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This week we dig into the major story that a developer has created a clean room version of the Adobe Creative Cloud! We give some career advice to a long time teacher, and we talk about the effects of ai in software development. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro We want to be your Linux IT Guys If you want deeper dives write in! Please send your feed back and questions, or call in 04:04 Career - Lou "Grey beard techniques" Adapting skills to an interview College degrees Being able to answer questions knowledgeably Current and applicable certifications Ask about career academies Offer to teach IT courses 16:42 News Wire KDE Frameworks 6.31.0 - kde.org Python 3.15 - python.org Rust 1.99 - blog.rust-lang.org Snapd 2.78 - launchpad.net Docker 29.9 - docker.com Deno - deno.com Q4OS 6.10 - q4os.org Ubuntu on RISC-V - ubuntu.com QGIS AI Ban - github.com Kernel Devs Remove "Assisted By" Tag - phoronix.com Free AI Scanner - thehackernews.com Ubuntu Summit - ubuntu.com 17:55 AI Created Adobe Clones Artcraft Clean room design Decompiling code Covered all over, more than just "nerds" This project and developer has started something arstechnica.com 28:56 Effect of AI on Software Development Major thought points Why does AI not allow better software? Automated testing Non-critical vs critical software Maintainer ship over time Using AI and CI CD to continue a project Danger of AI being too enticing Managing AI Time boxing -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

This week Steve gives us a deep dive into performance tuning, and we talk about how your body's memory functions. -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Subsisting greeting variables Accessible memory Strength of memory Reading and writing builds "Accessible memory" Teaching builds "Strength of memory" Go look up "space repetition" Reader come home book YouTube if you check their sources 17:55 News Wire OpenSSL Security Update - github.com Git 2.56 - github.blog Thunderbird 157 - thunderbird.net Firefox 157 firefox.com - firefox.com Shotcut 26.9 - phoronix.com Tails 7.14 - torproject.org Parrot OS 7.4 - parrotsec.org OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 - openmandriva.org Nitrux 7.0 - opensourcefeed.org Antix 26.1 - antixlinux.com SMTP Backdoors - infosecurity-magazine.com COSMIC Desktop No Longer Accepts AI Content - reddit.com Beam AI - fortune.com Google Halts Open Source Bug Bounty Program - bleepingcomputer.com 19:15 Performance Tuning Defaults are someone guessing at a "safe option" Three hosts being tuned NAS (file server) vHost (virtual disks live here) Container Host When should you performance tune? Broadcasting Networks (ISPs) The more "dense" the more benefits TuneD ZFS "Adaptive Replacement Cache" (ARC) Default is 50% of RAM Swap file System doesn't empty on its own ARC stats Hits and misses Resets on reboot Memory pressure Swapyness 60 is the default the "cliff rate" Tuned to around 10%-30% on "performance profiles" System starts swapping before you hit zero RAM ZFS record size Record size is the "Maximum" not "Fixed size" Media Library 1M Postgres 16K ZFS write amplification (8k writes to 1M records hurt) AI study bot rules Man systemd.directives Write in and tell us if you want more! Extra Credit: What to search after the show ZFS ARC Tuning ZFS Record Size ZFS send receive preserves record size Record size is per "data set" not directory Record size only affects new writes "zfs_dirty_data_max" vs "vm.dirty_ratio" "QEMU "cache=none" O_DIRECT" Postgres on NFS PGDATA caveats "Tuned-adm virtual-host" hypervisor profile (The one nobody mentions) Tuned profile format "sysctl" vs "main" the plugin/argument split NFS mount options (the client side fix) "vmstat" reading swap columns correctly -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

This week Steve gives a brief overview into human factors that lead to distraction, Steve finally finds a use for KDE and we talk IP cameras and NVRs! -- During The Show -- 00:50 distractions Human minds work kinda like RAM Learning how to learn Computers are terrible for learning Short term memory slots Long term memory slots Noah's method Typing vs writing Always outliers Minimizing distractions Non-constructive hobbies 19:30 Steve's Use for KDE Nvidia Shield Plasma Big Screen Comes with everything Steve's customisation Early days Pro series Nvidia Shield Special "DRM Code" Vero V Waydroid Emulator vs Browser DRM 30:00 efivarfs full - John Screenshot EFI vars partition Proceed with caution 33:45 Frigate ONVIF compliant cameras Isoloate camera's from the internet POE ReoLink cameras Axis cameras Axis P3226 Cameras with SD cards OpenSurv ANS 483 ANS 474 - drive longevity, replacement strategies, and setup maintenance ANS 404 - Steve's personal adventures and configuration tips using Frigate ANS 402 - hardware demands of running Frigate, noting performance hurdles 46:50 News Wire Systemd 262 - phoronix.com GNU Cash 5.17 - gnucash.org Peazip 11.3 - github.io GNU wget 2.3 - gnu.org Gnome 50.5 - gnome.org Mir 2.30 - canonical.com Cosmic 1.9 - phoronix.com Gravity Linux - github.com File notification system vulnerability - techxplore.com New Spectre Vulnerability - thehackernews.com 10 Second Kernel Compile Times - tomshardware.com Dutch Government Linux - trendingtopics.eu The GNU project has turned 43. 48:28 Chrome Web Browser Chrome caused KDE Plasma to crash Culprit is Chrome 154.0.8037.57 Symptom is screen locker malfunctions -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

This week Mike McGrath Vice President, Core Platforms for Red Hat joins us to give us the deep dive on Lightwell! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Iron sharpens Iron Feedback 01:50 Show Feedback - Joshua Talking fast at the end of the show Inserting tutorial style content 04:05 Lightwell Interview Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms What is Red Hat Lightwell Where Lightwell came from Illustration scenario Using AI but interfacing "Human to Human" Two tiers of Lightwell Lightwell "Network" repo Lightwell "Remediated" repo Lightwell "Undisclosed" repo How it works Does Lightwell address compliance requirements? Remediation What does using Lightwell look like? Software Bill of Materials Clearing house with SLA Details really matter Package versioning Scanner false positives based on versioning OSV.dev, Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) data Open Source packages, scanning and remediation How often does upstream reject patches? Has Lightwell opened doors? Any notable success stories? What does Lightwell's roadmap look like? Where is Lightwell appropriate? What metrics and KPIs should IT leaders look for? Walk me through a typical developer workflow Cost benefit analysis How does Lightwell integrate with existing Red Hat products? Previously on ANS 343, ANS 416, ANS 443, ANS 494 43:55 News Wire GNU Core Utils 9.12 - phoronix.com Calibre 9.15 - https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new Thunderbird 156 - thunderbird.net Firefox 156 - firefox.com Gnome 51 - gnome.org Q4OS 6.9 - q4os.org Garuda Nix - garudalinux.org MXLinus 25.3 - mxlinux.org Ovirt-engine on Oracle Linux - oracle.com Qwen Image 2.1 - qwen.ai US District Court AI Ruling - devops.com 45:10 Microsoft Ports Co-pilot with Ai $120,000 in AI tokens spent to port 800,000 lines of code 5,300 human hours to review 16x faster based on benchmarks Reaction of an actual developer Can't put toothpaste back in the tube Effect of Microsoft doing this The Register -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

This week Steve gives the deep dive into the reason and the how for documentation. It's an essential thing in any IT environment, it doesn't get nearly enough love so we shine a spotlight on it. -- During The Show -- 00:45 Intro Sound effects RPG Web UI Never Winter Nights Kansas City Steve and traveling 09:18 News Wire GTK 4.24 - gnome.org Shotwell 33 - gnome.org Agama Installer 24 - github.io Cosmic v1.8 https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.8 Debian 13.7 Trixie - debian.org MocaccinoOS 26.09 - mocaccino.org DietPi 10.7 - dietpi.com KaOS 2026.09 - kaosx.us Ubuntu 24.04.5 - phoronix.com Sandbox Challenge - securityweek.com Lunar Exploration Model - ibm.com CUDA-Q Expands - nvidia.com 10:30 Documentation Document "why" something was done Assumption and argument What needs to be documented Reproducer - Blow it away and set it up again Document everything Why do people resist documenting Executive vs Technical Summaries Tribal knowledge Styles of documentation White papers CMA What should you NOT document Process of documenting Where do you document Wiki.js Markdown Steve's container documentation Steve's GitHub Steve's Red Hat profile Hackaday -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies