This week Noah and Steve dig into an npm attack that Red Hat has issued an alert for. We talk about small and portable laptops, and of course answer your questions. -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro ZFS Win Meld (https://meldmerge.org/) Domain knowledge scaling 07:32 NPM Supply Chain Attack No compromised packages used in Red Hat software NPM and Node.js What the malicious code does Red Hat is on top of it Reaction to finding a compromise Red Hat Article (https://access.redhat.com/security/supply-chain-attacks-NPM-packages) Aikido Article 1 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/popular-nx-packages-compromised-on-npm) Aikido Article 2 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised) Aikido Article 3 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again) 18:21 Registrar - Josh CloudFlare PorkBun (https://porkbun.com/) Great Nerds 21:47 Small Laptop - Ziggy HP ProBook Noah's GPD Pocket v1 Surface Pro 1 Dell Latitude 2 in 1 StarLabs Star Lite (https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite) 34:56 Ham Radio - Brett Open Source Ham Radio Plan to sell a kit Have a prototype Reddit Post (https://www.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/s/TTodwCYuyG) Arkos Engineering (https://arkosengineering.com/) HT-15 GitHub (https://github.com/Arkos-Engineering/HT-15) 37:58 News Wire Systemd 258 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-258) Rust 1.90 - rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/Rust-1.90.0) Gnome 49 - gnome.org (https://release.gnome.org/49) Firefox 143 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/143.0/releasenotes) Thunderbird 143 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/143.0/releasenotes) Rayhunter - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/17/rayhunter-eff-open-source-tool-detect-cellular-spying) TernFS - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/TernFS-File-System-Open-Source) BCacheFS DKMS - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/19/bcachefs-is-now-a-dkms-module-after-exile-from-the-linux-kernel) Tails 7.0 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_0) Porteux - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v2.3) Oreon 10 - oreonproject.org (https://oreonproject.org/oreon-10) Azure Linux 3.0 - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/microsoft-releases-azure-linux-3-0-with-optional-6-12-lts-kernel) Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B - marktechpost.com (https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/09/18/alibaba-releases-tongyi-deepresearch-a-30b-parameter-open-source-agentic-llm-optimized-for-long-horizon-research) Qwen3-Omni - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinas-alibaba-challenges-u-s-tech-giants-with-open-source-qwen3-omni-ai) AI Risks - scmp.com (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326214/deepseek-warns-jailbreak-risks-its-open-source-models) Hugging Face GitHub CoPilot Integration - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/hugging-face-vscode) 40:06 OBS OBS 32.0 Pipewire video capture Lots of other features Pipewire is professional qpwgraph (https://github.com/rncbc/qpwgraph) 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-32-0-pipewire-video-capture-improvements-basic-plugin-manager) 44:53 Tails on Trixie Tails teaches you reproduce-ability Privacy tools Changes New min requirements Persistent Apps 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-0-anonymous-linux-os-released-based-on-debian-13-trixie) -- 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/460) 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)
