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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?


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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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This week we talk about presenting at Linux conferences, and how to get the most out of them.


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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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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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This week we dig into a war story at Steve's house troubleshooting wifi!


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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 Hules - 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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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.


-- During The Show --

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
```
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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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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