Ask Noah Show

Jack Kang from SiFive joins Noah and Steve to talk about SiFive and their IP that has become the go-to choice for NASA! -- During The Show -- 01:30 Caller - Jeff From Cincinnati Linksys AC2100 Router dropping connections Check for interference Change the WiFi Channel Increase transceiver power WiFi Analyzer (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vrem.wifianalyzer/) 15:43 Sleuth - Used Thinkpads Is there anything wrong with it? Are parts user replaceable? Thinkpad T480 Noah's thoughts Dock on the bottom? 21:55 Listeners Responds About Bank/ISP - Brian & Jeremy IP Changed during log in Use a VPN 'Ban Happy' algorithm 23:35 Listener Responds About A/V Control - Travis Control devices via RS232 25:15 News Wire Linux 6.0 ARS Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/linux-6-0-arrives-with-support-for-newer-chips-core-fixes-and-oddities/) Toms Hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-kernel-release-6) Rust Pull Request for Linux 6.1 Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-For-Linux-6.1-Pull-Req

Noah and Steve dig into observability! What is it? Why is it important? How do you use observability to get a handle on your troubleshooting? -- During The Show -- 01:30 Theatre Remote - Glenn IR Blaster/Receiver (https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2261799826804957.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.37544c4drBCZSh&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa4itemAdapt&_randl_shipto=US) with Tasmota + Knock off IR Remote Warning Current Model may not be Tasmota compatible URC Remote and Base station (https://www.urc-automation.com/product-category/complete-control/) + Scenes Inteset 4-in-1 Universal Backlit IR Learning Remote (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M4I1BAY/?tag=minddripmedia-20) write in to the show 13:00 Caller Dustin in TX Bank is blaming new ISP for no online bill pay Talk to the ISP Take machine from home to church Try tethering to your phone Try a VPN Could be multiple issues 28:00 Linux News Wire Linus Prediction The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/26/linux_6_rc7/) Tech Radar (https://www.techradar.com/news/linux-60-sho

Email 1 - Help digitizing a church - Scott Hi Noah, I'm an IT guy from Brookings SD and my church wants to move to a more digital setup. This is currently a bit beyond my depth. Where would be a good place to post questions about our setup? Scott (Post Your Setup Here!)[https://notes.minddripmedia.com/kSLUHFePTz-IyVyN-40YcA#] Email 1 - Help digitizing a church - Scott Hi Noah, I'm an IT guy from Brookings SD and my church wants to move to a more digital setup. This is currently a bit beyond my depth. Where would be a good place to post questions about our setup? Scott Email 3 - Dub over video? - Jeremy What would you suggest to dub audio over pre-recorded video from a go pro? Best, Jeremy Picks (5 min) Zenmap https://nmap.org/zenmap/ Zenmap is the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI. It is a multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, etc.) free and open source application which aims to make Nmap easy for beginners to use while providing advanced features for experienced Nmap users. Frequently used scans ca

Noah and Steve answer your NAS questions, follow-up on Z-Wave devices, and appropriate responses for unwanted drones! -- During The Show -- 00:55 Steve's PSA Please make sure that if expecting a response, the email has a return address. Avoid "donotreply" and "noreply" addresses 04:15 NAS Questions - Mars Xray What are you doing on the NAS? Start with requirements There is no "poor man's NAS" Start with 3 copies on 2 kinds of media ZFS on Linux Ubuntu vs Red Hat OpenZFS TrueNAS/UI IXSystems 45 Drives Connecting Drives Dell Optiplex Steve's Setup 18:15 User responds about Frontier Fiber & PFSense - Mike OPNSense Fix (github.com/opnsense/src/issues/114) Options Use another firewall Use Frontier router in bridge mode Use Layer 3 switch between the ONT and OPNSense box Arris NVGG468MQ 21:55 Users respond about Zwave - James & David Upgrade the Z-Wave Hub firmware Upgrading Guide (https://community.hubitat.com/t/guide-nortek-husbzb-1-nvm-backup-restore-and-updating-z-wave-firmware/48012) Steve's Thoughts Rebooting

Noah and Steve have recommended Z-Wave devices for home automation. What do you do when your home automation fails? What do you do when you suffer latency from streaming? Noah and Steve talk troubleshooting for your home network, and home automation. -- During The Show -- 02:20 Ordering System/Management? - Zack Hydra OMS Presta Shop (https://www.prestashop.com/en/1.7) 07:50 Caller Delmer Zwave network problems 30ish Devices Maybe an issue with the Zwave stick Try putting the Zwave Stick on an extension Garage Door Sensor Zwave Tilt Sensor Playing Media over the internet? Internet Routing Trace Route (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute) Ping Plotter (https://www.pingplotter.com/) 31:10 Securing Seafile? - Mathieu Threat Modeling SeaFile is designed to be on the internet SeaFile Encrypts/Decrypts Native Client - Locally Web Client - Cached for 1 hour server side OVH is in and subsidized by Canada Gov Consider something like Fail2Ban (https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) or CrowdSec (https:/

The EFF has offered an opinion on the FAAs visual line of sight rule for Drones. What does this do for privacy? If the FAA makes a different recommendation on how they will enforce drone regulations. The EFF has also launched the Atlas of Surveillance, a publicly searchable crowdsourced database to see which tools law enforcement is using to spy on communities. -- During The Show -- 02:20 Wiping Hard drives? - Stephen DBAN (https://dban.org/) Nwipe (https://wiki.andybev.com/doku.php?id=nwipe) ShedOS (https://github.com/nadenislamarre/shredos) All In One System Rescue Toolkit (https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/all_in_one_%E2%80%93_system_rescue_toolkit_technician.html) Destroy the drive 07:30 Whole BR rips? - Karel Just rip ISOs 12:00 Smart door lock? - Eddie Bluetooth locks are terrible Schlage ZWave (https://www.schlage.com/en/home/smart-locks/connect-zwave.html) Axis A1001 (https://www.axis.com/products/axis-a1001) Shelly 1 (https://shelly.cloud/products/shelly-1-smart-home-automation-relay/) Axis D

As we celebrate Episode 300 Noah and Steve dig into the difference in industry between 2017 when ANS launched and today. The landscape has changed considerably. Today people ask about Open Source, today people value interoperability. -- During The Show -- 01:50 Listener follows up on Bluray playback - William It worked! The solution 03:30 3D Printer Recommendation - Greg Lulzbot Taz 6 Open source OctoPrint (https://octoprint.org/) 04:45 3D Printer Related - Joshua Klipper (https://www.klipper3d.org/) OpenSCAD (https://openscad.org/) Voron Project (https://www.vorondesign.com/) FreeCAD (https://www.freecad.org/) 09:30 FOSS Remote Software - Peter Mesh Central (https://meshcentral.com/info/) Mesh Central GitHub (https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral) 13:10 LDAP Alternatives? - Miguel TurnKey Linux (https://www.turnkeylinux.org/) Red Hat IDM (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/linux_domain_identity_authentication_and_policy_guide/introduction) FreeIPA (https://www.fre

How do you provide open source support to business who use FOSS in production? If you're using FOSS in production you need support. Noah and Steve dig into what it takes and how companies use supported FOSS software. -- During The Show -- 01:30 Remote Desktop Tool - Aaron DW Service (https://www.dwservice.net/) Can't self host Wouldn't use All remote access software is a backdoor RustDesk (https://rustdesk.com/) RPort (https://rport.io/) Simple Help (https://simple-help.com/) Not open source 06:00 Home Router? - Howard Fiber Micro Node Purchase/Build a server with SFP Mind Drip Media Link (https://notes.minddripmedia.com/uploads/aa723aeb-8fba-4d20-89d3-d08db654e0d9.png) 09:00 Migrating OS drive? - Lucas Install and Rsync Data Computers should be cattle Ansible (https://www.ansible.com/) Seafile (https://www.seafile.com/) Clonezilla (https://clonezilla.org/) Block Size Corruption 14:00 Update Machines on Lan - Charlie Don't run a local repo Apt-Cacher NG (https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg) Mount NFS Share (h

This hour we focus on your feedback, Kubernetes, audio interfaces, and of course your weekly Linux headlines! -- During The Show -- 00:50 FreeCAD Thank You FreeCAD 03:00 Caller Matrix Bridge Hosting Bridges can break when cooperation is required on the other end 12:00 Kubernetes? - Tyler Grunt Work Kubernetes Crash Course (https://blog.gruntwork.io/a-crash-course-on-kubernetes-a96c3891ad82) Red Hat - Steve Ovens (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/users/steve-ovens) Kubernetes dropped Docker shim for CNI OpenShift (https://docs.openshift.com/) MiniKube (https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/) Mini Shift (https://github.com/MiniShift/minishift#documentation) OKD (UpStream OpenShift) (https://www.okd.io/) Steve's How Containers Work (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/building-container-namespaces) 24:26 News Wire OpenPGL Path Guiding Library Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-OpenPGL) MoonRay Renderer Open Source For U (https://www.opensourceforu.com/2022/08/dreamworks-animation-to-launch-moonray-renderer-as-

This week Noah and Steve dig into the exact make and models of devices they use, what they like, what they don't like, and how to do it yourself! -- During The Show -- 01:50 Hedgedoc Profile photo Sleuth Asked: How do you set profile photos in hedgedoc/codimd? Gravatar (https://en.gravatar.com/) 03:10 Differences Between Remote Access? - Griffon SSH/OpenVPN/TailScale (https://tailscale.com/)/Firezone.dev OpenVPN Built into PFSense SSH open to the web SSH Guard (https://sshguard.net/) Fail2Ban (https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) CrowdSec (https://www.crowdsec.net/) 08:55 Cloudflare for self hosting? - JJ Cloudflare decrypting and re-encrypting Maybe for a public site Hardpass Please write back in 12:45 Option for Power Monitoring - Patrick Egauge (https://www.egauge.net/) Stores 30 years of data Not Open Source Easy API Cheaper options out there 15:50 Energy/Solar Monitoring - Jeremy Emporia Vue2 (https://www.emporiaenergy.com/blog/introducing-emporia-vue) Multiple Emporia Vue2 (https://commun

-- 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