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I would like to use this channel to give back to the community what I have learned from others. I cover a wide range of topics on computing technology from Home Server setup on a budget, Linux for general use (workstation, server and development), High Performance Computing and modern storage options at scale.

I publish videos at least twice a week on a wide range of computing related topics

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Debian 12 Release Candidates have begin to arrive so, I wanted to take a look and see how much different it is over Debian 11, and all I can say is its amazing.  On an Intel 12th gen its so much faster than Debian 11 I thought at first something was wrong.  Even after installing flatpak support, the flatpaks were faster, in some cases faster than the package versions.  

I am not benchmarking this yet, I will waiting under it is officially released, I just don't think that is fair to the developers and testers to do that before they have had a chance to signoff on it.

Yes, once again I used AI to generate a cartoonish 3D bookworm for this video, for me its just a place to explore and have a little fun.

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:08 - Debian 12
00:43 - Brief History of Debian
01:09 - Branches of Debian
01:44 - Deriviatives
03:07 - System Requirements
04:50 - Linux Kernel 6.1
07:33 - Debian 12 Changes
10:09 - Core Applications
11:25 - Old Firefox ESR example
13:23 - Meanwhile back to Debian 12
13:55 - First Impressions

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#Debian12 #DebianBookworm #Linux
Today, I am taking an initial look at the FIDO Alliance replacement for passwords called passkeys or you may hear it called FIDO2.  FIDO2 is the specification name.  Google has recently announced their full roll out for passkeys a few weeks ago.  Apple has support for passkeys in IOS16 and macOS Ventura, but won't have full support until this fall (of 2023).  Microsoft said they will have full support for Windows by the end of the year (I do not know if this will just be Windows 11, or if it will include Windows 10 as well).  

The artwork:  I generated this "photo" using AI.  This Week it is the Greek Guardian Atalanta, she was a huntress and a warrior.  Having been born a female her father left her in the woods as an infant to die, she was adopted by a bear and raised to adulthood as a hunter. During the voyage of the Argonauts, she invoked the protection of Artemis to protect the ship and crew, and fought alongside the men in the battle of Colchis. 

Chapters
00:00 - Start
00:10 - Can Passkeys Replace Passwords?
00:23 - Why do we need to replace passwords?
05:38 - Relying Party
06:16 - Registration
07:54 - Login
08:58 - API
09:36 - Roaming Authentication
10:42 - Sync vs Hardware Bound
12:44 - Synced or Hardware Bound which one to use?
15:35 - Transitioning to Passkeys
16:36 - Roaming
17:29 - Just a few more things...
19:24 - Synced Scenatio
20:18 - Enterprise and Shared Passkeys
23:37 - Final Thoughts
25:40 - Outro


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#Passkey #FIDO2 #Passwordless
There has been a bunch of websites claiming that TOR is only used by criminals and bad actors, the truth is studies have shown that most of the users of TOR are people who just want to maintain a level of privacy which seems to be increasingly under siege by big tech, who want to know every bit of data about you.  Yes, TOR is unfortunately used by bad actors, that is a consequence of the technology, it is not TORs purpose.  There are many technologies which are used for good and bad in the world, that is our nature as humans.  I use it to protect my identity and try and maintain some level of privacy even when doing research for these videos.  I never know where a link will lead and what data that site is collecting.  

The artwork for Tails 5.13: I generated this using AI again, and either its getting better, or I am learning more about how to get better quality imagery from it.

00:00 - Intro
00:10 - What is Tails?
01:09 - Release Schedule
01:37 - System Requirements
03:18 - Tails 5.13 Changes
03:41 - curl
04:23 - Persistent Storage
05:20 - Apps
05:38 - Marker 9
06:16 - Tips
06:59 - Onionshare
07:17 - Recommendations
09:38 - Tips to Reduce Risks
13:06 - Final Thoughts
14:50 - Outro

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#Tails #Tor #Tips
Alpine Linux 3.18 was released on May 9, 2023.  It has some nice new features including an experimental headless install using tiny cloud.  The release also updates the linux kernel to the latest 6.1 lts, as well as many package and tool updates.  I made a big mistake during the installation of the desktop environment, because I did not follow the installation guide and ended up in a condition, I had to manually correct.  It always pays to RTFM before pointing fingers and yelling BUG.

And oh yes, the artwork today, I generated using AI to create an oil painting (like) image of snow covered mountains.  Sometimes the imagery that AI generates is kind of hilarious and sometimes it down right amazing...but the old adage "GIGO applies here (Garbage In; Garbage Out).  You do have to take care with the parameters you use to generate it.

00:00 - Intro
00:11 - Description
00:43 - System Requirements
02:00 - Linux Kernel 6.1
02:21 - Alpine Linux 3.18 Changes
03:00 - ToolChain
03:35 - Installing and Troubleshooting
14:29 - Final Thoughts
14:58 - To My Patreon and Channel Members:  Thank you for your Support!
15:15 - Outro

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#Alpine Linux #Alpine #Busybox
Just the benchmarks to see how this performs in comparison to other ARM based machines I have tested in the past.  

00:00 - Intro
00:26 - Original Benchmark
05:37 - New Benchmark
08:54 - Final Thoughts
09:46 - Outro

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#NVIDIA #Jetson #Orin
This is not a sponsored review, I paid for this machine out of my own money.  I am presenting the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit which is a replacement for the older Jetson Nano.  This board is about 80x more powerful than the previous generation.  When I was putting this together I wanted to see if ChatGPT4 had gotten any better than ChatGPT3, and well...it is better, but still pretty inaccurate on much of the technical stuff.  I have not had a chance to run the benchmarks on this yet but I will be posting a follow up video next week.

I want to thank my Patreon and Channel members who helped me get this board so that I could review it on the channel.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Features (Hardware and Software)
02:10 - Setup
07:13 - UEFI
09:36 - First Boot and Walk-Through
19:31 - Summary
22:21 - My Thoughts
24:28 - Outro

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#NVIDIA #Jetson #Orin
I have wanted to put this together for sometime, I stated out using an Apple ][+ back in 1981, using various Mac's including Mac AUX (UNIX for Mac).  I still use Macs today, but the Macs and Mac Software isn't the same.  

In the beginning, I used the Mac as a standalone machine, but as I began using UNIX, it became clear to me the Mac and its operating system was a better client than Windows as a client to UNIX servers.  I designed my first website in 1992 on a Mac and hosted it on a DEC 11/780, later moving it to an AT&T 3B2 Model 5, and then a Sun Sun Fire machine.   Today, it runs on some cloud based x86_64, I no longer run it, but the website is still there.

There is more concern with MacOS regarding Privacy and Security.  The Question is, Can we users tame it, get it back under our control and away from corporations who want to put their noses into everything we do.  This is my attempt to show some of the things I have learned along the way to help wrestle the software back and use the machines to solve problems without telegraphing what I do to Apple, and the people they sell our data too.  

As I have said before Security and Privacy is not a destination, it is an journey along an every changing road, with new challenges and obstacles placed along the way.

Even Linux is starting down this road  so if you think Linux is immune...you might want to read a bit more recent articles.

00:00 - Start
00:14 - Threat Models
01:24 - Keep Your System up-to-date
01:32 - Encrypt Data at Rest
01:39 - Encrypt Data at Rest
02:18 - Rapid Security Response
02:54 - Backup Your System
04:08 - Verify the Backup
04:21 - Re-Installing  macOS
05:07 - Browser
07:30 - Cookies
10:03 - Firmware Passwords
10:44 - Captive Portal
11:50 - Firewalls
14:22 - pf firewall (same one used in pfSense)
16:55 - GPL Removal
20:19 - Passkeys
22:27 - Wrapup

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#macOS #Security #Privacy
I had a very enjoyable discussion with  Aleksander Baranowski  from EuroLinux, and I wanted to share this video with you.  We discuss some of the main reasons for building EuroLinux, and what some of the challenges open source faces today. 

And which hardware architectures will be key to support going forward in Linux operating systems.

 I hope you find this discussion as enjoyable as I did and I want to thank Kamil Sadek also from EuroLinux in his help in setting this up.  

A big thank you to Aleks for taking the time to talk with me today!

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#EuroLinux #Interview #OpenSource
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#Ubuntu #Fedora #Filesystem #Reviews
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