This week Noah and Steve dig into an npm attack that Red Hat has issued an alert for. We talk about small and portable laptops, and of course answer your questions.
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00:52 Intro
ZFS Win
Meld (https://meldmerge.org/)
Domain knowledge scaling
07:32 NPM Supply Chain Attack
No compromised packages used in Red Hat software
NPM and Node.js
What the malicious code does
Red Hat is on top of it
Reaction to finding a compromise
Red Hat Article (https://access.redhat.com/security/supply-chain-attacks-NPM-packages)
Aikido Article 1 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/popular-nx-packages-compromised-on-npm)
Aikido Article 2 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised)
Aikido Article 3 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again)
18:21 Registrar - Josh
CloudFlare
PorkBun (https://porkbun.com/)
Great Nerds
21:47 Small Laptop - Ziggy
HP ProBook
Noah's GPD Pocket v1
Surface Pro 1
Dell Latitude 2 in 1
StarLabs Star Lite (https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite)
34:56 Ham Radio - Brett
Open Source Ham Radio
Plan to sell a kit
Have a prototype
Reddit Post (https://www.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/s/TTodwCYuyG)
Arkos Engineering (https://arkosengineering.com/)
HT-15 GitHub (https://github.com/Arkos-Engineering/HT-15)
37:58 News Wire
Systemd 258 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-258)
Rust 1.90 - rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/Rust-1.90.0)
Gnome 49 - gnome.org (https://release.gnome.org/49)
Firefox 143 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/143.0/releasenotes)
Thunderbird 143 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/143.0/releasenotes)
Rayhunter - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/17/rayhunter-eff-open-source-tool-detect-cellular-spying)
TernFS - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/TernFS-File-System-Open-Source)
BCacheFS DKMS - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/19/bcachefs-is-now-a-dkms-module-after-exile-from-the-linux-kernel)
Tails 7.0 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_0)
Porteux - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v2.3)
Oreon 10 - oreonproject.org (https://oreonproject.org/oreon-10)
Azure Linux 3.0 - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/microsoft-releases-azure-linux-3-0-with-optional-6-12-lts-kernel)
Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B - marktechpost.com (https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/09/18/alibaba-releases-tongyi-deepresearch-a-30b-parameter-open-source-agentic-llm-optimized-for-long-horizon-research)
Qwen3-Omni - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinas-alibaba-challenges-u-s-tech-giants-with-open-source-qwen3-omni-ai)
AI Risks - scmp.com (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326214/deepseek-warns-jailbreak-risks-its-open-source-models)
Hugging Face GitHub CoPilot Integration - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/hugging-face-vscode)
40:06 OBS
OBS 32.0
Pipewire video capture
Lots of other features
Pipewire is professional
qpwgraph (https://github.com/rncbc/qpwgraph)
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-32-0-pipewire-video-capture-improvements-basic-plugin-manager)
44:53 Tails on Trixie
Tails teaches you reproduce-ability
Privacy tools
Changes
New min requirements
Persistent Apps
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-0-anonymous-linux-os-released-based-on-debian-13-trixie)
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