Ask Noah Show 350 - a podcast by Noah J. Chelliah

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 hardwareNoah's type-C charger upgrade
Noah's portable rack06:40 Home Assistant - Curt
Run on a re-purposed thin clientParkytowers (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 AssistantSteve's experiances
Z-WaveESP32
Shelly13:58 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 LXC16:30 Normie friendly wiki with good searchability - Tiny
WikiJSHackMD to WikiJS
Steve and Noah don't use tagsGit Backend
20:55 News WireOpen 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 analystPython is more established
Python has more data librariesLarge commercial sites use python
Python allows fast iterationRust is better for large applications
Python has a larger "community"Where to learn python
YouTubePython 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 cloudInstalled Grafana
Hardware2 Dell Servers
ZFS Pool of mirrored SSDs2 Mirrored pairs for boot drive
Script re-configures UEFI in event of failurelibvirt for VMs
BLIKVM for out of band accessSophos Rack Mount Gateway running PFSense (will be OPNSense)
2 techs 2 daysMigrated steps
non-critical servicesAltispeed critical services
Client servicesLinuxDelta Matrix Instance migration
Faster than everAble to self-host more bridges
Hope to re-enable account registrationAbility to host conferences
38:58 Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA)Still tracking RHEL
Founding membersCIQ
OracleSuse
Red Hat is the gorillaRight approach
OpenELA Post (https://openela.org/news/hello_world/)43:30 IRC/EMS Bridge Update
EMS offered to bridge Libera ChatSpun up a Libera Matrix server
Great experienceDifference in goals
There were some "misunderstandings"EMS rolled out patches that caused issues
Bridge ultimately shut downBridge was a charity
EMS team took ownership of their side of thingsLibera 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 solveWindows LTSB
How much down, How much per monthOrder of Operations
Self HostedFree and Open Source
Easy and Compatible FOSSMusic Laptop (Container Story)
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