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Feb 3, 2021 • 56min
Episode 218: VR in the Metaverse
Have you ever dreamed of having a virtual enviorment that can simulate the real world in, have meetings in, and connect with others in. Firefox has new protections for supercookies, ubuntu has a new installer out, and CloudLinux has a beta out of AlmaLinux.
-- During The Show --
Red Hat License - Jon
RedHat exists to make a profit, and they need to
RedHat spends money to support open source that they could take home/pocket
RedHat handled the release poorly and cut the release cycle short
RedHat has been a good friend of the community
The new model makes more sense, but was poorly communicated
11:00 Element vs Rocket - cheskel
Element/Matrix Pros:
Decentralized
Federated
Integrated with other services (Bridges & Widgets)
End to End Encryption
15:00 Pick of the Week
Funkwhale
Decentralized Selfhosted Spotify
Makes music social again
Why host your own? Because of things like this
17:00 Gadget of the Week
Mihai's Blog post
White Noise Machine based on a raspberry pi
Uses OMX Player
My Noise on Google Play
Noice App
20:00 Firefox Cracks Down on Supercookies
Firefox Blog Post](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-protections/)
Firefox 85 implements network partitioning
Different image cache for each site
Firefox 85 also partitions pooled connections, pre-fetch connections, pre-connect connections, speculative connections, and TLS session identifiers
26:00 New Ubuntu Installer
Ubiquity is getting hard to maintain
Subiquity Github
Uses Curtin and Flutter
Flutter is controlled by Google, this could be a problem long term
Why a snap?
29:00 GitLab Subscription Model
GitLab Blog Post
GitLab is phasing out the Bronze/Starter tier
Special Offers for people transitioning
GitLab Free tier gained over 450 features this year and continues to gain more
32:00 Element Suspended from Play Store
Google suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying the developers
Google said it was due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix
Reddit Post
Matrix Team responded quickly and openly to resolve the issue
Matrix Team went above and beyond and implemented community suggestions
Having multiple clients is an advantage to the Matrix Protocol
35:00 Ctrl IQ
Ars Technica artical
Greg founded a new start up company called Ctrl IQ
Greg was interviewed on Ask Noah EP 213
36:00 CloudLinux Launches AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux Blog Post
First RHEL 8 respin available for download
Download AlmaLinux
37:00 Open Source VR Metaverse
Vircadia Site
An Introduction to Vircadia
Vircadia™ is an open-source 3D interface and server foundation
Ecosystem of open source metaverse applications
Open Source VR/Virtual World
Far more than entertainment, lots of potential
Download Vircadia
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Jan 27, 2021 • 56min
Episode 217: Self Hosting Photos
With all the changes Google is making there's never been a better time to to self host your own stuff! This week we dive into replacing Google Photos!
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00:45 Minutes In
Email 1 - Setting up Federated service instance - Brian
What decentralized services could you support using a $5 Droplet or similar virtual server?
It is never be set and forget
Built in backups are good but don't rely on them
What can run on a $5 DO Droplet
No - Peertube needs more resources
Yes - Mastodon can run, might want more resources
Sorta - Matrix could but really should have more resources
Yes - Tor relay works really well
Yes - VPN node works really well
Best practice to run each service on its own VPS
06:50 Minutes In
Email 2 - USB WiFi 5 or 6 Dongle? - Cory
Edimax MU-MIMO-EW
Plugable WiFi Adapter
All Plugable gear is great
08:55 Minutes In
Email 3 - Suggestion for Chat programs - Charlie
XMPP Best Prior to matrix
XMPP Functionality is dependant on add-ons
XMPP Slow or a battery hog
Delta Chat - chat over email back-end
Luke Smith has good video on his peertube server explaining how to setup a email server over at
Link 1
bitchute link
PS If anyone is looking for cheap VPS providers, I recommend checking out Low End Box Community forum
13:00 Minutes In
Email 4 - Linux Jobs? - Matt
Focus on skills not certs
Be willing to work for less or free
If you want to go the route of certifications
RedHat RHCSA
Linux Essentials (010-160) USD 120.00
LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 (101-500, 102-500, 201-450, 202-450) USD 200.00
https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/lpic-1-overview
18:15 Minutes In
Pick of the Week
Beeperhq
All your chats in one place
Uses matrix on the back-end
21:30 Minutes In
Gadget of the Week
Deskreen
Use any device with web browser as second screen for your computer (using Display Dummy Plug)
Works accross WiFi or LAN
Supports multiple screen sharing sessions to as many devices as you want
Supports changing picture quality while sharing a screen.
Picture auto quality change supported. (for performance boost while watching youtube video for example)
End-to-end encryption
Dark mode UI support!
Available for Windows / Mac / Linux
24:30 Minutes In
Kickstarter for Solo Key V2
Solo Key v2
Reversible connector for both USB-A and USB-C
Touch buttons
NFC
Firmware Upgrades
Supports advanced authentication, PIV (FIPS 201)
Each device comes with both a P256 and Ed25519 attestation certificate
30:15 Minutes In
Mobian Community Edition
Mobian Blog Post
Posh gnome UX for phones (Originally developed for Purism Libre 5)
Setup Process allows you to set your user password and setup full disk encryption
Pine64 Store
33:15 Minutes In
Beagle Five
Opensource/No patents Single Board Computer
Source code for it is available under a BSD license
Built around a dual-core 1.5 GHz StarFive SiFive U74 processor with 2MB L2 cache
A neural engine for hardware-accelerated computing
video decoder/encoder able to handle 4K 60 FPS video decoding.
HDMI out port (30fps 1080p)
4 regular USB 3.0 ports
ethernet
audio
microSD card slot
USB Type-C port for power
Integrated Wi-Fi 2.4GHz b/g/n
Bluetooth 4.2
40-pin GPIO connector
2 MIPI-CSI connectors (camera connector)
MIPI-DSI connector (display connector)
Only the $149 8GB model (sans GPU) is available right now
You currently have to sign up for the chance to buy the BeagleV
OMG Ubuntu blog post
35:50 Minutes In
JingOS
JingOS
JingOS Github
UX designed for tablets
JingOS is based on Ubuntu 20.04, KDE v5.75, Plasma Mobile 5.20
They will replace the framework from Plasma Mobile to JDE(Jing Desktop Environment) later this year.
Trackpad Gestures
Full Function Desktop Apps
37:55 Minutes In
Main Segment
Microsoft switched their edge browser to be based on Chrome
Current browser market share:
Chrome = 69.28%
Edge = 7.75%
Safari = 19%
Firefox = 03%
Samsung = 03%
Opera = 02%
One company controlling this much of the browser market is bad
Google is discontinuing API access
Nothing changes for you if you don't sign in now
Google is holding firm and is misleading in their marketing announcements
Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera and others have their own sync systems
Google is killing unlimited google photos
Awesome Selfhosted
Best model is Free Trial>Paid Hosting or Self Hosted
PiwiGo checks all the boxes
[Piwigo Software Project](piwigo.org)
[Piwigo Service Provider](piwigo.com)
1yr / €39 / $47 / yr
Unlimited Storage
Photos Only
No Ads
Give you a custom domain
Business Plans
50G / €45
All file types
€250 / 1TB
From the Piwigo privacy policy:
"Piwigo.com business model relies on subscriptions from clients. Personal data we store (such as email address in order to contact you or IP address for technical reason) are never used outside the hosting service operations. Your data are never sold or exchanged with any partner. Never."
Multiple accounts in one application
Extentions System
53:00 Minutes In
Caller - Jared
Thompson Reuters Workpapers CS
Needs SQL server
Error messages keep changing
Maybe help getting SQL going on Linux
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Jan 20, 2021 • 58min
Episode 216: Red Hat's New Deal
RedHat is expanding the developer program making it easier than ever to access RHEL! Now individuals can run 16 RHEL servers under this new program. Brian Exelbierd joins us this hour to discuss this new program and how it addresses many of the concerns raised in the transition from CentOS to CentOS Stream.
-- During The Show --
Email 1 - Signal vs Telegram - Eddie
Telegram vs Signal for messaging?
Telegram client is open source and supports Linux
Telegram server is closed source
Signal is more secure but requires a phone number
Phone numbers can reveal your real identity
Moxie Marlinspike (Matthew Rosenfeld) - really particular about 3rd party clients, makes it not very inviting
link
Not so great when your playing with alternative operating systems (SailfishOS PostmarketOS), Signal has to make a client, rather than just supporting an API
Use Element/Matrix
Setup your own server
Sign up for paid hosting EMS
Sign up for free on a community server like Linux Delta
Minutes In 07:50
Run Matrix on CoreOS
https://fedoramagazine.org/deploy-your-own-matrix-server-on-fedora-coreos/
With Fedora CoreOS, you get all the benefits of Fedora (podman, cgroups v2, SELinux) packaged in a minimal automatically updating system thanks to rpm-ostree.
Running a Matrix service requires the following software:
Synapse: a Matrix server
PostgreSQL: a database
Nginx: a web server
Let’s Encrypt: a certificate provider
Element: a Matrix web client
Minutes In 09:30
Email 2 - How to Stream a Live Event without YT - M.X.U.
streamyard
Open Broadcaster Software OBS
Setting up your own CDN is impractical
Setup an RTMP server with Nginx
Community based CDN Scale Engine Instant Trial
Minutes In 15:50
Email 3 - User Responds to James' Question - Landon
Deja Dupe
Only backs up working files not the entire OS
Incremental Backups and Multiple file versions
Similar to Mac TimeMachine
Minutes In 18:40
Email 4 - Please Expand on Self Hosting without Net Neutrality - Will
Owning your own server doesn't fix getting online
Decentralized infrastructure make taking people offline hard
Minutes In 22:10
Email 5 - Which Episode for Parental Control? - Lucas
Life360
Life360 is partnered with Arity (analytic company) link
CA Do not sell
No longer used or recommended
Check out OwnTracks
Uses MQTT, lightweight, and you can self host
Minutes In 25:15
Pick of the Week
MMORPG_Tycoon_2
It's a Single Player MMO / Building an MMO
Independent Game shop https://www.vectorstorm.com.au/
Early Access, expect bugs
Developer is very active in the community and wants feedback
Massively addicting
Minutes In 28:10
Gadget of the Week OSMC Vero 4K
FLIRC IR receiver
OSMC project is a rock solid Kodi platform
OSMC Vero 4K
Minutes In 31:35
RedHat Interview
Guest: Brian Excelbeard
Moving to CentOS Stream brings more transparency and opportunity for involvement
IBM was not even in the room for the discussion
New programs are in the work for cloud workloads beyond today's announcement
RedHat is reducing friction for getting official RHEL by integrating other account systems
Expanding the personal free options, more than just RHEL
Making it easier for enterprise customers to get their employees enrolled in developer accounts
Have a unique use case problem? email Brian directly centos-questions@redhat.com
Official Announcement
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Jan 13, 2021 • 56min
Episode 215: Self-Hosting Your Platform
Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, so he built his own fiber ISP!
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00:30 Minutes In
Email 1 - Feedback from EP 212 Bluetooth and Drawing Tablet - David
HSP/HFP designed for phones not computers
Bluetooth support on Linux is difficult due to the way blue-tooth works (uses modem commands on mobile)
Possible Solutions that bypass Linux blue-tooth stack
Links to the 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC
This is Creative's version if you are looking for a more popular brand name.
XP-PEN came up and they have a driver for Linux. It is a little bit hokey in the sense that their configuration application needs to be running in order for it to work.
It does not always survive suspend/resume, but it is easy to launch again.
Their non-display models also have good support for left-hand versus right-hand drawing
When used as a display, there is no left-hand mode because it relies on dm to configure the display
We purchased an xp-pen innovator 16 It is a 1080p 15.6 inch matte screen with hardware buttons connected via HDMI and 2 USB ports
XP-PEN seems like a good company
Link to first photo made with the tablet
06:00 Minutes In
Email 2 - VPN Recommendation? - Ira
What is the best VPN company?
private internet access
They have a track history of NOT turning over user data, they get called into court they say we'd love to comply but we don't have the documents.
affiliate link
08:30 Minutes In
Email 3 - Matrix Support Spreading - Charliebrownau
Mind.com is supporting Matrix Protocol
link
[Mind.com](mind.com) is an alternative to Facebook and other big social networks
09:20 Minutes In
Email 4 - Censorship - Rob
What are your thoughts on Mozzila's blog post
11:15 Minutes in
Pick of the Week
MediaCMS
Fully featured open source video and media CMS
Built mostly using the modern stack Django + React and includes a REST API
No federation
14:00 Minutes In
Gadget of the Week
Dell's new thunderbolt dock
Dell WD19TB
Built in thunderbolt cable
Additional rear facing thunderbolt pass-through port
2x Display Ports
1x HDMI
2x Rear USB
1x Front Facing USB
Dell's USB C dock
Dell WD15
17:00 Minutes In
News
Guy by the name of Daniel Rodriguez managed to boot Linux with Gnome on an iPhone 7
YouTube Video
Reddit write up
Phone that was given to him by his grandparents as a junk device, He saved it from the landfill!
Prerequisites
writable directory available over nfs, including dhcp server on local network
Checkra1n 0.10.2-beta
Kernel fork for h9x/A10
Project sandcastle utilities
EITHER arm64 cross compiler or an arm64 native device. I used a rpi4 on 20.04 <-- way helpful to be able to chroot and setup, otherwise you'd have to use qemu-user
Bridge setup script/udev rules
21:00 Minutes In
Jared Mauch Built his Own ISP
Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP
Arstechnica link
AT&T's advertised plans for his neighborhood topped out at a measly 1.5Mbps
Eventually switched to a WISP that delivered about 50Mbps
Comcast told him it would charge $50,000 to extend its cable network to his house
Mauch built his own ISP (buried the fiber for 10,000)
As of early January, Mauch has 30 homes and 10 homes to hookup
Large corporate Business are not afraid of government and government regulations
ISPs are going to learn, do it or get replaced
Starlink is becoming a thing, Amazon satellite internet is coming
27:30 Minutes In
Main Segment De-platforming / Self hosting
Violence is wrong, Full stop
Gate keeping in the broadcast industry changed when the internet became a thing
Groups and People were banned from twitter so they moved to Parler
Amazon kicked Parler off its hosting services
Google and Apple kicked the Parler app off their platforms
Mozzila blog post
Community discussion (sorry to much to summarize listen to the episode)
Honorable Mention
TeamSpeak 5 is going to be switching to the Matrix protocol for chat
Will not federate
Mumble is a better option
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SUCCESS: iPhone 7 booting Ubuntu 20.04 to full gnome-shell desktop GUI : linuxAmazon.com: 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC Bluetooth 5.0 Audio Transmitter, Dual Link USB Audio Adapter with APTX Low Latency, Bluetooth Dongle for PC, PS4, Headphone, Speaker (Only for Audio): ElectronicsGitHub - mediacms-io/mediacms: MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.

Jan 6, 2021 • 56min
Episode 214: New Year New Releases
New Year New Releases
We're kicking off 2021 with a bang! The KDE team has announced a new focus on Wayland and fingerprint readers. Cawbird 1.3 a native twitter client for Linux has a new release with improved video uploading and replies, and Matrix will power FOSDEM this year!
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01:45 Minutes In
Email 1 - Comment on SolarWinds from Newnix
04:40 Minutes IN
Caller 1 - Carl
Problem: Intermittent camera and mic problems
Solution 1: unplug other usb devices (bandwidth issues)
Solution 2: Buy a PCIe USB 3 card
Solution 3: Buy a Thinkpad with thunderbolt and a thunderbolt dock
Solution 4: Make sure the camera is plugged into a matching USB port (3.0/2.0)
Logitech C920 webcam
Logitech C930
Feedback on Backups
Bareos backup
Email 2 - LVM vs Raid from Cory
OpenMediaVault
Storage - FreeNAS
Unraid
BTRFS is good for low power devices, less overhead than ZFS
RAID 1 or RAID 10 are better options in most cases, and using RAID 10 + Btrfs compression will give you similar space availability to RAID 6
RAID is not a backup
19:00 Minutes In
Email 3 - Old Smartphones as Cameras from M. X. U.
Geovision Cameras
Axis Cameras
Synology LiveCam
From the Community
Droidcam
23:55 Minutes In
Pick of the Week
KDE Itinerary is a digital travel assistant with a priority on protecting your privacy.
Timeline view of a unified travel itinerary with automatic trip grouping.
Supports train, bus and flight bookings as well as hotel, restaurant, event and rental car reservations.
Automatic booking data extraction from various input formats, performed locally on your device.
Real-time delay and platform change information for trains.
Selection of alternative train connections on unbound tickets or on missed connections.
Local ground transportation navigation between elements of your itinerary.
26:27 Minutes In
Gadget of the Week (03:00) [12:00]
Maingear Vector 2 Gaming Laptop
Pros
Starting at $1349
0.78” thick and 4.16 lbs
i7-1075OH
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
16GB / 1TB NVME
4 Cell Battery - 4000 mAh
1080p 144hz
Being a gaming laptop
Cons
No Thunderbolt only USB C
Can't be powered over USB C
Degraded power when unplugged
30:00 Minutes In
KDE Roadmap
KDE has plans for 2021 - and they're pretty cool
Fingerprint support throughout the KDE Plasma experience
Login
Lock Screen
KAuth and Polkit.
Focus on Wayland - aiming for serious, concentrated Wayland work continuing through 2021
Devs plan to improve the look and feel of Plasma’s default Breeze theme — expect something “super modern and awesome”
KDE devs will replace the celebrated Kickoff app launcher with a newer, fresher replacement.
32:44 Minutes In
Cawbird 1.3 Released
Cawbird is free, open source software compatible with most modern Linux distros
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/cawbird-1-3-released-for-linux-distros
Improved DM Support
Video Uploading
You can now see media shared in direct messages
Links and hashtags sent in messages are ‘clickable’
It’s possible to delete DMs, load older DMs, and send images as DMs in Cawbird
Cawbird 1.3 supports video uploads to tweets (one video per tweet)
Improved upload handling of animated and non-animated GIFs
More accessible approach to loading ‘replied to’ tweets
33:37 Minutes In
FOSDEM Online Via Matrix
EMS - Offical Matrix Hosting
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/01/04/taking-fosdem-online-via-matrix
Started with Matrix over SELF / Wanted the ability to connect with people in a free and open source decentralized client, found Matrix, got sucked in.
2021 - Altispeed officially switched to EMS Matrix instance
Public Roadmap / Can buy feature deveopment / entire sales staff to handle feature requests
Jitsi - Feature we didn't think we'd use and end up using it daily now
Matrix team are in active contact with the Jitsi team making BOTH Jitsi AND Matrix better.
FOSDEM will have its own dedicated Matrix server at fosdem.org (hosted by EMS along with a ton of Jitsi’s) acting as the social backbone for the event
Official bridges will be provided to IRC and XMPP (and most other chat systems), giving as much openness and choice as possible - if folks want to participate via Freenode and XMPP they can!
FOSDEM has spent a lot of time improving widgets recently: these give the ability to embed arbitrary webapps into chatrooms - letting you add livestreams, video conferences, schedules, Q&A dashboards etc, augmenting a plain old chatroom into a much richer virtual experience that can hopefully capture the semantics and requirements of an event like FOSDE
Attendees can lurk as read-only guests in devrooms without needing to set up accounts (or they can of course use their existing Matrix/IRC/XMPP accounts)
Every devroom and track will have its own chatroom, where the audience can hang out and view the livestream of that particular devroom (using the normal FOSDEM video livestream system).
There will also be a ‘backstage’ room per track for coordination between the devroom organisers and the speakers.
The talks themselves will be prerecorded to minimise risk of disaster, but each talk will have a question & answer session at the end which will be a live Jitsi broadcast from the speaker and a host who will relay questions from the devroom.
Each talk will have a dedicated room too, where after the official talk slot the audience can pop in and chat to the speaker more informally if they’re available (by text and/or by moderated jitsi). During the talk, this room will act as the ‘stage’ for the speaker & host to watch the livestream and conduct the question & answer session.
Every stand will also have its own chatroom and optional jitsi+livestream, as will BOFs or other adhoc events, so folks can get involved both by chat and video
There’ll also be a set of official support, social etc rooms - and of course folks can always create their own!
FOSDEM Matrix bot, responsible for orchestrating the hundreds of required rooms, setting up the right widgets and permissions, setting up bridges to IRC & XMPP, and keeping everything in sync with the official live FOSDEM schedule.
Call for help
Folks on XMPP often complain that the Bifröst Matrix<->XMPP bridge doesn’t support MAMs - meaning that if XMPP users lose connection, they lose scrollback. We’re not going to have time to fix this ourselves in time, so this would be a great time for XMPP folks who grok xmpp.js to come get involved and help to ensure the best possible XMPP experience!
It’d be really nice to be able to render nice schedule widgets for each devroom, and embed the overall schedule in the support rooms etc. The current HTML schedules https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/day/saturday/ and https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/room/vcollab/ don’t exactly fit - if someone could write a thing which renders them at (say) 2:5 aspect ratio so they can fit nicely down the side of a chatroom then that could be awesome!
While we’ll bridge all the official rooms over to Freenode, it’d be even nicer if people could just hop straight into any room on the FOSDEM server (or beyond) via IRC - effectively exposing the whole thing as an IRC network for those who prefer IRC. We have a project to do this: matrix-ircd, but it almost certainly needs more love and polish before it could be used for something as big as this. If you like Rust and know Matrix, please jump in and get involved!
If you just want to follow along or help out, then we’ve created a general room for discussion over at #fosdem-matrix:fosdem.org. It’d be awesome to have as many useful bots & widgets as possible to help things along.
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44:50 Minutes In
LG Smart TVs Are Sending Your Data Home
LG Smart Ad, analyses users favourite programs, online behaviour, search keywords and other information to offer relevant ads to target audiences.
http://doctorbeet.blogspot.com/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html
There is an option in the system settings called "Collection of watching info:" which is set ON by default
This setting requires the user to scroll down to see it and, unlike most other settings, contains no "balloon help" to describe what it does
It turns out that viewing information (such as file names) appears to be being sent regardless of whether this option is set to On or Off
This information appears to be sent back unencrypted and in the clear to LG every time you change channel
Domains to Block
ad.lgappstv.com
yumenetworks.com
smartclip.net
smartclip.com
llnwd.net
smartshare.lgtvsdp.com
ibis.lgappstv.com
51:00 Minutes In
FinCEN Proposes New Cryptocurrency Law
The regulation, proposed by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), would require financial institutions (like Square) to collect personal information about the parties involved in cryptocurrency transactions. You can read a deep-dive on them here, but the more important requirement is for financial institutions to collect the name and physical address of both parties of any large transaction they’re involved in.
Jack Dorsey is not happy about new crypto currency law
Dorsey argues the regulation could end up driving customers “to use non-custodial wallets or services outside the U.S. to transfer their assets more easily,” leading to FinCEN having “less visibility into the universe of cryptocurrency transactions than it has today.” Put simply, if people have to provide private information to a bank in order to make a transaction, they’ll avoid using the bank — something the CEO describes as a perverse incentive.
Deep Dive Link
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Dec 30, 2020 • 56min
Episode 213: Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer
Greg Kurtzer executive director of Rocky Linux a bug for bug RedHat distribution joins us this hour to tell the story of CentOS and what his vision for Rocky Linux is!
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Greg Kurtzer - Executive Director of Rocky Linux, a bug for bug red hat compatible distro
Greg's history
Centos history
Rocky Linux now and future
Currently collaborating on Slack, It will be moving to Mattermost
There is a google doc for developers who want to help, please be patient lots of responses to go through
Release will be available Q2 2020
Current state of the project
36:00 minutes in
Walt Caller One
What Protections are in place to protect Rocky Linux from corporate interests
44:00 minutes in
Email 1 Unifi Access Points and NVRs
1) Unifi Access Points
Nano HD i
UAP-AC Pro
UAP-AP-HD
47:00 minutes in
2) What security NVR solution do you recommend?
Use the Synology selector tool
Synology FS6400
Axis Cameras
Geovision cameras
Also take a look at motioneye and motioneyeos
More of a DIY approach but free and flexible
51:00 minutes in
Pick of the Week
Snapdrop: local file sharing in your browser. Inspired by Apple's Airdrop.
Underneath the hood
Vanilla HTML5 / ES6 / CSS3 frontend
WebRTC / WebSockets
NodeJS backend
Progressive Web App
51:45 minutes in
Gadget of the Week Playstation 5 Controller
DualSense™ Wireless PS5 Controller
The DualSense wireless controller for PS5 offers immersive haptic feedback2, dynamic adaptive triggers2 and a built-in microphone, all integrated into an iconic design.
Feel physically responsive feedback to your in-game actions with dual actuators which replace traditional rumble motors. In your hands, these dynamic vibrations can simulate the feeling of everything from environments to the recoil of different weapons
Experience varying levels of force and tension as you interact with your in-game gear and environments. From pulling back an increasingly tight bowstring to hitting the brakes on a speeding car, feel physically connected to your on-screen actions.
Available from Sony for $69.99
Linux driver support
[From Roderick Colenbrander](roderick.colenbrander@sony.com)
Supported in linux
*DualSense in both Bluetooth and USB modes
*LEDs
*Touchpad
*Motion Sensors
*Rumble
Not supported yet
*Adaptive Triggers
*VCM based Haptics
These features require a large amount of data and complex data structures. It is not clear how to
expose these. The current Evdev and FF frameworks are too limiting. We hope
to have a dialog on how to expose these over time in a generic way.
Companies are starting to get it - make a good controller, make the code open so everyone can use it, people will buy your controller.
54:00 minutes in
XFCE 4.16 has been Released!
https://www.xfce.org/about/tour416
The Settings Manager itself received a visual refresh of its filter box
*which can now be hidden permanently
*Search capabilities of the filter box were improved by searching the descriptive 'Comments' part of each dialog's launcher
Default Applications is a new dialog represents a merger between the previously available 'Mime Settings' and the 'Preferred Applications' dialogs.
Added fractional scaling based on the RandR extension of X11
Added more default keyboard shortcuts out of the box (Examples: for window tiling or to open Thunar)
xfce4-panel
The panel received quite a few noteworthy updates
*Animation for autohide and intellihide
*New 'Status Tray' plugin that combines both legacy Systray item support with modern StatusNotifier item support
*Dark mode support
*Launchers showing additional actions on right-click
*Window buttons offering to Launch a new instance
XFCE Power Managment was cleaned up
The settings dialog of the power manager was cleaned up and shows either 'on battery' or 'plugged in' settings as opposed to both in a huge table.
[DarkTable](darktable.org) - 3.4 Encore!
https://www.darktable.org/2020/12/darktable-3-4/
Best professional photography tools out there
This is the second major release of 2020
5,500 commits in 2020!
Many of the computationally-intensive image processing algorithms have been updated to be faster and more scaleable when running on the CPU.
Improved operations to a number of the tools
Releasing the first version of the new user manual, now split into a separate project named “dtdocs”. We have completely reorganised and rewritten the manual into a more maintainable structure using Markdown. This project has involved new content as well as a significant overhaul of the text, making it much easier to read for native English speakers
In addition, filmic RGB version 4 now works with OpenCL and highlight reconstruction is now significantly faster with OpenCL-enabled hardware.
New Module: Color Calibration
Tone Equalizer Improvements
Export Print Sizes
Map View Changes
The global color picker module UI has been overhauled
It is now possible to automatically hide the header buttons on processing modules in the darkroom
Hovering your mouse over the header of a processing module now displays a tool tip providing detailed in-app documentation.
Many users have requested customization of module groups, and now that feature is here! Processing modules in the darkroom can now be assigned to user-defined module groups. This replaces the previous “favorites” group and the “more modules” module with a tool that allows you to create your own module groups and presets based on your work flow.
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Pick of the Week
https://snapdrop.net/
Gadget of the Week
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-input/20201219062336.72568-1-roderick@gaikai.com/
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Dec 27, 2020 • 56min
Episode 212: Software for the Holidays
Gnome 40 has a major redesign, a new version of Kdenlive is out adding some much desired pro features, Matrix has some exciting announcments and we discuss the Solar Winds backdoor and give you some alternatives. If this is the time of the year you want to tinker with new projects we have a few in store!
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00:45
Request for feedback
01:55
Email 1 - How to back up BTRFS to the cloud
rsync
BTRFS send/recive
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/btrfs-sendreceive-helps-you-move-your-data
04:55
Email 2 - Smart devices
cloudfree.shop
https://cloudfree.shop/
homeassistant
https://www.home-assistant.io/
lutron radiora
https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/WholeHomeSystems/RadioRA2/Overview.aspx
12:00
Are Vlans Good enough? (continued from email 2)
14:40
Email 3 - Bitcoin
Don't invest, considered unstable
Mining is fun not pratical
https://www.coinbase.com/
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer
ALternative crypto currencys
https://ethereum.org/en/
https://www.getmonero.org/
23:48
Email 4 - Bluetooth headphones on Linux Mic Not Working
A2DP audio out only (high quality)
HSP audio out and in (low quality)
Check what protocols are supported by your dongle
Easiest way to work around this...
sudo apt-get install blueman
starting from Pulseaudio v. 11.0, it's possible to automatically switch the profile whenever microphone access is requested by the application, but it's disabled by default.
Find load-module module-bluetooth-policy line in /etc/pulse/default.pa
Change it to load-module module-bluetooth-policy auto_switch=2
You need to reload pulseaudio module after this for the changes to take effect:
pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -D
Now pulseaudio will switch the device profile to HSP whenever microphone access is requested and change it back to A2DP after stream is closed.
27:29
Pick of the Week
Just Perfection!
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3843/just-perfection/
This extension allows you to disable:
OSD
Search
Dash
Workspace Switcher
Top Panel
App gesture
28:35
Gadget of the Week
Gaomon S620 $35
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R77SNX9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Karita
https://krita.org/en/
31:02
Gnome 40 Major Design Revamp
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/12/gnome-40-major-design-revamp
GNOME 40 is due for release in March, 2021.
33:45
KdenLive
https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/12/kdenlive-20-12-is-out/
Kdenlive 20.12 serves as a new stable release and a new feature release
New features
same track transitions
subtitling tool
Effects
Another usability improvement is the ability to rename and add/edit the description of custom effects (by new contributor Vivek Yadav.)
New Pillar Echo effect for your vertical videos.
Crop by padding effect can now be keyframed.
New VR 360 and 3D effects for working with 360º and 3D stereoscopic footage.
New Video Equalizer for adjusting image brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma.
usability
Ability to enable/disable normalization of audio thumbnails from track header
Ability to delete multiple tracks at once (by Pushkar Kukde)
When archiving a project an option was added to archive only clips in the timeline as well as the option choose the compression method between TAR and ZIP.
On the backend front the Online Resources tool was ported to qtwebengine (by Andreas Sturmlechner) and downloading wipes, render profiles, titles and wipes defaults to using https.
37:34
Solar Winds
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html
Managed Service Provider (MSP) management software
march 2020 hack
dec 2020 discoverd
47:05
Souk Flatpak App Store for Linux
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/12/souk-flatpak-app-store-for-linux
Souk is co-developed by Felix Häcker, the hands behind a slate of well-made, well-designed GTK apps available for Linux desktops including Shortwave and Fragments, and Christoper Davis, with design input from Tobias Bernard.
50:10
Matrix
DMA interoperability open apis
bridging (telgram discord slack)
Dendrite is up and running on matrix.org
Dendrite is second gen Matrix server
The server that will be used when they eventually roll a monolithic client server combo that you can just install and start talking
ILAGS - Improved landing as a guest
One of those things is threading
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/15/dendrite-2020-progress-update
55:00
cerlean
https://cerulean.matrix.org
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean
It’s (currently) a very minimal javascript app - only 2,500 lines of code.
Proof of concept - not designed for production use.
Microblogging platform / decentralized twitter based on Matrix.
56:06
humble bundle
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/the-steam-winter-sale-2020-is-now-live-plus-a-new-codemasters-humble-bundle
Extra Links not covered
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/30/new-features-to-core/
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/kh33m8
https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/1340698413143224320
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/12/19/new-podcast/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-linux-is-gone-but-its-refugees-have-alternatives/
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Dec 16, 2020 • 56min
Episode 211: GeekLab Gift Guide
GeekLab Gift Guide
RedHat may have replaced CentOS Linux with CentOS stream but Gregory Kurtzer has launched his own replacement based as CentOS was on the RHEL source code. We help you pick out tech gifts for that geek in your life!
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Gift #5 - Stainless Steel Small Openable Pill
Gift #4 - Aventree TC417
Gift #3 - Yubikey
Gift #2 - HiFi Audio Stereo Amplifier
Gift #1 - Briggs and Riley BackPack
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Dec 9, 2020 • 51min
Episode 210: CentOS Stream
CentOS is dead long live Centos Stream! CentOS Stream is a way of getting newer packages out to the community so developers have the latest and greatest, but this comes at the cost of the previous goals of CentOS. Does this increase the security of RedHat's free offering?
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Dec 2, 2020 • 56min
Episode 209: Getting Started with The Pinephone
The Pinephone might be the best $200 you can spend on a project for yourself or with your family. Now it's easier than ever to flash new operating systems to the phone. OpenZFS 2.0 has been released, a new version of Wireguard has been released for Windows, and the KDE Edition of the Pinephone is now available.
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