This week we dig into Steve's home assistant migration. We take your questions on how to get started with AI, a self hosted email horror story, and more Harbor Freight.
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01:25 OpenSource AI - Craig
Defining "open source AI" is hard
Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 1 : TextGen (https://peertube.tv/w/48EvS3Y1gJz5c9vHiZF8Ya)
Local Offline Generative AI on Linux - Part 2 : ImageGen (https://peertube.tv/w/ko1LUdcrZqLmEQZkyy3cN2)
The Artifical Dominion Matrix Chat (https://matrix.to/#/#TheArtificalDominion:matrix.org)
What do you want to learn?
LM Studio (https://lmstudio.ai/)
GPT4ALL (https://flathub.org/apps/io.gpt4all.gpt4all)
Haven't found a "safe for work" visual AI
Glue cheese
Stable Diffusion morality filter
10:50 Self Hosted Email Story - Yassine
Noah is still gun shy on self hosted email
14:24 Security and Calendaring - Dan
VPN back in
3rd party brokers
Synology Surveillance Station (https://www.synology.com/en-global/surveillance)
WireGuard
Punch a hole in the firewall
Dangers of punching a hole
CalDav (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalDAV)
Proton Mail calendar
Nextcloud calendar
Home Assistant calendar
Radicale (https://radicale.org/v3.html)
28:51 Harbour Freight - Hank
Snap-on feedback
Mechanic vs DIY
Still making hobo freight argument
31:51 Android Alternatives - Jayden
Sailfish OS (https://sailfishos.org/)
Ente Auth (https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/auth/README.md)
Cross-platform
Better than Authy
e/os or Murena (https://murena.com/)
36:56 News Wire
LANL Fierro - ladailypost.com (https://ladailypost.com/lanl-new-open-source-code-fierro-improves-safety-and-performance-of-manufactured-parts/)
Aloha Browser - accesswire.com (https://www.accesswire.com/894895/aloha-a-privacy-first-browser-goes-open-source)
GCC 14.2 - gnu.org (https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/)
GNU Binutils 2.43 - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/984539/)
Peazip 9.9 - peazip.github.io (https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html)
Firefox 129 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/129.0/releasenotes/)
Amarok 3.1 - kde.org (https://blogs.kde.org/2024/08/02/amarok-3.1-tricks-of-the-light-released/)
Azure Linux 3.0 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Azure-Linux-3.0-GA)
Serpent OS Pre-Alpha - serpentos.com (https://serpentos.com/blog/2024/08/01/serpent-os-prealpha0-released/)
Nitrux 3.6 - sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nitruxos/files/Release/ISO/)
Linux 6.9 EOL - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/983790/)
SLUBStick - securityweek.com (https://www.securityweek.com/new-slubstick-attack-makes-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities-more-dangerous/)
DEV#POPPER - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/north-korea-linked-malware-targets.html)
TgRat - scmagazine.com (https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/updated-tgrat-trojan-sets-sights-on-linux-servers)
RayV Lite - tomshardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hackers-hope-to-democratize-laser-based-processor-hacking-dollar500-rayv-lite-relies-on-3d-printing-a-laser-pen-and-a-raspberry-pi-to-bring-costs-down)
DCLM on HugginFace - computerworld.com (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3475866/apple-ships-truly-open-source-ai-models.html)
Flux - decrypt.co (https://decrypt.co/242822/flux-ai-image-generator-review-midjourney-sd3-auraflow)
39:45 Secure Boot
100s of PCs sold with 12yr old and compromised platform keys
Can see the use case
threat model
Locking subsidized hardware
Technical merits vs implementation
Key management
stalkware breach
theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/29/infosec_roundup/?td=rt-3a)
52:56 Home Assistant Migration
Worried about thermals
Critical
Steve's kid gets clever
Home Assistant notifies based on MAC address
Noah's ethernet bathroom adventures
Migrating Home Assistant
Benchmarking
Operating system choice
Networking
RHEL faster and more power efficient
Home Assistant notifications
1:10:30 Frigate
Frigate NVR (https://frigate.video/)
Always on recording
Documentation is hard
NUC couldn't handle 6x 1080p Cameras
GPU faster but more power hungry
Challenges
Still early days for Frigate
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