Ask Noah Show 512

This week we talk about PHP2Shell an AI uncovered critical RCE vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the Internet!

-- During The Show --

00:50 Intro

• Common names
• Getting other people's emails

02:15 Ubuntu Upgrade Experience - David

• LTS to LTS broke my system
• Upgrading machines
• Steve "runs Arch BTW"
• Fundamental shift in the KDE Plasma project
• BootC, Arch Linux, others
• Patching/update strategy
• 3 categories of computers
  • Appliance
  • Servers
  • Multi use/client sites
• There is no "ideal"
• "Patch to Production" pipeline
• Home lab vs "tied to revenue"

16:26 Learning and Feedback - Anonymous

• Love the educational content
• Happy to share
• A dude who reads some stuff

18:50 News Wire

• Peazip 11.4 - github.io

• Firefox 158 - firefox.com

• Thunderbird 158 - thunderbird.net

• KDE Plasma - kde.org

• Libreboot 26.10 - libreboot.org

• JOREK Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic Simulation - iter.org

• Molecule Computational Tool - ohio.edu

• Ubuntu 26.10 - ubuntu.com

• Gnome OS Preview - gnome.org

• Tails 7.15 - torproject.org

• PwnEscape - thehackernews.com

• Klein Version of Flux3 - bfl.ai

• Moss-Image - openmoss.ai

• Deepseek V4.1 - huggingface.co

• IBM's llm-d 1.0 - research.ibm

• Microsoft Defender on Linux - theregister.com

• KDE turns 30 - kde.org youtube.com

20:15 3D Printing

• Steve has been using 3D printers for over a decade
• Why Creality 3D printers
• Snapmaker
• What features would you look for in a new printer
  • Bigger bed
  • Faster print speed
  • Multi filament printing
  • Enclosed print area
• Stronger plastics/off gassing
• Temperature is very dependant on specific filament not filament type
• Starting the print close to the bed
• Thingiverse
• Process of fixing Noah's watch
  • measure with digital calipers
  • make the model in parametric CAD
• Learning curve to CAD
• Learn from videos online
• Trying to improve the show, let us know
• Best way to start a kid printing
  • download someone else's print
  • learn from downloaded prints
• Overture filament
• Creality filament
• Blender
• Picking filament
  • Bottom barrel price, bad, full of air bubbles
  • Stick to similar brands
• Allowing a child to use a 3D printer

49:05 PHP2Shell

• Created lots of work for Noah and Altispeed
• This vulnerability was found in 2024 via a security audit, but humans couldn't reproduce
• Vast majority of places got fixes out quickly
• Yahoo.com
• Wikipedia