Ask Noah Show | 489

This week we talk about how Ai took out a production database, we answer questions on best home automation practices, and we talk a bit of storage cache.

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00:48 Intro

• Gratitude
• Curiosity

02:30 Cache Drives - David

• Terminology and discovery
• ZIL (ZFS Intent Log)
  • Synchronous vs Asynchronous
• SLOG
• Mirror drives
• ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache)
  • Stored in RAM
• L2ARC
  • Spill over from ARC
• Work load dependant
• Please join live!
• [Boardroom Technologies](BoardroomTechnologies.com)

12:42 Nextcloud - Aryeh

• Home Assistant SFTP Storage

• Dumping to NFS share
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  0 2 * * * sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ trashbin:cleanup homeassistant_user

• Nextcloud Docs

17:28 Home Automation - Tony

• Home automations are personal
• Lutron Training
• Less is more
• Bedroom automation
• Eject handles/over-rides
• Orbit Panels

31:00 SIP Server - Twobit

• FS PBX
• freePBX

34:17 News Wire

• Kdenlive 26.04.0 - kdenlive.org

• Midori 11.7 - github.com

• Bleachbit 6.0 - bleachbit.org

• QEMU 11.0 - qemu.org

• LXQT 2.4 - lxqt-project.org

• Firefox 150 - firfox.com

• Thunderbird 150 - thunderbird.net

• Ubuntu 26.04 - ubuntu.com

• Fedora 44 - fedoramagazine.org

• Tails 7.7 - tails.net

• VECT 2.0 Destroys Files - thehackernews.com

• Pack2TheRoot - securityweek.com

• GoGra Backdoor - thehackernews.com

• DeepSeek v4 - siliconangle.com

• Kimi k2.6 - pandaily.com

• Qwen3.6-27B - marktechpost.com

35:50 Discussion Segment

• Cursor - AI first IDE
• Opus - AI model
• Agents
• Cursor "modes"
  • Agent
  • Planning mode
• Cursor wants to "resell AI" to you
• The Register Cursor
• Steve's AI automation mishap
• AI can be amusing
• Mythos
• The Register Mythos
• Metasploit

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