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This week Noah and Steve outline where you should leverage automation and rely on it, and when it's good to have a backup plan.

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02:00 Podcasting 2.0

• Podcasting is changing
• Thank you

05:00 Retro Tink

• RetroTink designed for retro gaming

06:22 Luanti

• Mine Test Blog
• $2.5B paid for Minecraft
• celeron55 took on the challenge of making a similar game
• MineTest took over in Noah's house
• MineTest expanded way beyond just a Minecraft clone
• Luanti
• Voxel Libre

16:00 When to Automate

• A different way to tackle the problem
• Automation vs by hand
• Nix
• Maintaining old versions
• Learning something new vs using what you know
• Shifting paradigms

38:30 Windows S Mode

• People have tremendous patience for MS but not Open Source
• Windows S mode only allows software from the MS Store
• Requires purchasing a key

43:30 Microsoft 360 Outage

• Service announcement delayed
• No one at Microsoft to communicate with

45:00 Windows Server Update Mistake

• Upgrade flagged as security update
• No license check

48:00 Windows Thin Client

• Box connects to cloud desktop
• MS pushing people off Windows 10
• Things are moving to cloud services
• ArsTechnica

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Mike McGrath joins the program and we get an update from Red Hat. This week we dig into week 2 of Steve's Desktop Linux struggle.

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01:00 Hex OS - Craig

• Self host
  • Files
  • Pictures
  • Home Assistant
  • Jellyfin
• Wants a GUI
• Like the idea of ZFS Snapshots
• Go simple
• You should know how to fix things
• Cockpit

11:25 News Wire

• Wordpress 6.7 - wordpress.org

• Postgres 17.1 - postgresql.org

• Peazip 10.1 - github.io

• DigiKam 8.5 - digikam.org

• Systemd 256.8 - github.com

• Linux 6.12 - lwn.net

• GNU-Linux 6.12 - phoronix.com

• Quadruple Workqueue Concurrency - phoronix.com

• Q4OS 5.7 - q4os.org

• RHEL 9.5 - github.io

12:33 Mike McGrath Interview

• Drama around RHEL source code
• Fedora and Streams
• Accelerators
• How does Red Hat keep up
• Xorg and Wayland
• Remote Desktop on Wayland
• ELS
• 32bit
• Package Mode vs Image Mode
• RHEL AI
• Low power computers/systems
  • Micro DNF
  • UBI
• OS Tree
• Bootstrap/Build kit
• Red Hat AI Licensing
• What does open source mean to you?

33:43 Steve's Desktop Adventure

• Issues with desktop going to sleep
• Build on your knowledge base
• NixOS
• Local Flatpak Cache
• Flatpak size
• Ansible
• Why multiple files
• Outside and inside chroot
• Cinnamon Desktop

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Tim Flink, a Senior Quality Engineer from Red Hat joins us to talk about AI on Fedora. This week Noah and Steve talk about their struggles with the Linux Desktop.

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02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth

• The plan
  • Locked down second hand Android device
  • Ting Flex plan
  • Tracar
• JMP.Chat Sim Plan
• Mint Mobile
• Steer people away from sms/calls
  • Matrix
  • Telegram
  • etc

08:47 News Wire

• Calibre 7.21 - calibre-ebook.com

• Cmake 3.31 - cmake.org

• Curl 8.11 - curl.se

• Scraperr 1.0 - github.com

• LXQT 2.1 - lxqt-project.org

• Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 - ubports.com

• Debian 12.8 - debian.org

• Torvalds 2.6% Performance Patch - theregister.com

• 3800% Performance Improvement - phoronix.com

• CRON#TRAP Malware - thehackernews.com

• AMD OLMo LLM - computerworld.com

09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat

• Where should you start with AI?
• PyTorch
• Orders of magnitude faster on a GPU
• VRAM is the biggest factor
• How is Fedora using AI?
• OpenQA
• RocM and PyTorch
• Efforts around packaging
• Why are you focusing on RocM?
• Where is a good place to help out?
• AI/ML SIG
• Containers coming
• What does open source mean to you?

22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher

• Docker Compose Pastebin
• Docker Logs Pastebin
• Docker internal DNS having issues

24:36 What's the deal with Linux Desktop Environments?

• Steve's workflow
• Static vs Dynamic approach
• How close can I get to immutable with flatpaks
• Software KVM
  • Synergy (proprietary)
  • Barrior (abandoned)
  • Input Leap
• 3 Monitors, 2 horizontal and 1 vertical
• KDE hates Steve
• NVIDIA drivers
• Why is it so hard to put software in hardware?
• Ubuntu won't say its up to date because of Ubuntu Pro
• Can't install LibreOffice on Ubuntu because of Snap
• All operating systems have issues

45:20 MacOS vs EndlessOS vs Windows 10

• Mac Book
  • No working battery
  • Disposable
  • 3+ Hours just to install the OS
• ThinkPad with EndlessOS
  • Flatpak for Office 365
• Windows
  • Can't upgrade to windows 11
  • Windows 11 requires online account
  • Windows 11 requires TPM chip
• 2 People both chose the EndlessOS
• Endless OS
  • No forced updates
  • All the icons right there
• Open source
  • Allows you to fix things
  • Unix philosophy
  • The answers are there

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This week on Ask Noah we dig into Cosmic desktop and talk about what to do when self hosting goes wrong!

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01:48 Cosmic Desktop - Dan

• Cosmic will be the desktop for System76 computers
• Built for System76
• Cosmic DE still Alpha/Beta
• Been running Cosmic for over a month

07:38 Caller

• KVM/VirtManager performance
• Virt IO Drivers
• Correct ZFS block size for QCOW2
• Synchronous vs Non-synchronous writes
• ZFS Intent Log (SLOG/ZIL)
• 64k Record size
• Turn on virtualization in UEFI
• Enable "write a shift"
• Check the cables

16:50 Cosmic Desktop - ZFS - Rob

• Hardware
• HDD Failure after re-silvering
• Preventing bit rot
• 3 disks vs 2 disks
• ZFS Send/Receive vs Rsync
• Sanoid
• Limit the bandwidth
• Total data vs Total Bandwidth
• Synology is not open source
• Just install an OS and packages

30:55 Zed Editor

• Website
• Steve uses Nano not Vim or Emacs
• Thoughts on IDEs?
• VSCode and VSCodium
  • Electron
  • Lots of extensions
• Failed to get to the website
• AI is not appealing
• Written in Rust
• Native Linux support

37:41 Steve's Tech failures

• Nextcloud Collaborative Editing
  • Fighting with Collabra
  • Tried docker and podman
  • Tried bare metal
  • Tried a VM
• Nextcloud Deck
  • It works
  • Not awesome
  • Colors not working
  • Trello import
• Frigate took down Home Assistant
  • Frigate filled /tmp and root
  • Hard locked the server
• Tail Scale on IOS
  • Doesn't work intermittently
• Do you enjoy fixing problems?
  • Case by case basis
• Time is the most valuable thing

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This week Robie Basak joins Noah from the Ubuntu Summit and gives an introduction on how to get started contributing to Ubuntu.

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01:26 HexOS - Craig

• Start with the Command Line
• When is a GUI appropriate
• Start with
  • make a ZFS pool
  • make a samba share
• Help us understand your goal
• What is HexOS
• Ubuntu and ZFS
• DKMS
• kABI
• Advantages of TrueNAS
  • Snapshots
  • Send/Receive
  • 1 Click Re-silvering

17:08 Questions about HDMI switch - Andy

• Theater Receiver
• Decimator

21:14 News Wire

• SQLite 3.47.0 - sqlite.org

• Peazip 10 - github.io

• Jellyfin 10.10.0 - jellyfin.org

• EasyOS 6.4 - puppylinux.com

• Gnome 47.1 - gnome.org

• Tor Browser 14.0 - torproject.org

• AlmaLinux Kitten 10 - almalinux.org

• Gentoo & DTrace 2.0 - gentoo.org

• NASA $15.6M Grant for Open Source Tools - spaceanddefense.io

• Open Source Printable Lathe - hackaday.com

• Thelio Astra - system76.com

• Eight Nvidia High Severity Vulnerabilities - forbes.com

• OpenSSL 3.4 - github.com

• IPS Snort v3.5 - github.com

• Parrot OS 6.2 - parrotsec.org

• New Granite 3.0 - zdnet.com

• HUGS - reuters.com

• SynthID Now Open Source - theverge.com

• Mochi 1 - venturebeat.com

• Ubuntu Turns 20 - ubuntu.com

23:23 Robie Basak - Ubuntu Technical Council

• What drew you to Linux?
• Why did you decide to work for Canonical?
• What is the Ubuntu Technical Board?
• Difference between Ubuntu and Canonical
• The process of granting commit rights
• Conflict resolution
• Cloud init
• Unique ID
• Ubuntu Summit
• Range of interaction
• Membership Board Meeting
• Full Hour Long Meeting Recording YouTube

43:40 Fedora 41

• Fedora 41 available early!
• New DNF
• bootc
• Plasma Mobile Spin
• Fedora Magazine
• Minisforum v3
• Steve, Fedora, hardware

50:30 Russian Kernel Maintainers Removed

• Greg Kroah-Hartman removed them due to "various compliance requirements"
• Removed developers Russian and not minor contributors
• We live in a world where decisions are made for political reasons
• zdnet.com
• therecord.media

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This week Steve gives a deep dive into Widevine Encryption. We love encryption when it protects our data, but what do we do when encryption prevents us from doing the things we want to do over the internet?

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00:50

• Which is easier kids or dogs?

01:57 Succession Planning - Steve

• Secure vs accessible
• Steve's plan
• Infrastructure as code
• Critical path continuity
• Nix maintains old packages
• Techie friends
• Sleuths setup/plan
• data separation
• Noah's plan

20:29 News Wire

• Solus 4.6 - getsol.us

• Sysvinit 3.11 - phoronix.com

• Calibre 7.20 - calibre-ebook.com

• Ardour 8.10 - ardour.org

• Wine 9.20 - gitlab.winehq.org

• ReiserFS Removed in Linux 6.13 - phoronix.com

• RHEL AI 1.2 - zdnet.com phoronix.com

• New Malware Raids ATMs - arstechnica.com

• Roundcube Webmail Exploit - bleepingcomputer.com

• Critical Firefox Bug - nvd.nist.gov

21:23 Widevine

• Widevine is DRM created by google
• Most major streaming services use widevine
• CDM hardware
• Levels of Encryption
  • L3 software based, least secure
  • L2 largely not used
  • L1 hardware supported, most secure
• Wedding photographer
  • Photographer requires no other photos to be taken
  • Photographer goes out of business
  • Dr Phill did a show on it, got the the photos back
  • NVR recordings are going away
  • NVR prevented getting the recording off
  • Devices identify what they are
• Industry went to STI HD not HDMI
• Industry moving to NDI
• OREI HDMI Splitter
• US law allows you to backup content you own

43:45 Caller Sleuth

• How do you separate and backup data at Red Hat
• OADP
• Depends on the technology

46:46 On Call Article

• Register Article
• Company didn't pay the bills
• Wanted things done in a hurry
• Required past due and current call upfront
• Router set to factory default
• After getting back to the office, found out colleague reset router
• Ethical dilemma
• Why spend more effort on a non-paying client?

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This week Noah and Steve dig into thoughts for light switches if you're starting from scratch. Do you work in a small closet that's been turned into an IT room? Noah gives you a recommendation for a small portable travel laptop stand. With under a year left to switch to Windows 11, there's a surprise at how many people have yet to upgrade. We talk about why that is.

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01:07 Caller

• Would you still go with lutron?
• ZWave kit GE & Brighton
• How Noah looks at automation
• Lutron RA2
• Zwave and Home Assistant
• Industrial system design
• Shelly Pro
• Orbit Panels

11:26 Journal Block Device not loaded - John

• May be using a file system with out journalling
• May be using a file system Lynis can't detect
• GitHub Issue

13:25 Thoughts on AXIS Q9307-LV? - Jeremy

• All Axis cameras work
• Frigate NVR & Home Assistant
• Synology Surveillance Station
• ONVIF

18:45 Listener Suggestions for Nextcloud Issues - Joe

• PHP 8.3 vs 8.2
• Disable Nextcloud Talk
• Check compatibility of apps
• Browser cache

20:38 New Godot fork - Charlie

• Redot
  • GitHub
  • Website
• Let's see if its successful

23:12 News Wire

• OpenSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 - opensuse.org

• Leap 16 Development - opensuse.org

• Ubuntu 24.10 - canonical.com

• Tails 6.8 & 6.8.1 - torproject.org

• OpenBSD 7.6 - openbsd.org

• KDE Turns 28 - kde.org

• KDE Frameworks 6.7.0 - kde.org

• KDE Plasma 6.2 - kde.org

• Linux 6.10 EOL - endoflife.date

• Qt 6.8 LTS - qt.io

• Python 3.13 - awakenerd.com

• RPM 4.20 - rpm.org

• Wayland-protocols 1.38 - freedesktop.org

• Distrobox 1.8 - github.com

• Inkscape 1.4 - inkscape.org

• OpenTV 1.0 - github.com

• OpenRazer 3.9 - phoronix.com

• Pyramid Flow - Venturebeat.com

• NVLM 1.0 - infoq.com

• Significant Rise in Malicious Software Components - csoonline.com

25:18 Instand

• Random "IT Rooms"
• Instand
• Pros and Cons
• Traveler Guitar

35:50 Windows 10 EOL In 1 Year

• MS Requires TPM Chip
• "Biggest CTRL-ALT-Delete in history"
• People calling for extending Windows 10 Support
• Not in the users interest
• 3 year cycle companies shouldn't have an issue
• Switch to Linux
• Steve's thoughts
• Windows 11 has half the users of Windows 10
• Chance to make the case for desktop Linux
• Take a minute to think
• The Register

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This week Aaron Prisk and Jason Nucciarone join the program to talk about Ubuntu Summit 2024. We dig into your feedback and talk about the benefits of immutable operating systems.

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00:55 Intro

• Steve's WiFi issues
• Printer issues
• Nextcloud issues

07:46 Arch and Mandatory Access Control - Baker

• Why Steve chooses Arch
• Arch doesn't enable "auditing" in the kernel
• Other Mandatory Access Control
• SELinux
  • Will tell you what to do
  • Don't shut it off
  • Permissive Mode
• Arch is the most "vanilla" distro
• Things do break in Arch, and other distros
• Consider Arch

17:42 Printers - Rabin

• Steve uses Brother printers
• Till Kamppeter ANS 368
  • Buy Brother
  • Use IPP/IPPS

20:56 Charlie Asks The Audience

• Self Hostable Web based CRM
• Designed for both IT professionals and tradesmen
• Can:
  • Assign Staff
  • Assign Jobs
  • List Stock
  • Quote Job/Task
  • Invoice
  • Produce list of stock which is needed to buy as stock is low/empty
• Easy Appointments
• InvenTree

23:50 News Wire

• AntiX 23.2 - antixlinux.com

• Nitrux 3.7 - nxos.org

• Qbittorrent 5.0 - qbittorrent.org

• Firefox 131 - mozilla.org

• Network Manager 1.50 - networkmanager.dev

• Ardour 8.8 - ardour.org

• FWUPD 2.0 - github.com

• Rocky Linux from CIQ - insidehpc.com

• Pine64's E-innk Tablet - howtogeek.com

• Perfctl Malware - thehackernews.com

• Nvidia Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com

25:00 Ubuntu Summit Interview

• Aaron Prisk
• Jason Nucciarone
• What is Ubuntu Summit
• Renamed "Ubuntu Summit" from "Ubuntu Developer Summit"
• Target audience for Ubuntu Summit
• Talks about Rust
• Matthew from Matrix
• Matrix in Canonical
• Getting the flavors together
• Community Teams
• Ubuntu Summit

45:00 Noah's Imposed Handicap

• Build service infrastructure
• Secure enclave
• Valve heading a specific direction
• SteamOS is immutable
• Use Tails for a daily driver
  • Includes basic tools
  • Can update keys
  • Can clone itself
  • Persistent storage
• Gnome
• KDE Plasma
• Everyone should have a Tails drive
• Endless OS

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This week we dig into the Verizon outage. We'll talk about why and how you can host your own communication infrastructure, so an outage is less detrimental to your life!

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01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou

• How Steve takes notes
• Standard Notes
• Joplin
• Simple Mobile Tools
• Fossify
• Nextcloud Notes app
• Collabra

09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron

• Issues with Ubuntu
• Go for Fedora
• Endless OS
• Write in with your Ubuntu issues
• Mind Drip One Offline Windows Setup

15:27 Audio Issues

• Mixer died
• Loaner from company
• Got the board fixed
• Sample rate changed
• Sample rate manually fixed and digital recorder back in production

17:48 News Wire

• Firefox 131 - mozilla.org

• FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org

• GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org

• Postgres 17.1 - postgresql

• Winamp Source Code - bleepingcomputer.com

• Liya 2.1 - notebookcheck.net

• Arch and Valve Collaboration - lists.archlinux.org

• Tails and Tor Join Forces - blog.torproject.org

• Statial-B - hackaday.com

• Molmo Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com

18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue

• Installed Arch, ran the ansible, restored backups
• Flatpak installs failed
• Github Issue
• Arch Flatpak Fix ``` flatpak remote-delete --force flathub

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

* Let's do a better job

#### 26:10 Verizon Outage

* No clear communication
* Speculation abounds
* No clear ETA for restoration of service
* Never seen people behave this badly
* Self Hosted services unaffected
* Calls and Texts via 3CX and JMP.chat
* Internal communications over Matrix
* Companies should self host their own services
* Communication is changing
* [Master Switch](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/)
* Steve didn't even notice the outage
* Other carriers reported issues contacting Verizon customers
* Don't be a slave to the glowing brick

#### 40:33 Thunderbird on Android

* Mozilla took over K9 Mail
* Unified Inbox
* Still in Beta
* Asking for feedback
* [Thunderbird Matrix Chat](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#tb-android:mozilla.org)
* [Thunderbird Blog Post](https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/)

#### 46:00 Reproducibility

* Combinations of packages can be problematic
* Automation can fail
* Never will be completely safe
* Automation can get you a long way  
* NixOS
* ZFS Snapshots

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This week Steve shares his distro hopping adventures! Noah and Steve are both skating towards the same end goal. They are going about getting there different ways.

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00:45 Steve's Distro Hopping

• Steve's distro journey
• Deepin Desktop vs Deepin Distro
• Deepin Desktop mix of Gnome and KDE
• Commercial vs Steve's desktop implementations
• Unique monitor setup
• What Noah wants in a computer
• Reinstall with the niceties
• Pop!_OS & Cosmic experience
• Deepin is Chinese
• Arch & Deepin DE
• KDE experience
• KDE can always recover
• Latte-Dock
• Arch is the nerd safety OS
• Lots of distros, what's missing

44:00 News Wire

• SparkyLinux 7.5 - sparkylinux.org

• ZorinOS 17.2 - zorin.com

• MXLinux 23.4 - mxlinux.org

• Linux Libre 6.11 - lwn.net

• Real-time Linux Officially Mainline - arstechnica.com

• Gnome 47 - release.gnome.org

• Gnome 46.5 - discourse.gnome.org

• Open Source Maintainers Unpaid - cybersecuritydive.com

• NSF Initiative - new.nsf.gov

• Citrine Sleet Poisons PyPI - darkreading.com

• Void Editor - voideditor.org omgubuntu.co.uk

• Alibaba AI Models - cnbc.com

• Mark Zuckerberg's Goal - businessinsider.com

46:00 Continuing Camera Discussion - CantankerousAdmin

• Axis A1001
• Honeywell's was horrible
• Newer Axis requires windows
• Lenels is the big dog
  • Only for large installs
  • Requires windows
  • Haven't responded to sales inquires
• Kerisys is the underdog
  • Requires windows

49:58 Smart Thermostats & Panels - Rob

• Leviton Load Centers
• SPAN Panel
• Honeywell RedLINK

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00:52 Steve's WiFi

• We think its fixed!
• Noah brought lots of gear
• Replaced some hardware

02:41 Recovery after power surge - David

• Cattle not Pets
• Steve's Nextcloud experience
• Noah's laptop approach

09:43 Communications App Upheaval - Charlie

• There is a war on encrypted messaging
• Courts are making decisions

12:45 Listener Responses To Listener (cameras in home) - Chris

• UniFi Wave Pico system

13:51 News Wire

• AlmaLinux Certification SIG - almalinux.org

• Wine 9.17 - gitlab.winehq.org

• Samba 4.21 - samba.org

• Rust 1.81 - blog.rust-lang.org

• GNU Nano 8.2 - lists.gnu.org

• Firefox 130 - mozilla.org

• QEMU 9.1 - qemu.org

• Peropesis 2.7 - peropesis.org

• RLXOS 2.0 - rlxos.dev

• Q4OS Released - q4os.org

• Rust Kernel Support for MIPS - phoronix.com

• Linux in Automotive - globenewswire.com

• MX Linux 23.4 - mxlinux.org

• Tails 6.7 - torproject.org

• EasyOS 6.3 - bkhome.org

• Virtualbox 7.1 - virtualbox.org

• KDE 6.2 - kde.org

• KDE Frameworks 6.6 - kde.org

• Shotcut 24.09 - shotcut.com

• Ardour 8.7 - ardour.org

• White House Working Group - govciomedia.com

• Tidelift Study - businesswire.com

• OpenSearch Foundation - techcrunch

• Hedera - cointelegraph.com

• Linux 6.11 - phoronix.com

• MNT Reform Next - arstechnica.com

• Juno Tab 3 - colocrossing.com

• Oracle Weblogic Exploited - thehackernews.com

• Advanced materials AI Model - aibusiness.com

• LightEval - venturebeat.com

• RHEL AI - businesswire.com

17:55 Immich

• Developer scratches his own itch
• Immich better than google photos now
• Google data pull
• GitHub Script * 7z x \*.zip
• Roadmap
  • Private/Locked photos
  • In app editing
  • Auto stacking
• Funding
• Foodo
• Steve's current photo solution
• Immich backup methods
  • Forground
  • Background
  • Manual sync button
• Sharing/Collaboration
• Infinite scrolling
• Social aspect
• Deletion issue
• Requires inputting the port

37:00 FCC and 900Mhz

• Meshtastic
• LoRa
• Chirp Spread Spectrum
• Only good for long range small packets of data
• Rx/Tx Wattage
• NextNav wants to buy the spectrum
• LoRa enables lots of possibilities
• Lilygo T Deck Plus
• Rokland blog post
• Licensing the frequency stifles innovation
• Could hamper emergency response
• Having open frequencies democratizes communication
• LoRa FCC Guide
• Opposition_Letter
• FCC Paths to LoRa Certification
  • FCC Part 15.247 - Digital Modulation
  • FCC Part 15.247 - Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum (FHSS)
  • FCC Part 15.249 - All Other Transmission in the 900MHz range
• FCC Part 15.247(b)(3)
• Problematic spectrum impact

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This week we dig back into home automation, we talk a bit about choosing cameras for a large camera system, and of course we answer your questions!

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00:52 Intro

• Home automation
• Weekend of learning

03:48 Monitoring Remote Location (Cameras) - Rob

• Powerline adapters might work
• Ubiquiti Nano Beam
• Synology Surveillance Station
• Frigate
• Do not put the NVR on the internet
• Privacy
• File server upload
• Home Assistant events

17:18 Camera Systems for Tribal Lands - William

• NDAA compliant cameras and NVRs
• ReoLink NVR banned
• ReoLink Cameras depends - bad idea
• NDAA compliant brands
  • 360 Vision Technology (360 VTL)
  • Avigilon
  • Axis Communications
  • BCD International
  • Commend
  • FLIR
  • Geutebrück
  • iryx
  • JCI/Tyco Security
  • Mobotix
  • Pelco
  • Rhombus Systems
  • Seek Thermal
  • Solink
  • Vaion/Ava
  • WatchGuard
• Main 3 NVR in use
  • Exac Vision
  • Avigilon
  • Milestone
• NDAA conversation

• Noah's favorites

  • Axis
  • FLIR #### 25:09 Charlie Finds e-ink android - Charlie

• Boox Palma

• Why a camera?

• Nice for reading

• Lineage or Graphene will NOT work

27:57 ESPDevices for Light Switches - Avri

• Shelly's are ESP32 devices
• Devices can talk to each other

30:00 Beaming podcasts to Volumio and Roku - Tiny

• Pulse Audio
• Write in!

31:40 News Wire

• 4M Linux 46 - opensourcefeed.org

• Debain Bookwork 12.7 - debian.org

• Porteus 1.6 - porteus.org

• Rhino Linux 2nd Release - itsfoss.com

• GNU Screen 5 - theregister.com

• Wireshark 4.4 - wireshark.org

• Bugzilla releases - bugzilla.org

• Armbian 24.8 - armbian.com

• Elasticsearch and Kibana licensing - businesswire.com

• Xe2 Linux Support - wccftech.com

• Cicada3301 - thehackernews.com

• New Phi-3.5 AI Models - infoq.com

• Open-Source, EU AI Act Compliant LLMs - techzine.eu

• View on Why AI Models Should be Open and Free for All - businessinsider.com

33:53 Hoptodesk

• Comparison to Team Viewer
• Hoptodesk
• Free & Open Source
• Cross platform
• E2E Encryption
• Can self host the server
• Wayland is not officially supported

38:05 EmuDeck

• ArsTechnica
• Seeking funding
• Already been doing this on the steamdeck
• For retro games
• Drawing unwanted attention
• Powered by Bazzite

41:05 Home Automation

• Zwave
  • Great for nerds/tinkering
  • Not for professional installs
• RadioRA 2
  • Licensed dedicated frequency
  • Central planning
  • Never had a failure
  • Designed to be integrated
• Orbit Panels and Shelly Pro Line
  • Game changer
  • 100% reliable
• People don't want a wall of dimmers
• Seeed Studio mmWave Sensor
• I don't like WiFi for automation
• Steve's experience

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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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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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This week we dig into a war story at Steve's house troubleshooting wifi!

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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

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• Meetup

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  • Pinky's Westside Grill

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  • 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:admin@192.168.1.20/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

• Join Remotely
• Book your rooms now
• Register now
• ANS/SELF Meetup
  • Pinkys
  • Friday 6:00 PM

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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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This week Matthew Miller joins the program from Red Hat Summit and we learn about Fedora 40.

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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