Ask Noah Show 477

This week John Terrill from Red Hat joins us to talk about branding in Open Source. Many projects don't have a unified communication strategy, but having one is important.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

• Steve is in Vegas

• Noah "getting deals"

04:37 Lossless Cut

• Reached for Avidemux

• Avoiding re-encoding

• Learning a new program

• Lossless Cut Webpage

• Lossless Cut GitHub

08:30 OmniTools

• Small docker image

• Does everything in the web browser

• OmniTools GitHub

12:43 NLSH

• For people who want to learn the CLI

• Translates natural language into CLI

• Making things easy can backfire

• NLSH GitHub

16:00 Xyops

• Features:

• Job scheduling

• Workflow automation

• Server monitoring

• Alerting

• Incident response

• Self Hosted

• Open Source

• Xyops

18:18 News Wire

• Squid 7.4 - github.com

• Openttd 15.1 - openttd.org

• Rust 1.93 - rust-lang.org

• GNU C lwn.net

• Extix - linux.exton.net

• Liya Linux 2.5 - distrowatch.com

• CachyOS 2026 - cachyos.org

• GNU Guix 1.5 - quix.gnu.org

• MxLinux 25.1 - mxlinux.org

• Crypto Thieves in Snap Store - helpnetsecurity.com

• Open Source Quantum Computer - uwaterloo.ca

• AI Weather Models - kqed.org

• Banks Prefer Open-Source - finainews.com

• Rack-Scale AI - theasset.com

• OIN 2.0 - yahoo.com

19:55 Python Built-in Web Server

• Use python to host a web server

• Used for file transfers

• Use case

• Steve's travel router

24:17 Proxy RCE - PSA

• Basics of the problem

• grahamhelton.com

26:30 Matter Camera

• 1920x1080 30fps

• Synology App to turn a phone into a camera

• linuxgizmos.com

30:06 MS Gives Keys to FBI

• Microsoft confirms they gave the FBI BitLocker keys

• ~ 20 requests per year

• Home users forced to upload keys

• Jump through hoops to avoid uploading

• Encryption is only as good as who holds the keys

• Pragmatism

• aardwolfsecurity.com

• ArsTechnica

35:20 Linux Continuity

• Continuity document merged into Kernel docs

• theregister.com

36:40 John Terrill

• PR in open source

• Branding open source

• One size fits all projects

• Extracting technical knowledge

• Technical accuracy

• How to talk with journalists

• Separating personal views from project views

• Negative coverage

• Messaging guidelines

• Branding and marketing

• Attracting media attention

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