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This week Matt Hicks the CEO and President of Red Hat joins the Ask Noah Show to talk about AI! We answer your questions about how to get a voice point-to-point link, plus we'll tell you what we're thinking for SELF.

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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.

-- During The Show --

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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This week Noah and Steve give you the latest on open source mobile operating systems. Windows is pushing people to Linux by way of charging them $244 per year for updates in the third year.

-- During The Show --

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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Malicious updates made to a Linux tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream. Noah and Steve help you understand what you need to know.

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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!

-- During The Show --

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

• Ubicon & NixCon
• Krita talk
• HPC (High Performance Computing)
• Ubuntu and Matrix
• What problem does Nix solve?
• Future adoption of Nix?
• Flox
• Sat night dinner
• Bazzite
• 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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• Dinner with Noah: Saturday March 16th (details to follow in The Geek Lab)

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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.

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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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-- During The Show --

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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How do you setup an IP camera doorbell to call your phone? Can Windows decrypt gpg files and should you store those on a network share? It's a packed episode with your questions and our answers!

-- During The Show --

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

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Ajit Pai, the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission joins Noah and Steve to discuss regulation at the federal level and how we best frame our laws to promote innovation and the freedom of the internet.

-- During The Show --

00:58 Noah Helps Son's Friend

• Buys bits at a time
• Went Linux vs $200 Windows
• Walked him through all the steps
• Made a recovery script

03:20 Glenn From The Geek Lab

• Switched away from Mail in a Box
• Went to Mailcow
• Your experience with blacklists?

04:48 Penguin From The Geek Lab

• Bunny CDN?
• Open Source going strong
• Open source friendly options
• Why you may need a CDN

06:27 Mobile Operating Systems

• Many devices still need android drivers
• Sailfish OS
• Incremental improvements still being made

07:50 Inventree

• Inventree
• Divides purchasing and selling
• Manage Suppliers
• BOM Management

08:58 News Wire

• GNU C Library 2.39 - Source Ware

• Helium OS Public Alpha - Helium OS

• OnlyOffice - Only Office

• LibreOffice 24.2 - Document Foundation

• Scribus 1.6 - Scribus

• Mesa 24.0 - Freedesktop.org

• Ubuntu 24.04 & Linux 6.8 - OMG Ubuntu

• KaOS Linux 2024.01 - 9 to 5 Linux

• Nitrux 3.3 - NXOS

• SUDO on Windows Server - Bleeping Computer

• PKL Programing Language - Tech Radar

• Glibc Flaw - The Hacker News

• GNU C v2.39 - Source Ware

• AI2 Full Open Source LLM - Axios.com

• Protect AI Integrates LLM Guard - csoonline.com

• Hugging Face AI Assistant Maker - Venture Beat

• Mistral CEO Confirms Leak - Venture Beat

10:50 Ajit Pai Interview

• What was your big picture of the FCC when you were appointed?
• Why advocate for less regulations and what were the results?
• Where does the line fall between FCC and elected officials?
• Does regulation stifle innovation?
• What are you views on net neutrality?
• Where is the line between giving authority to state and local government vs the FCC?
• Internet/last mile providers and internet backbone
• ICS in prisons
• Is there any reason why internet couldn't facilitate low cost communications in prisons?
• Can you see a time where the federal government puts in internet infrastructure?
• AI and robo calls and texts
• What can you speculate about the FCC and frameworks for licensing space stations engaged in in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM)
• Where do you see the future of ham radio?
• FCC.gov
• NY Times
• Ars Technica
• FCC PDF

Events coming up

• Texas Linux Fest
• Linux Fest North West
• Scale
• SELF

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This week Noah and Steve dig into alternatives to Axis for cameras. What can you buy that won't break the bank, but also has open source compatibility? Your questions go to the front of the line, and what if NextCloud had an email backend?

-- During The Show --

01:10 Steve's WiFi/SSID problem

• Double NAT theory
• MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit)

03:43 Mail-in-a-box - Joe

• Mail-in-a-box uses Nextcloud components
• Office in a box
  • Center around files or email
  • Nextcloud conversation
• Roundcube
• Microsoft support/blocking entire yahoo domain
• Mail partnership
• Write in about self hosted email

15:15 HDMI Capture card - Fred

• Blackmagic Decklink HDMI
  • No guarantee drivers will continue to be published
• PCI bandwidth
• Blackmagic Decklink Duo (SDI)
• Quad Bus USB Card
• Decimator
• VDO.ninja

20:17 Affordable USB DMX Controller - TwoBit

• DMX vs RGBW
• Hardware controllers
• DMXKing USB Adapter
• QLC+
• MIDI control
• WLED
• WLED DMX output doc
• Orbs, LED Walls, Christmas lights
• Chat Recommendation Enttec Open DMX USB
  • Thank You TwoBit!

27:25 News Wire

• Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Beta - Vanilla OS

• Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 - Ubports

• Firefox 122 Google Meet Fix - Fedora Project

• Ubuntu 24.04 Aiming for 6.8 Kernel - Phoronix

• NVIDIA 550 - Phoronix

• OpenWRT One - Toms Hardware

• Game Boy Homebrew - Gaming on Linux

• EU Cyber Resilience Act - Adafruit Blog

• White House Report - Cyber Scoop

• Vivante NPU - CNX Software

• Eco Libre Report - Eco Libre

• Google Cloud and Hugging Face - Data Center Dynamics

• New Greener AI Models - Tech Xplore

• Code Llama 70B - Venture Beat

29:00 Dash Boards

• Being more "pro" at home
• Dashy
  • Only tracks web end points
  • Beautiful UI
• Prometheus, Grafana
• Uptime Kuma
  • Strikes a middle ground
  • Variety of "end points"
  • Tracks over time
  • Layout
  • Settings stored in SQlite file
  • Has an API
• Use case
• Setup

38:27 Alternative Cameras

• Axis
  • Great
  • Expensive
  • Hard to find mounts
• RioLink
  • Lots of conflicting information
  • Depends on the model
  • Steve bought ReoLink E1 Outdoor Pro
  • Home Assistant auto detected ReoLink
  • Lots of sensors
  • Has "tracking" and "motion detection"
  • Home Assistant can update firmware
  • Has FTP setting
  • RioLink (Amazon)
  • RioLink PiPy API
  • Get a POE based camera
• You get what you pay for
• Do Not buy these cameras!
  • Hikvision/Dahua - The Intercept
  • Eufy - Ars Technica
  • Ring - EFF
• Used Axis is cheaper anyway
• Get cameras that follow a standard (ONVIF)
• ONVIF Conformant Products
• GeoVision (Amazon)
• Camera longevity

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This week we revisit the idea of self-hosting your own email server. For years both of us have been against it, with the current state of "cloud" mail providers, maybe it's time to reconsider. Noah and Steve dig into new research that suggests some concerns with kids using tech at a young age.

-- During The Show --

00:52 Steve's Question

• Can't load sites on WiFi AP unless on a VPN
• Write in!

02:00 Noah on Hosted Email

• Hosted O365
• Client filed ticket
• Entire yahoo.com email domain not working
• Microsoft doesn't know how to fix it
• Wed 2pm - Today (Tues) a little back and forth
• Still not solved
• Got a slew of useless troubleshooting links
• Noah can't fix the problem
• Mail in a box

08:37 New OSS Firmware for Zigbee - Charlie

• Open source Zigbee firmware
• GitHub
• CNX-Software Article
• May enable open source firmware on new devices

11:40 Vulnerability Scanners - Steve

• OpenSCAP
• Clair
• Wazuh
• Wazuh Vulnerability Detection Doc
• Wazuh Open SCAP how it works Doc
• Ethical Hacking steps
• MetaSploit
• Lynis

19:15 Ubuntu Pro? - Mike

• Paying for things identifies you
• Responsible disclosure
• Ubuntu Pro reduces vulnerability time
• Free for 5 machines
• Ubuntu Membership

25:18 Blocking websites & Can you recommend linux? - David

• Sophos XG for Home
• Noah recommends sophos HARDWARE not software
• Elementary OS, Debian, etc
• Go with the spin of your favorite desktop
• How to install MS Windows with out account
• Elementary OS is polished
• Arch Linux, to dig in

33:38 News Wire

• KVIrc 5.2 - KVIrc

• Firefox 122 - Mozilla

• Proton 8.0 5th Patch - GitHub

• Fish 3.7.0 - GitHub

• Pulse Audio 17 - Freedesktop.org

• Wine 9.0 - Wine HQ - Gaming on Linux

• Bazzite v2.2 - Gaming on Linux

• Sparky 2024.01 - Sparky Linux

• AV Linux 23.1 - Band Shed

• Linux Mint 21.3 Edge ISO - Linux Mint

• MX Linux 23.2 - MX Linux

• BPF Updates - The News Stack

• Multiple Severe AI Vulnerabilities - Security Week

• Facebook AGI - Forbes

35:10 Noah's Experience

• Gives kids ride home
• Explains budgeting
• Offers hardware on hand
• Build's Ryzen tower
• Windows vs Linux
• Installs Linux
• Sad state of affairs
• Get to kids before indoctrination
• The Epoch Times Article
• Depression in teens
• Getting worse
• Steve's discussion with a young person
• Effect of COVID
• Screen vs in person
• Screens and psychological disorders

48:28 Firefox Releases DEB

• Mozilla Blog Post
• DEB gets faster updates than snaps
• Hard to move architectures
• Hard to find all edge cases
• 9 to 5 Linux

51:42 CSA Open Letter

• From Matrix
• Lots of companies signed
• Matrix Blog Post

52:52 AV Linux

• Real cool
• Music Nerds write in!

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01:45 Sharing Passwords - Anthony

• Send data/info via multiple channels
• Nextcloud
• Passphrases

07:40 Axis Camera Feedback - Dominik

• AXIS M3075-V
• Motion Detection on camera
• No need for proprietary software

11:16 Pi Hole Problems - Anthony

• Blocked or not, same amount of traffic
• Windows on separate/guest network
• Try a debloat script

15:00 controld for dns - Mohammad

• [Controld](controld.com)
• Steps
  • Get subscription from controld.com
  • In controld.com, define a device with your desired settings, and then add DoH providers to the block list
  • Set up dnsdist as DNS forwarder
  • Configure DHCP to point devices to dnsdist
  • Configure NAT on the Mikrotik to redirect all UDP/TCP DNS requests to dnsdist
  • Configure the firewall to block the known DoH IPs

19:54 Zwave Power up - Tiny

• Normally shows up quickly
• Interrogation takes time
• Pair close to the controller
• Battery devices may go to sleep
• Network remaps/self heals every ~ 1.5 days

22:40 Video over WiFi

• Don't do video over WiFi
• STI
• NDI
• Bandwidth
  • 1.5 Mbps min
  • 3 Mbps for SD
  • 5 Mbps for 1080p
  • 25 Mbps for 4K

26:00 Station Broadcast System

• Streaming box
  • Ubuntu
  • OBS
  • Quad STI Card
  • Quad USB Bus
• Streams to Owncast
• Embedded Matrix chat
• Repeat-ability
• Making it an appliance
• Move assets on to a web end point
• Linux Admin way
• Ansible pull and systemd timers
• Custom flatpak
• Bitfocus stream deck

39:30 OBS Pull Request

• Github pull request
• lots of back and forth
• Should have been closed due to OBS COC
• Is OBS playing gatekeeper?
• OBS is not blocking Kick
• Write or call in!

44:00 News Wire

• Solus Linux 4.5 - GetSol

• MKVtoolnix 82 - MKVtoolnix

• Calibre - Calibre

• Vim 9.1 - Vim

• Firewalld 2.1 - Firewalld

• CmdlineGL - Nrdvana

• Linux Mint 21.3 - Phoronix

• Linux 6.7 - OMG Ubuntu

• GNU Linux-libre 6.7 - Lists GNU

• Rust Toolchain, Linux 6.8 - Phoronix

• x86-64-v3 RHEL 10 - Phoronix

• Thelio and AMD Threadrippers - How to Geek

45:15 Framework Laptop Interview

• Daniel Schaefer
• How did the Framework come about?
• How did you get involved?
• Laptop dis-assembly
• Hardware kill switches
• 14" vs 16"
• What work is left on the 16"?
• USB-C Expansion protocol
• 3rd party products
• Published expansion card spec

51:48 Gen-Z Terminal Emulator

• Waveterm
• Start with basics, work your way up
• Installer is a zip file

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This week Noah and Steve dig back through 2023 and give you a Home Automation Year Roundup! We look at your questions throughout the year and evaluate how we would answer those questions today!

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Future Home Automation

• 5 inch tablets
• M5Stack Speakers

Steve's 2023 Purchases

• Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 (Amazon)
• Sonoff S40 Lite Zigbee Smart Plug (Amazon)
• Zigbee 2 Channel Smart Relay (Amazon)
• Eco-Worthy Linear Actuator (Amazon)
• Aqara Door Sensor (Cloud Free)
• Aqara Temperature Sensor (Cloud Free)
• WiFi vs Zigbee High Availability
• GHome Smart WO2 Smart Outlet (Amazon)
• Shelly Plus 1 (Shelly)
• Shelly Plus 1PM (Shelly)
• Shelly Plus 1 Mini (Shelly)
• No longer flashing shelly devices
• Shelly Plus Addon (Amazon)
• 50ft 360 LED Waterproof Rope Light (Amazon)
• WS2811 LED strings (Amazon)
• seedstudio mmWave sensor (Aamzon)
• ATOM Echo Smart Speaker (M5 Stack Speaker)
• Voice control
• Ring Contact Sensors (Amazon)
• Updates

21:25 Noah's 2023 Experiences

• Started with X10, very bad
• Lutron, reliable
• HASSIO new "source of truth"
• Integration wins
  • Axis front door camera
• GridCards
• 5 inch touch screen (Amazon)
• Instant (proprietary) vs Delayed (open standard) reaction
• Better way of doing things (Node-RED)
• Direct connection vs intermediary

34:20 Steve's 2023 Experiences

• Axis PTZ camera
• ONVIF
• LED lighting flashing
• Tiny tweaks, big wins
• Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 controller
• ZHA to Zigbee2MQTT
• Zigbee in general
• Cloud Free smart plugs
• Plastic sprinkler timer
• Shelly warranty service
• Amazon Seller Yantech
• Amazon Seller Xiaxuanke

45:20 Commercial Home Assistant

• Spouse approval factor vs Commercial

47:15 2024 Projects

• Motion sensors in switches just work
• Power monitoring in the box
• Noah's Dad's house
• Scene switch suggestions - write in!
• Expanding Volumio

53:40 Zigbee/Zwave Question: - Zac

• Local devices on registered frequency - best way
• Zigbee & ZWave
• Advantages of Wifi

57:20 Light Automation: John

• Inadvertently resetting
• Noah's can lights
• Each light on it's own dimmer
• Control with home assistant
• Past answer
• Sensing switches

1:01:30 Garage Detector/Leak Sensor - Shawn

• Automates the lights
• Past answer
• Honeywell magnet sensor
• Pressure switch

1:04:30 Smart Thermostats - Ryan

• Centralite Pearl thermostat
• Venstar Thermostat
• Honeywell Redlink system
• Past answer

1:08:51 Smart Door Locks - Eddie

• Axis A1001
• R10 mini reader
• MiFare 2 Standard
• New system no longer has web UI
• Axis 8105
• Past answer

1:13:40 Replace Home Security System with Home Assistant - Jeremy

• Home Assistant has
• Haven't used it
• Alarm relay
• Honeywell security system

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00:55 Bad Hardware Day

• Motherboard swap
• PSU modular cables
• Fan controller magic smoke
• Bent CPU pins

06:48 VMs and Storage - Joe

• Advantages of separating OS and Data
• Joe's GitHub
• IX Systems and 45 Drives
• Use JBOD not Raid
• ZFS needs direct access
• HA (High Availability)

15:40 VM Storage Question - Rod

• iSCSI
• ZVols as block devices
• QCow2 file
• Dedicated disks
• 9p driver
• virtio drivers
• Nothing wrong with NFS
• ifnotify

22:53 Printer Questions - Eddie

• Good experience with HP Printer Tools/Jet Direct
• Mostly moved away from LPD/LPR
• IPP is where things are headed
• Immutable distros only support IPP
• For best results go through add printer dialog

28:15 Comments From New IT Person - Joshua

• Start with pain points
• Start with your pain points
• Document existing infrastructure
• Find a way to say yes
• Prepare for the opportunity
• "You are the expert"
• Yes but....
• What is motivating people

41:22 Choosing Platforms

• Locked out from Linkedin
• Emailed code, Linkedin errored out
• Required phone and government ID
• Issues with this approach
• Phone numbers
• Beeper + Linkedin

49:13 Beeper Gives up on iMessage

• One last go
• ARS Technica
• Beeper Blog Post
• [Beeper Bridge](github.com/beeper/imessage)
• The Verge

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Feedback about BT extension EP 351 - John

• Cheap phone watch
• Disdain for any kind of phone

Kid Friendly Distro Feedback - Jeremy

• PFSense + pfBlockerNG
• Canadian Block Lists GitHub
• Will this work with DNS over TLS?
• Null out IPs

Linux Smart Phones - Sandro

• Linux is coming to the mobile game 10 years late
• Some of the "Linux Mobile OSes" use an Android shim to talk to the hardware
• GrapheneOS has been great
• A few small issues
• Current hardware is under powered

DBs for Home Lab - Sandro

• Pass the vdev directly into the VM

OpenWRT Home Router - elguaje3ero

• OpenWRT
• Sophos XG135
• Ebay Link

News Wire

• Qubes OS 4.2 - Linux IAC

• Fedora Asahi Linux 39 - Asahi Linux

• Manjaro 23.1 - Manjaro

• PostmarketOS 23.12 - Debug Point News

• Calameres 3.3 - Calamares

• Shotcut 23.12 - Shotcut

• Ardour 8.2 - Ardour

• Peazip 9.6 - Peazip Github

• GNU Cash 5.5.5 - GNU Cash

• Gnome 44.7 - Discourse Gnome.org

• Firefox 121 - OMG Ubuntu

• MS Windows AI Studio - The Register

• NKAbuse Malware - Dark Reading

SSH MitM

• Terrapin SSH attack
• Requires either ChaCha20-Poly1305 or CBC-EtM
• Targets Binary Packet Protocol
• ARS Technica Article

EMS Discontinuing Hosting

• EMS did a great job
• Per user is not cost effective
• Offering a reduced min user business subscription
• Billed for a year, cut short
• Early adopter tax
• Element Starter
  • Your own server
  • No support
  • Up to 200 users
  • ???
• Opens up hosting to more people
• Black Lists
• Element One
• Beeper iMessage whack-a-mole
• Better story than slack, discord, etc
• Element Announcement Blog Post
• Matrix Governing Board Blog Post
• Beeper iMessage (The Register)

Fedora Asahi

• Presentation experience
• Script turns Mac into Linux machine
• Audio disabled
• Flawless
• Apple engineers changed the firmware
• 9 to 5 Linux

Firefox 121

• Wayland by default
• Picture in Picture
• 9 to 5 Linux

PostmarketOS

• Postmarket OS 23.12
• New chrome books supported
• New single board computers supported
• Encryption supported
• Additional safety checks
• 9 to 5 Linux
• Debug Point News

Interview with Till Kamppeter

• Leads the OpenPrinting project
• LPD
• PostScript Printers
• PCL printers
• Ghostscript
• magicfilter
• LPR Command
• CUPS - early 2000s
• Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
• 2.0 IPP
• Print dialog
• Raster Formats (driverless printing)
  • Apple raster
  • Printer Working Group
  • PCLM
• How driver-less printing works
• Choosing a printer
  • firmware tricks
  • subscription models
  • Brother printers

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02:00

• Types of AI
• Amount of compute required is astronomical
• Foundational model vs tweaking

05:55 Kid Friendly distro? - Chris

• Endless OS
• What age to give kids a computer
• Why give a kid a computer
• Why Endless OS
• OpenDNS Filtering

14:13 Serial Connection To Proxmox VMs - Michael

• Client Setting
• Host Setting
• Enable the serial console
• Proxmox Wiki

17:15 pfSense blocking active connections - Bradly

• Stateful firewalls don't break active connections/sessions

21:00 News Wire

• EXT4 Corruption Bug - LWN

• Gnome 45.2 - Gnome

• Libreoffice 7.6.4 - Libreoffice

• Jellyfin Android TV App - Jellyfin

• Jellyfin Roku App - Jellyfin

• Debian 12.4 - Debian

• Alpine Linux 3.19 - Alpine Linux

• Linux 6.8 Dropping Old Graphics Drivers - Phoronix

• NSA & ESF Recommended Practices - NSA

• OpenZeppelin Vulnerability - Bleeping Computer

• Bluetooth Authentication Bypass - Silicon Angle

• Krasue RAT - The Hacker News

• Automatic LLM AI Jail Break - Robust Intelligence

• EU AI Act - Reuters

• Purple Llama - Info World

• Apple Open Sources AI Tools - The Stack

• Systemd 255 - The Verge - Phoronix

24:00 Beeper Mini

• First impression, really cool but will only work till Apple notices
• Android users clearly want modern features
• 3 days after release, it all came to a halt
• Apple's FUD statement
• Beeper mini enabled security for non Apple users
• Apple's response reduces security and privacy
• Apple's response protects the iMessage lock-in effect
• Issue with other "encrypted apps"
• Focus of Beeper
• Beeper cloud uses its own cloud server
• Give beeper mini a review
• Beeper blog post

37:45 vHost Hardware

• What is a vHost
• What does Steve consider
  • network
  • drives
  • RAM
  • CPU
• Lots of compute nodes vs a few large nodes
• Stage 1 - is it viable
  • $1k-50k quotes
  • Started with 2 vdevs with 3 drives
• Stay under 85%
• Stage 2 Scale up
• DELL EMC POWEREDGE R7425
  • 8 BAY LFF SERVER
  • 2x AMD EPYC 7451
  • H330 3 PCI RISER RPS
• DELL PowerEdge R6525
  • 1U Server
  • 2 x AMD EPYC 7542 2.9Ghz CPU
  • 256 GB No HDD
• Can save a lot buying used
• Local vs Central storage
• Data centralized
• qcow2 on vHost
  • 2 vdevs
  • 2 disks per vdev
• Dell EMC KTN-STL3 drive shelf
  • 15 disks in 2U
  • Requires LSI SAS9200-8e
• NetApp DS4246
  • 24 disks in 4U
  • Requires LSI SAS9200-8e
  • QSFP SFF-8436 Mini SAS SFF-8088 Cable
• Don't store Nextcloud data on OS qcow2 disk
• There will always be a single point of failure
• Change ZFS settings based on data being stored
• Easiest way to get a vHost up and running
• KVM vs "appliance OS"
• Bridging vs MAC vTap
• RAM is likely your biggest constraint
• Ubuntu libvirt doc

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03:26 News Wire

• Roundcube Next Cloud Merging - Phoronix

• Pipewire 1.0 - ZDnet GitLab

• MKVtoolnix 81.0 - MKVtoolnix

• DigiKam 8.2 - DigiKam

• Plasma 6 Beta Milestone - KDE

• Cinnamon - Its Foss

• Steam Survey - Phoronix

• Tails 5.20 - Tails

• Vigil LLM Scanner - Help Net Security

• Nous Hermes 2 Vision - Venture Beat

04:47 Beeper Mini

• 16 year old reverse engineered iMessage
• Prototype works
• Not a man in the middle
• Code is open source
• Requires Apple to playing nice
• Still questions
• UK regulations
• Gray area
• The Verge

12:48 NextCloud

• Critical app
• Calendar
• Proton Mail
• Picture Sync
• Hardware upgrades
• NextCloud Memories
• Zotac and Brix computers up for grabs
  • email in with how you will use them
• Normal users excited about features
• Collaborative editing
• DavX5
• Guide for syncing iPhones
• Roundcube
• Email hosting
• Benifit of nextcloud vs major hosting providers

31:39 Plex to JellyFin

• Plex does strange things
  • blocking entire IP ranges
  • blocking hosting providers
  • sharing watch history
  • gathers a lot of data
  • trying to be
• Buying media
• First impressions
• Not the best iOS experience
• Nice features
• Cord Cutters News

40:54 Choosing a vHost

• We learn every war
• Centralization/decentralized tech cycle
• Containers
• Why virtual machines
  • don't have, don't want a "pipeline"
  • easy logic
  • easy recovery
• Single points of failure

52:00 Next week

• Hardware considerations
• Write in with your questions!

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01:52 Home Automation Leak Detection - Jeremy

• You can't really
• Using cameras

08:06 mmWave sensor update/comparison

• Seedstudio mmWave Sensor
• Space for other sensors
• Way better than a PIR sensor
• Aqara Water Sensor

11:19 Point of sale gear? - Charlie

• Odoo
• Open Source POS
• UniCenta
• Squirrel Systems

13:28 Succession Planning - David

• Password dump
• Bitwarden
• Network diagram with pictures
• Good documentation
• Techy friends
• Dave Ramsey - Legacy box
• Legacy Folder
• Data, external drives

23:23 Odoo for Accounting and Bookkeeping - Tiny

• Looks like a solid platform
• Expensive
• Self hosting not really an option
• Accounting solid but very basic
  • no payroll
• Not fully open source

25:51 Backups? - Mike

• Copying the file MIGHT be ok
  • if file system has bit rot protection
  • works till it doesn't
• Better to use database tools
• External drives
• 3.5 StarTech Enclosure
• Pelican 1120 Case
• 2.5 Cable Matters Enclosure
• Steve's M.2 Enclosure
• ASUS ROG M.2 Enclosure

37:57 News Wire

• OpenZFS 2.2.1 - Phoronix

• Weston 13.0 - Freedesktop.org

• OpenSSL 3.2 - GitHub

• PipeWire 1.0 - Phoronix

• LibreOffice 7.6.3 On Android - Document Foundation

• Wine 8.21 - Gaming On Linux

• Studio One 6.5 - Presonus Software

• PeerTube v6 - Frama Blog

• Proxmox 8.1 - Proxmox

• OpenMandriva - LX 5.0 - Beta News

• Nitrix 3.2.0 - NXOS.org

• Ultra Marine Linux 39 - Fyra Labs

• Linux 6.6 tagged LTS - Security Boulevard

• Linux Runs 20% Faster on Ryzen 7995WX - Toms Hardware

• MicroCloud - Infoq

• GIMP Team Targeting May 2024 - Librearts.org

• X11 Being Removed from RHEL 10 - Red Hat

• Fuctional Source License - The Register

• Kinsing Malware - Hack Read

• SysJoker Malware - Cyber Security News

• Looney Tunables - Security Affairs

• Open Source Tesla - The Verge

• AMD GPU & RISC-V - Toms Hardware

• Real AI - Mark Tech Post

• Synthetic Machine Learning Data - SD Times

• Uploading Minds - Crypto Slate

• AI Linux Optimization - Toms Hardware

41:11 Nativefier

• Makes native Linux app out of web pages
• Saves credentials and session
• Mind Drip One
• Nativefier GUI GitHub

45:44 Data Migration

• Good to rotate drives
• Disk burn in (bunch of rsync)
• Rsync 26 hours
• rsync will preserve hard links with the right flags
• software raid is more portable
• nuke & pave
• 2 vdevs, 3 drives per vdev
  • can only loose one drive
• ZFS send/receive is much faster and better
• IDrive
• Kopia
• Spider Oak One
• Plan for your target
• rsync commands

a: Archive mode, which preserves permissions, ownership, and timestamps.
v: Verbose mode, which prints out detailed information about the transfer.
H: Preserve hard links.
P: Preserve permissions.

• Dumping a database is intensive

• Proxmox

  • gets in the way
  • doesn't gain Steve anything
  • Special snowflake
  • Custom UI
  • Good for multi node
  • No updates

• KVM works the same everywhere

• Cockpit

  • GUI
  • Will eventually replace virtmanager

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00:55 Gratitude

• Gratitude is good for your health
• Reduces stress
• Can be measured in as small as a few weeks
• Noah's thank full for
  • Friends willing to help
  • For profit companies contributing to open source
  • Developers who donate their time
  • As we get older, gratefulness grows
• Steve's thankful for
  • Ability to learn from open source code
  • Hardware that "just won't die"

09:00 Geek Gift Recommendations

• MokerLink Switch
• Seagate 20TB HDD (Amazon)
• Seagate 20TB (Newegg)
• Seagate Iornwolf
• BackBlaze Drive Review
• Thank You Home Assistant
• Shelly Devices

19:11 Nothing/SunBird App

• ARS Technica
• Company claimed to have "hacked" iMessage
• Many blogs and sites cried fowl
• Got it pulled from app stores
• Dumpster fire
• Reuploaded the app under SunBird name
• Service must be audit-able
• Plenty of options for E2EE
• Lowest common denominator
• Beeper iMessage solution
• E2EE is probably good for the world

25:13 Lubuntu Release

• Simon Quigley - Release Manager for Lubuntu
• Calamares System Installer
  • Light weight & Full install
  • Optional programs
• Why the Calamares Installer?
• Customize Menu
• Welcome Screen?
• Installer and updates
• How the installer implements Snaps
• How did you land on these applications
  • Element (Snap)
  • virt-manager
  • Thunderbird
  • Krita (Snap)
• What would you tell the next generation?
• What did your start look like?

42:53 News Wire

• Oracle Linux 9.3 - Oracle

• Rocky Linux 9.3 - 9 to 5 Linux

• Endeaver OS Adopts KDE - Debugpoint News

• Wireshark 4.2.0 - Help Net Security

• Handbrake 1.7 - GitHub

• Calibre 7.0 - Calibre

• Distrobox - GitHub

• Firefox 120.0 - Mozilla

• Olimex Drone Swarm - Hackster.io

• Collabora NVK - Collabora

• TikTok Edge Accelerator - The News Stack

• TETRA Going Open Source - Bank Info Security

• IPStorm Shut Down - PC Mag

• Open Se Cura - Mark Tech Post

• Kyutai - Tech Crunch

45:00 Nat Reflection - Sebastian

• All the same thing
• NAT Reflection
  • Most strait forward
  • Least "hacky"
• Local DNS
  • Caching issues
  • 2 sources of truth
• Put the server on a different subnet
• Netgate NAT Reflection Doc

52:00 Hikvision Follow Up - William

• Thank You Glen!
• IE Tab Extension requires internet connection
• Sold Hikvision
• Bought used axis camera on Ebay - Just worked!

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01:43 MARS/MS-DMT On Linux? - Klaus

• Never used MARS

02:57 Using Chrome Extension of IE requirements - Glenn

• ANS 361 ~25:14 Min
• IE Tab Extension
• Pull things to modern
• Frigate

06:18 Veracrypt, bash and ACLs? - ST

• Bash history program
• Add the following to your ~/.bashrc

# Avoid duplicates
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:erasedups
# When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it
shopt -s histappend

# After each command, append to the history file and reread it
PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND$'\n'}histor

• Original Stack Exchange Post
• Works on all distros
  • fallocate -l 16GB hidden.img
  • add file system
  • encrypt with LUKS
• KDE Vaults
  • CryFS
  • EncFS
  • gocrypfs
• SELinux
• Ask AI
  • hallucinates alot
  • gets you a jumping off point
• Persons IT SELinux Link
• fapolicyd
• Mandatory Access Control

20:50 News Wire

• Blender 4.0 - Blender

• OBS 30.00 - Phoronix

• Bazzite 2.0 - Gaming On Linux

• Fedora 39 - Fedora

• Alma Linux 9.3 - 9 to 5 Linux

• CBL Mariner Update - Phoronix

• CIQ & CentOS Migration - Inside HPC

• Linux-Based Amazon OS - OMG Ubuntu

• ADA Joins JDF - Tech Crunch

• New Attack Steals SSH Keys - ARS Technica

• Malware in Trojanized Code Libraries - ARS Technica

• BiBi Wiper - Bleeping Computer

• Silo AI Unveils Poro - Venture Beat

23:10 Unexpected Keyboard

• Git Hub
• Fdroid
• Type characters and numbers by swiping to the corners
• Arrow Keys
• Originally developed for Termux
• No Ads, No Internet connection
• No voice or swipe input
• Hacker Keyboard (FDroid)

29:47 Network Migration

• IOT is on it's own VLan
• Created network migration plan
  • map out static IPs
  • hidden gotchas (ie. static routes)
  • hardware access/configuration/management
  • set expectations
  • set time window & stick to it
  • roll back plan
  • test cases, have multiple
  • be prepared for after math
  • over communication
  • firewall rules
• Monitoring solutions?
• NAT reflection
• Problems
  • PFSense stopped handling default routes
  • software with hard coded IPs
  • access control and security, static IPs set on device
  • other devices, static IPs set on the router
• Prioritizing services

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Noah heads to Riga Latvia to explore the amazing work the Ubuntu community is doing! Canonical restructured the former Ubuntu Developer Summit to have a wider reach! Jon Seager the VP of Engineering joins the program to explain that effort and how Canonical is serving the broader open source ecosystem.

-- During The Show --

01:07 RTSP Latency - Joey

• Axis M3065
• NDI Video
• Sony Handycams
• STI Video
  • converters
  • Decimator
• HDMI Ballen
• Ebay

08:53 Sensitive Client Data - Tiny

• Secure Mail
• Nextcloud
• Call them

14:00 News Wire

• Linux 6.5.10 - Kernel.org

• Itanium removal - ARS Technica

• bcachfs Merge - lkml.org

• Linux-Libre 6.6 - Twitter

• Bleachbit 4.6 - Bleachbit

• LXQt 1.4 - LXQt Project

• Nitrux 3.1 - NXOS.org

• Fedora 39 - ZDnet

• Plasma 6.0 for Fedora 40 - Phoronix

• OpenELA Initial Release - ZDnet

• Kubescape 3.0 - Help Net Security

• Open Source AI in Britian - Politico

• AI Engineer Foundation - The News Stack

15:38 Ubuntu Summit

• Thank-You All!
• Involvement of young people
• Spoke on minimum viable cloud
• "Big Boys" technology shift
• Linux is the answer

20:13 Jon Segar Interview

• Jon Segar, VP of Engineering at Canonical
• What is Canonical trying to accomplish?
• What is the benefit to branching out?
• Canonical and the Linux Desktop
• Restructuring of Canonical & Growth
• Role of corporations in supporting open source
• Effort of Canonical
• What is JuJu?
• JuJu Demo
• Canonical and Matrix
• What are the challenges of going to Matrix

36:28 Container & Orchestration Technology

• JuJu learns about its environment
• Choice of Kubernetes/VMs
• No Helm charts
• Kubernetes on a single host
• Podman
• Ansible
• Community support for JuJu
• Feedback Please! What are you using and why?
• Simon's JuJu link

46:49 Remote Monitoring

• Prey Project
• GPLv3
• Works on Linux
• Not for everyone
• Least bad option