#626 – Beer, biere, brusta!

This week on The Bugcast: disasters overseas, beer at home, going into town during lockdown, and 8 pieces of great Creative Commons music!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-53699857">Kerala plane crash</a><br />
BBC News Topic: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c88p951myv0t/beirut-port-explosion">Beirut port explosion</a><br />
Podcrawl Jitsi review<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Beer_Day">International Beer Day</a> – Friday 7 August<br />
First trip into a town centre since lockdown<br />
<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/too-short-a-season/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot – Too Short A Season</a> (with Caroline co-hosting)<br />
<a href="https://facebook.com/dn12live/">DN12Live</a> shows

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Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 627, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 14 August 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
    (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2335268420116006/">Uncharted, with Dave and Caroline</a>

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Other Side Podcast Network

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The Binary Times – Series 8 Episode 3

Series 8 Episode 3 – In this episode Mark has been setting up his Turrix Mox, Wayne has been playing with home automation, enjoying exploring Home Assistant on his Pi 4, the conversation gets a little serious, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:24 Wayne welcomes us to Series 8 Episode 3 with a chuckle. The guys are just so happy to be recording the day after Sys Admin Day, and it looks like clear skies all round, though rain is on the way. Mark plans to celebrate Sys Admin Day and the bank holiday weekend with family by foregoing pizza and instead having a barbeque so he hopes wttr.in is accurate and it just stays cloudy for the afternoon. The guys go on to comtemplate how quickly time goes by before discussing what Mark has been at.

03:20 Mark talks about his Volla phone and his beta testing journey with Ubuntu Touch. He also tells us he’s finally gotten around to playing around with his Turris Mox. Mark tells us a bit about the Turris project, the Turris Omnia and the Turris Mox. Mark mentions one of the things that got him back to testing the Turris Mox was the recent release of Turris OS 5.0, which is based on OpenWrt 19.07.3. Mark tells us that some of his testing involved listening to the Bugcast while on the Turris Mox wifi. Wayne gives Mark an excuse as to why it took him so long to do anything with his Turris and that turns the conversation around to the tedium of work.

17:02 Wayne tells us he’s been up to an awful lot. He’s back in touch with Dee, a long lost friend, and they’ve been catching up on tech and soldering amongst other things. Wayne goes on to talk about home automation. Dementor from the Telegram Channel of the Maker’s Corner podcast suggested home assistant requires dedicated hardware for all the extra integrations and the like, so Wayne has installed his home assistant on his Raspberry Pi 4.

On a recommendation from Dee, Wayne has bought 4 Sonoff basics so that he can do some automated switching. Currently he’s using one of them to switch on his bed side lamp table at 10.15 pm at night, which gives him and his room a nice little glow inside. Wayne calls out to our American listeners for assistance in purchasing some of these producst, so if you’re interested please get in touch. He also likes that these gadgets can be made aware of sunrise and sunset in your area. Wayne is pretty excited about the options the Wyze kit he’s hankering after will bring to the table. Wayne’s list of useful hints and tips is as follows:

How to Flash Tasmota onto Sonoff Basic – Home Assistant Basics

How to flash custom firmware to a Sonoff Basic

Install HASS.io on Docker

Sonoff Basic Wiring Diagram

Running Home Assistant with Docker (docker-compose)

HassOS Release-4 build 11 (Stable)

Deprecating Home Assistant Supervised on generic Linux

Wayne goes on to tell us he’s been playing with LEDs and ESP32s. Wayne’s makery renaissance reminds him of the Rod of Doom and he feels that since electronics are now so cheap and many so open they make for a great hobby. Mark contemplates the true cost of cheap electronics but also thinks Open hardware and software is vital to our futures. Wayne mentions the VPRO Documentary with Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism as an important watch. Mark recommends the book, as well as Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record. The guys have a conversation about surveillance capitalism, ethics, morality, Amish Linux and the importance of the internet.

50:16 Time for Under the Hood – Wayne suggests the use of redshift for late night viewing. Dee sent us in a few beauties: For vi – p3p pastes 3 lines, y3y will copy the next 3 lines. For Android phone, Hotspot & Tethering, enable usb tethering.

Ubuntu MATE Image Viewer (Eye of MATE), pressing F9 in the 20.04 release gives you picture properties in a sidebar view.

Mark shares organisations that he has recently come across that he feels may be useful to people. The first one is Open UK, a UK not for profit organisation committed to develop and sustain UK leadership in Open Technology. The next is OW2, an independent, global, open-source software community, fostering open source projects, claiming to be the only such non-profit open source organisation of EU origin and DNA. He mentions Italo Vignoli’s presentation of LibreOffice’s 10th Anniversary as a good watch from their OW2’s 2020 convention. The final one he wants to mention is Gaia-X, a project which is the cradle of an open, transparent digital ecosystem, where data and services can be made available, collated and shared in an environment of trust.

01:0034 Irish saying of the show is Ceapaim and Ni Ceapaim, or I think or I don’t think.

We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did making it!

Too Short A Season

Too Short A Season
Too Short A Season

In this episode, Dave is joined by Caroline whilst Yannick takes a well-earned vacation. They review Too Short A Season, the 16th episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. They also discuss the possibility of a budding bromance between two of the characters (or is it the actors?)

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Thanks

Thanks to all our listeners, we are very grateful you chose to spend a little bit of your precious time to listen to our show!

Legal

The review featured in this episode is a modified version of the work done by the team at Memory Alpha and is released under a CC-BY-NC licence, which means you can use it, transform it, and redistribute it as long as you give appropriate credits to us and Memory Alpha, and you don’t use it for commercial business.

The rest of this episode is released under a CC-BY-SA licence, which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us as the original authors, and if you publish something based on this episode, you have to release it under the same license.

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#625 – Regrender my chorf

This week on The Bugcast: we discuss face masks in cinemas, the reasons why people want to work from home, and we play 8 pieces of great Creative Commons music!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/cineactiongroup">Face Masks extended – Cinemas</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53580656">Coronavirus: Why some people want to keep working from home</a><br />
IMDb: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8601212/">The Good Place, season 3 episode 8</a> – “Regrender my chorf”

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl">Podcrawl Jitsi</a> will be taking place on Saturday 1 August 2020 from 18:00 onwards</strong>

Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 626, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 7 August 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
    (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2335268420116006/">Uncharted, with Dave and Caroline</a>

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Other Side Podcast Network

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TuxJam 83.5 – Podcrawl Preview

Podcrawl Glasgow 2020 was due to take place on Saturday 1st August. However, the recent pandemic due to COVID-19, limitation on travel and the requirement for social distancing meant that it was not practical. However all is not lost as the TuxJam crew got together and decided to try out a virtual podcrawl using the Jitsi platform. In this short episode we preview, as best we can, the podcrawl including giving people details on how to join in.

For more information, check out the Podcrawl Jitsi webpage.

The tracks included in this episode are:

11001001

11001001
11001001

In this episode, Dave and Yannick review 11001001, episode fifteen of season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A really good episode overall, with plenty of things for our reviewers to flex their pedantic muscles over.

Call to action

We are always on the lookout for people to guest with us. Whether you’ve guested before, or you’re still plucking up the courage to ask, this is your moment. No previous experience required!

Thanks

As ever, thanks to all our listeners, we are humbled by the fact that you’re able to spare some time to listen to our show.

Legal

The review featured in this episode is a modified version of the work done by the team at Memory Alpha and is released under a CC-BY-NC licence, which means you can use it, transform it, and redistribute it as long as you give appropriate credits to us and Memory Alpha, and you don’t use it for commercial business.

The rest of this episode is released under a CC-BY-SA licence, which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us as the original authors, and if you publish something based on this episode, you have to release it under the same license.

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#624 – On your masks

This week on The Bugcast: we leave the house with our masks, we discuss the pros and cons of wearing masks, and we play 8 pieces of great Creative Commons music!

Songs played

Intro: <a href="http://chrisjuergensen.com/">Chris Juergensen</a> – Bug Lips<br />
Outro: <a href="http://markmarshall.com/">Mark Marshall</a> – Man Walking

Topics

First time out with a mask on – we share our experiences <em>(On your masks)</em><br />
<a href="https://ccjam.otherside.network/2020/07/21/ccjam-66-elisaday/">CCJam 66 – ElisaDay</a> – hosted by Yannick<br />
<a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/DN12LIVE/uncharted-with-dave-caroline-week-3/">Uncharted, with Dave and Caroline</a> – featuring I Am Not Left Handed and Mark Marshall

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl">Podcrawl Jitsi</a> will be taking place on Saturday 1 August 2020 from 18:00 onwards</strong>

Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 625, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 31 July 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
    (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://ccjam.otherside.network/">CCJam</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2335268420116006/">Uncharted, with Dave and Caroline</a>

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Other Side Podcast Network

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CCJam 66 – ElisaDay

ElisaDay
ElisaDay

In episode 66 of CCJam, Yannick showcases two fabulous tracks from ElisaDay, a symphonic rock band from Russia.

You can find ElisaDay’s profile on Jamendo, and also on Bandcamp.

Tracks played in this episode:

Angel One

Angel One
Angel One

In this episode, the guys go over Angel One, the 14th episode of the 1st season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A very good episode according to our fine crew of reviewers, despite a very cheesy love scene.

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Thanks

Thanks to all our listeners, we are very grateful you chose to spend a little bit of your precious time to listen to our show !

The review featured in this episode is a modified version of the work done by the team at Memory Alpha and is released under a CC-BY-NC licence, which means you can use it, transform it, and redistribute it as long as you give appropriate credits to us and Memory Alpha, and you don’t use it for commercial business.

The rest of this episode is released under a CC-BY-SA licence, which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us as the original authors, and if you publish something based on this episode, you have to release it under the same license.

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Datalore

In this episode, Dave and Yannick review Datalore, the 13th episode of the 1st season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A good episode all round, but our intrepid reviewers still manage to punch a few holes in it.

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Would you like to co-host episode 50 with Dave, whilst Yannick takes a well-earned break?
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Feedback

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We also have a Patreon, should you want to support us financially.

Thanks

Thanks to all our listeners, we are very grateful you chose to spend a little bit of your precious time to listen to our show !

The review featured in this episode is a modified version of the work done by the team at Memory Alpha and is released under a CC-BY-NC licence, which means you can use it, transform it, and redistribute it as long as you give appropriate credits to us and Memory Alpha, and you don’t use it for commercial business.

The rest of this episode is released under a CC-BY-SA licence, which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us as the original authors, and if you publish something based on this episode, you have to release it under the same license.

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