#577 – Sunshine and rainbows

This week on The Bugcast: we’re gearing up for a move into Studio E, we take part in our first Pride march, and we play some amazing Creative Commons and independent 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

<a href="https://www.doncasterpride.co.uk/">Doncaster Pride</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 578 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 23 August 2019 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
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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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#576 – rm, the power’s out

This week on The Bugcast: the power goes out across England, a new sci-fi podcast has been launched, Yannick “does a Dave”, and we play some amazing 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/live/uk-england-kent-49198575">UK power outage</a><br />
<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey Hot</a> – an unofficial Star Trek fan podcast from the Other Side Podcast Network<br />
<a href="https://thebugcast.org/2015/10/11/the-bugcast-378-missing-in-action/">the bugcast 378 – Missing in action</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 577 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 16 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
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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

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Series Introduction

Hello and welcome to the Tea, Earl Grey, Hot podcast’s website. In this series introduction, Dave and Yannick start with a discussion about the Star Trek : Picard teaser. Then, the talk about the future cast and actors from Next Generation joining the new show. Also, they talk about the evolution of Discovery, the possible Section 31 spin-off, and many other subjects.

This series is an ongoing experiment, the format is not set to stone, and might change in the future. We count on you, dear listeners, to tell us what we do wrong, and what we do right ! Also, our recording technique will surely evolve and hopefully our audio quality will improve with time.

Call to action

Are you excited about Star Trek : Picard ? What do you think about Star Trek : Discovery ? Leave a comment on this page to let us know !

In this episode

Legal

Unless otherwise stated, 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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The Binary Times – Series 6 Episode 3

Series 6 Episode 3 – Mark is back from the maker fair in Dublin having met up with many contemporaries and buzzed up with weekend, he also speaks about backup programs, pi-hole issues, Blender gets an update, Wayne speaks more about phones, upgrades his infrastructure, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:24 Wayne’s barely able to welcome us to Episode 3 of Season 6 after an hour of faffing about in the searing heat of Bristol. Mark tries to say the right things and tell us it’s raining in Kilkishen.

03:00 Mark tells us all about Dublin Maker Fair. He tells us he met some of the people from Dublin Linux Group and chatted with Conor from Linux Lads. There were physics experiments galore and a home made 3D printer to be seen. The Board Game Designers of Ireland were there too, and Mark received a game from one of the developers there. The game is great! Mark mentions that representatives of Techspace, CoderDojo and Raspberry Pi were there. Crafty Nathan Creations, a financial wizard by day, creator of cool costumes in his spare time, was showing off his Fallout and Metro creations. Mark goes on to tell us that students were on site who were building Ireland’s first satellite, EIRSAT-1. Tog, the maker / hacker space in Dublin, was there also, providing good information on de-googling your life, with more information on that being found at Privacytools.io, myshadow.org, and a beginner friendly workshop on digital self defence near you can be found at cryptoparty.in. Mark felt right at home with everything going on and really enjoyed the day. He’d recommend it.

Mark goes on to tell us that he provided a Gigabyte Brix for his parents’ home and installed Linux Mint 19.2 on it. This leads the lads on to talk about Timeshift, a system backup utility used in Linux Mint. Mark tells us that there’s quite a good article on Linux Magazine about Timeshift also. Wayne asks about Déjà Dup and the guys breifly discuss the merits of various back up strategies.

Mark goes on to discuss some adventures he has had with pihole, and how he couldn’t get pihole -r to work as he thought it should work. Wayne goes on to tell us some pi-hole issues he helped Paul with, DNS and DHCP issues. Wayne thanks Paul for the memory he sent on.

Mark rounds out his what has he been doing for the last fortnight section with a little chat about Blender and its latest release 2.80. Mark tells us about some of the uses Blender has been put to, including Yo Frankie!, a game show-casing the Blender Game Engine, Big Buck Bunny, an animated movie in which Frankie appears, Elephant’s Dream, the first movie created with Blender, Sintel, a brilliant bit of animation and great story to boot, as well as Tears of Steel and Agent 327. Mark goes on to tell us the huge news that Ubisoft is joining the Blender Development Fund. Mark tells us about his own recent experience with Blender 2.80, tells us of its differences, and that Blender is an API breaking releases. Mark recommends using the snap or steam version to stay current.

33:34 Wayne tells us what he’s been at, and he begins by announcing that he’s ditched Ubuntu Touch and is back on Lineage OS with f-droid. Wayne feels that the cleanliness of Lineage and not having to think about his phone and it just being his daily driver makes his life easier. Mark asks Wayne about /e/. Wayne gives us his reasons as to why he’s sticking with Lineage.

This brings the conversation around to old hardware and 32 bit computers. 32 bit Distributions mentioned are Slackware, antiX Linux, MX linux and Debian. Wayne questions the usability of Debian day to day. Mark suggests Linux Mint Debian Edition.

50:29 Wayne tells us that he’s completely replaced his old routing setup with a pfsense box. He tells us he’s using pfBlockerNG to block unwanted sites. He’s quite happy with his new set up.

Mark tells us that his Turros Mox has finally arrived and his internet connection is soon to be upgraded. Mark is starting to suspect his phones are having an effect on his network performance.

1:00:05 Under the Hood – Wayne talks about Frank Karlitschek’s self hosting talk and in particular the file link add on for thunderbird. It is an extension which makes it easy to send large attachments with Thunderbird.

Wayne also mentions Dave’s suggestion of vrms to check your system for non-free software.

Mark’s under the hood is the command apt-cache show [application]. This command gives you all the details of the application in question in the repository, including dependancies.

1:05:00 Irish saying of the audiocast is “Táim i dtrioblóid”, or I’m in trouble, a reflection of the difficulties the guys had in getting this show together.

We hope you enjoy this audiocast as much as we did making it, please do get in touch and let us know what you think, we do love to get your feedback. Mark recommends checking out the new logos on Patreon.

#575 – Mucky beer

This week on The Bugcast: Dave celebrates International Beer Day on his own, and he reviews Podcrawl Glasgow from last weekend, and we play some amazing 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

Very many thanks to Oz for hosting last week’s show<br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Beer_Day">International Beer Day</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currawong">Currawong</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currawong_Beach">Currawong Beach</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currawong_Bush_Park">Currawong Bush Park</a><br />
Podcrawl Glasgow review

<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 576 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 9 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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#574 – oztunan uncut

This week on The Bugcast: oztunan does a great job hosting his first ever podcast this week, featuring a great mix of 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

Background: <a href="https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/477883/">Dawn Chorus On the Bank of the Little Missouri River</a>

Topics

<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 575 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 2 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

<strong>oztunan for hosting the show this week!</strong><br />
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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Twine Radio 5 – Up and running

Hey everyone! After an extended break I’m back! After a mammoth amount of content for NaPodPoMo I ended up having a break. However, the break kept getting larger.

In Episode 5, I talk about the 44 days until I return to the Great North Run and how training is going. I discuss Bowel Cancer UK who I’m running in support of. After seeing the International Space Station fly over last night, I muse on lofty goals and how humans love chasing them.

If you’re financially able to and would like to support me cross the finish line of fundraising you can find out more at my JustGiving Fundraising page.

It’s great to be back and if you want to get in touch, drop me a note to jonathan at twineradio.co.uk or find me on Twitter @twineradio.

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The Binary Times – Series 6 Episode 2

Series 6 Episode 2 – Mark is excited to be going to the Dublin Maker Fair, hopefully more on this next episode, he also speaks of the decentralised web camp and sysadmin day, Wayne updates us on the SnipeIT asset management implementation at work alongside number tips to use linux more efficiently, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:24 Wayne welcomes us to Episode 2 of Season 6 from a cloudy but sunny Bristol. A slightly stressed Mark tells us it’s only kind of raining in Kilkishen and looks to stay that way til Monday. Dublin looks to be not as rainy and he’s hoping it will stay that way since he and his family are heading to the Dublin Maker Fair. Mark goes on to tell us that Irish Rail’s family tickets are very reasonable and incredible value for families. The guys discuss Mark’s exploding head of ideas and blissful holidays.

04:51 Mark tells us that he’s upgraded his openSuse 15.0 Leap instance to 15.1 using a guide he found. He tells us he’s considering changing to openSuse Leap on his main desktop, much to Wayne’s consternation.

Mark goes on to tell us about a couple of things happening now or soon, the first being the Decentralized Web Camp happening near San Francisco at the moment, brought to us by our friends at the Internet Archive. Mark says he will put a link in the show notes to some of the videos that are available from previous Decentralized web summits.

Mark also wants to mention that Sysadmin Day 2019 is happening next Friday, 26th July.

12:01 Mark asks Wayne what he’s been at. Wayne tells us it’s all a bit foggy. <a href=https://snipeitapp.com/”>Snipe-IT being used full time at work, the users like it and the software is meeting their needs. In fact it’s way more useful than what they were using before. Wayne goes through some networking hoops he had to go through with it. He has some usability feature requests he might ask of the Snipe-it people on their forum. Wayne’s quite pleased with his back up stratgy which includes OneDrive and Rclone. The guys discuss the benefits of using Open Source Software.

18:24 Wayne tells us some more about his journey with Ubuntu Touch and relates some of the privacy features of the OS. In Ubuntu Touch you can open as many apps as you like at the same time but ‘open’ does not mean the same as it does with other operating systems. With Ubuntu Touch’s competitors, apps which are running in the background typically are able to monitor – some would call it spy on – the activity in the app which you are using. In Ubuntu Touch, apps running in the background (with a few exceptions) use no resources and there is a system in place to confine apps so that they are unable to see what other apps are doing. This is usually called ‘sandboxing’ and it is basic to the way that Ubuntu Touch works. It is not an afterthought but safeguard of privacy. The guys discuss openness, transparency, wishes for more development and core devs in Ubuntu Touch, especially around NextCloud. Mark suggests supporting them via Patreon and also suggests watching Frank Karlitschek’s talk from this year’s openSuse Conference. Wayne talks about Pico CMS.

31:25 Not under the Hood! Wayne tells us about ffmpeg. Wayne provides some examples, as follows:

ffmpeg -ss 00:00:30.0 -i input.wmv -c copy -t 00:00:10.0 output.wmv

where:

-ss : the start time hourminssec

-i : the input file name, ie the master video file

-c : make a copy

-t : the duration of the video to be cut

You can use -to instead of -t to specify the timestamp to which you want to cut. So, instead of ffmpeg -i [input] -ss 30 -t 10 you could also do ffmpeg -i [input] -ss 30 -to 40 to achieve the same thing.

Joining video files (need to be converted into a suitable format for concatenation first) can be done as follows:

ffmpeg -i input1.avi -qscale:v 1 intermediate1.mpg

ffmpeg -i input2.avi -qscale:v 1 intermediate2.mpg

cat intermediate1.mpg intermediate2.mpg > intermediate_all.mpg

ffmpeg -i intermediate_all.mpg -qscale:v 2 output.avi

Wayne tells us that Winff is a gui frontend for ffmpeg, and is as easy to install as typing sudo apt install winff from the command line in Ubuntu. The guys talk a bit about Kdenlive as well.

39:34 Wayne talks about Windows licensing and the guys ponder why businesses use Windows

42:25 Under the Hood – Jon the Nice Guy Spriggs has suggested Language Tool as an open source alternative to Grammarly. Ben suggested Barrier, a Synergy clone, which are applications to share your mouse and keyboard with other computers.

Wayne suggests using dpkg -l from the terminal to list the packages you have installed on your system, assuming you’re using a Debian based distribution.

Feeling the need to double up on Under the Hood, Wayne talks about fslint

49:01 Irish saying of the podcast – Oscail an fhuinneog, or Open the Window

We hope you enjoy this as much as we did making it!

#573 – Rebellion rebellion?

This week on The Bugcast: Cara chickens out from announcing a song, Caroline goes into a rant about Extinction Rebellion, and we play some amazing 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

Evening Standard: <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/extinction-rebellion-protester-fights-back-tears-as-she-hears-demonstration-stopped-man-from-a4193446.html">Extinction Rebellion Bristol Death</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://thebugcast.org/podcrawl">Podcrawl Glasgow 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 27 July from 18:00 at the State Bar, Holland Street, Glasgow

<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 574 which will be hopefully streamed live in the chatroom by oztunan on Friday 26 July 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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#572 – Contemptible

This week on The Bugcast: Cara gets an award, Caroline goes gluten-free, Tommy does porridge, and we play some 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

Cara wins a sports award<br />
Caroline goes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten-free_diet">gluten free</a><br />
The Independent: <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tommy-robinson-court-case-live-contempt-old-bailey-hearing-updates-a8987471.html">Tommy Robinson case</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://thebugcast.org/podcrawl">Podcrawl Glasgow 2019</a></strong><br />
Saturday 27 July from 18:00 at the State Bar, Holland Street, Glasgow

<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 573 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 19 July 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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