Episode 218: VR in the Metaverse

Have you ever dreamed of having a virtual enviorment that can simulate the real world in, have meetings in, and connect with others in. Firefox has new protections for supercookies, ubuntu has a new installer out, and CloudLinux has a beta out of AlmaLinux. -- During The Show -- Red Hat License - Jon RedHat exists to make a profit, and they need to RedHat spends money to support open source that they could take home/pocket RedHat handled the release poorly and cut the release cycle short RedHat has been a good friend of the community The new model makes more sense, but was poorly communicated 11:00 Element vs Rocket - cheskel Element/Matrix Pros: Decentralized Federated Integrated with other services (Bridges & Widgets) End to End Encryption 15:00 Pick of the Week Funkwhale (https://funkwhale.audio/#get-started) Decentralized Selfhosted Spotify Makes music social again Why host your own? Because of things like this (https://www.compsmag.com/news/technology/spotify-patents-technology-to-recommend-songs-based-on-the-speech-emotion-of-users/) 17:00 Gadget of the Week Mihai's Blog post (https://www.mihaisafta.com/blog/2021/01/31/sleeping-better-with-raspberry-pi-automated-white-noise/) White Noise Machine based on a raspberry pi Uses OMX Player My Noise on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mynoise.mynoise) Noice App (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.ashutoshgngwr.noice/) 20:00 Firefox Cracks Down on Supercookies Firefox Blog Post](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-protections/) Firefox 85 implements network partitioning Different image cache for each site Firefox 85 also partitions pooled connections, pre-fetch connections, pre-connect connections, speculative connections, and TLS session identifiers 26:00 New Ubuntu Installer Ubiquity is getting hard to maintain Subiquity Github (https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/subiquity) Uses Curtin (https://launchpad.net/curtin) and Flutter Flutter is controlled by Google, this could be a problem long term Why a snap? 29:00 GitLab Subscription Model GitLab Blog Post (https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/26/new-gitlab-product-subscription-model/) GitLab is phasing out the Bronze/Starter tier Special Offers for people transitioning GitLab Free tier gained over 450 features this year and continues to gain more 32:00 Element Suspended from Play Store Google suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying the developers Google said it was due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix Reddit Post (https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/l8gcw6/google_have_suspended_element_in_the_play_store/) Matrix Team responded quickly and openly to resolve the issue Matrix Team went above and beyond and implemented community suggestions Having multiple clients is an advantage to the Matrix Protocol 35:00 Ctrl IQ Ars Technica artical (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/rocky-linux-gets-a-parent-company-with-4m-series-a-funding/) Greg founded a new start up company called Ctrl IQ Greg was interviewed on Ask Noah EP 213 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/213) 36:00 CloudLinux Launches AlmaLinux AlmaLinux Blog Post (https://blog.almalinux.org/introducing-almalinux-beta-a-community-driven-replacement-for-centos/) First RHEL 8 respin available for download Download AlmaLinux (https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8.3-beta/isos/x86_64/) 37:00 Open Source VR Metaverse Vircadia Site (https://vircadia.com) An Introduction to Vircadia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPz4rvMEwk) Vircadia™ is an open-source 3D interface and server foundation Ecosystem of open source metaverse applications Open Source VR/Virtual World Far more than entertainment, lots of potential Download Vircadia (https://vircadia.com/download-vircadia/) -- 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/218) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- 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)