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-- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro 01:39 News Wire OpenVPN 2.7 - community.openvpn.net Mesa 26.0 - mesa3d.org KDE Frameworks 6.23 - kde.org Gnome 49.4 - gnome.org Vim 9.2 vim.org GNU Linux Libre 6.19 - fsfla.org GNU Binutils 2.46 - phoronix.com Tinycore 17 - tinycorelinux.net Debian 13.3 - voyagerlive.org Pear OS 26.2 - pearos.xyz MythTV 36 - mythtv.org Parrot 7.1 - linuxiac.com SSHStalker - bleepingcomputer.com LockBit 5.0 - helpnetsecurity.com GLM-5 - venturebeat.com 03:00 Chinesium Access Control AmazonMIFAREWiegandMercury Access ControllersOSDP protocolAmazonAmazonLeosac 41:57 Ring and Flock cut ties EFF -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro GeekLab 01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne Helm SynthVital SynthTal NoizeMakerCardinalSurge SynthLSP PluginsCalf PluginsReaperToneLib-GFXkxstudio repositoriesTal baseline 16:16 Dell HDDs - TwoBit 20:16 News Wire GCompris 26 - gcompris.net LibreOffice 216.2 - documentfo8undation.org Ardour - ardour.org Calibre 9.1 - calibre-ebook.com Peazip 10.9 - github.com Linux 6.19 - lkml.org Oracle Linux 7 - oracle.com LiteBox - helpnetsecurity.com GoogleSQL - developer-tech.com Toyota Open Source Game Engine - techzine.eu Open Source Chest CT Model - nature.com 21:16 Zynthian Zynthian 34:10 Matrix Protocol The RegisterBeeper 41:45 Discord KYC gomuksThe Register 51:20 Ring Camera's eff.org -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week John Terrill from Red Hat joins us to talk about branding in Open Source. Many projects don't have a unified communication strategy, but having one is important. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro 04:37 Lossless Cut AvidemuxLossless Cut WebpageLossless Cut GitHub 08:30 OmniTools OmniTools GitHub 12:43 NLSH NLSH GitHub 16:00 Xyops Xyops 18:18 News Wire Squid 7.4 - github.com Openttd 15.1 - openttd.org Rust 1.93 - rust-lang.org GNU C lwn.net Extix - linux.exton.net Liya Linux 2.5 - distrowatch.com CachyOS 2026 - cachyos.org GNU Guix 1.5 - quix.gnu.org MxLinux 25.1 - mxlinux.org Crypto Thieves in Snap Store - helpnetsecurity.com Open Source Quantum Computer - uwaterloo.ca AI Weather Models - kqed.org Banks Prefer Open-Source - finainews.com Rack-Scale AI - theasset.com OIN 2.0 - yahoo.com 19:55 Python Built-in Web Server 24:17 Proxy RCE - PSA grahamhelton.com 26:30 Matter Camera linuxgizmos.com 30:06 MS Gives Keys to FBI aardwolfsecurity.comArsTechnica 35:20 Linux Continuity theregister.com 36:40 John Terrill -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - KernellinuxAsk Noah ShowAltispeed Technologies

This week we dig into the hardware shortage caused by AI, answer your questions, and dig into managing ZFS via the web! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Cheap managed POE switch Switch hops 05:35 Certificates - Randy Step CA (https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca/) XCA (https://www.hohnstaedt.de/xca/) Certificate Authority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority) ACME (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Certificate_Management_Environment) LDAP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol) Kerberos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)) Steve's use of LDAP LDAP with PKI link (https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/11.4/administer/linux/use-ldap-and-pki-to-secure-access-to-your-portal.htm) ACME and Domain registrars dot tk (http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en) Ansible collection (https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/acme_certificate_module.html) 19:19 Ebook Management - Jeremy Steve went to audio books Calibre (https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/acme_certificate_module.html) PDF manuals folder Audio bookshelf (https://www.audiobookshelf.org/) Paperless NGX (https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/) 23:50 Light Sync - Peter UltraStar Deluxe (https://usdx.eu/) Animux (https://usdb.animux.de/) USBD_Syncer (https://github.com/bohning/usdb_syncer/releases) Doing events Why Noah likes Karaoke Effect of "shared experiences" Steve's Christmas tree lights DMX lighting WLED Project (https://kno.wled.ge/) 33:03 News Wire Firefox 147 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/147.0/releasenotes/) Thunderbird 147 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/147.0/releasenotes/) Grub 2.14 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.14-Released) Gnome 49.3 - discourse.gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-3-released/33609) Wine 11 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/wine_11_arrives_faster_and/) Q4OS 6.5 - q4os.org (https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5903) Endeavour OS Genymede Neo - endeavouros.com (https://endeavouros.com/news/ganymede-neo-is-out-with-core-updates-and-upstream-nvidia-changes/) Tails 7.4 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_4/) Linux Mint 22.3 - blog.linuxmint.com (https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4981) BeaglePlay PowerVR - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/BeaglePlay-PowerVR-Success) StackChan - cnx-software.com (https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/13/m5stack-stackchan-is-a-cute-open-source-ai-desktop-robot/) Mentra's Smart Glasses - engadget.com (https://www.engadget.com/wearables/mentras-first-smart-glasses-are-open-source-and-come-with-their-own-app-store-150021126.html) VoidLink - checkpoint.com (https://research.checkpoint.com/2026/voidlink-the-cloud-native-malware-framework/) darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/voidlink-malware-advanced-threat-linux-systems) csoonline.com (https://www.csoonline.com/article/4117038/sophisticated-voidlink-malware-framework-targets-linux-cloud-servers.html) Boltz-1 - labmanager.com (https://www.labmanager.com/mit-researchers-release-boltz-1-an-open-source-alternative-to-alphafold-3-33385) Photoshop on Linux - videocardz.com (https://videocardz.com/newz/adobe-photoshop-can-now-install-on-linux-after-a-redditor-discovers-a-fix#disqus_thread) No Commits to MySQL Repo - devclass.com (https://devclass.com/2026/01/13/open-source-mysql-repository-has-no-commits-in-more-than-three-months/) Senate Inquiry - jdsupra.com (https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/recent-inquiry-from-senate-intelligence-2158429/) EU Tech Sovereignty - cybernews.com (https://cybernews.com/tech/europe-looks-for-ways-to-cut-cord-from-big-tech/) biometricupdate.com (https://www.biometricupdate.com/202601/eu-calls-for-input-on-open-source-as-it-looks-toward-tech-sovereignty) 35:03 SysAdmins & Smartphones Lowering friction Graphical vs CLI Webzfs...

What is the role of tape backup in 2026? Should ZFS be used on tape? Steve takes us back to his days at IMAX and gives us some things to think about when using tape. We answer your questions, take your feedback -- During The Show -- 00:50 Immich - Greg Immich (https://immich.app/) feedback Round 1 deployment recap Round 2 deployment recap Latest breakage Things Steve likes about Immich Ente (https://ente.io/) experience Rising tide, iron sharpens iron Everyone hits problems sometimes 11:50 General Show Feedback - Pete Thank You feedback Buying Expedition 33 Noah purchased Expedition 33 "Little Noah" and budget Using external disks for games 16:28 News Wire Curl 8.18 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) Doxygen 1.16 - doxygen.nl (https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/changelog.html) Windowmaker Live 13.3 - wmlive.sourceforge.net (https://wmlive.sourceforge.net) Budgie 10.10 - buddiesofbudgie.org (https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10-10-released) Pentoo 2026.0 - pentoo.ch (https://pentoo.ch/isos/Release/Pentoo_Core_amd64_hardened/) Nitrix 5.1 - nxos.org (https://nxos.org) Debian 13.3 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2026/20260110) Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com (https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena.php) Bose Open Sources Speakers - designboom.com (https://www.designboom.com/technology/bose-recycles-discontinued-wireless-speakers-open-source-01-09-2026/) UAT-7290 - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/china-linked-uat-7290-targets-telecoms.html) GoBruteforcer - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/gobruteforcer-botnet-targets-50k-plus-linux-servers) VoidLink - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/new-advanced-linux-voidlink-malware.html) NousCoder-14B - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/technology/nous-researchs-nouscoder-14b-is-an-open-source-coding-model-landing-right-in) Razer AI Kit - techpowerup.com (https://www.techpowerup.com/344924/razer-intros-aikit-an-open-source-project-for-easier-local-llm-development) 17:55 Caller Btrfs Assistant (https://gitlab.com/btrfs-assistant/btrfs-assistant) Restoring btrfs snapshots Base vs incremental snapshots Framework Knowledge Base (https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/fedora-system-restore-root-snapshots-using-btrfs-assistant-rkHNxajS3) 23:00 Music Production on Linux Started with misconception everything is for Windows and Mac Not many instruments are being made Hybrid pianos Stage pianos Pianoteq (https://www.modartt.com/) Virtual instruments Hammer graded controllers Semi weighted keys Synth Keys Akai Professional MPK Mini Plus Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFBDT2D2/) VST3 MT Powerdrum (https://www.powerdrumkit.com/) Tal Base Line 101 (https://www.tal-software.com/products/tal-bassline-101) 36:50 Tape Backup Slow but reliable and cheap Tar command Data velocity Burn rate How to use tape Tools for data tapes Failure domain -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/475) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week we dig into how a dead hard drive took Frigate out, answer your questions, and start a new challenge for the new year. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Sticky Things and Bug reports Electric Dirt Bike Validating work Picking and offering boats Hosting in home lab 10:00 Frigate Frigate drive failure 4 TB drive died Frigate setup Swapping drives and power on hours Running drives into the ground Replacing drives Motion detection 20:06 News Wire Shotcut 25.12 - shotcut.org (https://shotcut.org/blog/new-release-25.12.30/) Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ncurses-6.6) OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org (https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0) QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com (https://www.patreon.com/posts/qprompt-2-0-147192236) Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/97.0/) Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/Sources/4.1.0%20%28stable%29/) OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net (https://bsdsec.net/articles/openbgpd-9-0-released) IceWM - debugpoint.com (https://www.debugpoint.com/icewm-4-0-0-features/) Devuan 6.1 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Devuan-6.1-Released) Manjaro 26.0 - manjaro.org (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-26-0-anh-linh-released/184526) Qwen Text to Image - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/technology/open-source-qwen-image-2512-launches-to-compete-with-googles-nano-banana-pro) 27:07 Flatpak vs Packaged Software - Pete New contest! Steve uses packaged software Idea behind flatpaks Flatpak edge cases Install via AUR AppImages 37:16 Backup GrapheneOS - Domink Toilet backup strategy Plan to come back from scratch Contacts VCF file ADB Backup Guide (https://droidwin.com/how-to-create-and-restore-app-backup-via-adb-commands/) ADB Backup Caveat (https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/behavior-changes-12#adb-backup-restrictions) 45:09 KVM Switch? - Jeremy Now use remote software Barrier (https://github.com/debauchee/barrier) Synergy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_%28software%29) Deskflow (https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow) IO Gear KVM (https://iogear.com/collections/cable-kvms-desktop-kvms) Rust Desk (https://rustdesk.com/) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/474) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Steve reviews Expedition 33. We take your feedback, and Steve builds a new PC and talks motherboard. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Profanity Kids language Stripping profanity and vulgarity MonkeyPlug (https://github.com/mmguero/monkeyplug) Motherboards and RAM prices ASRock ASUS 18:04 News Wire Lua 5.5 - lua.org (https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/readme.html#changes) Ruby 4.0 - ruby-lang.org (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/25/ruby-4-0-0-released/) QEMU 10.2 - wiki.qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.2) Pinta 3.1 - omgubuntu.co.uk (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/pinta-3-1-released-new-axonometric-grids) Voyager 13.2 - voyagerlive.org (https://voyagerlive.org) Nobara 43 - nobaraproject.org (https://nobaraproject.org/download.html) Porteux 2.5 - distrowatch.com (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12688) Parrot 7.0 - parrotsec.org (https://parrotsec.org/blog/2025-12-24-parrot-7.0-release-notes/) PostmarkOS 25.12 - postmarketos.org (https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/12/23/v25.12-release/) Elementary OS 8.1 - elementary.io (https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/) MinIO in Maintenance Mode - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/minio-s3-api-alternatives/) KawaiiGPT - opensourceforu.com (https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/12/open-source-ai-kawaiigpt-turns-cybercrime-into-a-one-click-operation/) Z.ai - businesswire.com (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251223393714/en/Z.ai-Open-Sources-GLM-4.7-a-New-Generation-Large-Language-Model-Built-for-Real-Development-Workflows) Chatterbox Turbo - the-decoder.com (https://the-decoder.com/resemble-ai-drops-chatterbox-turbo-an-open-source-text-to-speech-model-that-clones-voices-in-five-seconds/) 18:57 Listener responds to self hosted - Josh Setup SSO PocketID (https://pocket-id.org/) Hesitant to adopt passkeys Argument for and against passkeys 26:41 Email Archiving for Privacy - Dominik Why you should archive email Plain text vs Mbox/PST imapsync GitHub (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync) Email threat model 32:54 Expedition 33 Expedition 33 (https://www.expedition33.com/) Doesn't have an "agenda" Story of small Indie team If you apply yourself, you can succeed Awards Sales Live action adaptation Game play and Story are amazing It's a sad game Amazing music AI controversy AI vs human work Proper use of AI tools -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/473) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Noah and Steve work on Steve's house, a new automated lock system goes in, some new structured wiring goes in, and we talk about automating your Christmas tree. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Happy Christmas Kids and presents Quests at Steve's Steve's Christmas tree Steve on a Mac 16:20 Feedback You start the conversation Send in an email success stories problems you can't solve suggest a topic 18:00 Switch Bot A room to keep dogs and kids out of Why Switch Bot? Gold tier certified by Home Assistant Value of talking with others How to evaluate "the line" The "delta" Gratitude 36:17 Structured Wiring 2 Recessed outlets with Ethernet 2 Projector rooms The Smart Home Hookup (https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/) The Smart Home Hookup Youtube (https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/) Playing D&D with the family Lay of the land Running Cat6 SDI Video/Audio Belden Cables (https://www.belden.com/products) Vertical Cables (https://verticalcable.com/) HDMI Decimators Keystones 55:57 News Wire Darktable 5.4 - darktable.org (https://www.darktable.org/2025/12/darktable-5.4.0-released/) Kdenlive 25.12 - kdenlive.org (https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.12.0/) OpenShot 3.4 - openshot.org (https://www.openshot.org/blog/2025/12/15/new_openshot_release_340/) OpenZFS 2.4 - github.com (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases) GNUCash 5.14 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml) Nvidia Linux 590.48 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-590.48.01-Linux) Linux 6.17 EOL - 9to5linux.com (https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-17-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-18-lts) RELIANOID 7.8.0 - relianoid.com (https://www.relianoid.com/blog/release-notes-relianoid-7-8-0-community-edition/?srsltid=AfmBOoqTXRsWaTNKQFzVEqPBJTCWcDsZ6UdJ39cTIPM4-r7CGJXQ8Ldq) SparkyLinux 2025.12 - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2025-12/) Easy OS Excalibur 7.1 - puppylinux.com (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=16128) Emmabuntus Debian Edition 6 - emmabuntus.org (https://emmabuntus.org/category/english/) Solaris 11.4 - blogs.oracle.com (https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-11-4-sru-87) FreeBSD 15.0 - freebsd.org (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/) Rust CVE in Linux - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/first-linux-kernel-rust-cve/) Senate Intel Chair - cyberscoop.com (https://cyberscoop.com/tom-cotton-open-source-software-foreign-influence-national-cyber-director/) Beavertail Malware - scworld.com (https://www.scworld.com/news/north-korean-beavertail-malware-sparks-attacks-across-financial-sector) Open-Source Protein Co-Folding Model - nvidia.com (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/customer-stories/mit-recursion-open-source-protein-co-folding-model/) Bloom - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/22/anthropic-announces-bloom-open-source-tool-researchers-evaluating-ai-behavior/) CUGA - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/ibm-cuga/) Nemotron AI Models - finance.yahoo.com (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-corporation-nvda-launches-family-144517323.html) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/472) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at]...

This week we dig full force into some interesting listener questions. Noah talks about an open source hardware synth, and Steve walks through some of his hardware choices to help you! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Weather Cooling IT rooms in winter 05:00 Printers, DVD ripping and more - James Steve has 2 brother printers Auto Duplexing Separate printer and scanner Large business grade units Ask Noah Show 368 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368) All in One Brother DCP-L2640DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPLFTPCV) Budget Brother HL-L2460DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPL2N5H6) Monochrome Brother HL-6210DW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGC9HPNH) Color Brother HL-L3280CDW Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFD1G1VT) Trouble with auto duplexing Stay away from Lexar HP printers Manually add the printer Change to Jetdirect or IP printer Pay attention to exact model or most similar When it goes wrong, it goes really wrong Your mileage may vary Canon Color Image Class LBP622Cdw Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QBR7JFV) Scanner Brother ADS-1200 Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WSJQWVQ) Containers vs Codecs MKV vs MP4 Avidemux (https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/) Ripping as ISOs vs video files MakeMKV (https://www.makemkv.com/) MakeMKV Docker Image (https://github.com/jlesage/docker-makemkv) ``` # sudo modprobe sg services: makemkv: image: ghcr.io/jlesage/makemkv:latest ports: "5800:5800" volumes: "./makemkv:/config:rw" "./storage:/storage:ro" "./output:/output:rw" security_opt: # Fix for apparmor enabled systems apparmor:unconfined environment: USER_ID=1000 GROUP_ID=1000 devices: "/dev/sr0:/dev/sr0" "/dev/sg0:/dev/sg0" ``` Christmas movies Handbrake (https://handbrake.fr/) FFmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org/) Transcoding Run controller at each site Ubiquiti Cloud Key (https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uck-g2) Lots of problems OVH server Put basic auth in front Inbox Zero Paperless NGX (https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/) Dump to eml file then import into special Thunderbird 45:14 News Wire Firefox 146 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/146.0/releasenotes/) Thunderbird 146 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/146.0/releasenotes/) KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org (https://kde.org/info/kde-frameworks-6.21.0/) Cinnamon Desktop 6.6 - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/cinnamon-6-6/) Mir 2.25 - github.com (https://github.com/canonical/mir/releases/tag/v2.25.0) Rust 1.92 - blog.rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/) AerynOS 2025.12 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2025.12) Kali Linux 2025.4 - kali.org (https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-4-release/) Pop!_OS 24.04 - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/pop-os-24-04-review/) PearOS - pearos.xyz (https://pearos.xyz) MaboxLinux 2025.12 - maboxlinux.org (https://maboxlinux.org/mabox-25-12-improvements-fixes-and-gtk2-farewell/#google_vignette) Papermoon - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/papermoon-a-space-grade-linux-for-the-newspace-era/) 01flip Ransomware - esecurityplanet.com (https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/rust-based-01flip-ransomware-hits-windows-and-linux/) React2Shell - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/react2shell-vulnerability-actively.html) Nomos 1 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nous-research-just-released-nomos-1-an-open-source-ai-that-ranks-second-on) Nemotron Model - reuters.com (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-unveils-new-open-source-ai-models-amid-boom-chinese-offerings-2025-12-15/) Quilter's AI - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/quilters-ai-just-designed-an-843-part-linux-computer-that-booted-on-the) Chatterbox Labs - redhat.com (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-acquire-chatterbox-labs-frequently-asked-questions) Agentic AI Group - hackernoon.com (https://hackernoon.com/linux-foundation-launches-agentic-ai-group-to-set-standards-for-autonomous-systems) Firefox AI Browser -...

This week Steve puts his Debian powered Christmas tree up. He walks us through enterprise deployment and the failures of Firefox enterprise, and Noah builds a Raspberry Pi powered piano!

This week Steve takes us through his journey with Enty and Immich. Plex makes their users pay a monthly fee, and Steam releases a new SteamBox console. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro How was your week Watching sales Smart TVs WebOS 07:21 Mac Feedback - Gregory Network Effect "Comforting Mac Feels" Pavu Control (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/) OBS (https://obsproject.com/) Stewardship 11:32 Mac Feedback - Patrick Pragmatic approach Steve's thoughts Treating windows like an appliance Making the FOSS path easy 18:15 Succession Planning - Dominik Suggestions Design your home so it works without automation Have a HDD with important data Have migration plan in place Struggling with massive amounts of data Steve's documentation journey Criticality 30:33 News Wire Gnome 49.2 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-2-released/32730) Tmus 3.6 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-backup-server-4-1) Snort 3.10 - github.com (https://github.com/snort3/snort3/releases) Dbeaver 25.3 - dbeaver.io (https://dbeaver.io/download/) Proxmox 4.2 Backup Server - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-backup-server-4-1) Fedora Ultramarine 43 - fyralabs.com (https://blog.fyralabs.com/ultramarine-43-release/) AlmaLinux 10.1 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-11-24-almalinux_101_release/) Rocky Linux 10.1 - rockylinux.org (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-10-1-ga-release) KaOS 2025.11 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos11/) NixOS 25.11 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2511/) Armbian 25.11 - blog.armbian.com (https://blog.armbian.com/v25-11-improving-the-base-unlocking-new-options/) Solus 4.8 - getsol.us (https://getsol.us/2025/11/29/solus-4-8-released/) 4M Linux 50.0 - 4mlinux.com (https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home) AV Linux 25 - linuxmusicians.com (https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=28954) Pardus 25 - pardus.org (https://pardus.org.tr/en/pardus-25-release-note/) Linux 6.18 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Released) Flux 2 - bfl.ai (https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2) z-Image-Turbo - huggingface.co (https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo) Deepseek 3.2 - deepseek.com (https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news251201) Linux MCP - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/25/suses-mcp-server-tech-preview-lays-foundation-ai-assisted-linux-infrastructure/) 31:51 Plex Crackdown Forcing Plex Pass subscriptions Proprietary software controls you Are Plex users getting what they deserve? Switching to JellyFin (https://jellyfin.org/) Scanning of people's media Reason for crackdown Problem with the approach FS PBX (https://www.fspbx.com/) ArsTechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/plexs-crackdown-on-free-remote-streaming-access-starts-this-week/) 41:50 Steam Machine First response is it's a "Travel Machine" SteamDeck "just works" Community experience ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/steam-deck-minus-the-screen-valve-announces-new-steam-machine-controller-hardware/) 44:42 Self Hosted Image Software Immich (https://immich.app/) experience Ente (https://ente.io/) experience Ente vs Immich Ente Encryption Native App Backup Where Immich came from iOS challenges Which is the winner? -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/469) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer?...

Steve gives a deep dive into some of the struggles he's working through in his house. Google has pulled back on their plans to require developer verification. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Passing the show through AI Immich Breaking changes 07:54 Steve Rants Show How it came about 09:45 Google and Side loading ANS 457 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/457) Google backs down How to Geek (https://www.howtogeek.com/google-is-backing-down-android-sideloading/) Hiding the setting Best of both worlds Explaining walled gardens Why walled gardens are bad Bubble level app (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.woheller69.level/) 18:32 When is a Mac appropriate? Supporting a power user Specialty scanner Asked the AI Accidentally uninstalled mesa Trouble shooting When is a Mac appropriate? Mac's don't fix problems Mac myths "solving the problem" Network effect Apple print dialog Making the open source path easy SimpleHelp (https://simple-help.com/) PiKVM (https://pikvm.org/) Tailscale (https://tailscale.com/) Windows knowledge on Linux Borrowing hardware 50:50 News Wire Git 2.52 - github.blog (https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-52) Cmake 4.2 - cmake.org (https://cmake.org/download) Blender 5.0 - blender.org (https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0) PHP 8.5 - php.net (https://www.php.net/releases/8.5/en.php) Protondrive 1.2 - github.com (https://github.com/DonnieDice/protondrive-linux/releases/tag/v1.2.0) Proxmox 9.1 - proxmox.com (https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-virtual-environment-9-1) Alma Linux 9.7 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-11-17-almalinux_97_release) Finnix 251 - finnix.org (https://blog.finnix.org/2025/11/17/finnix-251-released) Pepple Watch 100% Open Source - howtogeek.com (https://www.howtogeek.com/pebble-cuts-through-the-noise-and-goes-open-source) Zork Open Source - arstechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license) 00:52 Coming up on Ask Noah Netowrking, proxies, caching Firefox -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/468) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Self Hosting After Death - Michael Steve's thought process Important things Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) Mealie (https://docs.mealie.io/) Frigate (https://frigate.video/) Steve's plan Draw.io LLMs No desire to be trained Open Source Documentation Noah's plan Self hosted vs Cloud Techie Friends 12:21 Scott Jenson - UX/UI Design Product Strategist For Home Assistant and Mastodon Scott's Website (https://jenson.org/) Coloring outside the lines Mobile vs Desktop Desktop UI shortcomings UX in Audacity and Penpot (https://penpot.app/) Where can UX designers grow? Articulating the business use case Ink & Switch (https://www.inkandswitch.com/) 18:23 News Wire Nano 8.7 - gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-11/msg00002.html) Thunderbird 145 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/145.0/releasenotes) Firefox 145 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/145.0/releasenotes) Wine 10.19 - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/wine-10-19-ushers-in-linuxs-next-leap-for-windows-app-mastery) Proton 10.0 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-10.0-3-Released) KDE Frameworks 6.20.0 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.20.0) SparkyLinux 8.1 - sparkylinux.org (https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-8-1) Debian 13.2 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20251115) Tails 7.2 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_2) Nitrix 5.0 - itsfoss.com (https://itsfoss.com/news/nitrux-5-release) Kaspersky for Linux - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/antivirus/banned-russian-antivirus-maker-kaspersky-rolls-out-new-products-basic-plan-for-linux-starts-at-usd59-99-a-year) Avahi Logic Flaw - zeropath.com (https://zeropath.com/blog/avahi-simple-protocol-server-dos-cve-2025-59529) ImunifyAV Flaw - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rce-flaw-in-imunifyav-puts-millions-of-linux-hosted-sites-at-risk) Akira Targets Nutanix VMs - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-akira-ransomware-linux-encryptor-targeting-nutanix-vms) Kraken Expands - cyberpress.org (https://cyberpress.org/kraken-ransomware) VibeThinker-1.5B - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/weibos-new-open-source-ai-model-vibethinker-1-5b-outperforms-deepseek-r1-on) Worry Over Chinese AI - businessinsider.com (https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-worried-governments-use-chinese-ai-open-source-models-2025-11) US Must Go Open Source - techbuzz.ai (https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/databricks-co-founder-us-must-go-open-source-to-beat-china-in-ai) Linux Knowledge The "Mythical New User" People use all sorts of UI/UX today Knowledge we take for granted Teaching is the highest form of learning See one, do one, teach one Talk radio principle: Watering plants that are already there Linux and Windows architectures are different 39:50 Source Command How it works Variables Environment Variable What the source command does Getting started with source and python 48:00 Know your short comings Know what you don't know Know how to explain it simply Keeping things simple -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/467) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed...

This week we talk about Bolt graphics, a new graphics start up that is working on a graphics card with upgrade-able memory for a competitive price. A software developer has released an open source alternative firmware for the Nest v1 and v2 thermostats, and of course your questions! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Dakota's weather 01:51 Email! - William Listener recommends porkbun (https://porkbun.com/) Mailbox.org (https://mailbox.org/en/) Simple Login (https://simplelogin.io/) DuckDuckGo Email Alias (https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/email-protection/duck-addresses) Proton's built in features Reasons for protecting privacy Privacy.com (https://www.privacy.com/) 11:25 Data Science & Self Hosting - Annon Value based approach Consenting data collection Tool vs Pillar A job can be a tool Get a job in a different field hadoop Nextcloud Anti Virus Network Protection Medical Science Red Hat data sciences 22:15 News Wire LXQT 2.3 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2025/11/05/release-lxqt-2-3-0) Calibre 8.14 - newwin.net (https://www.neowin.net/software/calibre-8140) MKVtoolnix - mkvtoolnix.download (https://mkvtoolnix.download/windows/releases/96.0) Curly COMrades - darkreading.com (https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/pro-russian-hackers-linux-vms-hide-windows) Porteux 2.4 - distrowatch.com (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12628) MXLinux 25 - mxlinux.org (https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-infinity-isos-now-available) Devuan 6.0 - serverhost.com (https://serverhost.com/blog/devuan-gnu-linux-6-0-launches-a-systemd-free-distro-based-on-debian-13-trixie) IncusOS - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Incus-IncusOS-Announced) NVIDIA AI Stack - hpcwire.com (https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ciq-integrates-full-nvidia-ai-stack-into-rocky-linux-for-faster-deployment-and-scaling) Omnilingual ASR - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/meta-returns-to-open-source-ai-with-omnilingual-asr-models-that-can) Kimi K2 Thinking - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/moonshots-kimi-k2-thinking-emerges-as-leading-open-source-ai-outperforming) Drax - prnewswire.com (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aiola-unveils-drax-an-open-source-speech-model-with-state-of-the-art-accuracy-and-up-to-5O-faster-than-models-from-direct-competitors-302607278.html) Linux Desktop 5% - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-desktop-share-in-u-s-signaling-open-source-surge-against-windows-and-macos) 23:50 Jill Mueller - Bolt Graphics Bolt Graphics Key differences Build of the card Why did you come to Ubuntu Summit? 27:25 Antonio Salvemini - Ray Tracing Bolt Graphics Ray Tracing vs Raster Why start with FPGA? Next steps Current Stage Available 2027 Bolt Graphics (https://bolt.graphics/) Untapped markets Upgradeable GPU 34:34 No Longer Evil Thermostat Google EOLs Nest Thermostats Gen 1 and Gen 2 No Longer Evil (https://nolongerevil.com/) FULU Foundation (https://fulu.org/our-story) "Feature Complete" AXIS A1001 Good piece of hardware Reservations Connects to "No Longer Evil Server" Server planned to be open sourced Centralite Perl HA Thermostat (Zigbee) (https://www.amazon.com/Centralite-Thermostat-Xfinity-Comcast-Centrallite/dp/B01LXD3EBN) Needs to be repaired 1 or 2 times a year Temperature Sensors Govee H5075 (https://us.govee.com/products/govee-bluetooth-hygrometer-thermometer-h5075) IoT Maintenance Why temperature sensors ESP32 receive blue-tooth and send to Home Assistant -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/466) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah...

This week Steve describes what happens when you put Ai in a vacuum cleaner, give it a task, then break the charger. We catch up on your feedback questions, and of course the weekly news! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Intro Choosing what to say yes to 01:43 Cell Phone Fail Over - Brandon Redundant Internet MaxxKonnect (https://maxxkonnect.com/) ISP Negotiation 08:44 IPFire - Frederick PFSense just works Network effect OpenWRT UI/UX Design Steve's migration to OPNSense Tracking online devices 17:40 Converstaion about FastMail - Josh Steve's experience Noah's experience 22:22 Paul Reflects on discussions - Paul Struggle with value of 11 inch framework 23:28 MP3 Audio Processing - Bob Compression Dynamic Range FFMPEG ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:a loudnorm output.mp4 27:55 Question about TrueNas, Frigate and Tailscale - Chris TrueNAS "X Factor" Use Ubuntu vs TrueNAS Cockpit networking Tailscale known bug 38:23 News Wire Exim 4.99 - exim.org (https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20251028.114149.3bf19800.en.html) Squid 7.3 - github.com (https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases) Shotcut 25.10 - shotcut.org (https://shotcut.org/blog/new-release-25.10.31) Kodi 21.3 - github.com (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/releases/tag/21.3-Omega) TorBrowser 15 - torproject.com (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-150) Rust 1.91 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.91.0) Qt Creator 18 - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18-released) TheSSS 50 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/thesss) AerynOS 2025.10 - aerynos.com (https://aerynos.com/blog/2025/10/31) Fedora 43 - docs.fedoraproject.org (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/f43) CISA Warning - forbes.com (https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/11/02/ongoing-ransomware-attacks-exploit-linux-vulnerability-cisa-warns) Malicious NPM Packages - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/10-npm-packages-caught-stealing.html) Granite 4.0 Nano - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ibms-open-source-granite-4-0-nano-ai-models-are-small-enough-to-run-locally) Proximity Scanner - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/29/proximity-open-source-mcp-security-scanner) Linux Gaming Passes 3% - gamingonlinux.com (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark) 40:00 LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes Would you trust a pidgin with a task What are we learning about AI trustworthiness Putting AI in robots AI and Jobs AI hallucinations Increasing percentage of hallucinations Tricking AI models ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/llms-show-a-highly-unreliable-capacity-to-describe-their-own-internal-processes/) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/465) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément from Canonical joins Noah and Steve to talk about Ubuntu Summit 25.10. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Steve's TV Falling asleep to TV LG OLED 55A1 06:05 Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément What was out there Ubuntu CDs Working for Google Promotion Committees Putting on a Conference Abdula Developer Library Google to Canonical Ubuntu Summit Dreamworks MoonRay Microsoft & WSL Thinking Fast and Slow Reach out to people The Canonical Office 39:32 News Wire Peazip 10.7 - peazip.github.io (https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html) Calibre 8.13 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Squid Proxy 7.2 - github.com (https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/releases) Less 685 - greenwoodsoftware.com (https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less) Digikam 8.8 - digikam.org (https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-10-19-8.8.0_release_announcement) Gnome 49.1 - gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-1-released/31977) Thunderbird 144 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/144.0/releasenotes) Firefox 144 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/144.0/releasenotes) Zorin OS 18 - zorin.com (https://blog.zorin.com/2025/10/14/zorin-os-18-has-arrived) Tails 7.1 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_1) Q3 Malware Index - eweek.com (https://www.eweek.com/news/open-source-malware-2025) LinkPro Root Kit - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/linkpro-linux-rootkit-uses-ebpf-to-hide.html) Operation Zero Disco - cyberpress.org (https://cyberpress.org/cisco-snmp-vulnerability-exploited) F5 Hacked - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/f5-breach-exposes-big-ip-source-code.html) EdenSpark - gamingonlinux.com (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/gaijin-announced-edenspark-an-open-source-ai-assisted-platform-for-making-games) Project CodeGuard - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/16/cisco-unveils-project-codeguard-open-source-framework-secure-ai-written-software) Coral in SL2610 SoCs - cnx-software.com (https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/17/google-open-source-coral-npu-synaptics-sl2610-edge-ai-socs) AI and Cerebral Palsy - globenewswire.com (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/10/16/3168076/0/en/Open-Source-AI-Tool-by-Yandex-Detects-Signs-of-Infant-Cerebral-Palsy-With-Over-90-Accuracy.html) Mysql 9.5.0 - mysql.com (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.5/en/news-9-5-0.html) SuperTuxKart 1.5 - supertuxkart.net (https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page.html) KDE Plasma 6.5 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0) Fedora 43 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Release-Day) Zorin saw 300,000 Downloads - reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1oih2hv/zorin_os_18_has_already_hit_over_300000_downloads) Qilin Malware - trendmicro.com (https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/j/agenda-ransomware-deploys-linux-variant-on-windows-systems.html) Lightricks LTX-2 - prnewswire.com (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lightricks-releases-ltx-2-the-first-complete-open-source-ai-video-foundation-model-302593012.html) MiniMax-M2 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/minimax-m2-is-the-new-king-of-open-source-llms-especially-for-agentic-tool) IBM Mellea - app.daily.dev (https://app.daily.dev/posts/ibm-s-mellea-tackles-open-source-ai-s-hidden-weakness-xqmwbepaq) 90% of Games Run on Linux - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/nearly-90-percent-of-windows-games-now-run-on-linux-latest-data-shows-as-windows-10-dies-gaming-on-linux-is-more-viable-than-ever) boilingsteam.com (https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high) 42:55 F5 Breach Claims Nation State Level Attack Effect of Breach Disclosure laws If you can get the info off your system, do so F5 Competitors MetalLB (https://github.com/metallb/metallb) HA Proxy (https://www.haproxy.org/) theregister.com...

This week we answer your questions, then dig into OpenShift vs. Kubernetes operators, give some updated options for email hosting, and talk about the dangers of Ai. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro AI war stories Content Warning Dangers of AI AIs are sycophants 10:00 News Wire ClamAV 1.5 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/clamav-1-5-0-released) Wireshark 4.6 - wireshark.org (https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.6.0) KDE Frameworks 6.19 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.19.0) Qt 6.10 - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.10-released) 6.16 - kernelnewbies.org (https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.16) NordVPN - techradar.com (https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/nordvpn-just-made-its-linux-gui-app-open-source-and-theres-more-on-the-way) T2 25.10 - level1techs.com (https://forum.level1techs.com/t/t2-linux-25-10-never-obsolete-keeps-32-bit-and-big-endian-risc-alive/238216) Ubuntu 25.10 - canonical.com (https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka) Linux Mint LMDE 7 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-LMDE-7) Winux W10EOL - betanews.com (https://betanews.com/2025/10/13/rip-windows-10-winux-w10eol-is-the-windows-11-clone-that-runs-on-linux-and-makes-your-old-pc-feel-new-again) Nezha Gh0st RAT - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/chinese-hackers-weaponize-open-source.html) Secure Boot Bypass - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secure-boot-bypass-risk-on-nearly-200-000-linux-framework-sytems) ksmbd File System Vulnerability - cyberpress.org (https://cyberpress.org/linux-kernel-ksmbd-filesystem-vulnerability) Kali Linux 2025.3 Gemini CLI - linkedin.com (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/kali-linux-20253-introduces-gemini-cli-automate-qmd4e) React Foundation - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/135353/meta-transfers-react-to-linux-foundation) 11:45 OpenShift vs. Kubernetes Operators - Tiny OpenShift Helm Chart Operators OKD 20:30 Email - JJ_4884 Proton Mail Email aliases Zero inbox Kanban swim lanes Why Steve manages things Fastmail Mail in a Box 46:20 Analog Audio Recordings Saving cassette audio Will you be able to open things in the future? Quality Dual head tape deck -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/463) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week it's all about your feedback! We answer your questions, and dig through your problems! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Hallucinating 03:45 Friso from Mumble Moving all chats to one application Matrix Server Bridges Beeper Messages not flowing Self hosting beeper bridges E2EE 12:05 Security Cameras - Dustin Used Axis cameras Reolink Camera's POE Ethernet only models Some models require Reolink app for first setup Doorbell camera Steve's "doorbell camera flow" Surveillance Station Get one drive Reduce frame rate Weeks worth of footage Axis camera 2035 or 2036 Axis P3367 Write back in! 24:04 Laptops - Dasgeek Framework 12 Framework 12 vs Framework 13 25:45 News Wire Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.0 - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/06/proxmox-mail-gateway-open-source-email-security-solution) GnuCash 5.13 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml) GNU Octave 10.3 - octave.org (https://octave.org/news/release/2025/10/01/octave-10.3.0-released.html) OpenSSL 3.6 - openssl-library.org (https://openssl-library.org/post/2025-10-01-3.6-release-announcement) Docker 28.5 - docker.com (https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/28) Cairo-Dock 3.6 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cairo-Dock-3.6-Released) GNU Linux Libre Kernel 6.17 - gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-09/msg00007.html) Tinycore 16.2 - tinycorelinux.net (https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27807.0.html) Opensuse Leap 16 - opensuse.org (https://get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0) Spine Endoscopic Atlas - nature.com (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05897-7) Huawei Shrinks LLMs - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/huaweis-new-open-source-technique-shrinks-llms-to-make-them-run-on-less) 4th Version of Granite AI - techrepublic.com (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ibm-granite-40-ai) Granite AI Earns ISO 42001 - ibm.com (https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-granite-iso-42001) 27:00 Send Feedback and Questions! Newbie questions welcome Fastest way to learn is immerse yourself Experts welcome too Email in! Follow up 30:45 Linux Basics - Kevin The bell story Level of learning GUI vs CLI Learning styles Ask your Linux friends Ask a LLM SIMPLE things Get hands on using it Set your expectations Tails Linux (https://tails.net/) Reproducibility Endless OS (https://www.endlessglobal.com/) Distro Hop Fedora (https://fedoraproject.org//) Ubuntu Arch Linux (https://archlinux.org/) Tiling window manager RHCSA and other Red Hat exams Canonical Academy ANS 437 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/437) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/462) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

F-Droid is going away if Google continues down the path of requiring that developers register their apps through Google. Jellyfin has a big update, and Steve joins the program from Texas and shares about what he's doing there. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Steve remote from Texas Talking to a someone in the same space Advantage of Face to Face 08:15 Operese Windows 11 requires certain hardware Microsoft will play games with Windows 10 updates Windows to Linux migration tool Use case Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/Operese/operese) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUkD5oslmc) Nixbook (https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook) vs EndlessOS Immutable Distros Alloy (https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/) Tailscale 21:50 News Wire GNU Coreutils 9.8 - gnu.org (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html) Postgres 18 - postgresql.org (https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142) GROOT Robot Model - yahoo.com (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-launches-open-source-physics-183426533.html) OBS Studio 32.0 - github.com (https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases) RPM 6.0 - rpm.org (https://rpm.org/releases/6.0.0) Linux 6.17 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-Released) Kaosx 2025.09 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos09) Kali Linux 2025.3 - kali.org (https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-3-release) NeptuneOS 9.0 - neptuneos.com (https://neptuneos.com/en/news-reader/neptuneos-9-0-maja-released.html) MemVerge AI Memory Layer - blocksandfiles.com (https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/24/memverges-ambitious-long-context-ai-memmachine-memory) Song-Prep - huggingface.co (https://huggingface.co/tencent/SongPrep-7B) 1T Parameter Model - huggingface.co (https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ring-1T-preview) CISA Sudo Vulnerability - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/cisa-sounds-alarm-on-critical-sudo-flaw.html) 23:05 F-Droid and Developer Registration F-Droid's stance Principles and Trust Model Older phones Google decides what can run on your phone Forcing phone use Alternative Options People clinging to proprietary solutions Historic cycle of open-closed-open F-Droid Post (https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html) The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/?td=rt-3a) 43:49 Jellyfin EFCore Migration RCs are up PLEASE TEST! Database migration completed DO NOT INTERRUPT on first boot Some plugins will need time to upgrade 32bit ARM deprecated Kodi as a front end to Jellyfin Pinchflat (https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat) Jellyfin Hedgedoc (https://notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_features#) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/461) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)

This week Noah and Steve dig into an npm attack that Red Hat has issued an alert for. We talk about small and portable laptops, and of course answer your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro ZFS Win Meld (https://meldmerge.org/) Domain knowledge scaling 07:32 NPM Supply Chain Attack No compromised packages used in Red Hat software NPM and Node.js What the malicious code does Red Hat is on top of it Reaction to finding a compromise Red Hat Article (https://access.redhat.com/security/supply-chain-attacks-NPM-packages) Aikido Article 1 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/popular-nx-packages-compromised-on-npm) Aikido Article 2 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised) Aikido Article 3 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again) 18:21 Registrar - Josh CloudFlare PorkBun (https://porkbun.com/) Great Nerds 21:47 Small Laptop - Ziggy HP ProBook Noah's GPD Pocket v1 Surface Pro 1 Dell Latitude 2 in 1 StarLabs Star Lite (https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite) 34:56 Ham Radio - Brett Open Source Ham Radio Plan to sell a kit Have a prototype Reddit Post (https://www.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/s/TTodwCYuyG) Arkos Engineering (https://arkosengineering.com/) HT-15 GitHub (https://github.com/Arkos-Engineering/HT-15) 37:58 News Wire Systemd 258 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-258) Rust 1.90 - rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/Rust-1.90.0) Gnome 49 - gnome.org (https://release.gnome.org/49) Firefox 143 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/143.0/releasenotes) Thunderbird 143 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/143.0/releasenotes) Rayhunter - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/17/rayhunter-eff-open-source-tool-detect-cellular-spying) TernFS - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/TernFS-File-System-Open-Source) BCacheFS DKMS - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/19/bcachefs-is-now-a-dkms-module-after-exile-from-the-linux-kernel) Tails 7.0 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_0) Porteux - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v2.3) Oreon 10 - oreonproject.org (https://oreonproject.org/oreon-10) Azure Linux 3.0 - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/microsoft-releases-azure-linux-3-0-with-optional-6-12-lts-kernel) Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B - marktechpost.com (https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/09/18/alibaba-releases-tongyi-deepresearch-a-30b-parameter-open-source-agentic-llm-optimized-for-long-horizon-research) Qwen3-Omni - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinas-alibaba-challenges-u-s-tech-giants-with-open-source-qwen3-omni-ai) AI Risks - scmp.com (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326214/deepseek-warns-jailbreak-risks-its-open-source-models) Hugging Face GitHub CoPilot Integration - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/hugging-face-vscode) 40:06 OBS OBS 32.0 Pipewire video capture Lots of other features Pipewire is professional qpwgraph (https://github.com/rncbc/qpwgraph) 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-32-0-pipewire-video-capture-improvements-basic-plugin-manager) 44:53 Tails on Trixie Tails teaches you reproduce-ability Privacy tools Changes New min requirements Persistent Apps 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-0-anonymous-linux-os-released-based-on-debian-13-trixie) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/460) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a...