Ask Noah Show

Noah J. Chelliah

The Ask Noah Show is a weekly talk radio show where we focus on Linux and Open Source technology. We invite the community to participate live on the air 1-855-450-6624. The show airs Tuesdays at 6pm CT on asknoahshow.com and at KEQQ 88.3 FM in Grand Forks ND. It's a free call 1-855-450-NOAH so join us and start on your way to owning your operating system, your software, and technology.

  1. 4 days ago

    Ask Noah Show 493

    This week Sathish Balakrishnan from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Ansible as the trusted execution layer for automation. Jef Spaleta joins to give us an update on Fedora! It's a packed episode. -- During The Show -- 00:50 ReCaptcha Going to require Google Services Framework or iOS >16.4 DeGoogled phones will fail Where we are headed No one spoke up FDroid Keep Android Open ReClaim the Net 09:20 Jef Spaleta Jef Spaleta Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat What is Fedora Governance Integrating New Contributors Jef's path into Linux Fedora AI Policy AI assisted workflow Future of AI and Agentic Space for enthusiasm 31:24 News Wire Midori 11.8 - astian.org Wordpress 7.0 - wordpress.org Less 702 - greenwoodsoftware.com Ardour 9.5 - ardour.org Thunderbird 151 - thunderbird.net Firefox 151 - firedfox.com DietPi 10.4 - dietpi.com Nitrix 6.1 - nxos.org Tails 7.8 - torproject.org RHEL 10.2 - redhat.com Ubuntu Core 26 - canonical.com GitHub Victim of TeamPCP - wired.com Megalodon Cyberattack - mashable.com Bumblebee - marktechpost.com MoonRay - phoronix.com 32:42 Meta E2E Messages Texas Attorney General sued Meta Could "taint" perception of other E2EE Unlikely companies will give you true privacy ArsTechnica 36:30 Sathish Balakrishnan Vice President and General Manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat Benefits of Ansible Ansible as Trusted Execution Layer Balancing understanding Guide rails for AI Drag and Drop AI Ansible workflow Patching is no longer optional What do you want all new Ansible users to know? Everything must be automated 52:15 Feedback Call in! Email live@asknoahshow.com Tag Marlin in the GeekLab -- 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

    54 min
  2. 20 May

    Ask Noah Show 492

    This week Sachin Mullick, Senior Manager, Product Management, joins the program and we talk about OpenShift Virtualization. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Sad trombone button Plex Lifetime Pass Price Hike ArsTechnica What is Plex is JellyFin 14:00 Thermostats - Marc Docs Site There isn't a great solution There is a market Older Venstar T7900 Older Honeywell Redlink Shelly Build your own Centralite Pearl Amazon 25:40 Tailscale - Feydr How do you access your LAN with no exit node? 27:11 News Wire KDE Plasma 6.6.5 - kde.org Debian 13.5 - debian.org SparkyLinux 8.3 - sparkylinux.org Age Verification Backlash - opensourceforu.com DOE Open-Source Wind Turbine - energy.gov Open Source EV - electrek.co AI & Linux Security Mailing List - theregister.com techradar.com SSH-Keysign-PWN - tuxcare.com Fragnesia - wiz.io Shai-Hulud - ox.security Mini Shai-Hulud - cyberscoop.com DirtyDecrypt - thehackernews.com OpenBSD 7.9 - openbsd.org 28:54 Sachin Mullick Interview Sachin Mullick OpenShift Product Manager VMware Broadcom Acquisition Red Hat & KVM "Click Ops" Upstream Must be willing to learn "Click Ops" vs Declarative Biggest Misconceptions VM investments and migrating to containers Are we actually modernizing? "Day 2" Home Labs What would need for a home lab? OpenShift Sandbox Red Hat Original Series Interactive Demos Training and Certification 53:00 Dory eInk Signs Won't be bricked if company goes under ArsTechnica -- 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

    55 min
  3. 13 May

    Ask Noah Show 491

    Noah and Steve are at Red Hat Summit 2026! We talk to Stefanie Chiras to talk about her new role as Senior Vice President of the AI Innovation Hub. She leads Red Hat's strategy for engaging with and catalyzing regional AI ecosystems. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Live from Summit in Georgia Interviews 02:30 Lets Encrypt Changes - Charlie Certificate's going to 45 Days Window is likely to decrease 05:40 Follow up on getting into system - Advait Write in with your recovery techniques What Noah used to do LiveCD and "poking" Steve's HP Elite Book UltraBooks Separating work and personal Choosing a laptop ThunderBolt Docks changed computer usage 19:30 Dell Server Problems - Frederick Maybe the drives died PERC is getting in the way Step One Flash IT mode If PERC fails you can be in big trouble 23:00 Red Hat Summit Interview Stefanie Chiras Ph.D. - Senior Vice President, AI Innovation Hub Mechanical Engineering degrees What led you where you are? Breaking down walls Open Accelerator Roll of Open Source Government Involvement Benefits to community Does code flow back to Open Source? Open Source governance 37:40 News Wire KDE Frameworks 6.26 - kde.org Mesa 26.1 - mesa3d.org Cangjie - infoq.com Mercury Modem - hamweekly.com Parrot 7.2 - parrotsec.org 3D-Printed Stethoscope - adafruit.com Copy Fail - thehackernews.com Dirty Frag - thehackernews.com Emergency Kill Switch - theregister.com PAN-OS Vulnerability - thehackersnews.com PamDOORa - thehackernews.com MoonShot AI - siliconangle.com Red Hat AI 3.4 - redhat.com Open AI Foundations - fierce-network.com 40:00 Fun Technology Playing with LLMs Fish.audio Creating audio books -- 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 2021 • Special Guest: Stefanie Chiras .

    44 min
  4. 6 May

    Ask Noah Show 490

    This week we answer questions about remote connecting to Home Assistant, an automated way to backup and restore your GrapheneOS phone. We talk about the 3D printing laws that are coming on the books. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Starting fresh vs fix what you have Spaceship design Designs need to distill down Home Assistant Noah's setup 12:00 Home Assistant - Kristian Steve's remote solution Tailscale exit nodes Noah's remote solution AirVPN Learn wireguard Effect of VPN 26:00 SeedVault Feedback - Dominik Money Apps not transferring is a feature Permissions not transferring is a feature Really appriciate the feedback SeedVault Syncthing 31:00 Tech for vechiles - dashcam and gps tracking - Charlie Viofo Dash Cam Traccar Understand dashcam need US is legally requiring manufacture uplink Vehicles are increasingly computerized OpenPilot 38:00 News Wire Curl 8.20 - curl.se Qbittorrent 5.2 - qbittorrent.org Calibre 9.8 - calibre-ebook.com Shotcut 26.4 - shotcut.org KdenLive - kdenlive.org EasyOS 7.3 - puppylinux.com 4MLinux 51.1 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com Extix 26.5 - extonlinux.wordpress.com EndeavourOS - endeavouros.com GRML 2026.04 - grml.org Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com AerynOS 2026.05 - phoronix.com PS5 Mod Installs Steam - 80.lv Copy Fail - copy.fail Ubuntu Integrated AI - techpowerup.com Meta Abandons Llama - thenewstack.io Cisco Tool - cisco.com DOS 1.0 - zdnet.com microsoft.com 40:00 Steve's tip Doing work at home Drive nearing full alert QDirStat 44:00 3D Printer Restrictions New York proposed law Cryptographically signing prints Requiring cloud connection Stopping tinkerers from tinkering 80% of people want an easy button Effect on the market -- 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

    54 min
  5. 29 Apr

    Episode 489: Ask Noah Show | 489

    This week we talk about how Ai took out a production database, we answer questions on best home automation practices, and we talk a bit of storage cache. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Gratitude Curiosity 02:30 Cache Drives - David Terminology and discovery ZIL (ZFS Intent Log) Synchronous vs Asynchronous SLOG Mirror drives ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache) Stored in RAM L2ARC Spill over from ARC Work load dependant Please join live! [Boardroom Technologies](BoardroomTechnologies.com) 12:42 Nextcloud - Aryeh Home Assistant SFTP Storage Dumping to NFS share * 0 2 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ trashbin:cleanup homeassistant_user Nextcloud Docs 17:28 Home Automation - Tony Home automations are personal Lutron Training Less is more Bedroom automation Eject handles/over-rides Orbit Panels 31:00 SIP Server - Twobit FS PBX freePBX 34:17 News Wire Kdenlive 26.04.0 - kdenlive.org Midori 11.7 - github.com Bleachbit 6.0 - bleachbit.org QEMU 11.0 - qemu.org LXQT 2.4 - lxqt-project.org Firefox 150 - firfox.com Thunderbird 150 - thunderbird.net Ubuntu 26.04 - ubuntu.com Fedora 44 - fedoramagazine.org Tails 7.7 - tails.net VECT 2.0 Destroys Files - thehackernews.com Pack2TheRoot - securityweek.com GoGra Backdoor - thehackernews.com DeepSeek v4 - siliconangle.com Kimi k2.6 - pandaily.com Qwen3.6-27B - marktechpost.com 35:50 Discussion Segment Cursor - AI first IDE Opus - AI model Agents Cursor "modes" Agent Planning mode Cursor wants to "resell AI" to you The Register Cursor Steve's AI automation mishap AI can be amusing Mythos The Register Mythos Metasploit -- 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

    54 min
  6. 22 Apr

    Ask Noah Show 488

    This week Singpolyma joins us to talk about the Cheogram web app. We talk about NASA's Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) and how it's changing the way long distance communication works! -- During The Show -- 00:48 - Special Guest Singpolyam cross platform core Cheogram Web App Still considered Alpha Pretty stable Voice, Video, Text JMP.chat data only sim esim adapter Snikket Affect of Google forcing developer registration JMP.Chat 10:38 Comprehension debt Creating prompts Spec driven developing Most people don't read the code No person understands how the code works Peer review vs AI Amazon outages When to use AI code Re-implementing AI code AI summary Rating your understanding RAID log 24:30 Linux Router - Connor VyOS OpenWRT PFSense is out Look for things with an API PFSenseible GitHub Site to Site in medical Dicom Why not to use pfSense OPNsense 35:30 JMP.chat - Aaron Cheogram Web App Webapp Manager GitHub 36:15 System Fails to boot -Advait Can't remember the last time it happened Noah doesn't fix systems Reinstall plus ansible 41:12 News Wire Nginx 1.30 - nginx.org OpenSSL 4.0 - github.com Gnome 50.1 - gnome.org KDE Gear 26.04 - kde.org Mir 2.26 - ubuntu.com Linux 7.1 - theregister.com Zorin OS 18.1 - blog.zorin.com Solus 4.9 - getsol.us Cachy OS has 7.0 Kernel - xda-developers.com Thunderbolt AI Client - phoronix.com Cal Closeing Source Code - zdnet.com 42:25 Sleuth's Feedback VyOS Uses a JSON config file Have the system make backups Supports podman containers System failing to boot Your data is still there Boot from a live distro 45:30 Artemis II Mission Crew Module ESM - European Service Module Radio waves O2O communications 1 watt of power focused beam, sensitive receiver 260 MbPs TechSpot -- 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 chatr Special Guest: Stephen Paul Weber.

    54 min
  7. 15 Apr

    Episode 487: Ask Noah Show 487

    This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Weather Audio Levels 02:00 Steve's AI Rabbit Hole AI may change, but is here to stay Garmin Data Tested 14 models How they performed Mumble Doc What are tokens MCP server vs skills Email is out dated Environmental cost 25:18 Copy On Write - Jayson Benefits of COW file systems Compression Steve is not a ZFS "expert" Block size SSD vs HDD for databases Avoid COW inside VM 36:32 RaidZ Questions - D Mirrored Pairs Use SSD/Solid State UGreen NAS 43:30 Authentication - Avri Pocket-ID GitHub Open Source SSO 45:20 MakeMKV Feedback - archer72 (KD9VMW) MakeMKV Error Hacker Public Radio 4564 46:11 AV Codecs - Atypical How do you add AV codecs into EndlessOS? Flatpak with codecs 47:20 Axis Door Stations - TwoBit They are great, everything is standard 48:00 News Wire Peazip 11.0 - github.io GNU Nano 9.0 - nano-editor.org KDE Frameworks 6.25 - kde.org KDE Plasma 6.6.4 - kde.org OpenSSL 3.6.2 - github.com Extix 26.4 - linux.exton.net Plop Linux 26.2 - plop.at Snal Linux 1.40 - sourceforge.net PearOS Nice Core 26.4 - pearos.xyz Trisquel 12.0 - phoronix.com GLM 5.1 - venturebeat.com Ising - nvidia.com France Switches to Linux - linuxiac.com 49:16 AI in Health Care Class Action Law Suit over AI transcription Who can be subpoenaed? Informed consent Epic Everywhere -- 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

    54 min
  8. 8 Apr

    Ask Noah Show 486

    This week Noah and Steve address the blueprint OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro 486 being removed from Linux Nixsys.com Noah's early experience Drawing a living off open source Trends and walled gardens 09:12 Linux Tablets - Tobias Users experiences Steve struggles to find a use case Noah's experiences PineTab2 16:38 Refrigeration/Cooling - Graham Wildly inefficient heating Boiler plants 23:08 Wiki for Church - Dustin WikiJS XWiki Markdown WYSIWYG Where to start Steve's WikiJS Patch 34:28 News Wire OpenTTD 15.3 - openttd.org Archinstall 4.0 - xda-developers.com Gnome 49.5 - gnome.org Peazip 11 - github.io Elive 3.8.50 - distrowatch.com 4mLinux 51.0 - 4mlinux.com AerynOS 2026.03 - aerynos.com Netrunner 26 - netrunner.com Omarchy 3.5 - github.com MX Linux Pushes Back - linuxjournal.com Removing 486 - tomshardware.com Meta AI - axios.com Trinity-Large-Thinking - venturebeat.com Arcee.ai Gemma 4 - ciodive.com 35:45 AI Overlords Sam Altman's white paper How useful AI will be for the average person Spend commitments 90% of AI failing in enterprise Robots building robots Robot tax Containment playbooks for dangerous AI Economic survival from robots General Super AI (AI Singularity) ArsTechnica Tech4Gamers.com -- 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

    55 min

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The Ask Noah Show is a weekly talk radio show where we focus on Linux and Open Source technology. We invite the community to participate live on the air 1-855-450-6624. The show airs Tuesdays at 6pm CT on asknoahshow.com and at KEQQ 88.3 FM in Grand Forks ND. It's a free call 1-855-450-NOAH so join us and start on your way to owning your operating system, your software, and technology.

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