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This week Noah takes you through what happened with the Crowdstrike incident, and how you could prevent a similar catastrophe with free and open source software. System76 announces a release date for Cosmic DE alpha. The Immich team is.


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Crowd Strike Outage


Caused by defective update
Affected all Windows computers
8.5 Million Windows machines rendered unusable
Flights grounded
Entire health care sectors shut down
Kernel vs User mode
WHQL Certification
Crowd Strike had a WHQL Certification
Anti-virus
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and/or anticipated threat detection
Channel Files
Microsoft could have provided an API
EU requires Microsoft to provide the same access Windows
No checks on the channel file
Crowd Strike Falcon set as "boot-start driver"
April 21st 2010 McAfee deleted svchost.exe
George Kurtz CEO at both McAfee and Crowd Strike during the incidents
Handing off risk/PCI
We understand less and less
Understand your critical paths and have a back up
Hair shop "crash kit"
Cold spare emergency laptops/servers
Test on small set up machines then deploy
Don't push to prod on Friday
Keeping up to date is the best defense
Have a roll back plan
USE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Linux Crash Restoration (The Register)
SystemD Automatic Boot Assessment
Phoronix
Wazuh Post
LibreNMS
CISA.gov
Tech Crunch


38:18 News Wire


Linux Mint 22 - ZDNet

OpenMandriva 24.07 - OpenMandriva.org

KaOS Linux 2024.07 - kaosx.us

EXT4 Optimizations - Phoronix

Open Source GPU Drivers - ZDNet

Switzerland Requires Open Source - ZDNet

AI Model Rivaling OpenAI and Google - Washington Post

Groq's Llama AI Tops Leader Board - Venturebeat



39:25 System76 Cosmic Alpha Release


August 8th
What other company is focused on the Linux desktop?
System76 decided to make their own desktop, Cosmic
Constant friction if forking another DE
Clean slate approach
System76 survey
System76 has been dog fooding
Modular design
Enabling "desktop experiences"
Try Cosmic and give polite productive feedback
System76 Transmission Log EP 10


48:52 Immich


New License


Individual $24.99
Server $99.99

Immich came from a developer who wanted to replace Google Photos
Experience is better than Google Photos now
FUTO grant allows full time development
Go fund open source


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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.


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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!


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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


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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


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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


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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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