99: Empire in Denial

Another question: as a member who also boosts, do you prefer having income from memberful or as boosts? Say for example I wanted to increase my financial contribution to JB. Is the membership or boosts more effective/easier for you guys to take in?

Show production question for ya: What part of Jb's operations takes the most of your time? What takes the most energy? What is the highest cost? As a member, I want to help offset that some, especially if it is something that I could either help support with time or by helping automate or maintaining some of the infrastructure, etc

You guys are making me want a Tesla… Also, I’m thinking of buying a Framework Desktop with the Ryzen AI Max 300 and the 128GB of Shared memory to use as a local AI server. What’s your take on that?

Always boost Longly :-) didn’t even wait for the first bar

Fidgets are a big part of my life, mostly because when you have a 3d printer, you can make your own. I've made probably around 20 infinity cubes for people and then 2 for myself, 1 for work and 1 for home. Look up fidget on printables.com or thingiverse

I really enjoyed this episode and would love even more in-depth coverage like it. I enjoy all of your AI coverage. I know it can’t be all AI, all the time; nor should it be… you guys do an excellent job. Keep it up.

I'm simultaneously sick to death of hearing about AI, and enjoying LUP's AI coverage. You all are on a very, very short list of exceptions, because you strike a good balance. Both in terms of the amount of coverage, but also in being neither cheerleaders nor thought-free haters. I'm pretty much aligned with Brent, and like he clearly is, I'm enjoying hearing Chris and Wes's AI adventures

I enjoy the AI subject matter and the way you cover it. I’m fairly new to the Linux and FOSS world and now I have to weave AI into it all, so I appreciate the way you bring it into the Linux ecosystem, give examples of practical use cases and also potential hooks to be aware of. AI is here to stay and everyone needs to understand how to use it, so leep the content coming, that’s my vote.

I think you guys are balancing AI and non-AI topics very well. I can definitely tell there is a lot of work put in each week to keep topics fresh and highlight the lesser hyped things. Keep it up

Awesome deep dive. Keep those coming I really like them

I really enjoyed both the eBPF show, and the coverage of the Rust/kernel mess a couple weeks back. Hope you lads had a great time at Scale !

We went deep on this one. Let me know if we over did it?

Live video? In my Fountain app? We're living in the future guys!

re: fusion power I'm not an expert, just someone who has been interested in nuclear physics and done some research, so if there's anyone out there in the audience who knows more, please correct me We're actually getting there. ITER is planned to be operational as the first power grid scale fusion power plant in France by 2037, japan has had a working fusion generating station since 2023 called JT-60. So for Helion to be making a much smaller scale fusion generator compared those those projects, I believe it. Smaller and more efficient stations might be the way to go for the future. Would make the power grid more resilient since if there are many smaller systems adding power to the grid, the chance of a chain blackout is less. Also fusion has minimal waste compared to fission. The fuel is deuterium which is Hydrogen with 1 proton and 1 neutron smashed into Tritium which is Hydrogen with 1 proton and 2 neutrons. The most waste producing part is creating the tritium since that involves lithium mining

Time traveller boost for Texas. I’m randomnly working through the back catalogue to learn things as they come up in my setup. Just learnt the difference between Snap and Flatpaks in eps 532, 501 and 499. It’s evergreen content, thanks for the work you put into creating these and the passion in the delivery.

Regarding multikernels Maybe you have a specifically optimized for gaming kernel run on a few cores so that all the gaming tasks have better performance. Wait, if there's a different kernel running on each core does that mean that things like kernel anticheat won't be able to see other tasks running elsewhere? So do you negate the privacy implications of kernel level anti cheats that way? Hmmmm

HAPPY LAUNCH SUNDAY ON A TUESDAY

Couldn't make it yesterday since the storms in my area knocked out the regions electricity. Thankfully I have a portable generator to keep water and fridge running. Maybe it's time to invest in a battery system with an inverter and a bigger generator to keep more of the home running

Reverse Linux process is restoring a backup. Go in depth about backups

The backwards show idea sounds so fun. All you gotta do is read everything backwards then have Drew reverse the track :P

Thank you for covering all the kernel stuff. I know it's a lot of work, but I love hearing it. That AMD regression in 7.2 would affect me since that's what my desktop runs, so I'll keep an ear open for the fix

I choose to run the Zen kernel on my stuff. Performance babyyyyyy

Split to angerz is failing on fountain

Upper-ed expectations!

Imho we have let the crypto skeptics get inside our heads. I think as a community we should lean into the fact that boost are powered by bitcoin. As a small business, I’m grateful to have support in a hard asset. It’s helped me fight inflation and keep my head above water. Bitcoin is an intelligence test, and I don’t need everyone in the world listening. I want a great audience, not the biggest audience possible. These are things we should lean into as a podcasting community trying to offer an alternative to mainstream crap. Go Podcasting!

Just wanted to say I really appreciate the work you guys do behind the scenes for the us Podcasters out here! Also +1 to the idea of putting an on-chain Address in the funding tag. I’ve definitely heard from a few listeners that would support via onchain, because that’s where they already have their stats.

My preferred password manager is ProtonPass.

How does Nebula compare to Tailscale for the purpose of isolating a server running OpenClaw (or Hermes) in a network? Ive built a plan to isolate a small server inside my LAN so that I can experiment with agents, one item on the plan was creating a Tailnet with only the devices I want the agent to connect to. Can I do that with Nebula? How would that differ from using Tailscale? Thanks!

I did appreciate the RedHat coverage, though it left me feeling down (their fault not yours) ... and apparently uninspired to boost!

I use KeePass with syncthing and it works great for my needs. Love the Gnome Commander pick, and it's a nice little bit of nostalgia remembering when Gnome initially shipped Midnight Commander as their file manager.

So excited about LIT support in Castamatic, great work!

https://blog.getalby.com/alby-partnership-announcement-acce… Worth adding to the show notes Nice work to Franco premier ios developer for v4v :)

If family computer counts, the first computer I remember using and learning was a dell dimension 5000. Keep in mind I'm only only 10ish years older than your oldest... Sorry to make you feel old lol The first computer that was actually mine was a custom built machine centered around an A10-7890K because I was too poor for a dedicated video card at the time. This was during high school so what money I did get from the job I had was saved up and I later bought a 1050ti.

For the dumb time machine thought experiment I would back to the era of early steam locomotives so 1880s to early 1920s. I would love to be on a train crew and armed with my current knowledge of how to run one already, I probably wouldn't need to learn too much in terms of being an engineer or even a fireman. Plus it was the old west which is one of my favorite historical eras. Yeehaw pardners

I'm just about ready to finally dive into Nix. My question for you Nix nerds is should I start with a general use PC and hypr-vibe, an appliance level media server, or the coveted Nix Bitcoin node?

I love that ThinkBox case! I wish I'd known about it back when I could afford 4 HDDs!

Could you give us some beginners tips for trying OpenClaw. In a FOSS way, what’s a safe way to play with this without losing the farm. I was thinking of spinning it up on an old Raspberry Pi 4 I’m not using. How do you think that would work? I’d like to play around with this but aren’t quite ready to unleash it on my main computers. Thanks.

Regarding that CTO that got hired in the first story. Sounds like someone had a bunch of Microsoft stock and wanted to pump the value up

The intro song for bootleg sums up my work life pretty good

Name for us listeners: Jupiteers. We are pioneers in the FOSS space

Thanks for the explainer on the distros. More questions to follow! +1 for the deep dive on Alby hub.

I would like to see a deep dive on Alby Hub. A peek under the hood and some explanation of what the "user friendly" UI is hiding from a node operator. Maybe include some discussion on opening channels and the "why?" behind the limited number of LSPs offered through the Alby Hub UI. How does AlbyHub impact decentralization of the network? Discussion of Cloud vs. self-hosted AlbyHub instances.

Time traveller boost, I’m going back over episodes about File systems. Who knew that you could customize the file system in your OS. Wow! Could you explain the difference between corporate disros (like Ubuntu & PopOS) and community distros. Pros and cons, trade offs, that kind of thing. Thanks.

Spicy Episode! Love it. Lots to chew on.

Spicy Epiaode. Love it. Lots to chew on.

The split to drew failed in my last boost

Congratulations Alex for figuring out why in the business datacenter we have a few separate SANs, compute hosts and NAS boxes instead of one. All because the department of redundancy department exists. In my homelab, I have found that added complexity can make more headaches down the road when one box gets updated and that breaks a thing or you have to shut everything down because your NAS with all the data needs an update or whatever the case may be

I have a lot of similar ability for monitoring with the Unifi dream machine, but I might still set this up... Good find Mr Fisher!

Sharing this because keeping an eye on what’s going on, on your network is easy, and just good opsec.

So Chris, you're in a farm with a barn and a wide open area right? So when are you going to get a ham license? That kind of terrain is perfect to set up a dipole antenna... Well, maybe I'll just have to come out and make it happen. At this point you are 2 years overdue. I even waited a whole year after it was originally mentioned and STILL got both a technician and general license before you guys. Anyway, as we say in ham radio, 73

Chris, thanks to you, I got AlbiyHub up and running and in other news I’m switching my mining Pool over to ocean. For some reason, I can’t move sats over from STRIKE to my Alby wallet yet, but will persist until I find a way. Thanks for another stellar show. The secret Thousand Oaks bitcoin meet up sends cryptic greetings!

Ótrúlega skemmtilegur þáttur! Mér finnst þetta Value4Value fyrirbæri ótrúlega áhugavert og bitcoin opnar svo marga möguleika á að nýta það eins og með notkun leifturnetsins. Þannig hér kemur smá v4v á ykkur herramenn🧡

Loved the This Old Network segment! I'd be curious to hear if Brent's started to automate his van yet. Mine is completely un-automated and I'm not sure where to start

Unifi makes a great wifi analyzer app called Wifiman. Does not require Unifi gear to work, it uses your phones radios

I don't like to acknowledge my birthday in general. I'd rather it not exist sometimes, but I will celebrate everyone else's birthday with great enthusiasm

Excited for the conversation that took place on sessions recently; Simon Dixon vs. Jeff Booth. Excellent signal, I am always confused why Simon does not get more exposure. I would like to see him on Citadel & TFTC. It was a welcome white pill, a masterclass from Jeff. We are winning. Marty, can u get Doomberg on TFTC?

Kept listening and heard that you also noticed 👍

Lads, I think you missed some boosts last episode. At least mine and m00ninite's show up in Fountain but seemed to have missed your bot. The headset sounds good to me! For the TUI challenge, I think sixel should be allowed, since it's something that real DEC terminals did. Otherwise I vote no for external graphics. Also, what about another bonus challenge to do social media from the TUI. toot for Mastodon is great, for example

Looking forward to the SCaLE and Planet Nix coverage! Here's some sats to help with the travel. If you see any of the nix/bsd people down there, I'd love to hear about it. I find that particular combination intriguing. Wechsel sounds insane, but then I've done exactly that in the past with a Perl script.

V4v And Oto to the mmo defensive... Congrats on the milestone and corruption free media deconstruction! Please verify i am not a fed :)

Yes! Cedric, this was my favorite episode so far.