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[118.38 --> 123.78] But speaking of that post over at Ars Technica, you also had a new post over at Ars Technica. |
[124.34 --> 126.38] And this is a brilliant one. |
[126.38 --> 131.54] How to achieve smart home nirvana or home automation without a subscription. |
[131.90 --> 132.70] Also very clever. |
[132.84 --> 135.02] Were you stuck between two titles, Alex? |
[135.22 --> 138.66] And congratulations also on your first post at Ars Technica. |
[139.00 --> 139.36] Thank you. |
[139.42 --> 142.50] Yes, that was rather a life box ticked last week. |
[142.78 --> 144.10] It was a war of two titles, wasn't it? |
[144.40 --> 144.92] It was. |
[145.06 --> 148.88] Actually, I was working with their editors and they had about six titles to choose from. |
[149.00 --> 155.12] So we ended up picking two halves of two different titles that didn't belong together and then kind of like munging them together. |
[155.36 --> 155.76] Wow. |
[155.84 --> 158.56] Could you imagine having people like help us come up with titles? |
[158.56 --> 163.20] Like you and I like have to like call each other up after the show and be like, oh, what are we going to call this one? |
[163.26 --> 163.98] We completely forget. |
[164.06 --> 165.86] We walk away and don't even title the show. |
[166.10 --> 166.48] We do. |
[167.00 --> 167.98] All the time. |
[169.88 --> 176.66] Hey, so did you see in the news this week that NVIDIA have finally seen Sense and unlocked their GPU drivers for pass-through? |
[176.98 --> 178.36] I did see this in the news. |
[178.42 --> 181.40] I didn't go too far into it because I figured I'd pick your brain. |
[181.52 --> 184.66] This must be a shot in the arm for virtualization. |
[184.66 --> 185.86] I'd say so, yeah. |
[186.16 --> 189.32] To recap, you know, the high level of why this is a big deal. |
[190.04 --> 198.70] NVIDIA previously locked down their consumer graphics cards from being air quotes supported on GPU pass-through. |
[198.86 --> 207.92] So they would show an error code 43, an infamous error code 43 in the Windows device manager rather than loading and just working as normal. |
[207.92 --> 217.60] So what you would have to do is hide the fact that the VM was running as a VM from the VM, which has some minor performance implications, only minor. |
[218.16 --> 222.16] But what this does from NVIDIA is it basically says, yeah, okay, guys, cool. |
[222.26 --> 228.94] Go ahead and take our consumer level graphics cards, pass them through to, you know, guests and do gaming and what have you. |
[229.04 --> 230.62] And, you know, go nuts. |
[231.06 --> 233.36] I don't even know if I have a rig to try this on these days, Alex. |
[233.38 --> 234.48] Have you had a chance to try this? |
[234.78 --> 237.10] I don't actually run pass-through very much these days. |
[237.10 --> 245.04] I ended up basically giving up because, you know, you and I talked about this a long time ago on Linux Unplugged 308. |
[245.56 --> 249.34] And we talked about all the different rigmarole that surrounds PCI pass-through. |
[249.44 --> 252.48] And all of that still applies, even with this NVIDIA news. |
[252.68 --> 253.70] All of that still applies. |
[254.64 --> 260.18] So you're going to need a way of switching your monitor inputs, of switching your keyboard and mouse inputs and all that kind of stuff. |
[260.22 --> 264.10] And I have 144 hertz gaming monitor in front of me here. |
[264.10 --> 272.46] And trying to find a KVM switch that can support that and Thunderbolt from my MacBook Pro, it's just a pain in the bum. |
[272.60 --> 276.20] So I ended up just dual booting these days. |
[276.44 --> 278.90] You know, when I want to do some Windows stuff, I reboot. |
[279.30 --> 281.70] And when I want to do some Linux stuff, I reboot. |
[282.08 --> 283.84] And it's fine. |
[283.90 --> 285.06] It's a bit of a pain, but it's fine. |
[285.06 --> 290.62] Yeah, there is a line where you have to go, how much is it worth virtualizing versus just dual booting? |
[290.70 --> 291.74] I totally get that. |
[292.28 --> 294.22] That's a line I don't really often cross. |
[294.40 --> 299.32] Like, I'm legitimately at a loss of even – I don't know why I'd install Windows right now. |
[299.36 --> 301.58] I don't think I've installed Windows. |
[302.00 --> 303.52] I definitely haven't installed it in 2021. |
[304.46 --> 306.24] And I don't know if I installed it. |
[306.86 --> 310.56] I must have at least installed it once in 2020. |
[310.78 --> 311.68] But maybe that was it. |
[312.00 --> 315.38] I really have over the years just sort of – this is not a brag. |
[315.76 --> 321.24] I just – because I have in other places used Macs for special tools that other people probably would have used a Windows box. |
[321.32 --> 322.72] So it's not like I have some superpower. |
[323.32 --> 327.90] But it's just I have over the times just kind of migrated completely away from Windows. |
[327.90 --> 336.06] Yeah, the only things I really use it for is Fusion 360, so 3D modeling for my printing stuff, which I can also do on the Mac as well. |
[336.10 --> 337.66] So I don't really need Windows there. |
[338.20 --> 342.26] I use it for Blue Iris, as we often talk about, on a separate system. |
[342.50 --> 343.28] I could see that. |
[343.50 --> 345.40] In terms of the desktop, yeah. |
[345.50 --> 348.48] I mean, VS Code takes care of a lot of my coding stuff. |
[348.66 --> 352.94] WSL 2 takes care of a lot of the SSH type stuff. |
[353.02 --> 355.40] And the new Windows terminal is actually quite nice. |
[355.40 --> 366.36] So, I mean, I spend a lot more time in Windows than I think I admit to myself these days, even though it doesn't really feel like Windows anymore because they've basically shoehorned Linux onto the side of it. |
[367.66 --> 370.16] Okay, I feel like there's also an elephant in the room this week. |
[370.76 --> 377.70] You and I have talked about Ubiquity Gear a bit on this show, and they have been in the news in a bad way. |
[378.32 --> 382.88] Some serious security potential leaks, I guess. |
[382.88 --> 407.20] According to someone that Brian Krebs spoke to on his blog, he writes that a cybercriminal gained administrative access to Ubiquity's AWS databases via stolen credentials, perhaps like an employee's LastPass account, it looks like, and then got root admin access, that's what they say, to the AWS ac... |
[407.20 --> 411.20] including databases that include user credentials. |
[411.20 --> 424.92] There's even, according to some people who've come forward, supposedly been backdoor software that they found, that Ubiquity IT staff found, that the situation is so serious that certain people have been fired. |
[425.06 --> 426.76] There's a lot going on. |
[427.22 --> 431.64] And I'm wondering how you feel as somebody who's, I think, running a fair amount of their gear. |
[431.64 --> 432.74] I certainly am, yeah. |
[432.78 --> 434.80] I have three access points in this house. |
[434.96 --> 441.04] I have half a dozen that I manage in England for my family across two or three different, you know, houses. |
[441.96 --> 451.54] And, you know, from that perspective, having a centralized controller where all of these devices talk back to that runs on Linode is, for me, very convenient. |
[452.30 --> 458.14] And so far as I understand it anyway, there is no risk to people who self-host the Unify controller. |
[458.14 --> 458.82] Right. |
[459.34 --> 465.44] If, however, you're running one of their cloud keys or a dream machine or something that requires you to authenticate with their cloud, |
[466.04 --> 475.26] you may well want to change some passwords and possibly even consider, you know, not using Ubiquity stuff in that manner anymore. |
[475.26 --> 481.72] Because, you know, the manner of the breach was that an employee's AWS S3 bucket key was compromised. |
[481.72 --> 488.32] So we have to assume that the attackers got access to everything stored. |
[488.42 --> 494.60] Passwords, I mean, they may well be hashed and salted, but we can break passwords with enough compute, you know. |
[495.16 --> 498.82] Application logs, databases, database credentials. |
[499.30 --> 504.26] All of that stuff that's in there, even just IP records, it's all bad. |
[504.50 --> 505.60] It's all really bad, Alex. |
[505.60 --> 515.66] And that's kind of where I was going with this is I quietly for the last couple of years have been progressively more and more disappointed with Ubiquity. |
[515.90 --> 523.30] While my friends, like you and others around me, have seemed pretty solid with them, I have been wondering if things haven't been getting a little sour. |
[524.26 --> 526.92] I don't feel like their latest batch of products have been that solid. |
[526.92 --> 532.54] I have not liked some of their answers around the controller limitations and some of their solutions. |
[532.76 --> 535.28] And it just seemed like a power grab in some circumstances. |
[535.66 --> 541.12] And it seems like this is an indication that not all is well in HQ. |
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