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Show Notes

This week Noah and Steve dig into an npm attack that Red Hat has issued an alert for. We talk about small and portable laptops, and of course answer your questions.

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00:52 Intro

ZFS Win

Meld

Domain knowledge scaling

07:32 NPM Supply Chain Attack

No compromised packages used in Red Hat software

NPM and Node.js

What the malicious code does

Red Hat is on top of it

Reaction to finding a compromise

Red Hat Article

Aikido Article 1

Aikido Article 2

Aikido Article 3

18:21 Registrar - Josh

CloudFlare

PorkBun

Great Nerds

21:47 Small Laptop - Ziggy

HP ProBook

Noah's GPD Pocket v1

Surface Pro 1

Dell Latitude 2 in 1

StarLabs Star Lite

34:56 Ham Radio - Brett

Open Source Ham Radio

Plan to sell a kit

Have a prototype

Reddit Post

Arkos Engineering

HT-15 GitHub

37:58 News Wire

Systemd 258 - phoronix.com

Rust 1.90 - rust-lang.org

Gnome 49 - gnome.org

Firefox 143 - firefox.com

Thunderbird 143 - thunderbird.net

Rayhunter - helpnetsecurity.com

TernFS - phoronix.com

BCacheFS DKMS - hackaday.com

Tails 7.0 - torproject.org

Porteux - github.com

Oreon 10 - oreonproject.org

Azure Linux 3.0 - webpronews.com

Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B - marktechpost.com

Qwen3-Omni - venturebeat.com

AI Risks - scmp.com

Hugging Face GitHub CoPilot Integration - infoq.com

40:06 OBS

OBS 32.0

Pipewire video capture

Lots of other features

Pipewire is professional

qpwgraph

9 to 5 Linux

44:53 Tails on Trixie

Tails teaches you reproduce-ability

Privacy tools

Changes

New min requirements

Persistent Apps

9 to 5 Linux

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