Episode 303: Ask Noah Show 303

Noah and Steve answer your NAS questions, follow-up on Z-Wave devices, and appropriate responses for unwanted drones!

-- During The Show --

00:55 Steve's PSA

• Please make sure that if expecting a response, the email has a return address.
• Avoid "donotreply" and "noreply" addresses

04:15 NAS Questions - Mars Xray

• What are you doing on the NAS?
• Start with requirements
• There is no "poor man's NAS"
• Start with 3 copies on 2 kinds of media
• ZFS on Linux
  • Ubuntu vs Red Hat
  • OpenZFS
• TrueNAS/UI
• IXSystems
• 45 Drives
• Connecting Drives
• Dell Optiplex
• Steve's Setup

18:15 User responds about Frontier Fiber & PFSense - Mike

• [OPNSense Fix](github.com/opnsense/src/issues/114)
• Options
  • Use another firewall
  • Use Frontier router in bridge mode
  • Use Layer 3 switch between the ONT and OPNSense box
• Arris NVGG468MQ

21:55 Users respond about Zwave - James & David

• Upgrade the Z-Wave Hub firmware
• Upgrading Guide
• Steve's Thoughts
• Rebooting and resetting the hub

29:44 Caller

• Q: Rsync to Debian
• Rsync tunnels over SSH
• Check both boxes have rsync installed
• Use a third box, mount both directories and rsync between them
• Synology lacks troubleshooting options
• Trouble Shooting
• Synology requires both enabling rsync and enabling permissions for the rsync user
• Knolege Base Link

37:56 Boosting into the show? - Kevin

• JB Boost Link
• Does boosting serve the show?
• Don't want sponsors to have influence over the show
• Noah and Steve do this to "Pay it Forward"

43:10 Linux News Wire

• Shikitega Malware

  • Security Boulevard
  • Tech Radar
  • Bleeping Computer
  • Ars Technica

• OpenWallet

  • PR News Wire
  • CA Finance Yahoo

• Retbleed Fix Performance Impact

  • The Register

• MITRE Gives Red Hat Root

  • CVE.org
  • Red hat

• GNU LibreJS

  • Open Source for U

• Lightbend Inc Stepping Away from Open Source

  • The Stack
  • Silicon Angle

• Altair OpenRadioss

  • HPC Wire

• Somnium Partners with Vrgineers and Prusa

  • Auganix

• Meta's PyTorch moves to Foundation

  • The Register

• Meta Open Sources Flashlight

  • Mark Tech Post

• Bitwarden Secured $100M Investment

  • Bitwarden

• Blender 3.3 LTS

  • Blender

• LibreOffice 7.3.6

  • Document Foundation

• OpenWRT 22.03

  • OpenWRT OpenWRD 22.03 is out

• DistroBox 1.4

  • GitHub

• Debian 11.5 & 10.3

  • Phoronix

46:35 Drone Feedback - Mark

• Drone violations move only against the victim
• Shooting a drone is a federal offense (In the US)
• Explore nuisance, stalking, and disruption of peace laws
• Possible privacy laws
• Air space 500 FT above your property is yours
• Technology is out pacing laws

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