This week CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have formed OpenELA, we dig into the Libera chat / Matrix bridge issues, and we discuss choosing the problems you want to solve.

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00:58 Pre-Show

• Steve's dead hardware
• Noah's type-C charger upgrade
• Noah's portable rack

06:40 Home Assistant - Curt

• Run on a re-purposed thin client
• [Parkytowers](Parkytowers.me.uk)
• Parkytowers Wyse D10D

10:38 HASSIO Feedback on Dimmers - Chris F.

• ESP32 dev is employed by Home Assistant
• Steve's experiances
  • Z-Wave
  • ESP32
  • Shelly

13:58 LXD Forked by Suse - Charlie

• Github
• FossForce
• Canonical took over LXC

16:30 Normie friendly wiki with good searchability - Tiny

• WikiJS
• HackMD to WikiJS
• Steve and Noah don't use tags
• Git Backend

20:55 News Wire

• Open ELA - Open ELA

• Tails 5.16 - Tails

• GCC Haiku Support - Phoronix

• HashiCorp Abandons Open Source - The News Stack

• Sentry Changes to BSL - Codecov

• OSI against Meta - Geeky Gadgets

• StableLM - Fagenwasanni

• French Plan for Native AI Industry - Politico 1 Politico 2

• Teen makes ESP32 Phone - Hack a Day Paxo

• Intel and AMD Security Patches - ZDnet

• Sandwich Cryptographic Framework - Venture Beat

• Monti Ransomware Collective - Trend Micro

• Wave of Attacks using Merlin - Bleeping Computer

• OpenSSh 9.4 - OpenSSH

• Gov Asks for help securing open source - Info Security

• White Hosue Cyper Security Competition - Fed Scoop

23:11 Code Academy and Python vs Rust - walking penguin

• Python vs Rust?
• Sleuth joins from mumble!
• What is an analyst
• Python is more established
• Python has more data libraries
• Large commercial sites use python
• Python allows fast iteration
• Rust is better for large applications
• Python has a larger "community"
• Where to learn python
  • YouTube
  • Python Programming Net
  • YouTube Programmingwithmosh
  • Courses can remove guess work
  • Learn Python in a Day

30:50 Data Center Update

• Self hosted cloud
• Installed Grafana
• Hardware
  • 2 Dell Servers
  • ZFS Pool of mirrored SSDs
  • 2 Mirrored pairs for boot drive
• Script re-configures UEFI in event of failure
• libvirt for VMs
• BLIKVM for out of band access
• Sophos Rack Mount Gateway running PFSense (will be OPNSense)
• 2 techs 2 days
• Migrated steps
  • non-critical services
  • Altispeed critical services
  • Client services
• LinuxDelta Matrix Instance migration
  • Faster than ever
  • Able to self-host more bridges
  • Hope to re-enable account registration
  • Ability to host conferences

38:58 Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA)

• Still tracking RHEL
• Founding members
  • CIQ
  • Oracle
  • Suse
• Red Hat is the gorilla
• Right approach
• OpenELA Post

43:30 IRC/EMS Bridge Update

• EMS offered to bridge Libera Chat
• Spun up a Libera Matrix server
• Great experience
• Difference in goals
• There were some "misunderstandings"
• EMS rolled out patches that caused issues
• Bridge ultimately shut down
• Bridge was a charity
• EMS team took ownership of their side of things
• Libera Chat Post
• Ycombinator Post 1
• Matrix Deportalling Post
• Matrix Postponing Deportalling Post
• Ycombinator Post 2
• Matrix What Happened Post
• Ycombinator Post 3

Picking Your Battles

• You choose the problems you want to solve
• Windows LTSB
• How much down, How much per month
• Order of Operations
  • Self Hosted
  • Free and Open Source
  • Easy and Compatible FOSS
• Music Laptop (Container Story)
• Is it serving me, or am I serving it?

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