Ask Noah Show 367

This week Noah and Steve discuss picking out a vHost and considerations for deploying it into production. -- During The Show -- 02:00 Types of AI Amount of compute required is astronomical Foundational model vs tweaking 05:55 Kid Friendly distro? - Chris Endless OS (https://www.endlessos.org/) What age to give kids a computer Why give a kid a computer Why Endless OS OpenDNS Filtering 14:13 Serial Connection To Proxmox VMs - Michael Client Setting Host Setting Enable the serial console Proxmox Wiki (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Serial_Terminal) 17:15 pfSense blocking active connections - Bradly Stateful firewalls don't break active connections/sessions 21:00 News Wire EXT4 Corruption Bug - LWN (https://lwn.net/Articles/954285/) Gnome 45.2 - Gnome (https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-45-2-released/18358) Libreoffice 7.6.4 - Libreoffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/) Jellyfin Android TV App - Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/posts/androidtv-v0.16.0/) Jellyfin Roku App - Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/posts/roku-200) Debian 12.4 - Debian (https://www.debian.org/News/2023/20231210) Alpine Linux 3.19 - Alpine Linux (https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Release_Notes_for_Alpine_3.19.0) Linux 6.8 Dropping Old Graphics Drivers - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-No-More-UMS-ioctls) NSA & ESF Recommended Practices - NSA (https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3613105/nsa-and-esf-partners-release-recommended-practices-for-managing-open-source-sof/) OpenZeppelin Vulnerability - Bleeping Computer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/multiple-nft-collections-at-risk-by-flaw-in-open-source-library/) Bluetooth Authentication Bypass - Silicon Angle (https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/07/critical-bluetooth-security-flaw-discovered-google-apple-linux-devices/) Krasue RAT - The Hacker News (https://thehackernews.com/2023/12/new-stealthy-krasue-linux-trojan.html) Automatic LLM AI Jail Break - Robust Intelligence (https://www.robustintelligence.com/blog-posts/using-ai-to-automatically-jailbreak-gpt-4-and-other-llms-in-under-a-minute) EU AI Act - Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-ai-act-could-exclude-open-source-models-regulation-2023-12-07/) Purple Llama - Info World (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3711284/meta-releases-open-source-tools-for-ai-safety.html) Apple Open Sources AI Tools - The Stack (https://www.thestack.technology/apple-quietly-open-sources-key-ai-tools/) Systemd 255 - The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23992512/linux-blue-screen-of-death-bsod-systemd-update) - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-255) 24:00 Beeper Mini First impression, really cool but will only work till Apple notices Android users clearly want modern features 3 days after release, it all came to a halt Apple's FUD statement Beeper mini enabled security for non Apple users Apple's response reduces security and privacy Apple's response protects the iMessage lock-in effect Issue with other "encrypted apps" Focus of Beeper Beeper cloud uses its own cloud server Give beeper mini a review Beeper blog post (https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-mini-is-back) 37:45 vHost Hardware What is a vHost What does Steve consider network drives RAM CPU Lots of compute nodes vs a few large nodes Stage 1 - is it viable $1k-50k quotes Started with 2 vdevs with 3 drives Stay under 85% Stage 2 Scale up DELL EMC POWEREDGE R7425 8 BAY LFF SERVER 2x AMD EPYC 7451 H330 3 PCI RISER RPS DELL PowerEdge R6525 1U Server 2 x AMD EPYC 7542 2.9Ghz CPU 256 GB No HDD Can save a lot buying used Local vs Central storage Data centralized qcow2 on vHost 2 vdevs 2 disks per vdev Dell EMC KTN-STL3 drive shelf 15 disks in 2U Requires LSI SAS9200-8e NetApp DS4246 24 disks in 4U Requires LSI SAS9200-8e QSFP SFF-8436 Mini SAS SFF-8088 Cable Don't store Nextcloud data on OS qcow2 disk There will always be a single point of failure Change ZFS settings based on data being stored Easiest way to get a vHost up and running KVM vs "appliance OS" Bridging vs MAC vTap RAM is likely your biggest constraint Ubuntu libvirt doc (https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/virtualization-libvirt) -- 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! 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