Podcast Season 3 Episode 21

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Title: The Best Podcast In The World. Ever.

In this episode: Pi Zero launches, and we’ve got one. LibreOffice has had 1,000 developers, and the Software Freedom Conservancy needs funds. We’ve got more Finds than ever before, a synthesised neuron, plus the internet infamous Open Ballot.

What’s in the show:

• News:

  • There’s a new Raspberry Pi and it’s only £4. LibreOffice has had 1,000 developers contributing to its codebase. Has The Linux Foundation stopped funding the Software Freedom Conservancy? Adobe has decreed that Flash is dead. Really. And Let’s Encrypt, free and easy to install HTTPS certificates for everyone, is now in public beta.

• Finds of the Fortnight:
  • From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
    • <pwaring> SHOW CREATE [tablename] in MySQL will give you the SQL to create table names with a different database.
    • <pwaring> Ending a MySQL statement with \G rather than ; will display results vertically.
    • <Stilvoid> Eagle Mode is still the best file manager in the world ever today.
    • <Stilvoid> materializecss.com – a great library for building Material Design websites very very quickly.
    • <Stilvoid> I’ve developed a new Pebble watchface called Slowness.
    • <Lagermon> ‘apt-get -upgrade’ will not install kernel updates. ‘aptitude -y’ will install kernel updates. top, atop and htop are great system monitors for headless servers.
  • Mike:
    • BunsenLabs Linux, a lightweight continuation of Crunchbang (with thanks to David Baxter)
    • Illegal prime numbers can be interpreted as an executable ELF binary (thanks Christian!)
  • Ben:
    • If you suffer from painful wrists/hands, try using two mice and switch between then when the pain starts (thanks Martin).
    • After running a fake SSH server honey pot, most hackers do nothing more than simply guess the password or run a game server.
  • Graham:
    • XPrivacy, an Xposed framework module for Android, gives you complete control over what data applications can access.
    • Run commands after a change in the filesystem with entr.
  • Andrew:
    • We can’t currently digitally transfer funds to Russia, because it’s on the naughty step.
    • Parental controls in Windows 10 are scary.
• OggBox
  Huge thanks to Jason for his synthesised neurons – you can listen to the whole file here. Also thanks to John and Daniel for their thoughts. If you’ve got something to say and would like to record yourself saying it, send the Ogg Vorbis file to mike@linuxvoice.com.
• Voice of the Masses: Chip vs Pi Zero – Which excites you more?

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

Download as high-quality Ogg Vorbis (53MB)

Download as low-quality MP3 (75MB)

Download the smaller yet even more awesome Opus file (20MB)

Duration: 58:26

Theme Music by Brad Sucks.

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