This week Noah and Steve discuss picking out a vHost and considerations for deploying it into production.
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02:00
Types of AI
Amount of compute required is astronomical
Foundational model vs tweaking
05:55 Kid Friendly distro? - Chris
Endless OS (https://www.endlessos.org/)
What age to give kids a computer
Why give a kid a computer
Why Endless OS
OpenDNS Filtering
14:13 Serial Connection To Proxmox VMs - Michael
Client Setting
Host Setting
Enable the serial console
Proxmox Wiki (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Serial_Terminal)
17:15 pfSense blocking active connections - Bradly
Stateful firewalls don't break active connections/sessions
21:00 News Wire
EXT4 Corruption Bug - LWN (https://lwn.net/Articles/954285/)
Gnome 45.2 - Gnome (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-45-2-released/18358)
Libreoffice 7.6.4 - Libreoffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/)
Jellyfin Android TV App - Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/posts/androidtv-v0.16.0/)
Jellyfin Roku App - Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/posts/roku-200)
Debian 12.4 - Debian (https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20231210)
Alpine Linux 3.19 - Alpine Linux (https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Release_Notes_for_Alpine_3.19.0)
Linux 6.8 Dropping Old Graphics Drivers - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-No-More-UMS-ioctls)
NSA & ESF Recommended Practices - NSA (https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3613105/nsa-and-esf-partners-release-recommended-practices-for-managing-open-source-sof/)
OpenZeppelin Vulnerability - Bleeping Computer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/multiple-nft-collections-at-risk-by-flaw-in-open-source-library/)
Bluetooth Authentication Bypass - Silicon Angle (https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/07/critical-bluetooth-security-flaw-discovered-google-apple-linux-devices/)
Krasue RAT - The Hacker News (https://thehackernews.com/2023/12/new-stealthy-krasue-linux-trojan.html)
Automatic LLM AI Jail Break - Robust Intelligence (https://www.robustintelligence.com/blog-posts/using-ai-to-automatically-jailbreak-gpt-4-and-other-llms-in-under-a-minute)
EU AI Act - Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-ai-act-could-exclude-open-source-models-regulation-2023-12-07/)
Purple Llama - Info World (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3711284/meta-releases-open-source-tools-for-ai-safety.html)
Apple Open Sources AI Tools - The Stack (https://www.thestack.technology/apple-quietly-open-sources-key-ai-tools/)
Systemd 255 - The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23992512/linux-blue-screen-of-death-bsod-systemd-update) - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-255)
24:00 Beeper Mini
First impression, really cool but will only work till Apple notices
Android users clearly want modern features
3 days after release, it all came to a halt
Apple's FUD statement
Beeper mini enabled security for non Apple users
Apple's response reduces security and privacy
Apple's response protects the iMessage lock-in effect
Issue with other "encrypted apps"
Focus of Beeper
Beeper cloud uses its own cloud server
Give beeper mini a review
Beeper blog post (https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-mini-is-back)
37:45 vHost Hardware
What is a vHost
What does Steve consider
network
drives
RAM
CPU
Lots of compute nodes vs a few large nodes
Stage 1 - is it viable
$1k-50k quotes
Started with 2 vdevs with 3 drives
Stay under 85%
Stage 2 Scale up
DELL EMC POWEREDGE R7425
8 BAY LFF SERVER
2x AMD EPYC 7451
H330 3 PCI RISER RPS
DELL PowerEdge R6525
1U Server
2 x AMD EPYC 7542 2.9Ghz CPU
256 GB No HDD
Can save a lot buying used
Local vs Central storage
Data centralized
qcow2 on vHost
2 vdevs
2 disks per vdev
Dell EMC KTN-STL3 drive shelf
15 disks in 2U
Requires LSI SAS9200-8e
NetApp DS4246
24 disks in 4U
Requires LSI SAS9200-8e
QSFP SFF-8436 Mini SAS SFF-8088 Cable
Don't store Nextcloud data on OS qcow2 disk
There will always be a single point of failure
Change ZFS settings based on data being stored
Easiest way to get a vHost up and running
KVM vs "appliance OS"
Bridging vs MAC vTap
RAM is likely your biggest constraint
Ubuntu libvirt doc (https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/virtualization-libvirt)
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