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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!

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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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This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters!

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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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This week Noah and Steve address the blueprint OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published.

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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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-- 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

Libra Color E-Reader

Booklore

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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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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