Podcast Season 5 Episode 1
Podcast Season 5 Episode 1
Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Title: Two plus two equals five
In this episode: Sayonara cyanogenmod, hello Dell, open source Pi and KillDisk. Plus some awesome finds and a fresh new VotM.
What’s in the show:
- News:
- Dell has tens of millions of reasons to love Linux. KillDisk malware comes to Linux. The Raspberry Pi can now be booted blobless. Say sayonara to Cyanogenmod. Shipping starts on the first open source hardware micro-controllers.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Graham:
- Drag and drop your own bash PS1 prompt (http://bashrcgenerator.com/).
- Jerobeam Fenderson’s amazing oscilloscope music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XziuEdpVUe0&index=6&list=PLFgoUhNvMLrr8izq38HX6rjFR-nkfklxw).
- Ben:
- I’ve been cloning mushrooms (ate the first ones last night) (http://www.sporetradingpost.com/clone_a_mushroom.htm).
- tinc mesh vpn for securing distributed networks (https://www.tinc-vpn.org/).
- Mike:
- Play Flappy Bird in Sed with sfb (https://github.com/ValeriyKr/sfb/).
- Weird character at start of document? Maybe it’s a BOM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark).
- Fix public wifi connection issues with NeverSSL (http://neverssl.com).
- Andrew:
- The Linux Luddites podcast is no more (https://linuxluddites.com/).
- There’s a new Linux podcast, called Late Night Linux, from the creators of Linux Luddites (http://latenightlinux.com/).
- Graham:
- Vocalise your Neurons:
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If you would like Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 0:55:59
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
Recorded, edited and mixed with Ardour using GNU/Linux audio plugins from Calf Studio Gear.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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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.
MP3 file link produces 404
Thanks for letting is know. I’d missed the double quotes out of the links. Should be fixed now.
The issue as described when discussing NeverSSL is that modern browsers have something called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) that instructs the browser to never access the domain over HTTP. Meaning the access point cannot highjack high-profile domains like Google and Facebook as they can’t be delivered over HTTP. NeverSSL solves this by not having a HSTS profile and by being a memorable address.
Thanks — that’s a better explanation than my tired ramblings 🙂
I’d love to see a return of the challenges section! The excuses were often as entertaining as the successes.
Haha, this is true!
ha ha! just remembered those!
regarding “egal”: i think you’d say they are indifferent about the operating system. the particular operating system doesn’t matter to them. they have no preference.
wrt the listener who said that the problem with creating a free mobile OS was the hardware deviations. This is exactly the same situation that was supposed to hamstring Linux in the early 2000s. And somehow it was overcome: so this is not an insurmountable hurdle.
can we stop saying the pixel xl is expensive? it’s priced exactly the same as the iphone 7 plus, and is arguably better. If you want a great mobile with a relatively vanilla android the pixel xl is a good choice (and its not my buyer’s remorse speaking). If I trace my portable computing history from psion 3a -> psion 5mx -> nokia E90 -> nokia N900 -> then this is probably the cheapest and most powerful device I’ve owned. I agree it’s a shame we don’t have a debian phone like N900 around these days. I’m giving termux a try…
PS that oscilloscope music is incredible.
PPS happy new year guys!
Just because something is as expensive as something else that is expensive doesn’t both of them less expensive. The iPhone Plus is cheap because it costs about the same as a Pixel XL? My house is cheap because it costs about the same as the one next door?
The Pixel XL *is* expensive. It may be the best phone ever, but it is still a lot of cash!