Series 5 Episode 1 – Mark and Wayne are back after the festive season. In this episode Wayne talks about password managers and yubikey integration. Mark has been building a retro pi unit. Wayne sings the praises of the piTV hat, Mark talks about an open source phone with a hefty pricetag, some great under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.
00:26 Wayne welcomes us to the first episode of Season 5 from a cold but calm Bristol. Mark tells us it’s a great day in Kilkishen with blue skies and faraway clouds. They both marvel at the idea of a new year and a new season! The guys relate their Christmas experiences for the listeners.
03:54 Mark tells Wayne about his stand out Christmas present being Spuddy’s Juggling Balls. Wayne’s stand out gift was a Star Trek Tricorder. The guys then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the Raspberry Pi. Wayne tells us about his use of the TV Hat with the Raspberry Pi 3 as a recorder and recommends any one else interested to try it out. This leads to a discussion around the versatility of free and open source hardware and software vis a vis proprietary services and hardware manufacturers.
16:08 Mark tells us about Necunos releasing the Necunos NC_1 as a developer and early adopter device. While he comments on the price of the device he thinks it’s great to have a free device out there.
21:32 Mark goes on to tell us that he’s been doing a small bit of reading and made his Christmas and New Year’s Card using Gimp and Libre Office Draw. He’s also been doing a bit with Open Suse Leap 15, and tells us he also built a retro arcade machine using a case and a Raspberry Pi 3b as a Christmas present.
23:35 Wayne tells us he’s been doing a lot and nothing at the same time. Some critical thinking around password management has seen Wayne adopting KeepassXC while considering the advantages of using a YubiKey. He’s also using andotp for two factor authentication. Mark tells us about Purism’s Librem Key and how he hopes Purism’s building up a nice little hardware ecosystem for itself. Wayne also advises that you should always have two authentication keys. Mark advises he may need twenty. The guys round out the segment with a discussion around security vs convenience.
41:15 The guys talk about DNS over HTTPS on a pi-hole.
45:18 Under the Hood – Mark mentions the Chaos Computing Club’s Lightning Talks have some great hints and tips and under the hoods. He goes on to mention the STEM Humble Bundle that is available for another short while that’s got some great material. The guys discuss some python learning material, like Head First Python, Mike Saunder’s Hayne’s Coding Manual and the latest Python 2019 by Packt from Humble Bundle.
50:20 Wayne tells us about setting static IP addresses in Raspbian.
55:25 Irish saying of the podcast – “Is binn b&eacuteal ina thost” – Silence is golden, except as Mark points out when you’re making a podcast then not so much!
Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did making it!

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