Episode 368: Ask Noah Show 368

This week Till Kamppeter joins The Ask Noah Show and we talk about OpenPrinting. We answer your questions, and if you were hosting your Matrix instance with EMS we'll walk you through the latest announcement.

-- During The Show --

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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