Ask Noah Show 498

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!

-- During The Show --

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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