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!

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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This week the boys are back at home and talk about the latest changes with coming down the line with Roku. Your questions as always go to the front of the line.

00:50 Intro

• AI doesn't make less work
• Multitasking

03:50 Reolink Wifi Door Bell - Mike

• Facial Recognition

08:45 Door Bells - John

• 10BASE-T1L
• Omnitron-Systems Link
• Need them at both ends

11:10 Cameras and things - xhat

• Block cameras at the firewall
• Updates via Home Assistant

13:00 Feedback

• Please write in!
• Rising tide lifts all boats
• Email or call in

14:06 Roku Story

• Cheap and ubiquitous
• Fox bought out Roku
• 22 Billion
• Noah's friend joining the 21st century
• Nvidia Shield
• OSMC Vero
• Mini PC with LibreELEC
• Boxy amazon
• newsroom.roku.com
• archive.ph

31:50 Fedora Silverblue

• Portable laptop
• Switching OSTrees
• Budgie Desktop
• Tweaking Fedora Atomic
• Domain knowledge transfer
• Leveraging automation
• Replacing EndlessOS
• Variety of OS
• ZFS Boot manager
• BMC IPMI
• PiKVM
• ASROCK Motherboards

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This week we are live from SELF! THE Alan Hicks joins the program and we talk Ai!

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Special Guest: Alan Hicks.