Podcast Season 3 Episode 11
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Title: Calcio Storico
In this episode: Linux Foundation is spending some cash to improve security for everyone. Crossover is going to run the latest Windows games. DuckDuckGo is becoming a hugely successful search engine and there’s a new Ubuntu Phone. We’ve got an awesome Finds section, we peer into someone’s neurons and finish up with a feel-good Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Linux Foundation invests (almost) half a million dollars in security projects. Crossover announces upcoming support for Direct X 11. DuckDuckGo surpasses 10 Million daily queries (600% growth since the Snowden revelations). Chromium has been secretly downloading a binary blob that listens to the input from your microphone. A new Ubuntu Phone goes on sale today – the much more powerful €299 Miezu MX4. And there’s a new Open Container Project, where Docker, Linux Foundation, Amazon, Microsoft, VMware etc. have decided to create a standard for containers.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <Stilvoid> YAML is a great balance between human readability and machine parsability, and a subset of JSON.
- <mcphail>One thing I found (which everyone else probably knows already) is a trick for typing repeated characters. If you need, for example, 80 “*” chars in a row you can type “Alt-80” then “*”.
- Mike:
- Tab Closed; Didn’t Read (language warning)
- Firefox has advanced tracking protection built-in: use ‘about:config’ to set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled.
- Graham:
- An awesome keyboard driven browser called ‘qutebrowser‘.
- You can subvert your home alarm system with a Raspberry Pi.
- Ben:
- Danger: btrfs uses a partition to store metadata. And when that’s full, your storage is full.
- Andrew:
- This is real football.
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: Which company does the most for Linux?
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Thanks Jan! If you’d like yours read out next time, email them to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:04:28
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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About The Author
Graham Morrison
A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.
I was alright with Interstellar at first, then got more and more annoyed as it went on. But then this happened: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33173197
Now I’m confused, maybe I don’t understand as well as I thought I did.
[SPOILER WARNING] I didn’t understand how gravity on the water world could be so great and yet the humans could still walk (let alone remain intact). I had the same problem with the final world’s proximity and the transfers across the event horizon. Of course it’s fantasy, and everything I know about relativity is from A Brief History of Time, but it just felt like lazy film making to me, unfortunately.
Fancy not knowing when decimalization started! I did my maths “O” level in the year before it was introduced. It was the last year units in the exam were the good old £,s,d; feet and yards. Luckily, we didn’t have to cope with the era of roods and perches.
Re Alt-80 *: As in the earlier Find I commented on, this is the readline library emulating Emacs. I know you’ll remember. So next time one comes in, just say: “readline, Emacs, cool.” Because they are cool. Thanks mcphail.
Miezu -> Meizu 😉
An awesome plugin for Firefox is VimFx. It gives you Vim keybindings and it is much more lightweight than Vimperator which was mentioned.
There’s also: caesarean Sunday in Cambridge. I just googled it and there’s a great daily mail article with stuff like ‘look at this half-naked lady who’s been boozing and fighting – it’s disgusting! Here’s another close up photo…’
That qute browser looks really appealing. So does that phone…
Again, a note:
I’ve run into the BTRFS metadata problem before. A workaround to allow rebalancing is to truncate a few files, freeing up enough “space” for rebalancing. There is more information on the FAQ page of the BTRFS wiki… but it should at least allow you to avoid having to wipe the partition.
Rather late comment to this podcast about crossover product. I use it for a number of applications not available for Linux but exist for Windows: Kindle Reader (for Amazon ebooks), Adobe Digital Editions (for ebooks from local libraries) and MS Word Viewer (to check how my openoffice doc files look with ms word when I need to send them).