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This week we dig into Steve's home assistant migration. We take your questions on how to get started with AI, a self hosted email horror story, and more Harbor Freight. -- During The Show -- 01:25 OpenSource AI - Craig Defining "open source AI" is hard Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 1 : TextGen Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 2 : ImageGen The Artifical Dominion Matrix Chat What do you want to learn? LM Studio GPT4ALL Haven't found a "safe for work" visual AI Glue cheese Stable Diffusion morality filter 10:50 Self Hosted Email Story - Yassine Noah is still gun shy on self hosted email 14:24 Security and Calendaring - Dan VPN back in 3rd party brokers Synology Surveillance Station WireGuard Punch a hole in the firewall Dangers of punching a hole CalDav Proton Mail calendar Nextcloud calendar Home Assistant calendar Radicale 28:51 Harbour Freight - Hank Snap-on feedback Mechanic vs DIY Still making hobo freight argument 31:51 Android Alternatives - Jayden Sailfish OS Ente Auth Cross-platform Better than Authy e/os or Murena 36:56 News Wire LANL Fierro - ladailypost.com Aloha Browser - accesswire.com GCC 14.2 - gnu.org GNU Binutils 2.43 - lwn.net Peazip 9.9 - peazip.github.io Firefox 129 - mozilla.org Amarok 3.1 - kde.org Azure Linux 3.0 - phoronix.com Serpent OS Pre-Alpha - serpentos.com Nitrux 3.6 - sourceforge Linux 6.9 EOL - lwn.net SLUBStick - securityweek.com DEV#POPPER - thehackernews.com TgRat - scmagazine.com RayV Lite - tomshardware DCLM on HugginFace - computerworld.com Flux - decrypt.co 39:45 Secure Boot 100s of PCs sold with 12yr old and compromised platform keys Can see the use case threat model Locking subsidized hardware Technical merits vs implementation Key management stalkware breach theregister.com 52:56 Home Assistant Migration Worried about thermals Critical Steve's kid gets clever Home Assistant notifies based on MAC address Noah's ethernet bathroom adventures Migrating Home Assistant Benchmarking Operating system choice Networking RHEL faster and more power efficient Home Assistant notifications 1:10:30 Frigate Frigate NVR Always on recording Documentation is hard NUC couldn't handle 6x 1080p Cameras GPU faster but more power hungry Challenges Still early days for Frigate -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

This week Steve returns and we dig into your feedback! Kenny joins the program and shares his horror story in the continuing saga of buying and owning tools that you can rely on, authy is going away for GrapheneOS users, what's the best way to handle 2fa on GrapheneOS? -- During The Show -- 01:00 Steve's Crowdstrike Fall Out Waited 10+ hours at the airport Stream of ppl to wait with Steve's restraunt tangent Too much homogeneous systems Windows 3.1 meme Lost sight of critical paths 08:40 Netbox Feedback - bloominstrong Excited about the product Struggle to get things in Struggle to get things out Always plan how to get things out 11:35 Why I Use Linux - Jeremey Free Secure Flexible 12:20 decloudus.com - Jason 2 versions of the S10 Noah's phone plan GrapheneOS requires a chip in Pixels Noah's Dad on GrapheneOS Authy on GrapheneOS Bitwarden 2FA Dark open island 22:55 Caller Chris from Canada Moving from MBR to UEFI Linux Mint backup tool Cowboy approach Install apps Transfer home directory When to use the latest release Keeping computers synced? Nextcloud Seafile Syncthing 34:12 News Wire Deepin 20.9 - Deepin Vanilla OS 2 - VanillaOS Linux Mint 22 - Linux Mint Wine 9.14 - WineHQ IDE Qt Creator 14.0 - QT Git 2.46 - GitHub SysVInit - GitHub TinyWatch S3 - CNX Software White House on AI - ABC News NIST AI Safety Platform - SC Magazine 35:10 "Hobo Freight" Kenny Schmidt 3 tools broke Glad some tools where cheap Repeat tools Impact of breakage on the job Watch the warranties Wouldn't buy a second time More caution at harbor freight Dead blow hammer LubeLogger Keeps the economy going -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

Podcast discusses the Crowdstrike outage affecting 8.5 million Windows machines. Topics include open source solutions, preventing catastrophes, Linux crash restoration, System76's Cosmic DE alpha release, and the importance of backup plans and open source software.

This week Dan Noal Director, Product Management at Red Hat for In Vehicle OS joins us to tell you why your car needs and operating system, and why Red Hat is ready to meet that need. Chris Wright the CTO of Red Hat joins the program to discuss Red Hat's strategy for AI. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Special Guests: Lukas Märdian and Mauro Gaspari.Support Ask Noah Show

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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

-- 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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Support Ask Noah Show

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. -- During The Show -- -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies • Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2024 •Support Ask Noah Show