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!
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00:48 Olympia Mike Insperation
ANS 439 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/439)
Sorting out details
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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
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