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Ask Noah Show 346 Jul 20, 2023

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This week Alma has big news, Slackware hits 30 years, we give you an update on Beeper, and Noah found his new favorite Matrix client!

-- During The Show --

01:00 Audio Success Story - Ricky

Yamaha TF1 Mixer
No news is good news
Worked great!

04:30 Adam follows up (remote desktop) - Adam

Any desk no longer available via flatpak

06:25 Remote options with no monitor? - Ian

Pi KVM
BLI KVM

10:20 News Wire

Slackware Turns 30 - IT Pro
Linux Mint 21.2 - Linux Mint
Linux 6.3 EOL - lkml.iu.edu
ARC GPU Improvments - Phoronix
Estonia and Open Voice Network - PR News Wire
DIA & IC Personnel - Meritalk
BeagleBone RISC-V SBC - Beagleboard
AnalogLamb RISC-v Boards - Hackster.io
AntiKythera Mechanism - Hackaday - Instructables
BPFDoor Enhancements - GB Hackers
Fake PoC installs Malware - The Hacker News
PyLoose Malware - Bleeping Computer
AVrecon Malware - Bleeping Computer
Ghostscript Vulnerability - Bleeping Computer
Meta Releaseing AI Model - Zdnet

12:45 Beeper

Latest updates fix disconnects
White Glove setup and support
Wider network

17:11 Element X

Sliding sync
Sudo IDs

19:00 Gomuks

No notifications
Regular or Bold
Ctrl+k
tab complete
teaches you matrix commands

23:03 Alma Drops Bug for Bug focus

ABI compatibility
Could allow Alma to add value
Who is the target for RHEL clones
Rocky, Suse, Oracle, Alma
Enterprise vs Community
Path of least resistance
RHEL target market
The Register

39:55 Red Hat Insights

Brett Midwood
Knowlege base applied to collected metrics
IBM Xforce threat intelligence
Edge computing
SeLinux & Insights
Insights and being proactive
Open Source and Insights
Insights providing fixes
Security Advocacy
Insights Value Proposition

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Ask Noah Show 345 | Red Hat Challenges with Bradley Kuhn Jul 11, 2023

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This week Bradley Kuhn from Software Freedom Conservancy joins Ask Noah to discuss the Red Hat situation and what if any GPL violations there are.

Read Bradley's Blog Post Here!

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Ask Noah Show 344 | Professional Video Production Jul 04, 2023

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Micah Pendleton - Owner & Producer of Caution Glass joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss professional video production on Linux!

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00:45 Happy 4th of July

01:20 Old Desktops - Mike

Where to donate old desktops?
Check around in your community
Free Geek
Reach back out to us

05:32 RLT-SDR (Ham radio) - Agustin

New Hams can be obnoxious
Listening is great!
Remote Ham Radio
SDR Receivers

10:40 Remote Desktop - Adam

15:15 News Wire

17:50 Beeper

Long term solution
Handles encryption well
Connects to everything
Free plan available
Network effect
Self Host Beeper

27:00 Mumble Caller Tony

Whats the deal with systemd?

30:00 Video Production on Linux

Micah Pendleton - Owner & Operator of Caution Glass
Where Micah started
Creative department
Blender
Commercials
Best Commercial in the State of Alabama
Switching the studio to Linux
The performance of open source won people over
Large studios run on Linux
The "format wars"
What hardware do you use?
Hardware switchers
- ATEM Mini HDMI
- Open Source enables hardware
Caution Glass Software
- Davinci Resolve
- Blender
- GIMP
- Krita
- Only Office
- Handbrake
- Shutter Encoder
Flatpak
What do you tell people who say "you have to use x software"?
Non-Linear Editors
Codecs & Raw files
What opportunities are there for growth on Linux?
- Plug-ins

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Ask Noah Show 343 | Red Hat's Source Code with Mike McGrath Jun 27, 2023

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Mike McGrath joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss the changes Red Hat is making in how they make their source code available.

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00:50 Arch Keyring Fix - Bloominstrong

at the bottom of /etc/pacman.conf
Include "SigLevel = Optional TrustAll" under core and extra
Update the keyring -Sy archlinux-keyring
Confirm each new key
Remove "SigLevel = Optional TrustALL"
run pacman -Syu

03:05 Church Streaming - John

10:30 Web Platform? - Brian

[Go Hugo](gohugo.io)

12:30 Mumble Caller - JMP.chat & Linphone - Naelr

Setup Linphone with JMP.chat
Send ? in cheogram chat
reset sip

17:58 News Wire

The linux 6.4 kernel has been released
Intel's new ARC driver in Linux boosts gaming performance by 11%
The Exodia OS team has recently updated their customized arch-based distro for security testing
Releases
Industry News
- GitLab Expands its Open Source Partner Community With the Addition of The Open Group
Security News
- New Linux based IOT attack campaign
AI News
- Databricks has agreed to buy MosaicML
- Robin AI - Github PR reviewer
Hardware News
- Dingo - A fully Open Source Robot Dog

19:55 Red Hat Interview

Mike McGrath - Vice President of Core Platforms Engineering
Blog Post 1
Reaction was unexpected, swift, and immediate
Conviction to the GPL
Source code is still available
Surprised more people didn't look at CentOS Stream
Blog Post 2
Red Hat no longer finds value in "re-builders"
Free as in freedom vs free as in beer
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Red Hat welcome's competition and contribution
Why not start with the second blog post's message?
Timing of the change
Meeting the GPL requirements
Products vs Projects
When did the thought of this start?
CentOS Stream
Things being done in bad faith
Threat to the open source business model
Red Hat has worked hard to make RHEL available for free
What about people using downstream rebuilds in CI pipelines?
No cost RHEL for open source projects (ROSI)
Does Red Hat want to be the "bottom rung of the ladder"?
IBM had zero input
CentOS Stream is critical for RHEL
What is Red Hat selling when they sell RHEL?
What impact will this have on the broader ecosystem?

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Ask Noah Show 342 Jun 20, 2023

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Singpolyma from JMP.chat joins Ask Noah to discuss the public launch of JMP.chat!

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01:40 JMP.Chat

6 Years in Beta
Lots of work
Always over delivered
Singpolyma from JMP.Chat
The history of JMP.Chat
Why is JMP.Chat for geeks?
De-coupling number from a device
Financial model
Beta Price Extension
Pricing
Porting
Multi Account
Cheogram App
Desktop Apps
- Movim
- Gajim
- Dino
- Beagle (Mac)
Snikket
JMP.Chat Matrix Bridging/Integration
Porting numbers out

46:44 News Wire

Distro Box 1.5 - GitHub
Tails 5.14 - Tails
Nvidia Driver - Nvidea
SparkyLinux 7.0 - Sparky Linux
Ultra Marine Linux 38 - Ultra Marine
OpenVPN 2.6.5 - OpenVPN
Linux 6.3.8 - LWN
Rust Tool Chain - Phoronix
Steam Linux Beta Client - Phoronix
LLM Blender - Mark Tech Post
MS ORCA - Indian Express

48:20 Firefox Multi-account containers - Jeremy

Multi Account Containers plugin is great
Thanks for the feedback

49:29 Open Source Cameras? - Ziggy

Dedicated open source camera episode?
Synology Disk Station
Axis Cameras
Zone Minder
Motion Eye

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Ask Noah Show 341 Jun 16, 2023

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This week we dig into professional video capture, a new NextCloud alternative, and SSH key pairs!

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00:30 Support the show

Sound board repair cost
ANS is an investment
Phone call & Mumble best
Email and Chat bot
Multiple points of view are great

06:45 Steve's Home Assistant Experience

Network attached storage

10:05 Help with key pairs - Emmanuel

Add the SSH key to your key file
Gravitational Teleport
Hardware token (SoloKey, OnlyKey)
LDAP

16:40 Pydio Next Cloud Substitute - Ahmed

Pydio
[Libre Self Hosted](libreselfhosted.com)

20:55 Capture Card - Michael

Scale-ability
PCI Bus/Lanes
Quad Bus USB Card
Elgato Capture
Stay away from HDMI
STI
Black Magic not the best under Linux
Chinesium STI Capture Card
Decimator
Proxmox vs Libvirt vs Ovirt
Hosting containers inside VMs

38:40 Tiny Asks Altispeed's Data Center Adventure

The world is asking for cloud
Altispeed's services are self-hostable
The journey
Pi KVM
BliKVM Ebay Link
Why not iDrac
Data Bank Data Center

48:50 Fly-Pie 10

51:50 EV Charging Standards

ARS Technica
CCS 1
GM & Ford Adopt Tesla Charging standard

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Ask Noah Show 340 - (Live from SELF) Jun 13, 2023

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This week we're live from SELF! We talk about the conference and the PineTab2!

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00:45 SELF

SELF is special
Community is special
Live Coverage
Everyone is back
Join us on Matrix

04:48 Distro Chooser

Container Technology
Trading pain points
Distro Chooser
About section
FAQ section
Reviews/Feedback

13:32 News Wire

InkScape v1.3 Beta
- InkScape
Immutable Ubuntu Desktop
- Ubuntu
NixOS 23.05
- Discourse
BlendOS 3
- BlendOS
MIDI Update
- Phoronix
RISE Project
- Tech Crunch
Tuxedo Updates
- Beta News
System76 Updates
- Liliput
System76 Nebula
- Phoronix
BlackSuit Ransomware
- The Hacker News
Folding@Home & PLEX Platform
- Forbes
Guanaco
- Open Source For U

16:10 Reddit API

Reddit raises prices on API access
Forces 3rd party apps to have subscriptions or die
Many services are designed to put you in front of eyeballs
Some reddit communities are going dark
Some apps are stopping development
Step in the direction of being too difficult to use
Lemmy.ml
Network of FOSS and Decentralized tools
Open technology allows compatibility with new technology
Join Lemmy
Lemmy Github

26:48 Matt Hicks

Red Hat CEO
What would young Matt Hicks say?
Intuition
Bridging
Managed Services
Motivation behind subscription model
Challenges of the new role?
"Your Lane"
Positioning Red Hat for the new environment
Value Prop of Red Hat scaling
Role of open source
Falling in love with open source
How do you plan to leverage your role?
Is there an advantage to being a US company?

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Ask Noah Show 339 Jun 07, 2023

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Matt Hicks the CEO of Red Hat joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss his hands on approach in his leadership role!

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00:45 SELF

SELF is special
Community is special
Live Coverage
Everyone is back
Join us on Matrix

04:48 Distro Chooser

Container Technology
Trading pain points
Distro Chooser
About section
FAQ section
Reviews/Feedback

13:32 News Wire

InkScape v1.3 Beta
- InkScape
Immutable Ubuntu Desktop
- Ubuntu
NixOS 23.05
- Discourse
BlendOS 3
- BlendOS
MIDI Update
- Phoronix
RISE Project
- Tech Crunch
Tuxedo Updates
- Beta News
System76 Updates
- Liliput
System76 Nebula
- Phoronix
BlackSuit Ransomware
- The Hacker News
Folding@Home & PLEX Platform
- Forbes
Guanaco
- Open Source For U

16:10 Reddit API

Reddit raises prices on API access
Forces 3rd party apps to have subscriptions or die
Many services are designed to put you in front of eyeballs
Some reddit communities are going dark
Some apps are stopping development
Step in the direction of being too difficult to use
Lemmy.ml
Network of FOSS and Decentralized tools
Open technology allows compatibility with new technology
Join Lemmy
Lemmy Github

26:48 Matt Hicks

Red Hat CEO
What would young Matt Hicks say?
Intuition
Bridging
Managed Services
Motivation behind subscription model
Challenges of the new role?
"Your Lane"
Positioning Red Hat for the new environment
Value Prop of Red Hat scaling
Role of open source
Falling in love with open source
How do you plan to leverage your role?
Is there an advantage to being a US company?

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Ask Noah Show 338 May 30, 2023

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This week Lamine Lachhab the Chief technical officer for the Scottish government joins the Ask Noah Show and we discuss open source and open data with the Scottish government.

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Last Week

Electrical storm took out the studio
Telos was amazing!
Sorry about last week

01:50 Secure Phone and Apps - Larry

Unplugged Up Phone
Great website
Say the right things
No details
Start with GrapheneOS or LineageOS

07:30 Kdenlive Snaps vs DEB - Rick

Snap version of Kdenlive Unstable
Similar experiences
Altispeed has largely switched to Flatpak
Like the idea of sandboxing
Possible advantages of universal packages
Please report upstream

16:48 Zyxel Switch - Charlie

Zyxel Switch
No support contracts
Good "budget brand"
Zyxel went down "cloud rabbit hole"
TP Link makes good stuff
Amazon Link

20:48 News Wire

Wine 8.9
- Gaming On Linux
GCC 11.4
- GCC
Linux 6.3.5
- 6.3.5
MicroOS Desktop
- Open Suse
Kali Linux 2023.2
- Kali Blog
Fedora Onyx
- Gaming On Linux
Qubes Fedora Templates
- Qubes OS
CIQ Support
- HPC Wire
GobRAT
- The Hacker News
Falcon LLM
- Reuters
SambaNOVA
- SambaNova

22:48 Lemine Lemke Interview

Chief Technical Officer for the Scottish Government
Funding agriculture
How data and technology play a role
How does open source play a role?
Is open source an advantage or disadvantage in government?
Open Data
Examples of open data success
What did open data enable the citizens to do?
Where there issues with false data?
Open source and education
Oil to Wind
NIMBYism
Scottish Space Port

41:41 Podman Desktop

Who is the target?
Discover-ability is better in a UI
Man Pages
Container "long view"
Containers and universal packaging overlap
Red Hat Blog

South East Linux Fest

June 9th - 11th
Join the Matrix Space
Still looking for volunteers!

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Ask Noah Show 337 May 16, 2023

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This week we dig into the Asus Ally. We'll tell you about an awesome all-in-one content production studio that works FLAWLESS on Linux, and of course your questions go to the front of the line!

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03:30 Self Hosted IMAP backup - Sebastián

Steve would call Noah
Mail spooler
Local Thunderbird

08:53 General Feedback - DJ

Americas Mailbox for friendly
CMRA/PMB privacy/opsec

11:42 News Wire

FreeSpire 9.5
- FreeSpire
TinyCore 14
- Tiny Core Linux
Firefox 113
- MOzilla
Haiku & RISC-V
- RISC-V
BcacheFS
- Kernel.org
OpenVPN 2.6.4
- OpenVPN
Royal Ransomware Group
- Data Center Knowledge
BPFDoor
- Hacker News
NetFilter Flaw
- Bleeping Computer
MichaelKors RaaS
- Hacker News
CISA KEV
- Security Week
New Intel CPU Microcode
- Phoronix
OpenSSF Alpha-Omega Project
- Security Week
ImageBind
- Peta Pixel
Hugging Face
- Make Use Of
European Parliament Vote
- FSFE.org

15:00 RODECaster II Pro with Linux

Fully integrated audio production studio
Smart Pads
Different mixers on faders
Mix minus
Type C ports
Rode.com
Guitar Center
Sweetwater

23:40 Willow Voice Assistant

$50 peice of tech
Hardware based on ESP-32
Creator wanted to jump start Home Assistant Voice Assistant
Might only relay sound to Home Assistant
YouTube
ARSTechnica

32:40 ASUS ROG Ally

ROG Ally Runs MS Windows not Linux
More up to date (released 2 years after Steam Deck)
Low wattage modes
Planned Obsolescence
Running Windows
ChromeBook Ewaste
Does windows give ROG Ally and edge?
Target audiance
ARSTechnica

50:50 Perils of Unsupported FOSS In Enterprise

Open Source is winning
Open Source doesn't mean cheap/free
Software needs to be maintained
- 3rd Party Support
- Community Support
The Register

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01:00 Audio Success Story - Ricky

04:30 Adam follows up (remote desktop) - Adam

06:25 Remote options with no monitor? - Ian

10:20 News Wire

12:45 Beeper

17:11 Element X

19:00 Gomuks

23:03 Alma Drops Bug for Bug focus

39:55 Red Hat Insights

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00:45 Happy 4th of July

01:20 Old Desktops - Mike

05:32 RLT-SDR (Ham radio) - Agustin

10:40 Remote Desktop - Adam

15:15 News Wire

17:50 Beeper

27:00 Mumble Caller Tony

30:00 Video Production on Linux

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00:50 Arch Keyring Fix - Bloominstrong

03:05 Church Streaming - John

10:30 Web Platform? - Brian

12:30 Mumble Caller - JMP.chat & Linphone - Naelr

17:58 News Wire

19:55 Red Hat Interview

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46:44 News Wire

48:20 Firefox Multi-account containers - Jeremy

49:29 Open Source Cameras? - Ziggy

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00:30 Support the show

06:45 Steve's Home Assistant Experience

10:05 Help with key pairs - Emmanuel

16:40 Pydio Next Cloud Substitute - Ahmed

20:55 Capture Card - Michael

38:40 Tiny Asks Altispeed's Data Center Adventure

48:50 Fly-Pie 10

51:50 EV Charging Standards

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00:45 SELF

04:48 Distro Chooser

13:32 News Wire

16:10 Reddit API

26:48 Matt Hicks

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04:48 Distro Chooser

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26:48 Matt Hicks

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Last Week

01:50 Secure Phone and Apps - Larry

07:30 Kdenlive Snaps vs DEB - Rick

16:48 Zyxel Switch - Charlie

20:48 News Wire

22:48 Lemine Lemke Interview

41:41 Podman Desktop