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Episode 496: Ask Noah Show 496 | Live from SELF 2026 Jun 13, 2026

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This week we are live from SELF! THE Alan Hicks joins the program and we talk Ai!

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Ask Noah Show 495 Jun 09, 2026

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This week Noah and Steve talk about why they'll be at Southeast Linuxfest. Noah introduces everyone to the Ai embedded in his rental car, and the boys finally find a Z-Wave thermostat!

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00:50 Intro

When AI can be good
Conversing with AI
Varying AI model quality
Creativity and AI
Prompt engineering
Write into the show about AI
Accelerator for people already have a base skill

10:00 SELF and Picking Conferences

Self is this Weekend
Please come to SELF
Really use help Wednesday
New Venue
Why go to SELF
Conference size
Watch for the ANS meetup

15:55 Door bells - Ziggy

Steve would run Ethernet
Why WiFi cameras are bad
ReoLink Support

22:15 Thermostats - Tim

RadioThermostat CT50
Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave Programmable Thermostat (Model TH6320ZW2007)

25:30 UL Listed

UL, ETL, CE certification
European way of doing things
UL508A
Gosund Wo1 Tuya smart outlet

30:00 AI in Cars

AI built into rental
Noah's AI experience
AI Audio clips
AI engages with you
Safety concerns
Possibility of latent functionality

40:20 Age Verification

California's Digital Age Assurance Act
Open Source getting a pass in CA and CO
Privacy trade offs
Pattern of freedom and contraction
ItsFoss

48:00 OpenAI IPO

Large evaluations
Fundraising with out fundraising
May be a cash out move
Going public "opens the books"
CNBC

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Episode 494: Ask Noah Show 494 Jun 02, 2026

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This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Red Hat to talk about the relationship RHEL and their up-streams.

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00:45 Intro

IT at home
Wrangling home "data center"
Noah's old strategy
Shoe makers kids have no shoes
Snowballing tech
Backups - pull vs push
Making things modular

11:10 Interesting Tech - Carey

TRMNL
Mecha Comet
GPD Micro PC 2
Value of pocket PCs

22:30 Shelly Devices and UL rated - Mike

UL Ratings
Pay attention to what you buy
Many Shelly devices are UL listed
UL listed Shelly devices are ~20% more expensive
"Harbor Freight" answer

28:30 Red Hat Vulnerabilities

Discovered and locked down in a few hours
Assume breach, change everything
Has worm like functionality
Bypassed 2FA
Multiple persistence methods
Heavily obfuscated
stepsecurity.io

36:45 Interview Mike McGrath

Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms
RHEL AI vs OpenShift AI
What did Red Hat get wrong and right over the last few years
Is AI a threat to open source?
Does going closed source actually solve anything?
CVEs
Mechanisms for community influence on RHEL
What are RHEL security best practices?
- Quantum safe encryption
- Install as little as possible
Image mode
Project Hummingbird
RHEL Forever
CentOS Stream and RHEL
What is an upside of CentOS Stream?

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Ask Noah Show 493 May 26, 2026

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This week Sathish Balakrishnan from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Ansible as the trusted execution layer for automation. Jef Spaleta joins to give us an update on Fedora! It's a packed episode.

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00:50 ReCaptcha

Going to require Google Services Framework or iOS >16.4
DeGoogled phones will fail
Where we are headed
No one spoke up
FDroid
Keep Android Open
ReClaim the Net

09:20 Jef Spaleta

Jef Spaleta
Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat
What is Fedora
Governance
Integrating
New Contributors
Jef's path into Linux
Fedora AI Policy
AI assisted workflow
Future of AI and Agentic
Space for enthusiasm

31:24 News Wire

Midori 11.8 - astian.org
Wordpress 7.0 - wordpress.org
Less 702 - greenwoodsoftware.com
Ardour 9.5 - ardour.org
Thunderbird 151 - thunderbird.net
Firefox 151 - firedfox.com
DietPi 10.4 - dietpi.com
Nitrix 6.1 - nxos.org
Tails 7.8 - torproject.org
RHEL 10.2 - redhat.com
Ubuntu Core 26 - canonical.com
GitHub Victim of TeamPCP - wired.com
Megalodon Cyberattack - mashable.com
Bumblebee - marktechpost.com
MoonRay - phoronix.com

32:42 Meta E2E Messages

Texas Attorney General sued Meta
Could "taint" perception of other E2EE
Unlikely companies will give you true privacy
ArsTechnica

36:30 Sathish Balakrishnan

Vice President and General Manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat
Benefits of Ansible
Ansible as Trusted Execution Layer
Balancing understanding
Guide rails for AI
Drag and Drop AI Ansible workflow
Patching is no longer optional
What do you want all new Ansible users to know?
Everything must be automated

52:15 Feedback

Call in!
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Ask Noah Show 492 May 19, 2026

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This week Sachin Mullick, Senior Manager, Product Management, joins the program and we talk about OpenShift Virtualization.

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00:50 Intro

Sad trombone button
Plex Lifetime Pass Price Hike ArsTechnica
What is Plex is
JellyFin

14:00 Thermostats - Marc

Docs Site
There isn't a great solution
There is a market
Older Venstar T7900
Older Honeywell Redlink
Shelly
Build your own
Centralite Pearl Amazon

25:40 Tailscale - Feydr

How do you access your LAN with no exit node?

27:11 News Wire

KDE Plasma 6.6.5 - kde.org
Debian 13.5 - debian.org
SparkyLinux 8.3 - sparkylinux.org
Age Verification Backlash - opensourceforu.com
DOE Open-Source Wind Turbine - energy.gov
Open Source EV - electrek.co
AI & Linux Security Mailing List - theregister.com techradar.com
SSH-Keysign-PWN - tuxcare.com
Fragnesia - wiz.io
Shai-Hulud - ox.security
Mini Shai-Hulud - cyberscoop.com
DirtyDecrypt - thehackernews.com
OpenBSD 7.9 - openbsd.org

28:54 Sachin Mullick Interview

Sachin Mullick OpenShift Product Manager
VMware Broadcom Acquisition
Red Hat & KVM
"Click Ops"
Upstream
Must be willing to learn
"Click Ops" vs Declarative
Biggest Misconceptions
VM investments and migrating to containers
Are we actually modernizing?
"Day 2"
Home Labs
What would need for a home lab?
OpenShift Sandbox
Red Hat Original Series
Interactive Demos
Training and Certification

53:00 Dory

eInk Signs
Won't be bricked if company goes under
ArsTechnica

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Ask Noah Show 491 May 12, 2026

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Noah and Steve are at Red Hat Summit 2026! We talk to Stefanie Chiras to talk about her new role as Senior Vice President of the AI Innovation Hub. She leads Red Hat's strategy for engaging with and catalyzing regional AI ecosystems.

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00:50 Intro

Live from Summit in Georgia
Interviews

02:30 Lets Encrypt Changes - Charlie

Certificate's going to 45 Days
Window is likely to decrease

05:40 Follow up on getting into system - Advait

Write in with your recovery techniques
What Noah used to do
LiveCD and "poking"
Steve's HP Elite Book
UltraBooks
Separating work and personal
Choosing a laptop
ThunderBolt Docks changed computer usage

19:30 Dell Server Problems - Frederick

Maybe the drives died
PERC is getting in the way
Step One
Flash IT mode
If PERC fails you can be in big trouble

23:00 Red Hat Summit Interview

Stefanie Chiras Ph.D. - Senior Vice President, AI Innovation Hub
Mechanical Engineering degrees
What led you where you are?
Breaking down walls
Open Accelerator
Roll of Open Source
Government Involvement
Benefits to community
Does code flow back to Open Source?
Open Source governance

37:40 News Wire

KDE Frameworks 6.26 - kde.org
Mesa 26.1 - mesa3d.org
Cangjie - infoq.com
Mercury Modem - hamweekly.com
Parrot 7.2 - parrotsec.org
3D-Printed Stethoscope - adafruit.com
Copy Fail - thehackernews.com
Dirty Frag - thehackernews.com
Emergency Kill Switch - theregister.com
PAN-OS Vulnerability - thehackersnews.com
PamDOORa - thehackernews.com
MoonShot AI - siliconangle.com
Red Hat AI 3.4 - redhat.com
Open AI Foundations - fierce-network.com

40:00 Fun Technology

Playing with LLMs
Fish.audio
Creating audio books

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Ask Noah Show 490 May 05, 2026

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This week we answer questions about remote connecting to Home Assistant, an automated way to backup and restore your GrapheneOS phone. We talk about the 3D printing laws that are coming on the books.

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00:50 Intro

Starting fresh vs fix what you have
Spaceship design
Designs need to distill down
Home Assistant
Noah's setup

12:00 Home Assistant - Kristian

Steve's remote solution
Tailscale exit nodes
Noah's remote solution
AirVPN
Learn wireguard
Effect of VPN

26:00 SeedVault Feedback - Dominik

Money Apps not transferring is a feature
Permissions not transferring is a feature
Really appriciate the feedback
SeedVault
Syncthing

31:00 Tech for vechiles - dashcam and gps tracking - Charlie

Viofo Dash Cam
Traccar
Understand dashcam need
US is legally requiring manufacture uplink
Vehicles are increasingly computerized
OpenPilot

38:00 News Wire

Curl 8.20 - curl.se
Qbittorrent 5.2 - qbittorrent.org
Calibre 9.8 - calibre-ebook.com
Shotcut 26.4 - shotcut.org
KdenLive - kdenlive.org
EasyOS 7.3 - puppylinux.com
4MLinux 51.1 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com
Extix 26.5 - extonlinux.wordpress.com
EndeavourOS - endeavouros.com
GRML 2026.04 - grml.org
Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com
AerynOS 2026.05 - phoronix.com
PS5 Mod Installs Steam - 80.lv
Copy Fail - copy.fail
Ubuntu Integrated AI - techpowerup.com
Meta Abandons Llama - thenewstack.io
Cisco Tool - cisco.com
DOS 1.0 - zdnet.com microsoft.com

40:00 Steve's tip

Doing work at home
Drive nearing full alert
QDirStat

44:00 3D Printer Restrictions

New York proposed law
Cryptographically signing prints
Requiring cloud connection
Stopping tinkerers from tinkering
80% of people want an easy button
Effect on the market

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Episode 489: Ask Noah Show | 489 Apr 28, 2026

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This week we talk about how Ai took out a production database, we answer questions on best home automation practices, and we talk a bit of storage cache.

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00:48 Intro

Gratitude
Curiosity

02:30 Cache Drives - David

Terminology and discovery
ZIL (ZFS Intent Log)
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous
SLOG
Mirror drives
ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache)
- Stored in RAM
L2ARC
- Spill over from ARC
Work load dependant
Please join live!
[Boardroom Technologies](BoardroomTechnologies.com)

12:42 Nextcloud - Aryeh

Home Assistant SFTP Storage
Dumping to NFS share
*

0 2 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ trashbin:cleanup homeassistant_user
Nextcloud Docs

17:28 Home Automation - Tony

Home automations are personal
Lutron Training
Less is more
Bedroom automation
Eject handles/over-rides
Orbit Panels

31:00 SIP Server - Twobit

34:17 News Wire

Kdenlive 26.04.0 - kdenlive.org
Midori 11.7 - github.com
Bleachbit 6.0 - bleachbit.org
QEMU 11.0 - qemu.org
LXQT 2.4 - lxqt-project.org
Firefox 150 - firfox.com
Thunderbird 150 - thunderbird.net
Ubuntu 26.04 - ubuntu.com
Fedora 44 - fedoramagazine.org
Tails 7.7 - tails.net
VECT 2.0 Destroys Files - thehackernews.com
Pack2TheRoot - securityweek.com
GoGra Backdoor - thehackernews.com
DeepSeek v4 - siliconangle.com
Kimi k2.6 - pandaily.com
Qwen3.6-27B - marktechpost.com

35:50 Discussion Segment

Cursor - AI first IDE
Opus - AI model
Agents
Cursor "modes"
- Agent
- Planning mode
Cursor wants to "resell AI" to you
The Register Cursor
Steve's AI automation mishap
AI can be amusing
Mythos
The Register Mythos
Metasploit

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Ask Noah Show 488 Apr 21, 2026

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This week Singpolyma joins us to talk about the Cheogram web app. We talk about NASA's Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) and how it's changing the way long distance communication works!

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00:48 - Special Guest

Singpolyam
cross platform core
Cheogram Web App
- Still considered Alpha
- Pretty stable
- Voice, Video, Text
JMP.chat data only sim
esim adapter
Snikket
Affect of Google forcing developer registration
JMP.Chat

10:38 Comprehension debt

Creating prompts
Spec driven developing
Most people don't read the code
No person understands how the code works
Peer review vs AI
Amazon outages
When to use AI code
Re-implementing AI code
AI summary
Rating your understanding
RAID log

24:30 Linux Router - Connor

VyOS
OpenWRT
PFSense is out
Look for things with an API
PFSenseible GitHub
Site to Site in medical
Dicom
Why not to use pfSense
OPNsense

35:30 JMP.chat - Aaron

Cheogram Web App
Webapp Manager GitHub

36:15 System Fails to boot -Advait

Can't remember the last time it happened
Noah doesn't fix systems
Reinstall plus ansible

41:12 News Wire

Nginx 1.30 - nginx.org
OpenSSL 4.0 - github.com
Gnome 50.1 - gnome.org
KDE Gear 26.04 - kde.org
Mir 2.26 - ubuntu.com
Linux 7.1 - theregister.com
Zorin OS 18.1 - blog.zorin.com
Solus 4.9 - getsol.us
Cachy OS has 7.0 Kernel - xda-developers.com
Thunderbolt AI Client - phoronix.com
Cal Closeing Source Code - zdnet.com

42:25 Sleuth's Feedback

VyOS
- Uses a JSON config file
- Have the system make backups
- Supports podman containers
System failing to boot
- Your data is still there
- Boot from a live distro

45:30 Artemis II Mission

Crew Module
ESM - European Service Module
Radio waves
O2O communications
- 1 watt of power
- focused beam, sensitive receiver
- 260 MbPs
TechSpot

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Episode 487: Ask Noah Show 487 Apr 14, 2026

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This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters!

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00:50 Intro

Weather
Audio Levels

02:00 Steve's AI Rabbit Hole

AI may change, but is here to stay
Garmin Data
Tested 14 models
How they performed
Mumble Doc
What are tokens
MCP server vs skills
Email is out dated
Environmental cost

25:18 Copy On Write - Jayson

Benefits of COW file systems
Compression
Steve is not a ZFS "expert"
Block size
SSD vs HDD for databases
Avoid COW inside VM

36:32 RaidZ Questions - D

Mirrored Pairs
Use SSD/Solid State
UGreen NAS

43:30 Authentication - Avri

Pocket-ID GitHub
Open Source SSO

45:20 MakeMKV Feedback - archer72 (KD9VMW)

MakeMKV Error
Hacker Public Radio 4564

46:11 AV Codecs - Atypical

How do you add AV codecs into EndlessOS?
Flatpak with codecs

47:20 Axis Door Stations - TwoBit

They are great, everything is standard

48:00 News Wire

Peazip 11.0 - github.io
GNU Nano 9.0 - nano-editor.org
KDE Frameworks 6.25 - kde.org
KDE Plasma 6.6.4 - kde.org
OpenSSL 3.6.2 - github.com
Extix 26.4 - linux.exton.net
Plop Linux 26.2 - plop.at
Snal Linux 1.40 - sourceforge.net
PearOS Nice Core 26.4 - pearos.xyz
Trisquel 12.0 - phoronix.com
GLM 5.1 - venturebeat.com
Ising - nvidia.com
France Switches to Linux - linuxiac.com

49:16 AI in Health Care

Class Action Law Suit over AI transcription
Who can be subpoenaed?
Informed consent
Epic Everywhere

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00:50 Intro

10:00 SELF and Picking Conferences

15:55 Door bells - Ziggy

22:15 Thermostats - Tim

25:30 UL Listed

30:00 AI in Cars

40:20 Age Verification

48:00 OpenAI IPO

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00:45 Intro

11:10 Interesting Tech - Carey

22:30 Shelly Devices and UL rated - Mike

28:30 Red Hat Vulnerabilities

36:45 Interview Mike McGrath

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00:50 ReCaptcha

09:20 Jef Spaleta

31:24 News Wire

32:42 Meta E2E Messages

36:30 Sathish Balakrishnan

52:15 Feedback

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00:50 Intro

14:00 Thermostats - Marc

25:40 Tailscale - Feydr

27:11 News Wire

28:54 Sachin Mullick Interview

53:00 Dory

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00:50 Intro

02:30 Lets Encrypt Changes - Charlie

05:40 Follow up on getting into system - Advait

19:30 Dell Server Problems - Frederick

23:00 Red Hat Summit Interview

37:40 News Wire

40:00 Fun Technology

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00:50 Intro

12:00 Home Assistant - Kristian

26:00 SeedVault Feedback - Dominik

31:00 Tech for vechiles - dashcam and gps tracking - Charlie

38:00 News Wire

40:00 Steve's tip

44:00 3D Printer Restrictions

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00:48 Intro

02:30 Cache Drives - David

12:42 Nextcloud - Aryeh

17:28 Home Automation - Tony

31:00 SIP Server - Twobit

34:17 News Wire

35:50 Discussion Segment

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00:48 - Special Guest

10:38 Comprehension debt

24:30 Linux Router - Connor

35:30 JMP.chat - Aaron

36:15 System Fails to boot -Advait

41:12 News Wire