Podcast Season 5 Episode 16
Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Title: Ludic Loop
In this episode: Lots of retro gaming, ace news, even more Finds, a Neuron and Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
- Malware typo squatting on Pypi. Mozilla release Firefox Quantum in beta. New Atari console runs Linux. X11 turns 30. Official Manjaro laptop launched by Station X.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- JonTheNiceGuy; BBS software for 90s AX25 amateur radio network is packaged for Ubuntu (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuHamsPackages).
- einom; bass guitar cover versions of game music with Beardy Bass Man (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCMZEwRvMuORIPp5Gi6syvQ).
- james_olympus; dtrx, do the right extraction (https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/).
- mcphail; Brewdog has released its beer recipes (https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/diydog).
- Devilment; screen has a Nethack message mode (https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Nethack.html).
- james_olympus; Warajevo Spectrum emultator (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/).
- Graham:
- Open source modular synthesizer and Eurorack module emulation (https://vcvrack.com/).
- Use your Harmony Smart Hub remote from the command line (https://github.com/sushilks/harmonyHubCLI).
- Change the way you use the web on your smartphone (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/focus/).
- Ben:
- Print your own circuit boards with (http://kicad-pcb.org/).
- Mike:
- There was a Heineken version of Nintendo’s Gamecube (https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/58cq0s/this_heineken_gamecube_finally_came_in_the_mail/).
- GraphicsMagick Image Processing System (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/).
- Andrew:
- Watch The National perform in front of the Sydney Opera House (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWd0EWKpH94).
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise your Neurons:
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Huge thanks to Digger for asking us about whether mp3 has usurped Ogg Vorbis. 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.
Download as high-quality Ogg Vorbis (57MB)
Download as low-quality MP3 (93MB)
Download the smaller yet even more awesome Opus file (24MB)
Duration: 1:13:31
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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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
Not sure if it was this episode talking about Firefox Focus. I did just discover a quick way to save bookmarks: select the link in the address bar, press/get options, select all, select browser. This will pop-up all your browsers, select one to open the link directly in that browser (e.g regular Firefox). I love this browser – great addition for Android users! Thanks, guys –
PS: I had to use this feature just now to post! FF Focus apparently blocks the captcha ( :
It was me who mentioned Firefox Focus – I meant to add it to the Finds section.
I’m really enjoying using it and don’t miss many of the features in the standard Firefox I used to think were essential (it’s still installed, of course!).
To save bookmarks, I use the ‘Add to Home screen’ option from the small menu. This adds a link to the current site to your Android launcher, and I put these links into a ‘Bookmark’s folder within the launcher for easy access.
Regarding mp3 needing a replacement. You should have mentioned Ogg Opus since it offers audio transparency at significantly lower bitrates. Heck, you’ve even got an Opus feed of the podcast.
Good point. I meant to mention this, but somehow missed the moment. Opus is full of win, but MP3’s just have a huge mindshare and the ability to ‘just work’ on far more platforms.
Don’t ask me about sound quality, latency, etc. I sometimes have a whistling sound in my ears.
Congrats to Ben for using a great word like Catharsis