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Jul 10, 2024 • 52min
Ask Noah Show 398 | Netplan with Mauro Gaspari and Lukas Märdian
This week Mauro Gaspari and Lukas Märdian join us to give us a deep dive into using Netplan on an Ubuntu vHost. We give you a self hosted way to track your car's maintenance, and a suite of tools to use if you work in production or in live performances!
-- During The Show --
00:40 Cosmic Desktop
Started with Elementary OS
External displays
Cosmic is a complete remake
Cosmic splits the difference
i3 shortcuts
Releasing this fall
07:30 3CX vs Asterisk - jisbetterthanj
3CX 20 stamps out all open source clients
Have you opened Asterisk to the internet?
Write in about your open source VOIP experiences
10:18 Steve VPN
Split VPN issues
Guide followed
12:00 Vehicle Regulations
Legislation requiring things
Manufactures making it harder to work on vehicles
Advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology
Automatic Shutoff Technology (HR 3684 Section 24205)
LubeLogger
LubeLogger YouTube Video
19:51 News Wire
New Gnome Font - OMG Linux
Firefox 128 - Mozilla
Finnix 126 - Finnix
Cmake 3.30 - Cmake.org
GnuCash 5.8 - GnuCash
OpenSSH Vulnerability - Marc.info
Eldorado Ransomware - Tha Hacker News
Gogs Flaws - The Hacker News
Hot Plugging RAM - Toms Hardware
Monocle - Help Net Security
Multi-Token Prediction Models - Silicon Angle
RTX Remix Rest API - Toms Hardware
21:35 NetPlan
Mauro Gaspari
Lukas Märdian - NetPlan Maintainer
Bridging libvirt with NetPlan
Special thanks to
Lukas Märdian
Danilo Egea Gondolfo
Robert Krátký
3 Scenerios
Single host, single NIC with bridge
Single host, single NIC, with VLANs and bridges
Single host, multiple NICs, with bonding, VLANs, and bridges
NetPlan
Why it exists
What it is
Where and how is it used
Canonical Open Documentation Academy
You can contribute with out knowing code or command line
40:00 Stage Hacks
Stage Hacks.com
VDO Ninja
Tally Arbiter
OnTime
StageTimer.io
Dicaffine
NDI streamer for Linux
HX and restreaming via RTMP
Donations welcome
DeckRack
mounting hardware for Stream Decks
Docs site
Exploring the network
Sound reference
Cabling and more
Production has unique technology challenges
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Jul 3, 2024 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 397 - Own it if You Can!
Why do you use Linux and what problems do you run into? Both Noah and Steve make a value based decision when approaching tech, this week we dig deeper into why we choose to run Linux on the desktop. Could you power a 12v light, or 100 watt Ham Radio with a USB-C battery pack? Noah will tell you how doing so gave him light in his garage. Buckle your seat-belt, it's a packed show!
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
Deepin Desktop
Why do we run what we run
Ownership of skills and resources
3 Categories
Disposable
Service
Owned
Linux is the only OS that allows you to own your computer
Main stream wants "IT as a service"
Why are you using Linux?
08:50 Alternative Phone OS - Don
ATT installed apps
GrapheneOS
Used to rough edges
App issues
SeLinux
ANS 368
GrapheneOS privacy features
LineageOS
15:38 ProxMox and OPNSense
Passing the NIC solves the problem
16:39 Protecting Hard drives (encryption?) - Markus
LUKS
Key can be separated from the drive
Layered encryption
ZFS encryption
GPG
20:23 Generating Your Own Power - Jim
Pedal power
Favorite feedback yet
22:22 Generating Your Own Power - Jim
Dry contact
2 ways Shellys work
CHECK YOUR MANUAL
Typical wiring
27:30 Steve's Home Automation failure
What do you do when critical automations fail
2.4 GHz WiFi keeps dropping
Reach out to community/someone smarter
Have a "fallback"
Everything operates independently
Home Assistant "stitches it all together"
31:30 News Wire
Debian 12.6 - Debian
Plasma 6.1 on Endeavor OS - EndeavorOS
Leap Micro 6.0 - openSUSE
Pipewire 1.2 - freedesktop.org
OpenShot 3.2 OpenShot
Wine 9.12 - WineHQ.org
WSL2 Upgraded to Linux 6.6 - Phoronix
SSHD Vulnerability - Developer-Tech.com
CocoaPods Vulnerability - PC Mag
Memory Unsafe Code - Tech Republic
Ladybird Browser - Ladybird
33:22 Owning USB-C Power
Noah's garage light
M4 LEDs
Designed to be left on
High quality chips
10-30v
USA Warranty
INIU Powerbank
12v trigger
38:08 Supreme Court Decision
Texas and Florida laws challenged
Art Gallery comparison
Supreme Court
You are either responsible or not
Moderation
Violation of law vs Editorial
Write in, what do you think?
Network effect
The Register
49:30 Chevron Case
40 year precedent reversed
The Register
51:40 Element X
Sign in via QR code
Biggest PITA & Blessing True E2EE
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Jun 26, 2024 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 396
-- During The Show --
01:20 Pocket 386
IBM compatible system
It's a toy
Classic vs today's games
Electrical components in power systems
ARSTechnica
Aliexpress
06:15 Tor Browser 13.5
VPN camp vs Tor Camp
FBI drops cases rather than reveal methods
Fingerprinting
EFF Cover your tracks
Letter boxing
Using Tor
EFF SSD
9 to 5 Linux
13:30 Tails
Amnesic Incognito Live system
6.4 Highlights
random cryptographic seed
switch to HTTPS for repos
updates to Tor and Thunderbird
Noah's tor laptop
9 to 5 Linux
16:30 SIP & 3CX
SIP and Astrisk
3CX dropping SIP/STUN support
SIP only needs
user name
password
server
SIP gets blocked
3CX Tunneling
in app
SBC
Supported phones
Fanvil (Cheap Chinese)
Yaelink (Cheap Chinese)
Snom (German)
Cisco and Polycom are the biggest
Businesses already have phones
ISPs are the biggest competitor
Limited support phones
Gigaset
Grandstream
Polycom
Cyberdata
Proprietary is a place holder
Phone network is "un-ownable"
Grandstream UCM
ATA in
ATA out
FreePBX under the hood
DTEC
WiFi Phone Grandstream WP825(https://www.amazon.com/Grandstream-WP825-IP-Phone-Bluetooth/dp/B0BJKP1H8F)
RSSI Beep
Grandstream FXO Gateway
Vodia
VitalPBX
Yaestar
FreePBX
Refreshed UI
All options available
Paid commercial modules
Admin module
Any SIP trunk (including JMP.chat)
SIP on Mobile
Linphone
Bria
Google Play
Apple Store
Voxtelesys
46:30 News Wire
Emacs 29.4 - GNU.org
Plasma 6.1 - KDE.org
Darktable - Darktabnle
Tor Browser 13.5 - Tor Project
Openshot 3.2 - Phoronix
Monochrome TV Mode - Phoronix
Intel Battlemage - Phoronix
MLinux 45.1 - 4MLinux
Tails 6.4 - [Tails](htps://tails.net/news/version_6.4/)
Rafel RAT - The Hacker News
Patched Ollama Vulnerability - The Register
Chameleon AI modles - Toms Guide
1.5 NPU Driver - Phoronix
Apple Open-Source Models - Apple Insider
Mozilla AI - Mozilla
MoonIndex - Phys.org
49:00 KDE 6 Plasma Desktop
Kubuntu standard issue at Altispeed
Polished out of the box
Explicit Sync
New remote desktop
X2GO
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Jun 19, 2024 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 395
This week we talk about network documentation and alerts! What makes a good alert? When should you tap a human on the shoulder, and what should be left to the backlog?
-- During The Show --
01:50 Music Production On Linux - William
MuseScore
LMMS
Audacity
Write in if you do music on Linux!
05:45 DIY Smart Plug - Charlie
Instructables
TH3D Studio
Enough electricity it could kill you
09:15 Thoughts from the AMA - Steve S
"good enough"
"Class of tool" vs "disposable"
CLECs moving away from copper
Convert to VOIP and ATA
Cell companies not held to the same standard
Right tool for the right job
17:30 Frappe.io - theendbeta
Frappe.io
Looks cool
Lots of apps
Haven't used it
22:00 News Wire
Perl 5.40 - Perl Doc
Tor Browser 13.0.16 - Tor Project
Firefox 127 - Mozilla
ICEWM 3.6 - Github
Cinnamon 6.2 - OMG Ubuntu
Opensuse Leap 15.6 - Opensuse
Open Standards - Health Care IT News
Open Source Summit - PR News Wire
In-Vehicle Linux Milestone - Businesswire
DISGOMOJI - Bleeping Computer
Unity Catalog - Datanami
OpenVLA - Venture Beat
OpenSora - GitHub
Stable Difusion 3 Medium - Stability.ai
23:20 NetBox Interview
Adam Kennedy - Senior Network Admin
Network documentation
NetBox
Single source of truth
DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management)
Holds tons of information
Documenting changes
Importing/Exporting information
Netbox and Ansible
Extra information
34:00 Best Practices
OS Ticket - Client notes
Markdown docs
Plain text
Explorable and discoverable
GNS3
NetBox falls down with multiple clients
Menu Bar hides
What is standard documentation?
3 Choices
Plain text
Wiki system
Purpose built software
Good to re-evaluate from time to time
Cost of up ending the apple cart
48:00 Alerts
What is a good alert?
They need to be actionable
What the problem is
How it happened
Where do I go
Why dashboards are bad
Ticket back log
Human attention
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Jun 12, 2024 • 53min
Ask Noah Show 394
This week we talk about presenting at Linux conferences, and how to get the most out of them.
-- During The Show --
01:40 Frigate
Documentation
Performance
Room to grow
Couldn't record on bare metal
Stream selection
Hardware conundrum
Coral USB Accelerator
14:52 - Staying In Touch With Kids - Norm
Libertarian view on tracking
"chipping"
JMP.chat Sim Service
Matrix Server Guide
Simplex Chat
24:00 News Wire
Firefox 127 - Mozilla
KDE Frameworks 6.3.0 - KDE
Ubuntu Core - Ubuntu
AlmaLinux On Pi 5 - Alma Linux
Parrot OS 6.1 - Parrot Sec
BlendOS v4 - BlendOS
OBS 30.2 - Phoronix
MEGALODON - InfoQ
Stable Audio Open - Music Business World Wide
25:11 Tiny Ramdisk
Tiny Ramdisk
Uses
Large projects
Analysis of numerous small files
Saves to drive
Effect on shutdown/startup time?
29:00 Presentations
Effectively conveying information
Visually interesting
Imagery not text
Dark background and light text
Unscripted as possible
Engage the audience
Well placed audio/video clips
Game show/keep it simple
Start with "you/your" and "feel"
Start in their world, move to yours
Most important things
Path
Children
Wallet
Health
Being a "good audience"
Steve's "superfan"
Don't stay just to stay
Ask questions
Get contact info
49:50 Blend OS
BlendOS
Rudra Saraswat
very sharp 14 year old
also maintains Ubuntu Unity
Mentored by Simon
9 to 5 Linux
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Jun 9, 2024 • 54min
Episode 393: Ask Noah Show 393 | Ask Us Anything
This week we're live at SELF and we host an Ask Me Anything! We further our discussion about Harbor Freight and disposable tools, and talk about what technology excites us for the future.
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Jun 5, 2024 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 392
This week we dig into a war story at Steve's house troubleshooting wifi!
-- During The Show --
01:10 Noah & Steve War Story
Pivoted to installing a doorbell
ReoLink doorbell
App is needed for setup
Frigate
Back to WiFi
Changed management port
Reset/VLan snafu
Dell 7330 no network port
Endless OS can't install tools
"Mission Mode"
Switch was bad
WiFi issue
ZWave vs ZigBee
"Known Quantities"
Next steps
Spectrum analyzer
Laptop couldn't connect to phone WiFi
When is proprietary management ok?
Simple and elegant
Buy for life vs Harbor Freight
29:30 News Wire
Flowblade 2.16 - Phoronix
Nitrux 3.5 - nxos.org
KaOS 2024.05 - kaosx.us
Linuxlite 7.0 - Linuxlite OS
Gnome 46.2 - Discourse Gnome
Wayland - 1.23 - Freedesktop.org
Linux 6.8 EPL - Linux mailing list
Linux Steam >2% - Gaming on Linux
Linux Mint & Flatpaks - Phoronix
RTX Remix Going Open Source - Tweak Town
CVE-2024-1086 - The hacker News
QuasarRAT - Dark Reading
Free Kaspersky Tool - ZDnet
LlamaFS - Mark Tech Post
31:18 Minimum Viable Drums
Hydrogen
Pattern based sequencer
Very user friendly
LPD8
34:08 Firewall - David
Support moving off proxmox
Sophos more than enough
You have to "buy" PFSense now
Altispeed going to OPNSense
Sophos XG135
39:50 Red Hat Interview
Steven Huels - Vice President & General Manager of Artificial Intelligence Business, Product and Strategy at Red Hat
Podman AI
Customization
Stability AI collaboration
Stability AI models
Larger AI picture
Natural extension into AI space
Red Hat cloud data platform
Predictive vs Generative AI
What does open source mean to you?
52:26 SELF
Live Stream 9-10am Fri/Sat
Meetup
Friday June 7th 6pm
Pinky's Westside Grill
1600 West Morehead Street
Charlotte, NC 28208
(704)-332-0402
Steve's Talks
VMs in containers
SRE Alerting
SRE Observability
Noah's Talks
Open Sourceing a mall
Matrix Meeting people where they are
RagChew
Friday 6pm central
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May 29, 2024 • 53min
Ask Noah Show 391
This week Matthew Jones and Kaete Piccirilli join the Ask Noah Show to talk Ansible! Catch the latest advancements as well as a look at what's coming down the road.
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00:55 Steve's WiFi Problems
Multiple APs
70+ Access Points
02:23 Guacamole Conversation - Joey
Steve's presentation?
SELF puts them online
Steve might have a copy
Restricting to IP
Don't use as sole defense
Shields from "script kiddies"
Block based on GeoIP/Country
08:50 Watch Axis Camera in VLC - TwoBit
Steve routes them into Home Assistant
ispyconnect.com
Generated view URL
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rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.20/onvif-media/media.amp
#### 11:48 News Wire
* Linux 6.10 RC - [Linux Mailing List](https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2405.3/01595.html)
* RISC-V Rust Support - [Phoronix](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-RISC-V)
* NFS v2 Being Disabled - [Phoronix](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-NFS-Client)
* Alpine Linux 3.20 - [Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.0-released.html)
* Handbrake 1.8 - [Handbrake](https://handbrake.fr/news.php?article=53)
* New Tuxedo Hardware - [Tuxedo Computers](https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Stellaris-Slim-15-Gen6-INTEL.tuxedo)
* IBM & AI - [Silicon Angle](https://siliconangle.com/2024/05/21/ibm-pivots-focus-code-generation-open-source-granite-generative-ai-models/)
* AMD Acquiring Nod.AI - [MSN](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/amd-to-acquire-nodai-boosting-its-open-source-ai-software-capabilities/ar-AA1i02AI)
#### 13:11 Marknote
* [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/)
* Closed Source
* You can install KDE apps on Windows
* Very early in development
* [KDE Apps](https://apps.kde.org/marknote/)
* [Marknote Flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.marknote)
#### 19:15 KaOS 24
* [Linux IAC](https://linuxiac.com/kaos-linux-2024-05-released/)
* Arch based
* Takes peices from many distros
* [KaOS Base](https://kaosx.us/about/based/)
* [BcasheFS](https://bcachefs.org/)
* Snap Shots in Linux
* [RHEL ABI tracking](https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/RHEL-based%20distro/index.html)
* Steve would go Red Hat now
#### 28:40 Ubuntu 24.04 & MILK V & MARS RISC-V
* RISC-V SBC
* Forward thinking design of Linux
* [9 to 5 Linux](Ubuntu 24.04 / MILK V & MARS RISC-V)
#### 31:13 Kaspersky Research
* Increase in Linux cyber attacks
* More Linus
* Crime moving to "cyber"
* More people "at home"
* Keep your box up to date
#### 33:58 Ansible Interview
* Matthew Jones - Chief Architect of Ansible Automation for Red Hat
* Kaete Piccirilli - Director, Product Marketing, Ansible Automation
* Brief description of Ansible
* Requirements for Ansible
* [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/)
* [Ansible Lightspeed](https://developers.redhat.com/products/ansible/lightspeed)
* AI model trained for Ansible
* Good starting point
* Set of tools around Lightspeed
* On premise Lightspeed
* LLM hallucinations
* Lightspeed adding "documentation"
* Preventing data leaks
* Ansible secrets best practices
* Encrypting a playbook
* Content signing & verification
* Ansible education
* Event driven Ansible
* What is new this year
* Policy as code
* EDA
* Making Ansible Galaxy more "decentralized"
* Making Ansible more efficient
* What is next for Ansible
#### 51:15 SELF
* Looking forward to seeing you!
* ANS/SELF Meetup
* [Pinkys](https://eatatpinkys.com/)
* Friday 6:00 PM
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May 22, 2024 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 390
This week Vincent Danen the VP of product security from Red Hat joins the Ask Noah Show to talk about Open Source security practices. We take your calls, answer your questions, and give you an update about The Linux Challenge Coin.
-- During The Show --
01:50 Caller
Nitro Phone
Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS flashed on it
05:58 Remote Access Via Browser? - Craig
Ethical/Liability issues
Work policy violations
Retroactive punishment
Apache Guacamole
Security concerns
Set up a box on a VPS
Boot off a flashdrive
13:42 App Image Allows Total Control - Charlie
Apps Steve "pins"
CurseForge
News Wire
Firefox 126 - Mozila
Mir 2.17 - Phoronix
Tails 6.3 - Tails
Endless OS 6 - Endless OS
Wine 9.9 - Wine HQ
XFS - Phoronix
Open Smart Glasses - Gizmodo
Hackbat - ZDnet
2 Year Infection - ArsTechnica
Open Source AI OSI Initiative - IT Pro
16:50 Linux Challenge Coin
Not sure how to do this
4 Pillars
People are behind the tech
When Technology is at it's best it is Open Source
Knowledge should be shared to empower users
Be willing to do the work they don't want to do
Mind Drip Doc
[LinuxChallengeCoin.com](linuxchallengecoin.com)
34:45 Red Hat Interview
Vincent Danen - Red Hat VP of Product Security
SBOMs & Red Hat's response to the XZ vulnerability
Benefit of open source
Firebird project
Don't restrict who can be a maintainer
Red Hat's reaction to XZ vulnerability
Effect of people supporting up stream
Paths and tactics
Investment in Open Source
48:30 AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee (ALESCo)
Alma Blog
Open ELA
What standards are being "centered on"?
How is this different from Open ELA?
52:00 SELF MeetUp
Join Remotely
Book your rooms now
Register now
ANS/SELF Meetup
Pinkys
Friday 6:00 PM
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May 15, 2024 • 54min
Episode 389: Ask Noah Show 389
This week Matt Hicks the CEO and President of Red Hat joins the Ask Noah Show to talk about AI! We answer your questions about how to get a voice point-to-point link, plus we'll tell you what we're thinking for SELF.
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00:50 SELF Announcements
Ironing out meetup details
AMA session
War stories
Steve's talks
Retro installs
04:00 Landline to Wireless? - JM
Bell S60900
DECT
EnGenius Long Range
NewEgg link
VOIP
Base
Phone
Point to Point Link
10:20 News Wire
Dillo 3.1 - Dillo Git Hub
RHEL 9.4 - Unix Sysadmin
Alma and Rocky 9.4 - Alma Linux - Rocky Linux
Fedora Asahi 40 - Ars Technica
Manjaro 24 - Manjaro
KDE Framworks 6.2 - KDE
Linux 6.9 - lkml.org
Linux Libre 6.9 - FSFLA
Linux on Amazon Devices - OMG Ubuntu
Granite AI Models - Forbes
Romanian LLM - The Recursive
11:35 Matt Hicks Interview
Matt Hicks - Red Hat CEO
How does Red Hat stay on top of new technologies?
Future of AI?
90s Linux mindset?
AIX
Service aspect, solving customer problems
Making the software work for the customer
People want on prem
Involving open source community
Open source and AI
How does Red Hat stay competitive with massive AI models?
IBM and AI
Know where you get your data from
Small highly trained models
Matt Hick's geek projects
Door Bell
Matt Hick's Daily Driver
Fedora 40
Dell laptop
29:38 KeePassXC
Debian developer removed functionality from KeePassXC
Debian developer refused to restore functionality
KeePassXC developer pushed people to use FlatPak
We trust distro maintainers
We don't want to do it our selves
Largely thankless job
Functionality is necessary in today's age
It's a package not a plugin
Talk to the software developer first?
Why not have a separate "secure" package?
At some point you have to allow user choice
What does "stable" mean?
Noah's Flatpak Remmina
Flatpak themeing
Linux IAC
Debian.org
45:00 Endless OS 6
Based on Debian 12
Gnome 43
Pipewire audio
Endless OS offline for Noah's kid
Endless OS is opinionated
9 to 5 Linux
System 76 and Pop! OS
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