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Most people aren't choosing password that are secure enough. Professional attackers are able to crack up to 90% of passwords chosen by most people. The tools both for breaking passwords and saving them are open source. Thunderbird begins rolling version 78 and Alphabet Inc has a new end to end web platform for tracking and dealing with COVID in the workplace. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For lin...

Bottlerocket is a Linux-based open-source operating system that is purpose-built by Amazon Web Services for running containers on virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Most customers today run containerized applications on general-purpose operating systems that are updated package-by-package, which makes OS updates difficult to automate. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and...

Linux and virtualization have made operating your office out of a box a reality! It turns out smart doorbells are not such a smart choice, RedHat now support multi-path TCP, and Cockpit has a new update! -- 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 Phon...

A Raspberry Pi based device that plugs directly into your bare-metal server, giving you a virtual console, updates to Kdenlive, and RHEL releases a runtime for flatpak. -- 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...

James is Executive Director of the OpenPower Foundation, joins us to discuss what's new with OpenPOWER. Mozilla is downsizing, an open source Linux handheld is available for pre-order and the Linux Foundation is launching the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) to address security in open source! -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's...

Masks are being debated around the US and around the world but what do they do for privacy? China has facial recognition software that works even with face masks but NIST has shown that's not always the case! F5 has a major vulnerability that is allows someone with network access to the configuration utility, through the BIG-IP management port and/or self IPs, to execute arbitrary system commands,...

The European Court of Justice invalidates Privacy Shield. The Court clarified for a second time now that there is a clash between EU privacy law and US surveillance law. Pine phone has a convergence package, and the Linux Foundation now has an open source contract tracing app. -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this wee...

Frank Karlitschek Managing Director and Founder of NextCloud joins Noah to discuss the progress that NextCloud has made and how the community has shaped his views and goals. Funding costs have LibreOffice considering a "enterprise" vs "personal" edition, plus a device that will alert you to voice assistants spying on you! -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material refere...

The Btrfs team joins the Ask Noah Show to set the record straight. Btrfs is being used at Facebook and has been selected as the default filesystem for Fedora! The EARN-IT act is back with a second version, this one might be worse than the first. -- 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 dashbo...

Privacy & Security Enhanced w/ Dr. Andy Yen, Security and privacy is a moving target but ProtonMail is staying ahead of the curve. Join Dr. Andy Yen as he talks end to end encryption, the privacy aspect of protests, and the status and future of ProtonDrive! -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from ou...

SELF was remote this year but that means next year will be bigger than ever! More presenter rooms, more interaction from remote attendees. Jeremy Sands and producer JT join us this hour to discuss SELF and it's future. The CIA had it's biggest leak in history and underscores exactly why we need end to end encryption. Zoom announced it will be rolling out end to end encryption on ALL tiers! -- The...

Matrix is the communications platform you've been waiting for. Sick of being on Slack, Telegram, IRC, and Signal? Matthew Hodgson joins us to discuss Matrix and why this is such a revolutionary platform. -- Join our Matrix Instance -- Noah's Booth -- 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 dash...

Questions have been raised about the Brave browser collecting BAT donations on behalf of users that didn't consent. Plasma 5.19.0 is out and FreeNAS has a new version based on Linux! -- 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 Noa...

Rohan Karamandi joins us to talk about how to awaken your home with an open source automation system that puts local control and privacy first! -- 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...

The Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM has been released, the state of MN is using contact tracing to track protesters instead of COVID, and Google wants your location data so bad it's willing to lie to you! -- 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 Phon...

Google & Apple have released their answer to contact tracing and for once it seems like they may be taking the side of their users! Microsoft is adding GUI support for Linux apps on Windows and Linus has switched to team red! -- The Extra Credit Section -- Host your own speedtest For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcas...

Founder and CEO of System76 Carl Richell joins us to discuss their latest release of PopOS 20.04. This incredible release features auto-tiling and is designed to empower anyone who is creating, or developing on the Linux Desktop! -- 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 Episod...

The Open Compute Project with Bill Carter Bill Carter, the CTO of the Open Compute Project joins us to discuss a new way of building a rack for a data center. The OCP uses a tool-less, modern, efficient design and best of all - the plans are open and available! -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from ou...

Kris Moore joins us to talk about the upcoming release of FreeNAS. OpenZFS, per dataset encryption, new features that they've pulled from TrueNAS and tons of other improvements. -- 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 pro...

The latest release of Ubuntu is out and it takes polish to a whole new level! ZFS support, security enhancements, snap packages and so much more! -- 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 o...

Jason Donenfeld lead developer joins us this hour to discuss WireGuard, an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. -- 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...

Allan Jude author of the book FreeBSD Mastery joins us to discuss ZFS, backup strategies, system administration and so much more! -- 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 cha...

Zoom is everywhere in the news. While they're doing their best to respond and resolve the issues users are finding - have you asked yourself if you want to host your company meetings with a third party? We'll show you the best ways to host end to end encrypted meetings on your hardware! -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check ou...

WarheadSE and DagoRed join Noah this episode for a discussion on troubleshooting, the OSI model, and why Arch is a better distro for those who want to dig deep into tech! -- 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 b...

Firefox launches a new plan to bring revenue directly to websites without 3rd party tracking! Qubes OS is tackling the GUI domain, and a new professional audio editor is available for Linux! -- 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...