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This week we interview Avri Chen-Roth and he gives us an overview of Pocket ID! We give you the details on our upcoming Episode 500 party in the Minneapolis / St.Paul area on Tuesday August 4th 2026!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Up Coming on the Show

ANS on the air 9 years

Studio is all Linux

Telos Axia Board

Runs Linux

Moved from hardware to docker

Lost art of leveraging technology

"Glowing Box Stores"

Growing the show

Episode 500 in MN St Paul

Show is taking a pause

12:22 Avri Chen-Roth Interview

PocketID and OpenID Connect

Home lab authentication problem

Commercial solutions largely PAAS

LDAP and Active Directory

OpenID Connect

Apps don't save credentials

New open source standard

Compatible with large service providers

Passkeys

Storing passkeys

Why PocketID?

Setting up PocketID

On boarding PocketID

Converting existing accounts to PocketID

Groups

OAuth 2.0

WebAuthn

LDAP Sync

41:10 Retired Phone Computing

What to do with old cellphones

Using old phones for cluster compute

Thermal runaway

Major challenge is distributing the load

Getting Linux on the phones

research.google

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This week the boys are back at home and talk about the latest changes with coming down the line with Roku. Your questions as always go to the front of the line.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

AI doesn't make less work

Multitasking

03:50 Reolink Wifi Door Bell - Mike

Facial Recognition

08:45 Door Bells - John

10BASE-T1L

Omnitron-Systems Link

Need them at both ends

11:10 Cameras and things - xhat

Block cameras at the firewall

Updates via Home Assistant

13:00 Feedback

Please write in!

Rising tide lifts all boats

Email or call in

14:06 Roku Story

Cheap and ubiquitous

Fox bought out Roku

22 Billion

Noah's friend joining the 21st century

Nvidia Shield

OSMC Vero

Mini PC with LibreELEC

Boxy amazon

newsroom.roku.com

archive.ph

31:50 Fedora Silverblue

Portable laptop

Switching OSTrees

Budgie Desktop

Tweaking Fedora Atomic

Domain knowledge transfer

Leveraging automation

Replacing EndlessOS

Variety of OS

ZFS Boot manager

BMC IPMI

PiKVM

ASROCK Motherboards

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This week we are live from SELF! THE Alan Hicks joins the program and we talk Ai!

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Special Guest: Alan Hicks.

This week Noah and Steve talk about why they'll be at Southeast Linuxfest. Noah introduces everyone to the Ai embedded in his rental car, and the boys finally find a Z-Wave thermostat!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

When AI can be good

Conversing with AI

Varying AI model quality

Creativity and AI

Prompt engineering

Write into the show about AI

Accelerator for people already have a base skill

10:00 SELF and Picking Conferences

Self is this Weekend

Please come to SELF

Really use help Wednesday

New Venue

Why go to SELF

Conference size

Watch for the ANS meetup

15:55 Door bells - Ziggy

Steve would run Ethernet

Why WiFi cameras are bad

ReoLink Support

22:15 Thermostats - Tim

RadioThermostat CT50

Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave Programmable Thermostat (Model TH6320ZW2007)

25:30 UL Listed

UL, ETL, CE certification

European way of doing things

UL508A

Gosund Wo1 Tuya smart outlet

30:00 AI in Cars

AI built into rental

Noah's AI experience

AI Audio clips

AI engages with you

Safety concerns

Possibility of latent functionality

40:20 Age Verification

California's Digital Age Assurance Act

Open Source getting a pass in CA and CO

Privacy trade offs

Pattern of freedom and contraction

ItsFoss

48:00 OpenAI IPO

Large evaluations

Fundraising with out fundraising

May be a cash out move

Going public "opens the books"

CNBC

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This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Red Hat to talk about the relationship RHEL and their up-streams.

-- During The Show --

00:45 Intro

IT at home

Wrangling home "data center"

Noah's old strategy

Shoe makers kids have no shoes

Snowballing tech

Backups - pull vs push

Making things modular

11:10 Interesting Tech - Carey

TRMNL

Mecha Comet

GPD Micro PC 2

Value of pocket PCs

22:30 Shelly Devices and UL rated - Mike

UL Ratings

Pay attention to what you buy

Many Shelly devices are UL listed

UL listed Shelly devices are ~20% more expensive

"Harbor Freight" answer

28:30 Red Hat Vulnerabilities

Discovered and locked down in a few hours

Assume breach, change everything

Has worm like functionality

Bypassed 2FA

Multiple persistence methods

Heavily obfuscated

stepsecurity.io

36:45 Interview Mike McGrath

Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms

RHEL AI vs OpenShift AI

What did Red Hat get wrong and right over the last few years

Is AI a threat to open source?

Does going closed source actually solve anything?

CVEs

Mechanisms for community influence on RHEL

What are RHEL security best practices?

Quantum safe encryption

Install as little as possible

Image mode

Project Hummingbird

RHEL Forever

CentOS Stream and RHEL

What is an upside of CentOS Stream?

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Special Guest: Mike McGrath.