Description

This week Steve describes what happens when you put Ai in a vacuum cleaner, give it a task, then break the charger. We catch up on your feedback questions, and of course the weekly news!

-- During The Show --

00:48 Intro

• Choosing what to say yes to

01:43 Cell Phone Fail Over - Brandon

• Redundant Internet
• MaxxKonnect
• ISP Negotiation

08:44 IPFire - Frederick

• PFSense just works
• Network effect
• OpenWRT
• UI/UX Design
• Steve's migration to OPNSense
• Tracking online devices

17:40 Converstaion about FastMail - Josh

• Steve's experience
• Noah's experience

22:22 Paul Reflects on discussions - Paul

• Struggle with value of 11 inch framework

23:28 MP3 Audio Processing - Bob

• Compression
• Dynamic Range
• FFMPEG

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:a loudnorm output.mp4

27:55 Question about TrueNas, Frigate and Tailscale - Chris

• TrueNAS "X Factor"
• Use Ubuntu vs TrueNAS
• Cockpit networking
• Tailscale known bug

38:23 News Wire

• Exim 4.99 - exim.org

• Squid 7.3 - github.com

• Shotcut 25.10 - shotcut.org

• Kodi 21.3 - github.com

• TorBrowser 15 - torproject.com

• Rust 1.91 - releases.rs

• Qt Creator 18 - qt.io

• TheSSS 50 - sourceforge.net

• AerynOS 2025.10 - aerynos.com

• Fedora 43 - docs.fedoraproject.org

• CISA Warning - forbes.com

• Malicious NPM Packages - thehackernews.com

• Granite 4.0 Nano - venturebeat.com

• Proximity Scanner - helpnetsecurity.com

• Linux Gaming Passes 3% - gamingonlinux.com

40:00 LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes

• Would you trust a pidgin with a task
• What are we learning about AI trustworthiness
• Putting AI in robots
• AI and Jobs
• AI hallucinations
• Increasing percentage of hallucinations
• Tricking AI models
• ArsTechnica

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