Series 7 Episode 2 – In this episode The Binary Times guys are joined by Alex and Michael from the OSC community on Steam, we chat about what we’ve been up to and updates from the OSC community on steam, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:35 Wayne welcomes us to the second episode of Season 7 from a cool crisp Bristol. Mark regails us from a cool and crisp Kilkishen, perfect weather for some Hillwalking. We are joined today by Alex and William from Steam’s very own Open Source Community.

01:53 Alex tells us what he’s been at since he’s last been on the show. While struggling through 2019, he got a new microphone and a new job. The Open Source Community has been on a bit of a hiatus, but now that Alex is settling into his new job he’s hoping to start doing some events and the like. William tells us that something is on the cards but due to time constraints doesn’t want to tell us just yet, expect to see an exciting announcement on the Open Source Community’s announcement page soon! Alex promises it’ll be something that the Steam Community will really like.

Alex goes on to tell us about what he’s been doing with the <a href="Open Source Community of late.He’s been republishing the Binary Times on Youtube, and announcing other news of interest, giving an example of the latest Vulkan 1.2 release. William is hoping that he will be able to be a lot more active in the Open Source Community in 2020. He also tells us that he’s currently running a couple of Linux Desktops and servers and hopes to become more involved in the future too. The guys discuss the pros and cons of moving to Linux from Windows. Distros mentioned are Ubuntu, Sabayon, Zorin and Manjaro. Mark mentions Zorin Grid a new application from Zorin helping to bring advanced technology into companies, schools and organizations.

13:35 The conversation changes to what has Mark been at for the last while. Mark’s been trying a brand new distro invented in his brain, Kubuntu 2020! He’s actually been testing Kubuntu 20.04, which he thinks is turning out really nice so far. He’s found a major problem with his Sony Vaio laptop and that is that it wound fit into the pouch of his laptop back!

Mark goes on to tell us that he thinks E support is really good.This brings the conversation around to Mobile computing, and the guys discuss their views on it. The Pinephone is something the guys are looking forward to. Various open stores like f-droid and yalp are mentioned also. Mark also mentions the E App store having a really nice way to rate the privacy and so forth of applications.

Alex goes on to tell us a bit about what Mike’s up to. Unfortunately Mike was meant to be on the show, but he wasn’t able to make it.

Alex also tells us about the Open Source Community’s curator, a place where the Open Source Community promotes Open Source Games like Warfork and the like. Mark mentions Smokin Guns as a fun game based on the Quake 3 engine that’s entirely open source.

28:51 Alex tells us all about ReactOS, a 32 bit binary compatible OS to Windows. There is work going on to bring about a 64 bit ReactOS also.

43:40 Under the Hood! Mark kicks off Under the Hood with a nod to Wireframe Magazine since this is the gaming special of the season. He mentions the fantastic article they did reviewing the decade. He also mentions they have a new book out, called Code the Classics Volume 1. He finally mentions that a number of Ukie hub crawls are taking place throughout the UK during January to March.

Alex has a tip on ReactOS and faking it to look like Windows – the first is a registry tweak – just change the registry entry to Windows 10. There’s also a compatibility setting where you choose the properties of the OS you wish to choose.

Wayne has a few Under the Hoods. He’s been doing a lot of networking lately, and he has this little hack to clean up the output from ip address show and that is ip a | grep inet. Noice!

Wayne’s next one is that he’s gone back to IRC and he has a link to a beginner’s guide to IRC from fedora magazine. He also mentions Category 5 TV.

Wayne’s final Under the Hood is related to his solo keys and an article on how to update them.

William’s Under the Hood is to use Windows Virtual Machines on top of Linux.

Wayne goes on to recommend phonograph as a really good open source music player.

54:00 Irish Saying of the Show is “Ca bhfuil do bosca lon” or where is your lunch box!

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This week on The Bugcast: a news-heavy episode – including: UK politics, poverty shame, technology, sadness, and Trek! – plus 8 tracks of amazing Creative Commons music!

Songs played

• BLC Mirror CLB – Punk Scum Singalong – from Nice, France – source
  
• Heifervescent – What Have I Done Now – from Southport, UK – source
  
• Summer Ash – Milkman – from Luxembourg – source
  
• Starmob – Mooncaves – from Long Beach, CA – source
  
• Niki J Crawford – Mama Cried – from Springfield, LA – source
  
• Frank Rawel – Simple Life – from Michendorf, Germany – source
  
• Pokki DJ – No Prayers – from Santo Stefano al Mare, Italy – source
  
• Dr Groove Gang – Sweet Soul Musik – from Le Mans-Anger, France – 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

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-51152834">Wiggles singer Greg Page has cardiac arrest at bushfire relief show</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51149531">Brexit: Big Ben fundraiser given £50,000</a><br />
The Guardian: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/25/fighting-shame-poverty-depicted-by-eight-everyday-objects">Fighting Shame: Poverty</a> (24 mins long, but worth it)<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51137069">Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable</a><br />
Sky News: <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/derek-fowlds-heartbeat-and-yes-minister-actor-dies-aged-82-11910634">Derek Fowlds: Yes Minister and Heartbeat actor dies aged 82</a>

Star Trek:Picard starts on 23 January in North America on CBS All Access, and on 24 January in the rest of the world on Prime Video<br />
<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a> – Caroline will be joining Dave and Yannick to review the first episode of Picard</a>

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Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a>

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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 />
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<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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In this episode, Dave and Yannick review Demons, the 20th episode of the 4th season of Star Trek : Enterprise. After that, they go over some news items.

In this episode

• Yannick’s review of Demons ;
• Picard: Patrick Stewart on Why He Returned to the Final Frontier ;
• The Next Generation shot on film ;
• Star Trek : Picard renewed for a second season ahead of next month’s premiere ;
• Nichelle Nichols, The Original Series’ Uhura, turns 87.

Thanks

Once again, huge thanks to Ro 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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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>

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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

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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

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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 />
<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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