This week Till Kamppeter joins The Ask Noah Show and we talk about OpenPrinting. We answer your questions, and if you were hosting your Matrix instance with EMS we'll walk you through the latest announcement.

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Feedback about BT extension EP 351 - John

Cheap phone watch
Disdain for any kind of phone

Kid Friendly Distro Feedback - Jeremy

PFSense + pfBlockerNG
Canadian Block Lists GitHub
Will this work with DNS over TLS?
Null out IPs

Linux Smart Phones - Sandro

Linux is coming to the mobile game 10 years late
Some of the "Linux Mobile OSes" use an Android shim to talk to the hardware
GrapheneOS has been great
A few small issues
Current hardware is under powered

DBs for Home Lab - Sandro

Pass the vdev directly into the VM

OpenWRT Home Router - elguaje3ero

OpenWRT
Sophos XG135
Ebay Link

News Wire

SSH MitM

Terrapin SSH attack
Requires either ChaCha20-Poly1305 or CBC-EtM
Targets Binary Packet Protocol
ARS Technica Article

EMS Discontinuing Hosting

EMS did a great job
Per user is not cost effective
Offering a reduced min user business subscription
Billed for a year, cut short
Early adopter tax
Element Starter
- Your own server
- No support
- Up to 200 users
- ???
Opens up hosting to more people
Black Lists
Element One
Beeper iMessage whack-a-mole
Better story than slack, discord, etc
Element Announcement Blog Post
Matrix Governing Board Blog Post
Beeper iMessage (The Register)

Fedora Asahi

Presentation experience
Script turns Mac into Linux machine
Audio disabled
Flawless
Apple engineers changed the firmware
9 to 5 Linux

Firefox 121

Wayland by default
Picture in Picture
9 to 5 Linux

PostmarketOS

Postmarket OS 23.12
New chrome books supported
New single board computers supported
Encryption supported
Additional safety checks
9 to 5 Linux
Debug Point News

Interview with Till Kamppeter

Leads the OpenPrinting project
LPD
PostScript Printers
PCL printers
Ghostscript
magicfilter
LPR Command
CUPS - early 2000s
Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
2.0 IPP
Print dialog
Raster Formats (driverless printing)
- Apple raster
- Printer Working Group
- PCLM
How driver-less printing works
Choosing a printer
- firmware tricks
- subscription models
- Brother printers

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