Podcast Season 3 Episode 13

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Title: Glass houses

In this episode: The UK Government can’t make up its mind about how evil encryption is. Canonical is having difficulty elucidating its stance on Ubuntu IP rights. Several ex-Mozilla executives have forked Firefox OS and Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare. We’ve also got a particularly awesome Finds section, a couple of neurons to vocalise and the internet famous Voice of the Masses.

Mike shows us his deadly quadcopter!

What’s in the show:

• News:

  • The UK Government is not banning encryption. The UK Government is banning encryption. There’s a new Intellectual Property Rights policy at Canonical. Several Mozilla executives have forked Firefox OS into H5 after $100m in sponsorship from China. And Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare.

• Finds of the Fortnight:
  • From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
    • <Stilvoid> Material Design Lite lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your websites.
    • <Ioangogo> A cooperative multiplayer networked starship simulator called Space Nerds In Space.
    • <Devilment> ‘du -S’ means it doesn’t go into sub-dirs
  • Mike:
    • A cheap quad-copter with HD video.
    • DuckDuckGo can generate cheat sheets automatically.
  • Ben:
    • Limit the bandwidth used by rsync with ‘–bwlimit kb/s’
  • Graham:
    • Pass is a great secure data wallet that uses the GnuPG and the Linux filesystem.
    • And there’s an Android app for pass called Password Store.
  • Andrew:
    • Mexrrissey; the Mexican Morrissey.
• Vocalise Your Neurons:
Thanks Jasper! Thanks Remy! Here’s the link to the PiDP-8. Get in touch with Mike (mike@linuxvoice.com) if you’d like your neurons vocalised next episode.
• Voice of the Masses: What’s your best Linux tip?

Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.

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Duration: 54:22

Theme Music by Brad Sucks.