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Ask Noah Show 436 Apr 08, 2025

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This week Steve builds a backup server, and tells us how and why!

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01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin

Needed unsandboxed play services
Broke on the next update
This problem reported across OSes
People reported needing to install "the framework"
Apps stay in their sandbox
Use app in a web browser

06:26 VMs - Mike

Covered later in the show

07:35 searXNG - Donald

More than a proxy
Better results than other search engines

10:00 News Wire

Curl 8.13 - curl.se
GnuCash 5.11 - gnucash.org
GNU Nano 8.4 - lists.gnu.org
Apt 3.0 - debian.org
Thunderbird 137 - thunderbird.net
Firefox 137 - mozilla.org
KDE Plasma 6.3.4 - kde.org
Rust 1.86 - releases.rs
Qt 6.9 - wiki.qt.io
Nvidia PhysX and Flow - wccftech.com
Outlaw Malware - thehackernews.com
Open Source Malware Index - infoworld.com
ProteuX 2.0 - github.com
New Fedora Project Lead Jef Spaleta - fedoramagazine.org

11:30 Interview Jon Segar

VP of Engineering at Ubuntu
uutils coreutils
Licenses
Growing the Ubuntu Community
Feature parity & rough edges
Default in 25.10 build
Memory safe languages
Moving people's cheese

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Episode 435: Ask Noah Show 435 Apr 01, 2025

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This week we give an update on the journey with GrapheneOS.

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00:58 Intro

Cold weather
Do I shovel snow?

01:36 Thank you! - Nick

Steve knows A LOT about kubernetes
Tell us what about kubernetes do you want to learn?
2 Camps of people
How deep will Steve go

06:57 GraphenOS - Craig

Noah's experience/device
Samsung made an un-rom-able US version
Carrier's load an OS when you boot their sim card
Noah's Pixel 8a
Why no financial apps
Inherent insecurities in phones
Niche vs common target
Phones can "walk off"
Rouge Pixel, video file, audio file, etc
Even normal people with a stock phone struggle
Pixel 6A as a work phone
Being attached to "glowing bricks"
Authenticator apps
WiFi only/no sim
Google Account requires logging in on a stock device
Navigation
- Here WeGo Maps
Notifications
- Micro-g
- Persistent Notification
Browsers
- Firefox
- Vandium
Be prepared for hiccups
Nitro Phone
Make sure the bootloader is unlocked
Naomi Brockwell TV Block Phone Tracking
Naomi Brockwell TV Main Site
Vehicle Tracking

50:45 Linux Wins! - Dan

Combat Studies Group
Re-purposing computers for re-use

52:35 News Wire

XZ Utils 5.8.0 - github.com
Shotcut 25.03 - shotcut.org
Android Development Going Private - arstechnica.com
Kaos 2025.03 - kaosx.us
Zorin 17.3 - zorin.com
Linux Lite 7.4 - gbhackers.com
Q4OS 5.8 - q4os.org
EU-OS - linuxjournal.com
OpenAI Open Weight Model - wired.com

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Ask Naoh Show 434 Mar 25, 2025

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This week Steve and Noah give you tips on hosting your first home server.

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00:58 Intro

Minimum Viable Battle Station
Pelican 1620 Cases
XREAL Air 2
Ergonomics

09:52 Home Server Questions - Dan

Noah's first homelab
Pick an OS with low churn, long term OS
Generational upgrades
Experiment in VMs
Starting with a VM host
Starting with a file server
Don't put 30 drives in one box
Noah's vs Steve's approach
Do it, Document it, Blow it away, Do it again
Know the thing before you automate
Low level tech roles being handed to other business people
Playbooks
Ansible
Steve's OpenAudible-TO-AudioBookShelf

48:06 Kubernetes - Jeremy

50:32 News Wire

Calibre 8.0 - calibre-ebook.com
Linux 6.14 - lkml.org
Gnome 48 - gnome.org
Blender 4.4 - blender.org
Zulip 10 - zulip.com
EndeavorOS Mercury Neo - endeavouros.com
Finnis 125 - finnix.org
Serpent OS Rebranded to AerynOS - fossforce.com
Rocky Linux Security - fossforce.com
Chimera Linux Drops RISC-V - theregister.com
Albabat Ransomware - infosecurity-magazine.com
Hornet Security Module - phoronix.com
3 AI Projects Donated to Linux Foundation - thenewstack.io
Trend Micro Open Source - prnewswire.com
Hugging Face Blueprint - venturebeat.com
AlexNet Open Source - spectrum.ieee.org
Open Source Worth 8.8 Trillion - heise.de hbs.edu

52:15 Private Search Engine? - Atypical Kernel

SearXNG

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Episode 433: Ask Noah Show 433 | Rescuing LinuxRocks.online Mar 18, 2025

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This week a community resource fell offline unexpectedly. Members from all over the internet banded together to restore a community resource!

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01:00 Intro

Noah brought the warm weather back
We need your feedback
Join Geeklab
Tag Marlin

04:10 Smart Watches

Original pebble inventor
New pebble smartwatches available for preorder
ArsTechnica
Steve's smartwatch use case
Noah's watch
Pine Time
Fitness Features
Eric Migicovsky doesn't stick with companies
AsteroidOS
BangleJS

28:32 News Wire

GIMP 3.0 - gimp.org
Digikam 8.6 - digikam.org
Peertube 7.1 - joinpeertube.org
Gstreamer 1.26 - freedesktop.org
KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org
End of Nouveau OpenGL Driver - itsfoss.com
Debian Bookworm 12.10 - debian.org
Ubuntu's Rust Coreutils - ubuntu.com
GitHub Actions Hack - infoworld.com
Open Source OSV Scanner - gbhackers.com
Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability - gbhackers.com
Kagent - thenewstack.io
Tencent Open Source Model - bloomberg.com
Mistral Small 3.1 - techzine.eu - venturebeat.com

29:50 Linuxrocks.online Outage

Noah's travel story
Awake for 30+ hours
Wakes up to DMs, emails, online posts, etc
Linux Rocks server is down
Linux Rocks server grew organically
Moved into Altispeed Egan MN data center
SSH connected but then kicked you out
Altispeed got pulled into it
User wasn't in the libvertd group
Organic way information spreads on the internet
Glad to see people calm down after learning someone is in the hospital
Linux Rocks is now monitored by LibreNMS
Michael is donating a new server
Thank you for polite and kind notification
To those not so kind, please consider what you are getting for free
Reddit post
Everything was documented

49:45 Continuity Plan

Reach out to Nerd friends
Interest
Old laptops show up on Noah's desk
Enabling people through technology

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Ask Noah Show 432 Mar 11, 2025

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This week the news of an "ESP backdroor" spread around the internet like wildfire. We dig into the technical details as to what happened, and what if any, the risk is.

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00:52 Intro

Thank you for visiting at Scale
Weather
Cutting Silicon Wafers
YouTube Video

Sleuth - Live

Ham Radio Liscnse Address requirement
ARRL Privacy
Private Mail Box
QSL Cards

09:15 HVAC follow up - Ziggy

Boiler Heat
Equipment Interface Module
How boilers work
ESP32
Pull the old thermostat
Be careful making changes on the boiler
Venstar Thermostats
Honeywell Intrusion

21:49 Fedora on PI Boot Problems - Mark

Other people report Fedora "hangs" on Raspberry Pi 4
Try it on another pi
Raspberry Pi 5

27:16 News Wire

Samba 4.22 - samba.org
Pipewire 1.4 - gitlab.freedesktop.org
Thunderbird 136 - thunderbird.net
Firefox 136 - mozilla.org
Ubuntu Touch OTA 8 - ubports.com
ExTix 25.3 - linux.exton.net
Tails 6.13 - torproject.org
Garuda Linux Broadwing - opensourcefeed.org
Malicious Go Packages - thehackernews.com
Alibaba qwq - venturebeat.com
Light-R1-32B - venturebeat.com
EFF Rayhunter - eff.org

28:38 Software Freedom Conservancy Interview

Denver Gingerich - Director of Compliance
OpenWRT One
Powered over PoE
$10 of purchase price goes to OpenWRT
Target audience
Un-brickable
Made by BananaPi

36:10 Considering OpenWRT One

Steve for family?
On par with any consumer router
OpenWRT vs OPNSense
Very well put together
39:35 ESP32 "Backdoor"
The basics
Wireless has to talk
What the company did
opcode3f
Undocumented Commands
- 0xFC30 - Register Read
- 0xFC31 - Register write
- 0xFC32 - Set MAC Address
- 0xFC07 - Write Flash
- 0xFC08 - Read Flash
- 0xFC0E - Send LMP Packet (different layers of the bluetooth stack)
What they are not telling you
Much to do about nothing
Ycombinator.com
Espressif Response
Dark Mentor

46:37 Vizio Lawsuit

SFC filed Oct 19 2021
Vizio tried to move the lawsuit
Going to trial in this year in Oct
SFC became a hardware manufacture to avoid fighting these lawsuits

51:00 Steve's eBook Tinkering

Started to help ChrisLAS
Extending the program

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Ask Noah Show 431 Mar 07, 2025

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We're live from SCaLE this year, and a panel joins us to learn more about how Ubuntu is trying to reach the next generation.

Dinner at SCale

We're teaming up with Jupiter Broadcasting for a meetup and dinner! Come join us Saturday night!

Where: El Cholo Café 300 E Colorado Blvd Suite 214 Pasadena, CA

When: Saturday, March 8, 2025 7:00 PM.

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Ask Noah Show 430 Mar 04, 2025

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This week we dig into what it takes to get started and involved in Open Source. You can do it in your community, in your city, or in your area. If nothing like that exists in your area, join us at one of the upcoming community conferences!

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00:51 Polar Vortex

Polar vortex collapse
Audio bookshelf python code

03:02 Steve's Immich Journey - Stephen

Storage templates
Asset types and storage locations
Makes sense from programming perspective
Not knowing what to look for

10:38 Cheap Card for AI - Joshua

Driver issues
Quadro performs a little better
Stay away from Tesla cards
RAM and CUDA cores
Stay away from Intel and AMD

16:10 Seafile help? - Tyler

Context path
Help available in Geeklab

20:25 Church A/V - Emmanuel

RJ6 Quad Shielded Cable
RESI
OBS and Owncast
NDI Camera
Aida Camera
Scarlett2i2 Knock Off

25:38 News Wire

Fish Shell 4.0 - fishshell.com
DBeaver 25.0 - dbeaver.io
Emacs 30.1 - masteringemacs.org
KDE Plasma 6.3.2 - kde.org
EA Open-Sourced More - theverge.com
Nextcloud Hub 10 - nextcloud.com
Nvidia Linux 570 Drivers - nvidia.com
Open-Source Nuclear-Fusion Plans - wsj.com
Black Duck OSSRA - securitymagazine.com
Auto-Color Malware - thehackernews.com
OpenSSF Initiative - devops.com
WhisperCat 1.4 - github.com
Wan 2.1 - reuters.com

27:52 Getting Involved in Community

Steve and resumes
Be prepared to talk about what you say you know
Better to say "I don't know" than lie or fake it
A wall of text does not help
Bold important things
Demonstrate your skills
- Blog
- Code repository
- Website
Be willing to make compromises
Don't chase a position
Get involved with a local group
- Non-Profits
- Church
- Linux Group
- Business Group
Lead with Generosity
Jab Jab Jab Right Hook
Be prepared to "un-sexy work"

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Ask Noah Show 429 Feb 25, 2025

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This week Noah and Steve describe their geek weekend. Steve teaches Noah about containers, and takes on a cool ZFS on boot project!

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01:00 Steve's Trip

Went up North to visit Noah and Altispeed

02:22 Nextcloud on VMs - Bradly

Nextcloud works better on VMs
NFS challenges
Give MariaDB lots of memory
This is how enterprise deploys things
All in one falls over
Struggled to get real time collaboration to work
Pass a zvol through to the VM
S3 storage
Ceph/Gluster is complicated but most robust
Pass a block device not another QCOW2 file

13:52 3D printing experience - Jeremy

Prusa MK4S, open source friendly
Handheld Framework Case
Creality 6 SE
Creality Ender 3
Fully open vs high end 3D printers
Cloud dependant

22:52 AI for interviews - Avri

Interview Coder
Red Hat interview story
Kid using hotel kiosk

29:52 Forwarding SMS - PIX

Beeper

32:50 Matrix Foundation

How Matrix and Element started
Matrix foundation split from Element/New Vector
Matrix foundation lost half their budget
$100,000 needed by March 31st
Been providing bridges and matrix.org server
[Donate Now](matrix.org/support)
Advocate or run your own server
$610k Needed annually
Blog Post
Matrix State of the Union YouTube

38:42 Steve's Trip

3 Laptops and mango server
Steve leaving Fedora
Encrypted laptop policy
LUKS with ZFS on root
AI trouble shooting
Steve and containers at Altispeed
Steve at the Church

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Ask Noah Show 428 Feb 18, 2025

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We go live from Witchia KS and learn how a NewSpring Church is using free and open source technology to advance their mission. Ilan from SCaLE joins us to discuss the upcoming conference!

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00:50 Special Guest

Elon from SCALE
Talks for everyone at every level
Live podcast panel
Co-Located Events
There are things for kids!
SCALE wants people to help people find their next roll
Advice for first time attendees
Evening activities
Any advice for attendees
Promo Code NOAH

18:00 News Wire

Plasma 6.3 - kde.org
KDE Frameworks 6.11 - kde.org
Gnome 47.4 - discourse.gnome.org
TRX & Tomb Raider II Adds Linux Support - gamingonlinux.com
Netrunner 25 - netrunner.com
EndeavourOS Mercury - endeavouros.com
openSUSE Switches to SELinux - opensuse.org
Two New OpenSSH Vulnerabilities - blog.qualys.com
Hackers Taint Open Source - nknews.org
Ernie AI Open Source - reuters.com

20:00 New Spring Church

Patrick from New Spring Church
How do you start at a new client?
- Discovery session
- Assumed knowledge
Assumed the role with electrician background
Custom LED work
- Addressable LED strip
- DMX King
- QLC+
- Raspberry Pi
- Mean Well Power Supply
How do you get the most out of consultants
Building a team and launching careers

43:00 Immich! - SkoobaSteve

Read only access
Made Steve find all the photos

46:00 EndlessOS Feedback - Avri

Parental Controls
RDP on Gnome/Endless

47:45 Wedding Invitations - Agustin

Hugo
Gath.io

49:20 Hardware recommendations - Ron

Ebay - read carefully
HP ProLiant MicroServer

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Ask Noah Show 427 Feb 11, 2025

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This week Noah gives an update on EndlessOS and why it might be the default go-to operating system for new users. Ai scams are getting worse, and the Ashi lead dev stepped down.

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00:50 EndlessOS

Customized Gnome
Installer
Doesn't allow the user to hurt themselves
Intuitive interface
Remote Desktop
- RDP
- Reasonably Secure
Last OS left on a computer

12:09 News Wire

Thunderbird 135 - thunderbird.net
Firefox - mozilla.org
Curl 8.12 - curl.se
Sysvinit 3.14 - github.com
MKVtoolNix v90 - bunkus.org
Calibre 7.25 - calibre-ebook.com
LibreOffice 25.2 - wiki.documentfoundation.org
Ardor 8.11 - ardour.org
Tails 6.12 - torproject.org
Porteux 1.9 - github.com
Slackware based Porteux has released version 1.9
ELF/Sshdinjector.A!tr - csoonline.com
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Fix Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com
Beelzebub - helpnetsecurity.com
OpenEuroLLM - infoq.com
Reasoning Model s1 - ceotodaymagazine.com

14:32 AI Makes Scams Worse

AI being used to get hired, to steal information
Video interviews are glitchy and odd
Answers to questions are right out of OpenAI and ChatGPT
Problem will get worse before it gets better
Companies will respond by not hiring remotely
The Register

24:28 AI Safety

Competition heating up
Need to foster AI, not restrict it
Open Source AI
China isn't going to back down
Are we out of our depth with AI?
Can't put the gene back in the bottle

34:40 Microsoft Office 365 Co-Pilot

Users must act or pay more
2025 version of Clippy
Microsoft is getting more aggressive
Imagine if everything was "opt out"
Can only opt out by "canceling subscription"
Misleading marketing
Non-CoPilot plans only available for a limited time

43:07 Ashi Linux Dev Steps down

Still plans to contribute
Ashi Linux is important
Apple removed barriers to run Linux
Linux worked pretty well on Intel Macs
T2 Chip
T2Linux
New Apple chip
Phoronix

51:30 Lossless-cut

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01:13 GrapheneOS & Teams - Kevin

06:26 VMs - Mike

07:35 searXNG - Donald

10:00 News Wire

11:30 Interview Jon Segar

23:00 Steve's Off Site Backup

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01:36 Thank you! - Nick

06:57 GraphenOS - Craig

50:45 Linux Wins! - Dan

52:35 News Wire

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09:52 Home Server Questions - Dan

48:06 Kubernetes - Jeremy

50:32 News Wire

52:15 Private Search Engine? - Atypical Kernel

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04:10 Smart Watches

28:32 News Wire

29:50 Linuxrocks.online Outage

49:45 Continuity Plan

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Sleuth - Live

09:15 HVAC follow up - Ziggy

21:49 Fedora on PI Boot Problems - Mark

27:16 News Wire

28:38 Software Freedom Conservancy Interview

36:10 Considering OpenWRT One

39:35 ESP32 "Backdoor"

46:37 Vizio Lawsuit

51:00 Steve's eBook Tinkering

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00:51 Polar Vortex

03:02 Steve's Immich Journey - Stephen

10:38 Cheap Card for AI - Joshua

16:10 Seafile help? - Tyler

20:25 Church A/V - Emmanuel

25:38 News Wire

27:52 Getting Involved in Community

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01:00 Steve's Trip

02:22 Nextcloud on VMs - Bradly

13:52 3D printing experience - Jeremy

22:52 AI for interviews - Avri

29:52 Forwarding SMS - PIX

32:50 Matrix Foundation

38:42 Steve's Trip

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00:50 Special Guest

18:00 News Wire

20:00 New Spring Church

43:00 Immich! - SkoobaSteve

46:00 EndlessOS Feedback - Avri

47:45 Wedding Invitations - Agustin

49:20 Hardware recommendations - Ron