This week on The Bugcast: we talk about new and existing network podcasts, toss a coin to The Witcher, and play 8 tracks of amazing Creative Commons music!

Songs played

• Sick and Fancy – Violet Mind – from Germany – source
  
• Atomic Cat – Signal – from Juvignac, France – source
  
• Liv Margaret – Kiss Me – from Nashville, TN – source
  
• NF//GS – All I Know – from Jackson, MS – source
  
• The Underscore Orkestra – Devil With The Devil – from Co Cork, Ireland – source
  
• Tab – Typical – from Roselle, NJ – source
  
• Ping Pong Club – Crystalline – from Bandung, Indonesia – source
  
• The Spin Wires – Fifth Grade – from Buffalo, NY – source
  

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

Topics

<a href="https://makerscorner.tech/">Makers Corner</a> – a brand new makers show from the Other Side Podcast Network<br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Season-1-Official-Trailer/dp/B083C3QDPC/">Star Trek: Picard</a> starts on 23 January in North America (24 January everywhere else)<br />
<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a> – an unofficial Star Trek review podcast from the Other Side Podcast Network<br />
IMDb: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5180504/">The Witcher (2019)</a>

<strong><a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice">Submit</a></strong> your favourite tracks we’ve played since episode 553 for the Listener’s Choice episode 600 at the beginning of February 2020.

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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 596, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Sunday 17 January 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
• Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
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Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://makerscorner.tech/">Makers Corner</a><br />
<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</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 Otherside Podcast Network

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Series 7 Episode 1 – The guys open the show with some excitement after a mention on OMGUbuntu, Marh has received a new gamepad and keyboard, Wayne has been delivered a Pinebook Pro, he reviews his initial experience here with more to follow, the guys chat about the ethics of The Binary Times Show, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:29 Wayne welcomes us to Series 7 Episode 1 by wondering what on Earth happened in the last decade. It’s cloudy in Bristol, and cloudy and cold with rain in Kilkishen. Mark apologises for any background snoring noises as his dog blissfully sleeps on his lap.

02:40 Wayne asks Mark what he’s been at, and Mark tells us he’s been making the most of Christmas festivities. He tells us he received a present of a G213 logitech gaming keyboard and a G203 gaming mouse. Unfortunately changing the key colours aren’t natively supported in Linux, but he found a python script by Sebi Time Waster on Github to help with the keyboard config and derEisele’s addition of G203 mouse support and GUI using his script.

04:13 Mark asks Wayne what he’s been at, after a little prompting. Wayne got the Automate the Boring Stuff 2nd Edition book for Christmas. With some fanfare, Wayne goes on to tell us he also got a Pinebook Pro and goes on to describe his experiences with it. Overall, he loves his new quiet robust device and looks forward to using it as a mobile computing device. Wayne provides a link to the fix for the trackpad issue he found.

24:39 The guys get onto their topic of conversation for the show, which is what the Binary Times is all about! Mark kicks it off by saying why he does the show is to talk about free software, free hardware and free culture because these things are important in modern life to retain control and bring power back to the people and away from other vested interests. Wayne agrees and goes on to say that the show encourages the use of free software, and he personally would be prepared to take the time to learn and maintain free software solutions so as not to be tied into proprietary services. Mark points out that privacy respecting services using free software like Kolab Now and ProtonMail do exist to replace these proprietary services. The guys discuss the dilemma of convenience versus freedoms.

Wayne’s second point is to point out that there will never be advertisements on the Binary Times. Mark agrees. The guys discuss then the fact that they do this in their spare time and that the Patreon account is there to help them fund the whole enterprise.

Wayne’s third point goes on to say that we don’t track our listenership. While frustrating, this ties in with our own wish not to be tracked. Mark makes the point that this is why they value feedback so much.

Wayne’s final point is that the show just represents two enthusiasts views on free software, hardware and culture of which neither two are experts and both are still learning. Mark agrees and thinks it mirrors life in that no matter how much you know, every one is still learning and the fact that two “normal” people can do a show like this should encourage others to get more involved in all this stuff too.

Wayne provides a couple of links to important information that can be found on the web, the first being Protect your Freedom from the Free Software Foundation. Mark plauds the fact that the Free Software Foundation has been mentioned as he sees it as the foundation of the free software that makes all this possible through the GPL. He goes on to say that free software is an enabler for creative people to be creative as it makes it possible to produce content for a cost that wouldn’t have been possible in the past. Wayne tells us his current setup for the show consists of a Focusrite Sapphire 6 and an Audio Technica 2020 microphone for audio and a Lenovo T430 as his general purpose computer. Wayne does a quick search of ebay and finds a T430 available for under £80.

48:30 Under the Hood – Mark kicks off Under the Hood by describing the Four Essential Freedoms as defined by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Definition as defined by the Open Source Institute. Mark mentions VM Brasseur’s talk at Freenode Live, Four Ways to spread the Four freedoms, as a good one to watch.

Wayne’s under the Hood starts with a mention of the latest Humble Bundles, like the New Year, New You 2020 bundle. He goes on to talk about the latest prototyping board from the Pi-Hut. He finally mentions hacksplaining, a series of lessons on vulnerabilities explained well.

56:51 – Irish saying of the show is Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit or Happy New Year!

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

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In this episode, Dave, Yannick and Ro review In a Mirror, Darkly – Part 2, the 19th episode of the 4th season of Star Trek Enterprise. After that, they have a chat about the mirror universe, and wonder how a series in that universe would be.

Call to action

What would be your Super Crew ? Who would you pick, from each series, to fill each post on the bridge ?

In this episode

• Dave’s review of episode title ;
• Did you know ‘Star Trek’ used Mac G4 Cubes during production ?
• The Tholian Web ;
• Mirror, Mirror ;

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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This week on The Bugcast: we bring you our first show of the New Year with the girls, with a retrospective of 2019, our goals for 2020, and 4 tracks of amazing Creative Commons music!

Songs played

• Kristian Vuljar – Borrowing 2020 – from Germany – source
  
• Estudiante – Acompañame – from Havana, Cuba – source
  
• The Devil Music Co. – Acid Reflux – from West Hattiesburg, MS – source
  
• Forget The Whale – Man Outta Town – from Jersey City, NJ – source
  

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

Topics

Family round up of 2019<br />
New Year Objectives 2019 Review<br />
New Year Objectives 2020

<strong><a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice">Submit</a></strong> your favourite tracks we’ve played since episode 553 for the Listener’s Choice episode 600 at the beginning of February 2020.

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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 596, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 10 January 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
• Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
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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 Otherside Podcast Network

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Four duffers, Christmas, scary TV and film, Children’s television, the perils of home “assistants”, and The Magic Roundabout.

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In the last episode of 2019, Dave and Yannick have a returning guest: Ro from DarkCompass! Together, they review In A Mirror, Darkly – Part 1, the 18th episode of the 4th season of Star Trek: Enterprise. After that, they have a chat about the mirror universe, and upcoming Star Trek series.

Festive call to action

The whole team here at Tea, Earl Grey, Hot hope you have a merry Christmas and an enjoyable festive season, however you spend the time, we wish you well. We’ll be back again in the new year!

In this episode

• Yannick’s review of In A Mirror, Darkly – Part 1;
• the mirror universe;
• speculation on what future Star Trek series may bring.

• You can find Ro over at DarkCompass, on Twitter, and on Mastodon.

Thanks

Once again, huge thanks to Ro for joining us once again on this week’s episode. And thanks to all of you, 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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Series 6 Episode 12a – This is our final episode of season 6. We chat about audio in Linux, a brief look back throughout the year, Automate the Boring Stuff, snaps or ppa’s and a load of other random topics for your enjoyment, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:28 Wayne welcomes us to Season 6 Episode 12 of the Binary Times. It’s looking clear in Bristol and foggy in Kilkishen. Christmas is only around the corner! Mark sympathises with their Australian listeners with the weather and fires they’re having to put up with out there. Mark goes on to tell us he’s found a new graphical cli weather app. You invoke it by typing the following: finger [your location]@graph.no. This will give you the meteogram for your location, including temperature, along with symbols for sun, cloud, rain etc. for the next 24 hours or so.

05:05 Wayne asks Mark what he’s been at and Mark tells us that he’s got a new laptop, a Sony Vaio from one of their Australian listeners. Despite being sent the laptop gratis, customs still wanted their pound of flesh, as is their want. Mark loves the display on the laptop, and he thinks it may well become his daily driver. He installed Ubuntu 19.10 on it and it all went incredibly easily. He congratulates the Ubuntu team on doing such an incredible job on making such a great and easy to use desktop operating system. The lads discuss Ubuntu MATE and what Wayne had to do to get the date on the notification bar on 19.10.

Mark goes on to look back over what they’ve been looking at over the year. After a brief trip back to the early noughties, Mark tells us how well Nextcloud is doing at keeping our private data secure. He goes on to tell us that LibreOffice has continued to improve throughout the year and that they are currently looking for help, and they have suggestions as to how you can help.

The guys go on to discuss the recurring theme of Humble Bundles. A current bundle that catches their eye is the O’Reilly Classics Bundle. The guys go on to discuss a bit of humble bundle fatigue but seem to conclude that they’ll continue buying them. The discussion moves onto reading, reading articles online, and the modern mind being distracted. Wayne goes on to say that he got further with Automate the Boring Stuff on Udemy than he did with the book itself, the video tutorials helped as Wayne feels he’s better with video than printed material. The guys give a shout out to Al Sweigart, the author, who releases his books under a creative commons license. Wayne tells us he’s getting the 2nd edition of automate the boring stuff, and Mark goes through the “what’s new in the 2nd Edition of Automate the boring stuff”. Wayne’s already looking forward to resting his mug of tea on that book Christmas day!

Wayne goes on to talk about the wonderful Unfa, who’s brilliance is depressing for the rest of us mere mortals. Wayne mentions the new Vital wave synth, by Matt Tytel and recommends trying it out. Wayne goes on to speak about the virtues of Ableton and this sparks a bit of a conversion on the virtues of software. Wayne also recommends LMMS as something to try. Wayne tells us he recently sold an APC 40 midi controller that worked well with Ableton. Wayne rounds out the discussion by stating he will use open source software whenever he can, though Ableton is hard to beat! Also, go buy the the 2nd edition of automate the boring stuff book!

44:04 Wayne tells us about some of the open source hacky stuff he’s been doing at work with proprietary software. He used Ubuntu MATE to boot into the machines in question, though found Window’s 10 doesn’t fully shut down when you shut down, rather it hibernates the kernel to allow for quicker bootup. You can turn this off, which Wayne did so that he could delete the profiles as required.

48:05 Wayne decides to get all controversial and say that you need to use Ardour and JACK to do audio, even podcasts. Mark disagrees and thinks Audacity is sufficient to do podcasts. They also disagree on tinwhistle playing.

52:24 Under the Hood! Mark’s under the hood is a discussion about a blog article on proton mail that is how to stay private on android, that leads to an open ended discussion about all things telephony and privacy, which touches off of news that was in the Ask Noah Show and poor Disney+ passwords.

Waynes Under the hoods are Ryans Tutorials and Chris Titus’ How to secure a web server.

01:09:17 Irish saying of the podcast is Bualadh Bos

Instead of finishing, the lads chat about all the cool things that they could be chatting about next year, and carry on into talking about Desktop Environmnets and Snaps vs Debs / PPAs.

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

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This week on The Bugcast: we bring you our Christmas special with very little chat and 8 tracks of amazing festive Creative Commons music!

A very Happy Christmas to all of our listeners. However you celebrate this time of year, or however you spend the time, please enjoy the time with friends and family, and stay safe.

Songs played

• Lawrence Beamen – The Christmas Song – from Walnut Creek, CA – source
  
• Wordsmith – A Wonderful Day – from Baltimore, MD – source
  
• Marco Buono – Mister Snowman – from Karlsruhe, Germany – source
  
• The Hillbilly Love Ninjas – Santa Claus Is Coming – from USA – source
  
• Löhstana – Pour Noël – from Nice, France – source
  
• Ralf G – When The Snow Falls – from Dresden, Germany – source
  
• Vitne – Winter Love Song – from Son, Norway – source
  
• Atomsplit – Master Of Mistletoe – from Atlanta, GA – source
  

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

Topics

<strong><a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice">Submit</a></strong> your favourite tracks we’ve played since episode 553 for the Listener’s Choice episode 600 at the end of January 2020.

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Upcoming events

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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 595, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Sunday 29 December 2019 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
• Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
  (you’ll need a Telegram account)

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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 Otherside Podcast Network

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In this episode, Dave and Yannick review Bound, the 17th episode of the 4th season of Star Trek Enterprise. After that, they go over some news items.

In this episode

• Dave’s review of Bound ;
• René Auberjonois passed away ;
• Star Trek: Section 31 Writers’ Room Is In Place ;
• Star Trek: Picard Has a Very Different (Borg) Story From The Next Generation

Thanks

Once again, huge thanks to John from Canada for joining us on last week’s episode. And 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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