Dr. Andy Yen joins us this hour to discuss the latest features of Proton. We ask Andy about the Proton user, a French suspect that was arrested for squatting. Did ProtonMail do it's job in protecting privacy? -- During The Show -- 00:45 - Thunderbolt Dock - Aaron Lenovo Thunderbolt Dock Affiliate (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M6S81CM/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 05:00 - POE Access Points - Mark UniFi AC Pro AP (https://www.newegg.com/ubiquiti-uap-ac-pro/p/N82E16833664026) WifiAnalyzer (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vrem.wifianalyzer/) Approximately 50ft apart/20DB Signal Separation TP Link Omada (https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/ceiling-mount-access-point/) 11:30 - Locally Managed WiFi 6 AP - Eric UniFi Cloudkey (https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-accessories/products/unifi-cloudkey) UniFi Docker Controller (https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-unifi-controller) UniFI AP 6 lite (https://store.ui.com/products/unifi-ap-6-lite) Ruckus (https://www.commscope.com/product-type/enterprise-networking/wireless-access-points/indoor/) 16:30 - Audio Hardware Recommendations - Rick Balanced vs Unbalanced (https://www.aviom.com/blog/balanced-vs-unbalanced/) Studio Hub (https://studiohub.com/adapters/) Volumio (https://volumio.org/) 23:00 - Ham Radio SDR Application - Charlie SDR++ (Open Source crossplatform Ham Radio/SDR program) SDR++ Sourcecode (https://github.com/AlexandreRouma/SDRPlusPlus) YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNhh9eueYZg) 23:40 Pick of the Week Bash Crawl (https://gitlab.com/slackermedia/bashcrawl) 24:40 Gadget of the Week Bangle Smart Watch (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/09/bangle-js-2-is-a-hackable-open-source-smartwatch-that-runs-javascript) 25:40 Andy Yen/Protonmail Interview Proton Calendar Open Source Third Party Audits Surveillance based advertising Climate Activist Arrest Situation Email vs VPN privacy Operational Security/Threat Modeling Privacy Decrypted (https://protonmail.com/blog/introducing-privacy-decrypted/) What is next for Protonmail? 51:00 PinePhone Pro Released Pine64 Blog Post (https://www.pine64.org/2021/10/15/october-update-introducing-the-pinephone-pro/) PC Mag Article (https://www.pcmag.com/news/pinephone-pro-399-linux-smartphone-launches) 53:30 Ubuntu 21.10 Released XDA Article (https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-21-10-arrives/) -- 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/255) 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 Guests: Dr. Andy Yen and Steve Ovens.

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Episode 255: Decrypting Privacy with Dr. Andy Yen

This episode we focus on your questions! How to build a NAS? Best remote desktop software? We cover it all! Mozilla announced Firefox Suggest. FreeNAS and NextCloud are in a new partnership, and a self hosted server system for layman. -- During The Show -- Steve's House Moving the NOC Uplift Desk (https://www.upliftdesk.com/) Caller Chris Prosumer TV injector Use RF Modulator Cabletronix RF Modulators (https://www.cabletronix.com/products/products2.php?cat2=60) STI Desimator (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B075FDL4VZ/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 15:40 Caller James Sunfounder (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FHF7H3L/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Screen Size/Resolution Considerations 22:22 New Laptop Suggestions? - Lou X1 Carbon T14s AMD Gen 2 X1 Yoga Gen 6 Framework Laptop XPS 13 System76 Lemur Pro Asus Zephrus G14 with 3060 Razor Blade 14 with 3060 28:02 Recommendation for NAS? - Chris Xeon-D D-1612 Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F Raspberry Pi 4 Ryzen 3 CPU and Motherboard Fractal Design Node 804 Case (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K6OVG0I/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Fractal Design Define 7 XL (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08146GB6Y/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Backup Software TrueNAS OpenMediaVault Low Power Celeron Motherboard (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CJTRT3R/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Pine64 NAS Case (https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64-metal-desktop-nas-casing/) Restic (https://restic.net/) BareOS (https://www.bareos.com/) 36:44 Running OpenRGB as root - Erick Use a SystemD Unit File ``` [Unit] Description=Run openrgb server After=network.target lm_sensors.service [Service] Type=forking RemainAfterExit=yes ExecStart=/usr/bin/openrgb --server --startminimized Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ``` 38:23 Helm Email Server - Anthony Helm Server (https://github.com/helm/helm) 39:59 Suggestion for drum notations - Bhikhu PadMu (https://www.padformusician.com/en/products/19-22-padmu-3-lumi.html#/1-version-single) 40:55 Sunjam Asks Matrix P2P Not here yet Move from Synapse to Dendrite 43:33 Kpovoc Asks Rust Desk (https://rustdesk.com/) 45:28 Pick of the Week RpiSurv RpiSurv Github (https://github.com/SvenVD/rpisurv) 48:40 Gadget of the Week FreedomBox (https://www.freedombox.org/) PreBuilt FreedomBox (https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/) 50:40 Nextcloud & TrueNAS Nextcloud and TrueNAS partner World EINNews article (https://world.einnews.com/pr_news/553659451/nextcloud-and-truenas-deliver-productivity-and-privacy) 53:40 Firefox Suggest Firefox Blog Post (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-firefox-suggest#w_contextual-suggestions) Currently Opt-In Not Terrible -- 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/254) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 254: Self Hosting Hardware

Google is backing a new project from the Linux Foundation to the tune of $1 million that aims to bolster the security of critical open-source projects. GitLab is going public with their IPO, plus we address your feedback and calls! -- During The Show -- 02:45 Caller Chris 450 TB backup is 90% full Connect Multiple FreeNAS Servers Different shares on different servers 45 Drives (https://www.45drives.com/) Twinax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinaxial_cabling) Infinaband (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand) 09:05 Bhikhu Responds to ANS Ep 252 Conduit (https://conduit.rs/) Mirotalk Heroku (https://mirotalk.herokuapp.com/) Cabal Chat (https://cabal.chat/) Email Solutions Main in a Box (https://mailinabox.email/) Iredmail (https://www.iredmail.org/) Cuttle Fish (https://cuttlefish.io/) Mailu.io (https://mailu.io/1.8/) James Apache (https://james.apache.org/) Accessable Coconut can't host on github due to file size restrictions Matrix is going towards P2P Shut off federation solves many issues Don't host your own email 16:00 In Person LinuxFests? - Jeremy OLF Conference (https://olfconference.org/registration/) Youth Hacking Event (https://fsfe.org/activities/yh4f/index.html) Nugget Registration (https://registration.socio.events/e/nugget2021) Noah's Favorite Thinkpad Models X1 Carbon T480 T490 24:30 Automation of Warehouse - James Run a risk of getting devices with un-flashable chips Cloudfree Shop (https://cloudfree.shop/) Athom Store (https://athom.aliexpress.com/store/group/Tasmota/5790427_517820063.html?spm=a2g0o.detail.100008.9.cf265affja5i7K) My Local Bytes (https://www.mylocalbytes.com/) 26:26 Caller Sabrent Audio Card (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IRVQ0F8/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 28:44 Wireless ISP & Double NAT - Frank Double NAT Cradle Point (https://cradlepoint.com/) Carrier Grade NAT VPN out 36:46 Password ManagerAdd-On? - Jonathan Doesn't pass the sniff test If you trust bitwarden trust them to make a good extension Think about what threat vector you are protecting against 41:20 Noah's Request Drum Charts/National Number System 44:00 Pick of the Week Linux Distro for Windows users MS Software/services included Tech Republic Article (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windowsfx-is-the-linux-distribution-windows-users-have-been-looking-for/) 45:55 Gadget of the Week Open Book - Open Source Ebook reader GitHub (https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book) 47:43 GitLab Goes Public Does this bother people on GitLab? GitLab Press Release (https://about.gitlab.com/press/releases/2021-10-04-gitlab-announces-launch-of-initial-public-offering.html) 51:00 Google Offers 1M to Harden Security in FOSS Public Money should be spent on Public Code Zdnet Article (https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-google-is-going-to-pay-developers-to-make-projects-more-secure/) -- 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/253) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 253: Google Funding FOSS Security

It's a packed episode with your questions and thoughts! There's a ton of information in this episode and equipment recommendations this week! Don't miss it! -- During The Show -- 01:15 Veritunda Asks Bitwarden (https://bitwarden.com/) Airsonic (https://airsonic.github.io/) Podget (https://github.com/dvehrs/podget) 02:20 TwoBit Asks Wire strippers for smaller than 32 AWG? Amazon Affiliate Link (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WFL122J/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Link from TheLinuxNinja (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LDMF2C/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 03:30 Distro for Visually Impaired - Charlie Debugpoint Accessible Coconut (https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/05/accessible-coconut-linux-visually-impaired/) Sourceforge Accessible Coconut (https://sourceforge.net/projects/accessible-coconut/) Braille Display (https://thelowvisionstore.com/products/humanware-brailliant-bi-20x-braille-display) 07:15 Concerns about Matrix - Anon Hackea.org Article (https://www.hackea.org/notas/matrix.html) Archived Copy of Hackea.org Article (https://archive.is/evng2) Balance security and convince - Electron Other side of the bridge is insecure Run your own home server New Vector/EMS have always been up front Easily made secure/private 27:05 Caller James reusing old POTS phones lines 5 volts max Use the phone line as pull cord for CAT6 Closed contact signaling Decimator Affiliate Link (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QPRGGCS/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 30:55 Telegram messaging app for WearOS? - Gary Signal Messages for WearOS (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appfour.wearmessages&hl=en_US&gl=US) 37:20 Bhikhu Resonds to Secure Erase of SSDs Bullet Proof Data Encryption (https://www.skrilnetz.net/bullet-proof-data-encryption-with-luks-and-a-detached-header/) Documenting home automation 39:40 Automation of warehouse - James Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) Wifi is the easiest Z-Wave if you have signal issues Vlans for sure write back in to chat with Steve Lutron Switches (https://www.lutron.com/en-US/Products/Pages/Components/RadioRA2DigitalSwitch/Overview.aspx) Shelly 1 UL (https://shopusa.shelly.cloud/shelly-1-ul-wifi-smart-home-automation-1#164) Inovelli Red Z-Wave switches (https://inovelli.com/red-series-dimmer-switch-z-wave/) GE Smart Switch (https://www.amazon.com/GE-Occupancy-Required-SmartThings-26931/dp/B07226MG2T) 46:15 Pick of the Week Photoprism (https://photoprism.app/) Self hostable Web App written in GO Supports WebDAV 48:20 Gadget of the Week Vanchor (https://vanchor.org/) Hackaday Article (https://hackaday.com/2021/09/24/open-source-autopilot-for-cheap-trolling-motors/) 49:47 Sleuth Asks Recommendation for POE managed Switches? HP switches TP Link is a great option 52:11 Fedora 35 Beta Redhat Blog post (https://www.redhat.com/pt-br/blog/fedora-35-beta-now-available) All about polish 53:45 Ubuntu 21.10 Beta OMG Ubuntu Post (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/09/ubuntu-21-10-beta-ready-to-download) Gnome 40 not 41 54:35 Spaces is Out of Beta Element Blog Post (https://element.io/blog/spaces-blast-out-of-beta/) Tons of polish -- 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/252) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 252: Bots Emails and Calls

Even when you can self host it, relying on proprietary software can be challenging. This week Noah & Steve step through the latest self hosting options! Canonical extended their support for Ubuntu for 10 years, plus our picks! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Caller James Windows won't run well on a RaspberryPi Look at a Skull Canyon NUC RaspberryPi 4GB model should handle 1080P or lower 06:05 User Responds Wiping Flash Media - Dalton Boomstick Self Contained Automatic/semi-automatic USB stick based SSD and HDD Eraser Boomstick Gitlab (https://gitlab.com/UniversalSuperBox/boomstick) Noah does not trust SSD firmware 09:12 Windows 10 Bloat Removal Script - Charlie Windows Decrapifier Script Decrapifier Github (https://github.com/n1snt/Windows-Decrapifier) Make Use Of Article (https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-10-decrapifier-debloater/) Portable Apps (https://portableapps.com/) 10:30 User Reflects on EP 250 - Bhikhu Ctemplar About (https://ctemplar.com/about/) Ctemplar Features (https://ctemplar.com/features/) Ctemplar Privacy (https://ctemplar.com/privacy/) Ctemplar Terms (https://ctemplar.com/terms/) Session (https://getsession.org/) Session FAQ (https://getsession.org/faq) Session White Paper (https://getsession.org/whitepaper) Session Download (https://getsession.org/download) 12:44 Synology & Docker Applications - Chas NAS products have a lesser CPU Might have issues with wireguard and containers Synology can take features away anytime 18:00 LAN based chat server - Anthony Matrix - Protocol Synapse - Server Element - Client/App Setup a unfederated unregistered Synapse Use your own internal domain SSL/domain is only required for federation 24:50 Pick of the Week WallCal [WallCal Github]https://github.com/kacpertopol/wallCal 25:55 Gadget of the Week Loupedeck (https://loupedeck.com/) Elgato Stream Deck Stream Deck Affiliate Link (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XKNZT1P/?tag=minddripmedia-20) RaspberryPi Companion Github (https://github.com/bitfocus/companion/wiki/Companion-on-the-Raspberry-Pi) Stream Pi (https://stream-pi.com/) Stream Deck UI (https://timothycrosley.github.io/streamdeck-ui/) 35:05 Ubuntu Life Cycle Extended to 10 Years Ubuntu Blog (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-14-04-and-16-04-lifecycle-extended-to-ten-years) Only for paying customers Ubuntu sources are not public unlike Red Hat Red Hat puts a lot of effort into open sourcing everything - "It's part of the company DNA" 48:00 Self Hosting Locally controlled and/or Open Source Gold bar is Internet goes away and you don't notice Living on an island Libvirt/Proxmox PFSense/OPNSense Plex/JellyFin/Kodi Seafile NextCloud TrueNAS/Open Media Vault MediaWiki/XWiki Funkwhale Volumio PiHole -- 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/251) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 251: If it's not FOSS - Don't Host It

-- During The Show -- 01:30 Rotating SSH Keys FreeIPA (https://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page) Put keys in Git Repo Gravitaional/Teleport (https://github.com/gravitational/teleport) Hardware token like Solokey (https://solokeys.com/), Yubikey, OnlyKey (https://onlykey.io/) ANS EP 118 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/118) 05:25 Open Source Voice Assistant Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/) 07:55 USB Enclosures - Shawn Casper files Ventoy Persistance Plugin (https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html) Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2566121/what-is-a-casper-rw-loop-file-and-why-do-i-need-it-to-make-saving-persistent-on) 10:55 Charlie Building his own laptop MeLE Fanless 4K Mini PC (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002487769084.html) 9" Touch screen portable - HDMI + USBC (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000320399834.html) USB HDMI 4K capture dongle (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001880861192.html) USB sound card (for chromebook) (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33056020608.html) Compass Analogue (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32909033658.html) Thinkpad USB keyboard from Amazon USA (https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Compact-Keyboard-TrackPoint/dp/B00F3U4TQS/) 12:55 Secure Delete of SSDs - Banned Patriot SSD ATA Secure Erase Function Full disk encryption VeraCrypt (https://www.veracrypt.fr) 19:35 User Appreciated Ventoy Suggestion - Mark 19:58 Travel Router Suggestions? - Agustin GL iNet device - poor performance 22:55 Thoughts on ProtonMail - Anthony ProtonMail does not allow illegal activity via it's TOS Proton Mail doesn't log by default 33:25 Pick of the Week ULauncher Application Launcher made with Python and GTK+ Fuzzy Search ItsFoss (https://itsfoss.com/ulauncher/) 34:12 Gadget of the Week Steel Capsule CryptoSteel (https://cryptosteel.com/) 37:45 CentOS Clone Gets Tech Support CIQ Offers Support for Rocky Linux Zdnet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/centos-clone-rocky-linux-gets-technical-support/) Alma Linux (https://almalinux.org/) already has support through CloudLinux Alma Linux holds regular community meetings 44:30 Ventoy gets a UI GUI allows less technical users to find and use features PXE Boot LinuxUprising (https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/09/bootable-usb-creator-ventoy-gets-native.html) 47:26 WhatsApp is not E2EE Blurs the line of what E2EE encryption Volume of "flagged content" is untenable to moderate Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9966435/Facebook-hired-1-000-workers-examine-millions-pieces-content-WhatsApp.html) ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/whatsapp-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-arent-that-private-after-all/) -- 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/250) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 250: When E2EE is Moderated

-- During The Show -- 02:14 VPN Links - Jscar Hawk Road Warrior Script (https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install) Mullvad Pricing (https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/) privacytools.io (https://www.privacytools.io/providers/vpn/) Privacy Security and OSINT Podcast (https://inteltechniques.com/podcast.html) 04:30 Email 2 - VPN Question Response - Charlie Incognet VPS (https://incognet.io) Mullvad VPN (https://mullvad.net) Nearly Free Speech Webhosting (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#Payment) OpenNIC (https://www.opennic.org) HackerPublic Radio EP 3323 (https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3323) 09:45 Caller Ryan UniFi AP Setup Can be done with UniFi App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubnt.easyunifi) UniFi CloudKey (https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-accessories/products/unifi-cloudkey) Check the Docker Container Author Use the docker file/container file and build it yourself UniFi+Podman (https://github.com/jdoss/unifi) Author is known in the community AP placement (20 db of separation) WiFiAnalyzer (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vrem.wifianalyzer/) WiFiScanner (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.bitbatzen.wlanscanner/) Steve's Ubuntu setup (ADD STEVE'S LINK HERE) 25:40 Email 4 - UPS & Servers - Veritanuda Wake-On-Lan Packet 29:05 Email 5 - Comments on Windows - Jon sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM 31:25 Proton Shares Activist IP No logging doesn't equal unable to log Privacy is not a cloak for illegal activities ProtonMail provided ways to avoid their own monitoring ProtonMail talked with legal to try and avoid handing over information Information was handed over in response to a legal request XKCD Security (https://xkcd.com/538) HackerNews (https://thehackernews.com/2021/09/protonmail-shares-activists-ip-address.html) ProtonMail Blog Post (https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/) 39:40 Pine64 Interview DevZone FemtoStar How do you decide what products to make? What Devices do you want to make but are impractical/not cost effective? Pine64 router? PinePhone Pro? PinePhone Operating Systems Target Audience? PineNote Where can people help? What's next for Pine64? -- 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/249) 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)

Episode 249: Pine64 with Lukasz Erecinski

Patrick Emerson, director of IT from New Springs Church joins us to talk about their migration from their proprietary walled garden network and storage, to free and open source options. -- During The Show -- 00:55 VPS that accepts physical cash? - Charlie Brown Host that accepts cypto currency Pre-paid credit card 05:30 User Responds to Ventoy - Chris Ineo M.2 NVMe Enclosure Affiliate Link (http://www.amazon.com/dp/‎B0827PB71G/?tag=minddripmedia-20) IODD 2531 Affiliate Link (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TDJ4BJU/?tag=minddripmedia-20) IODD 2541 Affiliate Link (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S3G12E6/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Japanese chat Giveaway - write in your war story where one of these would have saved you 09:50 Firefox Audio Response - Cory restart in safe mode (no need to disable add-ons) 11:30 Firefox Audio Feedback - Matthew CLI Command: flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full/x86_64/20.08 12:20 Managing Documents Response - Jordan Open Paper (https://openpaper.work/en/) 14:40 Pick of the Week Easy WSL Turns Docker Containers into WSL distros EasyWSL GitHub (https://github.com/redcode-labs/easyWSL) TechRadar (https://www.techradar.com/sg/news/this-new-tool-converts-pretty-much-any-linux-docker-image-into-a-wsl-distro) 15:50 Kodi / LibreElec Available Kodi - Media Player App LibreElEC 10 - Distribution IR Remote Affiliate Link (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M4I1BAY/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Nvidea Shield spams ads LibreELEC 10 has a few bugs Kodi.tv (https://kodi.tv/) BetaNews (https://betanews.com/2021/08/27/kodi-19-matrix-libreelec-10-linux/) 24:25 Kernel 5.14 Released Secret Memory Areas Hot-Unplug AMD Radeon Cards New/Improved Hardware Support Xbox One Controller RaspberryPi 400 Dell Hardware Kill-Switches Low Latency USB driver OMG Ubuntu (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/linux-kernel-5-14-new-features) 26:10 Patrick Emerson Interview Director of IT 5,000-7,000 Attendees New Spring (https://www.newspring.org) Came into everything falling apart Sophos router was undocumented and out of date Sophos wanted $300/hr to help 1.4 TB of video created per week Typical weeks work Screenly (https://www.screenly.io/) Bought 2 PFSense routers D-Day (things fell apart) Sophos freaked out and died Have someone looking over your shoulder to double check things Windows requires DHCP relay to be turned on when being used as a DHCP server Add a "uknown to internet allow" rule PFSense and OPNSense UI make networking clear Future network planning Dell Servers with direct access to the drives IX Systems (https://www.ixsystems.com/) 45 Drives (https://www.45drives.com/) -- 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/248) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 248: Migrating a Network and a NAS

LibreOffice 7.2 is out, Gnome 41 Beta has been released, we talk streaming infrastructure, a must have networking tool for structured wiring, plus your questions, our picks! -- During The Show -- 02:30 Difference Between CDN - Brian Matrix is designed to bridge chats Early Days/Rough Edges Pachutelive.tv Demo (https://parachutelive.tv/) Nginx (https://nginx.org/en/) Restream.io (https://restream.io/) Restreaming Service not CDN Streamyard (https://streamyard.com/) Paid product Cloud Based/Proprietary Scale Engine (https://www.scaleengine.com/livedemo/lead/frontpage) Best Option Lots of similar/Better Features Better Priced Fantastic Customer Service Ran by Members of the FOSS Community 16:00 Firefox Audio Problem - Cory Try the Flatpak Newer version of Firefox might fix it Extensions can cause issues Try Firefox safemode Check the sample rate of the system audio 19:55 PineNote & Android Apps - Rev Joel Collier Today no... It is very possible in the future Developers are currently working on getting Android Apps working on both the PinePhone and PineTab 25:39 Streaming a Funeral - Dennis Magewell USB HDMI Capture (http://www.amazon.com/dp/‎B00I16VQOY/?tag=minddripmedia-20) Any USB webcam should work Lexicon Alpha (https://www.ebay.com/itm/384338912695?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28) Scale Engine Demo (https://www.scaleengine.com/livedemo/lead/frontpage) If you have any issues email "techies [at] altispeed.com" 30:00 Document Management - Richard Offline Wiki? 36:06 Pick of the Week Single Drive - Multiple Images Ventoy (https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html) 42:10 Gadget of the Week Cable Comb Tool Takes a 45min job to less than 5min Amazon Affiliate Link (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BTUI1TQ/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 44:48 Gnome 41 Beta UI and Feature Freeze SIP base functionality added GDM Allows Wayland User Session with X.Org Login Gnome Control Center adds "Cellular" and "Multitasking" Gnome Disk Utility now uses LUKS2 Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-41-Beta) 50:25 LibreOffice 7.2 Released 60% of code commits related to MS Office compatibility New HUD New LibreOffice Dark Mode New Writer formatting options Much more! OMG Ubuntu (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/libreoffice-7-2-release-download) 53:30 Linux 30 Years Linux Insider (https://linuxinsider.com/story/happy-30th-anniversary-linux-how-we-got-to-know-ya-87246.html) -- 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/247) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 247: 30 Years of Linux!

This week there are fantastic FOSS software releases, Element, PineNote, and an open source time keeping device that fits on a PCI card, the company behind the development will blow your mind! -- During The Show -- 01:06 Proton Mail feedback - Patrick SteigerLegal (https://steigerlegal.ch/2021/08/02/protonmail-daten-usa/) Proton Mail's design make this irrelevant Important to understand were security ends 08:20 Apple vs Privacy - Ben Apple's message doesn't match their actions Stross's talk (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html) Cory Doctorow (https://boingboing.net/2017/12/29/llcs-are-slow-ais.html) 15:20 Making an image while OS running? - Advait Timeshift (https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift) + BTRFS snapshots ZFS Snapshots 19:20 LTE Modems - Scott Double NAT, Carrier Grade NAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT) Create a VPN out to a VPS 22:25 Router recommendations - Yakoke Microtik (https://mikrotik.com/) PFSense 1100 (https://shop.netgate.com/products/1100-pfsense) OPNSense (https://opnsense.org/) Protectli (https://protectli.com/)+OPNSense (https://opnsense.org/) IPSEC is on everything OpenVPN is better WireGuard is best 31:19 Time Keeping Caesium-133 Atom (Atomic) is the most accurate GNSS Receiver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_applications) 10 KHz side band radio Computers use NTP (https://www.ntp.org/) Stratum One Developed by Facebook Replaces Proprietary Boxes Interfaces via PCIe TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/11/facebook-engineers-develop-new-open-source-time-keeping-appliance/) 39:00 Element Improvements Voice Messages New 1:1 Voice and Video Calls Screen Sharing Intelligent Call entries Dial pad Message indications Encryption Improvements Spaces coming out of Beta Element Blog (https://element.io/blog/introducing-voice-messages-and-so-much-more/) 46:15 Pine64 New Device PineNote One of the most powerful eReaders on the market Quadcore A55 CPU/4GB RAM/128GB eMMC Dual Mics/Dual Speakers/USB-C/AC WiFi 10.3" 3:4 227 DPI 1404x1872 Display Touch and Wacom Pen input PineNote is aimed at early Adopters/Developers PinePhone Keyboard Released Pine64 Blog post (https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/) -- 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/246) 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)

Episode 246: Open Source Polish

Apple has announced a new update that will allow scanning of your private photos. Firefox 91 is released, and the new US infrastructure bill means you might be paying per mile to drive an EV. -- During The Show -- 03:00 Manually Connecting Services - Jim Yes look for a developer Make sure you understand what needs doing Andreas Spiess YT Lora Info (https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasSpiess/featured) 07:20 Career Advice? - Robert Start based on Value Start with what you know well Start with a LLC on the side If moving to a new employer, be honest about how long you will work there Put the customer's needs first Anticipate needs Set up a full LLC or Corp, not a DBA, pass through, or sole proprietorship 18:00 Email & PGP - Barking Bandicoot AU Gov can force back doors Symmetric vs (Public/Private key pair) Asymmetric/PKI encryption GPG Guide (https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html) Enigmail (https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/) 24:00 Pick of the Week Stingle (https://stingle.org/) Stingle White Paper (https://stingle.org/security/) FOSS Photo backup app Photos locally encrypted ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/foss-mobile-app-stingle-wants-to-privately-securely-back-up-your-photos/) 26:20 Gadget of the Week HulkMan Alpha100 Heavy Duty vehicle jump-starter/battery bank Amazon Affiliate (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TQFHW1C/?tag=minddripmedia-20) 30:30 Firefox 91 Total Cookie Protections Enhancement Supports Log In and SSO on more sites Simplify Page for printing is back HTTPS First 31:45 Valve & Arch vs Debian Debian - "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" Arch - Faster fixes, Faster updates PC Gamer (https://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-why-valve-is-switching-from-debian-to-arch-for-steam-decks-linux-os/) 37:45 Infra Bill Includes Per Mile Road Tax Per Mile Usage Fee Data collected via Third Party OBDII modules OEM Telematics Insurance Companies "Any other method" Nothing about data privacy TheDrive.com (https://www.thedrive.com/news/41865/infrastructure-bill-includes-per-mile-road-tax-test-that-will-track-drivers-travel) 45:00 Apple & Encryption Communication Safety Feature iOS and MacOS On-Device Machine Learning Dangerous potential Apple Privacy Letter (https://appleprivacyletter.com/) Apple Child Safety (https://www.apple.com/child-safety/) Odysee Video (https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/an-honest-conversation-on-apple,:2) Snowden's Twitter Post (https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1423466855986044928?lang=en) EFF Article (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life) -- 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/245) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 245: Apple Thinks Different About Encryption

Steve Ovens returns to lay out his plans for his new house as well as ask the community for input on best practices. Standford AIMI center is expanding it's free repository of medical datasets for AI research, and Steam hits 1% Linux users again! -- During The Show -- 01:25 Hardware Keys, Ciphers, SSH - Jordan OpenPGP PKCS11 NitroKey (https://www.nitrokey.com/), Onlykey (https://onlykey.io/), Yubikey, Solokey (https://solokeys.com/), etc secures your key Most secure way is use a different key per hardware device Corporate centrally manages SSH keys (FreeIPA, Active Directory) Central Management 09:20 Swisscows vs Duckduckgo - Cory DuckDuckGo is more private DuckDuckGo Privacy Policy (https://duckduckgo.com/privacy#s3) 12:00 Open Source Health Data Tracking - Alexei Open Hak (https://www.openhak.com/) Simblee 32bit BLE/MCU module 13:52 WiFi Phones - Charlie Great Idea I too am moving all communications to IP based 19:15 Gadget of the Week Axis M3067-P (https://www.axis.com/products/axis-m3067-p) 360° panoramic view Camera Local Configuration Multiple Views/Streams Available 24:10 Open-Source Medical Data Sets (AIMI) Stanford.edu (https://hai.stanford.edu/news/open-source-movement-comes-medical-datasets) AI Spots things better than the human eye AI needs large data sets to train Stanford provides an open source data set for training AI Allows researchers to train AI for "non profitable" uses 28:28 Steam is back to 1% Linux Users PCMag.com (https://www.pcmag.com/news/percentage-of-linux-gamers-on-steam-tops-1-for-first-time-in-years) Happened before steam deck was announced Linux is taking over Microsoft is pushing people to "Windows as a service" 33:44 Open Compute Project Sharing data center design and management standards Mind Drip Media Open Compute Project Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l6gI-ksdKs) Whole new way of looking at data centers Build racks and data centers to use case DataCenterKnowledege (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-world/open-compute-project-redefining-open-source-data-center) Jeffgeerling.com (https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-os-now-has-sata-support-built) ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/how-to-go-from-stolen-pc-to-network-intrusion-in-30-minutes/) 38:50 NEST Fedora Linux Conventions Flock (https://flocktofedora.org/) to Fedora In Person Virtual Should remain when continued Nest with Fedora Virtual Replacing Flock (Covid) FUD Con Fedora Users and Developers Convention Replaced by Flock Virtual Release parties will continue 50:55 Building Steve's House Continued Kid friendly video chat station Comfy Gaming area Projector Room Vlan Setup/Switches Netgear Switch Rabbit Hole -- 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/244) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 244: Starting Fresh: Part 2

Steve Ovens joins us as we discuss the steam deck, Matrix getting 30 million in funding to polish the rough edges, and with Steve moving into a new house we talk about starting fresh! -- During The Show -- 00:45 Affiliate Link Typo - Chris Feel free to google the model and buy else where Lenovo Dock (Affiliate Link) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M6S81CM/?tag=minddripmedia-20) works with MAC OWC Dock (Affiliate Link) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JM3S5SJ/?tag=minddripmedia-20) preferred MAC dock 02:50 Unexpected IPv6 - Hesham IPv4 has NAT, firewall optional IPv6 no NAT, firewall required 06:15 ANS Telegram - Advait Geeklab.ninja (https://geeklab.ninja) no account required GeekLab Telegram (https://t.me/asknoahshow) GeekLab Matrix (#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) Matrix and Telegram are bridged 07:20 Resizing Windows Drives - Chris Use the windows partition manager Remove unnecessary files Disable Swap File Start>Settings>System>About System Advanced System Settings (About half way down) Click Settings Button Under "Performance" Click Advanced Tab Under Virtual Memory click change button Un-check "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" Select no paging file Click OK and reboot JkDefrag (https://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/) From an administrative command prompt run: jkdefrag -a 5 Shrink partition using Windows partition manager Remember to leave enough room to turn swap file back on Chris DeLuca (naelr) Matrix ID (@naelr:linuxdelta.com) 09:30 Email Feedback - Will Posteo doesn't allow custom domains Having control over your email domain is important 11:00 Pick Of the week OtterCast (https://kitspace.org/boards/github.com/ottercast/ottercastaudiov2/) Audio line out Audio Headphones out Audio IN WiFi Ethernet USB Sound card mode Webinterface (Configuration) Shairport-Sync Pulseaudio sink/source Snapcast server/client Spotify Connect (librespot) 13:20 Gadget of the week Steam Link Discussion with Steve Ovens Will probably buy for the family instead of a switch Steam controller is a favorite controller Steambox/Steam Controller vs Steam Link comparison Valve is pushing game shops to use Proton instead of linux native Price discussion FOSS vs Proprietary discussion 24:30 Ear 1 Wireless Ear Buds Verge Article (https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/27/22594353/nothing-ear-1-true-wireless-earbuds-price-release-date-specs-features) Earbuds from OnePlus $99 11.6 Drivers by Teenage Engineering Qi and Type-C charging 26:30 Matrix Gets 30M Access Act bill, HR 3849 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3849/text) World is waking up to decentralized services Managing locked in platforms are too much for gov to manage 150,000 German Health care organizations on Matrix Funding from Protocol Labs Makers of Matrix don't "need" this funding EMS currently makes enough to fund matrix development This funding simply accelerates development and "Polish" Funding planned for: Full P2P support Native E2EE VOIP/Web Conferencing Decentralized Reputation system Barinsta Cease and Desist Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/osmsal/cease_and_desist_from_facebook_to_barinsta_a_foss/) Barinsta Cease and Desist Github (https://github.com/austinhuang0131/austinhuang0131/issues/2) Cease and Desist seems slightly over reaching 42:30 Alma Linux Office Hours Alma Linux Post (https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ostjzl/almalinux_open_office_hours/) Monday 4pm UTC Beginning August 2nd 2021 You can email your questions in too! Haven't been able to reach Rocky Linux folks Alma Linux very accessible and involved 46:00 K9Mail Upgrade Android Police (https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/25/after-3-years-of-betas-k-9-mail-gets-an-update-with-tons-of-new-features/) Huge Upgrade Lots of fixes Lots of new features Version 5.8 is not quite available in Play Store 47:47 Steve Ovens Move/Tech Where do I centralize things? Access Points/Ethernet drops Types of mounting/racks Smurf Tube (Affiliate Link) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0756MHW7K/?tag=minddripmedia-20) TV Boxes Device Charging Setup -- 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/243) 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: Steve Ovens.

Episode 243: Starting Fresh: Part 1

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is warning of world in which no phone is safe from state-sponsored hackers. A new version of Plasma Mobile is out, and Valve has released a portable gaming device, running Arch with KDE! -- During The Show -- 00:30 What Noah uses - Jon Software Distro - Kubuntu/Fedora DE - KDE Plasma Terminator/Konsole Thunderbird Fastmail (Work) Proton Mail (Personal) VLC/MPV MakeMKV/Brasero QMMP MP3 Player KeepassXC (Personal) Bitwarden (Public) Virtual Box/KVM Libvirt Audacity Zoom/Jitsi Sublime Text (Work)/EncryptPad/Joplin/VIM/Kate Gimp (Images)/Inkscape (Graphic Design) Element/Nheko/SchildiChat (The turtle one) Okular Install Method - Flatpak, AppImage, Snap Phone Work - Galaxy S10/iPhone Personal - Nexus 6P with LineageOS Personal Disconnected device - Sony Xperia SailfishOS GPD Pocket on order Play Device - Pinephone In the Backpack (https://www.briggs-riley.com/products/at-work-large-cargo-backpack-kp436?variant=23744651132986&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhcmRou7y8QIV_2tvBB0BVQtpEAQYASABEgKzSfD_BwE) Dual Type-C charger RavPower (https://www.ravpower.com/products/rp-pc146-120w-4-port-desktop-usb-charging-station) Apple Type-C charger 2TB External Drive Small tool kit Screw drivers wirecutters Flash drives Portable Battery Pack Netgear Nighthawk Mobile Broadband Noise Canceling Headphones Sony WH1000xm4 (https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/headband/p/wh1000xm4-b) Emergency Kit Backup Phone (S7) Backup Wallet Minimal Viable Battle Station * Pelican 1620 * Docking station Lenovo Dock Affiliate (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07M6S81CM/?tag=minddripmedia-20) * Portable Desk * 27" 2K Display 21:15 Decentralized Tech - Jay Offline First (http://offlinefirst.org) 0Data (https://0data.app/glance/) Unhosted (https://unhosted.org/apps/) Web3 IPFS 22:45 ARP vs MAC Tables - Octavio MAC Tables Built by "MAC Learning" Snooped Used by switches to prevent HUB behavior Used for switching ARP tables Built with ARP protocal Used for routing 26:45 Pick of the Week Tauon Music Box (https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/) Drag n Drop file importing CUE sheet support MOD tracker Network Playback Flathub (https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb) 27:55 Make Good SonoBus (https://sonobus.net/) * High Quality, Low Latency, Peer-to-Peer Audio oever the internet * AAC-LD/AAC-HE * New commercial boxes use OPUS codec 31:30 Gadget of the Week Omega Charger (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/omega-world-s-smallest-100w-200w-usb-c-charger/x/19545995#/) World's Smallest 100W & 200W USB-C Charger World's first 200W Gallium Nitride (GaN) charger Quick charge 4 devices simultaneously Estimated Shipping July 2021 34:00 Red Hat To expand Offerings ZDnet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-expands-linux-offerings-for-research-and-academic-organization/) Low cost/Free RHEL for education Conan Kudo Link (https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2021-July/077159.html) Open to Primary and Secondary Schools as well 38:20 Snowden Spyware / Mobile Phones Pegasus Pegasus Malware Made by the NSO Group Access to Photos Emails Records Calls Secretly Activate Microphones/Cameras WhatsApp Chat GPS Data Calendar Contacts Over 50,000 numbers suspected targets New "zero-click" attacks Tech advancing too fast for normal people to keep up Courts have ruled FaceID/Fingerprints can be compelled Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/edward-snowden-calls-spyware-trade-ban-pegasus-revelations) Jul 18th Guardian Article (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-uncovers-global-abuse-of-cyber-surveillance-weapon-nso-group-pegasus) Amnesty Article (https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-methodology-report-how-to-catch-nso-groups-pegasus/) 49:40 Plasma Mobile 21.07 Released Plasma Mobile Post (https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/07/20/plasma-mobile-gear-21-07/) Join the Matrix room - #plasmamobile:matrix.org 52:55 Steam Deck Steam Handheld 4 core, 8 threads AMD APU 64GB, 256GB, 512GB $399-$649 Runs SteamOS (Arch+KDE+Big Picture Mode) Goal: Get every Windows Game working before launch Tech Radar (https://www.techradar.com/how-to/pre-ordered-a-steam-deck-heres-how-to-find-out-which-games-will-run-on-it) IGN (https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-os-ui-system-software-bridges-the-gap-between-console-and-pc) -- 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/242) 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)

Episode 242: Selling Spyware

We've received a ton of email asking how to get off Gsuite, and what alternative providers are out there. This week we dig in and go through the top alternatives to Gsuite. -- During The Show -- 00:30 Another Gmail Migration Suggestion - Charims https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ (https://imapsync.lamiral.info/) email address: charims@pcwideopen.com 01:00 More Gmail Suggestions - Freddie Import mbox file into Thunderbird then export in the format you need 01:30 NFS/Freenas issue - Charliebrownau NFS shares broke with kernel 5.13 FreeNAS offers a snapshot solution to rollback 03:15 NFS - Gary Could be a NFS file locking issue 03:45 OpenMedia Vault - Cory Works great on a RaspberryPi LVM not working however 04:25 Pick of the Week Deskreen (https://deskreen.com/lang-en) Allows any device to be a second monitor Cross platform 05:30 Gadget of the week Pockethernet (https://pockethernet.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8uzvuovh8QIVs2xvBB2NdwIlEAAYASAAEgIsxfD_BwE) Smartphone connected Ethernet network analyzer Pairs via bluetooth Supports: Cable toner with customizable tones Wiremap PoE TDR TDR Graph Link CDP / LLDP Outgoing VLAN Tag DHCP Ping Traffic BER 07:40 Linux foundation - 3D foundation Tech Republic (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-linux-foundation-gets-into-game-development-with-new-open-3d-foundation/) Open source 3D engine 20 founding partners Linux Foundation can "speak corporate" Benefits not just gaming Github (https://github.com/o3de/o3de) 13:16 CBL Mariner Beta News (https://betanews.com/2021/07/12/microsoft-has-its-own-linux-distro-called-cbl-mariner/) Github (https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/releases/tag/1.0.20210628-1.0) Microsoft's Linux uses RPM-OSTree Follows a secure-by-default principle 15:50 Audacity Update ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/) Telemetry is off by default Telemetry is optional Telemetry is intentionally easy to remove Convenience of Yandex and Google is at odds with community wishes Going forward Audacity will self host metrics 4Chan forced/doxed/threatened a fork of audacity into ending Github Sneeds (https://github.com/Sneeds-Feed-and-Seed/sneedacity) Github Tenacity Maintainer post (https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99) 21:40 Ansible considers switching to Matrix Ansible Github Post (https://ansible.github.io/community/posts/matrix_and_ansible.html) IRC issues: out of date blocked in many network environments Lack good moderation tools missed messages when not logged in lack of name space ownership Matrix benefits: Issues in Matrix are client limitations not protocol limitations control over name space Federates like email Federated, auto updating blacklist Red Hat is providing funding for EMS hosting EMS, Mozzila, and Red Hat are fantastic partners Blacklist Post (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/msc2313/proposals/2313-moderation-policy-rooms.md) 34:20 Firefox 90.0 Https only mode in about:config Print to PDF now produces working hyperlinks FTP support removed Firefox Post (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/90.0/releasenotes/) 35:30 Tony from the matrix chat Bring in IP cam to web conferencing software VLC capture OBS 37:00 Gmail Alternatives Hushmail Plain text only been around since 1999 MsgSafe.io 4096-bit GPG encryption Virtual Identities Free plan available GMX OpenPGP Based in Germany Ad supported Send up to 50 MB attachments Mailbox.org Setup after Snowden revelations Based in Germany 25 years of experience in providing secure communications Standard subscription includes many tools Stores IP addresses for 4 days Up front with their privacy policy Posteo Combines privacy with sustainability Powered by 100% green energy Anonymous Sign-up and Payment ad-free 50 MB Attachments Runbox 100% hydro-electric energy Based in Norway Zoho Mial Free up to 5 users Full email and office suite Encryption Fastmail Great for business Fantastic Management interface Data belongs to you you are the customer not the product Stored data encrypted with LUKS Has added features like "topic box" Based in Australia Australia is part of the "Five Eyes" Australia has the Assistance and Access Bill Mail Fence Based in Belgium OpenPGP end-to-end encryption free and paid plans KoLab Now Full collaboration suite Based in Switzerland 100% Free & open source software No vendor lock-in Startmail Founded by Dutch private search engine Startpage team Track record of privacy IP address is kept for 3 days Tracking cookies strictly forbidden Offers PGP encryption Encryption is done server side Accepts crypto currency Tutanota Based in Germany Free and Paid Plans Discounts for non-profits End-to-End encryption secure calendar Proton Mail Open source and Independently audited End-to-End encryption No-logs Supports 2FA You control the encryption key Password protect non Proton Mail emails Message expiration Secure calendar and file sync Ctemplar Icelandic law No data retention advanced protections (JS injection, malicious SRI) 100% audited and open source Zero data access end to end encryption powered by green energy Anonymous (including payments) App in Fdroid Email Comparison Chart (https://ctemplar.com/email-comparison-table/) -- 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/241) 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)

Episode 241: Gmail Alternatives

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