Ask Noah Show Noah J. Chelliah

This week Lamine Lachhab the Chief technical officer for the Scottish government joins the Ask Noah Show and we discuss open source and open data with the Scottish government.


-- During The Show --

Last Week


Electrical storm took out the studio
Telos was amazing!
Sorry about last week


01:50 Secure Phone and Apps - Larry


Unplugged Up Phone
Great website
Say the right things
No details
Start with GrapheneOS or LineageOS


07:30 Kdenlive Snaps vs DEB - Rick


Snap version of Kdenlive Unstable
Similar experiences
Altispeed has largely switched to Flatpak
Like the idea of sandboxing
Possible advantages of universal packages
Please report upstream


16:48 Zyxel Switch - Charlie


Zyxel Switch
No support contracts
Good "budget brand"
Zyxel went down "cloud rabbit hole"
TP Link makes good stuff
Amazon Link


20:48 News Wire


Wine 8.9



Gaming On Linux

GCC 11.4



GCC

Linux 6.3.5



6.3.5

MicroOS Desktop



Open Suse

Kali Linux 2023.2



Kali Blog

Fedora Onyx



Gaming On Linux

Qubes Fedora Templates



Qubes OS

CIQ Support



HPC Wire

GobRAT



The Hacker News

Falcon LLM



Reuters

SambaNOVA



SambaNova



22:48 Lemine Lemke Interview


Chief Technical Officer for the Scottish Government
Funding agriculture
How data and technology play a role
How does open source play a role?
Is open source an advantage or disadvantage in government?
Open Data
Examples of open data success
What did open data enable the citizens to do?
Where there issues with false data?
Open source and education
Oil to Wind
NIMBYism
Scottish Space Port


41:41 Podman Desktop


Who is the target?
Discover-ability is better in a UI
Man Pages
Container "long view"
Containers and universal packaging overlap
Red Hat Blog


South East Linux Fest


June 9th - 11th
Join the Matrix Space
Still looking for volunteers!


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This week we dig into the Asus Ally. We'll tell you about an awesome all-in-one content production studio that works FLAWLESS on Linux, and of course your questions go to the front of the line!


-- During The Show --

03:30 Self Hosted IMAP backup - Sebastián


Steve would call Noah
Mail spooler
Local Thunderbird


08:53 General Feedback - DJ


Americas Mailbox for friendly
CMRA/PMB privacy/opsec


11:42 News Wire


FreeSpire 9.5



FreeSpire

TinyCore 14



Tiny Core Linux

Firefox 113



MOzilla

Haiku & RISC-V



RISC-V

BcacheFS



Kernel.org

OpenVPN 2.6.4



OpenVPN

Royal Ransomware Group



Data Center Knowledge

BPFDoor



Hacker News

NetFilter Flaw



Bleeping Computer

MichaelKors RaaS



Hacker News

CISA KEV



Security Week

New Intel CPU Microcode



Phoronix

OpenSSF Alpha-Omega Project



Security Week

ImageBind



Peta Pixel

Hugging Face



Make Use Of

European Parliament Vote



FSFE.org



15:00 RODECaster II Pro with Linux


Fully integrated audio production studio
Smart Pads
Different mixers on faders
Mix minus
Type C ports
Rode.com
Guitar Center
Sweetwater


23:40 Willow Voice Assistant


$50 peice of tech
Hardware based on ESP-32
Creator wanted to jump start Home Assistant Voice Assistant
Might only relay sound to Home Assistant
YouTube
ARSTechnica


32:40 ASUS ROG Ally


ROG Ally Runs MS Windows not Linux
More up to date (released 2 years after Steam Deck)
Low wattage modes
Planned Obsolescence
Running Windows
ChromeBook Ewaste
Does windows give ROG Ally and edge?
Target audiance
ARSTechnica


50:50 Perils of Unsupported FOSS In Enterprise


Open Source is winning
Open Source doesn't mean cheap/free
Software needs to be maintained


3rd Party Support
Community Support

The Register


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Passkeys are finally here to replace your passwords! What are your boundaries when choosing to support or to avoid companies? As always, your questions go to the front of the line!


-- During The Show --

01:30 ZFS Questions - DJ


Drive Slot hosting
ZFS.rent
Niche of a niche
Bare Metal
Altispeed


08:20 Note Taking - Erik


Standard Notes
Joplin
Technical debt
Will the team be more effective?
Evaluating/Bolting things on


17:08 NFS Stability - Jacob


SystemD vs AutoFS
Fstab
Tuning NFS
Noah's NFS Arguments


127.0.0.1:/path/to/data /local/mount/point nfs auto,nofail,noatime,nolock,intr,tcp,actimeo=1800 0 0


22:05 AOSP Projects & Tensions - Sunjam


There are 10 parts to every story
Open Source remains unaffected
Pit tour story


27:00 News Wire


Linux 6.4 RC1



lkml

GCC 12.3



GNU

ClamAV 1.1.0



ClamAV

QT Creator 10.0.1



Qt IO

Parrot OS 5.3



Twitter
Cloud Tencent

CIQ Mountain



DBTA

Bazel Docker Plugin



Security Week

Unlocking Pixels Disabled



Fitzsim

Monocle AR



Spectrum

DIY-Thermocam V3



EE News Europe

Focus Ir14



Kfocus

Tidelift Survey



Devops

Mattermost & AI



Open Source For U

UC Berkley LLaMA Alternative



The Insane App



29:50 Google Passkeys


Part of the FIDO2 WebAuthn Standard
Cryptographic keys
How passkeys work
Google already pushed out passkeys
Passkey works on Linux
Google's implementation doesn't work on Linux
Couldn't get bluetooth working
Doesn't work on google workplace
High value target threat modeling
Bio-metrics are bad
Miserable experience on phones
ARS Technica
Google Passkeys
[Google.com](myaccount.google.com/signinoptions/passkeys)
www.passkeys.io/
Bonus Content SQRL


40:24 Boycotting/Supporting Companies


Mullvad was raided


No data was provided to authorities

Where is the line?
Private VPNs serve a small community


Don't shoot your own foot

Don't you want your VPN to be raided?
Why are you using a VPN?
Mullvad


49:26 Nett Warrior System


Next Generation Hub (NGH)
Heavily modified phones
Loaded NSA Android
Android Tactical Tool Kit (ATAK)
The Register
EFF


52:40 Announcements


Red Hat Summit - May 22-24
SELF June 9-11


SELF Matrix Space
Noah's Booth



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Does the perfect self-hosted Google Photos replacement exist? A free and open source ChatGPT clone is available, we'll show you a site designed to help hone your IT skills, and legislation in the EU might be a threat to open source!


-- During The Show --

Photo Management


Kenny Schmidt from Altispeed
What where you using?
What prompted the move?
What solutions did you consider?


NextCloud Memories
Piwigo
Photo Prism

Immich


Made by an electrical engineer
Come a long way
Checks all the boxes
Better than Google Photos

Getting Setup


15:45 News Wire


Photon OS 5.0



Github

GNOME 44.1



Gnome

Open Razer 3.6



Github

Ardour 7.4



Ardour

Nitrux 2.8



Linux IAC

DentOS 3.0



Linux Foundation

Debian 7th Point Release



Debian

Fedora Onyx



Fedora Project

IBM & Presto Database



Tech Target

GM Joins Eclipse Foundation



The Verge

Github Private Vuln Reporting Feature



Help Net Security

RTM Group Makes Linux Binary



Info Security

ChatGLM



KD Nuggets

Arize AI Phoenix



Venture Beat



18:20 Over The Wire


Over The Wire Wargames
Learn and practice real life skills
Setup like a video game
Starts off with SSH (Bandit)
Gives you resources to learn skills
Gives you hints
Whole list of games to play
Gives you real experience on real systems
Over The Wire


28:27 BlendOS


9 to 5 Linux
VanillaOS
BlendOS
Blend OS 2
Able to run packages from multiple distros
New priority system
Android App Support
WayDroid
Web Apps (PWAs)
Developed their own distrobox
This is the direction software is going


34:50 Aurdour


9 to 5 Linux
Ardour
Sub Group Busses
Lua DSP processor
Lots of new features
Increased controller support
Updated VST3 plugin support
Improved VST2 support
Aurdour is close to replacing proprietary solutions
VSTs


40:18 GPT4All


Linux Links
ChatGPT is not AI
Runs locally, no internet required
Very expensive
Easy to get up and running
Job market is exploding
You can get hands on experience
GPT Therapy bot
GPT4All


45:48 FOSS Threatened


Cyber Resilience Act
Will affect the US
Large projects can cause problems for small projects
Likely to be a hobby project exemption
Hobby project exemption not a solution
Open Source For U


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This week the EARN-IT Act is Back! For the third time Senators are trying to push through the EARN-IT Act. Steve and Noah take you through this, as well as your questions!


-- During The Show --

01:15 Steve's Home Automation


Sonoff Zigbee 3
Integration issues
Problem Solved!
Zwave fairness
Hindsight recommendations


07:50 Listener Responds about journal - Bhikhu


Life O Graph
Jrnl
Pepys
Almanah_Diary
Monkkee
India App Ban (XDA)


10:11 Cookbook Application? - Jim


Don't mind repeating questions
Gourmand
Tandoor


14:58 Which AP? - James


Stick with U6 Pro
U6 Lite ok
U6 Long Range total rip off


16:50 News Wire


Proton 8.0



Twitter

QEMU 8.0



QEMU

Fedora 38



Fedora Magazine

Ubuntu 23.04



Ubuntu

Solus Rebase



Solus

Tails 5.12



Tails

Blend OS v2



Blend OS

KaOS 10 Yrs Old



KaOS

Manjaro 22.1 Talos



Beta News

Linux 6.3



OMG Ubuntu

Linux 6.4 Security



Phoronix
Phoronix

TLA+ Foundation



Tech Crunch

Cisco Open Source Tools



The Nes Stack

System76 Updates



9 To 5 Linux

Stability AI



ArsTechnica

Together RedPajama



Venture Beat

Indian Gov Hack



Hacker News

Lazarus Group & 3CX



Tech News World



19:30 Flathub Redesign


Phoronix
Discovery
Verified Developer Tags
Flatpak Matrix Chat


24:11 AtlasOS


AtlasOS
Forced Restarts
Collection of BAT scripts
TRON
Disables lots of security features


25:43 NextCloud Memories


Photos App ok
Nextcloud Memories


Timeline
Rewind
AI Tagging
Albums
External Sharing
Mobile Support

Immich (https://github.com/immich-app/immich)
Libre Photos (https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos)


28:50 Earn It Act


Threat to privacy is back
EFF
Section 230 recap
Law Enforcement can't keep up
What about tomorrow
Unelected government commission


Stacked with law enforcement
Make "Best Practices"

Apple Scanning
Designed to be Vague, Broad, Sweeping
Technology should empower the user
Scanning circumvents encryption
Apple incident
Client Side Encryption
Earn it act effectively bans end to end encryption
75% of flagged content not malicious


47:20 Linux Laptop


Aon S1
ZDNet
System76 refreshed their line up
Desktop vs Laptop vs Steam Deck


52:20 PineTap


Noah Ordered the PineTab2
Drum Charts


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This week Noah and Steve dig into the RESTRICT Act and the DATA Act! Your questions, your thoughts go to the front of the line.


-- During The Show --

01:30 Encrypted Journal? - Matt


EncyptPad
Joplin
Standard Notes


Too tied to a service

Separate the app from the encryption
Vaults


10:45 Traveling Mailbox - Joey


Local USPS unreliable
USPS knows its a PMB


12:50 Alternative to GraphineOS - Vincent


eOS


15:45 News Wire


Deepin 20.9



BBS Deepin

Firefox 112



Mozilla

Digikam 8.0
Digikam

LXQt 1.3.0



LXQT

Proton 8.0



Gaming On Linux

FerretDB



Info World

Universal Blue



ZDNET

Mercedes Benz Press Release



The News Stack

EU AI Petition



Open Petition

DataBricks Dolly



DataBricks

CRA Chilling Effect



Tech Crunch

Securing Open Source Software Act



Security Boulevard

Summit Schedule



Yahoo Finance

Rancher



Dev Class

Chrome Zero Day



C Soon Line

Malicious Packages



Info Security



18:45 KdenLive Interview


Kenny Schmidt
Expectations
Impressed with Open Source
God Strong Gym
Never going back
Multi Cam Editing
Guides
Key Framing
Inkscape


30:30 RESTRICT & DATA ACTs


Rep McCaul (R-TX) Filed Data Act HR 1153
Sen. Mark Warner (D Va.)
Full Interview with Sen. Cramer on China


China and Intel
China comes after family

DATA Act - Requires Executive Action
RESTRICT Act allows blocking transactions
Project Texas
Colleges
Reason.com
EFF
Large Companies lobby actions
Reach out to legislators
Banning doesn't work
EFF Stop Restrict Act Tool


52:00 Announcements


Red Hat Summit
SELF Call for papers


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