This week on The Bugcast: Dave’s geeky birthday, more art from Caroline, a political rant, and some amazing Creative Commons and independent music!

Songs played

• Final Round – Bullet Points and Numbered Lists – from Chicago, IL – source
  
• Emerald Park – Graduation Failed – from Sweden – source
  
• Ben K Adams – Broken Bones and Dial Tones – from London, UK – source
  
• Radio Nowhere – Picture Of You – from Oakland, CA – source
  
• Death To The McKenzies – Please Enlighten Me – from Lake Arrowhead, CA – source
  
• DiSantos – Passion – from Portugal – source
  
• Talking To Sophie – Penny Board – from Eberswalde, Germany – source
  
• The Vow – Madrid – from Liverpool, UK – 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

Dave’s birthday celebrations<br />
<a href="https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/arduino-uno-rev3">Arduino Uno</a><br />
<a href="https://artnight.co.uk/">Caroline’s 2nd Art Night</a><br />
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B19rD4JFRE9/">Caroline’s Lion art</a><br />
Rant about Brexit and the state of UK politics

<strong>Contribute</strong>: We need jingles and bumpers, <a href="https://thebugcast.org/audio">here’s how</a>.<br />
<strong>Let us know</strong>: How would people feel if we relaxed our posture on “clean” music only?

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester – <strong>Tickets now available!</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 581 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 13 September 2019 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> – an unofficial Star Trek fan podcast from the Other Side Podcast Network

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 6 Episode 5 – We welcome Ben Klaasen on the show this week, Ben has a new job, speaks about his Nextcloud upgrade path, Wayne continues to explore the myriad of options around pfsense and chats about dual sim freedom loving phones, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

This fortnight we are joined by Ben Klaasen, a software tester, linux advocate and long time supporter and listener to the show

We begin chating about using Linux in the workplace. Not every machine runs Linux perfectly, be warned. We seem to do the research without even noticing it to ensure Linux compatibility.

Ben purchased a standard usb Silvercrest video encoder from Lidl/Aldi, and it worked a treat. Here’s the ffmpeg command used to convert video using this device:

ffmpeg -async 1 -vsync 1 -f v4l2 -video_size 720x576 -i /dev/video2 -thread_queue_size 1024 -channel_layout stereo -f alsa -i default -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -b:v 2M -crf 23 -c:a aac -b:a 128K -to 00:35:00 -preset fast -report "Free Text Output File Name.mkv"

Ben has started a new job with an emphasis on making working the workplace more humane. He then takes us through his Nextcloud history and setup and it was quite a journey.

Wayne chats about his upgrade to pfsense. He has been watching Lawerence Systems networking videos on Youtube. This video shows you how to set up pfblockerng. Using aliases in pfsense is also very helpful in making firewall rules.

Ben asks about Proxmox VE, Wayne has tried it but didnt really get on well with it. He prefers using KVM and Virsh for this purpose.

Wayne has been looking at the Xiaomi Redmi 4 and the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 as possible dual sim contenders to run /e/. Ben chats about the fairphone 3 which has been released on the 27th August. Fairphone OS includes all google services, Fairphone Open doesn’t: https://code.fairphone.com We then move on to chatting about trying to make ethical considered purchases.

Ben chats about the latest release of Thunderbird 68.

Under the hood – Wayne starts off chatting about some great Humble Bundle releases, IT Security”, Keep Books Weird”, and Python Programming books.

We also chat about the find command and Wayne introduces the -icase flag to make the search case insensitive

find / -iname kodi.log

Ben goes now to say how he uses command substitution with find to move around the file system…
find ../../../ -name *justenough*
That gives me the full path to the file, relative to where I am now…
dirname $(!!) gives me the directory name only…
cd $(!!) brings me to that directory.< br />
!! means “run the last command again.
$(!!) is the output of the last command.

Ben talks about NuShell and python-mario. These give nice new ways of interpreting data.

Irish saying of the audiocast is ‘Beimid ar ais’ which means ‘We’ll be back’.

We hope you enjoy listening to us as we enjoyed making it!

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This week on The Bugcast: Caroline’s arty birthday, and time off with the kids, plus we play some amazing Creative Commons and independent music!

Songs played

• Vitne – Encephalon – from Norway – source
  
• Sam Garbett – When I Saw You Dance – from Leeds, UK – source
  
• Barefoot McCoy – Summer In My Soul – from Colombus, OH – source
  
• David Amber – Second Time Around (feat. Ashley Jana, Raymond Lee, and Ryan Notes) – from Brooklyn, NY – source
  
• Monkeyland – Come Fly With Me – from Wigan, UK – source
  
• The Ladies Of – Two Trains One Track – from Atlanta, GA – source
  
• Brick Briscoe – 12×12 – from Petersburg, IN – courtesey of NoVo Management and Publicity
• Rubbish Rabbits – By Myself – from Russia – 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

Caroline’s birthday celebrations<br />
<a href="https://www.artnight.co.uk/">ArtNight</a><br />
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B1rsThTlSF8/">Caroline’s Grumpy Cat art</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkees">The Monkees</a>

<strong>Contribute</strong>: We need jingles and bumpers, <a href="https://thebugcast.org/audio">here’s how</a>.<br />
<strong>Let us know</strong>: How would people feel if we relaxed our posture on “clean” music only?

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester – <strong>Tickets now available!</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 580 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 6 September 2019 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)

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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This week on The Bugcast: we’re live in Studio E, Caroline suffers road rage, and a birthday, and we play some amazing Creative Commons and independent music!

Songs played

• Monkeyland – Oscar Goldman – from Wigan, UK – source
  
• Lea Anderson – Love Yah! – from New York, NY – source
  
• Midnight Préfou – Life Goes By – from France – source
  
• Liv Margaret – Oasis – from Nashville, TN – source
  
• George Capon – Underground – from Manchester, UK – source
  
• Jan y Su Son Latino – Que Viva La Salsa – from Santo Tomas, Minorca – source
  
• Trundicho – I Say No – from Karlsruhe, Germany – source
  
• The Spin Wires – Time Is A Fire – 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

Studio E is live!<br />
Caroline’s run-in on the A1(M)<br />
Caroline’s milestone birthday<br />
<a href="https://ysp.org.uk/">Yorkshire Sculpture Park</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybower_Reservoir">Ladybower Reservoir</a>

<strong>Contribute</strong>: We need jingles and bumpers, <a href="https://thebugcast.org/audio">here’s how</a>.<br />
<strong>Let us know</strong>: How would people feel if we relaxed our posture on “clean” music only?

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester – <strong>Tickets now available!</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 579 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 30 August 2019 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)

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 6 Episode 4 – We welcome Mike Saunders back to the show, Mike gives us a rundown of some of the new features in Libreoffice 6.3, we also speak about the fate of Linux Journal, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:24 Wayne introduces us to Season 6 Episode 4 of the Binary Times. He’s in a better mood as Bristol is cooler and cloudier, Mark’s feeling great in a lightly raining, cloudy Kilkishen, and The Mike Saunders joins us once again from a sunny, beer garden time, Southern Bavaria.
03:24 The guys discuss the latest version of LibreOffice, that being LibreOffice 6.3. The latest version can be installed as a snap using the command sudo snap install libreoffice in Linux distributions with snap support. There is a video available on YouTube detailing the really cool enhancements that have arrived with LibreOffice 6.3.
31:32 The guys transition nicely into a discussion around the demise of the Linux Journal and print media in general. The good news is Linux Format and Linux Magazine are still available! Mike thinks someone may try to crowdfund another Linux Magazine and he’d be willing to provide any advice needed. Maker magazines seem to be doing well, all the same. Mike reminisces fondly about an interview with Lennart Poettering and the guys discuss the road rage level of anger that can be directed at people and organizations by the community.
53:14 Under the Hood
– Mark’s under the hood is inxi -W [location]. More can be found out about the very versatile inxi on its man page.
– Wayne’s under the hood is not really an under the hood but more what he’s been doing, and that’s installing /e/ on the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini. The experience is far sweeter than his previous attempt with a Samsung Galaxy S3 and Mike thinks it might be due to more memory in the Galaxy S4.
Wayne goes on to clarify a mistake that was made in our last episode and that is the Blender Game Engine has been removed from Blender.
Wayne wraps up to say that metronomes are distracting when learning to play an instrument, bring on the drum beat with drumkits! He mentions two in particular, Drum bit and Virtual Drum Machine
Mike’s under the hood is the observation that no application is complete without a weather function.

53:56 German saying for the show: “Eine App ist nicht vollständig, bis sie einen Wetterbericht erstellen kann” – Or An app isn’t complete until it can produce a weather report!
We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did making it!

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