About this Episode

This week we interview Avri Chen-Roth and he gives us an overview of Pocket ID! We give you the details on our upcoming Episode 500 party in the Minneapolis / St.Paul area on Tuesday August 4th 2026!

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00:50 Up Coming on the Show

  • ANS on the air 9 years
  • Studio is all Linux
  • Telos Axia Board
    • Runs Linux
    • Moved from hardware to docker
  • Lost art of leveraging technology
  • "Glowing Box Stores"
  • Growing the show
  • Episode 500 in MN St Paul
  • Show is taking a pause

12:22 Avri Chen-Roth Interview

  • PocketID and OpenID Connect
  • Home lab authentication problem
  • Commercial solutions largely PAAS
  • LDAP and Active Directory
  • OpenID Connect
  • Apps don't save credentials
  • New open source standard
  • Compatible with large service providers
  • Passkeys
  • Storing passkeys
  • Why PocketID?
  • Setting up PocketID
  • On boarding PocketID
  • Converting existing accounts to PocketID
  • Groups
  • OAuth 2.0
  • WebAuthn
  • LDAP Sync

41:10 Retired Phone Computing

  • What to do with old cellphones
  • Using old phones for cluster compute
  • Thermal runaway
  • Major challenge is distributing the load
  • Getting Linux on the phones
  • research.google

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