Ask Noah Show 350

This week CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have formed OpenELA, we dig into the Libera chat / Matrix bridge issues, and we discuss choosing the problems you want to solve.
-- During The Show --
00:58 Pre-Show
Steve's dead hardware
Noah's type-C charger upgrade
Noah's portable rack
06:40 Home Assistant - Curt
Run on a re-purposed thin client
Parkytowers (Parkytowers.me.uk)
Parkytowers Wyse D10D (https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/wyse/d/d10d/)
10:38 HASSIO Feedback on Dimmers - Chris F.
ESP32 dev is employed by Home Assistant
Steve's experiances
Z-Wave
ESP32
Shelly
13:58 LXD Forked by Suse - Charlie
Github (https://github.com/lxc/incus)
FossForce (https://fossforce.com/2023/08/fork-of-lxd-lands-almost-immediately-as-a-linux-containers-project/)
Canonical took over LXC
16:30 Normie friendly wiki with good searchability - Tiny
WikiJS
HackMD to WikiJS
Steve and Noah don't use tags
Git Backend
20:55 News Wire
Open ELA - Open ELA (https://openela.org/news/hello_world/)
Tails 5.16 - Tails (https://tails.net/news/version_5.16/)
GCC Haiku Support - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-Haiku-OS-Support)
HashiCorp Abandons Open Source - The News Stack (https://thenewstack.io/hashicorp-abandons-open-source-for-business-source-license/)
Sentry Changes to BSL - Codecov (https://about.codecov.io/blog/codecov-is-now-open-source/)
OSI against Meta - Geeky Gadgets (https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/llama-2-is-not-open-source-open-source-initiative-14-08-2023/)
StableLM - Fagenwasanni (https://fagenwasanni.com/news/stability-ai-unveils-stablelm-a-groundbreaking-open-source-language-model/177119/)
French Plan for Native AI Industry - Politico 1 (https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2023/08/08/france-makes-a-big-push-on-open-source-ai-00110341) Politico 2 (https://www.politico.eu/article/open-source-artificial-intelligence-france-bets-big/)
Teen makes ESP32 Phone - Hack a Day (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/03/open-source-cell-phone-based-on-esp32/) Paxo (https://www.paxo.fr)
Intel and AMD Security Patches - ZDnet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/amd-and-intel-cpu-security-bugs-bring-linux-patches/)
Sandwich Cryptographic Framework - Venture Beat (https://venturebeat.com/security/sandboxaq-unveils-sandwich-an-open-source-meta-library-of-cryptographic-algorithms/)
Monti Ransomware Collective - Trend Micro (https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/h/monti-ransomware-unleashes-a-new-encryptor-for-linux.html)
Wave of Attacks using Merlin - Bleeping Computer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-use-open-source-merlin-post-exploitation-toolkit-in-attacks/)
OpenSSh 9.4 - OpenSSH (https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.4p1)
Gov Asks for help securing open source - Info Security (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/white-house-darpa-cisa-open-source/)
White Hosue Cyper Security Competition - Fed Scoop (https://fedscoop.com/white-house-ai-cyber-challenge-def-con/)
23:11 Code Academy and Python vs Rust - walking penguin
Python vs Rust?
Sleuth joins from mumble!
What is an analyst
Python is more established
Python has more data libraries
Large commercial sites use python
Python allows fast iteration
Rust is better for large applications
Python has a larger "community"
Where to learn python
YouTube
Python Programming Net (https://pythonprogramming.net)
YouTube Programmingwithmosh (https://www.youtube.com/@programmingwithmosh)
Courses can remove guess work
Learn Python in a Day (https://www.amazon.com/Python-Day-Learn-basics-coding-ebook/dp/B00C2STEIC)
30:50 Data Center Update
Self hosted cloud
Installed Grafana
Hardware
2 Dell Servers
ZFS Pool of mirrored SSDs
2 Mirrored pairs for boot drive
Script re-configures UEFI in event of failure
libvirt for VMs
BLIKVM for out of band access
Sophos Rack Mount Gateway running PFSense (will be OPNSense)
2 techs 2 days
Migrated steps
non-critical services
Altispeed critical services
Client services
LinuxDelta Matrix Instance migration
Faster than ever
Able to self-host more bridges
Hope to re-enable account registration
Ability to host conferences
38:58 Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA)
Still tracking RHEL
Founding members
CIQ
Oracle
Suse
Red Hat is the gorilla
Right approach
OpenELA Post (https://openela.org/news/hello_world/)
43:30 IRC/EMS Bridge Update
EMS offered to bridge Libera Chat
Spun up a Libera Matrix server
Great experience
Difference in goals
There were some "misunderstandings"
EMS rolled out patches that caused issues
Bridge ultimately shut down
Bridge was a charity
EMS team took ownership of their side of things
Libera Chat Post (https://libera.chat/news/temporarily-disabling-the-matrix-bridge)
Ycombinator Post 1 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36923504)
Matrix Deportalling Post (https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/deportalling-libera-chat/)
Matrix Postponing Deportalling Post (https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/postponing-libera-chat-deportalling/)
Ycombinator Post 2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36918655)
Matrix What Happened Post (https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/what-happened-with-the-archive/)
Ycombinator Post 3 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919305)
Picking Your Battles
You choose the problems you want to solve
Windows LTSB
How much down, How much per month
Order of Operations
Self Hosted
Free and Open Source
Easy and Compatible FOSS
Music Laptop (Container Story)
Is it serving me, or am I serving it?
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Special Guest: JT Pennington.

This week CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE have formed OpenELA, we dig into the Libera chat / Matrix bridge issues, and we discuss choosing the problems you want to solve.

-- During The Show --

00:58 Pre-Show

Steve's dead hardware
Noah's type-C charger upgrade
Noah's portable rack

06:40 Home Assistant - Curt

Run on a re-purposed thin client
[Parkytowers](Parkytowers.me.uk)
Parkytowers Wyse D10D

10:38 HASSIO Feedback on Dimmers - Chris F.

ESP32 dev is employed by Home Assistant
Steve's experiances

Z-Wave
ESP32
Shelly

13:58 LXD Forked by Suse - Charlie

Github
FossForce
Canonical took over LXC

16:30 Normie friendly wiki with good searchability - Tiny

WikiJS
HackMD to WikiJS
Steve and Noah don't use tags
Git Backend

20:55 News Wire

Open ELA - Open ELA

Tails 5.16 - Tails

GCC Haiku Support - Phoronix

HashiCorp Abandons Open Source - The News Stack

Sentry Changes to BSL - Codecov

OSI against Meta - Geeky Gadgets

StableLM - Fagenwasanni

French Plan for Native AI Industry - Politico 1 Politico 2

Teen makes ESP32 Phone - Hack a Day Paxo

Intel and AMD Security Patches - ZDnet

Sandwich Cryptographic Framework - Venture Beat

Monti Ransomware Collective - Trend Micro

Wave of Attacks using Merlin - Bleeping Computer

OpenSSh 9.4 - OpenSSH

Gov Asks for help securing open source - Info Security

White Hosue Cyper Security Competition - Fed Scoop

23:11 Code Academy and Python vs Rust - walking penguin

Python vs Rust?
Sleuth joins from mumble!
What is an analyst
Python is more established
Python has more data libraries
Large commercial sites use python
Python allows fast iteration
Rust is better for large applications
Python has a larger "community"
Where to learn python

YouTube
Python Programming Net
YouTube Programmingwithmosh
Courses can remove guess work
Learn Python in a Day

30:50 Data Center Update

Self hosted cloud
Installed Grafana
Hardware

2 Dell Servers
ZFS Pool of mirrored SSDs
2 Mirrored pairs for boot drive

Script re-configures UEFI in event of failure
libvirt for VMs
BLIKVM for out of band access
Sophos Rack Mount Gateway running PFSense (will be OPNSense)
2 techs 2 days
Migrated steps

non-critical services
Altispeed critical services
Client services

LinuxDelta Matrix Instance migration

Faster than ever
Able to self-host more bridges
Hope to re-enable account registration
Ability to host conferences

38:58 Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA)

Still tracking RHEL
Founding members

CIQ
Oracle
Suse

Red Hat is the gorilla
Right approach
OpenELA Post

43:30 IRC/EMS Bridge Update

EMS offered to bridge Libera Chat
Spun up a Libera Matrix server
Great experience
Difference in goals
There were some "misunderstandings"
EMS rolled out patches that caused issues
Bridge ultimately shut down
Bridge was a charity
EMS team took ownership of their side of things
Libera Chat Post
Ycombinator Post 1
Matrix Deportalling Post
Matrix Postponing Deportalling Post
Ycombinator Post 2
Matrix What Happened Post
Ycombinator Post 3

Picking Your Battles

You choose the problems you want to solve
Windows LTSB
How much down, How much per month
Order of Operations

Self Hosted
Free and Open Source
Easy and Compatible FOSS

Music Laptop (Container Story)
Is it serving me, or am I serving it?

-- 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

Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys

Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix

-- Stay In Touch --

Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard

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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!

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Special Guest: JT Pennington.

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