Podcast Season 5 Episode 14
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Title: Accuracy Badger
In this episode: We stay positive almost entirely through the news section, but sadly not through Finds and VotM.
What’s in the show:
- News:
- RHEL deprecates btrfs in 7.4. GRSecurity sue Bruce Perens. Solus 3, with added snaps, has been released. Krita is all hunky-dory again.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- ioangogo; Open MIDI sound font site that needs people to submit sounds (http://freepats.zenvoid.org/).
- TraceyC; KeepassXC just works with browser plugins like chromipass (https://keepassxc.org).
- aShepie; there are some fantastic hdparm options (https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna/status/894407280900194305).
- Graham:
- Java has been ported to the Commodore 64 (http://boingboing.net/2017/08/03/java-ported-to-commodore-64.html).
- Install Termux on all your Android devices (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux&hl=en_GB).
- Ben:
- Windows 10 is quite interesting (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/get-windows-10).
- Delayed Gratification is rather a good magazine (http://www.slow-journalism.com).
- Andrew:
- WannaCry saviour Marcus Hutchins could face 40 years in US prison (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/08/03/fbi-arrests-wannacry-hero-marcus-hutchins-las-vegas-reports/).
- If you haven’t read 1984, you totally should (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four).
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise your Neurons:
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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 and Graham Morrison.
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Duration: 1:08:16
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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.
6 Comments
Great podcast as always. Love the mix of Linux and George Orwell!
I was amused by a report on the Daily Telegraph about the bizarre responses of a computer to “what’s zero divided by zero?” One programme (Siri ?) makes some bizarre remark about biscuits. My own experiment in krunner (KDE’s command requester) gives an equally high-carb reply “NaN”. Or is it saying “Not a Number” , because the answer to “x divided by x” is always 1,but “x divided by zero” is infinite ?
Yes, ‘R’ give NaN (not a number).
x/x is always 1, and 0/x is always 0, so 0/0 is undefined – I think you can just choose what you want it to be 🙂
Seems like it’d be a good idea to take down the subscription ad banner or to redirect it to Linux Magazine?
You’re right – thanks for the reminder!
For anyone who finds the WannaCry/Hutchins type stories interesting, I highly recommend the weekly Risky Business podcast which covers the goings-on in the computer security world. It’s become a must listen on my commute to work.