Podcast Season 5 Episode 8
Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Title: Haynes Coding Manual
In this episode: More Canonical news, Fedora to ship mp3 and lots of Pi Zero Ws. Plus many Finds and VotM.
What’s in the show:
- News:
- Canonical could be on the path to an IPO. Fedora will now have full mp3 audio support. 250,000 Pi Zero W units have been shipped.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Blackisle; Regular expressions made simple (https://simple-regex.com/).
- arubislander; Make notes with tags and images (http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/).
- einonm; Krop looks at the pages of a PDF and trims the blank margins down to size (http://arminstraub.com/software/krop).
- JonTheNiceGuy; Go to OGGCamp 2017 (http://oggcamp.org/).
- JonTheNiceGuy; To print from Android to a CUPS server, install google-print-connector (https://github.com/google/cloud-print-connector/wiki/Install).
- mcphail; Another open source game engine based on Jedi Academy (https://github.com/JACoders/OpenJK).
- arubislander; Endless OS could be the successor to Meego and OLPC (https://endlessos.com/).
- einonm; Get your life recorded by google on the cheap (https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/04/this-diy-google-home-uses-raspberry-pi-and-cardboard-to-make-the-magic-happen/).
- einonm; Track interesting publications and citations, but great for collecting any sort of random web pages (https://www.zotero.org/).
- Ioangogo; Nodemcu, a WiFi-enabled Arduino (http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html).
- JonTheNiceGuy; Keepass2 is the Mono version of KeePass which runs under Linux (http://keepass.info/help/v2/setup.html#mono).
- Graham:
- Get some awesome audio effects for PulseAudio (https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects).
- I’m going to try and create more soothing Linux videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqOeS6FY8siUfKqAt4BxbUA).
- Mike:
- The height disparity of Zugspitze (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugspitze).
- Buy the Haynes Coding Manual (https://haynes.com/en-gb/coding-manual).
- Andrew:
- If you’re suffering from depression, stress or anxiety, your GP won’t laugh at you (http://www.nhs.uk/livewell/mentalhealth/Pages/Mentalhealthhome.aspx).
- 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 mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
Download as high-quality Ogg Vorbis (47MB)
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Duration: 1:01:12
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.
5 Comments
great to hear you guys – really enjoyed this as usual! I’m glad you tried to suppress the Amiga urges until at least 10 minutes (just joking – maybe you should just have a new section at the beginning ‘Amiga News’ or something). You reminded me that we often look back at old tech with rose-tinted specs and forget the bad aspects. A few years ago, unable to find a small device with a good keyboard, instant on and long battery life, I started using a Psion 5mx to take notes on (again) using the CF card slot to save and transfer data. After a couple months of happy use, one day, suddenly, all my files were ‘corrupted’ and completely irretrievable. We take for granted how resilient our ext4 and similar file systems are these days. Back then, every save was a slightly risky process.
Also since you were talking about baud – if you haven’t read ‘The Martian’ – I’d recommend it as a fun, sciencey read. Linux briefly stars in it – here’s a couple of quotes from the book (copy pasted from 8novels.net):
“This sounds promising…” Venkat said.
“It is!” Jack said excitedly. “First, we update Pathfinder with our replacement OS. Then, we tell Watney exactly how to hack the rover software to add those 20 instructions. Then we broadcast the rover’s patch to Pathfinder, which re-broadcasts it to the rover. The rover logs the bytes to a file. Finally, Watney launches the file as an executable and it patches the rover software!”
“They want me to launch ‘hexedit’ on the rover’s computer, then open the file /usr/lib/habcomm.so, scroll until the index reading on the left of the screen is 2AAE5, then replace the bytes there with a 141 byte sequence NASA will send in the next message. Fair enough.”
PS also great shout out for mental health – it’s just another disease / illness, which has been well characterised and researched and for which there are good treatments – none of this is accessible without making that first contact with the GP.
You asked howmany people used opus. I use opus when I listern to your podcast rss feed. I think that it sounds better than MP3, but then I get a whistling sound in my ears.
You may want to check out “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism” by Ha-Joon Chang, in particular Thing 2. You reminded me of it as you talked about a possible Canonical IPO.
Since you’ve been offering it, I’ve downloaded the Opus file to my phone and I use VLC to listen to it, without issue (well, apart from one or two early glitchy episodes). Great space efficient format 🙂
I’ve been subscribed to the opus feed from the start. I appreciate the smaller file size, since I listen to the podcast from my phone. Also, as an audio snob, I appreciate that the audio quality is better than mp3.
Speaking of, the Opus feed still doesn’t appear in the links under “Podcasts” in the main menu of the site 😉
Enjoyed the podcast as usual, and look forward to the next.