Episode 465

Ask Noah Show 465

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November 4th, 2025

55 mins 47 secs

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This week Steve describes what happens when you put Ai in a vacuum cleaner, give it a task, then break the charger. We catch up on your feedback questions, and of course the weekly news!

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00:48 Intro

  • Choosing what to say yes to

01:43 Cell Phone Fail Over - Brandon

08:44 IPFire - Frederick

  • PFSense just works
  • Network effect
  • OpenWRT
  • UI/UX Design
  • Steve's migration to OPNSense
  • Tracking online devices

17:40 Converstaion about FastMail - Josh

  • Steve's experience
  • Noah's experience

22:22 Paul Reflects on discussions - Paul

  • Struggle with value of 11 inch framework

23:28 MP3 Audio Processing - Bob

  • Compression
  • Dynamic Range
  • FFMPEG
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:a loudnorm output.mp4

27:55 Question about TrueNas, Frigate and Tailscale - Chris

  • TrueNAS "X Factor"
  • Use Ubuntu vs TrueNAS
  • Cockpit networking
  • Tailscale known bug

38:23 News Wire

40:00 LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes

  • Would you trust a pidgin with a task
  • What are we learning about AI trustworthiness
  • Putting AI in robots
  • AI and Jobs
  • AI hallucinations
  • Increasing percentage of hallucinations
  • Tricking AI models
  • ArsTechnica

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