This week we dig into the Verizon outage. We'll talk about why and how you can host your own communication infrastructure, so an outage is less detrimental to your life!

-- During The Show --

01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou

• How Steve takes notes
• Standard Notes
• Joplin
• Simple Mobile Tools
• Fossify
• Nextcloud Notes app
• Collabra

09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron

• Issues with Ubuntu
• Go for Fedora
• Endless OS
• Write in with your Ubuntu issues
• Mind Drip One Offline Windows Setup

15:27 Audio Issues

• Mixer died
• Loaner from company
• Got the board fixed
• Sample rate changed
• Sample rate manually fixed and digital recorder back in production

17:48 News Wire

• Firefox 131 - mozilla.org

• FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org

• GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org

• Postgres 17.1 - postgresql

• Winamp Source Code - bleepingcomputer.com

• Liya 2.1 - notebookcheck.net

• Arch and Valve Collaboration - lists.archlinux.org

• Tails and Tor Join Forces - blog.torproject.org

• Statial-B - hackaday.com

• Molmo Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com

18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue

• Installed Arch, ran the ansible, restored backups
• Flatpak installs failed
• Github Issue
• Arch Flatpak Fix ``` flatpak remote-delete --force flathub

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

* Let's do a better job

#### 26:10 Verizon Outage

* No clear communication
* Speculation abounds
* No clear ETA for restoration of service
* Never seen people behave this badly
* Self Hosted services unaffected
* Calls and Texts via 3CX and JMP.chat
* Internal communications over Matrix
* Companies should self host their own services
* Communication is changing
* [Master Switch](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/)
* Steve didn't even notice the outage
* Other carriers reported issues contacting Verizon customers
* Don't be a slave to the glowing brick

#### 40:33 Thunderbird on Android

* Mozilla took over K9 Mail
* Unified Inbox
* Still in Beta
* Asking for feedback
* [Thunderbird Matrix Chat](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#tb-android:mozilla.org)
* [Thunderbird Blog Post](https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/)

#### 46:00 Reproducibility

* Combinations of packages can be problematic
* Automation can fail
* Never will be completely safe
* Automation can get you a long way  
* NixOS
* ZFS Snapshots

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