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Oct 25, 2023 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 360 | Net Neutrality with Senator Kevin Cramer
This week Senator Kevin Cramer joins The Ask Noah Show and we discuss net neutrality! It's a more complicated and nuanced issue than most people give it credit for. Our access to the internet these days is like running water.
-- During The Show --
01:50 Senator Kevin Cramer Interview
Common Carrier - treat all traffic equally
Net Neutrality - ISPs must treat all traffic equally
History
1934 Title 2
1980 Computer 2 Policy
2002 Cable Broadband gets an exemption
2005 All ISPs ARE NOT common carrier
2015 ISPs ARE Common Carrier (Gov Take Over)
2017 Ajit Pai repeals net neutrality
If the infrastructure has been subsidized by tax dollars, should that infrastructure be common carrier?
Would it make more sense for this to be under the FTC rather than the FCC?
What would you say to people who only have one good choice for internet?
Ma Bell Sweet Heart deal
Chevron doctrine
Openness principles
throttling
blocking
price discrimination
Blocking World of War Craft
ISP deals with apartment complexes to block other providers
Digital divide
Universal Service Funds
ISPs are independent businesses
What stops companies from putting smaller players in the "slow lane"
Bot Question - Also, aren't the ISP's notorious for promising expanding broadband in the past, but they deem arbitrary numbers as "enough" for consumers, yet countries like Sweden & South Korea are thriving with broadband putting the US to shame.
What impact if any do you believe net neutrality would have on ISP competition?
Do you think the Communications Act needs a complete overhaul to bring it in line with today's technology?
Should the federal or state government step in to break up local monopolies that are not serving their customers well?
42:00 Expand pfSense VLAN? - John
PFSense "automatic fix"
Subnet masking
check for a /24
reboot networking devices
47:38 Virtual pfSense? - Rhett
This works!
Steve did this for years
VHost goes down, internet goes down
49:26 Thoughts on Emergency Alerts - Chris
Third party service
Gov Regulated Service
There is no other option
51:20 News Wire
Samba 4.19.2 - Samba.org
Geany 2.0 - Geany
Peazip 9.5 - Peazip
Ardour 8.1 - Ardour
Virtualbox 7.0.12 - OMG Ubuntu
Firefox 119 - Mozilla
Moonlight 5.0 - GitHub
Real Time LInux RISC-V - Phoronix
Removing Qlogic 10GBE Support - Phoronix
Blackcat using Munchkin Linux VM - Bleeping Computer
TensorRT-LLM - EE Times
LLEMMA a LLM for Math - Venture Beat
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Oct 18, 2023 • 56min
Episode 359: Ask Noah Show 359 | The Framework Laptop
This week a special guest joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss how approachable and easy Framework is making the purchase and maintnece of a modular laptop. Matthew Miller joins the program and we talk Fedora!
-- During The Show --
00:30 LFNW
Conference is re-scheduled (early next year)
All other activities still going on
02:30 Framework Laptop Impressions
First impressions
Saw them in the wild
Watched other manufactures make parts
06:05 Framework Owner Interview
13 years old
House rules
Previous laptop - ThinkPad X270
What led you to Framework?
What were your first impressions?
How did the purchase day go?
Why the DIY route?
Order experience
Very well organized packing
Storage
Everything is labeled
First Power On
OS - Kubuntu
What is it like using it?
X270 to Framework Comparison
What distros have you tried?
Kubuntu
Ubuntu
Arch
Long term expectations?
Who is the ideal Framework customer?
Gaming?
Framework videos, labels, QR codes
Any improvements on modules?
disassembling
What is the feel like?
Over all 0-10?
Expansion modules
Tools included
Highly polished hardware and software experience
Framework
28:30 Matthew Miller
What's new in Fedora?
under the hood improvements
packaging
build infrastructure
5 year strategy "Guiding Star"
double the number of contributors
better metrics
mentors
Ansible came from Fedora
Friends, features, first
Tools & People cycle
What is on the immediate horizon
change proposals
DNF re-written in C++
new installer UI
increased automation
CoreOS and SilverBlue
Why is coming to summit important?
Getting things into RHEL
EPEL repository
Origin of Ansible
Red Hat's method
Red Hat is a good steward of OSS
What's next for Fedora
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Oct 11, 2023 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 358
Discussion on Raspberry Pi's affordability and competition, the importance of repairability in computers, managing tabs with Firefox's simple tab groups, open source tools for communication, and the issue of e-waste.

Oct 4, 2023 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 357
This week on the podcast, Noah and Steve discuss automating presence detection in home assistant and chat with Francis Chow about in vehicle operating systems. Other topics include using i3 as a tiling window manager, the benefits of using containers, privacy-conscious streaming, the need for contributors in the jelly fin project, and the right to repair computerized vehicles.

Sep 27, 2023 • 58min
Ask Noah Show 356
This week Noah and Steve dig into motion detectors for Home Assistant, some exciting new features for Matrix 2.0 that have landed, and of course your questions!
-- During The Show --
Enjoying Tech
Personal bleeding over to professional
Communication Skills
04:36 Cloning SSDs - Kris
Why did snapshots not work?
Immutable OS
Automate environment rebuild
Ansible
Snowflakes
Work out of VMs
Clonezilla
16:19 Can you save Ring locally? - HJ
Ring warrant-less access
Do Not Buy Ring
Axis A8105
Amcrest Doorbell (Amazon)
21:00 Plug for Gathering - Steve
Netreo Nugget
22:40 Penguin Prince
Open Source "V Tubing" software
Vpuppr
26:42 Old Sticky Tablet - Twobit
70% or higher Isopropol Aclchol
28:40 News Wire
Gnome 45 - Gnome
Nano Pro Gen 12 - Tuxedo Computers
Fedora 39 Beta - Beta News
Cairo 1.18 - Gitlab FreeDesktop.org
LTS Linux Support - ZDnet
OpenTofu - SDX Central
Red Hat & Oracel Announcement - Wral Tech Wire
Red Hat & Intel Collaboration - Business Wire
CentOS Integration SIG - CentOS
Gitness - Tech Crunch
NVIDIA InfiniBand Driver - Phoronix
BlindChat - Mark Tech Post
MAmmoth LLMs - Mark Tech Post
40th Anniversary of GNU - FSF.org
31:36 Radar vs Photon Detection
Home Assistant first
Three Classes of devices
Science Project
Higher end, designed for Home Assistant
Kinda cloudy, able to to work Home Assistant
Inovelli Red
Temperature change vs microwaves
PIR vs Microwave Sensors
Aqara Presence Sensor
Mapping the room
Tracking multiple occupants
20 lbs dog vs 200 lbs human
Ghost mode
Requires app to setup
Cost
Placement
Sonoff PIR
Powering sensors
45:48 Element 2.0
Element X
Sliding sync
Syncing room list
MSC3401
Live Kit
MSC3861
Open ID Connect
Correct response to criticism
Eating their own dog food
EU inter-operable chat mandate
Minimal Matrix/Linearized Matrix
Compete Youtube Stream
Matrix Blog Post
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Sep 20, 2023 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 355
What if you could purchase a computer built like a Mac but run a free and open source operating system on it that you can't break, would you buy one? Steve and Noah discuss the Malibal, and an immutable distro with Flatpaks that "just works"
-- During The Show --
00:58 Intro
Steve's Nvidea Issue
trouble shooting process
root cause = it's dirty
why dig for the root cause
Good News!
Axia fixed our board!
06:50 Google Ad Policy - Ahmed
Google ads used for phishing
Google ads placement confusing
Why google don't clearly label ads
12:05 TPM & Drive Encryption On Fedora - Tiny
Clevis
SystemD Cryptenroll
Fedora TPM Blog Post
Fedora Security Keys Blog Post
15:09 Linux Mint Issues - penguin prince
Maybe re-seat things?
15:55 Current Grafana Setup - Tiny
Current Usage
Network
CPU
RAM
Disk
Matrix database
Added to Ansible
Grafana can be more than graphs
21:00 News Wire
Fedora KDE Plasma 6 Dropping X11 - 9 to 5 Linux
Linux 6.7 Drops Itanium IA-64 - Phoronix
ReiserFS Removed From Default Kernel - Phoronix
Tails 5.17.1 - Tails
Real-Time Linux on AWS - The News Stack
Delayed Module Signature Verification - Phoronix
OpenSUSE Seeks LEAP Replacement - ZDNet
OpenSource.com Reborn - Open SOurce Watch
Intel FPGA & RISC-V - The Register
OpenSSL 1.1.1 is EOL - The News Stack
Earth Lusca & SprySOCKS backdoor - Bleeping Computer
NCurses Flaw - The Hacker News
CISA Announcement - CISA.gov
VC Bill Gurley - Fortune.com
6.1.14 Kernel in Scratch - MIT.edu
23:00 OpenSuse Aeon
"It Just Works" Linux
MicroOS & Gnome as immmutable base
Software via FlatPak and distrobox
Good for some users
What problem does this solve?
Purpose Driven
OpenSuse Aeon
All Systems GO Talk
34:30 Penguin Prince Calls
Adding a Page to WordPress Issue
Page refuses to go live
38:55 The US Assembled Linux Laptop You Haven't Heard Of
Malibal
Final Assembly in the US
Expensive
Making a powerful sleek computer
Most have graphics cards
Optimus Manager
Coreboot
Commitment to sustainability
Barrel Power vs Type-C charging
Dell's commitment to Linux
System76
Framework Laptops
51:36 NextCloud Hub 6
They have to have email
Mail in a Box
LInux Today
Linux UnPlugged 528
52:25 LFNW Moved to Next Year
Had to move the date
Will still have things to do
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Sep 13, 2023 • 54min
Ask Noah Show 354
Google makes the news this week in one of the largest cases in history over meaningful competition. Do we need the regulation to stop Google? Ubuntu will start allowing you to use a TPM chip for encryption, plus your livestreaming, ZFS, and VPN questions are answered!
-- During The Show --
02:00 Matrix Server
Digital Ocean was too expensive
Registrations closed
Registrations to reopen soon
Geek Lab.ninja
Live Stream/Chat
04:22 Live Streaming Baseball? - Matt
Bring everything
Laptop
Camera
Internet Access
Ubiquity Nano Beam
Extremely line of sight
Scale Engine
VDO.ninja
OwnCast
Laptop+C920
STI
Run away from Logitech Mevo
15:15 ZFS Questions - Tim
Noah's mini server
ZFS is easy on Ubuntu
Setup ZFS on some old drives
Put your data on something you understand
Setup ZFS on virtual machines
Don't use virtual drives with ZFS in production
Steve's laptop abuse
Noah's laptop VMs
Install ZFS on Ubuntu
sudo apt install zfsutils-linux
To discover an existing ZFS pool
sudo zpool import
Import an Existing Pool By Name
sudo zpool import POOLNAME
Load The Key for An Encrypted Pool
sudo zfs load-key -r POOLNAME
Mount all available Pools
sudo zfs mount -a
Unmount an Encrypted ZFS Dataset
sudo zfs unmount pool/dataset
Unload ZFS Key from Encryption
sudo zfs unload-key -r pool/dataset
To unmount the ZFS pool
sudo zfs unmount -a
To create a striped pool
sudo zpool create pool-name /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
To create a mirrored pool
sudo zpool create -m /mnt/zfs/pool pool-name mirror /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
Create an Encrypted ZFS Dataset
sudo zfs create -o encryption=on -o keylocation=prompt -o keyformat=passphrase pool/dataset
Load ZFS Encryption Key
sudo zfs load-key -r pool/dataset
Destroy a Pool (Be Careful!)
sudo zfs destroy -r system/pool
sudo zpool destroy pool-name
29:05 Wireguard Distinguishing Connections? - Khayalethu
Networking principles don't allow for this
Gateway of last resort (router)
Steve's PiHole usage
35:35 Bot Question Sleuth
Passing folders into ProxMox VMs
9P protocol/driver
NFS will use more network traffic
Data profiles
39:44 News Wire
Linux 6.6 RC - lkml.org
Linux desktop rises above 3% - Gaming on Linux
Tails 5.17 - Tails
Linux Mint Debian 6 Beta - Linux Mint
LibreOffice 7.6 1.5M Downloads - Document Foundation
LibreOffice Update - Document Foundation
Alpha Centauri Remake - Gaming on Linux
Open Source VR Port of Prey - Phone Arena
TUXEDO Computers 3rd Gen Aura - 9 to 5 Linux
AtlasVPN Flaw - Cyber News
Blueshell Malware Spike - GB Hackers
LLaMA 2 Outflanked by Falcon Large - Decrypt.co
41:38 Linux FDE backed by TPM
Ubuntu has been using Passphrase+LUKS
Ubuntu introducing optional TPM encryption
Linux Today
Ubuntu
46:03 Google Anti-Competition
Google is paying to make Google the default
No one is 'forced to make Google default'
Best outcome, force the user to choose
Google 'enhanced ad privacy'
AP News
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Sep 6, 2023 • 1h
Ask Noah Show 353
This podcast covers a range of interesting topics including network failures and the importance of checklists, a discussion on using a Bluetooth extender for phone and watch connectivity, integrating AXIS cameras into the Home Assistant dashboard, troubleshooting virtualization issues, extending the lifespan of hardware devices with open-source software, and updates on Linux and open-source news.

Aug 30, 2023 • 55min
Ask Noah Show 352 - Self Hosting YouTube
The podcast discusses topics such as viral videos, YouTube profiling, kids' access to technology, soldering irons, recent news in the Linux world, setting up routers in a network, self-hosting a blog, and the importance of self-hosting YouTube to maintain control over content.

Aug 23, 2023 • 1h 12min
Ask Noah Show 351
This week Noah and Steve take you down the journey of two open source guys using open source day in and day out for their lives. Is it perfect? No there are rough edges, but why do they make those choices? What's the appeal to freedom and stability?
-- During The Show --
01:10 Caller - Johnathan Arkansa
Display video streams
rpisurv
05:45 Beginner Distro? - Walking Penguin
Everyone faces different paper cuts
Arch Linux - high learning curve, Powerful
Endless OS
Immutable/hard to break
Immutable OSes
Search/Community base
Ubuntu Mate
Shaves off many rough edges
Made for non-techies
Fedora
Flatpak first
Red Hat standard desktop
Fedora KDE
Kubuntu
Rust Desk
AnyDesk (proprietary, cloud based)
19:55 Linux Bat Command
Cat command with extras
OS Technix
20:42 News Wire
Debian's Turns 30 - Debian
Devuan 5.0 - Devuan
OpenMandriva LX 23.08 - 9 to 5 Linux
LibreOffice 7.6 - Document Foundation
Wine 8.14 - Wine HQ
Budgie 10.8 - Buddies of Budgie
OBS 30.0 Beta - OBS Project
Gnome 45 Beta - Gnome
FSF & Zoom - FSF
SUSE Goes Private - Tech Crunch
Code Generating AI Model - The Information
ONNX Script - Visual Studio Magazine
21:50 Privacy First Mobile
GrapheneOS
Steve's approach to technology
Flashing GrapheneOS
Steve's GrapheneOS experience
opening the app drawer
grayscale apps
getting apps
notifications
receiving phone calls
Fdroid
Push towards mobile
Hardware options
LineageOS
Noah's solution
GrapheneOS
JMP.Chat
Bitwarden
Saw or Saw blade?
disposable devices
large app size
artificial limitations
cloud dependence
pollution
44:26 Beeper
Beeper
Steve's expectations
On boarding
encryption set up
Bridges
Target audience
Noah's use case
Phone numbers & privacy
59:59 Tech Experiences
Python in Excel
ARS Article
Open source behind a pay wall
Noah's Son's ansible playbook
Noah's Son teaches Noah's wife
1:05:00 PinePhone and PinePhone Pro? - TwoBit
Thoughts on PinePhone and PinePhone Pro?
Low end android device performance
PineTab2
1:08:00 Backing Up Docker Containers - sharper0746
Containers should be disposable
Data should be separate from the container
Used Desktops
You will need to cover shipping
email huckleberry582@gmail.com
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