Ask Noah Show

-- During The Show -- 01:27 Caller Harvey Android kills permissions 07:50 Plugs Send in home automation questions Send in Mycroft Questions SCALE 2022 - July 28-31, 2022 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport in Los Angeles, CA. 08:11 News Wire Samsung NPU Kernel Patches Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samsung-Trinity-NPU-Linux-AI) Asahi Linux on M1 Ultra and M2 Infoq (https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/07/Asahi-linux-m2-support/) Unreal Engine Properly Released on Linux Gaming on Linux (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/07/unreal-engine-5-editor-quietly-gets-a-proper-linux-version/) Nvidia AI and ML updates Venture Beat (https://venturebeat.com/2022/07/25/nvidia-ai-enterprise-2-1-bolsters-support-for-open-source/) Developer and IT Professionals Survey Arnnet (https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/700120/majority-open-source-developers-eyeing-job-change/) Info World (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3668248/majority-of-open-source-developers-eyeing-job-change-edb-survey.html) LibreOffice 7.3.5 Document Foundati

This week we talk about things you want to be aware of before putting self hosted services on the wide open internet! -- During The Show -- 02:50 Power Monitoring, Home Assistant - Andy Basic CT Clamps and ESP32 Home Assistant and MQTT Steve's power monitoring setup Mosquitto MQTT (https://mosquitto.org/) Steve's Device Emporia (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R11H2Q2/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Be Careful Power is Dangerous 14:42 Privacy on Android - Chas What is your threat vector? Give garbage information Trusted Device? Data Service Providers collect GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org/) Noah's Approach Tin Foil OrganicMaps (https://organicmaps.app/) OSMAnd+ (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/) Aurora Store (https://auroraoss.com/) 33:40 Website / Flask WikiJS Nginx 36:50 Gadget of the Week GoControl CECOMINOD016164 HUSBZB-1 USB Hub(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GJ826F8??tag=minddripmedia-20) Zigbee and Z-Wave interface Good Linux Support 39:30 News Wire Rocky Linux 9 The Register (https://ww

Philippe Humeau joins us this hour to talk about CrowdSec - an IDS/IPS that uses crowd sourced information to evaluate threats on your network! -- During The Show -- 01:00 New Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks New Red Hat CEO (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-names-matt-hicks-president-and-chief-executive-officer) 03:44 Remove all traces of a user on logout? - Wayne TailsOS (https://tails.boum.org/) Noah's hackish solution TempFS? RamDisk? SquashFS? 'Delete' isn't a thing (Inodes) PhotoRec (https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) 09:30 Recommendations for hosting provider - Gary Gary's Site (https://www.shawanga.com/) Host Gator Self Host with Hugo Tied to Hosting provider 14:00 Listener responds about CAD on Linux - Heath FreeCAD (https://www.freecad.org/) LibreCAD (https://librecad.org/) TinkerCAD (https://www.tinkercad.com/) Run under Wine 15:30 More Info about Steve's Solar? - Ian Steve likes his EnPhase Solar (https://enphase.com/) setup Hacks Home Assistant Integration (https://github.com/b

This week we dig into containers and what it takes to get started working with them. -- During The Show -- 03:50 Central Home Directory? - Nikki Central Mounted Storage Systemd Mounting vs AutoFS UID/GID FreeIPA SystemD Auto Mount (https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Fstab_-_Use_SystemD_automount) 12:20 Linux on a Chrome book Instructions? - Pete Arch Linux Arm Wiki Write Protection Device How to use Linux on a Chromebook (https://beebom.com/how-use-linux-chromebook/) Mr Chromebox (https://mrchromebox.tech/#home) K Myers (https://kmyers.me/) 16:20 Linux on a Mac? - Jeremy rEFInd Boot Manager Elementary on a Mac (https://aroman.github.io/elementary-on-a-mac/) 17:45 RPORT? - Ryan FOSS 2FA Web App Creates VPN Tunnel 20:00 Athom Smart Home Gear - Charlie ESP Home and Aliexpress Athom Smart Open Source Firmware Athom Store (https://athom.aliexpress.com/store/5790427) 22:30 News Wire Condres OS 1.0 CondresOS (https://condresos.codelinsoft.it/index.php/blog/announce-condres-os-plasma-1-0) Porteus Linux 5.0 9 to

What do you do when your container crashes your host? Steve is back and we walk through this and other questions! -- During The Show -- 03:20 Wireguard & Modems - Norm State Tables Image loading issue Next Steps Upgrade Modem Log into Modem Replace Modem 10:30 Emby, Docker & System Resources - Mike What a container is Name Spaces CGroups Use Systemd to launch containers Manually apply CGroup controls Steve's CGroups Write Up (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/cgroups-part-one) Docker flags to limit Memory and/or CPU Usage: docker run -it --cpus="1.0" --memory="1g" 17:50 Linux and Backblaze - Keith BackBlaze B2 Protocol Dupicity Restic GPG Encrypt 20:00 IPFS to store academic papers? - BG IPFS Might work 23:30 Caller 1 Restaurant Point of Sale System Open Source POS.org (https://opensourcepos.org/) Squirrel POS (https://www.squirrelsystems.com/) Odoo POS (https://www.odoo.com/app/point-of-sale-shop) Odoo POS Hardware (https://www.odoo.com/app/point-of-sale-hardware) 27:50 Caller 2 Mesh Commander Mesh Central O

Troubleshooting is much more than solving problems. True troubleshooting is digging into the issue until you identify the root cause of the issue. This week we dig deep into the art of troubleshooting and give you some practical tips and ticks you can use to troubleshoot your way out of any issue! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Digital Signage & CCTV - Matt Xibo (https://xibo.org.uk/) Frigate (https://frigate.video/) 04:00 Rust Desk - Charlie Rust Desk (https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/releases) Video on censortube (https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=9nzHm3xGz2I) Video Shownotes for docker install (https://shownotes.opensourceisawesome.com/rustdesk/) Rport (https://rport.io) Important to offer a paid "hosted" option 11:00 Camera/NVR Combo - Mike Chinese cameras bad Used Access Cameras Might be missing peices May need to be reset May not have updates GeoVision (https://www.geovision.com.tw/) Stay away from GeoVision 360 Cameras Spork Syndrome Buy a Used Switch Synology + Survelance Station Orchard NVR (ipc

SELF 2022 is a wrap! It was a blast and now the countdown begins for SELF 2023. Has technology become so complicated that it's not approachable for many people or is there a solution? The best PDF editor for Linux, a self hosted, secure, private, cloud camera system. K9 mail becomes Thunderbird for Android, Element call enters beta 2, and KDE 5.25 is out! -- During The Show -- 01:50 Jeremy H SOGO (https://www.sogo.nu/) 03:08 Keith S * Linux BackBlaze Client? Local Encryption GPG VeraCrypt (https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html) encfs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS) and cryfs (https://www.cryfs.org/) TarSnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/) Spider Oak (https://spideroak.com/) Encryption gets weaker over time 10:06 Zac Signing PDFs? Okular (https://okular.kde.org/) PDF Studio (https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/) Pick of the Week E2E Cloud Surveillance system using Raspberry Pis and Matrix Backend (https://github.com/Open-Source-Videos/Matrix-surveillance-camera-controller) Front End (https://github.com/Open-Sourc

The web is great, but when content goes offline our only choice is resources like the way back machine. What if there was another way, a decentralized way, to publish content online? -- During The Show -- 02:10 Free Speech Feedback - Sashanoraa ANS 284 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/284) ~ 06:50 minutes in Fediverse vs Single Social Platforms 03:40 APFS Drive Mounting - Howard apfs-fuse Did not work on Linux Mint Worked on Xubuntu after installing build-essential packages apfs-fuse github (https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse) 06:20 Harvey from Grand Forks Email forwarding Email Alias Hackish Solutions 15:40 Charlie Serial Consoles Built in micro USB converter 10GBE Networking 24:41 ZFS - Jeremy partitions vs whole disks in a pool SELF Virtual Attendance 26:55 Charlie VPN Gate (https://www.vpngate.net/en/about.aspx) USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! 28:19 Junior Feed back for virtualizing CAD VPS 29:00 Kevin Smartplug issues IOS Mileage tracker OwnTracks (https://owntracks.org/) 31:00 Caleb Looking forward to SELF Lock

-- During The Show -- 01:30 Caller James from Australia Virtualize Windows+CAD? Possible solutions GPU Passthrough Off Load to server External GPU Altispeed Ansible Role (https://gitlab.com/altispeed/ansible/roles/gpupassthrough) Optimus (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/technologies/optimus/) Laptops 16:46 Listener Responds About Streaming While Traveling - Chris RAV FileHub limitations GLiNet Travel Router 20:20 NAS questions - Jeremy Synology recovery could be impossible QNap FreeNAS Mini 24:56 Listener Shines a Light on InkScape - Ishaan InkScape 1.2 (https://inkscape.org/news/2022/05/16/inkscape-12/) 27:29 Migrating No Profit to Linux? - Skyler Pain points migrating from Windows to Linux desktops Most problems are "user experience" Set expectations You can get far with web apps 34:08 Is Noah Still Using Simple Help? - Michael RustDesk (https://rustdesk.com/) Simple Help Mesh Central (https://meshcentral.com/info/) 39:40 Pick of the Week Posidon Paper (https://posidon.io/paper/) Features Highlight & S

What do you need to get a redundant virtual host system setup using Proxmox? We help Tony through this situation, as well as answer your questions! -- During The Show -- 05:55 ZFS/BTRFS & Red Hat Certs - Simon ZFS Advantages ZFS vs BTRFS Red Hat Certifications 24:42 Tech & Travel - Kevin Matrix Community Night Matrix Ansible (https://docs.minddripmedia.com/matrix-ansible/) Travel Router & NFS/SMB 29:30 Caller Tony from Canada HA Proxmox Shared Storage Steve does "You're the Client" Networking is key Next Steps Direct Attached Vs Switch SSDs vs HDDs Server Hardware Dell R540 (https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/productdetailstxn/poweredge-r540) HPE DL-380 G8/G9/G10 IX Systems Used Hardware Super Micro (What IX Systems is) SFP Switch (https://www.cdw.com/product/cisco-250-series-sg350-10sfp-switch-10-ports-managed/5171124?pfm=srh) Intel Optane SSD (https://www.newegg.com/intel-optane-ssd-905p-series-1-5tb/p/0D9-002V-003X1) Printer Woes - Jeremy Get the tarball from the site Ubuntu keeps adding the wrong printe

What precautions (if any) do you take when traveling with your electronics to another country or to a hacking conference? Noah and Steve dig into the idea of travel security. Your questions, our picks, it's a packed episode you don't want to miss! -- During The Show -- 01:50 Followup AV system - Kevin Conference PC Linux distro Ubuntu Mate 03:00 GDPR Compliant Forms for gathering feedback - Friso WuFoo Help (https://help.wufoo.com/articles/en_US/kb/wufoo-gdpr) Nextcloud Forms (https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-forms-is-here-to-take-on-gafam/) Avoid wordpress, industry moving to static sites 06:20 Users Respond to Jellyfin on Pi4 - Richard & James JellyFin on Pi4 works great! Transcoding can be limited on the Pi 13:25 ZFS Questions - Simon pushd & popd stacks Advantages/Disadvantages of ZFS Compression BTRFS Linux Ninja's BTRFS article (https://www.linuxninja.guru/why-i-avoid-using-btrfs/) Linux Ninja changed his mind! 27:15 User responds to NVR software - Pat Orchid Fusion (Multi Location) IP Configure (ht

This episode is focused on your feedback and your questions. Prebuilt NAS or custom built? What do you need for a vHost? Digital open source signage, and security camera recordings. We answer it all! -- During The Show -- 03:00 KVM Questions - Jeremy Steve's recommendations GPU considerations Creation/Destruction of VMs Vagrant Play, Document, Do it again 13:50 DIY NAS Vs Prebuilt - Charlie Used HDDs Odysee Video (https://odysee.com/@techdeals:4/usb-hard-drives-vs-synology-nas-—:2) 18:00 OpenSource Digital Signage - Peter raspisignage Github Link (https://github.com/boschkundendienst/raspisignage) German Talk (https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2021/de/programm/beitrag/193) We should put more money into open source 20:30 Termux on Android? - David https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot Steve's phone usage Noah's phone usage Apps & Privacy 27:50 Security Camera Recording - Glenn Still Early Stages Yes, bandwidth up gets saturated Data center bandwidth does not NVR in the data center Bandwidth solutions Store then up

Rolling Rhino Remix is an un-official Ubuntu flavour which converts the Ubuntu operating system into a rolling release Linux distribution. This solves an age old problem of getting up to date software on Ubuntu. -- During The Show -- 03:14 Smb and KDE - Chris D Solved! Ubuntu broke KDE by freezing FUSE 2 [kio-fuse Reddit thread] 06:30 Charlie Calls Out Steve On Free Speech - Charlie Free speech doesn't mean I have to engage with you 10:30 AV System - Kevin Industry Standard - Polycom/Cisco PC based solution + "boundary mic" PolyCom (https://www.poly.com/us/en/products/video-conferencing) Cisco Video Solutions (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collaboration/video-collaboration/index.html) Boundry Mic (https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-Cardioid-Condenser-Boundary-Microphone/dp/B0002BBOOS/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 19:25 Network Devices - Bhikhu Description of network Hub, Repeater, Bridge, Switch, Router, Gateway, Access Point, and Modem CLI Ukulele tool (https://github.com/noeddl/ukebox) 30:21 Listener

We spend most of the hour on your questions and your feedback. Elon Musk purchases and promises to make the platform more open! -- During The Show -- 02:11 Listener responds Hearing Loss - John Part 15 transmitters AM Transmitter (https://www.amazon.com/Talking-House-AM-Radio-Transmitter/dp/B00XV97XZW/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 05:30 Caller James Check out Fedora Spins (https://spins.fedoraproject.org/) Check out the "Everything image" (https://alt.fedoraproject.org/) 09:50 Listener Responds SMB Mounts in Dolphin - Chris D A way of mounting SMB share from FreeNas gvfs-smb for samba gvfs-nfs for NFS gvfs-mtp for Android MTP gvfs-goa for online accounts 14:50 Listener Responds About Maps - Charlie Organic Maps (https://organicmaps.app/) Organic Maps Fdroid (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/) Organic Maps Apple Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/organic-maps/id1567437057) 21:20 Listener Got a Job! - Howard Steve helped a listener get a job trueup.io Success is standing on a pile of failures Encrypted A

This week it's ALL feedback! We tackle your questions and your calls! -- During The Show -- Caller Josh Assistive Listening Device? Retekess (https://www.amazon.com/Transmitter-Retekess-Simultaneous-Translation-Transmission/dp/B087FJ48XC/?tag=minddripmedia-20) In Ear Monitor (IEM) (https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Professional-Transmitter-Rehearsal-Performance/dp/B09BMXGBLN/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Wireless interference Telex (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/370613-REG/Telex_71917031_SM_2_Personal_Listening.html) 10:30 Smoke Detector Feedback - Dave automationdirect.com sm120x 13:00 Ryan Follows up on Unifi layout - Ryan UAP LR Outdated? What speed do you need? Replace slowly as needed UniFi will freeze all settings on all devices until you remove outdated equipment Replace the Access Points TP Link Omada (https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/omada-sdn-access-point/) OpenWRT (https://openwrt.org/) ProxMox (https://www.proxmox.com/en/) LibVirt (https://libvirt.org/) OVirt (https://www.infoq.com/n

Fitbit announced their FDA approval to detect atrial fibrillation in their wearable. What privacy and security concerns does this pose and what can you do about it? We tackle your questions, plus the news! It's a packed week! -- During The Show -- 03:40 Response to weaponization of OSS - Jose Steve and Noah's response 14:20 Bhikhu feed back Open Snitch (https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch) 16:00 PFSense not getting DHCP - Jaren Untangle (https://www.untangle.com/shop/firewall/) Smooth Wall (https://smoothwall.org/) Shorewall (https://shorewall.org/) OpenWRT (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt_x86) VyOS (https://vyos.io/) 23:10 Transcribe Audio from Video? - HJ Simon (https://simon.kde.org/) 25:18 Backup drive question - Ishaan Luks ENCFS KDE Vaults LUX Makeuseof (https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/encrypt-files-folders-ubuntu/) VeraCrypt (https://www.veracrypt.fr/code/VeraCrypt/) Fedora Doc on encrypting drives (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/encrypting-drives-using-LUK

The Weaponization of Open Source is happening but does it enact real change or are we hurting the reputation of FOSS? We tackle your questions, your feedback and this question this week! -- During The Show -- 01:55 Authentication Options - Jordan Single Sign On (SSO) LDAP Red Hat IDM/389DS/FreeIPA OAuth Front End Proxy 08:35 Digital Announcements? - Michael Software * Tight Rope Media (https://www.trms.com/) * Screenly (https://www.screenly.io/ose/) * Yo Deck (https://www.yodeck.com/) * Pi Signage (https://pisignage.com/) * Info Beamer (https://info-beamer.com/) Hardware * Argon One Case (https://www.argon40.com/en-de/products/argon-one-v2-case-for-raspberry-pi-4) * Buy a Commercial TV 14:38 Open Source Engineering - Zac BricsCAD (https://www.bricsys.com/) 16:24 Power Monitoring Plugs - Kevin Sys Log Server MQTT OpenHAB (https://www.openhab.org/) Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) Purchased Plug (https://cloudfree.shop/product/cloudfree-smart-plug-runs-tasmota/) Tasmota Device Recovery (https://t

Erik Lietz, PE from Oakridge Engineering joins the Ask Noah Show this hour to discuss running an an engineering firm on Linux! Does it work perfectly? Does Linux leave something to be desired? We dig deep and discuss the merits of running a business on Open Source! -- During The Show -- 01:45 Hard Drive Questions - Friso Ask Ubuntu (https://askubuntu.com/questions/637450/cannot-perform-smart-data-and-self-test-on-external-hard-drive/692892#692892) No one uses SCSI or IDE today Linux Kernel Blocks ATA Pass Through on USB Segate Drives Noah and Steve's external drive methods 08:30 Router Firmware Question & Responding To Other Listener - Bhikhu Try installing kio-fuse & kdenetwork-filesharing packages Performance is not the reason for open source firmware Open source firmware provides longer updates and more features 12:50 Thoughts on Bitcoin? - Cory Decentralized We agree what has value Not controlled by government Blockchain Tech 16:17 Charlie responds to user & Speeding up internet question - Charlie Open St

In episode 274 we introduced you to block storage, in this episode we build on that to talk about storage types, and using those storage types with NAS and SAN storage. -- During The Show -- 02:11 Matrix Bridges - William JMP.chat (https://jmp.chat/) Matrix Bridge Encryption 05:30 Core Switch for Church - Kevin F5 Load Balancer 99% of the time other brands are fine HP 1950 or 1920 switches Dell Switches Pass All VLan Traffic 11:30 Google Collecting Data from phones - Charlie Register Article (https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/21/google_messages_gdpr/) Lineage OS (https://lineageos.org/) GraphineOS (https://grapheneos.org/) 21:71 Sunjam Asks If my local ISP is providing us 10G fiber...where do I get the hardware to handle it residentally? Commodity does not seem to support beyond 2.5G WAN when I checked, TIP Link or Netgear Orbi routers are costing $300-$400. PFSense/OPNSense (https://opnsense.org/) + 10 Gbps NIC Netgate 7100 1U ($1199) 23:50 JJ Asks There seems to be many anecdotal stories of how tech has i

This week we take your questions then dig into the releases that are hot this week. KDE, Gnome, Pine64, and System76 all have something for you this week! -- During The Show -- 02:10 User recommends Self Hosted Email - James Mailu (https://mailu.io/1.9/) 04:15 KDE Plasma Questions - Stephen GVfs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVfs) SystemD FSTAB mount SMB4K (https://smb4k.sourceforge.io/) 10:30 Trouble Running BricCad - Ryan BricCad (https://www.bricsys.com/) Malformed URL in AUR package Wayland permissions? strace (https://strace.io/) 13:25 Caller Jon NAS Backup Use a file system with compression Focus on data size MediaSonic Enclosure (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003X26VV4/?tag=minddripmedia-20) SpiderOak (https://spideroak.com/) Ice Drive (https://icedrive.net/) 19:40 Pick of The Week The Note Binder (https://drewtechs.net/projects/note-binder#Section1.1) Note Organizing Binder Multiple file types 22:55 News Wire [Open Source in Film Making] ProVideo Coalition (https://www.provideocoalition.com/how-open-sour