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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

Steve is in Vegas

Noah "getting deals"

04:37 Lossless Cut

Reached for Avidemux

Avoiding re-encoding

Learning a new program

Lossless Cut Webpage

Lossless Cut GitHub

08:30 OmniTools

Small docker image

Does everything in the web browser

OmniTools GitHub

12:43 NLSH

For people who want to learn the CLI

Translates natural language into CLI

Making things easy can backfire

NLSH GitHub

16:00 Xyops

Features:

Job scheduling

Workflow automation

Server monitoring

Alerting

Incident response

Self Hosted

Open Source

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

Use python to host a web server

Used for file transfers

Use case

Steve's travel router

24:17 Proxy RCE - PSA

Basics of the problem

grahamhelton.com

26:30 Matter Camera

1920x1080 30fps

Synology App to turn a phone into a camera

linuxgizmos.com

30:06 MS Gives Keys to FBI

Microsoft confirms they gave the FBI BitLocker keys

~ 20 requests per year

Home users forced to upload keys

Jump through hoops to avoid uploading

Encryption is only as good as who holds the keys

Pragmatism

aardwolfsecurity.com

ArsTechnica

35:20 Linux Continuity

Continuity document merged into Kernel docs

theregister.com

36:40 John Terrill

PR in open source

Branding open source

One size fits all projects

Extracting technical knowledge

Technical accuracy

How to talk with journalists

Separating personal views from project views

Negative coverage

Messaging guidelines

Branding and marketing

Attracting media attention

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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

XCA

Certificate Authority

ACME

LDAP

Kerberos

Steve's use of LDAP

LDAP with PKI link

ACME and Domain registrars

dot tk

Ansible collection

19:19 Ebook Management - Jeremy

Steve went to audio books

Calibre

PDF manuals folder

Audio bookshelf

Paperless NGX

23:50 Light Sync - Peter

UltraStar Deluxe

Animux

USBD_Syncer

Doing events

Why Noah likes Karaoke

Effect of "shared experiences"

Steve's Christmas tree lights

DMX lighting

WLED Project

33:03 News Wire

Firefox 147 - firefox.com

Thunderbird 147 - thunderbird.net

Grub 2.14 - phoronix.com

Gnome 49.3 - discourse.gnome.org

Wine 11 - theregister.com

Q4OS 6.5 - q4os.org

Endeavour OS Genymede Neo - endeavouros.com

Tails 7.4 - torproject.org

Linux Mint 22.3 - blog.linuxmint.com

BeaglePlay PowerVR - phoronix.com

StackChan - cnx-software.com

Mentra's Smart Glasses - engadget.com

VoidLink - checkpoint.com darkreading.com csoonline.com

Boltz-1 - labmanager.com

Photoshop on Linux - videocardz.com

No Commits to MySQL Repo - devclass.com

Senate Inquiry - jdsupra.com

EU Tech Sovereignty - cybernews.com biometricupdate.com

35:03 SysAdmins & Smartphones

Lowering friction

Graphical vs CLI

Webzfs

Exposing ZFS via Web UI

Cockpit

Putting Webzfs into Cockpit

Write in!

43:43 New ESP32

ESP32-E22

Tri-band WiFi

What is an ESP32

Steve's use of ESP32

Bandwidth

Getting started with ESP32

linuxgizmos.com

48:05 AI Hardware Run

RAM spikes 300%-400%

SSD price spikes

Fab Capacity

Bitcoin effect

ARS Technica

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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 feedback

Round 1 deployment recap

Round 2 deployment recap

Latest breakage

Things Steve likes about Immich

Ente 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

Doxygen 1.16 - doxygen.nl

Windowmaker Live 13.3 - wmlive.sourceforge.net

Budgie 10.10 - buddiesofbudgie.org

Pentoo 2026.0 - pentoo.ch

Nitrix 5.1 - nxos.org

Debian 13.3 - debian.org

Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com

Bose Open Sources Speakers - designboom.com

UAT-7290 - thehackernews.com

GoBruteforcer - darkreading.com

VoidLink - thehackernews.com

NousCoder-14B - venturebeat.com

Razer AI Kit - techpowerup.com

17:55 Caller

Btrfs Assistant

Restoring btrfs snapshots

Base vs incremental snapshots

Framework Knowledge Base

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

Virtual instruments

Hammer graded controllers

Semi weighted keys

Synth Keys

Akai Professional MPK Mini Plus Amazon

VST3

MT Powerdrum

Tal Base Line 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

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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

Ncurses 6.6 - phoronix.com

OpenTTD 15.0 - openttd.org

QPrompt 2.0 - patreon.com

Mkvtoolnix 97 - mkvtoolnix.download

Privoxy 4.1 - sourceforge.net

OpenBGPD 9.0 - bsdsec.net

IceWM - debugpoint.com

Devuan 6.1 - phoronix.com

Manjaro 26.0 - manjaro.org

Qwen Text to Image - venturebeat.com

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

ADB Backup Caveat

45:09 KVM Switch? - Jeremy

Now use remote software

Barrier

Synergy

Deskflow

IO Gear KVM

Rust Desk

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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

Motherboards and RAM prices

ASRock

ASUS

18:04 News Wire

Lua 5.5 - lua.org

Ruby 4.0 - ruby-lang.org

QEMU 10.2 - wiki.qemu.org

Pinta 3.1 - omgubuntu.co.uk

Voyager 13.2 - voyagerlive.org

Nobara 43 - nobaraproject.org

Porteux 2.5 - distrowatch.com

Parrot 7.0 - parrotsec.org

PostmarkOS 25.12 - postmarketos.org

Elementary OS 8.1 - elementary.io

MinIO in Maintenance Mode - infoq.com

KawaiiGPT - opensourceforu.com

Z.ai - businesswire.com

Chatterbox Turbo - the-decoder.com

18:57 Listener responds to self hosted - Josh

Setup SSO

PocketID

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

Email threat model

32:54 Expedition 33

Expedition 33

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

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