Episode 409: Ask Noah Show 409

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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