Podcast Season 4 Episode 8
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Title: Cider!
In this episode: Bitcoin scandal. RMS wins an award. Savers and rich people can buy the DragonBox Prya (thanks Canseco!) and Devuan reaches beta. Plus loads of Finds, Neurons and a long-stewing Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Bitcoin founder may or may not have outed himself. RMS wins 2015 ACM Software System Award for GCC development and leadership. Prya available for pre order and Devaun reaches beta.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Andrew:
- There’s a simple way to spell Devuan and it’s dev dash one dot org.
- Graham:
- ‘chmod’ can be run directly from ld-linux.so.
- X2Go is an open source implementation of the NX remote desktop protocol, and it’s rather excellent.
- Learn about startup culture with Our Incredible Journey.
- Mike:
- Ben:
- Devuan includes a pluggable transport for Tor in apt.
- Andrew:
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If you want Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and the real Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:09:10
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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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.
It’s DragonBox PYRA, 😉
https://www.dragonbox.de/en/45-pyra
It’s expensive, but the community is great, and i’m sure they could integrate phone features and all the things they did on OpenPandora.
So far, they already sold more than 600 preo-orders
Thanks for pointing out the mistake Canseco. I’ve just updated the story. And it’s great news that they’ve got 600 pre-orders already. I did really like OpenPandora and hope they do well enought to keep their project alive.
As for the public data:
In Denmark, the public address registry was made available to OpenStreetmap – so if you look up an address in OSM, all the house numbers have been imported:
http://osm.org/go/0NWs59tFB-?node=340545713
The City of Copenhagen then used the data to create the IBikeCPH site and app:
http://www.ibikecph.dk/
… which allows you to find bike routes:
http://www.ibikecph.dk/#!/x555u.7h4ih/x53f0.7g5ko
It was often more efficient than the competition. A great public/private/community partnership.
Hey, great podcast. During the podcast one if you mentioned a good talk that RMS gave about 6 months ago. I would be really grateful for a link to the talk? 🙂
I was referring to this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM
Actually it’s a bit older than six months ago, but still a great accessible introduction to FOSS from RMS!
Interesting piece on the Pyra:
http://lpxshow.com/lpx-episode-8-designing-the-dragonbox-pyra-handheld-computer/
Hey there, i cant think what it was i was online never mind, got latest issue might have missed one? sorry
You posed the question what would you use the faketime software for? One example I can give is when you have programs that run specific processing based on : end of week, end of month, quarter, year, etc. If the programs use the system date and time then it can very inconvenient to changes these, using faketime sounds like it would allow you to overcome this issue.