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Episode 409: Ask Noah Show 409
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!
-- During The Show --
01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou
09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron
15:27 Audio Issues
17:48 News Wire
Firefox 131 - mozilla.org
FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org
GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org
Postgres 17.1 - postgresql
Winamp Source Code - bleepingcomputer.com
Liya 2.1 - notebookcheck.net
Arch and Valve Collaboration - lists.archlinux.org
Tails and Tor Join Forces - blog.torproject.org
Statial-B - hackaday.com
Molmo Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com
18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue
```
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
###**-- 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](http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/409)
[Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys](http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah)
Join us in our dedicated chatroom [#GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix](https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com)
###**-- Stay In Touch --**
**Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard**
> [Ask Noah Dashboard](http://www.asknoahshow.com)
**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](http://www.altispeed.com/)
**Contact Noah**
> live [at] asknoahshow.com
**-- Twitter --**
+ [Noah - Kernellinux](https://twitter.com/kernellinux)
+ [Ask Noah Show](https://twitter.com/asknoahshow)
+ [Altispeed Technologies](https://twitter.com/altispeed)
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By Noah J. Chelliah
4.6
3838 ratings
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!
-- During The Show --
01:35 Notes with sync? - Jou Jou
09:12 Listener Reacts To Distros - Aaron
15:27 Audio Issues
17:48 News Wire
Firefox 131 - mozilla.org
FFmpeg 7.1 - ffmpeg.org
GnuCash 5.9 - gnucash.org
Postgres 17.1 - postgresql
Winamp Source Code - bleepingcomputer.com
Liya 2.1 - notebookcheck.net
Arch and Valve Collaboration - lists.archlinux.org
Tails and Tor Join Forces - blog.torproject.org
Statial-B - hackaday.com
Molmo Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com
18:55 Arch Flatpak Issue
```
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
###**-- 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](http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/409)
[Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys](http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah)
Join us in our dedicated chatroom [#GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix](https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com)
###**-- Stay In Touch --**
**Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard**
> [Ask Noah Dashboard](http://www.asknoahshow.com)
**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](http://www.altispeed.com/)
**Contact Noah**
> live [at] asknoahshow.com
**-- Twitter --**
+ [Noah - Kernellinux](https://twitter.com/kernellinux)
+ [Ask Noah Show](https://twitter.com/asknoahshow)
+ [Altispeed Technologies](https://twitter.com/altispeed)
Support Ask Noah Show
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