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Moxie steps down as Signal CEO, Snapcraft gets a rework, and a developer courrupts NPM libraries Colors and Faker breaking thousands of apps. The crew of Altispeed joins this episode to answer questions and participate in the tech round table!


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The team from Altispeed Technologies join Noah this episode to tell the story of how Altispeed Technologies was born, where it is today, and where the team is headed!


01:15 Altispeed Today


Help Desk - Issac
Installation and Support - Kenny & Peter
Backend R&D - Richard & Simon
Administration - Sarah & Jess


02:28 Epoch 1


02:30 Origins of Altispeed
02:40 Why Open Source
05:50 Professional Development Program
07:50 RHEL 5.0 & Red Hat
11:15 Dec 2009 Altispeed is Born
12:25 Noah does everything
13:50 Altispeed Mission Statement
14:55 Philippians 2-4
15:08 Matthew 20-28


17:00 Epoch 2


17:20 Altispeed's First Hire
18:38 The 3 Hiring Questions


Do they get what we are trying to do?
Do they want to do what we are trying to do?
Do they have the capacity to do it?

Value People and Relationships above all else
19:40 Buck Stops with Me
20:00 Employees are a mixed blessing


21:42 Epoch 3


Remote Services & Support
Podcast Starts
A Complete Disaster
Success is standing on a pile of failures


26:18 Epoch 4


Covid 19 Hits
28:50 Going forward decisions
30:15 How to serve better
30:46 Peter & Kenny Join the Disscusion
31:00 Kenny's Take
34:30 RpiSurv
37:15 FOSS Polish
39:02 ANS Outreach & Service
41:55 Noah can work "on" not "for" Altispeed
43:43 Noah's dedication to ANS & the community
44:50 Ask Noah Show Studio


48:30 Epoch 5


The Future of Altispeed
49:28 People stay when they can directly impact the work they do
50:22 How to serve clients going forward
52:32 More than a show tag line
58:16 Tony from Jitsi Asks


How do you control what you support?
Virtualize
Define things up front
Altispeed rejects "monkey hands jobs"
One place to call has value
Being the "middle man" allows you to introduce FOSS alternatives

1:14:36 Today people ask "what can technology do for me" not "what can I do with technology"
1:16:40 How Altispeed does cloud better
1:19:35 Radio likes to be self sufficient
1:20:22 Build Modular Solutions
1:22:55 Plans for 2022
1:24:05 Software is more than a tool
1:24:44 Learn from others


Dave Ramsey - Podcast
Franklin Covey - 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Book
Rabbi Daniel Lapin - Thou Shalt Prosper Book

1:27:48 Reducing friction and setting boundaries


Altispeed Tools


1:29:52 Element/Matrix


Channels
Reply Chains
Reactions
Federation
Spaces

1:40:02 SeaFile


Beautiful UI
Able to be White Labeled

1:42:24 Nextcloud


Deck
Gets better over time

1:44:30 OSTicket


Lacking Solid Mobile App
Open API

1:48:08 Simple Help


Proprietary
Intuitive UI
Unstable on Macs
Self Hosted
Extra tools that reduce friction



Audience Questions


1:50:52 Kpovoc Asks


I’d be curious to know how often your clients have problems that might be easier solved by a custom written software vs finding an applicable existing FOSS solution?
Many times combining/modifying open source solutions works best

1:54:30 Tony Asks


I'd be interested in knowing if you charge customers extra if they want to make changes to an already working solution. Would that be a charge to not have them abuse your time/technician time?
Managed Service Contracts
Hourly Service
What is your most popular service?
Access Controls and Cameras
Networking

1:57:42 AtypicalKernel Asks


How do you deal with clients who don't communicate their needs clearly?
Discovery Process
R&D Phase
Presentation
Execute
Circle back to Discovery
Project Planning recommendations
Follow up
How do you deal with a client who blames the solution rather than acknowledging their own mistakes and/or short comings?
Teach the user
Help them understand the limitations of their technology

2:09:30 Tony Asks


Are you able to share how you price a solution/support contract?
Price hourly
Contract Services are locked down
What access control systems do you typically deploy?
Axis A1001 Door Controller
Powerful integrations
HID Readers
Proxy III
Adams Rite door strikes
Completely Modular
Understand your threat vector
HID SEOS
Why Noah like HID products

2:19:50 Kpovoc Asks


Do client

An entire show packed with your questions! Noah and Steve spend the hour answering your calls, your emails, and your questions!


-- During The Show --

00:30 Caller Chaz


Next Cloud Mobile Access
Check DNS
Android App might have a bug


07:40 Naelr from Jitsi


Collaborative spreadsheet editing
Nextcloud + OnlyOffice


12:00 Steve's House Automation


Projection Room Automation
URC MX450 Remote
URC MRF350 Base Station
URC Network Interface
URC MX990 Remote
Flirc USB IR Reciver


20:18 Linus's Linux Challenge


Does perception match reality?
Games have issues on all platforms
Response to what was said
Bug reports were higher quality from Linux users


28:20 User replies to user RE: Screen Rotation - Agustin


iio-sensor-proxy
KDED_Rotation module
Screen Rotator Project


30:56 Life360 Alternative? - Dennis


Elf on a Shelf
OwnTracks
Life 360 Selling Location Data
Life 360 disclosed a partnership with the CDC to track "mobility trends"


36:00 Laptop Recommendations? - Jeremy


Thinkpad T14 vs X1 Carbon
Change UEFI Setting to Linux


39:55 Caller - John


Self Hosting Success
Wireguard Youtube tutorial


41:10 Caller - George


WiFi Issues
Antenna Direction
WiFi Extenders
Ethernet over Power
Invest in good APs


50:29 Caller - James


Looping Bash Scripts
email the script in


Special Announcements


Feedback on the Lumina Desktop
ANS is switching to Mumble


https://minddripmedia.com/mumble/

Grand Forks LUG


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Noah and Steve discuss the open source model and the potential consequences when companies that rely on FOSS solutions don't support them.


-- During The Show --

00:55 - Migrating Installation to Raid? - Andrew


What performance are you looking for?
Do not use motherboard raid
Can not use DD or similar


08:15 - Church Networking - Michael


Port Forwarding
DNS Route
Hairpin NAT
Domain Override


11:09 - Surveillance & Home Assistant - Zac


ONVIF
ZIGBEE/ZWave


16:30 - Ubuntu Web Remix - Kelly


Ubuntu Web Remix


17:55 - Seamonkey Browser? - Eric


Seamonkey Browser
Vivaldi for a chrome based browser
Edge Browser


22:45 Pick of the Week - Audio Book Shelf


Self Hostable Audio Book Server
Audio Book Shelf


25:45 Gadget of the Week -


Blackmagic Design Web Presenter HD


27:30 80% of Top 100 Games Now Work on Linux


OS News Article
Steve's Story
Linux will get there before Microsoft


32:10 Open Source VR Headset


Input Mag Article


33:05 Kernel 5.17 Has Wifi Improvments


Phoronix Article


34:10 Whitehouse Enlists Software Industry to Improve FOSS


BNN Bloomberg Article


36:50 Is the FOSS model broken?


Corporations need to give back
FOSS model is not broken
Give back money, time, resources
Medium Article


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Merry Christmas! This hour we dig into our favorite gifts for Christmas and Steve and Noah dig further into the Altispeed data center project!


-- During The Show --

01:16 Drive Migration - Andrew


Clonezilla
Boot partitions
LVM
DD won't work


04:30 Hairpin NAT - Michael


Hairpin NAT
DNS solution


Gifts for Geeks


07:44 The Methodology
10:25 Graphics Tablet $60
11:48 75 Watt Dual Type-C Charger $70
13:00 12v DC POE Injector $130
14:49 Gator Frameworks $140
15:50 SMSL Amplifier $145
16:50 UEI DL479 $163
17:19 Klein Scout Pro 3 $170
17:58 UpLift Sit Stand Desk $600
18:42 Greenlee Mouser 491 $1000
19:28 Yeti Portable Power Station $2000


20:13 Altispeed Migration


Ask the right questions
What Problem are you trying to solve
Consistent Values
Migration & Shedding Tech Debt
24:30 Current Plan
26:00 Stateless vs Statefull Apps
28:15 Altispeed Data Center Considerations
35:30 Load Testing
37:52 Structured Load Testing
41:30 Interrupts
44:05 Common Problems
46:00 Ansible & Backups
50:00 Self Healing
51:11 Testing Backups
53:36 Blind Spots
57:45 POC > Pilot > Dev > Prod
Send in your questions


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00:45 Steve's OpenSuse Experience


Splash Screen
Kernel Panic


03:10 Caller Ed


Best VM server
Proxmox
Libvirt + Cockpit
Ovirt


08:08 Sleuth Asked


Is there software to send and receive audio over the network that work on phones and Linux machines? My usecase is I want to listen to podcasts from antennapod on my computer and to monitor jitsi and mumble from my phone.
Alsa Mixer
IceCast


09:58 TwoBit Asked


Still using the Google Glass?
Yes


10:43 Docker Server - Mathieu


TLS/HTTPS is more than a cert
HAProxy/Nginx Reverse Proxy
Check documentation for the project
Security is more than closing ports
LetsEncrypt


19:25 Archiving Emails? - Jose


Download an archive + Thunderbird


23:26 SIP Questions - Andrew


3CX SBC
Upgrade Router to PFSense/OPNSense


28:10 Pick of the Week


CasaOS
Help Net Security Article
Based on Docker
Easy Self Hosted Services


30:23 Gadget of the Week


M5stick
$14 ESP32 Dev Kit


32:52 Centos 8 EOL


ZDNet Article
CentOS EOL Dec 31 2021
Zero Day security patches until Jan 31 2022
Options


Red Hat Proper
Free Red Hat Developer License's
CentOS Stream
Alma Linux
Cloud Linux OS
Rocky Linux



38:00 Toyota Makes Keyfob a Service


The Drive Article
Requiring subscription to use local keyfob functions


40:38 Pop!_OS 21.10 Released


System76 Blog Post
Tech preview of Pop!_OS 21.10 for the RaspberryPi
System Refresh feature
Lots of new features


42:44 Main Segment - log4j Vulnerability


CVE-2021-44228
Remote Code Execution
Actively being exploited in the wild
Used in embedded and IOT devices as well
Minecraft Exploit Example
2.14.1 and earlier vulnerable
Fixed in Log4j 2.15.0
Github Attack Surface List
Responsible disclosure was not followed
Alternative mitigations available
Flip the environmental variable ES JAVA OPTS= -D log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=True
Cloudflare Mitigation
Help Net Security Article
Fortune Article
We Live Securtiy Article
The Next Web Article


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