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This week Noah gives an update on the Chinesium access controller, Steve has a problem with 7.1 audio and works out a solution with Noah, and of course your feedback!

-- During The Show --

00:48 Intro

Weather

Snark

02:08 Game Server Access - David

Proxy

Wireguard

Nebula

Tailscale

Put Linux on the Sophos

Dynamic DNS

Name Cheap

Port Forwarding

Swap the drive

Docs.sophos.com

11:20 Static One Liners - Dominick

Bunch of helpful tools and one liners

Github Link

Scope creep

13:53 Cat6 or 6a - Ted

Always pull the latest

Vertical Cable

Fiber vs Ethernet

Down sides of fiber (conduit)

OCC Fiber

DZ Cable

23:50 News Wire

Firefox 148.0 - firefox.com

Thunderbird 148 - thunderbird.net

Postgres 18.3 - postgresql.org

SciTE 5.6 - scintilla.org

Dbeaver 26 - dbeaver.io

GNU Groff 1.24 - lwn.net

GNU Octave v11 - octave.org

Shotcut 26.2 - shotcut.org

Ardour 9.2 - ardour.org

Calibre 9.4 - manual.calibre-ebook.com

Linux EOL Dates Getting Pushed Back - social.kernel.org

React Foundation - prnewswire.com

GNU Hurd Kernel 64 bit - guix.gnu.org

Mabox Linux 26.02 - lwn.net

4MLinux 50.1 - 4mlinux.com

Omarchy 3.4 - github.com

TheSSS 51.0 - 4mlinux.blogspot.com

AV Linux 25.1 - heise.de

Archbang 0103 - archbang.org

PorteusX 2.6 - github.com

Aeryn OS 2026.02 - phoronix.com

BunsenLabs Carbon - bunsenlabs.org

Tails 7.5 - tails.net

Qwen3.5-Medium Performance - venturebeat.com

Kali Linux & AI - linkedin.com

25:30 Steve's Audio Problems

Loud sound effects, quiet speech

Steve's approach

Easy Effects

Browser plugins

Looking online

Asking AI

Tune the receiver

Applying the solution multiple places

Sound isolation

Aurdor

Carla

Compressor

x42 plugins

Real time Kernel

Easier than it looks

Write in with your solutions!

Kodi Plugins and settings

Reddit

Vero V

50:50 Access Control Update

TM Dallas controller arrived

Downsides/limitations

Reader was "hot garbage"

54:07 Scale

Scale is going on!

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This week we focus on your feedback! Questions about NextCloud, questions about best practices for remote storage, and of course the latest headlines from JT!

-- During The Show --

Thermostat for Garage - Jayson

Garage Heater

Inside heat control

Wireless vs hardwired

Hydro radiant heat

Home Assistant centralizes everything

Venstar T7900

WiFi issues

More Private AI? - Anon

Training data

Taking AI offline

Duck AI

techradar.com

Immich & Other things - Fey

Immich in the Oven's Household

Noah's experience with updates

Ente

Having things come back up in order

Backups vs Snapshots

Offline backups

Tape backups

3 - 2 - 1 strategy

Mail-in-a-Box

Self hosting password manager

Nextcloud Alternative - HJ

Default tuning is not great

Trouble shooting can be difficult

How Steve updates

Noah uses a playbook

Finding alternatives

Add-ons "sell" Nextcloud

News Wire

OpenTTD 15.2 - tt-forums.net

GNU Awk 5.4 - lwn.net

Pipewire 1.6 - phoronix.com

DNF 5.4 - phoronix.com

KDE Plasma 6.6 - kde.org

EasyOS 7.2 - bkhome.org

SparkyLinux 8.2 - sparkylinux.org

Xubuntu Wallpaper Contest - discourse.ubuntu.com

Gentoo Moving to Codeberg - linuxjournal.com

Cline CLI Attack - scworld.com

SecureClaw - securityweek.com helpnetsecurity.com

Buzzdetect - entomologytoday.org

AI Slop Drowning Godot - pcgamer.com

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-- During The Show --

00:48 Intro

No Steve this week

Awesome piece of hardware

01:39 News Wire

OpenVPN 2.7 - community.openvpn.net

Mesa 26.0 - mesa3d.org

KDE Frameworks 6.23 - kde.org

Gnome 49.4 - gnome.org

Vim 9.2 vim.org

GNU Linux Libre 6.19 - fsfla.org

GNU Binutils 2.46 - phoronix.com

Tinycore 17 - tinycorelinux.net

Debian 13.3 - voyagerlive.org

Pear OS 26.2 - pearos.xyz

MythTV 36 - mythtv.org

Parrot 7.1 - linuxiac.com

SSHStalker - bleepingcomputer.com

LockBit 5.0 - helpnetsecurity.com

GLM-5 - venturebeat.com

03:00 Chinesium Access Control

Access Control Disclaimer

4 components in access control

Power

Controller

Credentials and reader

Locking mechanism

Door monitors

Embedded door sensor Amazon

Use access control wiring

Honeywell genesis wire

Vertical Cable

Run everything to a central place

Avoid using cloud

Use high quality equipment

Adamsrite 7400

Securiton electromagnetic lock

ASSA ABLOY

Don't use odd credentials

MIFARE

Wiegand

Mercury Access Controllers

Access A1001

OSDP protocol

Chinesium Access ControllerAmazon

Chinesium Card reader Amazon

Leosac

41:57 Ring and Flock cut ties

"Familiar Faces"

Flock Camera's

Privacy concerns

EFF

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This week we talk music! Noah gets hands on with the Zynthian. Matrix is slowly taking over governments. The timing couldn't be better, Discord is requiring age verification.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

No Steve this week

Call in!

Join the GeekLab

01:30 Fun with Linux Audio - Wayne

Helm Synth

Vital Synth

Tal NoizeMaker

Cardinal

Surge Synth

LSP Plugins

Calf Plugins

Reaper

ToneLib-GFX

kxstudio repositories

Struggle to get LV2 plugins to work

Tal baseline

MIDI

Noah's light bulb moment

Backing tracks

Cloud based

16:16 Dell HDDs - TwoBit

Never seen Dell requiring special drives

Requirements by card and drive specs

No longer using hardware raid

HBA Mode

Flashing HBA Firmware

Buy pre-flashed card

Use each drive as it's own raid array

20:16 News Wire

GCompris 26 - gcompris.net

LibreOffice 216.2 - documentfo8undation.org

Ardour - ardour.org

Calibre 9.1 - calibre-ebook.com

Peazip 10.9 - github.com

Linux 6.19 - lkml.org

Oracle Linux 7 - oracle.com

LiteBox - helpnetsecurity.com

GoogleSQL - developer-tech.com

Toyota Open Source Game Engine - techzine.eu

Open Source Chest CT Model - nature.com

21:16 Zynthian

Zynthian

No Soldering

Requires gentle "clock makers hand"

Based on a Raspberry Pi

Professional audio system

How it's built

First power up and usage

34:10 Matrix Protocol

Matrix Protocol is taking over

Digital sovereignty

The Register

Seems to solve problems

Beeper

41:45 Discord KYC

Requiring ID verification

Discords background inference model

Landscape for social media and connecting people

Noah's story of connecting

KNOX chat room

gomuks

The Register

51:20 Ring Camera's

Search Party

Ring has a history

eff.org

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This week John Terrill from Red Hat joins us to talk about branding in Open Source. Many projects don't have a unified communication strategy, but having one is important.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

Steve is in Vegas

Noah "getting deals"

04:37 Lossless Cut

Reached for Avidemux

Avoiding re-encoding

Learning a new program

Lossless Cut Webpage

Lossless Cut GitHub

08:30 OmniTools

Small docker image

Does everything in the web browser

OmniTools GitHub

12:43 NLSH

For people who want to learn the CLI

Translates natural language into CLI

Making things easy can backfire

NLSH GitHub

16:00 Xyops

Features:

Job scheduling

Workflow automation

Server monitoring

Alerting

Incident response

Self Hosted

Open Source

Xyops

18:18 News Wire

Squid 7.4 - github.com

Openttd 15.1 - openttd.org

Rust 1.93 - rust-lang.org

GNU C lwn.net

Extix - linux.exton.net

Liya Linux 2.5 - distrowatch.com

CachyOS 2026 - cachyos.org

GNU Guix 1.5 - quix.gnu.org

MxLinux 25.1 - mxlinux.org

Crypto Thieves in Snap Store - helpnetsecurity.com

Open Source Quantum Computer - uwaterloo.ca

AI Weather Models - kqed.org

Banks Prefer Open-Source - finainews.com

Rack-Scale AI - theasset.com

OIN 2.0 - yahoo.com

19:55 Python Built-in Web Server

Use python to host a web server

Used for file transfers

Use case

Steve's travel router

24:17 Proxy RCE - PSA

Basics of the problem

grahamhelton.com

26:30 Matter Camera

1920x1080 30fps

Synology App to turn a phone into a camera

linuxgizmos.com

30:06 MS Gives Keys to FBI

Microsoft confirms they gave the FBI BitLocker keys

~ 20 requests per year

Home users forced to upload keys

Jump through hoops to avoid uploading

Encryption is only as good as who holds the keys

Pragmatism

aardwolfsecurity.com

ArsTechnica

35:20 Linux Continuity

Continuity document merged into Kernel docs

theregister.com

36:40 John Terrill

PR in open source

Branding open source

One size fits all projects

Extracting technical knowledge

Technical accuracy

How to talk with journalists

Separating personal views from project views

Negative coverage

Messaging guidelines

Branding and marketing

Attracting media attention

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