This week we dig into the Verizon outage. We'll talk about why and how you can host your own communication infrastructure, so an outage is less detrimental to your life!
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01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou
How Steve takes notes
Standard Notes (https://app.standardnotes.com/)
Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/)
Simple Mobile Tools (https://simplemobiletools.com/)
Fossify (https://www.fossify.org/apps/)
Nextcloud Notes app
Collabra
09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron
Issues with Ubuntu
Go for Fedora
Endless OS
Write in with your Ubuntu issues
Mind Drip One Offline Windows Setup (https://docs.minddripone.com/Windows/windows-11-offline-setup/)
15:27 Audio Issues
Mixer died
Loaner from company
Got the board fixed
Sample rate changed
Sample rate manually fixed and digital recorder back in production
17:48 News Wire
Firefox 131 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0/releasenotes/)
FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org (https://ffmpeg.org)
GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml)
Postgres 17.1 - postgresql (https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-released-2936/)
Winamp Source Code - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/winamp-releases-source-code-asks-for-help-modernizing-the-player/)
Liya 2.1 - notebookcheck.net (https://www.notebookcheck.net/Arch-Linux-based-Liya-2-1-rolls-out-with-the-6-11-0-1-kernel.893752.0.html)
Arch and Valve Collaboration - lists.archlinux.org (https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/)
Tails and Tor Join Forces - blog.torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/)
Statial-B - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2024/09/25/the-statial-b-open-source-adjustable-mouse/)
Molmo Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai2s-new-molmo-open-source-ai-models-beat-gpt-4o-claude-on-some-benchmarks/)
18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue
Installed Arch, ran the ansible, restored backups
Flatpak installs failed
Github Issue (https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5111)
Arch Flatpak Fix
```
flatpak remote-delete --force flathub
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
```
* Let's do a better job
26:10 Verizon Outage
No clear communication
Speculation abounds
No clear ETA for restoration of service
Never seen people behave this badly
Self Hosted services unaffected
Calls and Texts via 3CX and JMP.chat
Internal communications over Matrix
Companies should self host their own services
Communication is changing
Master Switch (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194417/the-master-switch-by-tim-wu/)
Steve didn't even notice the outage
Other carriers reported issues contacting Verizon customers
Don't be a slave to the glowing brick
40:33 Thunderbird on Android
Mozilla took over K9 Mail
Unified Inbox
Still in Beta
Asking for feedback
Thunderbird Matrix Chat (https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#tb-android:mozilla.org)
Thunderbird Blog Post (https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/help-us-test-the-thunderbird-for-android-beta/)
46:00 Reproducibility
Combinations of packages can be problematic
Automation can fail
Never will be completely safe
Automation can get you a long way
NixOS
ZFS Snapshots
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