#609 – Pull Request

This week on The Bugcast: we discuss what we’ve been up to in the past week: learning, furloughing, designing, and submitting a pull request, plus 8 pieces of 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

What have we been up to in the last week?<br />
<strong>Caroline:</strong> Furloughed, using the time to upskill and diversify + getting back into Art<br />
<strong>Dave:</strong> Lots of podcasts, learning (SSH, Star Trek, vi), 3D designing/printing, pull request

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Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2

Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2
Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2

In this episode, Ro, from Dark Compass, joins Dave and Yannick for a record fourth time ! They review Et in Arcadia Ego, part 2, the tenth and final episode of the first season of Star Trek: Picard. After that, they have a conversation about the first season, and what they expect from the upcoming season two.

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In this episode

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#608 – Not a Lovely Day

This week on The Bugcast: we discuss how it is not a Lovely Day for entertainment, and how people and companies handle the current viral situation, plus 8 pieces of 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

YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/yooy8SNBDAA">Spotlight Kid – All Is Real</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52136768">Eddie Large: Comedian dies aged 78 with coronavirus</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52155227">Lean On Me singer Bill Withers dies at 81</a> <em>(not a Lovely Day)</em><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52002447">Coronavirus: The best and worst celebrity isolation videos</a><br />
BBC Sport: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52148955">Premier League clubs to consult players on 30% wage cut</a><br />
How companies and organisations are handling the current crisis

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Announcements

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  • The next live show will be episode 609, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 10 April 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
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The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
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<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1

Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1
Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1

In this episode, Mr. and Ms. “from Canada”, John and Chris, join Dave and Yannick. They review Et in Arcadia Ego, part 1, the 9th episode of the 1st season of Star Trek: Picard. After that, they have a chat with John and Chris about the season so far.

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In this episode

  • Dave’s review of Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1 ;
  • Chris’ first contact with Star Trek ;
  • What John and Chris think about the series ;
  • Expectations for next season.

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.

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The Binary Times – Series 7 Episode 7

Series 7 Episode 7 – In this episode The Binary Times guys wearily ease into Summer Time, Mark has been trying out EndlessOS, Wayne is trying to implement open source solutions at his work, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:25 Wayne welcomes us to Series 7 Episode 7 from a bright but windy and chilly Bristol. Mark tells us it’s sunny in Kilkishen and complains about changing the clocks for summer time. The guys discuss the possibility that summertime may end in Europe and the confusion that may cause them being in different time zones. Mark mentions Swatch Internet time.

05:15 Mark and Wayne talk about Endless OS.

17:16 Wayne tells us how he’s been swamped recently with his organization’s sudden move to online working. Unfortunately Nextcloud didn’t work out as he hoped, as Office 365 is already embedded in the organization.The guys also talk about Private, Public and Hybrid clouds, before switching their attention to Zoom, which everyone seems to be using without considering the security of the application, while the Electronic Frontier Foundation has compiled a list of its privacy issues. The conversation moves onto to Microsoft Teams, Skype and Jitsi before the guys change the subject to mobile vs. desktop computing, the expectations that they should be the same, and advise people to not give thanks when it’s not deserved. Also, in your own self interest, don’t touch the guys’ screens!

36:12 Wayne talks about audio in Linux and recommends Alsamixer as a useful command line tool for setting audio levels. He also suggests a desk arm is vital to good sound quality, and the positioning of the microphone is important.

42:10 Under the Hood – Wayne’s recent one that he came across recently is Fast.com, Netflix’s speed testing tool. He also mentions a humble bundle collection, the Coding Starter Kit bundle by No Starch Press. Wayne recommends CTRL X followed by CTRL E from bash to allow for multiline editing.

Mark’s under the hood is Build this 8-Bit Home Computer With Just 5 Chips

51:05 Irish saying of the Show is “Tá alann páipéar leithris ar Marc” or Mark has all the toilet paper.

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

#607 – Gurglies

This week on The Bugcast: our rundown of lockdown this past week, fallout from the current situation, and Caroline has the gurglies, plus 8 pieces of 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

First full week of house arrest<br />
Chris and John from Canada were guests on the most recent recording of <a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot</a>, reviewing episode 9 of Star Trek: Picard.  The episode isn’t out yet, at the time of writing this, but it will be soon.<br />
Argument on Facebook about a teenager delivering local newspaper<br />
Antisocial distancing, behaviour, and damage<br />
<strong>Clocks go forward an hour in the UK and Europe this weekend</strong>

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Announcements

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  • The next live show will be episode 608, which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 3 April 2020 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
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Caroline has the gurglies<br />
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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 />
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Broken Pieces

In this episode, Dave and Yannick are joined once again by Jason Evangelho from Forbes and Linux For Everyone podcast. They review Broken Pieces, the 8th episode of the 1st season of Star Trek: Picard. After that, they have a chat with Jason about the season so far.

Broken Pieces

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Let us know!

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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.

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#606 – Wash your hands!

This week on The Bugcast: we talk more about Coronavirus and how it’s affected us, events are being cancelled, Roy Hudd dies, and how the BBC are now doing what we’ve done for the past 12 years, plus 8 pieces of amazing Creative Commons music! Wash your hands!

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

<strong>It’s important to wash your hands regularly, with soap and water!</strong><br />
Coronavirus discussion, hoarding, price hikes<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51870325">Eurovision Song Contest 2020 cancelled over coronavirus</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51906543">Roy Hudd, actor and comic, dies aged 83</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51943591">Coronavirus: How radio and TV hosts are keeping their shows on air from home</a>

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Announcements

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The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
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<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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Nepenthe

In this episode, Dave and Yannick are alone ! They review Nepenthe, the seventh episode of the first season of Star Trek Picard. After that, they have a chat about the episode, and Dave has another wild theory.

Nepenthe
Nepenthe

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In this episode

  • Dave’s review of Nepenthe ;
  • Dave’s Wild Theory Of The Episode.

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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.

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The Binary Times – Series 7 Episode 6

Series 7 Episode 6 – In this episode The Binary Times guys start the show talking about the much debated Coronavirus, Wayne has installed FreeBSD and gone back to using Ubuntu Touch, Mark has been installing Unity of Command II on different distros, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:28 Wayne welcomes us to Series 7 Episode 6 from a mixed weather, early Spring type feel of a morning while Mark thinks the weather isn’t going to be great for Paddy’s Day. It doesn’t really matters this year what with the Corona Virus outbreak and all the measures being taken to help delay the spread. Mark recommends Pizza and Red Wine as the only items that you need to panic buy. He goes on to mention the positive environmental outcome of lower NO2 concentrations over Northern Italy as a result of the lockdown there. The guys go on to discuss the fall in the stock market and the possibility a slowdown may ultimately be beneficial for us all and the planet, while also realising how hard it is to balance peoples’ wellbeing, living standards and the environment.

07:51 Wayne brings the topic back around to Linux. Mark tells us of the OpenCovid 19 Initiative project undertaken by the Just One Giant Lab platform, which is hoping to find testing methodologies to detect the Coronavirus and hopefully a cure.

Mark goes on to tell us that he bought another /e/-phone, this time for his daughter. She is loving the interface, the features and the privacy aspect of the phone. The one drawback she finds with it is the search function as she doesn’t find it very good at the moment. This leads to a conversation around the compromises we’re willing to make.

15:46 Wayne tells us that he’s switched back to Ubuntu Touch and relates his newest experiences with it while making the following points:

  1. Use a good USB cable
  2. Nextcloud users can save a lot of time by just signing up to their Nextcloud account in the Accounts section within System settings. Edit the script on the UBPorts documentation to remove all calendar syncing and to sync over your Nextcloud contacts
  3. Use the Jotit app for Nextcloud notes sync and the UBSync app for syncing folders to your Nextcloud instance
  4. The camera on the Nexus 5 takes very poor pictures. Here are some tips for better results. Go to the camera settings (swipe up from below) and set the pixel density to 8M 4:3. Hold the camera steady while taking a pic, and, most importantly, tap the section of the photograph that you want to have in focus. This forces the camera to focus on the selected area better than letting the camera automatically decide.
  5. Use Teleports for Telegram (no phone calls with telegram is a bit tough but not a deal breaker)
  6. Use AuthenticatorNG for 2FA accounts
  7. Use Podbird for podcasts
  8. Use Wakeit for wake on lan instances
  9. Use Sturm Reader for epubs
  10. To take a screenshot press the Vol up + Vol down keys together
  11. Install Libertine Tweak Tool to use firefox

Wayne is enjoying the fact that Nextcloud integration is getting better, being able to get ssh access to his phone is such a lovely feeling, copying files over and back with scp is just amazing, basically its a linux box.

26:52 Mark tells us of the steps he’s been taking to try to get Unity of Command II working in Steam. He installed openSUSE Leap 15.1, installed the additional repositories and the proprietary Nvidia drivers, installed Steam and then installed the game. He set the game to log (by setting the Launch Options in Properties of the game to: PROTON_LOG=1 %command%) and it worked until it crashed, at which point it wouldn’t work any more! Upon restarting the game he got the same error as he did in Ubuntu 20.04, so could no longer compare logs, as the log overwrites itself. While upgrading to openSUSE Tumbleweed didn’t help, Mark compliments the openSUSE team on a seamless upgrade process.

32:04 Wayne tells us that he’s been playing with FreeBSD 12.1 on a virtual machine. He tells us that BSDers have a saying “Linux users hate Windows, BSD users love linux”. Mark has difficulty remembering the name of the Lumina Desktop, while also referring to a point Ben made in his last appearance on the show. Wayne is enjoying his brief time with BSD and is thinking of making an audio workstation using it.

39:51 Under the Hood – Wayne has a mountain of Under the Hoods, the first being curl cheat.sh /ls. All credit to Igor Chubin for another wonderful app!

Waynes next under the hood is explainshell.com, a site that allows you to write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument.

Wayne’s last Under the Hood is a new search engine and that is the qwant search engine. He thinks their privacy policy is worthy of attention.

42:26 Mark’s under the Hood is from Crowd Supply and it is an optically isolated Debounce HAT, which will be able to protect your Raspberry Pi from any electrical surges. Mark also mentions the HealthyPi v4 as an interesting project.

49:53 The guys talk about the latest Humble Bundles.

51:54 Irish saying of the Show: “Ní thuigim” or I do not understand.

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