Episode 368: Ask Noah Show 368

This week Till Kamppeter joins The Ask Noah Show and we talk about OpenPrinting. We answer your questions, and if you were hosting your Matrix instance with EMS we'll walk you through the latest announcement.
-- During The Show --
Feedback about BT extension EP 351 - John
Cheap phone watch
Disdain for any kind of phone
Kid Friendly Distro Feedback - Jeremy
PFSense + pfBlockerNG
Canadian Block Lists GitHub (https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts)
Will this work with DNS over TLS?
Null out IPs
Linux Smart Phones - Sandro
Linux is coming to the mobile game 10 years late
Some of the "Linux Mobile OSes" use an Android shim to talk to the hardware
GrapheneOS has been great
A few small issues
Current hardware is under powered
DBs for Home Lab - Sandro
Pass the vdev directly into the VM
OpenWRT Home Router - elguaje3ero
OpenWRT (https://openwrt.org/toh/start)
Sophos XG135
Ebay Link (https://www.ebay.com/itm/186136266565)
News Wire
Qubes OS 4.2 - Linux IAC (https://linuxiac.com/qubes-os-4-2-0-rolls-out-with-dom0-rebased-to-fedora-37/)
Fedora Asahi Linux 39 - Asahi Linux (https://asahilinux.org/fedora/)
Manjaro 23.1 - Manjaro (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-23-1-vulcan-released/153458)
PostmarketOS 23.12 - Debug Point News (https://debugpointnews.com/postmarketos-23-12/)
Calameres 3.3 - Calamares (https://calamares.io)
Shotcut 23.12 - Shotcut (https://www.shotcut.org/blog/new-release-231215/)
Ardour 8.2 - Ardour (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html)
Peazip 9.6 - Peazip Github (https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html)
GNU Cash 5.5.5 - GNU Cash (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml)
Gnome 44.7 - Discourse Gnome.org (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-44-7-released/18551)
Firefox 121 - OMG Ubuntu (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/firefox-121-released-now-defaults-to-wayland-on-linux)
MS Windows AI Studio - The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/14/windows_ai_studio_preview/)
NKAbuse Malware - Dark Reading (https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/nkabuse-malware-blockchain-hide-linux-iot)
SSH MitM
Terrapin SSH attack
Requires either ChaCha20-Poly1305 or CBC-EtM
Targets Binary Packet Protocol
ARS Technica Article (https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/hackers-can-break-ssh-channel-integrity-using-novel-data-corruption-attack/)
EMS Discontinuing Hosting
EMS did a great job
Per user is not cost effective
Offering a reduced min user business subscription
Billed for a year, cut short
Early adopter tax
Element Starter
Your own server
No support
Up to 200 users
???
Opens up hosting to more people
Black Lists
Element One
Beeper iMessage whack-a-mole
Better story than slack, discord, etc
Element Announcement Blog Post (https://element.io/blog/element-starter-open-source-meets-on-premise-collaboration/)
Matrix Governing Board Blog Post (https://element.io/blog/element-starter-open-source-meets-on-premise-collaboration/)
Beeper iMessage (The Register) (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/18/beeper_blocked_imessage_whacamole_continues/)
Fedora Asahi
Presentation experience
Script turns Mac into Linux machine
Audio disabled
Flawless
Apple engineers changed the firmware
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/fedora-asahi-remix-officially-released-for-apple-silicon-macs)
Firefox 121
Wayland by default
Picture in Picture
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-121-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new)
PostmarketOS
Postmarket OS 23.12
New chrome books supported
New single board computers supported
Encryption supported
Additional safety checks
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/postmarketos-23-12-brings-the-gnome-45-desktop-to-linux-phones-and-tablets)
Debug Point News (https://debugpointnews.com/postmarketos-23-12/)
Interview with Till Kamppeter
Leads the OpenPrinting project
LPD
PostScript Printers
PCL printers
Ghostscript
magicfilter
LPR Command
CUPS - early 2000s
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
2.0 IPP
Print dialog
Raster Formats (driverless printing)
Apple raster
Printer Working Group
PCLM
How driver-less printing works
Choosing a printer
firmware tricks
subscription models
Brother printers
-- The Extra Credit Section --
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Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com)
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Special Guests: JT Pennington and Till Kamppeter.

This week Till Kamppeter joins The Ask Noah Show and we talk about OpenPrinting. We answer your questions, and if you were hosting your Matrix instance with EMS we'll walk you through the latest announcement.

-- During The Show --

Feedback about BT extension EP 351 - John

Cheap phone watch
Disdain for any kind of phone

Kid Friendly Distro Feedback - Jeremy

PFSense + pfBlockerNG
Canadian Block Lists GitHub
Will this work with DNS over TLS?
Null out IPs

Linux Smart Phones - Sandro

Linux is coming to the mobile game 10 years late
Some of the "Linux Mobile OSes" use an Android shim to talk to the hardware
GrapheneOS has been great
A few small issues
Current hardware is under powered

DBs for Home Lab - Sandro

Pass the vdev directly into the VM

OpenWRT Home Router - elguaje3ero

OpenWRT
Sophos XG135
Ebay Link

News Wire

Qubes OS 4.2 - Linux IAC

Fedora Asahi Linux 39 - Asahi Linux

Manjaro 23.1 - Manjaro

PostmarketOS 23.12 - Debug Point News

Calameres 3.3 - Calamares

Shotcut 23.12 - Shotcut

Ardour 8.2 - Ardour

Peazip 9.6 - Peazip Github

GNU Cash 5.5.5 - GNU Cash

Gnome 44.7 - Discourse Gnome.org

Firefox 121 - OMG Ubuntu

MS Windows AI Studio - The Register

NKAbuse Malware - Dark Reading

SSH MitM

Terrapin SSH attack
Requires either ChaCha20-Poly1305 or CBC-EtM
Targets Binary Packet Protocol
ARS Technica Article

EMS Discontinuing Hosting

EMS did a great job
Per user is not cost effective
Offering a reduced min user business subscription
Billed for a year, cut short
Early adopter tax
Element Starter

Your own server
No support
Up to 200 users
???

Opens up hosting to more people
Black Lists
Element One
Beeper iMessage whack-a-mole
Better story than slack, discord, etc
Element Announcement Blog Post
Matrix Governing Board Blog Post
Beeper iMessage (The Register)

Fedora Asahi

Presentation experience
Script turns Mac into Linux machine
Audio disabled
Flawless
Apple engineers changed the firmware
9 to 5 Linux

Firefox 121

Wayland by default
Picture in Picture
9 to 5 Linux

PostmarketOS

Postmarket OS 23.12
New chrome books supported
New single board computers supported
Encryption supported
Additional safety checks
9 to 5 Linux
Debug Point News

Interview with Till Kamppeter

Leads the OpenPrinting project
LPD
PostScript Printers
PCL printers
Ghostscript
magicfilter
LPR Command
CUPS - early 2000s
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
2.0 IPP
Print dialog
Raster Formats (driverless printing)

Apple raster
Printer Working Group
PCLM

How driver-less printing works
Choosing a printer

firmware tricks
subscription models
Brother printers

-- 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

-- Twitter --

Noah - Kernellinux
Ask Noah Show
Altispeed Technologies

Special Guests: JT Pennington and Till Kamppeter.

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