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Immich provides a consistant photo experience across devices, and across family members. This week Noah and Steve give you a deep dive into Immich. We answer your questions, and give you a brief look at news from this week. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Steve's review process Two different review styles It's like a BBQ Gril 02:30 OpenShift In Labs - Ole Fine for home use Learn how to rebuild the cluster Treat it like an enterprise product OpenShift can be heavy 10:00 Continuing Computerized Car Convo - James Remote car take overs are a problem Auto makers are more aware now Cars are drive by wire now 13:56 Episode 414 - Max Nano is for gentlemen Vim is for ninjas Automation shortcuts on iOS Things can be hit or miss on iOS 18:30 News Wire Gparted Live 1.7.0 - gparted.org (https://gparted.org/news.php?item=257) Binutils 2.44 - lists.gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00001.html) Thunderbird 134.0 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/134.0/releasenotes/) Archbank 2701 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/archbang/files/ArchBang/archbang-2701-x86_64.iso/) KaOS 2025.01 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos01/) Parrot 6.3 - parrotsec.org (https://www.parrotsec.org/blog/2025-01-31-parrot-6.3-release-notes/) Nitrux 3.9 - nxos.org (https://nxos.org/psa/psa-nitrux-3-9-0/) Ai2 Tulu 3 405B LLM - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai2-releases-tulu-3-a-fully-open-source-model-that-bests-deepseek-v3-gpt-4o-with-novel-post-training-approach/) EU Investing 56 Million - bestofai.com (https://bestofai.com/article/the-eu-is-betting-56-million-on-open-source-ai) Small 3 - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/mistral-ai-says-its-small-3-model-is-a-local-open-source-alternative-to-gpt-4o-mini/) Oumi - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ex-google-apple-engineers-launch-unconditionally-open-source-oumi-ai-platform-that-could-help-to-build-the-next-deepseek/) 20:18 Immich Review Story behind Immich Why Steve deployed Immich Been in use for 3 months Does what the tin says Min of 2 CPUs and 4GB RAM Can be resource intensive Using containers for everything Critical Path/Knowing how things work Official install is via docker compose env file Documentation is pretty good Impressed by Immich's development and progress Interface is great Great for finding pictures Global hotspot map Tagging Facial and object recognition How Immich puts files on the file system Metadata isn't shared between users De-duplication and stacking Partner Sharing Highlights old photos Feature rich compared to google and apple photos Strong emphasis on privacy Good mobile app No E2EE Wouldn't expose this to the Internet Hasn't overcome muscle memory Developer's don't consider it "production ready" Backing up Exit strategy -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/426) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
This week we dig into your feedback, talk about an FPGA Playstation, and talk about Chinese AI. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Weather Unusual warm spell Extreme weather gear 03:00 Photos! - Anthony Flatbed scanner Handheld scanner Don't like the "scanning services" Epson Perfection Resolution of source material Canon LIdi Stay away from phones Make sure you have enough bandwidth 11:15 ttyusb - Jason Udev rules Ask an LLM 13:21 Cheque printing - Micah Use a template Quick Books Online 16:32 Questions - Atypical HACS (https://hacs.xyz/) Steve pulls several things from HACS BMC control in Home Assistant You do over extend yourself Can be deeply rewarding Have a prioritizing plan 25:36 News Wire MySQL 9.2 - mysql.com (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.2/en/news-9-2-0.html) Dovecot 2.4 - dovecot.org (https://dovecot.org/mailman3/archives/list/dovecot-news@dovecot.org/thread/UYNR6GBP25XEGFCS633SWPR4HXV3NSS3/) Ventoy 1.1 - ventoy.net (https://ventoy.net/en/download.html) Gnome 46.8 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-8-released/26405) Gnome 47.3 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-3-released/26411) Wine 10.0 - gitlab.winehq.org (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0) Linux 6.13 - lkml.org (https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/19/281) GNU Linux-Libre 6.13 - fsfla.org (https://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2025-January/003569.html) Rockoon - businesswire.com (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250128753886/en/Mirantis-Launches-Open-Source-Software-that-Streamlines-OpenStack-Management-on-Kubernetes) Solus 4.7 - getsol.us (https://getsol.us/2025/01/26/solus-4-7-released/) BloodyAD - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/28/bloodyad-active-directory-privilege-escalation/) Deepseek's New Models - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2025/01/27/new-open-source-deepseek-v3-language-model-making-waves/) CISA Alert Power Grid PLC's put online Massive Change in Tech Industry Meta content moderation Deep Seek Hireing practices CISA (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/16/cisa-and-partners-release-call-action-close-national-software-understanding-gap) CISA PDF (https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-01/joint-guidance-closing-the-software-understanding-gap-508c.pdf) 32:11 Thunderbird Notifications Desktop notifications Matrix included 33:42 Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 very expensive Good GPU for AI/ML New Thermal Grease Different drivers for Quadro cards 40:30 FPGA Playstation One Emulator Clock speed Emulators get close enough Today's games will not be playable in future Industry has a cycle ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/new-fpga-powered-retro-console-re-creates-the-playstation-one-cd-rom-drive-optional/) 47:50 DeepSeek DeepSeek Chinese AI DeepSeek claims to train on a fraction of time and money Worry is that it will over take US models Steve uses perplexity (https://www.perplexity.ai/) Real concern is great reduction required training resources -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/425) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
This week we dig into your questions, and talk about Nvidia's new AI rig. -- During The Show -- 00:56 George From NYC Used computers for a church Lenovo laptops and Thinkcenters Dell Optiplex Ebay Made in the last 4 years Make sure they have TPM 2.0 04:50 Noah's new toy Flipper Zero (https://flipperzero.one/) Electronic multi-tool Had to legitimately bypass access control Read and emulate RFID and NFC Lots of Apps 08:58 HVAC - Ziggy Zigbee timer system? Wouldn't put the timer on device Steve's solution Why timers? 14:20 Battery Pack - Erik Anderson Power Pole Deep Cycle SLA INIU 100w Type C Dewalt Battery Adapter (https://www.amazon.com/Converter-Battery-Adapter-Regulator-Terminal/dp/B0CQJDGQDB) Offical Dewalt USB C Adapter (https://www.dewalt.com/product/dcb094k/20v-maxflexvolt-5-amp-usb-charging-kit?tid=577811) 83w 12v USB Outlet (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1DHNLDS?ref=fed_asin_title) 21:40 NFS vs S3 for Home Lab - Brendan Recoverability Added complexity Would lean away from S3/Minio Hard to recover broken S3 file system It's ok to play with technology 28:21 Nextcloud Office - IK All-In-One master container Steve's attempt Not all Docker containers are official 33:52 News Wire Dillo 3.2 - github.io (https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.2.0/) OpenZFS 2.3 - github.com (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases) Rsync 3.4 - samba.org (https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.4.0) Linux Mint 22.1 - linuxmint.com (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_xia.php) Rhino Linux 2025.1 - rhinolinux.org (https://blog.rhinolinux.org/news-17) TuxCare Now Offering EOL MS Support - fossforce.com (https://fossforce.com/2025/01/tuxcare-stops-microsoft-from-killing-net-6-0/) Merit Systems Trying to Fund Open Source Devs - cnbc.com (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/16/merit-systems-raises-10-million-from-a16z-blockchain-capital.html) MiniMax Models - scmp.com (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3294900/chinese-ai-start-minimax-releases-low-cost-open-source-models-rival-top-chatbots) 35:00 Ebook 2 Audio Book Ebook2Audiobook (https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook/blob/main/README.md) Uses "local AI" Many types of text input Runs on CPU or GPU Surprised at the quality Steve's kid's apprenticeship Society has developed an aversion to anything "hard" Teaching the value of work and learning 42:00 Getting Started with AI What is AI? Math coprocessors CPUs are "generalist" processors GPUs are "specialized" processors CUDA Cores NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip (https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/project-digits/) 3 Classes of GPUs Design software story Project Digits (https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-nvidia-project-digits-high-performance-ai) LMStudio.at (https://lmstudio.ai/) GPT4All (https://docs.gpt4all.io/) TecMint.com (https://www.tecmint.com/ai-for-linux-users/) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/424) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
This week we get an update from the Ovens Data Center. Steve migrates a box from Ubuntu to Red Hat, and of course we answer your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Deadly cold weather Oven's data center update Spending "cloud money" on local media 05:55 Custom RHEL ISO ISO build system Red Hatters building all kinds of custom ISOs Why a custom ISO Red Hat Doc (https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/composing_a_customized_rhel_system_image/index) Why switch to RHEL Professional Linux support Mixed environment? 20:20 CES POE powered TV ArsTechnica Atricle (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/the-8-most-interesting-pc-monitors-from-ces-2025/) Basecase (https://getbasecase.com/) Crowd funding Questions about interfaces Powered over barrel connector Very expensive 29:58 News Wire Firefox 134 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/134.0/releasenotes/) Flatpak 1.16 - github.com (https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.16.0) KDE Frameworks 6.10 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.10.0/) Tails 6.11 - blog.torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-611/) Debian 12.9 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250111) 16GB Raspberry PI 5 - raspberrypi.com (https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/16gb-raspberry-pi-5-on-sale-now-at-120/) Nvidia Desktop AI "Super Computer" - theverge.com (https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/8/24339195/nvidia-digits-ai-supercomputer-in-person-photos-small) Phi-4 Fully Open-Source - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-makes-powerful-phi-4-model-fully-open-source-on-hugging-face/) Sky-T1-32B-Preview - techcrunch.com (https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/researchers-open-source-sky-t1-a-reasoning-ai-model-that-can-be-trained-for-less-than-450/) zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/450-and-19-hours-is-all-it-takes-to-rival-openais-o1-preview/) 30:55 Social Media/Decentralized Networks Mastodon shifting to being owned by a non-profit Creator wants users in control of Mastodon People are choosing to embrace the open source decentralized option Network effect is starting to weaken in favor of interoperability ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/) 36:15 OpenZFS 2.3 Support for Linux 4.18, up to Linux 6.12 LTS Adding new devices to existing RaidZ pool 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/openzfs-2-3-is-out-with-linux-6-12-support-raidz-expansion-fast-dedup-and-more) 38:30 Red Hat In-Vehical OS Standardized domains ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Level B (ASIL-B) thefastmode.com (https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/38950-red-hat-achieves-functional-safety-certification-for-in-vehicle-operating-system) 41:10 ZFS/QCOW2 - Carey Double writes ZFS doesn't support trim Options Snapshots Copying a QCOW2 file can be tricky 47:54 Daughters Internet Access - Vlad Shut off Internet access entirely Take the device Internet is different than technology 49:20 Politics in Software - Max Does the project throw it in your face? Be the bigger person Don't tolerate treating people badly because they don't agree with you -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/423) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
-- During The Show -- 00:50 Christmas Break Got to dig in to personal projects 02:22 YouTube Aggressive IP Bans YouTube starting to ban even home IPs Pinchflat (https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat) Feed YouTube a login cookie Not doing anything from your own IP GitHub Link (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/11868) Google went to court to shut down yt-dlp This is the next step If you don't own it, you're SOL Javascript is open source 15:00 News Wire Sysvinit 3.13 - github.com (https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit/releases/tag/3.13) Peazip 10.2 github.com (https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/) GE-Proton 9.22 - gamingonlinux.com (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ge-proton-9-22-released-with-lots-of-game-fixes-for-linux-steam-deck/) Berry Linux 1.40 - berry-lab.net (https://berry-lab.net/changelog.html) Pentoo Linux 2025 - pentoo.ch (https://www.pentoo.ch/downloads) SparkyLinux - 7.6 sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-6/) Nobara v41 -nobaraproject.org (https://nobaraproject.org/category/changelog/) Steam Survey Results- phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-December-2024) 16:20 Immich Follow-up How to implement with out disrupting things Remote AI processing Putting it into production External library The "sanctioned way" is run it in docker Container host inside a VM V-Host resources Immich tells you not to use it as a backup The good and bad 36:30 Cabling Network - Dan Both Noah and Steve prefer wired connections Converting photons to/from electrons is expensive Multi mode vs Single mode Transceivers Fiber Cable (https://www.amazon.com/FLYPROFiber-Fiber-Patch-Length-Options/dp/B08YV47MX9/) SFP Switch (https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Switch-Aggregation-Managed-USW-Aggregation/dp/B08QGD9HHG/) PCI Card (https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Broadcom-BCM57810S-Controller-Interface/dp/B06X9T683K) Noah ran Cat6 in his house Steve's thoughts on running fiber 45:11 Fire hazard management - Jeremy Call the fire department and get out 3-2-1 backup policy There are different kinds of fire extinguishers Practice using a fire extinguisher Heat sensors Honeywell smokes Alarm Relay (https://alarmrelay.com/) Home Assistant Noah's emergency plan Ark Fault breakers -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/422) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
This week we do live troubleshooting on the air with a listener, dig into permissions, ACLs, and talk about the software we didn't know we couldn't live without! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Merry Christmas! People are generous Steve's Christmas Plans Red Hat Rewards 02:20 TrueNas ZFS Replication Problem Drivers Permissions Unable to chmod 777 as root ZFS allow command No AppArmor Feature flags ZFS send/receive in verbose mode File system locked Remount the file system GID UID Jellyfin wants to be user ID Can create and delete but not change permissions ZFS ACLs ZFS ACL and Share ACL Send/Recive doesn't strip ACLs 14:15 Open Source Software Recommendations pluja/whishper (https://github.com/pluja/whishper) Super Productivity (https://super-productivity.com/) Firefox Multi Account Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/) Flameshot (https://flameshot.org/) Frigate (https://frigate.video/) Eye Of Gnome (https://help.gnome.org/users/eog/stable/) ErsatzTV (https://ersatztv.org/) Immich (https://immich.app/) Wiki.js (https://js.wiki/) Cinnamon Desktop (https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/) Soundux (https://soundux.rocks/) Brasero (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Brasero) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/421) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
This week Eric Hendricks joins us to help us solve problems, and bring some insight to RHEL 10 beta! -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Eric Hendricks ITGuyEric Red Hat Technical Marketer Fedora Podcast Host Steve's PSA - Spook (https://spook.boo/) Entities Other problems Help Steve Out - Firefox and authenticated proxy Mac OS breaking open source Gatekeeper 20:05 Threema for Messaging - Michael Technology is a tool for relationships Paid app Designed for private communication Checks a lot of boxes Network effect threematrix (https://github.com/bitbetterde/Threematrix) not updated recently Beeper 31:30 7 Inch Touch Screen Make the touch screen the primary display USB cable emulates a mouse Crash cart tech 35:07 News Wire Gnome 46.7 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-7-released/25560) KDE Frameworks 6.9 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.9.0/) KDE Gear 24.12 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0/) XFCE 4.20 - github.io (https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_14.html) QEMU 9.2 - qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/9.2) CentOS Stream 10 - centos.org (https://blog.centos.org/2024/12/introducing-centos-stream-10/) Red Hat has announced that CentOS Stream 10 is available. Kali Linux 2024.4 - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kali-linux-20244-released-with-14-new-tools-deprecates-some-features/) Fedora Asahi 41 - forbes.com (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2024/12/17/fedora-asahi-remix-41-released-linux-on-your-apple-silicon-mac/) Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Released Pumakit - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-stealthy-pumakit-linux-rootkit-malware-spotted-in-the-wild/) Open Source Malware - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/11/open-source-malware/) Boltz-1 - mit.edu (https://news.mit.edu/2024/researchers-introduce-boltz-1-open-source-model-predicting-biomolecular-structures-1217) 36:30 Self Hosting Hiccups SwiftFin app Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/) Nextcloud photo sync PhotoSync app Infuse app had to update the server side infuse plugin Immich (https://immich.app/) 47:10 RHEL 10 Public Beta Do Not install in production Relation between RHEL 10 Beta and CentOS 10 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Get it for free with a developer account -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/420) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Special Guest: Eric Hendricks.
This week Chinese hackers penetrated 8 US cell phone providers. They used the backdoor the US Government asked them to put in to perform the atack. With Chinese hackers potentially still in US networks, the FBI is advising the public to adopt encryption - the same technology the FBI has long demonized. -- During The Show -- 00:51 VoxelLibre Ansible Playbook Kids wanted Luanti (https://www.luanti.org/) Server and VoxelLibre (https://github.com/VoxeLibre/VoxeLibre) Minetest changed and broke automation Flatpak and Snap Obtaining Snap version Steve's Solution Potential for problems 13:52 Steam Lan Transfer Speed - Charlie No experience with LAN transfer speed limit Look inside of Steam Check for router/switch/bad cable Check for a system bottle necks 17:21 Internet Phone System - Jon Steve's IP phone system attempt Altispeed got out of doing phones Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) FreePBX (https://www.freepbx.org/) Unix Surplus (https://unixsurplus.com/) Grandstream GRP2612W (https://www.amazon.com/Grandstream-GRP2612W-Carrier-Grade-Phone-WiFi/dp/B07X1V3CCN) YeaLink or Fanvil Check Ebay for sip phones Cisco SPA Series Cisco 7975 proceed with caution programmed with TFTP Ploycom VVX series asks for lots of information fill all fields, except password, with the the extension 32:32 News Wire Thunderbird Turns 20 - thunderbird.net (https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/12/celebrating-20-years-of-thunderbird/) GNU Shepherd 1.0.0 - gnu.org (https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/news/2024/12/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released/) QT Creator 15 - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-15-released) OBS Studio 31 - obsproject.com (https://obsproject.com/osx_update/notes_stable.html) Gnome 47.2 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-2-released/25506) Nvidia 565.77 Driver - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-565.77-Linux-Driver) Linux 6.11 & 4.19 EOL - kernel.org (https://www.kernel.org) Linux 6.12 LTS - slashdot.org (https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/12/09/0125219/linux-kernel-612-confirmed-as-lts-will-be-supported-for-multiple-years#:~:text=Linux%20kernel%206.12%20joins%20the,the%20end%20of%20December%202026) EasyOS 6.5 - distrowatch.com (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12304) Austrumi 5.0 - zicos.com (https://en.zicos.com/download/i31956738-12-05-AUSTRUMI-500.html) Nitrus 3.8 - nxos.org (https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-3-8-0/) Alpine Linux 3.21 - aplinelinux.org (https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.21.0-released.html) openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 - opensuse.org (https://news.opensuse.org/2024/12/06/leap-micro-released/) FOSDEM - opensource.org (https://opensource.org/events/fosdem-2025) Linux Foundation Summit - opensource.org (https://opensource.org/events/the-linux-foundation-member-summit) TUM ReAM250 - 3dprintingindustry.com (https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/build-your-own-metal-3d-printer-with-the-new-open-source-ream250-project-234965/) OLMo 2 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/olmo-2-ai2/) Concerns About Chinese AI - techcrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/03/huggingface-ceo-has-concerns-about-chinese-open-source-ai-models/) Llama 3.3 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/meta-launches-open-source-llama-3-3-shrinking-powerful-bigger-model-into-smaller-size/) 34:00 FBI Advises Adopting E2EE 8 US Telcoms hacked Salt Typhoon Meta data and sms accessed FBI has said for years encryption is bad Law enforcement has found ways around encryption Salt Typhoon used the government back doors Over history many people back track Level of embarrassment Steve's thoughts on the effects Pragmatic approach to mobile Encrypted communication Network effect and framing the conversation Do you have a favorite E2EE platform? If you come across proof Salt Typhoon is China write in! PCMag (https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-urges-americans-to-use-encryption-after-complaining-about-it-for-years) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/419) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! 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This week we dig into the VMware situation that's leading to companies across the companies dumping VMware. -- During The Show -- 01:11 lacucaracha123456 - Pixel Screen Repair Screen repairs require heatguns and prying them apart Check Batteries Plus Check ebay for repair services 03:48 DNS - Aryeh Enabled and working fine for Steve Hairpin NAT Tiny from the GeekLab says: "Blocky and Adguard Home support DOH and DOT" 07:55 User Response Windows S - Michael Windows Support Link (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of-s-mode-in-windows-4f56d9be-99ec-6983-119f-031bfb28a307) Only seems to work if Windows 10 key is in the motherboard Level of friction Microsoft is placing in front of users 11:25 Photos/Backups on a VPS? - Charlie Crunch Bits (https://crunchbits.com/) Spider Oak (https://spideroak.com/) More value in spending "streaming money" on storage encrypt locally GPG VeraCrypt CryFS Kopia (https://kopia.io/) BorgBackup ZFS send and receive 25:25 News Wire Rust 1.83 - rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/28/Rust-1.83.0.html) Handbrake 1.9 - handbrake.fr (https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=56) Firefox 133 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/133.0/releasenotes/) Cinnamon 6.4 - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/cinnamon-6-4-desktop-new-features-theme) Tails 6.10 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-10/) NixOS 24.11 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2024/nixos-2411/) Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-7-Focal) Ubuntu UEFI Bootkit - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/eset-flags-prototype-uefi-bootkit-targeting-linux/) 26:10 VMWare vs Open Source Steve's interpretation of Oracle buying VMWare Stages Start up Growth Extract 300%-1000% price hike OpenNebula (https://opennebula.io/) Proxmox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/) KubeVirt (https://kubevirt.io/) ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/company-claims-1000-percent-price-hike-drove-it-from-vmware-to-open-source-rival/) 39:33 The Linux Experience Nvidia and Intel Arc A7070 i90 driver vs XE driver Steve's Ansible playbook Getting Started With Linux (https://docs.minddripone.com/getting-started-with-linux/) Needs to be shareable reproducible sustainable You quickly arrive at Open Source Being good stewards of technology Hardware 16GB Ram 512GB Storage i5 or better 5-7 years or newer Used Hardware ThinkPad T480 Dell Latitude 7410 Dell Latitude 7330 New Hardware System76 Framework Tuxedo Computers Star Labs Try Before You Buy EndlessOS Tails Make it Home Linux Mint Ubuntu Fedora OpenSuse EndlessOS Power User Distros Arch NixOS Make it Endless -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/418) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
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. -- During The Show -- 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 (https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/) $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 (https://www.luanti.org/) Voxel Libre (https://github.com/VoxeLibre/VoxeLibre) 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 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/microsoft-builds-a-349-mini-desktop-but-only-for-accessing-windows-in-the-cloud/) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/417) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
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