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Episode 216: Red Hat's New Deal
RedHat is expanding the developer program making it easier than ever to access RHEL! Now individuals can run 16 RHEL servers under this new program. Brian Exelbierd joins us this hour to discuss this new program and how it addresses many of the concerns raised in the transition from CentOS to CentOS Stream.
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Email 1 - Signal vs Telegram - Eddie
Telegram vs Signal for messaging?
Telegram client is open source and supports Linux
Telegram server is closed source
Signal is more secure but requires a phone number
Phone numbers can reveal your real identity
Moxie Marlinspike (Matthew Rosenfeld) - really particular about 3rd party clients, makes it not very inviting
link
Not so great when your playing with alternative operating systems (SailfishOS PostmarketOS), Signal has to make a client, rather than just supporting an API
Use Element/Matrix
Setup your own server
Sign up for paid hosting EMS
Sign up for free on a community server like Linux Delta
Minutes In 07:50
Run Matrix on CoreOS
https://fedoramagazine.org/deploy-your-own-matrix-server-on-fedora-coreos/
With Fedora CoreOS, you get all the benefits of Fedora (podman, cgroups v2, SELinux) packaged in a minimal automatically updating system thanks to rpm-ostree.
Running a Matrix service requires the following software:
Synapse: a Matrix server
PostgreSQL: a database
Nginx: a web server
Let’s Encrypt: a certificate provider
Element: a Matrix web client
Minutes In 09:30
Email 2 - How to Stream a Live Event without YT - M.X.U.
streamyard
Open Broadcaster Software OBS
Setting up your own CDN is impractical
Setup an RTMP server with Nginx
Community based CDN Scale Engine Instant Trial
Minutes In 15:50
Email 3 - User Responds to James' Question - Landon
Deja Dupe
Only backs up working files not the entire OS
Incremental Backups and Multiple file versions
Similar to Mac TimeMachine
Minutes In 18:40
Email 4 - Please Expand on Self Hosting without Net Neutrality - Will
Owning your own server doesn't fix getting online
Decentralized infrastructure make taking people offline hard
Minutes In 22:10
Email 5 - Which Episode for Parental Control? - Lucas
Life360
Life360 is partnered with Arity (analytic company) link
CA Do not sell
No longer used or recommended
Check out OwnTracks
Uses MQTT, lightweight, and you can self host
Minutes In 25:15
Pick of the Week
MMORPG_Tycoon_2
It's a Single Player MMO / Building an MMO
Independent Game shop https://www.vectorstorm.com.au/
Early Access, expect bugs
Developer is very active in the community and wants feedback
Massively addicting
Minutes In 28:10
Gadget of the Week OSMC Vero 4K
FLIRC IR receiver
OSMC project is a rock solid Kodi platform
OSMC Vero 4K
Minutes In 31:35
RedHat Interview
Guest: Brian Excelbeard
Moving to CentOS Stream brings more transparency and opportunity for involvement
IBM was not even in the room for the discussion
New programs are in the work for cloud workloads beyond today's announcement
RedHat is reducing friction for getting official RHEL by integrating other account systems
Expanding the personal free options, more than just RHEL
Making it easier for enterprise customers to get their employees enrolled in developer accounts
Have a unique use case problem? email Brian directly centos-questions@redhat.com
Official Announcement
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Episode 215: Self-Hosting Your Platform
Self-hosting has always been a good idea but when your platform doesn't want to serve you, we have some self-hosted options that will. A Reddit user has Linux booting on an iPhone 7, a man was quoted $50K to run fiber to his house, so he built his own fiber ISP!
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00:30 Minutes In
Email 1 - Feedback from EP 212 Bluetooth and Drawing Tablet - David
HSP/HFP designed for phones not computers
Bluetooth support on Linux is difficult due to the way blue-tooth works (uses modem commands on mobile)
Possible Solutions that bypass Linux blue-tooth stack
Links to the 1Mii USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC
This is Creative's version if you are looking for a more popular brand name.
XP-PEN came up and they have a driver for Linux. It is a little bit hokey in the sense that their configuration application needs to be running in order for it to work.
It does not always survive suspend/resume, but it is easy to launch again.
Their non-display models also have good support for left-hand versus right-hand drawing
When used as a display, there is no left-hand mode because it relies on dm to configure the display
We purchased an xp-pen innovator 16 It is a 1080p 15.6 inch matte screen with hardware buttons connected via HDMI and 2 USB ports
XP-PEN seems like a good company
Link to first photo made with the tablet
06:00 Minutes In
Email 2 - VPN Recommendation? - Ira
What is the best VPN company?
private internet access
They have a track history of NOT turning over user data, they get called into court they say we'd love to comply but we don't have the documents.
affiliate link
08:30 Minutes In
Email 3 - Matrix Support Spreading - Charliebrownau
Mind.com is supporting Matrix Protocol
link
[Mind.com](mind.com) is an alternative to Facebook and other big social networks
09:20 Minutes In
Email 4 - Censorship - Rob
What are your thoughts on Mozzila's blog post
11:15 Minutes in
Pick of the Week
MediaCMS
Fully featured open source video and media CMS
Built mostly using the modern stack Django + React and includes a REST API
No federation
14:00 Minutes In
Gadget of the Week
Dell's new thunderbolt dock
Dell WD19TB
Built in thunderbolt cable
Additional rear facing thunderbolt pass-through port
2x Display Ports
1x HDMI
2x Rear USB
1x Front Facing USB
Dell's USB C dock
Dell WD15
17:00 Minutes In
News
Guy by the name of Daniel Rodriguez managed to boot Linux with Gnome on an iPhone 7
YouTube Video
Reddit write up
Phone that was given to him by his grandparents as a junk device, He saved it from the landfill!
Prerequisites
writable directory available over nfs, including dhcp server on local network
Checkra1n 0.10.2-beta
Kernel fork for h9x/A10
Project sandcastle utilities
EITHER arm64 cross compiler or an arm64 native device. I used a rpi4 on 20.04 -- way helpful to be able to chroot and setup, otherwise you'd have to use qemu-user
Bridge setup script/udev rules
21:00 Minutes In
Jared Mauch Built his Own ISP
Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP
Arstechnica link
AT&T's advertised plans for his neighborhood topped out at a measly 1.5Mbps
Eventually switched to a WISP that delivered about 50Mbps
Comcast told him it would charge $50,000 to extend its cable network to his house
Mauch built his own ISP (buried the fiber for 10,000)
As of early January, Mauch has 30 homes and 10 homes to hookup
Large corporate Business are not afraid of government and government regulations
ISPs are going to learn, do it or get replaced
Starlink is becoming a thing, Amazon satellite internet is coming
27:30 Minutes In
Main Segment De-platforming / Self hosting
Violence is wrong, Full stop
Gate keeping in the broadcast industry changed when the internet became a thing
Groups and People were banned from twitt -
Episode 214: New Year New Releases
New Year New Releases
We're kicking off 2021 with a bang! The KDE team has announced a new focus on Wayland and fingerprint readers. Cawbird 1.3 a native twitter client for Linux has a new release with improved video uploading and replies, and Matrix will power FOSDEM this year!
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01:45 Minutes In
Email 1 - Comment on SolarWinds from Newnix
04:40 Minutes IN
Caller 1 - Carl
Problem: Intermittent camera and mic problems
Solution 1: unplug other usb devices (bandwidth issues)
Solution 2: Buy a PCIe USB 3 card
Solution 3: Buy a Thinkpad with thunderbolt and a thunderbolt dock
Solution 4: Make sure the camera is plugged into a matching USB port (3.0/2.0)
Logitech C920 webcam
Logitech C930
Feedback on Backups
Bareos backup
Email 2 - LVM vs Raid from Cory
OpenMediaVault
Storage - FreeNAS
Unraid
BTRFS is good for low power devices, less overhead than ZFS
RAID 1 or RAID 10 are better options in most cases, and using RAID 10 + Btrfs compression will give you similar space availability to RAID 6
RAID is not a backup
19:00 Minutes In
Email 3 - Old Smartphones as Cameras from M. X. U.
Geovision Cameras
Axis Cameras
Synology LiveCam
From the Community
Droidcam
23:55 Minutes In
Pick of the Week
KDE Itinerary is a digital travel assistant with a priority on protecting your privacy.
Timeline view of a unified travel itinerary with automatic trip grouping.
Supports train, bus and flight bookings as well as hotel, restaurant, event and rental car reservations.
Automatic booking data extraction from various input formats, performed locally on your device.
Real-time delay and platform change information for trains.
Selection of alternative train connections on unbound tickets or on missed connections.
Local ground transportation navigation between elements of your itinerary.
26:27 Minutes In
Gadget of the Week (03:00) [12:00]
Maingear Vector 2 Gaming Laptop
Pros
Starting at $1349
0.78” thick and 4.16 lbs
i7-1075OH
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
16GB / 1TB NVME
4 Cell Battery - 4000 mAh
1080p 144hz
Being a gaming laptop
Cons
No Thunderbolt only USB C
Can't be powered over USB C
Degraded power when unplugged
30:00 Minutes In
KDE Roadmap
KDE has plans for 2021 - and they're pretty cool
Fingerprint support throughout the KDE Plasma experience
Login
Lock Screen
KAuth and Polkit.
Focus on Wayland - aiming for serious, concentrated Wayland work continuing through 2021
Devs plan to improve the look and feel of Plasma’s default Breeze theme — expect something “super modern and awesome”
KDE devs will replace the celebrated Kickoff app launcher with a newer, fresher replacement.
32:44 Minutes In
Cawbird 1.3 Released
Cawbird is free, open source software compatible with most modern Linux distros
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/cawbird-1-3-released-for-linux-distros
Improved DM Support
Video Uploading
You can now see media shared in direct messages
Links and hashtags sent in messages are ‘clickable’
It’s possible to delete DMs, load older DMs, and send images as DMs in Cawbird
Cawbird 1.3 supports video uploads to tweets (one video per tweet)
Improved upload handling of animated and non-animated GIFs
More accessible approach to loading ‘replied to’ tweets
33:37 Minutes In
FOSDEM Online Via Matrix
EMS - Offical Matrix Hosting
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/01/04/taking-fosdem-online-via-matrix
Started with Matrix over SELF / Wanted the ability to connect with people in a free and open source decentralized client, found Matrix, got sucked in.
2021 - Altispeed officially switched to EMS Matrix instance
Public Roadmap / Can buy feature deveopment / entire sales staff to handle feature requests
Jitsi - Feature we didn't think we'd use and end up using it daily now
Matrix team are in active contact -
Episode 213: Rocky Linux with Greg Kurtzer
Greg Kurtzer executive director of Rocky Linux a bug for bug RedHat distribution joins us this hour to tell the story of CentOS and what his vision for Rocky Linux is!
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Greg Kurtzer - Executive Director of Rocky Linux, a bug for bug red hat compatible distro
Greg's history
Centos history
Rocky Linux now and future
Currently collaborating on Slack, It will be moving to Mattermost
There is a google doc for developers who want to help, please be patient lots of responses to go through
Release will be available Q2 2020
Current state of the project
36:00 minutes in
Walt Caller One
What Protections are in place to protect Rocky Linux from corporate interests
44:00 minutes in
Email 1 Unifi Access Points and NVRs
1) Unifi Access Points
Nano HD i
UAP-AC Pro
UAP-AP-HD
47:00 minutes in
2) What security NVR solution do you recommend?
Use the Synology selector tool
Synology FS6400
Axis Cameras
Geovision cameras
Also take a look at motioneye and motioneyeos
More of a DIY approach but free and flexible
51:00 minutes in
Pick of the Week
Snapdrop: local file sharing in your browser. Inspired by Apple's Airdrop.
Underneath the hood
Vanilla HTML5 / ES6 / CSS3 frontend
WebRTC / WebSockets
NodeJS backend
Progressive Web App
51:45 minutes in
Gadget of the Week Playstation 5 Controller
DualSense™ Wireless PS5 Controller
The DualSense wireless controller for PS5 offers immersive haptic feedback2, dynamic adaptive triggers2 and a built-in microphone, all integrated into an iconic design.
Feel physically responsive feedback to your in-game actions with dual actuators which replace traditional rumble motors. In your hands, these dynamic vibrations can simulate the feeling of everything from environments to the recoil of different weapons
Experience varying levels of force and tension as you interact with your in-game gear and environments. From pulling back an increasingly tight bowstring to hitting the brakes on a speeding car, feel physically connected to your on-screen actions.
Available from Sony for $69.99
Linux driver support
[From Roderick Colenbrander](roderick.colenbrander@sony.com)
Supported in linux
*DualSense in both Bluetooth and USB modes
*LEDs
*Touchpad
*Motion Sensors
*Rumble
Not supported yet
*Adaptive Triggers
*VCM based Haptics
These features require a large amount of data and complex data structures. It is not clear how to
expose these. The current Evdev and FF frameworks are too limiting. We hope
to have a dialog on how to expose these over time in a generic way.
Companies are starting to get it - make a good controller, make the code open so everyone can use it, people will buy your controller.
54:00 minutes in
XFCE 4.16 has been Released!
https://www.xfce.org/about/tour416
The Settings Manager itself received a visual refresh of its filter box
*which can now be hidden permanently
*Search capabilities of the filter box were improved by searching the descriptive 'Comments' part of each dialog's launcher
Default Applications is a new dialog represents a merger between the previously available 'Mime Settings' and the 'Preferred Applications' dialogs.
Added fractional scaling based on the RandR extension of X11
Added more default keyboard shortcuts out of the box (Examples: for window tiling or to open Thunar)
xfce4-panel
The panel received quite a few noteworthy updates
*Animation for autohide and intellihide
*New 'Status Tray' plugin that combines both legacy Systray item support with modern StatusNotifier item support
*Dark mode support
*Launchers showing additional actions on right-click
*Window buttons offering to Launch a new instance
XFCE Power Managment was cleaned up
The settings dialog of the power manager was cleaned up and shows either 'on battery' or 'plugged in' settings as opposed to both in a huge table.
[Dar -
Episode 212: Software for the Holidays
Gnome 40 has a major redesign, a new version of Kdenlive is out adding some much desired pro features, Matrix has some exciting announcments and we discuss the Solar Winds backdoor and give you some alternatives. If this is the time of the year you want to tinker with new projects we have a few in store!
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00:45
Request for feedback
01:55
Email 1 - How to back up BTRFS to the cloud
rsync
BTRFS send/recive
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/btrfs-sendreceive-helps-you-move-your-data
04:55
Email 2 - Smart devices
cloudfree.shop
https://cloudfree.shop/
homeassistant
https://www.home-assistant.io/
lutron radiora
https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/WholeHomeSystems/RadioRA2/Overview.aspx
12:00
Are Vlans Good enough? (continued from email 2)
14:40
Email 3 - Bitcoin
Don't invest, considered unstable
Mining is fun not pratical
https://www.coinbase.com/
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer
ALternative crypto currencys
https://ethereum.org/en/
https://www.getmonero.org/
23:48
Email 4 - Bluetooth headphones on Linux Mic Not Working
A2DP audio out only (high quality)
HSP audio out and in (low quality)
Check what protocols are supported by your dongle
Easiest way to work around this...
sudo apt-get install blueman
starting from Pulseaudio v. 11.0, it's possible to automatically switch the profile whenever microphone access is requested by the application, but it's disabled by default.
Find load-module module-bluetooth-policy line in /etc/pulse/default.pa
Change it to load-module module-bluetooth-policy auto_switch=2
You need to reload pulseaudio module after this for the changes to take effect:
pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -D
Now pulseaudio will switch the device profile to HSP whenever microphone access is requested and change it back to A2DP after stream is closed.
27:29
Pick of the Week
Just Perfection!
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3843/just-perfection/
This extension allows you to disable:
OSD
Search
Dash
Workspace Switcher
Top Panel
App gesture
28:35
Gadget of the Week
Gaomon S620 $35
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R77SNX9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Karita
https://krita.org/en/
31:02
Gnome 40 Major Design Revamp
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/12/gnome-40-major-design-revamp
GNOME 40 is due for release in March, 2021.
33:45
KdenLive
https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/12/kdenlive-20-12-is-out/
Kdenlive 20.12 serves as a new stable release and a new feature release
New features
same track transitions
subtitling tool
Effects
Another usability improvement is the ability to rename and add/edit the description of custom effects (by new contributor Vivek Yadav.)
New Pillar Echo effect for your vertical videos.
Crop by padding effect can now be keyframed.
New VR 360 and 3D effects for working with 360º and 3D stereoscopic footage.
New Video Equalizer for adjusting image brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma.
usability
Ability to enable/disable normalization of audio thumbnails from track header
Ability to delete multiple tracks at once (by Pushkar Kukde)
When archiving a project an option was added to archive only clips in the timeline as well as the option choose the compression method between TAR and ZIP.
On the backend front the Online Resources tool was ported to qtwebengine (by Andreas Sturmlechner) and downloading wipes, render profiles, titles and wipes defaults to using https.
37:34
Solar Winds
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html
Managed Service Provider (MSP) management software
march 2020 hack
dec 2020 discoverd
47:05
Souk Flatpak App Store for Linux
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/12/souk-flatpak-app-store-for-linux
Souk is co-developed -
Episode 211: GeekLab Gift Guide
GeekLab Gift Guide
RedHat may have replaced CentOS Linux with CentOS stream but Gregory Kurtzer has launched his own replacement based as CentOS was on the RHEL source code. We help you pick out tech gifts for that geek in your life!
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Troubleshooting Trackpads
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Copying Video from Firewire
https://bergs.biz/blog/2017/01/26/capture-minidv-tapes-via-firewire/
Gift #5 - Stainless Steel Small Openable Pill
Gift #4 - Aventree TC417
Gift #3 - Yubikey
Gift #2 - HiFi Audio Stereo Amplifier
Gift #1 - Briggs and Riley BackPack
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