Podcast Season 2 Episode 21
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Title: Live from Budapest
In this episode: Google is nearly gone from Firefox. FreeBSD gets one million dollars. Gnome defends itself against Groupon and the latest LibreOffice breaks the bank. We’ve got a Finds section of epic proportions, plus Neurons to vocalise, and a Voice of the Masses that tries to make sense of the vitriuol behing the systemd debates.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Mozilla has abandoned its long-standing and lucrative arrangement with Google, switching to Yahoo and Bing in some territories. WhatsApp founder, Jan Koum, has donated $1,000,000 USD to the FreeBSD Foundation. WhatApp is also integrating TextSecure for one-to-one text chats with the Android client. The Jolla Tablet has become an unprecedented crowdfunding success. The GNOME community has successfully defended the GNOME Trademark against Groupon. And the latest version of the spreadsheet application in LibreOffice, Calc, breaks many documents. A new general resolution from Debian developers has decided packages still aren’t obliged to support other init systems. A few developers have stepped down, including former Debian project lead, Ian Jackson, who has resigned. Also, the EFF and Mozilla are going to offer their own SSL certification.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <hegx64> Download some cool free chiptunes from keygenmusic.org, or listen to some on keygenjukebox.com
- <pwaring> Clang is getting very good.
- <einonm> Create desktop applications with PHP or whatever PHP frameworks you prefer with Nightrain.
- <einonm> A solderless 68000 chip running Linux from a breadboard.
- Graham:
- Thousands of people are still protesting against the internet tax in Hungary.
- CloudStack, the Linux Foundation, and The Apache Foundation are doing a great job in providing a genuine open source cloud alternative.
- The Nexus 5 is actually quite easy to repair.
- Ben:
- Within two days of us releasing issue 1 under a Creative Commons licence, our Bytemark servers had served 650GB data, not including torrents, but thanks to CloudFlare’s caching, we’d only really uploaded 60GB.
- The sar command line tool logs your system’s usage over time.
- Andrew:
- Danger, the Russians are watching your webcams.
- Mike:
- #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: Why are systemd debates so toxic?
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Huge thanks to both Daniel and Dylan for their neurons. Here’s the link to Redshift. If you’d like your neurons spoken with a Bavarian accent, email mike@linuxvoice.com. Thanks!
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:12:02
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.
Good podcast. There is only ‘g’ in HEGX64. And you got the pronunciation right the first time (Heg X 64).
Thanks for letting me know. I’ve changed the reference in the ‘notes’. As it took me a while to edit the podcast (due to travelling back), I’d lost my IRC log and couldn’t check.
For your information: a keygen is a program with algorithms that generates a key that’s typically required by an pirated installer or program that need verification to work. When downloading a cracked program one would expect to find that the cracker had included a keygen and/or a crack file in the archive. These keygens usually had an 8bit-art style GUI with a chiptune playing in the background, making the 20-something long character serial key slightly less tedious to type in.
Although my shady windows user days are over keygenjukebox.com provides quite good nostalgia. 😉
Thanks for the info. I realised the same thing when I was typing in the URLs for the notes – pretty silly not to notice when we were talking about them. Fortunately, I’ve not had to deal with those things for a very long time, nor the terrible malware that came with the fake ones. Still, they taught me valuable lessons about MD5 and par2repair.
Just to note, in case anyone’s looking, to install sar on Ubuntu, you need to `apt-get install sysstat`. Once it’s installed, running `sar -A 5` will give you *LOTS* of information, while running `sar -0 -P ALL` will give you your cross-CPU status for today. You will also need to set `enable=true` in `/etc/default/sysstat` to allow the system stat collection daemon to start. You may need to restart the sysstat service at that point.
I don’t understand people who laugh at someone googling for “youtube” to get the link to youtube.
I do it all the time. Why? There are atleast a two of reasons:
1. Speed. It is so much faster to type “youtube” to the search bar & press enter than to type the whole thing to the adress bar.
2. Security. English is not my main language, so “youtube” means absolute nothing to me, it might as well be “gabagabda”, so to avoid ending up in some fake site by typing it wrong it is much more secure to just type it to google where it corrects my errors by “did you mean…”. It’s not so easy to type things right and then there is the “.com”, “.org”, “.net” or “.whatever” – how am I supposed to remember what it is? And typing the wrong “dot whatever” just might direct me to some malicious fake site, so why risk it?.
What browser are you using? In Firefox, as soon as I type “you” into the address bar, it autocompletes to “youtube.com”
Yes, Firefox (ESR 31.2.0). And no, the adress bar does not autocomplete anything for me when I start typing youtube. The reason for this is because I have it set up so that no browsing history is stored: I don’t need to know where I’ve been, and neither does anybody else. (Or maybe there is some new feature in some newer version of Firefox that I havent seen yet, I dunno? Paid adds/suggestions in the adress bar, maybe?).
But anyways I do get your point, and I do admit it is a bit silly for some casual user to go thru google to a site they visit everyday. How ever I am not sure if you got my point: youtube is just an example, my point was that it is easier to use the searchbar than trying to remember the whole thing for a site I visit only now and then, even if it would be as popular as youtube. Does using my web browser this way make me somehow stupid? Maybe it does, but this is the way my workflow goes.
If I would “live” in youtube I would make a bookmark of it, and then it would autocomplete in the adress bar.
Ah OK, I see what you mean! One thing to bear in mind though: every time you search for something, that search (and your IP) is stored by Google. If you go directly to a URL, Google doesn’t necessarily know. (OK, in the case of YouTube this doesn’t matter, as YouTube is owned by Google, but you see what I mean.)
Some guy yawns every episode… Ugh
thanks for another great podcast guys! i think you made a good choice making the shows longer. before, when they were just 30-45mins long i didn’t have time to even get into the mood for all the awesomeness before it was already over.
You’re in Tesco Chichester. Better still they’re staged with some shelf bling from Tesco saying “our recommendation”.
Graham, can you remember where you ordered the replacement parts for your nexus 5 from? If so, can you remember exactly what you ordered?
7.85 inches = 200 mm, a nice round amount for a screen size on the Jolla 🙂