Episode 364: Ask Noah Show 364

This week Simon Quigley, the release manager for Lubuntu joins Ask Noah to talk about the 24.04 release! We give you some gift ideas for the geek in your life, and of course we answers your questions.
-- During The Show --
00:55 Gratitude
Gratitude is good for your health
Reduces stress
Can be measured in as small as a few weeks
Noah's thank full for
Friends willing to help
For profit companies contributing to open source
Developers who donate their time
As we get older, gratefulness grows
Steve's thankful for
Ability to learn from open source code
Hardware that "just won't die"
09:00 Geek Gift Recommendations
MokerLink Switch (https://www.amazon.com/MokerLink-Managed-Ethernet-Auto-Negotiation-Bandwidth/dp/B0C53H61LN)
Seagate 20TB HDD (Amazon) (https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-ST18000NM000J-Internal-Surveillance-Supported/dp/B09MWKXR2T)
Seagate 20TB (Newegg) (https://www.newegg.com/seagate-exos-x20-st20000nm007d-20tb/p/N82E16822185011?Item=N82E16822185011)
Seagate Iornwolf
BackBlaze Drive Review (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2023/)
Thank You Home Assistant
Shelly Devices (https://www.shelly.com/en-us/products/shop#unfiltered)
19:11 Nothing/SunBird App
ARS Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/nothings-imessage-app-was-a-security-catastrophe-taken-down-in-24-hours/)
Company claimed to have "hacked" iMessage
Many blogs and sites cried fowl
Got it pulled from app stores
Dumpster fire
Reuploaded the app under SunBird name
Service must be audit-able
Plenty of options for E2EE
Lowest common denominator
Beeper iMessage solution
E2EE is probably good for the world
25:13 Lubuntu Release
Simon Quigley - Release Manager for Lubuntu
Calamares System Installer
Light weight & Full install
Optional programs
Why the Calamares Installer?
Customize Menu
Welcome Screen?
Installer and updates
How the installer implements Snaps
How did you land on these applications
Element (Snap)
virt-manager
Thunderbird
Krita (Snap)
What would you tell the next generation?
What did your start look like?
42:53 News Wire
Oracle Linux 9.3 - Oracle (https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/oracle-linux-9-update-3)
Rocky Linux 9.3 - 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/rocky-linux-9-3-brings-back-cloud-and-container-images-for-powerpc-64-bit)
Endeaver OS Adopts KDE - Debugpoint News (https://debugpointnews.com/endeavouros-galileo/)
Wireshark 4.2.0 - Help Net Security (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/11/17/wireshark-4-2-0-open-source-packet-analysis/)
Handbrake 1.7 - GitHub (https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/releases/tag/1.7.0)
Calibre 7.0 - Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new)
Distrobox - GitHub (https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/releases/tag/1.6.0)
Firefox 120.0 - Mozilla (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.0/releasenotes/)
Olimex Drone Swarm - Hackster.io (https://www.hackster.io/news/olimex-shows-off-an-open-hardware-linux-based-autonomous-drone-swarm-88ed4bfbd390)
Collabora NVK - Collabora (https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-reaches-vulkan-conformance.html)
TikTok Edge Accelerator - The News Stack (https://thenewstack.io/tiktok-to-open-source-cloud-neutralizing-edge-accelerator/)
TETRA Going Open Source - Bank Info Security (https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/european-telecom-body-to-open-source-radio-encryption-system-a-23599)
IPStorm Shut Down - PC Mag (https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-shuts-down-ipstorm-malware-that-targeted-windows-mac-linux)
Open Se Cura - Mark Tech Post (https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/11/17/meet-googles-project-open-se-cura-an-open-source-framework-to-accelerate-the-development-of-secure-scalable-transparent-and-efficient-ai-systems/)
Kyutai - Tech Crunch (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/kyutai-is-an-french-ai-research-lab-with-a-330-million-budget-that-will-make-everything-open-source/)
45:00 Nat Reflection - Sebastian
All the same thing
NAT Reflection
Most strait forward
Least "hacky"
Local DNS
Caching issues
2 sources of truth
Put the server on a different subnet
Netgate NAT Reflection Doc (https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/nat/reflection.html)
52:00 Hikvision Follow Up - William
Thank You Glen!
IE Tab Extension requires internet connection
Sold Hikvision
Bought used axis camera on Ebay - Just worked!
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Special Guests: JT Pennington and Simon Quigley.

This week Simon Quigley, the release manager for Lubuntu joins Ask Noah to talk about the 24.04 release! We give you some gift ideas for the geek in your life, and of course we answers your questions.

-- During The Show --

00:55 Gratitude

Gratitude is good for your health
Reduces stress
Can be measured in as small as a few weeks
Noah's thank full for

Friends willing to help
For profit companies contributing to open source
Developers who donate their time
As we get older, gratefulness grows

Steve's thankful for

Ability to learn from open source code
Hardware that "just won't die"

09:00 Geek Gift Recommendations

MokerLink Switch
Seagate 20TB HDD (Amazon)
Seagate 20TB (Newegg)
Seagate Iornwolf
BackBlaze Drive Review
Thank You Home Assistant
Shelly Devices

19:11 Nothing/SunBird App

ARS Technica
Company claimed to have "hacked" iMessage
Many blogs and sites cried fowl
Got it pulled from app stores
Dumpster fire
Reuploaded the app under SunBird name
Service must be audit-able
Plenty of options for E2EE
Lowest common denominator
Beeper iMessage solution
E2EE is probably good for the world

25:13 Lubuntu Release

Simon Quigley - Release Manager for Lubuntu
Calamares System Installer

Light weight & Full install
Optional programs

Why the Calamares Installer?
Customize Menu
Welcome Screen?
Installer and updates
How the installer implements Snaps
How did you land on these applications

Element (Snap)
virt-manager
Thunderbird
Krita (Snap)

What would you tell the next generation?
What did your start look like?

42:53 News Wire

Oracle Linux 9.3 - Oracle

Rocky Linux 9.3 - 9 to 5 Linux

Endeaver OS Adopts KDE - Debugpoint News

Wireshark 4.2.0 - Help Net Security

Handbrake 1.7 - GitHub

Calibre 7.0 - Calibre

Distrobox - GitHub

Firefox 120.0 - Mozilla

Olimex Drone Swarm - Hackster.io

Collabora NVK - Collabora

TikTok Edge Accelerator - The News Stack

TETRA Going Open Source - Bank Info Security

IPStorm Shut Down - PC Mag

Open Se Cura - Mark Tech Post

Kyutai - Tech Crunch

45:00 Nat Reflection - Sebastian

All the same thing
NAT Reflection

Most strait forward
Least "hacky"

Local DNS

Caching issues
2 sources of truth

Put the server on a different subnet
Netgate NAT Reflection Doc

52:00 Hikvision Follow Up - William

Thank You Glen!
IE Tab Extension requires internet connection
Sold Hikvision
Bought used axis camera on Ebay - Just worked!

-- 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

Ask Noah Dashboard

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

Contact Noah

live [at] asknoahshow.com

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Special Guests: JT Pennington and Simon Quigley.

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