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Noah J. Chelliah
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Mar 24, 2021 • 56min
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!
-- During The Show --
00:30 Accounting Software - Greg
GNU Cash
FOSS
Every Dollar
Put out by Dave Ramsey
Web App/Service
Freemium
KMyMoney
From the KDE Project
FOSS
Good UI
HomeBank
Recomendation from the chat room
06:50 Questions around Peertube - Charlie
OVH
subsidized by Canadian government
VPS Sizing
Network Bandwidth
Disk Size
CPU/RAM
Peertube Docs
Install
Activity Pub
Docs Home
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
SnipeIT
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
Cutiepi
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
Pre-orders
Now open
$200
Estimated delivery in July, 2021.
Cutiepi Github
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
Fedora Project Link
New episode of Open Source Voices out
Open Source Voices
We will have a Networking Segment on April 6th
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Mar 17, 2021 • 56min
Episode 223: Arrested over Encryption
A federal grand jury today returned an indictment against the Chief Executive Officer and an associate of the Canada-based firm Sky Global on charges that they knowingly and intentionally participated in a criminal enterprise that facilitated the transnational importation and distribution of narcotics through the sale and service of encrypted communications devices. System 76 has a new professional desktop, the Linux Foundation has a new open source signing tool that could make secure software supply chains universal.
-- During The Show --
00:30 LumoSQL - Dan
Youtube Link 1
Youtube Link 2
Youtube Link 3
02:00 Listener Responds to SSH Questions - Roger
man ssh_config
Cyberciti Article
03:00 Off Site Backup suggestion? - Alex
Rsync
Snapshots
Bluray Archive Disks
ZFS/BTRFS Send/Receive
Tarsnap
Cryptomator
13:00 Pick of the Week
Plasma Leakguard
Auto-restarts KDE Plasma if it is taking an abnormal amount of memory
16:00 Gadget of the Week
Opensource.com Article
Raspberry PI router + Modem
Requirements
Raspberry Pi
Power Cable
Computer (Preferably running Linux)
MicroSD Card (16GB or larger)
Ethernet cable
LTE Modem
SIM Card
Default IP 192.168.1.1
modemmanager to configure modems
20:55 Sigstore
Software signing through block chain
From the Linux Foundation
Functional but considered to be beta software
Tech Republic Article
27:00 System76 Thelio Mira
System76 Blog Post
Hand crafted in the USA
4th Gen AMD Ryzen CPUs
PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage
Up to 128GB RAM
Unique Cooling system
31:40 India Planning Cypto Currency ban
ArsTechnica Article
India is planning to introduce legislation banning crypto currency
Legislation would give crypto currency owners six months to liquidate
35:00 KDE Elisa Grows Up
Article Link
Music Player
Now supports AAC files
Pinephone experience is better than Zebra devices in use today
41:50 Sky Global
ArsTechnica Article
US uses RICO warrants to charge SkyGlobal Executives
US alleges SkyGlobal knowingly sold devices with strong encryption to drug dealers
47:00 Google Incognito Mode Lawsuit
Bloomberg Article
ArsTechnica Article
5 Billion Dollar Lawsuit
52:15 Fedora Workstation 34
Gnome Blog Post
NVidia driver catches up with wayland
Headless Display support (Thank You Jonas Ådahl)
Full Pipewire support
Red Hat is getting into the automotive space, Watch for related job posts
54:00 Call to Action
SELF will be virtual this year!
SELF Link
SELF dates June 10-12
Email volunteers@minddripmedia.com with your skill set and contact details
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Mar 10, 2021 • 56min
Episode 222: Child Labor in Big Tech
Major tech companies are buying electronic components made from minerals mined by children, and forced labor. Ryan DasGeek joins the Ask Noah Show to discuss what's happening in the tech industry and how you can vote against it with your wallet.
-- During The Show --
01:15 Good SSH Connection Manager? - Jamie
Use a centralized jump host for logging/authentication (SSSD&FreeIPA)
Use Putty
Integrate with KeepassXC
Teleport
06:30 Possible to forward broadcasts between VLANs PFSense?
Becareful to not create broadcast storms/loops
UDP-Proxy
10:45 Router recommendation? - Larry
Unifi USG
Requires controller/Cloudkey
If controller goes offline you can't manage your network
Netgate SG-1100 + PFsense/OpnSense
15:00 Firewalld/UFW & Apparmor/SELinux
Debian/Ubuntu are not insecure, Firewall is off by default
Apple Support
Reqired Ports
RTSP 554 TCP/UDP
Airplay Digital Audio Access Protocol TCP 3689
Multicast DNS (MDNS) 5353
on Fedora
$ firewall-cmd --add-service=mdns
$ firewall-cmd --add-service=rtsp
$ firewall-cmd --add-port=3689/tcp
$ firewall-cmd --runtime-to-permanent
18:15 Caller Serial Connection Logging - Chaz
minicom
24:45 Ryan (DasGeek) Ethical Hardware Production
24.9 million ppl are victims of forced labor
Know the Chain
Import Genius
Intercept Article
DasGeek Ethics Youtube Video
DasGeek Community
More Ethical Brands
HP
Intel
Nokia
Fairphone
HP Dragonfly
HP Dragonfly on CDW
Check out other podcasts Ryan is on regularly, Destination Linux, Hardware Addics, others over at [Destination Linux Netowrk](destinationlinux.network)
52:00 FBI Breaking encryption & Lying to Congress
EFF Link
EFF Link 2
Upturn Article
Less than 24 Hours to brute force a phone
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Mar 3, 2021 • 56min
Episode 221: Blackbird Secure Desktop
The Blackbird Secure Desktop is a POEWR9 system, a fully open source modern POWER9 workstation without any proprietary code. Plasma mobile has a new update out, we talk bluetooth headsets, VoIP phone systems, and a one handed keyboard!
-- During The Show --
01:00 nVidia shield and blocking google DNS - Zack
Try setting up DNS on your router
Run PFSense/OpnSense in a VM, use that to block DNS requests to Google, pass on legit requests to a PiHole
05:15 VOIP Recommendations for Home Phone? - Dennis
Use a Trunk Provider
Voxtelesys Hosted Option
Self host a 3CX PBX
FreePBX
Asterisk
#### 12:45 Caller - George
Best Slide show App?
Make Video in KdenLIVE
LibreOffice Impress
HedgeDoc Slideshow mode
Antenna for TV?
Apmlified Digital Antenna
User Feedback - Ben
Solution for nerve damage in one hand
Use a one handed keyboard
Twiddler Keyboard
18:15 Bluetooth headphones? - Graeme
Best Bluetooth headphones for both calls and music
Check out Steelseries
Sony WH1000xm4
21:15 Pick of the Week
Loving Memory GitHub
Built on GitHub Pages
Doesn't require any web expertise
24:00 Tech of the Week
Cactus Chat
Embed Anywhere
Privacy Respecting
Highly Compatible
Decentralized
30:00 Blackbird
OS News Article about Blackbird
Power9 is fully open source unlike Intel/ARM
Basic Blackbird Bundle $1,733
Blackbird has a BMC running OpenBMC
GameCube, Wii, Xbox 360 all use PowerPC-based processors
Power1 was released in 1990
Fedora and OpenSuse both support Power9
49:00 Plasma Mobile
Plasma Mobile Blog Post
Pinephone + Jumpdrive is awesome
Plasma Mobile is almost Daily Driver
New Features
Welcome/Setup Screen
Modified Home Screen
Groundwork for future features
Plasma Dialer improvements
DTMF & USSD Requests work now
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Feb 24, 2021 • 56min
Episode 220: Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40
The Gnome team is revamping multi-monitor support. Firefox 86 is released and features Total Cookie Protection to make cross site tracking more difficult increasing user privacy. Kodi 19 has landed with a lot of new features around metadata and a better music interface.
-- During The Show --
How to rename USB Audio interface? - Steve
pacmd update-sink-proplist alsa_output.usb-c-Media_electronics_inc._USB-Audio_Device-00.analog-stereo.2 device.description=What-We-Call-It-Now
Self Hosted Music - Sloth56
Ampache
Funkwhale
Self host or managed services - Mike
Good Email providers
ProtonMail
Tutuanotoa
Fastmail
18:15 RHCSA Training - Adam
Getting to ask questions is good
Classes can create community
In person training is best
Udemy Course Link
VTC is almost as good as official RedHat training
RHCSA Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Training and Exam Preparation Guide Second Edition
23:15 Linux Accessibility - Brendan
Trackball + Onboard on screen keyboard
27:50 Affiliate link for register4less? - Jerremy
14.99/yr
Privacy included
Free email aliases
Free 10MB of web hosting (no SSL)
Sub Accounts for managing
Customer service is beyond amazing
29:45 Pick of the Week
Open IAS
Game Clock (count down/up)
Adjust on the fly
Keyboard Bindings
Set Team Logo
Multiple Scoreboard Tabs
Control multiple Scoreboard scoreboards through one control window.
Packaged as an AppImage
Cross Platform
FOSS
34:20 Gadget of the Week
BitBarista
BitBarista: fully autonomous coffee machine built using Raspberry Pi and Bitcoin
Pi Controlling the BitBarista uses Raspbian
Uses Electrum for the BitCoin payments.
Code is on GitHub
Pays people to restock it
Can even call a technician to get repairs
36:40 Multi-Monitor on Gnome 40
Gnome Blog Post
Workspaces changes on primary monitor by default
Supports changing workspaces on all displays
Introduction of the workspaces navigator on secondary display
Transitioning to Horizontal workspaces
New additional shortcuts
switch workspaces will be Super+Alt+←/→.
Moving windows between workspaces will be Super+Alt+Shift+←/→.
Super+Alt+↑ will also open the overview and then app grid
Super+Alt+↓ will close them
These directional keyboard shortcuts have matching touch-pad gestures:
Three-finger swipes left and right will switch workspaces
Three-finger swipes up and down will open the overview and app grid
Gnome is doing and explaining changes in the open
44:00 Kodi 19.0 (Matrix)
Kodi Article
Nearly 50 developers contributed code
About 5,000 commits
Over 1,500 pull requests since the first release of 18.x "Leia"
Over 5,500 changed files
600,000 lines of code added, changed or removed
significant improvements to meta-data handling
New Matrix-inspired visualization
Database and meta-data improvements
Many more improvements
Kodi 19 replaces the old XML meta-data scrapers with Python
Most new features here revolve around usability
49:50 Nextcloud Hub
Nextcloud Blog Post
High performance back end for Nextcloud files
Wide range of performance improvements
Nextcloud talk improvements
Debuts message status indicators
Raise hand feature
Group conversation description
And more!
Wide Range of Groupware improvements
drag’n’drop
Nicer threading in Mail
Syncing social media avatars in Contacts
53:00 Firefox 86 Released
Mozilla Blog Post
New Features
Total Cookie Protection (each site gets it's own ("cookie jar")
Multiple videos Picture-in-Picture
Fixed Issues
Reader mode now works with local HTML pages
Orca and other screen reader fixes
Reader View links have more color contrast
various security fixes
55:00 New Platform for the Show
https://parachutelive.tv/
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Feb 17, 2021 • 56min
Episode 219: Studying Gnome Users
The Gnome design team conducted a research project to better understand their users. The results were surprising! We'll give you an update about the Vero 4K, a FOSS app to track your GPS history.
-- During The Show --
01:15 IT War/Disaster Stories Call Out
Got IT horror stories, let us know! We want to do an episode on them
Email live@asknoahshow.com
02:00 Jon caller
Emailed about Noah's soft spot for Red Hat
Latest thoughts on System76 PopOS!
Home Lab/Docker Questions
12:40 Vircadia VR Responds to Episode - Vadim
FOSDEM Talk
13:50 Building an Online Presence - Joel
Don't buy lifetime services/domain names - Not sustainable business model
register4less.com
Don't buy a domain in your real name
A records - mail.mydomain.com nextcloud.mydomain.com etc.mydomain.comment
Redirects mydomain.com/server1 mydomain.com/server2
Start with a web server, lessons learned apply everywhere
21:00 User responds for MS SQL - Richard
rdiff-backup - like rsync with history
Other backup utilities
backuppc
veaam (closed source)
redic (with rclone)
restic
Send in your backup solutions!
23:00 Pick of the Week - Zombie Tracker GPS
Lightweight Linux+KDE equivalent to Garmin's "Basecamp"
Manages collections of GPS tracks
Local Data
Charting, Graphing, Advanced sorting and querying
Live GPS via GPSD
26:10 Gadget of the Week
Blackmagic Decklink Duo
SDI is the professional version of HDMI
HDMI without copy protection
Make your own cables with RG-6+quad shielded+BNC ends, use them as SDI cables.
Works with Linux, you do need to install the driver, but FLAWLESS as compared to USB devices
Much higher quality / capacity
You will need to convert HDMI to SDI
31:00 Gnome 40 - UX Changes The Research
Gnome Blog Post
40:00 Vero 4K Update
Very well packaged system
Incredible UI - Couldn't believe it was Kodi underneath
Both RF and IR functionality
Includes wall mounting plate
Doesn't stream Blu-rays over WiFi
Plays DVD rips just fine
Vero 4K
47:30 Plasma
New app launcher
Breeze Twilight - Hybrid Theme
Plasma Firewall settings page (ufw and firewalld)
More effort put into Wayland support in Kwin
49:50 Pine Updates
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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!
-- During The Show --
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
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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.
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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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Support Ask Noah ShowLinks:iPhone 7 booting Ubuntu 20.04 (to GUI) - YouTube — Daniel Rodriguez
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.


