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!
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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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