This week Noah and Steve dig into the announcement that Google will verify the government identity of all Android developers, and not just those publishing on the Play Store. Google intends to verify developer identities no matter where they offer their content, and apps without verification won't work on most Android devices in the coming years. -- During The Show -- 00:48 Steve's Idea Pre-Show as a presentation Honesty and Vulnerability 04:06 Android Developer Verification Verifying all developers First smartphone We gave up administrative access Mass adoption Privilege escalation Breaking things to make them work Effect on self hosting Large apps vs small apps KYC - Know Your Customer SSL Government ID vs Screen Name 3 Glowing Stores ArsTechnica.com (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/) 26:35 iPhone Trash 1.2 million kilograms of ewaste Owning your tech The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/apple_ios_26_waste/) 28:32 Smart Phone Addiction Physical signs of addiction Administrative access limits 30:20 NewPipe and Noah's Internet Alternative front end to YouTube Google and apps they don't like Being annoying enough Trying to block YouTube YouTube at Noah's house OpenWrt solution VPN blocks Mitigating double NAT Hosting at home 43:29 News Wire MAME 0.280 - mamedev.org (https://www.mamedev.org/?p=554) OpenZFS 2.3.4 - github.com (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases) MIR 2.22 - github.com (https://github.com/canonical/mir/releases/tag/v2.22.0) LLVM 21.1 - llvm.org (https://releases.llvm.org/21.1.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html) IceWM 3.9.0 - github.com (https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/tag/3.9.0) Dbeaver 25.2 - dbeaver.io (https://dbeaver.io/2025/08/31/dbeaver-25-2) QEMU 10.1 - qemu.org (https://www.qemu.org/2025/08/26/qemu-10-1-0) DocumentDB - itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/documentdb-moves-to-linux-foundation) Garuda 250902 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/garuda-linux/files/garuda/) Linux Lite 7.6 - linuxliteos.com (https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=9576) Armbain 25.8.1 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Armbian-25.8.1-Released) Roblinux Cinnamon 14.1 - robolinux.org (https://robolinux.org) KylinOS v11 - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/kylinos_11) AerynOS 2025.08 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2025.08-Released) Hardened Rocky Linux - ciq.com (https://ciq.com/press-release/rocky-linux-from-ciq-hardened-now-available-on-all-three-major-clouds) Essedum 1.0 - networkworld.com (https://www.networkworld.com/article/4047010/linux-foundation-launches-essedum-1-0-to-simplify-ai-integration-in-network-operations.html) Hermes 4 AI Models - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/nous-research-drops-hermes-4-ai-models-that-outperform-chatgpt-without-content-restrictions) Meituan AI Model - finance.yahoo.com (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-delivery-giant-meituan-unleashes-093000347.html) LATAM-GPT - wired.com (https://www.wired.com/story/latam-gpt-the-free-open-source-and-collaborative-ai-of-latin-america) Surya AI - science.nasa.gov (https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/artificial-intelligence-model-heliophysics) 45:15 Windows 10 EOL Windows 10 EOL Oct 14th Businesses & Planning Paying MS for updates MS Recall Chance for Linux Adoption Nich Gausling Article (https://www.nickgausling.com/2025/08/17/windows-10-eol-linux/) -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/457) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
