
• Breaking the automation network out
• Shelly integration methods
• Steve's Parent's Setup
  • RaspberryPi with Home Assistant
  • ESP8266 with door sensor

42:48 News Wire

• Calligra 4.0 - carlschwan.eu

• Calibre 7.17 - calibre-ebook.com

• KDE Gear 24.08 - kde.org

• EasyOS 6.2 - notebookcheck.net

• Linux Desktop Share All Time High - tomshardware.com

• Descent 3 Open Source Engine Release - gamingonlinux.com

• NVIDIA 560.35.03 - phoronix.com

• Arch Install 2.8.3 Adds COSMIC - phoronix.com

• Microsoft Confirms Breaking Linux Dual Boot - bleepingcomputer.com

• Zen 5 Chip Runs 16% Faster - tomshardware.com

• NASA Awards $1.4M - science.nasa.gov

• Pidgin Keylogger Plugin - pidgin.im

• Sedexp Malware - bleepingcomputer.com

• AI Powered Robots - iotworldtoday.com

• Dracarys LLM - venturebeat

• All Things Open Open Source AI Definition - blog.adafruit.com

• Linux turned 33 on August 25th

45:45 Long Term Investment

• Core business software is built on open source today
• Being told no is unappealing
• Being able to fix things
• Are you controlling the box or is the box controlling you?

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This week Steve gives a deep dive into his adventures with Frigate, an open source NVR software.

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00:46 Orbit Panels

• Installed at home
• First professional install
• Smart home issues

03:03 Oreon Desktop

• The Register
• Distro based on Alma Linux
• Hard to get commercial Linux desktop right
• Oreon Project
• Company has support
• Focus on the desktop
• Has lots of extra packages/software
• Focus on stability

10:08 Serpent OS

• 9 to 5 Linux
• Serpent OS Alpha release
• Ikey Doherty

11:55 Cosmic OS

• 9 to 5 Linux
• Pop!_OS 24.04
• Alpha release of Cosmic Desktop
• Built for users
• System76 Cosmic
• Easy to switch between traditional and tiling desktops
• Give System76 constructive feedback
• Available for many distros
• Tool kit is available on Mac and Windows

21:33 Buying/Owning Content

• ARSTechnica
• Roku axed Redbox app
• You don't own anything purchased on a "service"

24:45 Sous Vide Cooker to Charge

• App is 10 years old
• Charging a subscription fee
• Claim is to cover hosting and downloads of the app
• Why not open source the app/protocol?
• ARSTechnica

30:13 News Wire

• Batocera 40 - gamingonlinux.com

• Deepin 23 deepin.org

• TAILS 6.6 - torproject.org

• CockroachDB Licensing Change - techcrunch.com

• Mesa 24.2.0 - mesa3d.org

• Gentoo & IA-64 Itanium - Gentoo.org

• OMI Joined ORGS - theregister.com

• Hermes 3 - siliconangle.com

• NeuroTrALE - extremetech.com

32:00 Frigate Make Good

• Mostly user error
• h.265 vs h.264
• New release 0.14
  • complete rewrite of the UI
  • User permissions exist now!
• Got a response on Github!
• 6 cameras plus a doorbell
• RioLink HA plugin did magic
• Moved from HA to Ryzen 1700
• Power usage in HA vs Baremetal+GPU
• Network load
• Now up to
  • 125 watts
  • 5 disks
  • 64 GB of RAM
• Tying into Home Assistant
• Open Source taking over proprietary
• Documentation
• Getting things "dialed in"
• Passing on "tribal knowledge"
• Calculating RAM usage
• Predicts disk usage
• Don't put it on the same box as Home Assistant

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What if you could control your lights, music, and other Home Assistant things from a panel on your wall? Do you run tech at your church and need the ability to deliver controls in a way, in a location, and with a budget that's approachable for everyone? This week, Thomas Kvamme from Orbit Panels joins Noah and Steve to discuss his new in wall PoE control panels based on the Raspberry Pi, Streamdeck, and Bitfocus Companion!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

• Nice weather
• Little projects

01:45 Orbit Panels

• Thomas Kvamme - Owner and founder
• Why are you in ministry?
• Life before the stream deck
• StreamDeck
• Bitfocus Companion
• List of Bitfocus Companion Integrations
• Bitfocus Companion Satellite
• Proprietary alternatives
• Origin of Orbit Panels
• Orbit Panels
• Drop in replacement
• Design of the Orbit Panel
• Building an Orbit Panel
• How people use the Orbit Panels
• Home Assistant Integration
• Feedback on the panel
• Whats next?
• Available for sale!
• Use promo code LAUNCH for 10% off

45:00 News Wire

• Firefox 129 - mozilla.org

• Wine 9.15 - gitlab.winehq.org

• KDE Frameworks 6.5.0 - kde.org

• Gnome 46.4 - discourse.gnome.org

• PopOS! 24.04 - omgubuntu.co.uk

• OpenZFS 2.2.5 - github.com

• ZLUDA Take Down - wccftech.com

• DHS & White House $11M Partnership - therecord.media

• TUXEDO Infinity Flex 14 - tuxedocomputers.com

• CA AI Bill - reason.com

• Kernel Patch Boots Linux Faster - tomshardware.com

46:32 SimpleHelp - Brandon

• Tailscale/Headscale
• WireGuard
• RDP + VPN
• Simple Help instant support
• Proprietary is a place holder
• Mesh Central

49:09 Linphone SMS & VPN Question - Kris

• Google requirement is to support RCS
• Steve holding on 2.22.31
• JMP.chat
• Matrix and SMS
• Route back to home
  • OpenVPN
  • TailScale
  • WireGuard
• SurfShark
• Private Internet Access
• Host your own VPN on a VPS

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This week we dig into Steve's home assistant migration. We take your questions on how to get started with AI, a self hosted email horror story, and more Harbor Freight.

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01:25 OpenSource AI - Craig

• Defining "open source AI" is hard
• Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 1 : TextGen
• Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 2 : ImageGen
• The Artifical Dominion Matrix Chat
• What do you want to learn?
• LM Studio
• GPT4ALL
• Haven't found a "safe for work" visual AI
• Glue cheese
• Stable Diffusion morality filter

10:50 Self Hosted Email Story - Yassine

• Noah is still gun shy on self hosted email

14:24 Security and Calendaring - Dan

• VPN back in
• 3rd party brokers
• Synology Surveillance Station
• WireGuard
• Punch a hole in the firewall
• Dangers of punching a hole
• CalDav
• Proton Mail calendar
• Nextcloud calendar
• Home Assistant calendar
• Radicale

28:51 Harbour Freight - Hank

• Snap-on feedback
• Mechanic vs DIY
• Still making hobo freight argument

31:51 Android Alternatives - Jayden

• Sailfish OS
• Ente Auth
  • Cross-platform
  • Better than Authy
• e/os or Murena

36:56 News Wire

• LANL Fierro - ladailypost.com

• Aloha Browser - accesswire.com

• GCC 14.2 - gnu.org

• GNU Binutils 2.43 - lwn.net

• Peazip 9.9 - peazip.github.io

• Firefox 129 - mozilla.org

• Amarok 3.1 - kde.org

• Azure Linux 3.0 - phoronix.com

• Serpent OS Pre-Alpha - serpentos.com

• Nitrux 3.6 - sourceforge

• Linux 6.9 EOL - lwn.net

• SLUBStick - securityweek.com

• DEV#POPPER - thehackernews.com

• TgRat - scmagazine.com

• RayV Lite - tomshardware

• DCLM on HugginFace - computerworld.com

• Flux - decrypt.co

39:45 Secure Boot

• 100s of PCs sold with 12yr old and compromised platform keys
• Can see the use case
• threat model
• Locking subsidized hardware
• Technical merits vs implementation
• Key management
• stalkware breach
• theregister.com

52:56 Home Assistant Migration

• Worried about thermals
• Critical
• Steve's kid gets clever
• Home Assistant notifies based on MAC address
• Noah's ethernet bathroom adventures
• Migrating Home Assistant
• Benchmarking
• Operating system choice
• Networking
• RHEL faster and more power efficient
• Home Assistant notifications

1:10:30 Frigate

• Frigate NVR
• Always on recording
• Documentation is hard
• NUC couldn't handle 6x 1080p Cameras
• GPU faster but more power hungry
• Challenges
• Still early days for Frigate

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This week Steve returns and we dig into your feedback! Kenny joins the program and shares his horror story in the continuing saga of buying and owning tools that you can rely on, authy is going away for GrapheneOS users, what's the best way to handle 2fa on GrapheneOS?

-- During The Show --

01:00 Steve's Crowdstrike Fall Out

• Waited 10+ hours at the airport
• Stream of ppl to wait with
• Steve's restraunt tangent
• Too much homogeneous systems
• Windows 3.1 meme
• Lost sight of critical paths

08:40 Netbox Feedback - bloominstrong

• Excited about the product
• Struggle to get things in
• Struggle to get things out
• Always plan how to get things out

11:35 Why I Use Linux - Jeremey

• Free
• Secure
• Flexible

12:20 decloudus.com - Jason

• 2 versions of the S10
• Noah's phone plan
• GrapheneOS requires a chip in Pixels
• Noah's Dad on GrapheneOS
• Authy on GrapheneOS
• Bitwarden 2FA
• Dark open island

22:55 Caller Chris from Canada

• Moving from MBR to UEFI
• Linux Mint backup tool
• Cowboy approach
  • Install apps
  • Transfer home directory
• When to use the latest release
• Keeping computers synced?
• Nextcloud
• Seafile
• Syncthing

34:12 News Wire

• Deepin 20.9 - Deepin

• Vanilla OS 2 - VanillaOS

• Linux Mint 22 - Linux Mint

• Wine 9.14 - WineHQ

• IDE Qt Creator 14.0 - QT

• Git 2.46 - GitHub

• SysVInit - GitHub

• TinyWatch S3 - CNX Software

• White House on AI - ABC News

• NIST AI Safety Platform - SC Magazine

35:10 "Hobo Freight"

• Kenny Schmidt
• 3 tools broke
• Glad some tools where cheap
• Repeat tools
• Impact of breakage on the job
• Watch the warranties
• Wouldn't buy a second time
• More caution at harbor freight
• Dead blow hammer
• LubeLogger
• Keeps the economy going

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This week Noah takes you through what happened with the Crowdstrike incident, and how you could prevent a similar catastrophe with free and open source software. System76 announces a release date for Cosmic DE alpha. The Immich team is.

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Crowd Strike Outage

• Caused by defective update
• Affected all Windows computers
• 8.5 Million Windows machines rendered unusable
• Flights grounded
• Entire health care sectors shut down
• Kernel vs User mode
• WHQL Certification
• Crowd Strike had a WHQL Certification
• Anti-virus
• Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and/or anticipated threat detection
• Channel Files
• Microsoft could have provided an API
• EU requires Microsoft to provide the same access Windows
• No checks on the channel file
• Crowd Strike Falcon set as "boot-start driver"
• April 21st 2010 McAfee deleted svchost.exe
• George Kurtz CEO at both McAfee and Crowd Strike during the incidents
• Handing off risk/PCI
• We understand less and less
• Understand your critical paths and have a back up
• Hair shop "crash kit"
• Cold spare emergency laptops/servers
• Test on small set up machines then deploy
• Don't push to prod on Friday
• Keeping up to date is the best defense
• Have a roll back plan
• USE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
• Linux Crash Restoration (The Register)
• SystemD Automatic Boot Assessment
• Phoronix
• Wazuh Post
• LibreNMS
• CISA.gov
• Tech Crunch

38:18 News Wire

• Linux Mint 22 - ZDNet

• OpenMandriva 24.07 - OpenMandriva.org

• KaOS Linux 2024.07 - kaosx.us

• EXT4 Optimizations - Phoronix

• Open Source GPU Drivers - ZDNet

• Switzerland Requires Open Source - ZDNet

• AI Model Rivaling OpenAI and Google - Washington Post

• Groq's Llama AI Tops Leader Board - Venturebeat

39:25 System76 Cosmic Alpha Release

• August 8th
• What other company is focused on the Linux desktop?
• System76 decided to make their own desktop, Cosmic
• Constant friction if forking another DE
• Clean slate approach
• System76 survey
• System76 has been dog fooding
• Modular design
• Enabling "desktop experiences"
• Try Cosmic and give polite productive feedback
• System76 Transmission Log EP 10

48:52 Immich

• New License
  • Individual $24.99
  • Server $99.99
• Immich came from a developer who wanted to replace Google Photos
• Experience is better than Google Photos now
• FUTO grant allows full time development
• Go fund open source

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This week Dan Noal Director, Product Management at Red Hat for In Vehicle OS joins us to tell you why your car needs and operating system, and why Red Hat is ready to meet that need. Chris Wright the CTO of Red Hat joins the program to discuss Red Hat's strategy for AI.

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This week Mauro Gaspari and Lukas Märdian join us to give us a deep dive into using Netplan on an Ubuntu vHost. We give you a self hosted way to track your car's maintenance, and a suite of tools to use if you work in production or in live performances!

-- During The Show --

00:40 Cosmic Desktop

• Started with Elementary OS
• External displays
• Cosmic is a complete remake
• Cosmic splits the difference
• i3 shortcuts
• Releasing this fall

07:30 3CX vs Asterisk - jisbetterthanj

• 3CX 20 stamps out all open source clients
• Have you opened Asterisk to the internet?
• Write in about your open source VOIP experiences

10:18 Steve VPN

• Split VPN issues
• Guide followed

12:00 Vehicle Regulations

• Legislation requiring things
• Manufactures making it harder to work on vehicles
• Advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology
• Automatic Shutoff Technology (HR 3684 Section 24205)
• LubeLogger
• LubeLogger YouTube Video

19:51 News Wire

• New Gnome Font - OMG Linux

• Firefox 128 - Mozilla

• Finnix 126 - Finnix

• Cmake 3.30 - Cmake.org

• GnuCash 5.8 - GnuCash

• OpenSSH Vulnerability - Marc.info

• Eldorado Ransomware - Tha Hacker News

• Gogs Flaws - The Hacker News

• Hot Plugging RAM - Toms Hardware

• Monocle - Help Net Security

• Multi-Token Prediction Models - Silicon Angle

• RTX Remix Rest API - Toms Hardware

21:35 NetPlan

• Mauro Gaspari
• Lukas Märdian - NetPlan Maintainer
• Bridging libvirt with NetPlan
• Special thanks to
  • Lukas Märdian
  • Danilo Egea Gondolfo
  • Robert Krátký
• 3 Scenerios
  • Single host, single NIC with bridge
  • Single host, single NIC, with VLANs and bridges
  • Single host, multiple NICs, with bonding, VLANs, and bridges
• NetPlan
  • Why it exists
  • What it is
  • Where and how is it used
• Canonical Open Documentation Academy
• You can contribute with out knowing code or command line

40:00 Stage Hacks

• Stage Hacks.com
• VDO Ninja
• Tally Arbiter
• OnTime
• StageTimer.io
• Dicaffine
  • NDI streamer for Linux
  • HX and restreaming via RTMP
  • Donations welcome
• DeckRack
  • mounting hardware for Stream Decks
• Docs site
  • Exploring the network
  • Sound reference
  • Cabling and more
• Production has unique technology challenges

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Why do you use Linux and what problems do you run into? Both Noah and Steve make a value based decision when approaching tech, this week we dig deeper into why we choose to run Linux on the desktop. Could you power a 12v light, or 100 watt Ham Radio with a USB-C battery pack? Noah will tell you how doing so gave him light in his garage. Buckle your seat-belt, it's a packed show!

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00:50 Intro

• Deepin Desktop
• Why do we run what we run
• Ownership of skills and resources
• 3 Categories
  • Disposable
  • Service
  • Owned
• Linux is the only OS that allows you to own your computer
• Main stream wants "IT as a service"
• Why are you using Linux?

08:50 Alternative Phone OS - Don

• ATT installed apps
• GrapheneOS
  • Used to rough edges
  • App issues
  • SeLinux
• ANS 368
• GrapheneOS privacy features
• LineageOS

15:38 ProxMox and OPNSense

• Passing the NIC solves the problem

16:39 Protecting Hard drives (encryption?) - Markus

• LUKS
  • Key can be separated from the drive
• Layered encryption
• ZFS encryption
• GPG

20:23 Generating Your Own Power - Jim

• Pedal power
• Favorite feedback yet

22:22 Generating Your Own Power - Jim

• Dry contact
• 2 ways Shellys work
• CHECK YOUR MANUAL
• Typical wiring

27:30 Steve's Home Automation failure

• What do you do when critical automations fail
• 2.4 GHz WiFi keeps dropping
• Reach out to community/someone smarter
• Have a "fallback"
• Everything operates independently
• Home Assistant "stitches it all together"

31:30 News Wire

• Debian 12.6 - Debian

• Plasma 6.1 on Endeavor OS - EndeavorOS

• Leap Micro 6.0 - openSUSE

• Pipewire 1.2 - freedesktop.org

• OpenShot 3.2 OpenShot

• Wine 9.12 - WineHQ.org

• WSL2 Upgraded to Linux 6.6 - Phoronix

• SSHD Vulnerability - Developer-Tech.com

• CocoaPods Vulnerability - PC Mag

• Memory Unsafe Code - Tech Republic

• Ladybird Browser - Ladybird

33:22 Owning USB-C Power

• Noah's garage light
• M4 LEDs
  • Designed to be left on
  • High quality chips
  • 10-30v
  • USA Warranty
• INIU Powerbank
• 12v trigger

38:08 Supreme Court Decision

• Texas and Florida laws challenged
• Art Gallery comparison
• Supreme Court
• You are either responsible or not
• Moderation
• Violation of law vs Editorial
• Write in, what do you think?
• Network effect
• The Register

49:30 Chevron Case

• 40 year precedent reversed
• The Register

51:40 Element X

• Sign in via QR code
• Biggest PITA & Blessing True E2EE

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01:20 Pocket 386

• IBM compatible system
• It's a toy
• Classic vs today's games
• Electrical components in power systems
• ARSTechnica
• Aliexpress

06:15 Tor Browser 13.5

• VPN camp vs Tor Camp
• FBI drops cases rather than reveal methods
• Fingerprinting
• EFF Cover your tracks
• Letter boxing
• Using Tor
• EFF SSD
• 9 to 5 Linux

13:30 Tails

• Amnesic Incognito Live system
• 6.4 Highlights
  • random cryptographic seed
  • switch to HTTPS for repos
  • updates to Tor and Thunderbird
• Noah's tor laptop
• 9 to 5 Linux

16:30 SIP & 3CX

• SIP and Astrisk
• 3CX dropping SIP/STUN support
• SIP only needs
  • user name
  • password
  • server
• SIP gets blocked
• 3CX Tunneling
  • in app
  • SBC
• Supported phones
  • Fanvil (Cheap Chinese)
  • Yaelink (Cheap Chinese)
  • Snom (German)
• Cisco and Polycom are the biggest
• Businesses already have phones
• ISPs are the biggest competitor
• Limited support phones
  • Gigaset
  • Grandstream
  • Polycom
  • Cyberdata
• Proprietary is a place holder
• Phone network is "un-ownable"
• Grandstream UCM
  • ATA in
  • ATA out
  • FreePBX under the hood
• DTEC
• WiFi Phone Grandstream WP825(https://www.amazon.com/Grandstream-WP825-IP-Phone-Bluetooth/dp/B0BJKP1H8F)
• RSSI Beep
• Grandstream FXO Gateway
• Vodia
• VitalPBX
• Yaestar
• FreePBX
  • Refreshed UI
  • All options available
  • Paid commercial modules
  • Admin module
  • Any SIP trunk (including JMP.chat)
• SIP on Mobile
• Linphone
• Bria
  • Google Play
  • Apple Store
• Voxtelesys

46:30 News Wire

• Emacs 29.4 - GNU.org

• Plasma 6.1 - KDE.org

• Darktable - Darktabnle

• Tor Browser 13.5 - Tor Project

• Openshot 3.2 - Phoronix

• Monochrome TV Mode - Phoronix

• Intel Battlemage - Phoronix

• MLinux 45.1 - 4MLinux

• Tails 6.4 - [Tails](htps://tails.net/news/version_6.4/)

• Rafel RAT - The Hacker News

• Patched Ollama Vulnerability - The Register

• Chameleon AI modles - Toms Guide

• 1.5 NPU Driver - Phoronix

• Apple Open-Source Models - Apple Insider

• Mozilla AI - Mozilla

• MoonIndex - Phys.org

49:00 KDE 6 Plasma Desktop

• Kubuntu standard issue at Altispeed
• Polished out of the box
• Explicit Sync
• New remote desktop
• X2GO

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01:50 Music Production On Linux - William

• MuseScore
• LMMS
• Audacity
• Write in if you do music on Linux!

05:45 DIY Smart Plug - Charlie

• Instructables
• TH3D Studio
• Enough electricity it could kill you

09:15 Thoughts from the AMA - Steve S

• "good enough"
• "Class of tool" vs "disposable"
• CLECs moving away from copper
• Convert to VOIP and ATA
• Cell companies not held to the same standard
• Right tool for the right job

17:30 Frappe.io - theendbeta

• Frappe.io
• Looks cool
• Lots of apps
• Haven't used it

22:00 News Wire

• Perl 5.40 - Perl Doc

• Tor Browser 13.0.16 - Tor Project

• Firefox 127 - Mozilla

• ICEWM 3.6 - Github

• Cinnamon 6.2 - OMG Ubuntu

• Opensuse Leap 15.6 - Opensuse

• Open Standards - Health Care IT News

• Open Source Summit - PR News Wire

• In-Vehicle Linux Milestone - Businesswire

• DISGOMOJI - Bleeping Computer

• Unity Catalog - Datanami

• OpenVLA - Venture Beat

• OpenSora - GitHub

• Stable Difusion 3 Medium - Stability.ai

23:20 NetBox Interview

• Adam Kennedy - Senior Network Admin
• Network documentation
• NetBox
• Single source of truth
• DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management)
• Holds tons of information
• Documenting changes
• Importing/Exporting information
• Netbox and Ansible
• Extra information

34:00 Best Practices

• OS Ticket - Client notes
• Markdown docs
• Plain text
• Explorable and discoverable
• GNS3
• NetBox falls down with multiple clients
• Menu Bar hides
• What is standard documentation?
• 3 Choices
  • Plain text
  • Wiki system
  • Purpose built software
• Good to re-evaluate from time to time
• Cost of up ending the apple cart

48:00 Alerts

• What is a good alert?
• They need to be actionable
• What the problem is
• How it happened
• Where do I go
• Why dashboards are bad
• Ticket back log
• Human attention

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01:40 Frigate

• Documentation
• Performance
• Room to grow
• Couldn't record on bare metal
• Stream selection
• Hardware conundrum
• Coral USB Accelerator

14:52 - Staying In Touch With Kids - Norm

• Libertarian view on tracking
• "chipping"
• JMP.chat Sim Service
• Matrix Server Guide
• Simplex Chat

24:00 News Wire

• Firefox 127 - Mozilla

• KDE Frameworks 6.3.0 - KDE

• Ubuntu Core - Ubuntu

• AlmaLinux On Pi 5 - Alma Linux

• Parrot OS 6.1 - Parrot Sec

• BlendOS v4 - BlendOS

• OBS 30.2 - Phoronix

• MEGALODON - InfoQ

• Stable Audio Open - Music Business World Wide

25:11 Tiny Ramdisk

• Tiny Ramdisk
• Uses
  • Large projects
  • Analysis of numerous small files
• Saves to drive
• Effect on shutdown/startup time?

29:00 Presentations

• Effectively conveying information
  • Visually interesting
  • Imagery not text
  • Dark background and light text
  • Unscripted as possible
  • Engage the audience
  • Well placed audio/video clips
• Game show/keep it simple
• Start with "you/your" and "feel"
• Start in their world, move to yours
• Most important things
  • Path
  • Children
  • Wallet
  • Health
• Being a "good audience"
• Steve's "superfan"
• Don't stay just to stay
• Ask questions
• Get contact info

49:50 Blend OS

• BlendOS
• Rudra Saraswat
  • very sharp 14 year old
  • also maintains Ubuntu Unity
  • Mentored by Simon
• 9 to 5 Linux

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01:10 Noah & Steve War Story

• Pivoted to installing a doorbell
• ReoLink doorbell
• App is needed for setup
• Frigate
• Back to WiFi
• Changed management port
• Reset/VLan snafu
• Dell 7330 no network port
• Endless OS can't install tools
• "Mission Mode"
• Switch was bad
• WiFi issue
• ZWave vs ZigBee
• "Known Quantities"
• Next steps
  • Spectrum analyzer
  • Laptop couldn't connect to phone WiFi
• When is proprietary management ok?
• Simple and elegant
• Buy for life vs Harbor Freight

29:30 News Wire

• Flowblade 2.16 - Phoronix

• Nitrux 3.5 - nxos.org

• KaOS 2024.05 - kaosx.us

• Linuxlite 7.0 - Linuxlite OS

• Gnome 46.2 - Discourse Gnome

• Wayland - 1.23 - Freedesktop.org

• Linux 6.8 EPL - Linux mailing list

• Linux Steam >2% - Gaming on Linux

• Linux Mint & Flatpaks - Phoronix

• RTX Remix Going Open Source - Tweak Town

• CVE-2024-1086 - The hacker News

• QuasarRAT - Dark Reading

• Free Kaspersky Tool - ZDnet

• LlamaFS - Mark Tech Post

31:18 Minimum Viable Drums

• Hydrogen
• Pattern based sequencer
• Very user friendly
• LPD8

34:08 Firewall - David

• Support moving off proxmox
• Sophos more than enough
• You have to "buy" PFSense now
• Altispeed going to OPNSense
• Sophos XG135

39:50 Red Hat Interview

• Steven Huels - Vice President & General Manager of Artificial Intelligence Business, Product and Strategy at Red Hat
• Podman AI
• Customization
• Stability AI collaboration
• Stability AI models
• Larger AI picture
• Natural extension into AI space
• Red Hat cloud data platform
• Predictive vs Generative AI
• What does open source mean to you?

52:26 SELF

• Live Stream 9-10am Fri/Sat

• Meetup

  • Friday June 7th 6pm

  • Pinky's Westside Grill

    1600 West Morehead Street
    Charlotte, NC 28208
    (704)-332-0402

• Steve's Talks

  • VMs in containers
  • SRE Alerting
  • SRE Observability Noah's Talks
  • Open Sourceing a mall
  • Matrix Meeting people where they are

• RagChew

  • Friday 6pm central

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00:55 Steve's WiFi Problems

• Multiple APs
• 70+ Access Points

02:23 Guacamole Conversation - Joey

• Steve's presentation?
  • SELF puts them online
  • Steve might have a copy
• Restricting to IP
  • Don't use as sole defense
  • Shields from "script kiddies"
  • Block based on GeoIP/Country

08:50 Watch Axis Camera in VLC - TwoBit

• Steve routes them into Home Assistant
• ispyconnect.com
• Generated view URL ``` rtsp://admin:[email protected]/onvif-media/media.amp

#### 11:48 News Wire

* Linux 6.10 RC - [Linux Mailing List](https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2405.3/01595.html)

* RISC-V Rust Support - [Phoronix](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-RISC-V)

* NFS v2 Being Disabled - [Phoronix](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-NFS-Client)

* Alpine Linux 3.20 - [Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.0-released.html)

* Handbrake 1.8 - [Handbrake](https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=53)

* New Tuxedo Hardware - [Tuxedo Computers](https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Stellaris-Slim-15-Gen6-INTEL.tuxedo)

* IBM & AI - [Silicon Angle](https://siliconangle.com/2024/05/21/ibm-pivots-focus-code-generation-open-source-granite-generative-ai-models/)

* AMD Acquiring Nod.AI - [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/amd-to-acquire-nodai-boosting-its-open-source-ai-software-capabilities/ar-AA1i02AI)

#### 13:11 Marknote

* [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/)
    * Closed Source
* You can install KDE apps on Windows
* Very early in development
* [KDE Apps](https://apps.kde.org/marknote/)
* [Marknote Flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.marknote)

#### 19:15 KaOS 24

* [Linux IAC](https://linuxiac.com/kaos-linux-2024-05-released/)
* Arch based
* Takes peices from many distros
* [KaOS Base](https://kaosx.us/about/based/)
* [BcasheFS](https://bcachefs.org/)
* Snap Shots in Linux
* [RHEL ABI tracking](https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/RHEL-based%20distro/index.html)
* Steve would go Red Hat now

#### 28:40 Ubuntu 24.04 & MILK V & MARS RISC-V

* RISC-V SBC
* Forward thinking design of Linux
* [9 to 5 Linux](Ubuntu 24.04 / MILK V & MARS RISC-V)

#### 31:13 Kaspersky Research

* Increase in Linux cyber attacks
* More Linus
* Crime moving to "cyber"
* More people "at home"
* Keep your box up to date

#### 33:58 Ansible Interview

* Matthew Jones - Chief Architect of Ansible Automation for Red Hat 
* Kaete Piccirilli - Director, Product Marketing, Ansible Automation
* Brief description of Ansible
* Requirements for Ansible
* [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/)
* [Ansible Lightspeed](https://developers.redhat.com/products/ansible/lightspeed)
    * AI model trained for Ansible
    * Good starting point
    * Set of tools around Lightspeed
    * On premise Lightspeed
    * LLM hallucinations
    * Lightspeed adding "documentation"
    * Preventing data leaks
* Ansible secrets best practices
* Encrypting a playbook
* Content signing & verification
* Ansible education
* Event driven Ansible
* What is new this year
    * Policy as code
    * EDA
* Making Ansible Galaxy more "decentralized"
* Making Ansible more efficient
* What is next for Ansible

#### 51:15 SELF

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• Nitro Phone
• Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS flashed on it

05:58 Remote Access Via Browser? - Craig

• Ethical/Liability issues
  • Work policy violations
  • Retroactive punishment
• Apache Guacamole
• Security concerns
• Set up a box on a VPS
• Boot off a flashdrive

13:42 App Image Allows Total Control - Charlie

• Apps Steve "pins"
• CurseForge

News Wire

• Firefox 126 - Mozila

• Mir 2.17 - Phoronix

• Tails 6.3 - Tails

• Endless OS 6 - Endless OS

• Wine 9.9 - Wine HQ

• XFS - Phoronix

• Open Smart Glasses - Gizmodo

• Hackbat - ZDnet

• 2 Year Infection - ArsTechnica

• Open Source AI OSI Initiative - IT Pro

16:50 Linux Challenge Coin

• Not sure how to do this
• 4 Pillars
  • People are behind the tech
  • When Technology is at it's best it is Open Source
  • Knowledge should be shared to empower users
  • Be willing to do the work they don't want to do
• Mind Drip Doc
• [LinuxChallengeCoin.com](linuxchallengecoin.com)

34:45 Red Hat Interview

• Vincent Danen - Red Hat VP of Product Security
• SBOMs & Red Hat's response to the XZ vulnerability
• Benefit of open source
• Firebird project
• Don't restrict who can be a maintainer
• Red Hat's reaction to XZ vulnerability
• Effect of people supporting up stream
• Paths and tactics
• Investment in Open Source

48:30 AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee (ALESCo)

• Alma Blog
• Open ELA
• What standards are being "centered on"?
• How is this different from Open ELA?

52:00 SELF MeetUp

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00:50 SELF Announcements

• Ironing out meetup details
• AMA session
• War stories
• Steve's talks
• Retro installs

04:00 Landline to Wireless? - JM

• Bell S60900
• DECT
• EnGenius Long Range
• NewEgg link
• VOIP
  • Base
  • Phone
  • Point to Point Link

10:20 News Wire

• Dillo 3.1 - Dillo Git Hub

• RHEL 9.4 - Unix Sysadmin

• Alma and Rocky 9.4 - Alma Linux - Rocky Linux

• Fedora Asahi 40 - Ars Technica

• Manjaro 24 - Manjaro

• KDE Framworks 6.2 - KDE

• Linux 6.9 - lkml.org

• Linux Libre 6.9 - FSFLA

• Linux on Amazon Devices - OMG Ubuntu

• Granite AI Models - Forbes

• Romanian LLM - The Recursive

11:35 Matt Hicks Interview

• Matt Hicks - Red Hat CEO
• How does Red Hat stay on top of new technologies?
• Future of AI?
• 90s Linux mindset?
• AIX
• Service aspect, solving customer problems
• Making the software work for the customer
• People want on prem
• Involving open source community
• Open source and AI
• How does Red Hat stay competitive with massive AI models?
  • IBM and AI
  • Know where you get your data from
  • Small highly trained models
• Matt Hick's geek projects
  • Door Bell
• Matt Hick's Daily Driver
  • Fedora 40
  • Dell laptop

29:38 KeePassXC

• Debian developer removed functionality from KeePassXC
• Debian developer refused to restore functionality
• KeePassXC developer pushed people to use FlatPak
• We trust distro maintainers
  • We don't want to do it our selves
  • Largely thankless job
• Functionality is necessary in today's age
• It's a package not a plugin
• Talk to the software developer first?
• Why not have a separate "secure" package?
• At some point you have to allow user choice
• What does "stable" mean?
• Noah's Flatpak Remmina
• Flatpak themeing
• Linux IAC
• Debian.org

45:00 Endless OS 6

• Based on Debian 12
• Gnome 43
• Pipewire audio
• Endless OS offline for Noah's kid
• Endless OS is opinionated
• 9 to 5 Linux
• System 76 and Pop! OS

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00:50 Red Hat Summit

• In Colorado
• Corporate vs Community events
• Red Hat feels like the "big brother of open source"
• Red Hat's dedication to open source

04:20 Charlie responds to Steve - Charlie

• ReoLink Cameras Suggested by Charlie
  • RLC-510A (POE/Night Vis) (No PTZ)
  • RLC-520a (POE/Night Vis) (No PTZ)
  • RLC-810a (POE/Night Vis) (No PTZ)
  • Steve's ReoLink PTZ (Reolink TrackMix PoE 4K Dual-Lens)
  • ReoLink camera is Noah's "make good camera"
  • Electrical Power
  • ESP32 with LORA
  • Off Grid comms
  • 900 mhz

12:20 Dealing with conflict of interest - Brandon

• Client continuing to "milk you"
• Clients will respect you more for setting boundaries
• Steve's solution
  • Communicate in writing
  • Ask what the client wants
  • Write out what you remember
  • Don't do anything more
• Noah's solution
  • Be a good listener
  • Documentation for past work ok
  • "how would you do...." not ok
  • Have a frank conversion
• Don't be afraid to let a client walk

20:30 Proton mail discloses user data? - Charlie

• Restore Privacy Article
• Email is not secure
• Proton has never exposed contents of email
• There has been some misreporting
• Meta data is not encrypted
• Proton is not a shroud for illegal activity
• All companies are required to follow laws
• Does shutting down "server their customers"?
• Technology has limitations
• Operational security
• Proton mail contested a lot of requests

29:40 Matthew Miller Interview

• Matthew Miller - Fedora Project lead
• Fedora 40
• CentOS Stream forks from Fedora every 3 years
• XZ Utils Vulnerability
• Requiring "Gov ID" can be detrimental
• Open Source allowed for attribution
• Is Fedora a target?
• Mailing lists to Discourse
• Email is becoming a "captured system"
• Impact of having discussions "searchable"
• Feedback needs to be constructive
• Mediation
• Get involved with Fedora!
  • AI and ML
  • Boot-able containers
  • Documentation
  • Design Team
  • Moderation/Communication
  • Event organizing
• FLOCK
  • Contributor focused conference
  • Brings contributors together
  • In person connections are important
  • Nest with Fedora
• What skills does a person need?
  • Sales
  • Coordination/Project Management
  • Room for all levels of skills
  • Good place to learn skills
• What does open source mean to you
  • Friends Features Freedoms First
  • Important for people to "own their OS"

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This week it's a recap of Linuxfest Northwest! We circle back to creating your own ISO, and we'll touch on the recent events in the Nix Community have resulted in Jonathan Ringer no longer be fulfilling the role of release manager.

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00:48 Steve's Camera Experiences

• Axis PTZ camera died
• Factory reset
• Replaced with Riolink camera
• Be aware of what you are buying

08:00 Arcolinux for Building ISOs - Wiggy

• Automate logins
• Selenium
• Kwallet
• Arcolinux

13:20 Home Assistant ESP32

• ESP32 devices falling off the network
• Trouble shooting
• Solution

#### 19:32 Tempest Weather Station

• Tempest Weather Station
• Can find other local stations

20:57 Fixing Dad's House

• Overview of nightmare
• Shelly Pro 4 PM
• ZigBee Network Scene Controller
• ZWave Network Scene Controller
• Portable/Small Scene Switch
• Aeotec Aeon Labs WallMote
• Aeotec NanoMote Quad

26:20 System76 Interview

• Carl Richell - CEO of System76
• Cosmic Gnome Shell
• Building Cosmic Desktop
  • Built in Rust
  • Tiling WM
• High positive response
• Did you think System76 would get into software development?
• How it works
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Cosmic GitHub

38:35 Boot.dev

• Gameified backend coding platform
• Not a bootcamp or degree
• Gameified learning is not always practical
• Gameified learning may not keep you motivated long term
• Boot.dev
• Scrapli
  • Python library for configuring network devices

47:30 Nix Drama

• Jonathan Ringer no longer release manager
• There is a human on the other side of the keyboard
• How is this "inclusive and accepting"?
• Many open source projects came from tax dollars
• Focus on meritocracy
• Singling out a person is sad
• Hope it all works out
• Save Nix Together
• Nix News
• Kilo Byte Size

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00:50 10 Year Hardware Plan - Caller

• Extended warranty support from hardware company
• Offer your own extended support
• Cold Shelf
• 3-5 years seems acceptable
• Tolerance for business continuity

06:08 NFS

• Moral of the story
• Trouble shooting process
• Inner workings of NFS
• R and W size

11:55 UI for Building ISO - A

• Typical ISO building process
• OpenSUSE Build Service
• EaseUS Utility
• Very time consuming
• Image the system

15:14 Networking for Libvirt - Carey

• Cockpit
• macvtap Red Hat Doc Arch Wiki
• Do you need VMs to talk to the Host?

18:30 Self Hosted Email Feedback - Michael

• Biggest challenge
  • DKIM
  • DMARC
  • SPF
  • Reverse Lookups
• Noah is not in the "host your own email" camp
• Looking for reasons to "say no"
• Seen lots of Gsuite and Office365 not setting up records correctly

21:14 Encryption, Email and Wifi questions - Nikki

• Tang & Clevis - automated decryption on boot
• What is your attack vector
• Red Hat Knowledge base Article

25:12 Gmail Alternative - Nikki

• Why Proton subscription
• Catch all domain
• Filtering email
• Tutanota
• Fast Mail
• Anything is better than Gmail

29:23 News Wire

• Fedora 40 - Fedora

• Tails 6.2 - Tails

• Lakka 5.0 - Lakka

• Wine 9.7 - GitLab

• LXQT 2.0 - LXQT

• Firefox 125 - OMG Ubuntu

• Audacity 3.5 - Git Hub

• OpenSSF CISA DHS and SBOMs - SD Times

• Cerber Ransomware - SC Magazine

• Akira Ransomware - The Hacker News

• Phi-3 LLM - axios.com

• Meta Llama 3

• Gentoo Rejects AI Code - The Register

Linux in Your Car

• ARS Technica
• Software defined vehicles
• System 1
  • Power train
  • ABS
  • Traction Control
• System 2
  • Camera
  • Ultrasonic Sensors
  • Self Driving Systems
• System 3
  • Infotainment
• System 4
  • Climate
  • Lighting
• System 5
  • Master control over everything
• ISO 26262
• 4,000 Linux security patches in 8 years
• Red Hat heavily investing in automotive

37:25 Miracle WM

• Wayland tiling window manager
• Tiling window managers are for more than just text based
• Where tiling WM don't do as well
• Linux IAC
• The Register

40:46 Mir & Wayland

• Mir now serves as a Wayland compositor
• Mir office hours
• Are we Wayland yet
• X server is still very solid
• Crashes X vs Wayland
• Wayland paper cuts
• Waypipe

45:41 QT Ubuntu 24.04

• The Register
• Kubuntu switching to Calamares installer
• Ubuntu Flutter installer only on "Main Ubuntu"
• Kubuntu has Plasma 5
• Lubuntu has LXQT 1.3
• AppArmor namespace Etcher issue solved
• Steve's choice of Distro
• Noah and flatpaks
• Steve moving away from Ubuntu to RHEL and Arch

52:28 Announcements

• Linux Fest North West
  • April 26-28 2024
  • Bellingham Technical College

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00:50 MIDI

• MIDI a better mouse trap
• Pitch bending
• Special snowflake
• Firewire hardware
• Motu UltraLite AVB
• Ardour
• Musicians please send in feedback!

11:25 News Wire

• Dynebolic is Back - ZDnet

• OpenSSL 3.3 - OpenSSL

• OpenTTD - OpenTTD

• Ardour - Ardour

• KDE Frameworks 6.1.0 - KDE

• Descent 3 MIT Licensed - Gaming on Linux - Github

• Opentofu vs Hashicorps - Opentofu

• Huggingface Updated - Venture Beat

• Samll Verson of LLaMA-3 - CCN

• Spectre v2 Attacks - Bleeping Computer

• OpenSFF and OpenJS Foundation Warning - Computer Weekly

12:56 Framework Laptops

• Matt Hartley Linux Support Lead
• Reddit welcome post
• First impressions
• Assembly
• How Framework supports Linux
  • Officially supported distros
  • Community support program
  • Community support
  • Ansible for other distros
• Support
• Framework 16
• Alternative uses of Frameworks

27:48 Tailscale

• Tailscale
• Alex Kretzschmar
• How Tailscale stays free
• How to get started
• How Tailscale works
• Headscale
• Tailscale for business (Paid)
• Features

35:37 QLC+

• QLC+
• DMX
• Lighting Control Boards
• Lighting Cues
• DMX King
• Chases
• Built in web interface
• Network interfacing
• Elation Enode4
• Please write in about lighting on Linux!

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01:20 Hardware

• Protectli
• $170 Chinesium Device
• Lenovo Thunderbolt Dock
• CalDigit Thunderbolt Dock

09:19 Graphene OS - Craig

• GrapheneOS
• Moving away from phones
• JMP.Chat
• Conversations
• Gajim
• Linphone
• JMP.Chat phone service
• LineageOS
• PostmarketOS
• SailfishOS
• Titan M chip
• Had pretty good luck on ebay
• NitroKey/NitroPhone

25:55 NixOS Thoughts - Jeremy W

• Where NixOS is useful
• "Productised" NixOS
• Set people up for success

32:58 Self Hosted Email - Jeremy H

• Write in and tell me about your self hosted email experiences

34:54 News Wire

• German State Moving to Linux - ARSTechnica

• Kodi 21.0 - Kodi

• Nitrux - nxos.org

• Ubuntu 24.04 Delayed - Toms Hardware

• EndeavourOS ARM Discontinued - EndeavourOS

• Linux 6.7 EOL - Server Host

• QT Creator 13 - QT

• FFmpeg 7.0 - FFmpeg

• Dtrace 2.0 - Phoronix

• AURORA-M - Mark Tech Post

• Gretel AI Text-to-SQL - Mark Tech Post

• Viking Model Family - Mark Tech Post

• Framework Hiring - Phoronix

36:26 Bell Canada is deleting DVR/PVR recordings

• Steve hates Bell Canada
• Marriage photographer story
• HDCP
• HDCP Stripper
• OREI HDMI splitter

43:03 Windows Upgrades/Updates

• Windows 10 EOL October 2025
• Extended Security Updates (ESUs)
• Microsoft will charge for updates
• ARS Technica

46:06 Germany Switching to Linux

• Linux solves "Windows high hardware requirements"
• Schleswig-Holstein developing open source directory service
• LiMux from Munich
• Steve's take
• [Lxer.com](lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=339628)
• ARS Technica

51:10 American Privacy Rights Act

• [Fusion Centers](lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=339628)
• IQT
• Tax dollars funding data collection companies
• The Register

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What's the best way to roll central authentication? What's the best Google replacement suite? This week Noah and Steve dig into hosting questions, as always your calls go to the front of the line!

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01:36 PHP, Kanban etc - Joe

• Nextcloud Deck
• Our Note Organizer

03:40 NIX Feedback - Alexander

• People time rank/prioritize
• "What problem does it solve" is a framework
• Effective evangelizing
• Making something "sticky"
• No bad questions

13:22 Caller Tony from Toronto

• Central Authentication?
• FreeIPA
• Samaba4 Distros
• Zentyal

20:48 Grimnir from Mumble

• Volumio
• Locking it down
  • SSH
  • Samaba
• Home Assistant
• Adding music
• Separate Volumio from the PI

25:00 Nextcloud? - Craig

• Nextcloud is challenging on iOS
• Head Scale
• SpiderOak
• Immich
• SeaFile
• Encrypt locally, then upload to "cloud"
• Fastmail

36:20 Vivaldi & Hosting questions - Ben

• Hugo
• Altispeed Hosting
• Vivaldi

41:25 Database Questions - Anton

• Argument against DIY
• OpenEMR
  • Open Source
  • No lock in
  • Form editor
  • CPT/ICD10 codes
• WikiJS
• Weasis

47:26 News Wire

• OSI Election Results - opensource.org

• Red Hat Nova - lore.kernel.org

• Linux 6.9 RC - lkml.iu.edu

• Regata OS 24 - betanews.com

• Wine 9.5 - gitlab.winehq.org

• Kafka UI 1.0 - GitHub

• Firefox 124 - Mozilla

• Gnome 45.5 - Gnome

• Gnome 46 - Gnome

• Emacs 29.3 - Gnu.org

• Cmake 3.29 - Cmake.org

• OpenVPN - OpenVPN

• SysVInit 3.09 - Phoronix

• Docker 26 - Docker

• Lemur Pro - System76

• Devika - Market Tech Post GitHub

• Ubuntu LTS 12 Year Support - How To Geek

49:05 Shufflecake

• Shufflecake
• Linux encryption tool
• Makes hidden volumes
• Spiritual successor to TrueCrypt and VeriCrypt
• GPG encryption

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Scale

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• Krita talk
• HPC (High Performance Computing)
• Ubuntu and Matrix
• What problem does Nix solve?
• Future adoption of Nix?
• Flox
• Sat night dinner
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• Making and keeping connections

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00:50 Noah in CA

• CA experience
• Noah is in CA for SCALE

02:00 Windows For Charity - Wayne

• Separate task from desire
• Linux is non-profit's best friend
• Windows doesn't want you as a customer
• Snowflake Windows software
• Remmina
• ThinLinX
• Convincing mode
• Noah's strategy

13:00 KDE - Hank

• Versioning

14:45 News Wire

• Linux Reaches 4% - Network World

• Zorin OS 17.1 - Zorin Blog

• Kdenlive 24.02 - Kdenlive

• Neptune 17 v6 - Juno Computers

• GTK Accessibility Improvements - GTK

• LXQT Wayland Ready - Phoronix

• Linux 6.8 - OMG Ubuntu

• Linux 6.9 Rust Toolchain - Phoronix

• NerbianRAT - ARSTechnica

• CISA OSS Summit - Security Magazine Axios

• Grok AI Going Open Source - Reuters

• Opus 1.5 Upgrade - Opus Codec

16:22 Task Management

• How do you track things
• Multi sources of tasks
• Super Productivity
• Simple Time Tracker
• Kanban boards
• Nextcloud Tasks
• Nextcloud Deck
• WeKan
• How Steve uses kanban boards
• Advice to others

35:30 Ilan Rabinovitch Interview

• Anita Zhang
• Julia Programming Language
• Autumn Nash - Women in Open Source
• Being intentional and aware
• SCALE Next Generation
• Bill Cheswick - Security
• Community Events
• Youth programs

• Presentations to look forward to

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How do you balance the stress of tech with the benefits? Noah and Steve dig through the delicate issue of work life balance.

-- During The Show --

01:00 Migrations Complete!

• $22/month on EMS to $50/month Self Hosted

02:30 Ajit Praise - Cory

• Their are cultural differences between Japan and the US
• Most of us want "maximum absence of coercion"
• People have different views of "justice"
• Internet going from luxury to necessity in a generation
• Still learning the effect of internet and technology
• Book recommendation The Master Switch
• Moral compasses
• Things are moving fast in multiple directions

12:40 Django vs PHP - Joe

• Batteries included approach
• Open Source Tech Training Overview
• Our Note Organizer (GitHub)

15:40 Naelr from Mumble

• Suggestion: iRedMail
• Suggestion: MailCow
• Mail in a Box
• Noah has not decided to self host email
• Going on 3 months of Microsoft unable to send email to Yahoo

23:20 Smart Vacuums - Charlie

• Tech should be there from me
• Some smart vacuums can be locally controlled via MQTT
• Home Assistant integration
• Some smart vacuums can be "flashed"
• NY Times
• Digital Trends

28:00 News Wire

• OpenSUSE systemd-boot - OpenSUSE

• Tails 6.0 - Beta News

• KDE 6 Update - How To Geek

• Gnome Variable Refresh Rate - GitLab

• GDB 14.2 - Phoronix

• Shotcut 24.02 - GitHub

• Gparted 1.6 - Source Forge

• Distrobox 1.7 - Phoronix

• Linux 6.8 Back on Track - The Register

• Ubicloud AWS Alternative - Tech Crunch

• AMD's HDMI 2.1+ Rejected - Tech Radar

• GTPDOOR - The Hacker News

• BIFROSE - The Hacker News

29:25 Balance of Technology

• Shut off all devices for 1 Day
• Noah has staff
• You have to have a passion for IT to work in IT
• Example of a day off win
• Work Life Balance
• Steve's experience
• Turning off the device and walking away can be the best choice
• It can be challenging
• Turn the box off
• Responsibility/Stimulus
• Noah's experience and reaction
• Finding a win
• Cancel Culture
• Face to Face vs Online communication
• Book Recommendation Irresistible

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01:13 Creating Training Content - Jeremy

• Clients will not send you questions ahead of time
• Customization is work
• Traditional training
• Custom corporate training
• Business models

08:32 Running Docker as non-root - Joshua

• What putting your user in the docker group does
• Depends on what you are trying to achieve
• Passing the docker socket into a container
• Running daemons as root
• Mandatory Access Control
• Podman

13:50 Security Camera Recommendations - Kevin

• Reolink POE
• Axis Product Selector
• Axis Lens Calculator

18:15 HVAC Auotmation - Kevin

• DIY
• Johnson Controls
  • Very expensive
  • Very proprietary
• Honeywell RedLINK

22:47 Manjaro Question - Chris

• Launch application from the command line
• Write in if you can help!

24:36 Smart Home Concerns - Micah

• Privacy Concerns
• X10 was horrible
• Use purpose built components
• Things should last 10+ years
• Putting things on the network
• Network island

32:09 News Wire

• Firefox 123 - Mozilla

• Ardour 8.4 - Ardour

• RawTherapee 5.10 - RawTherapee

• Sway 1.9 - Git Hub

• Tiny Core - Tiny Core Linux

• NTSYNC RFC - Its Foss

• Steam Audio Apache-2.0 - Foss Force

• Ubuntu 22.04.4 - Phoronix

• More Libreboot Hardware - 9 to 5 Linux

• SSH-Snake Weaponized - The Hacker News

• Gemma AI Models - Fortune

• AWS Mistral - Venture Beat

• Seeking Input on AI Guardrails - Washington Examiner

34:00 USB-C Docks

• Minimum viable battle station
• USB-C refers to the physical connector
• Thunderbolt Controller
• Thunderbolt 4 dock
  • backwards compatible with USB
• Noah's home dock
• Anker USB-C dock

40:50 Mikes Boxes

• US delivery address for Canadian customers
• Django
  • framework for building applications
  • open source legos
• Python works, batteries not included
• Customizing things can be difficult
• Frameworks are good for 80% of use cases
• Once a maintainer
• Greatfull to all the people in open source
• Talk Python To Me
  • Episode 437
  • Episoide 428
  • Episode 379

48:10 AT&T Botched Update

• Offered $5
• Noah didn't notice
• Ticket Master worked on GrapheneOS

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01:18 Ajit Pai Feedback - Chris

• The question is "when to regulate"
• Purpose of govt is to protect people
• Bad situations exist
• Internet is becoming essential

05:58 Self Hosting Email - Jon

• Dealing with black lists stinks
• Security is a moving target
• Project like Nextcloud incorporates email
• Down time responsibility
• Noah is NOT in the "go host your own email boat"
• Simon's Cisco link
• Email security requirements

13:34 FrePBX and Firewalls - Austin

• Sangomakb Knowledge Base
• FreePBX has evolved
• Don't expose anything you don't have to
• Noah's home setup
• Voxtelesys & 3CX

17:15 Long Term Backups? - Charlie

• Don't store long term data on flash media
• Used drives can be ok
• 3-2-1 Rule
• Test your backup

18:49 SkoobaSteve Over the Air TV

• HDHomeRun
• Network TV
• Self host TV

21:38 News Wire

• Linux Kernel CNA - Kroah.com

• Firefox 123 - Mozilla

• Auto cpufreq 2.2.0 - GitHub

• Miracle-wm - GitHub

• Louvre 1.2.0 - GitHub

• RISC-V Kernel Builds - Phoronix

• Asahi & OpenGL - Ars Technica Apple Insider

• E-Gov Diia - Twitter

• freenginx fork - Ars Technica

• Wi-Fi Auth Bypass - Security Week

• Migo Malware Campaign - Info Security

• Ivanti Pulse Secure Weaknesses - The Hacker News

• Ubiquiti Routers Infected - Ars Technica

• Cohere Aya Model - Siliconangle

24:38 Kubuntu Interview

• Rick Timis Kubuntu Consular/Community Manager
• Simon Quigley Kubuntu Member
• What happened?
• What would have been the future of Kubuntu?
• How did Rick get involved?
• Bringing the consul together
• What does Kubuntu look like going forward?
• Is Kubuntu considering the new flutter installer?
• Downstream vendors/use cases
• Kubuntu hardware partners/vendors
• Kubuntu support
• JPL Helicopter

40:40 Cloud vs Self Hosting

• Ars Technica
• Can you blame Wyze for not securing the feeds?
• Wyze cameras go offline due to AWS
• 3rd party caching client
• 2nd leak in less than 6 months
• If code is not open source, no one can raise the alarm
• Eufy lied about not uploading data
• Ars Technica
• If it's not client side encrypted, it can be leaked
• The Register
• Centralization of services
• Open source can be fixed
• Closed source, helpless
• If you care about privacy, host it yourself on open source

51:10 Chat room feedback

• Plex and Jellyfin can be used as HDHomeRun receiver

51:30 Kubuntu Design Contest

• Kubuntu Design Contest

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01:50 Noah's Cloud Experience

• Paramount attaches to google account
• Google locks out account
• Experience was terrible even when it was working
• Artificial barriers encourage piracy
• Google continues to charge card after closing account

07:20 Nextcloud Issues - David

• Apple shuts down 3rd party sync
• iPhone automation to fire the Nextcloud app
• Add CardDav/CalDav account
• Contact sync guide
• Check "pathing"
• Report the issue to container maintainer
• What the Nextcloud all in one container does
  • Pulls down other containers
  • "black box"

15:54 Encrypted files help - Joshua

• Master source of truth
• Attackers target samaba shares
• PGPtool
• ZFS encrypted volume and manually load/unload key
• Encrypted containers
  • Veracrypt
  • KDE Vaults
• Purpose of encryption
• Write back in with use case!

24:52 Linux Consulting? - Jeremy

• Make sure your employer is cool with it
• Networking
• Look in the community
• Job boards

31:54 Home Assistant & Door Bells - Eddie

• Riolink python library
• Use Home Assistant automation
• Noah's setup
  • Generic SIP = phone portion
  • Generic RTMP = Camera portion
  • Generic GPIO = Control

38:51 Niche Distros

• Can be special snowflakes
• Nobara
  • Based on Fedora
  • Made by glorious eggroll folks
• GoboLinux
• Why not just use "configure package" on base distro?
• Appliance distros have their place
• ElementaryOS
• Endless OS

50:38 EMS Migration

• EMS responsive, great docs
• No insight
• EMS left instances running past shut down date
• Don't run two servers at once