Podcast Season 3 Episode 22
Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Title: Merry Christmas!
In this Christmas special: (recorded live from Ben’s house, replete with Ben’s cider) we talk about Mozilla, StackExchange and Apple. We’ve got some great finds, a rant and a warmly festive Voice of the Masses. There’s also One More Thing!
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Mozilla has killed its Firefox OS platform, at least for smartphones. StackExchange is changing its licensing policy so that the default code license will be MIT and CC-BY SA for text. Jolla isn’t dead, thanks to some new financing. LibreOffice online is now part of OwnCloud. Apple’s Swift programming language is open source and now runs on Linux and Grub may be susceptible to a vulnerability that gives you a shell after pressing backspace 28 times.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <Devilment> ConEmu – a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows (useful for running CygWin).
- <Devilment> pgcli – CLI with tab complete for PostSQL statements (thanks to Linux Luddites).
- Mike:
- The curses-based network manager in antiX, called ceni, is great for fixing networking problems. Also, in KDE’s file manager you can display man pages with ‘man://’ (thanks to David Wolski)
- Graham:
- The autonomous sensory meridian response is real. Honest.
- The noise gate, compressor and equalizer that make up the EQ10QM LV2 plugin bundle.
- Ben:
- Linux Voice has finally switched to HTTPS, thanks mostly to Let’s Encrypt.
- The command scl lets you create a new shell environment with, for example, Python 2.6.
- Gyroscopic powerballs are good for wrist pains/RSI (not real medical advice).
- Andrew:
- All mental health care in Devon is provided by Virgin.
- There’s a new Star Wars film.
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- One Minute Rant
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Ben has 60 seconds to rant about something.
- Voice of the Masses: What was your Linux highlight of 2015?
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:21:05
Theme Music by Brad Sucks. Light saber clash by reesewong8 (CC0).
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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.
Hi,
you talked about an XKCD Comic about Stack exchange. Do you have a link?
It’s the mouseover text on this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1185/
Firefox is a good browser but needs to redesigned. They keep changing it to hide the menus on a new install, very annoying. People are using Chrome because Firefox does not work on all websites, e.g. Google Drive, and streaming videos on Amazon Prime.
*blush* Yes, I totally admin that Ben’s Internet woes and his use of rsync with the parameters –partial –progress inspired me to write a small snippet in LinuxWelt magazine about how rsync can be used to transfer large files through choppy networks. And yes, he’s totally entitled to a bit more than a _cum omni honorificentia nominandus exlibris_. Next round is on me.
As they say, “Good artists borrow, great artists steal”. I think the same is also true for programmers and magazine writers. I certainly take quite a bit of inspiration from others. Feel free to borrow and/or steal as many of my discoveries as you like; the important thing is that we make it easier for more people to learn to use Linux. Of course, if you insist on buying the next round, who am I to argue?
Never seen Star Wars?
ASMR!!! I’ve been aware of this tingling sensation for at least 15 years, but only until recently I found out it was a thing when BBC did a piece about it about a year ago. They’ve done a more recent article which is where you saw it.
For me (and it does get weird here), it’s triggered mostly on supermarket checkouts, and really only with girls. There’s something about how they handle the plastic packaging that just sends the back of my next into overdrive. Women pointing at things on paper/maps also does it, and no, it’s not sexual at all.
My girlfriend, ney, my fiancé hates it and thinks it’s totally weird. She gets freaked out when she finds me watching them on Youtube, to the point where she actually gets angry! Of course, that only serves to make me watch them more…
Just to keep it a little geeky and linuxy, I used youtube-dl to download some ASMR videos, and BTSynced them to my Nexus 6P for when I’m out and about and need some tingling 🙂
Ceni
LinuxBBQ distro also uses it. http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php/Ceni