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This week we focus on your feedback! Questions about NextCloud, questions about best practices for remote storage, and of course the latest headlines from JT!

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Thermostat for Garage - Jayson

Garage Heater

Inside heat control

Wireless vs hardwired

Hydro radiant heat

Home Assistant centralizes everything

Venstar T7900

WiFi issues

More Private AI? - Anon

Training data

Taking AI offline

Duck AI

techradar.com

Immich & Other things - Fey

Immich in the Oven's Household

Noah's experience with updates

Ente

Having things come back up in order

Backups vs Snapshots

Offline backups

Tape backups

3 - 2 - 1 strategy

Mail-in-a-Box

Self hosting password manager

Nextcloud Alternative - HJ

Default tuning is not great

Trouble shooting can be difficult

How Steve updates

Noah uses a playbook

Finding alternatives

Add-ons "sell" Nextcloud

News Wire

OpenTTD 15.2 - tt-forums.net

GNU Awk 5.4 - lwn.net

Pipewire 1.6 - phoronix.com

DNF 5.4 - phoronix.com

KDE Plasma 6.6 - kde.org

EasyOS 7.2 - bkhome.org

SparkyLinux 8.2 - sparkylinux.org

Xubuntu Wallpaper Contest - discourse.ubuntu.com

Gentoo Moving to Codeberg - linuxjournal.com

Cline CLI Attack - scworld.com

SecureClaw - securityweek.com helpnetsecurity.com

Buzzdetect - entomologytoday.org

AI Slop Drowning Godot - pcgamer.com

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00:48 Intro

No Steve this week

Awesome piece of hardware

01:39 News Wire

OpenVPN 2.7 - community.openvpn.net

Mesa 26.0 - mesa3d.org

KDE Frameworks 6.23 - kde.org

Gnome 49.4 - gnome.org

Vim 9.2 vim.org

GNU Linux Libre 6.19 - fsfla.org

GNU Binutils 2.46 - phoronix.com

Tinycore 17 - tinycorelinux.net

Debian 13.3 - voyagerlive.org

Pear OS 26.2 - pearos.xyz

MythTV 36 - mythtv.org

Parrot 7.1 - linuxiac.com

SSHStalker - bleepingcomputer.com

LockBit 5.0 - helpnetsecurity.com

GLM-5 - venturebeat.com

03:00 Chinesium Access Control

Access Control Disclaimer

4 components in access control

Power

Controller

Credentials and reader

Locking mechanism

Door monitors

Embedded door sensor Amazon

Use access control wiring

Honeywell genesis wire

Vertical Cable

Run everything to a central place

Avoid using cloud

Use high quality equipment

Adamsrite 7400

Securiton electromagnetic lock

ASSA ABLOY

Don't use odd credentials

MIFARE

Wiegand

Mercury Access Controllers

Access A1001

OSDP protocol

Chinesium Access ControllerAmazon

Chinesium Card reader Amazon

Leosac

41:57 Ring and Flock cut ties

"Familiar Faces"

Flock Camera's

Privacy concerns

EFF

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This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

No Steve this week

Call in!

Join the GeekLab

01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne

Helm Synth

Vital Synth

Tal NoizeMaker

Cardinal

Surge Synth

LSP Plugins

Calf Plugins

Reaper

ToneLib-GFX

kxstudio repositories

Struggle to get LV2 plugins to work

Tal baseline

MIDI

Noah's light bulb moment

Backing tracks

Cloud based

16:16 Dell HDDs - TwoBit

Never seen Dell requiring special drives

Requirements by card and drive specs

No longer using hardware raid

HBA Mode

Flashing HBA Firmware

Buy pre-flashed card

Use each drive as it's own raid array

20:16 News Wire

GCompris 26 - gcompris.net

LibreOffice 216.2 - documentfo8undation.org

Ardour - ardour.org

Calibre 9.1 - calibre-ebook.com

Peazip 10.9 - github.com

Linux 6.19 - lkml.org

Oracle Linux 7 - oracle.com

LiteBox - helpnetsecurity.com

GoogleSQL - developer-tech.com

Toyota Open Source Game Engine - techzine.eu

Open Source Chest CT Model - nature.com

21:16 Zynthian

Zynthian

No Soldering

Requires gentle "clock makers hand"

Based on a Raspberry Pi

Professional audio system

How it's built

First power up and usage

34:10 Matrix Protocol

Matrix Protocol is taking over

Digital sovereignty

The Register

Seems to solve problems

Beeper

41:45 Discord KYC

Requiring ID verification

Discords background inference model

Landscape for social media and connecting people

Noah's story of connecting

KNOX chat room

gomuks

The Register

51:20 Ring Camera's

Search Party

Ring has a history

eff.org

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This week John Terrill from Red Hat joins us to talk about branding in Open Source. Many projects don't have a unified communication strategy, but having one is important.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Steve is in Vegas

Noah "getting deals"

04:37 Lossless Cut

Reached for Avidemux

Avoiding re-encoding

Learning a new program

Lossless Cut Webpage

Lossless Cut GitHub

08:30 OmniTools

Small docker image

Does everything in the web browser

OmniTools GitHub

12:43 NLSH

For people who want to learn the CLI

Translates natural language into CLI

Making things easy can backfire

NLSH GitHub

16:00 Xyops

Features:

Job scheduling

Workflow automation

Server monitoring

Alerting

Incident response

Self Hosted

Open Source

Xyops

18:18 News Wire

Squid 7.4 - github.com

Openttd 15.1 - openttd.org

Rust 1.93 - rust-lang.org

GNU C lwn.net

Extix - linux.exton.net

Liya Linux 2.5 - distrowatch.com

CachyOS 2026 - cachyos.org

GNU Guix 1.5 - quix.gnu.org

MxLinux 25.1 - mxlinux.org

Crypto Thieves in Snap Store - helpnetsecurity.com

Open Source Quantum Computer - uwaterloo.ca

AI Weather Models - kqed.org

Banks Prefer Open-Source - finainews.com

Rack-Scale AI - theasset.com

OIN 2.0 - yahoo.com

19:55 Python Built-in Web Server

Use python to host a web server

Used for file transfers

Use case

Steve's travel router

24:17 Proxy RCE - PSA

Basics of the problem

grahamhelton.com

26:30 Matter Camera

1920x1080 30fps

Synology App to turn a phone into a camera

linuxgizmos.com

30:06 MS Gives Keys to FBI

Microsoft confirms they gave the FBI BitLocker keys

~ 20 requests per year

Home users forced to upload keys

Jump through hoops to avoid uploading

Encryption is only as good as who holds the keys

Pragmatism

aardwolfsecurity.com

ArsTechnica

35:20 Linux Continuity

Continuity document merged into Kernel docs

theregister.com

36:40 John Terrill

PR in open source

Branding open source

One size fits all projects

Extracting technical knowledge

Technical accuracy

How to talk with journalists

Separating personal views from project views

Negative coverage

Messaging guidelines

Branding and marketing

Attracting media attention

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This week we dig into the hardware shortage caused by AI, answer your questions, and dig into managing ZFS via the web!

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00:45 Intro

Cheap managed POE switch

Switch hops

05:35 Certificates - Randy

Step CA

XCA

Certificate Authority

ACME

LDAP

Kerberos

Steve's use of LDAP

LDAP with PKI link

ACME and Domain registrars

dot tk

Ansible collection

19:19 Ebook Management - Jeremy

Steve went to audio books

Calibre

PDF manuals folder

Audio bookshelf

Paperless NGX

23:50 Light Sync - Peter

UltraStar Deluxe

Animux

USBD_Syncer

Doing events

Why Noah likes Karaoke

Effect of "shared experiences"

Steve's Christmas tree lights

DMX lighting

WLED Project

33:03 News Wire

Firefox 147 - firefox.com

Thunderbird 147 - thunderbird.net

Grub 2.14 - phoronix.com

Gnome 49.3 - discourse.gnome.org

Wine 11 - theregister.com

Q4OS 6.5 - q4os.org

Endeavour OS Genymede Neo - endeavouros.com

Tails 7.4 - torproject.org

Linux Mint 22.3 - blog.linuxmint.com

BeaglePlay PowerVR - phoronix.com

StackChan - cnx-software.com

Mentra's Smart Glasses - engadget.com

VoidLink - checkpoint.com darkreading.com csoonline.com

Boltz-1 - labmanager.com

Photoshop on Linux - videocardz.com

No Commits to MySQL Repo - devclass.com

Senate Inquiry - jdsupra.com

EU Tech Sovereignty - cybernews.com biometricupdate.com

35:03 SysAdmins & Smartphones

Lowering friction

Graphical vs CLI

Webzfs

Exposing ZFS via Web UI

Cockpit

Putting Webzfs into Cockpit

Write in!

43:43 New ESP32

ESP32-E22

Tri-band WiFi

What is an ESP32

Steve's use of ESP32

Bandwidth

Getting started with ESP32

linuxgizmos.com

48:05 AI Hardware Run

RAM spikes 300%-400%

SSD price spikes

Fab Capacity

Bitcoin effect

ARS Technica

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