Ask Noah Show

• Episode 443: Ask Noah Show 443

  This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us and we talk about RHEL AI, quantum computing, and we get an update as to where Red Hat landed with all the licensing drama from a few years ago. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Real ID Real ID Act from 20 years ago Problems with Real ID Canadian Central Government Alternatives to Real ID Surrendering information "Be Your Real Self" Government creating problems they can solve No one wants to admit they are wrong EFF.org (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/security-theater-realized-and-flying-without-real-id) 12:57 News Wire Firefox 139 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/139.0/releasenotes/) Firefox shutting down Pocket - mozilla.org (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket) Linux 6.15 - kernelnewbies.org (https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.15) Most of WSL Open Source - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-finally-open-sources-most-of-windows-subsystem-for-linux/) NixOS 25.05 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/) RHEL 10 - redhat.com (https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux-10) AlmaLinux 9.6 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-20-almalinux_96_release/) Fedora Removes X11 - pagure.io (https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3408) Karton - blogs.kde.org (https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/18/gsoc-2025-project-intro-developing-karton-the-kde-virtual-machine-manager/) SMB Server Zero Day - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/linux-kernel-zero-day-smb-vulnerability/) Devstral - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-launches-devstral-powerful-new-open-source-swe-agent-model-that-runs-on-laptops/) LlamaFirewall - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/05/26/llamafirewall-open-source-framework-detect-mitigate-ai-centric-security-risks/) Woodpecker - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/21/operant-ai-launches-woodpecker-bring-open-source-red-teaming-ai-cloud-environments/) 14:25 Mike McGrath - VP of Software engineering Have things calmed down? Red Hat and Communities RHEL 10 RHEL Lightspeed Mike McGrath's background Lightspeed vs Search Engine CentOS Stream SIGs & community Upstream and CentOS Stream RHEL AI RHEL AI "developer license" How is AI effecting RHEL? Is the OS a "bootloader" for AI? Agentic AI Post Quantum attacks 39:33 OPNSense What Steve and Noah run at home Netgate/PFSense have done shady things ycombinator.com (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36489192) reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ssk8zj/til_in_2017_pfsense_netgate_had_to_hand_over/) PFSense Requires an account to download Can't virtualize Can't between CE and Appliance Starts at ~$1000 Many devices failed, soldered in Netgate hardware doesn't meet PFSense Standards Zero Support No update cadence Can't reliably automate PFSense OPNSense Fork of PFSense Much nicer interface DHCP backend switching Always moving forward Hardware device doesn't have weird VLAN bonding Newegg (https://www.newegg.com/p/22Z-007C-003M8?Item=9SIAK3UGAF5164) Up date cadence Shop and kids router changed over Steve's attempt to migrate -- 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/443) 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) Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

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• Ask Noah Show 442

  This week we're live from Red Hat Summit! We talk security, evolving threats, and Steve gives an update on his journey with his new graphics card. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Vincent Danen - VP of Product Security You can secure your own data on premise Cloud you loose some control Supply chain attacks Where do you get your news? Hacker News Naked Security IBM security feed The Register AI for security Agentic workflows AI attack vectors "Slop squatting" Sanitizing AI input Guard rails 23:48 News Wire Calibre 8.4 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Nmap 7.96 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/nmap-7-96-launches/) Mesa 25.1 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Linux Kernel 6.15 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/linux_kernel_drops_486/) Plamo Linux 8.2 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Rust Sudo & Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/adopting-sudo-rs-by-default-in-ubuntu-25-10/60583) Deepin Desktop Removed From openSUSE Repos - opensuse.org (https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html) Fedora 42 WLS - theregister (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/fedora_42_wsl2_official/) ClickFix - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-testing-clickfix-attacks-against-linux-targets/) NordVPN Linux GUI - computerweekly.com (https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/NordVPN-goes-full-GUI-on-Linux) Fake AI Videos & Noodlophile - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ai-video-generators-drop-new-noodlophile-infostealer-malware/) Reachy 2 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/huggingface-reachy-robot/) OpenVision - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-fully-open-source-vision-encoder-openvision-arrives-to-improve-on-openais-clip-googles-siglip/) Open WebUI - reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1kfhkal/open_webui_is_no_longer_open_source/) 26:00 Steve's GPU Travels Swapped the graphics card Custom Arch install GPU requires beta drivers ZFS on root and boot menu beta drivers require newer kernel DKMS Nvidia drivers Flatpaks are broken Picking the problem you want to solve What would you change? 36:48 Flatpak Problems Flatpaks use drivers Some launched some didn't Can't find some files on the system 42:50 Solar Panels - Tony Solar on a vehicle is great! Product vs system 12v vs 24v Jackery Inverter vs Micro Inverters Brands for a "product solution" Anker EcoFlow Make sure to get a LFP (LifePO4) model HQST PV Panels (https://hqsolarpower.com/products/solar-panels/) Monocrystalline 9BB or 10BB HQST MPPT Charge Controller (https://hqsolarpower.com/20a-mppt-solar-charge-controller-with-parallel-charging-bluetooth) 20 amp, consider the 60 amp LiTime (https://www.litime.com/) Pick a "Self Heating" SOK Battery (https://www.us.sokbattery.com/) Metal case batteries can be "rebuilt/repaired" Brands to consider Victron Epoch Battries (https://www.epochbatteries.com/collections/rv-van-camper-lithium-batteries) Renogy (https://www.renogy.com/) Brands listed above Brands to avoid GoalZero Any "Chineseium" 48:50 Cassette Tape Restoration - William Professional Services Local University Reach out to Noah/Altispeed -- 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/442) 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)

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• Ask Noah Show 441

  This week we dig into why and how Canonical designed and implemented Matrix. Noah gives an update to his solar project, and discovers some open source solutions for solar! -- During The Show -- 00:48 Olympia Mike Insperation ANS 439 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/439) Sorting out details Please give us feedback! Pair with homeless shelter Pair with food bank Technical details Windows 10 deadline coming Lowering friction 09:55 Solar Camera Update Panel brings in enough power Switch arrived, worked great SolarPoint Had to RMA Will R&D Issues with SolarPoint Renogy Charge Controller Victron Push the Victron Connect App Victron has a commitment to open source Victron GX controller Bare wire ends GX software on a raspberry pi 23:20 News Wire Calibre 8.4 - calibre-ebook.com (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new) Nmap 7.96 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/nmap-7-96-launches/) Mesa 25.1 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Linux Kernel 6.15 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/linux_kernel_drops_486/) Plamo Linux 8.2 - plamolinux.org (https://plamolinux.org/posts/2025-05-07-plamo-8.2-released/) Rust Sudo & Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/adopting-sudo-rs-by-default-in-ubuntu-25-10/60583) Deepin Desktop Removed From openSUSE Repos - opensuse.org (https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/07/deepin-desktop-removal.html) Fedora 42 WLS - theregister (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/fedora_42_wsl2_official/) ClickFix - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-now-testing-clickfix-attacks-against-linux-targets/) NordVPN Linux GUI - computerweekly.com (https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/NordVPN-goes-full-GUI-on-Linux) Fake AI Videos & Noodlophile - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ai-video-generators-drop-new-noodlophile-infostealer-malware/) Reachy 2 - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/huggingface-reachy-robot/) OpenVision - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-fully-open-source-vision-encoder-openvision-arrives-to-improve-on-openais-clip-googles-siglip/) Open WebUI - reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1kfhkal/open_webui_is_no_longer_open_source/) 25:18 Minimalism Minimum viable battle station Tails (https://tails.net/) Reproduce-ability Linux Fest Northwest Laptop NixOS re-install Can't auto mount usb drives Dark theme 31:00 Matrix Interview Nils Buchner Matrix rabbit hole Ubuntu & Matrix Chat Ubuntu Juju setup Other Setup methods Where can Matrix grow/improve? Next steps for the Ubuntu Matrix server? Matrix clients Element (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/element/) Cinny (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/cinny/) Nheko (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/nheko/) Matrix client matrix (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/) Network effect Distros installing matrix clients 43:00 Juju & Charms Interview Merlijn Sebrechts Juju and Charms Abstraction Code re-use Where Juju and Charms work well Knowledge needed Making better charms 52:20 Continue Being a Petri dish Ansible is the biggest hammer Nix Juju -- 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/441) 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) Show Notes & Podcast Download available at http://podcast.asknoahshow.com Support us on Patreon ------------- https://www.patreon.com/linuxdelta --- Connect with us! --- On Twitter ------------------------ https://twitter.com/asknoahshow On Facebook ----------------------- https://www.facebook.com/asknoahshow Email The Show -------------------- [email protected] • Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2025 •

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• Ask Noah Show 440

  This week Noah tells the story of how Altispeed built a solar system for a remote camera for a daycare. Tiny joins to discuss the value of metric and why he believes Victoria Metrics does it better. -- During The Show -- 00:55 Graphics Cards When do you update graphics cards Watching prices, trying to buy Bought 5060ti Quadro P6000 Sold in 2 Min What is driving the cost? Over Time "Unplugging" Mature Leaders High Intensity/Surge Seasons Talking through movies 16:05 Solar Camera System Camera's on a playground Trenching and conduit Hanging wire from utility poles Shed with no power or network Solar powered camera setup Greentech Renewables (https://www.greentechrenewables.com) Noah's Battery Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKNJ5ZBP?) LiTime (https://www.litime.com/products/litime-12v-100ah-lithium-lifepo4-battery) Unifi SunMax SolarPoint Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sunmax-SolarPoint/dp/B0965KBVFM/) Trouble shooting, lay it out first Nano Beams 5AC Axis Camera Industrial 24v Switch Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWN147HZ?) Enphase System Metrics, data nerds Victoria Metrics (https://victoriametrics.com/) Victoria Metrics Docs (https://docs.victoriametrics.com/guides/) Grafana (https://grafana.com/) Solar Cable Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BYGJGTB?) MC4 Crimper Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKTFRSZ4?) HQST Solar (https://hqsolarpower.com/) SOK Battery (https://www.us.sokbattery.com/) Victron Charge Controllers (https://www.victronenergy.com/solar-charge-controllers) 48:30 Sustainability ANS 424 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/424) Reproduce-ability Minimalism Access Control System News Wire Deluge 2.2.0 - deluge.readthedocs.io (https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/deluge-2.2.0/) OpenZFS 2.3.2 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.3.2-Released) Bleachbit 500 - bleachbit.org (https://www.bleachbit.org/news/bleachbit-500) Thunderbird 138.0 - Thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/138.0/releasenotes/) Firefox 138.0 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/138.0/releasenotes/) QBittorrent 5.1.0 - qbittorrent.org (https://www.qbittorrent.org/news) Redis Open Source Again - thenewsstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/redis-is-open-source-again/) Tails 6.15 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_15/) 4MLinux 48.0 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com (https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com/2025/04/4mlinux-480-stable-released.html) Commodore OS 3 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/commodore_os_3/) AnduinOS - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-windows-11-like-linux-distribution-is-aimed-squarely-at-developers/) Malicious Go Modules - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/malicious-go-modules-deliver-disk.html) AI Threat Defense - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/rsac-2025-cisco-and-meta-put-open-source-ai-at-the-heart-of-enterprise-threat-defense/) Meta's AI Model Goes to Space - fb.com (https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/space-llama-metas-open-source-ai-model-heading-into-orbit/) Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-launches-fully-open-source-transcription-ai-model-parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v2-on-hugging-face/) LTXV-13B - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/06/lightricks-shakes-ai-video-creation-powerful-open-source-model/) Linux Inside MS Excel - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/developer-gets-linux-running-inside-microsoft-excel-mostly-for-fun) -- 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/440) 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)

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• Ask Noah Show 439

  This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Generosity Experiencing generosity A bunch of computers about to flood the market 03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike) Used laptop during Covid19 Became known for used laptops Company gifts used laptops Closing the technical divide Updates Package Confusion NixOS Olympia Mike's nixbook (https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook) How to help out Powerwashing 13:15 Noah's Nixbook Experience Give Noah a toy and remove distractions for 5+ hours Throw out everything you know Where NixOS fits Rollback functionality Going to drive Nixbook till hitting a roadblock Can't live in a flatpak world Ansible is the hammer that hits the most nails How long to get up and running on Nix Have to adopt the "nix way" NixOS Flakes (https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/introduction/) Nix Language (https://nix.dev/tutorials/nix-language) 31:25 News Wire Nginx 1.28.0 - unit.nginx.org (https://unit.nginx.org/news/2022/unit-1.28.0-released/) GCC 15.1 - devclass.com (https://devclass.com/2025/04/28/gnu-compiler-collection-15-1-released-cobol-support-improved-rust-compatibility-concerns/) Cosmic Alpha.7 - blog.system76.com (https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta) QEMU 10.0 - qemu.org (https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.0) Chainguard $356M Raised - bankinfosecurity.com (https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/chainguard-raises-356m-to-protect-open-source-supply-chain-a-28075) Open Source 5G/6G Software - breakingdefense.com (https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/pentagon-seeks-open-source-software-for-5g-6g-networks/) Crux 3.8 - crux.nu (https://crux.nu/Main/ReleaseNotes3-8) Archcraft Prime ISO - wiki.archcraft.io (https://wiki.archcraft.io/news/49-news-release) 4mLinux 48.0 Stable - 4mlinux.com (https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home) Openmandriva 6.0 - wiki.openmandriva.org (https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/distribution/releases/omlx60/new) Kali Linux Warning - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key/) Attack of the Vsock - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/critical-linux-kernel-flaw/) ARES Robot Data Platform - a16z.com (https://a16z.com/ares-an-open-source-platform-for-robot-data/) Qwen3 - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibaba-launches-open-source-qwen3-model-that-surpasses-openai-o1-and-deepseek-r1/) 33:00 Community How your self branding and its effects Noah's experience with a young man Noah's negative experience People remember how you make them feel and that reflects on communities There is what is said and what is received How to deliver messages Dinner example 41:20 OsmAnd - Richard Garmin Device Waze OsmAnd (https://osmand.net/) Fdroid OsmAnd (https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/) 45:28 Drive Rotation Off site backup - Kevin The back up plan you understand is the best Not doing anything un-usual A few concerns Hardware cycling HDD destruction -- 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/439) 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)

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