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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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This week Matthew Miller joins the program from Red Hat Summit and we learn about Fedora 40.


-- During The Show --

00:50 Red Hat Summit


In Colorado
Corporate vs Community events
Red Hat feels like the "big brother of open source"
Red Hat's dedication to open source


04:20 Charlie responds to Steve - Charlie


ReoLink Cameras Suggested by Charlie


RLC-510A (POE/Night Vis) (No PTZ)
RLC-520a (POE/Night Vis) (No PTZ)
RLC-810a (POE/Night Vis) (No PTZ)
Steve's ReoLink PTZ (Reolink TrackMix PoE 4K Dual-Lens)
ReoLink camera is Noah's "make good camera"
Electrical Power
ESP32 with LORA
Off Grid comms
900 mhz



12:20 Dealing with conflict of interest - Brandon


Client continuing to "milk you"
Clients will respect you more for setting boundaries
Steve's solution


Communicate in writing
Ask what the client wants
Write out what you remember
Don't do anything more

Noah's solution


Be a good listener
Documentation for past work ok
"how would you do...." not ok
Have a frank conversion

Don't be afraid to let a client walk


20:30 Proton mail discloses user data? - Charlie


Restore Privacy Article
Email is not secure
Proton has never exposed contents of email
There has been some misreporting
Meta data is not encrypted
Proton is not a shroud for illegal activity
All companies are required to follow laws
Does shutting down "server their customers"?
Technology has limitations
Operational security
Proton mail contested a lot of requests


29:40 Matthew Miller Interview


Matthew Miller - Fedora Project lead
Fedora 40
CentOS Stream forks from Fedora every 3 years
XZ Utils Vulnerability
Requiring "Gov ID" can be detrimental
Open Source allowed for attribution
Is Fedora a target?
Mailing lists to Discourse
Email is becoming a "captured system"
Impact of having discussions "searchable"
Feedback needs to be constructive
Mediation
Get involved with Fedora!


AI and ML
Boot-able containers
Documentation
Design Team
Moderation/Communication
Event organizing

FLOCK


Contributor focused conference
Brings contributors together
In person connections are important
Nest with Fedora

What skills does a person need?


Sales
Coordination/Project Management
Room for all levels of skills
Good place to learn skills

What does open source mean to you


Friends Features Freedoms First
Important for people to "own their OS"



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This week it's a recap of Linuxfest Northwest! We circle back to creating your own ISO, and we'll touch on the recent events in the Nix Community have resulted in Jonathan Ringer no longer be fulfilling the role of release manager.


-- During The Show --

00:48 Steve's Camera Experiences


Axis PTZ camera died
Factory reset
Replaced with Riolink camera
Be aware of what you are buying


08:00 Arcolinux for Building ISOs - Wiggy


Automate logins
Selenium
Kwallet
Arcolinux


13:20 Home Assistant ESP32


ESP32 devices falling off the network
Trouble shooting
Solution


#### 19:32 Tempest Weather Station



Tempest Weather Station
Can find other local stations


20:57 Fixing Dad's House


Overview of nightmare
Shelly Pro 4 PM
ZigBee Network Scene Controller
ZWave Network Scene Controller
Portable/Small Scene Switch
Aeotec Aeon Labs WallMote
Aeotec NanoMote Quad


26:20 System76 Interview


Carl Richell - CEO of System76
Cosmic Gnome Shell
Building Cosmic Desktop


Built in Rust
Tiling WM

High positive response
Did you think System76 would get into software development?
How it works
Keyboard shortcuts
Cosmic GitHub


38:35 Boot.dev


Gameified backend coding platform
Not a bootcamp or degree
Gameified learning is not always practical
Gameified learning may not keep you motivated long term
Boot.dev
Scrapli


Python library for configuring network devices



47:30 Nix Drama


Jonathan Ringer no longer release manager
There is a human on the other side of the keyboard
How is this "inclusive and accepting"?
Many open source projects came from tax dollars
Focus on meritocracy
Singling out a person is sad
Hope it all works out
Save Nix Together
Nix News
Kilo Byte Size


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00:50 10 Year Hardware Plan - Caller


Extended warranty support from hardware company
Offer your own extended support
Cold Shelf
3-5 years seems acceptable
Tolerance for business continuity


06:08 NFS


Moral of the story
Trouble shooting process
Inner workings of NFS
R and W size


11:55 UI for Building ISO - A


Typical ISO building process
OpenSUSE Build Service
EaseUS Utility
Very time consuming
Image the system


15:14 Networking for Libvirt - Carey


Cockpit
macvtap Red Hat Doc Arch Wiki
Do you need VMs to talk to the Host?


18:30 Self Hosted Email Feedback - Michael


Biggest challenge


DKIM
DMARC
SPF
Reverse Lookups

Noah is not in the "host your own email" camp
Looking for reasons to "say no"
Seen lots of Gsuite and Office365 not setting up records correctly


21:14 Encryption, Email and Wifi questions - Nikki


Tang & Clevis - automated decryption on boot
What is your attack vector
Red Hat Knowledge base Article


25:12 Gmail Alternative - Nikki


Why Proton subscription
Catch all domain
Filtering email
Tutanota
Fast Mail
Anything is better than Gmail


29:23 News Wire


Fedora 40 - Fedora

Tails 6.2 - Tails

Lakka 5.0 - Lakka

Wine 9.7 - GitLab

LXQT 2.0 - LXQT

Firefox 125 - OMG Ubuntu

Audacity 3.5 - Git Hub

OpenSSF CISA DHS and SBOMs - SD Times

Cerber Ransomware - SC Magazine

Akira Ransomware - The Hacker News

Phi-3 LLM - axios.com

Meta Llama 3

Gentoo Rejects AI Code - The Register



Linux in Your Car


ARS Technica
Software defined vehicles
System 1


Power train
ABS
Traction Control

System 2


Camera
Ultrasonic Sensors
Self Driving Systems

System 3


Infotainment

System 4


Climate
Lighting

System 5


Master control over everything

ISO 26262
4,000 Linux security patches in 8 years
Red Hat heavily investing in automotive


37:25 Miracle WM


Wayland tiling window manager
Tiling window managers are for more than just text based
Where tiling WM don't do as well
Linux IAC
The Register


40:46 Mir & Wayland


Mir now serves as a Wayland compositor
Mir office hours
Are we Wayland yet
X server is still very solid
Crashes X vs Wayland
Wayland paper cuts
Waypipe


45:41 QT Ubuntu 24.04


The Register
Kubuntu switching to Calamares installer
Ubuntu Flutter installer only on "Main Ubuntu"
Kubuntu has Plasma 5
Lubuntu has LXQT 1.3
AppArmor namespace Etcher issue solved
Steve's choice of Distro
Noah and flatpaks
Steve moving away from Ubuntu to RHEL and Arch


52:28 Announcements


Linux Fest North West


April 26-28 2024
Bellingham Technical College



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-- During The Show --

00:50 MIDI


MIDI a better mouse trap
Pitch bending
Special snowflake
Firewire hardware
Motu UltraLite AVB
Ardour
Musicians please send in feedback!


11:25 News Wire


Dynebolic is Back - ZDnet

OpenSSL 3.3 - OpenSSL

OpenTTD - OpenTTD

Ardour - Ardour

KDE Frameworks 6.1.0 - KDE

Descent 3 MIT Licensed - Gaming on Linux - Github

Opentofu vs Hashicorps - Opentofu

Huggingface Updated - Venture Beat

Samll Verson of LLaMA-3 - CCN

Spectre v2 Attacks - Bleeping Computer

OpenSFF and OpenJS Foundation Warning - Computer Weekly



12:56 Framework Laptops


Matt Hartley Linux Support Lead
Reddit welcome post
First impressions
Assembly
How Framework supports Linux


Officially supported distros
Community support program
Community support
Ansible for other distros

Support
Framework 16
Alternative uses of Frameworks


27:48 Tailscale


Tailscale
Alex Kretzschmar
How Tailscale stays free
How to get started
How Tailscale works
Headscale
Tailscale for business (Paid)
Features


35:37 QLC+


QLC+
DMX
Lighting Control Boards
Lighting Cues
DMX King
Chases
Built in web interface
Network interfacing
Elation Enode4
Please write in about lighting on Linux!


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This week Noah and Steve give you the latest on open source mobile operating systems. Windows is pushing people to Linux by way of charging them $244 per year for updates in the third year.


-- During The Show --

01:20 Hardware


Protectli
$170 Chinesium Device
Lenovo Thunderbolt Dock
CalDigit Thunderbolt Dock


09:19 Graphene OS - Craig


GrapheneOS
Moving away from phones
JMP.Chat
Conversations
Gajim
Linphone
JMP.Chat phone service
LineageOS
PostmarketOS
SailfishOS
Titan M chip
Had pretty good luck on ebay
NitroKey/NitroPhone


25:55 NixOS Thoughts - Jeremy W


Where NixOS is useful
"Productised" NixOS
Set people up for success


32:58 Self Hosted Email - Jeremy H


Write in and tell me about your self hosted email experiences


34:54 News Wire


German State Moving to Linux - ARSTechnica

Kodi 21.0 - Kodi

Nitrux - nxos.org

Ubuntu 24.04 Delayed - Toms Hardware

EndeavourOS ARM Discontinued - EndeavourOS

Linux 6.7 EOL - Server Host

QT Creator 13 - QT

FFmpeg 7.0 - FFmpeg

Dtrace 2.0 - Phoronix

AURORA-M - Mark Tech Post

Gretel AI Text-to-SQL - Mark Tech Post

Viking Model Family - Mark Tech Post

Framework Hiring - Phoronix



36:26 Bell Canada is deleting DVR/PVR recordings


Steve hates Bell Canada
Marriage photographer story
HDCP
HDCP Stripper
OREI HDMI splitter


43:03 Windows Upgrades/Updates


Windows 10 EOL October 2025
Extended Security Updates (ESUs)
Microsoft will charge for updates
ARS Technica


46:06 Germany Switching to Linux


Linux solves "Windows high hardware requirements"
Schleswig-Holstein developing open source directory service
LiMux from Munich
Steve's take
[Lxer.com](lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=339628)
ARS Technica


51:10 American Privacy Rights Act


[Fusion Centers](lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=339628)
IQT
Tax dollars funding data collection companies
The Register


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