Ask Noah Show 402

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.

-- During The Show --

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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