About this episode
Noah and Steve discuss the differences between MCP and skills, along with various technology topics including AI, file systems, and Linux news.
This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters! -- During The Show -- 00:50 Intro Weather Audio Levels 02:00 Steve's AI Rabbit Hole AI may change, but is here to stay Garmin Data Tested 14 models How they performed Mumble Doc What are tokens MCP server vs skills Email is out dated Environmental cost 25:18 Copy On Write - Jayson Benefits of COW file systems Compression Steve is not a ZFS "expert" Block size SSD vs HDD for databases Avoid COW inside VM 36:32 RaidZ Questions - D Mirrored Pairs Use SSD/Solid State UGreen NAS 43:30 Authentication - Avri Pocket-ID GitHub Open Source SSO 45:20 MakeMKV Feedback - archer72 (KD9VMW) MakeMKV Error Hacker Public Radio 4564 46:11 AV Codecs - Atypical How do you add AV codecs into EndlessOS? Flatpak with codecs 47:20 Axis Door Stations - TwoBit They are great, everything is standard 48:00 News Wire Peazip 11.0 - github.io GNU Nano 9.0 - nano-editor.org KDE Frameworks 6.25 - kde.org KDE Plasma 6.6.4 - kde.org OpenSSL 3.6.2 - github.com Extix 26.4 - linux.exton.net Plop Linux 26.2 - plop.at Snal Linux 1.40 - sourceforge.net PearOS Nice Core 26.4 - pearos.xyz Trisquel 12.0 - phoronix.com GLM 5.1…
People in this episode
Host: Noah J. Chelliah
Guest: Steve
Topics covered
- AI
- MCP vs skills
- file systems
- authentication
- AV codecs
- Linux news
- AI in health care
Keywords
- MCP
- skills
- AI
- file systems
- authentication
- AV codecs
- Linux
- health care
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Garmin, GitHub, Open Source, Hacker Public Radio, EndlessOS, KDE, GNU, NVIDIA, Linux, Epic
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