Episode 433: Ask Noah Show 433 | Rescuing LinuxRocks.online

This week a community resource fell offline unexpectedly. Members from all over the internet banded together to restore a community resource! -- During The Show -- 01:00 Intro Noah brought the warm weather back We need your feedback Join Geeklab (https://matrix.to/#/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) Tag Marlin 04:10 Smart Watches Original pebble inventor New pebble smartwatches available for preorder ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/new-pebbleos-watches-with-more-battery-and-familiar-looks-are-up-for-preorder/) Steve's smartwatch use case Noah's watch Pine Time (https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-smartwatch-sealed/) Fitness Features Eric Migicovsky doesn't stick with companies AsteroidOS (https://asteroidos.org/) BangleJS (https://banglejs.com/) 28:32 News Wire GIMP 3.0 - gimp.org (https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/) Digikam 8.6 - digikam.org (https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0_release_announcement/) Peertube 7.1 - joinpeertube.org (https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.1) Gstreamer 1.26 - freedesktop.org (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.26/) KDE Frameworks 6.12 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.12.0/) End of Nouveau OpenGL Driver - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/mesa-zink-nvk-switch/) Debian Bookworm 12.10 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/#:~:text=Debian%2012.10%20was%20released%20on,release%20and%20the%20Release%20Notes.) Ubuntu's Rust Coreutils - ubuntu.com (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995) GitHub Actions Hack - infoworld.com (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3847178/thousands-of-open-source-projects-at-risk-from-hack-of-github-actions-tool.html) Open Source OSV Scanner - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/google-launches-open-source-osv-scanner/) Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/poc-exploit-released-linux-kernel-vulnerability/) Kagent - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/meet-kagent-open-source-framework-for-ai-agents-in-kubernetes/) Tencent Open Source Model - bloomberg.com (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-18/tencent-touts-open-source-ai-models-to-turn-text-into-3d-visuals) Mistral Small 3.1 - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/129697/mistral-ai-unveils-small-powerful-and-open-source-ai-model/) - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-drops-new-open-source-model-that-outperforms-gpt-4o-mini-with-fraction-of-parameters/) 29:50 Linuxrocks.online Outage Noah's travel story Awake for 30+ hours Wakes up to DMs, emails, online posts, etc Linux Rocks server is down Linux Rocks server grew organically Moved into Altispeed Egan MN data center SSH connected but then kicked you out Altispeed got pulled into it User wasn't in the libvertd group Organic way information spreads on the internet Glad to see people calm down after learning someone is in the hospital Linux Rocks is now monitored by LibreNMS Michael is donating a new server Thank you for polite and kind notification To those not so kind, please consider what you are getting for free Reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1jblofg/linuxrocksonline_been_down_for_nearly_48_hours/) Everything was documented 49:45 Continuity Plan Reach out to Nerd friends Interest Old laptops show up on Noah's desk Enabling people through technology -- 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/433) 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)