Ask Noah Show Episode 224: Fighting for Human Rights with Tech
Apple has rejected important updates to the ProtonVPN iOS app. This decision compromises the ability of the people of Myanmar to preserve their human rights by submitting information to the UN. We discuss a FOSS IT inventory and asset system, and a Raspberry Pi based tablet!
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00:30 Accounting Software - Greg
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- FOSS
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- Put out by Dave Ramsey
- Web App/Service
- Freemium
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- From the KDE Project
- FOSS
- Good UI
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- Recomendation from the chat room
06:50 Questions around Peertube - Charlie
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- subsidized by Canadian government
VPS Sizing
- Network Bandwidth
- Disk Size
- CPU/RAM
Peertube Docs
DNS
- Use your registrar's DNS
- Setup individual A records
SSL/TLS
- Buy a cert
- Use LetsEncrypt
15:55 Caller John
RaspberryPi Troubleshooting
Try a Different Power Supply
Try a Different SD Card
20:55 Questions About Solar Winds - Hank
- Correct, The Signing key never left their site
- Solarwinds/Sunspot/StellarParticle was hard to defend against
24:30 Matrix Question - Warped
- Axis p5655
- Elgato Stream Deck
- Canon Cameras
- STI is better than HDMI
31:30 Pick of the Week
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- Simple developer JSON REST API
- Pre-defined "kits" for faster checkouts
- Admin Dashboard
- Recent Activity Overview
- Consuables and Asset Tracking
- License Management
- Self Host-able
Have a cloud option
- 99.99% SLA
- Full time in house support team
- Servers across the globe
- Will help you move to your own self hosted instance
38:30 Gadget of the Week
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- BCM2711, Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5 GHz
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, Wireless, 2GB Lite (CM4102000)
- 8” IPS LCD (1280x800)
- Li-Po 5000 mAh battery
- WLAN 2.4 GHz, 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11 b/g/n/ac
- Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
- Rear-facing camera 5MP (1080p)
I/O ports
- 1x USB type-A
- 1x USB type-C (charging and OTG)
- 1x Micro HDMI
- 1x MicroSD Card slot
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- Now open
- $200
- Estimated delivery in July, 2021.
41:40 Georgio
- Where can I find slide show music
- Incompetec
- Square-Peach.com
- Audioblocks.com Now StoryBlocks.com
45:45 News
- Apple Blocks ProtonVPN App Updates
- If you have an Apple device complain
53:40 Fedora 34 Beta
- Fedora Magazine Article
- Phoronix Article
- BTRFS Transparent Compression
- Replacing PulseAudio with PipeWire
- Fedora Workstation includes Gnome 40
- KDE Plasma uses Wayland by default
- New I3 Spin, First Tiling Window Manager
- Systemd-oomd on by default for all spins
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New episode of Open Source Voices out
We will have a Networking Segment on April 6th
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