Fitbit announced their FDA approval to detect atrial fibrillation in their wearable. What privacy and security concerns does this pose and what can you do about it? We tackle your questions, plus the news! It's a packed week!

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03:40 Response to weaponization of OSS - Jose

• Steve and Noah's response

14:20 Bhikhu feed back

• Open Snitch

16:00 PFSense not getting DHCP - Jaren

• Untangle
• Smooth Wall
• Shorewall
• OpenWRT
• VyOS

23:10 Transcribe Audio from Video? - HJ

• Simon

25:18 Backup drive question - Ishaan

• Luks
• ENCFS
• KDE Vaults
• LUX
• Makeuseof
• VeraCrypt
• Fedora Doc on encrypting drives
• Zipped Folder encrypted with GPG Key
• Write back in, maybe we can help more!

31:30 Feedback on Noah's Charging Station - Dave

• GFCI style duplex outlets with Arc Fault Protection
• Smoke Detector to cut AC power (Kiddie sm120x module)
• GFCI USB C 45+ Watt PD Outlet?

36:30 Tiny Asked

I loved the discussion about freeipa and sso for a homelab and I'm curious if either of you have had experience with setting up an oauth provider like keycloak or goauthentik.io setting up ldap with nextcloud and gitlab is easy enough but I would like to use some of the mfa options available with oauth and would like to know what your experience is

• Keycloak used frequently at Red Hat
• Authentication vs Authorization

38:55 Pick of the Week - Unlock Distro With Your Face

• Deepin 20.5 face unlock feature
• Howdy

40:33 Gadget of the Week

• Home Accent Lighting
• Extruded Aluminum Mount
• Addressable LED Guide

42:25 NewsWire

• Chinese RISC-V Processor

• OpenMower

  • Hackaday
  • Github

• 5-20X Nebuly-AI Training Increase

  • Hackernoon
  • Github

• EleutherAI GPT-NeoX-20B

• Grafana Labs Series D Funding

  • CRN
  • Venture Beat

• Cocos Technology Raised $50 Million

• ASPIRE Open Robotics

• Mayhem Heroes Program

• NVIDIA RTX 30 Code Drop and Firmware

• Rocky Linux in Google's Cloud

• Alan Pope's Unsnap

  • Tech Republic
  • Its Foss
  • GitHub

• Gentoo Live Image

  • Gentoo
  • Make Use Of

• Endeavor OS Apollo Released

• MX Linux 21.1 Released

• Tails 5.0 Enters Beta

• OpenSSH 9.0

• OpenWall 1.2.3

45:39 Medical Tech & Privacy

• ArsTechnica Article
• Fitbit (Google) gets FDA approval for atrial fibrillation detection feature
• Regulation
• Outdated medical equipment

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