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Sep 29, 2021 • 56min
Episode 252: Bots Emails and Calls
It's a packed episode with your questions and thoughts! There's a ton of information in this episode and equipment recommendations this week! Don't miss it!
-- During The Show --
01:15 Veritunda Asks
Bitwarden
Airsonic
Podget
02:20 TwoBit Asks
Wire strippers for smaller than 32 AWG?
Amazon Affiliate Link
Link from TheLinuxNinja
03:30 Distro for Visually Impaired - Charlie
Debugpoint Accessible Coconut
Sourceforge Accessible Coconut
Braille Display
07:15 Concerns about Matrix - Anon
Hackea.org Article
Archived Copy of Hackea.org Article
Balance security and convince - Electron
Other side of the bridge is insecure
Run your own home server
New Vector/EMS have always been up front
Easily made secure/private
27:05 Caller James
reusing old POTS phones lines
5 volts max
Use the phone line as pull cord for CAT6
Closed contact signaling
Decimator Affiliate Link
30:55 Telegram messaging app for WearOS? - Gary
Signal
Messages for WearOS
37:20 Bhikhu Resonds to Secure Erase of SSDs
Bullet Proof Data Encryption
Documenting home automation
39:40 Automation of warehouse - James
Home Assistant
Wifi is the easiest
Z-Wave if you have signal issues
Vlans for sure
write back in to chat with Steve
Lutron Switches
Shelly 1 UL
Inovelli Red Z-Wave switches
GE Smart Switch
46:15 Pick of the Week
Photoprism
Self hostable
Web App written in GO
Supports WebDAV
48:20 Gadget of the Week
Vanchor
Hackaday Article
49:47 Sleuth Asks
Recommendation for POE managed Switches?
HP switches
TP Link is a great option
52:11 Fedora 35 Beta
Redhat Blog post
All about polish
53:45 Ubuntu 21.10 Beta
OMG Ubuntu Post
Gnome 40 not 41
54:35 Spaces is Out of Beta
Element Blog Post
Tons of polish
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Sep 22, 2021 • 56min
Episode 251: If it's not FOSS - Don't Host It
Even when you can self host it, relying on proprietary software can be challenging. This week Noah & Steve step through the latest self hosting options! Canonical extended their support for Ubuntu for 10 years, plus our picks!
-- During The Show --
01:00 Caller James
Windows won't run well on a RaspberryPi
Look at a Skull Canyon NUC
RaspberryPi 4GB model should handle 1080P or lower
06:05 User Responds Wiping Flash Media - Dalton
Boomstick
Self Contained
Automatic/semi-automatic
USB stick based
SSD and HDD Eraser
Boomstick Gitlab
Noah does not trust SSD firmware
09:12 Windows 10 Bloat Removal Script - Charlie
Windows Decrapifier Script
Decrapifier Github
Make Use Of Article
Portable Apps
10:30 User Reflects on EP 250 - Bhikhu
Ctemplar About
Ctemplar Features
Ctemplar Privacy
Ctemplar Terms
Session
Session FAQ
Session White Paper
Session Download
12:44 Synology & Docker Applications - Chas
NAS products have a lesser CPU
Might have issues with wireguard and containers
Synology can take features away anytime
18:00 LAN based chat server - Anthony
Matrix - Protocol
Synapse - Server
Element - Client/App
Setup a unfederated unregistered Synapse
Use your own internal domain
SSL/domain is only required for federation
24:50 Pick of the Week
WallCal
[WallCal Github]https://github.com/kacpertopol/wallCal
25:55 Gadget of the Week
Loupedeck
Elgato Stream Deck
Stream Deck Affiliate Link
RaspberryPi Companion Github
Stream Pi
Stream Deck UI
35:05 Ubuntu Life Cycle Extended to 10 Years
Ubuntu Blog
Only for paying customers
Ubuntu sources are not public unlike Red Hat
Red Hat puts a lot of effort into open sourcing everything - "It's part of the company DNA"
48:00 Self Hosting
Locally controlled and/or Open Source
Gold bar is Internet goes away and you don't notice
Living on an island
Libvirt/Proxmox
PFSense/OPNSense
Plex/JellyFin/Kodi
Seafile
NextCloud
TrueNAS/Open Media Vault
MediaWiki/XWiki
Funkwhale
Volumio
PiHole
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Sep 15, 2021 • 56min
Episode 250: When E2EE is Moderated
-- During The Show --
01:30 Rotating SSH Keys
FreeIPA
Put keys in Git Repo
Gravitaional/Teleport
Hardware token like Solokey, Yubikey, OnlyKey
ANS EP 118
05:25 Open Source Voice Assistant
Mycroft
07:55 USB Enclosures - Shawn
Casper files
Ventoy Persistance Plugin
Stack Overflow
10:55 Charlie Building his own laptop
MeLE Fanless 4K Mini PC
9" Touch screen portable - HDMI + USBC
USB HDMI 4K capture dongle
USB sound card (for chromebook)
Compass Analogue
Thinkpad USB keyboard from Amazon USA
12:55 Secure Delete of SSDs - Banned Patriot
SSD ATA Secure Erase Function
Full disk encryption
VeraCrypt
19:35 User Appreciated Ventoy Suggestion - Mark
19:58 Travel Router Suggestions? - Agustin
GL iNet device - poor performance
22:55 Thoughts on ProtonMail - Anthony
ProtonMail does not allow illegal activity via it's TOS
Proton Mail doesn't log by default
33:25 Pick of the Week
ULauncher
Application Launcher made with Python and GTK+
Fuzzy Search
ItsFoss
34:12 Gadget of the Week
Steel Capsule
CryptoSteel
37:45 CentOS Clone Gets Tech Support
CIQ Offers Support for Rocky Linux
Zdnet
Alma Linux already has support through CloudLinux
Alma Linux holds regular community meetings
44:30 Ventoy gets a UI
GUI allows less technical users to find and use features
PXE Boot
LinuxUprising
47:26 WhatsApp is not E2EE
Blurs the line of what E2EE encryption
Volume of "flagged content" is untenable to moderate
Daily Mail
ArsTechnica
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Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 21min
Episode 249: Pine64 with Lukasz Erecinski
-- During The Show --
02:14 VPN Links - Jscar Hawk
Road Warrior Script
Mullvad Pricing
privacytools.io
Privacy Security and OSINT Podcast
04:30 Email 2 - VPN Question Response - Charlie
Incognet VPS
Mullvad VPN
Nearly Free Speech Webhosting
OpenNIC
HackerPublic Radio EP 3323
09:45 Caller Ryan
UniFi AP Setup
Can be done with UniFi App
UniFi CloudKey
Check the Docker Container Author
Use the docker file/container file and build it yourself
UniFi+Podman
Author is known in the community
AP placement (20 db of separation)
WiFiAnalyzer
WiFiScanner
[Steve's Ubuntu setup](ADD STEVE'S LINK HERE)
25:40 Email 4 - UPS & Servers - Veritanuda
Wake-On-Lan Packet
29:05 Email 5 - Comments on Windows - Jon
sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM
31:25 Proton Shares Activist IP
No logging doesn't equal unable to log
Privacy is not a cloak for illegal activities
ProtonMail provided ways to avoid their own monitoring
ProtonMail talked with legal to try and avoid handing over information
Information was handed over in response to a legal request
XKCD Security
HackerNews
ProtonMail Blog Post
39:40 Pine64 Interview
DevZone
FemtoStar
How do you decide what products to make?
What Devices do you want to make but are impractical/not cost effective?
Pine64 router?
PinePhone Pro?
PinePhone Operating Systems
Target Audience?
PineNote
Where can people help?
What's next for Pine64?
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Sep 1, 2021 • 56min
Episode 248: Migrating a Network and a NAS
Patrick Emerson, director of IT from New Springs Church joins us to talk about their migration from their proprietary walled garden network and storage, to free and open source options.
-- During The Show --
00:55 VPS that accepts physical cash? - Charlie Brown
Host that accepts cypto currency
Pre-paid credit card
05:30 User Responds to Ventoy - Chris
Ineo M.2 NVMe Enclosure Affiliate Link
IODD 2531 Affiliate Link
IODD 2541 Affiliate Link
Japanese chat
Giveaway - write in your war story where one of these would have saved you
09:50 Firefox Audio Response - Cory
restart in safe mode (no need to disable add-ons)
11:30 Firefox Audio Feedback - Matthew
CLI Command: flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full/x86_64/20.08
12:20 Managing Documents Response - Jordan
Open Paper
14:40 Pick of the Week
Easy WSL
Turns Docker Containers into WSL distros
EasyWSL GitHub
TechRadar
15:50 Kodi / LibreElec Available
Kodi - Media Player App
LibreElEC 10 - Distribution
IR Remote Affiliate Link
Nvidea Shield spams ads
LibreELEC 10 has a few bugs
Kodi.tv
BetaNews
24:25 Kernel 5.14 Released
Secret Memory Areas
Hot-Unplug AMD Radeon Cards
New/Improved Hardware Support
Xbox One Controller
RaspberryPi 400
Dell Hardware Kill-Switches
Low Latency USB driver
OMG Ubuntu
26:10 Patrick Emerson Interview
Director of IT
5,000-7,000 Attendees
New Spring
Came into everything falling apart
Sophos router was undocumented and out of date
Sophos wanted $300/hr to help
1.4 TB of video created per week
Typical weeks work
Screenly
Bought 2 PFSense routers
D-Day (things fell apart)
Sophos freaked out and died
Have someone looking over your shoulder to double check things
Windows requires DHCP relay to be turned on when being used as a DHCP server
Add a "uknown to internet allow" rule
PFSense and OPNSense UI make networking clear
Future network planning
Dell Servers with direct access to the drives
IX Systems
45 Drives
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Aug 25, 2021 • 56min
Episode 247: 30 Years of Linux!
LibreOffice 7.2 is out, Gnome 41 Beta has been released, we talk streaming infrastructure, a must have networking tool for structured wiring, plus your questions, our picks!
-- During The Show --
02:30 Difference Between CDN - Brian
Matrix is designed to bridge chats
Early Days/Rough Edges
Pachutelive.tv
Demo
Nginx
Restream.io
Restreaming Service not CDN
Streamyard
Paid product
Cloud Based/Proprietary
Scale Engine
Best Option
Lots of similar/Better Features
Better Priced
Fantastic Customer Service
Ran by Members of the FOSS Community
16:00 Firefox Audio Problem - Cory
Try the Flatpak
Newer version of Firefox might fix it
Extensions can cause issues
Try Firefox safemode
Check the sample rate of the system audio
19:55 PineNote & Android Apps - Rev Joel Collier
Today no...
It is very possible in the future
Developers are currently working on getting Android Apps working on both the PinePhone and PineTab
25:39 Streaming a Funeral - Dennis
Magewell USB HDMI Capture
Any USB webcam should work
Lexicon Alpha
Scale Engine Demo
If you have any issues email "techies [at] altispeed.com"
30:00 Document Management - Richard
Offline Wiki?
36:06 Pick of the Week
Single Drive - Multiple Images
Ventoy
42:10 Gadget of the Week
Cable Comb Tool
Takes a 45min job to less than 5min
Amazon Affiliate Link
44:48 Gnome 41 Beta
UI and Feature Freeze
SIP base functionality added
GDM Allows Wayland User Session with X.Org Login
Gnome Control Center adds "Cellular" and "Multitasking"
Gnome Disk Utility now uses LUKS2
Phoronix
50:25 LibreOffice 7.2 Released
60% of code commits related to MS Office compatibility
New HUD
New LibreOffice Dark Mode
New Writer formatting options
Much more!
OMG Ubuntu
53:30 Linux 30 Years
Linux Insider
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Aug 18, 2021 • 56min
Episode 246: Open Source Polish
This week there are fantastic FOSS software releases, Element, PineNote, and an open source time keeping device that fits on a PCI card, the company behind the development will blow your mind!
-- During The Show --
01:06 Proton Mail feedback - Patrick
SteigerLegal
Proton Mail's design make this irrelevant
Important to understand were security ends
08:20 Apple vs Privacy - Ben
Apple's message doesn't match their actions
Stross's talk
Cory Doctorow
15:20 Making an image while OS running? - Advait
Timeshift + BTRFS snapshots
ZFS Snapshots
19:20 LTE Modems - Scott
Double NAT, Carrier Grade NAT
Create a VPN out to a VPS
22:25 Router recommendations - Yakoke
Microtik
PFSense 1100
OPNSense
Protectli+OPNSense
IPSEC is on everything
OpenVPN is better
WireGuard is best
31:19 Time Keeping
Caesium-133 Atom (Atomic) is the most accurate
GNSS Receiver
10 KHz side band radio
Computers use NTP
Stratum One
Developed by Facebook
Replaces Proprietary Boxes
Interfaces via PCIe
TechCrunch
39:00 Element Improvements
Voice Messages
New 1:1 Voice and Video Calls
Screen Sharing
Intelligent Call entries
Dial pad
Message indications
Encryption Improvements
Spaces coming out of Beta
Element Blog
46:15 Pine64
New Device PineNote
One of the most powerful eReaders on the market
Quadcore A55 CPU/4GB RAM/128GB eMMC
Dual Mics/Dual Speakers/USB-C/AC WiFi
10.3" 3:4 227 DPI 1404x1872 Display
Touch and Wacom Pen input
PineNote is aimed at early Adopters/Developers
PinePhone Keyboard Released
Pine64 Blog post
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Aug 11, 2021 • 56min
Episode 245: Apple Thinks Different About Encryption
Apple has announced a new update that will allow scanning of your private photos. Firefox 91 is released, and the new US infrastructure bill means you might be paying per mile to drive an EV.
-- During The Show --
03:00 Manually Connecting Services - Jim
Yes look for a developer
Make sure you understand what needs doing
Andreas Spiess YT Lora Info
07:20 Career Advice? - Robert
Start based on Value
Start with what you know well
Start with a LLC on the side
If moving to a new employer, be honest about how long you will work there
Put the customer's needs first
Anticipate needs
Set up a full LLC or Corp, not a DBA, pass through, or sole proprietorship
18:00 Email & PGP - Barking Bandicoot
AU Gov can force back doors
Symmetric vs (Public/Private key pair) Asymmetric/PKI encryption
GPG Guide
Enigmail
24:00 Pick of the Week
Stingle
Stingle White Paper
FOSS Photo backup app
Photos locally encrypted
ArsTechnica
26:20 Gadget of the Week
HulkMan Alpha100
Heavy Duty vehicle jump-starter/battery bank
Amazon Affiliate
30:30 Firefox 91
Total Cookie Protections Enhancement
Supports Log In and SSO on more sites
Simplify Page for printing is back
HTTPS First
31:45 Valve & Arch vs Debian
Debian - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"
Arch - Faster fixes, Faster updates
PC Gamer
37:45 Infra Bill Includes Per Mile Road Tax
Per Mile Usage Fee
Data collected via
Third Party OBDII modules
OEM Telematics
Insurance Companies
"Any other method"
Nothing about data privacy
TheDrive.com
45:00 Apple & Encryption
Communication Safety Feature
iOS and MacOS
On-Device Machine Learning
Dangerous potential
Apple Privacy Letter
Apple Child Safety
Odysee Video
Snowden's Twitter Post
EFF Article
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Aug 4, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 244: Starting Fresh: Part 2
Steve Ovens returns to lay out his plans for his new house as well as ask the community for input on best practices. Standford AIMI center is expanding it's free repository of medical datasets for AI research, and Steam hits 1% Linux users again!
-- During The Show --
01:25 Hardware Keys, Ciphers, SSH - Jordan
OpenPGP
PKCS11
NitroKey, Onlykey, Yubikey, Solokey, etc secures your key
Most secure way is use a different key per hardware device
Corporate centrally manages SSH keys (FreeIPA, Active Directory)
Central Management
09:20 Swisscows vs Duckduckgo - Cory
DuckDuckGo is more private
DuckDuckGo Privacy Policy
12:00 Open Source Health Data Tracking - Alexei
Open Hak
Simblee 32bit BLE/MCU module
13:52 WiFi Phones - Charlie
Great Idea
I too am moving all communications to IP based
19:15 Gadget of the Week
Axis M3067-P
360° panoramic view Camera
Local Configuration
Multiple Views/Streams Available
24:10 Open-Source Medical Data Sets (AIMI)
Stanford.edu
AI Spots things better than the human eye
AI needs large data sets to train
Stanford provides an open source data set for training AI
Allows researchers to train AI for "non profitable" uses
28:28 Steam is back to 1% Linux Users
PCMag.com
Happened before steam deck was announced
Linux is taking over
Microsoft is pushing people to "Windows as a service"
33:44 Open Compute Project
Sharing data center design and management standards
Mind Drip Media Open Compute Project Video
Whole new way of looking at data centers
Build racks and data centers to use case
DataCenterKnowledege
Jeffgeerling.com
ArsTechnica
38:50 NEST
Fedora Linux Conventions
Flock to Fedora
In Person
Virtual Should remain when continued
Nest with Fedora
Virtual
Replacing Flock (Covid)
FUD Con
Fedora Users and Developers Convention
Replaced by Flock
Virtual Release parties will continue
50:55 Building Steve's House Continued
Kid friendly video chat station
Comfy Gaming area
Projector Room
Vlan Setup/Switches
Netgear Switch Rabbit Hole
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Jul 28, 2021 • 56min
Episode 243: Starting Fresh: Part 1
Steve Ovens joins us as we discuss the steam deck, Matrix getting 30 million in funding to polish the rough edges, and with Steve moving into a new house we talk about starting fresh!
-- During The Show --
00:45 Affiliate Link Typo - Chris
Feel free to google the model and buy else where
Lenovo Dock (Affiliate Link) works with MAC
OWC Dock (Affiliate Link) preferred MAC dock
02:50 Unexpected IPv6 - Hesham
IPv4 has NAT, firewall optional
IPv6 no NAT, firewall required
06:15 ANS Telegram - Advait
Geeklab.ninja no account required
GeekLab Telegram
GeekLab Matrix
Matrix and Telegram are bridged
07:20 Resizing Windows Drives - Chris
Use the windows partition manager
Remove unnecessary files
Disable Swap File
Start>Settings>System>About System
Advanced System Settings (About half way down)
Click Settings Button Under "Performance"
Click Advanced Tab
Under Virtual Memory click change button
Un-check "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives"
Select no paging file
Click OK and reboot
JkDefrag
From an administrative command prompt run: jkdefrag -a 5
Shrink partition using Windows partition manager
Remember to leave enough room to turn swap file back on
[Chris DeLuca (naelr) Matrix ID](@naelr:linuxdelta.com)
09:30 Email Feedback - Will
Posteo doesn't allow custom domains
Having control over your email domain is important
11:00 Pick Of the week
OtterCast
Audio line out
Audio Headphones out
Audio IN
WiFi
Ethernet
USB Sound card mode
Webinterface (Configuration)
Shairport-Sync
Pulseaudio sink/source
Snapcast server/client
Spotify Connect (librespot)
13:20 Gadget of the week
Steam Link Discussion with Steve Ovens
Will probably buy for the family instead of a switch
Steam controller is a favorite controller
Steambox/Steam Controller vs Steam Link comparison
Valve is pushing game shops to use Proton instead of linux native
Price discussion
FOSS vs Proprietary discussion
24:30 Ear 1 Wireless Ear Buds
Verge Article
Earbuds from OnePlus
$99
11.6 Drivers by Teenage Engineering
Qi and Type-C charging
26:30 Matrix Gets 30M
Access Act bill, HR 3849
World is waking up to decentralized services
Managing locked in platforms are too much for gov to manage
150,000 German Health care organizations on Matrix
Funding from Protocol Labs
Makers of Matrix don't "need" this funding
EMS currently makes enough to fund matrix development
This funding simply accelerates development and "Polish"
Funding planned for:
Full P2P support
Native E2EE VOIP/Web Conferencing
Decentralized Reputation system
Barinsta Cease and Desist Reddit
Barinsta Cease and Desist Github
Cease and Desist seems slightly over reaching
42:30 Alma Linux Office Hours
Alma Linux Post
Monday 4pm UTC
Beginning August 2nd 2021
You can email your questions in too!
Haven't been able to reach Rocky Linux folks
Alma Linux very accessible and involved
46:00 K9Mail Upgrade
Android Police
Huge Upgrade
Lots of fixes
Lots of new features
Version 5.8 is not quite available in Play Store
47:47 Steve Ovens Move/Tech
Where do I centralize things?
Access Points/Ethernet drops
Types of mounting/racks
Smurf Tube (Affiliate Link)
TV Boxes
Device Charging Setup
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