- 1 hour 5 minutesEpisode 494: Ask Noah Show 494
This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Red Hat to talk about the relationship RHEL and their up-streams.
-- During The Show --
00:45 Intro
- IT at home
- Wrangling home "data center"
- Noah's old strategy
- Shoe makers kids have no shoes
- Snowballing tech
- Backups - pull vs push
- Making things modular
11:10 Interesting Tech - Carey
- TRMNL
- Mecha Comet
- GPD Micro PC 2
- Value of pocket PCs
22:30 Shelly Devices and UL rated - Mike
- UL Ratings
- Pay attention to what you buy
- Many Shelly devices are UL listed
- UL listed Shelly devices are ~20% more expensive
- "Harbor Freight" answer
28:30 Red Hat Vulnerabilities
- Discovered and locked down in a few hours
- Assume breach, change everything
- Has worm like functionality
- Bypassed 2FA
- Multiple persistence methods
- Heavily obfuscated
- stepsecurity.io
36:45 Interview Mike McGrath
- Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms
- RHEL AI vs OpenShift AI
- What did Red Hat get wrong and right over the last few years
- Is AI a threat to open source?
- Does going closed source actually solve anything?
- CVEs
- Mechanisms for community influence on RHEL
- What are RHEL security best practices?
- Quantum safe encryption
- Install as little as possible
- Image mode
- Project Hummingbird
- RHEL Forever
- CentOS Stream and RHEL
- What is an upside of CentOS Stream?
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3 June 2026, 1:00 am - 53 minutes 51 secondsAsk Noah Show 493
This week Sathish Balakrishnan from Red Hat joins us to talk about using Ansible as the trusted execution layer for automation. Jef Spaleta joins to give us an update on Fedora! It's a packed episode.
-- During The Show --
00:50 ReCaptcha
- Going to require Google Services Framework or iOS >16.4
- DeGoogled phones will fail
- Where we are headed
- No one spoke up
- FDroid
- Keep Android Open
- ReClaim the Net
09:20 Jef Spaleta
- Jef Spaleta
- Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat
- What is Fedora
- Governance
- Integrating
- New Contributors
- Jef's path into Linux
- Fedora AI Policy
- AI assisted workflow
- Future of AI and Agentic
- Space for enthusiasm
31:24 News Wire
Midori 11.8 - astian.org
Wordpress 7.0 - wordpress.org
Less 702 - greenwoodsoftware.com
Ardour 9.5 - ardour.org
Thunderbird 151 - thunderbird.net
Firefox 151 - firedfox.com
DietPi 10.4 - dietpi.com
Nitrix 6.1 - nxos.org
Tails 7.8 - torproject.org
RHEL 10.2 - redhat.com
Ubuntu Core 26 - canonical.com
GitHub Victim of TeamPCP - wired.com
Megalodon Cyberattack - mashable.com
Bumblebee - marktechpost.com
MoonRay - phoronix.com
32:42 Meta E2E Messages
- Texas Attorney General sued Meta
- Could "taint" perception of other E2EE
- Unlikely companies will give you true privacy
- ArsTechnica
36:30 Sathish Balakrishnan
- Vice President and General Manager, Ansible Business Unit, Red Hat
- Benefits of Ansible
- Ansible as Trusted Execution Layer
- Balancing understanding
- Guide rails for AI
- Drag and Drop AI Ansible workflow
- Patching is no longer optional
- What do you want all new Ansible users to know?
- Everything must be automated
52:15 Feedback
- Call in!
- Email [email protected]
- Tag Marlin in the GeekLab
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27 May 2026, 1:00 am - 55 minutes 17 secondsAsk Noah Show 492
This week Sachin Mullick, Senior Manager, Product Management, joins the program and we talk about OpenShift Virtualization.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Sad trombone button
- Plex Lifetime Pass Price Hike ArsTechnica
- What is Plex is
- JellyFin
14:00 Thermostats - Marc
- Docs Site
- There isn't a great solution
- There is a market
- Older Venstar T7900
- Older Honeywell Redlink
- Shelly
- Build your own
- Centralite Pearl Amazon
25:40 Tailscale - Feydr
- How do you access your LAN with no exit node?
27:11 News Wire
KDE Plasma 6.6.5 - kde.org
Debian 13.5 - debian.org
SparkyLinux 8.3 - sparkylinux.org
Age Verification Backlash - opensourceforu.com
DOE Open-Source Wind Turbine - energy.gov
Open Source EV - electrek.co
AI & Linux Security Mailing List - theregister.com techradar.com
SSH-Keysign-PWN - tuxcare.com
Fragnesia - wiz.io
Shai-Hulud - ox.security
Mini Shai-Hulud - cyberscoop.com
DirtyDecrypt - thehackernews.com
OpenBSD 7.9 - openbsd.org
28:54 Sachin Mullick Interview
- Sachin Mullick OpenShift Product Manager
- VMware Broadcom Acquisition
- Red Hat & KVM
- "Click Ops"
- Upstream
- Must be willing to learn
- "Click Ops" vs Declarative
- Biggest Misconceptions
- VM investments and migrating to containers
- Are we actually modernizing?
- "Day 2"
- Home Labs
- What would need for a home lab?
- OpenShift Sandbox
- Red Hat Original Series
- Interactive Demos
- Training and Certification
53:00 Dory
- eInk Signs
- Won't be bricked if company goes under
- ArsTechnica
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20 May 2026, 1:00 am - 43 minutes 46 secondsAsk Noah Show 491
Noah and Steve are at Red Hat Summit 2026! We talk to Stefanie Chiras to talk about her new role as Senior Vice President of the AI Innovation Hub. She leads Red Hat's strategy for engaging with and catalyzing regional AI ecosystems.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Live from Summit in Georgia
- Interviews
02:30 Lets Encrypt Changes - Charlie
- Certificate's going to 45 Days
- Window is likely to decrease
05:40 Follow up on getting into system - Advait
- Write in with your recovery techniques
- What Noah used to do
- LiveCD and "poking"
- Steve's HP Elite Book
- UltraBooks
- Separating work and personal
- Choosing a laptop
- ThunderBolt Docks changed computer usage
19:30 Dell Server Problems - Frederick
- Maybe the drives died
- PERC is getting in the way
- Step One
- Flash IT mode
- If PERC fails you can be in big trouble
23:00 Red Hat Summit Interview
- Stefanie Chiras Ph.D. - Senior Vice President, AI Innovation Hub
- Mechanical Engineering degrees
- What led you where you are?
- Breaking down walls
- Open Accelerator
- Roll of Open Source
- Government Involvement
- Benefits to community
- Does code flow back to Open Source?
- Open Source governance
37:40 News Wire
KDE Frameworks 6.26 - kde.org
Mesa 26.1 - mesa3d.org
Cangjie - infoq.com
Mercury Modem - hamweekly.com
Parrot 7.2 - parrotsec.org
3D-Printed Stethoscope - adafruit.com
Copy Fail - thehackernews.com
Dirty Frag - thehackernews.com
Emergency Kill Switch - theregister.com
PAN-OS Vulnerability - thehackersnews.com
PamDOORa - thehackernews.com
MoonShot AI - siliconangle.com
Red Hat AI 3.4 - redhat.com
Open AI Foundations - fierce-network.com
40:00 Fun Technology
- Playing with LLMs
- Fish.audio
- Creating audio books
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13 May 2026, 1:00 am - 53 minutes 55 secondsAsk Noah Show 490
This week we answer questions about remote connecting to Home Assistant, an automated way to backup and restore your GrapheneOS phone. We talk about the 3D printing laws that are coming on the books.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Starting fresh vs fix what you have
- Spaceship design
- Designs need to distill down
- Home Assistant
- Noah's setup
12:00 Home Assistant - Kristian
- Steve's remote solution
- Tailscale exit nodes
- Noah's remote solution
- AirVPN
- Learn wireguard
- Effect of VPN
26:00 SeedVault Feedback - Dominik
- Money Apps not transferring is a feature
- Permissions not transferring is a feature
- Really appriciate the feedback
- SeedVault
- Syncthing
31:00 Tech for vechiles - dashcam and gps tracking - Charlie
- Viofo Dash Cam
- Traccar
- Understand dashcam need
- US is legally requiring manufacture uplink
- Vehicles are increasingly computerized
- OpenPilot
38:00 News Wire
Curl 8.20 - curl.se
Qbittorrent 5.2 - qbittorrent.org
Calibre 9.8 - calibre-ebook.com
Shotcut 26.4 - shotcut.org
KdenLive - kdenlive.org
EasyOS 7.3 - puppylinux.com
4MLinux 51.1 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com
Extix 26.5 - extonlinux.wordpress.com
EndeavourOS - endeavouros.com
GRML 2026.04 - grml.org
Linux Mint 22.3 - linuxmint.com
AerynOS 2026.05 - phoronix.com
PS5 Mod Installs Steam - 80.lv
Copy Fail - copy.fail
Ubuntu Integrated AI - techpowerup.com
Meta Abandons Llama - thenewstack.io
Cisco Tool - cisco.com
DOS 1.0 - zdnet.com microsoft.com
40:00 Steve's tip
- Doing work at home
- Drive nearing full alert
- QDirStat
44:00 3D Printer Restrictions
- New York proposed law
- Cryptographically signing prints
- Requiring cloud connection
- Stopping tinkerers from tinkering
- 80% of people want an easy button
- Effect on the market
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6 May 2026, 1:00 am - 53 minutes 53 secondsEpisode 489: Ask Noah Show | 489
This week we talk about how Ai took out a production database, we answer questions on best home automation practices, and we talk a bit of storage cache.
-- During The Show --
00:48 Intro
- Gratitude
- Curiosity
02:30 Cache Drives - David
- Terminology and discovery
- ZIL (ZFS Intent Log)
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous
- SLOG
- Mirror drives
- ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache)
- Stored in RAM
- L2ARC
- Spill over from ARC
- Work load dependant
- Please join live!
- [Boardroom Technologies](BoardroomTechnologies.com)
12:42 Nextcloud - Aryeh
- Home Assistant SFTP Storage
Dumping to NFS share
*0 2 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ trashbin:cleanup homeassistant_user
17:28 Home Automation - Tony
- Home automations are personal
- Lutron Training
- Less is more
- Bedroom automation
- Eject handles/over-rides
- Orbit Panels
31:00 SIP Server - Twobit
34:17 News Wire
Kdenlive 26.04.0 - kdenlive.org
Midori 11.7 - github.com
Bleachbit 6.0 - bleachbit.org
QEMU 11.0 - qemu.org
LXQT 2.4 - lxqt-project.org
Firefox 150 - firfox.com
Thunderbird 150 - thunderbird.net
Ubuntu 26.04 - ubuntu.com
Fedora 44 - fedoramagazine.org
Tails 7.7 - tails.net
VECT 2.0 Destroys Files - thehackernews.com
Pack2TheRoot - securityweek.com
GoGra Backdoor - thehackernews.com
DeepSeek v4 - siliconangle.com
Kimi k2.6 - pandaily.com
Qwen3.6-27B - marktechpost.com
35:50 Discussion Segment
- Cursor - AI first IDE
- Opus - AI model
- Agents
- Cursor "modes"
- Agent
- Planning mode
- Cursor wants to "resell AI" to you
- The Register Cursor
- Steve's AI automation mishap
- AI can be amusing
- Mythos
- The Register Mythos
- Metasploit
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29 April 2026, 1:00 am - 53 minutes 52 secondsAsk Noah Show 488
This week Singpolyma joins us to talk about the Cheogram web app. We talk about NASA's Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) and how it's changing the way long distance communication works!
-- During The Show --
00:48 - Special Guest
- Singpolyam
- cross platform core
- Cheogram Web App
- Still considered Alpha
- Pretty stable
- Voice, Video, Text
- JMP.chat data only sim
- esim adapter
- Snikket
- Affect of Google forcing developer registration
- JMP.Chat
10:38 Comprehension debt
- Creating prompts
- Spec driven developing
- Most people don't read the code
- No person understands how the code works
- Peer review vs AI
- Amazon outages
- When to use AI code
- Re-implementing AI code
- AI summary
- Rating your understanding
- RAID log
24:30 Linux Router - Connor
- VyOS
- OpenWRT
- PFSense is out
- Look for things with an API
- PFSenseible GitHub
- Site to Site in medical
- Dicom
- Why not to use pfSense
- OPNsense
35:30 JMP.chat - Aaron
- Cheogram Web App
- Webapp Manager GitHub
36:15 System Fails to boot -Advait
- Can't remember the last time it happened
- Noah doesn't fix systems
- Reinstall plus ansible
41:12 News Wire
Nginx 1.30 - nginx.org
OpenSSL 4.0 - github.com
Gnome 50.1 - gnome.org
KDE Gear 26.04 - kde.org
Mir 2.26 - ubuntu.com
Linux 7.1 - theregister.com
Zorin OS 18.1 - blog.zorin.com
Solus 4.9 - getsol.us
Cachy OS has 7.0 Kernel - xda-developers.com
Thunderbolt AI Client - phoronix.com
Cal Closeing Source Code - zdnet.com
42:25 Sleuth's Feedback
- VyOS
- Uses a JSON config file
- Have the system make backups
- Supports podman containers
- System failing to boot
- Your data is still there
- Boot from a live distro
45:30 Artemis II Mission
- Crew Module
- ESM - European Service Module
- Radio waves
- O2O communications
- 1 watt of power
- focused beam, sensitive receiver
- 260 MbPs
- TechSpot
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22 April 2026, 1:00 am - 53 minutes 51 secondsEpisode 487: Ask Noah Show 487
This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters!
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Weather
- Audio Levels
02:00 Steve's AI Rabbit Hole
- AI may change, but is here to stay
- Garmin Data
- Tested 14 models
- How they performed
- Mumble Doc
- What are tokens
- MCP server vs skills
- Email is out dated
- Environmental cost
25:18 Copy On Write - Jayson
- Benefits of COW file systems
- Compression
- Steve is not a ZFS "expert"
- Block size
- SSD vs HDD for databases
- Avoid COW inside VM
36:32 RaidZ Questions - D
- Mirrored Pairs
- Use SSD/Solid State
- UGreen NAS
43:30 Authentication - Avri
- Pocket-ID GitHub
- Open Source SSO
45:20 MakeMKV Feedback - archer72 (KD9VMW)
- MakeMKV Error
- Hacker Public Radio 4564
46:11 AV Codecs - Atypical
- How do you add AV codecs into EndlessOS?
- Flatpak with codecs
47:20 Axis Door Stations - TwoBit
- They are great, everything is standard
48:00 News Wire
Peazip 11.0 - github.io
GNU Nano 9.0 - nano-editor.org
KDE Frameworks 6.25 - kde.org
KDE Plasma 6.6.4 - kde.org
OpenSSL 3.6.2 - github.com
Extix 26.4 - linux.exton.net
Plop Linux 26.2 - plop.at
Snal Linux 1.40 - sourceforge.net
PearOS Nice Core 26.4 - pearos.xyz
Trisquel 12.0 - phoronix.com
GLM 5.1 - venturebeat.com
Ising - nvidia.com
France Switches to Linux - linuxiac.com
49:16 AI in Health Care
- Class Action Law Suit over AI transcription
- Who can be subpoenaed?
- Informed consent
- Epic Everywhere
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15 April 2026, 1:00 am - 55 minutes 22 secondsAsk Noah Show 486
This week Noah and Steve address the blueprint OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- 486 being removed from Linux
- Nixsys.com
- Noah's early experience
- Drawing a living off open source
- Trends and walled gardens
09:12 Linux Tablets - Tobias
- Users experiences
- Steve struggles to find a use case
- Noah's experiences
- PineTab2
16:38 Refrigeration/Cooling - Graham
- Wildly inefficient heating
- Boiler plants
23:08 Wiki for Church - Dustin
- WikiJS
- XWiki
- Markdown
- WYSIWYG
- Where to start
- Steve's WikiJS Patch
34:28 News Wire
OpenTTD 15.3 - openttd.org
Archinstall 4.0 - xda-developers.com
Gnome 49.5 - gnome.org
Peazip 11 - github.io
Elive 3.8.50 - distrowatch.com
4mLinux 51.0 - 4mlinux.com
AerynOS 2026.03 - aerynos.com
Netrunner 26 - netrunner.com
Omarchy 3.5 - github.com
MX Linux Pushes Back - linuxjournal.com
Removing 486 - tomshardware.com
Meta AI - axios.com
Trinity-Large-Thinking - venturebeat.com Arcee.ai
Gemma 4 - ciodive.com
35:45 AI Overlords
- Sam Altman's white paper
- How useful AI will be for the average person
- Spend commitments
- 90% of AI failing in enterprise
- Robots building robots
- Robot tax
- Containment playbooks for dangerous AI
- Economic survival from robots
- General Super AI (AI Singularity)
- ArsTechnica
- Tech4Gamers.com
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8 April 2026, 1:00 am - 53 minutes 44 secondsAsk Noah Show 485
This week we focus on your feedback! Your calls go to the front of the line, your emails answered!
-- During The Show --
00:58 Intro
- Alarm panel & Home Assistant
- Sensor abilities at home
- Plugging everything into Home Assistant
- People are having to confront Home Assistant
07:02 LDAP/PKI - Soham
- FreeIPA
- Feedback to ANS 476
- FreeIPA ANS Content ANS 342 ANS 382
- Steve's FreeIPA journey
- Noah's take on FreeIPA
- Steve uses Ansible and VM Clones
14:36 Caller
- Monitoring HVAC power usage?
- Flashed Emporia Vue
- Home Assistant setup
- Moving a phone number virtual?
- JMP.Chat
- Gajim
- Pidgin
- XMPP
- Unredacted XMPP
- Unredacted.org
31:54 Ereaders - Gwendolyn
37:48 Getting rid of facebook - Andy
- Self hosted private blog
- There will be friction
- Stealing children's privacy
- Noah has "cleaned up" "digital messes"
- Hugo
- Ghost
- Private is hard
- Mastodon
Tape Backups - DC
- Amanda Backup
- Bacula
- Nothing new to say
51:20 News Wire
Calibre 9.6 - calibre-ebook.com
FreeCad 1.1 - freecad.org
QT 6.11 - wiki.qt.io
Thunderbird 149 - thunderbird.net
Firefox 149 - firefox.com
OpenSuse Agama 19 - lwn.net
Krita 5.3 - krita.org
SDv Platform - wardsauto.com
Pardus 25.1 - indir.pardus.org
Plop Linux 26.1 - download.plop.at
Kaos 2026.03 - kaosx.us
Tails 7.6 - torproject.org
Kali Linux 2026.1 - kali.org
Sparky Linux 9 - thenewstack.io
Axios Hijack - nextgov.com
Cohere Voice Model - techcrunch.com
Malaria Drug Discovery - healthpolicy-watch.news
Midjourney Standard Pretext - venturebeat.com
Brain AI - ai.meta.com
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1 April 2026, 1:00 am - 56 minutes 22 secondsAsk Noah Show 484 | Linux in a Commercial Environment
This week Kenny Schmidt the Operations Manager for Altispeed Technologies joins the show! Kenny and Noah talk about the role of Linux in a commercial environment, and what a healthy view of taking work home looks like!
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Show goes in cycles
- Linux making it's way into
01:48 Alarm Panels
- Reliable and robust
- Honeywell Vista Panel
- Closed contact
- Shellys
- Resistors
- Home Assistant integration
- ESP8266
- Alarm Decoder .com
- Alarm Decoder .square.site
- [Eyezon](www.eyezon.com)
- Building a system
17:50 Kenny From Altispeed
- Taking your work home
- Love learning at home
- Open source vs Proprietary
- Garage door automation
- Zigbee vs Z-Wave
- Unicast vs Multicast
- POE Zigbee Adapter Amazon
- Rebuilding the "Schmidt Cloud"
- DNS Challenge
- Immich
- Immich release notes and documentation
- Changes to the Immich project and funding
- Nyquist from Bogen
- Kenny's Blog bitsandbolts.net
45:02 News Wire
Bcachefs 1.37 - phoronix.com
FFMPEG 8.1 - ffmpeg.org
Blender 5.1 - blender.org
Openrazer 3.12 - github.com
OpenShot 35 - openshot.org
KiCad - kicad.org
GX Browser - gamingtrend.com
AntiX 26 - antixlinux.com
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 - fedoramagazine.org
GlassWorm - scientificamerican.com
Quantum Hardware Repository - thequantuminsider.com
Post-Quantum Secure RISC-V - thequantuminsider.com
Open-Source AI Wallet - bitcoinmagazine.com
46:13 Credoid
- Credoid
- Docs are written in WikiJS
- Mercury Boards
- Lifetime license
- Self Host-able via docker
- Follows all best practices and standards
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