Podcast Season 5 Episode 12
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Title: C64 yourself
In this episode: We’ve got news, loads of ace finds, a neuron, Voices and Ubuntu on Windows.
What’s in the show:
- News:
- LetsEncrypt will be issueing wildcard certificates from early 2018. The CIA has been targetting Linux machines. Ubuntu is now in the Microsoft Windows store. Fedora 26 has been released. Well done Team Fedora!.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- JonTheNiceGuy; decentralised file sharing with iWant (https://github.com/nirvik/iWant).
- JonTheNiceGuy; encrypted email system with support for SMTP, POP, IMAP, HTTP and MOLTEN (https://magmadaemon.org/).
- james_olympus; details of the bridges owned by Network Rail have been released in a spreadsheet (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bridges_managed_by_network_rail_2).
- Graham:
- Wikipedia, the text adventure (http://kevan.org/wikitext/).
- If you use vim and git use the fugitive vim git wrapper plugin (https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive).
- C64 yourself (http://c64.superdefault.com/).
- Ben:
- OpenSnitch is a clone of the LittleSnitch firewall utility (https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch).
- apt is not apt-get (https://itsfoss.com/apt-vs-apt-get-difference/).
- Mike:
- Parabola GNU/Linux is almost a libre Arch Linux (https://www.parabola.nu/).
- The Hobgoblin pub in Bath is closing (http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/central-bath-pub-hobgoblin-close-180481).
- A quote from Matthew Smith who wrote Manic Miner (http://www.carlylesmith.karoo.net/spectrum/matsmith/).
- Andrew:
- 12th July was the internet wide day of net neutrality (https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15958030/net-neutrality-day-of-action-internet-companies-list).
- FOSS Talk Live is still awesome (https://www.fosstalk.com/).
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise your Neurons:
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Huge thanks to Jonathan for asking us about security on Linux. If you would like Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to his secretary graham@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Andrew Gregory, Ben Everard, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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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.
13 Comments
Regarding the use of ‘#’ to comment lines, mentioned in the podcast. One difference between using ‘#’ and ‘: ’ to comment lines (but still store them in the command line history) is that when you search for them using ‘Ctrl + R’, the comment sign (‘: ’) will be automatically removed if you use the ‘: ’ version), so that you only have to press ‘Enter’ to execute the line. With ‘#’, you have to manually delete the ‘#’ character at the front of the line. (Note, however, that if you just cycle through the commands using the up/down arrow keys, the comment characters are not automatically removed.)
That’s really good to know – thanks!
Also, if you do stick with ‘#’, you can you `Alt+#` with the cursor anywhere on the line to jump to the start, place a #, and hit enter, rather than doing all 3 steps manually.
This talk of text adventure reminds me of when a certain previous magazine did a tutorial on Inform7 the text game tool and even the LV team produced their very own games with it.
I got involved myself and started my very own Inform7 text adventure. It even had a system to buy and sell items with merchants along with item management. 🙂
Ben,
You’re not the only one. I learned exclam as bang. Maybe it’s an USA thing or it might be an old school Unix thing. I’m not sure.
Who is the grey beard ok n the thumbnail?
Who is the grey beard in the thumbnail.
Love this podcast – Amiga, N64, vim and even Thinkpads!
Mike – do you have a Thinkpad? I am one of those Thinkpad nuts I’m afraid, starting with the T40, T60, X60, X230 and I have the T450s now… I am very excited to see what the Thinkpad Classic will bring, though I’m actually pretty happy with my T450s.
Sometimes I wonder if Windows Subsystem for Linux is a just a big troll of Stallman. Because it isn’t actually linux – in fact it’s everything but linux. It should be called gnu/WinNT.
Also – WSL isn’t just for techy people. My student in the lab has been analysing our data with R, and we work collaboratively using git, and even though the GUI software he’s using (RStudio) has buttons for git, every now and then he has to sort something out on the command line. I think when he does this it is using WSL, because it brings up vim for commits.
I use vim as my email editor in mutt. nano? libreoffice? seriously Mike? also are you guys using nvim now?
Also everything to do with golang is big news now. It is the panacea of programming languages. In fact, if one were writing a book on programming, they’d definitely write it on golang, not something passe like python.
🙂
PS I think we should have a pub-meet.
Duncan, I have a Libreboot X200 (ie a ThinkPad with a fully free BIOS). It’s mostly great (I love the keyboard) although the screen is a bit lacking when compared to more recent hi-DPI displays.
Nothing wrong with Nano 🙂
Regarding a pub meet, it would have to be somewhere between York, Bristol and… Munich 🙂
+1 for a pub meet! 🙂
Darn I need some kind of notification for these pages!
Nice, a Stallman-approved Thinkpad! Actually, I’m not sure about that… I think he might use an X60… Ok I take that back about nano, and python… 🙂 Just saw Lunduke’s blog video on text editors – nano did better than emacs.
So Birmingham it is then?
Here you go: https://www.linuxvoice.com/comments/feed/
That’s an RSS feed of all the comments on the Linux Voice Web site. It’s not documented anywhere, AFAICS, but it works. To subscribe to the feed, I use rss2email (it’s great!). So whenever someone writes a comment on the site, I get an e-mail. (I use cron to run rss2email once an hour, so there will be a delay of up to an hour. If several people comment during this time period, the e-mail contains all the new comments.)
I need to remember this as a Find! Thanks!