Podcast Season 4 Episode 5
Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Title: Google Plus Intelligence
In this episode: Google’s artificial intelligence is gettings good at Go, there’s an all new Raspberry Pi and Microsoft shocks with Linux releases. Plus we’ve got lots of Finds and a wonderful Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
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Google’s Skynet has arisen and it’s now winning at Go. Raspberry Pi 3 has been launched, now with added Bluetooth and WiFi. Debian’s Iceweasel is Firefox once again. Microsoft is releasing SQL Server for Linux, and it’s own Debian-based Linux distribution called SONiC.
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- Finds of the Fortnight:
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- <popey> I discovered this week that if you run your system with no swap, and memory pressure gets too much, kswapd will eat your cpu alive as it tries to “swap” and make your computer completely unusable! 🙂
- <james_olympus> The one I forgot for the last podcast was fatsort. Some car stereos that read from USB devices use the FAT to order tracks, rather than something sensible like track number. ‘fatsort
‘ fixes the ordering. - <Devilment> grep -f file1 file2, where file1 contains a list of strings you want to find in file2.
- Andrew:
- You can identify Tor users through their mouse movement or keyboard patterns, according to Jose Carlos Norte.
- Graham:
- Deepin is a great looking Linux distribution with its own desktop.
- Ben:
- An SD Card with a built-in WiFi stack and LUA scripting engine called FlashAir
- Monitor files in a directory from shell scripts with inotifywait.
- Use a Google Sheet to organise your gmail inbox by email size (thanks Dave Allan!)
- Mike:
- Unpublished updates (link in German – Mike explains in the podcast) to the Munich Linux project don’t blame Linux for failings.
- From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise your Neurons
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If you want Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to mike@linuxvoice.com.
- Voice of the Masses:
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:11:36
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.
Hi, Just been listening to your Podcast and you can also use these parameters in the Gmail search bar to find large emails.
larger:28M or size:28000000 will give similar results, the former is 28MB and the later 28000000 bytes.
Ohhh, so you can! Same API calls as in the script by the looks of it. Brill, thanks!
Also, the find from IRC by james_olympus, using fatsort to that hardware mp3 players order files correctly is inspired! Now when I listen to podcasts in my car I don’t have to constantly check the track numbers are in the right order!
You know what, it’s much more efficient doing your suggestion and using these API calls in the gmail/inbox search bar, rather than using a spreadsheet. Kudos!
Glad to hear a positive comment on Deepin.
I remain quite impressed with it, partly because it is so different from the other distributions. As you said, it has some interesting design decisions. The control center is very impressive.
I have done a lot of the Danish translation of Deepin on Transifex (https://www.transifex.com/linuxdeepin/public/) – desktop environment, apps and others. They really do create an impressive number of DE apps themselves.
I have just listened to your Peoples Voice segment on AI and thought I’d have to write to add in a few comments, especially related to the economic arguments presented. In particular, the continued full time working we all ‘enjoy’ and the lack of Keynesian free time. ‘Some’ have suggested that we [humans] have become productive to the point of not requiring full time employment in comparison to the needs of ‘standard’ living. However these advances in productivity are taken from the productivity system as profits for the owners of industry. Secondly, economic growth is generally related to the number of active population (i.e. those of working age), so having a fully employed adult population is an important measure of potential. Adding AI units to this population also adds economic growth potential and profits too. I would suggest that just like the steam engine, the production line, the telephone, the computer, the automobile: AI will be consumed by our economy and the associated efficiencies will be realized as more profits.
Wow that’s depressing, lets get back to privacy and encryption.