#568 – Release a squirrel

This week on The Bugcast: we discuss the effects of degenerative disorders, Caroline reviews a TV show based on a book, and we play some spiffy 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/entertainment-arts-48640653">The Chase: Paul Sinha reveals Parkinson’s diagnosis</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(British_game_show)">The Chase</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskmaster_(TV_series)">Taskmaster</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_disease">Parkinson’s Disease</a><br />
Amazon Prime Video: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Omens-Season-1/dp/B07FMKMHDF">Good Omens</a> – Prime Adaptation

<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> – Saturday 27 July from 18:00 at the State Bar, Holland Street, Glasgow<br />
<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong> – Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester

Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 569 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 21 June 2019 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/GDT/UTC+1).
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Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/337850">Killer Rabbit Podcast</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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#567 – Be excellent to each other

This week on The Bugcast: we have an extended discussion about tolerance and acceptance, and play some cracking 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

Caroline’s drawing update

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48563393">London bus attack women: ‘We are not scared to be visibly queer’</a><br />
Discussion on sex, politics, mental health, tolerance, and acceptance

Thanks to Jeroen for his new bumper<br />
Thanks to inscius for his <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">support</a> this week

<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> – Saturday 27 July from 18:00 at the State Bar, Holland Street, Glasgow<br />
<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong> – Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester

Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 568 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 14 June 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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TuxJam 74 – Every Rosa Has It’s Thorn

We return to a full strength trio with Kevie  rejoining Dave (ask thelovebug) and Andrew (aka mcnalu) for another helping of free and open source goodness washed down with Creative Commons licensed tunes.

We begin with our usual look at quirkier releases on distrowatch.com and then recount our experiences with Russian Linux distro called Rosa, originally a Mandriva fork, but now a distro in its own right. NOTE: this other Rosa Linux site offers only older versions than the recently released version 11, which caused us some confusion. We then discuss our experiences with KDE music player Elisa. Finally we have our roundup of feedback and mention of this year’s Podcrawl Glasgow which is on the last Saturday in July.

Creative Commons tracks played in this episode:

 

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#566 – Almost a teenager

This week on The Bugcast: another year goes by, a Disney remake, more drawing challenges, and some awesome 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’s birthday update<br />
IMDb: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6139732/">Aladdin (2019)</a><br />
Carolines drawing update<br />
Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/theinstamoo">@theinstamoo</a> – Caroline’s profile

<strong>Contribute</strong>: We need jingles and bumpers, <a href="https://thebugcast.org/contribute/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> – Saturday 27 July from 18:00 at the State Bar, Holland Street, Glasgow<br />
<strong><a href="https://oggcamp.org/">OggCamp 2019</a></strong> – Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October in Manchester

Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next live show will be episode 567 which will be streamed live in the chatroom on Friday 7 June 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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The Binary Times – Series 5 Episode 11

Series 5 Episode 11 – This episode we start off with the usual weather, we are moving off feedburner, please make sure your rss feeds are up to date, Wayne tries out Ubuntu Touch from scratch and talks about what he needs to do to make it an everyday driver, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:24 Wayne welcomes us to Episode 11 with a very accurate weather report, Mark’s not so much. Mark has trouble remembering the command he should type for the weather report is curl wttr.in/[location] and NOT wittr! The guys go on to discuss some important admin, advise everyone to resubscribe to the rss feed (well worth it since the rss feed has been upgraded), chat about how the podcast came about, and talk about how the website is a perfect reflection of the podcast’s goal. Mark thanks Wayne for all his hard work on the admin side of the podcast.
09:20 Mark tells us about what he’s been at for the past two weeks. He’s been busy! He also tells us about a free Linux Foundation course providing a beginners guide to Open Source Software Development, which he feels may be of use to people. He also suggests people should read Mozilla’s reading list to help understand the online misinformation problem. He goes on to tell us that Plasma 5.16 Beta is now available for testing on Kubuntu. He goes on to tell us that he met Iarla of the Amiga Ireland Podcast who generously gave him a BQ Aquarius E4.5 Ubuntu Edition phone, as he no longer used it himself and wanted to see it put to good use, which Mark promptly sent to Wayne.
15:12 Wayne tells us about his experience with his “new” E4.5 and Ubuntu Touch, warts and all. He starts by describing the interface, and goes on to talk about every day use. Applications he mentions are the Open Store, Telegram, Signal, Nextcloud, Ghostcloud, Pdfjsviewer, how to get shell access to your Ubuntu Touch phone, and using the Ubports dav script for nextcloud support. Other apps he’s installed are Tagger, and Podbird. He also notes pictures and videos work fine, ssh and Office 365 work too. Dekko 2 suits Wayne’s needs for email. Overall, he likes the phone, it’ll be his daily driver for now while he decides if it can be his permanent daily driver. One app he does need would be an otp app, which he hasn’t been able to find yet for Ubuntu Touch. Wayne will report further on how he gets on with it.
49:06 Wayne tells us about the perils of using online photo books, with some Windows admin thrown in.
56:53 Under the Hood – Mark tell us about a Digital Ocean article describing how to use systemctl to manage systemd services and units.
Wayne’s tip is to use the shift key in conjunction with the prtsc key to choose an area of the screen to capture. This works in Ubuntu MATE and should work in most other desktops.
Wayne also points us towards a Youtube video on Linux filesystem structures.
1:01:10 Irish saying of the podcast is “Níl sé ach a deich a chlog”, or it’s only 10 o’clock.

The Binary Times – Series 5 Episode 10

Series 5 Episode 10 – This episode we talk about all the students about to sit their exams, Mark has been to a safety in the workplace conference and the chat moves onto cobots, Wayne gives us an update on his servers in the workplace situation, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.

00:24 Wayne welcomes us to Series 5 Episode 10, and the guys discuss the weather and the impending heatwave.
02:50 Mark tells us he was on <a href="https://linuxlads.com/">Linux Lads</a> discussing <a href="https://linuxlads.com/episodes/season-2-episode-9">Linuxy stuff</a>. This leads the conversation around to <a href="https://fosstalk.com/">Foss Talk Live</a> and then on to the <a href="https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-9-release-225">OTA 9 release of Ubuntu Touch</a>.
08:55 Mark goes on to talk about a recent <a href="https://www.healthandsafetyreview.ie/conference-details/8">Occupational Safety and Health conference</a> he was at, highlights of which were the <a href="https://www.populationpyramid.net/ireland/2017/">population pyramid</a> and the way its shape is becoming one of a pig swallowed by a snake, and how this in turn leads to <a href="https://www.csiro.au/en/news/news-releases/2018/six-megatrends-workplace-health-safety">six megatrends shaping the future workforce environment</a>, the first point of which, extending the reach of automated systems and robotics led into the third presentation on <a href="https://www.bcg.com/publications/2015/engineered_products_project_business_industry_4_future_productivity_growth_manufacturing_industries.aspx">Industry 4.0</a> and <a href="https://www.coboticsworld.com/">cobotics</a>. The word Cobot is a contraction of two words, these being collaboration and robot. <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/62996.html">ISO/TS 15066:2016</a> specify the safety requirements for collaborative industrial robot systems and the work environment. Other standards related to cobotics / robotics include <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/51528.html">EN ISO 12100</a>, <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/69883.html">EN ISO 13849-1</a>, <a href="https://cemarking.net/tag/en-1037/">EN 1037</a>, <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/59970.html">EN ISO 13850</a>, <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/42845.html">EN ISO 13855</a>, <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/39255.html">EN ISO 13857</a>, <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/51330.html">EN ISO 10218-1</a>, <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/41571.html">EN ISO 10218-2</a>, <a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/35996.html">EN ISO 11161</a>. Legislation in Europe concerning robots is the <a href="https://osha.europa.eu/en/legislation/directives/directive-2006-42-ec-of-the-european-parliament-and-of-the-council">Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC</a> and use of robots is contained within the <a href="https://osha.europa.eu/en/legislation/directives/3">Work Equipment Directive 2009/104/EC</a>. The take away from the presentation was that these technologies are going to be happening whether we want them or not and this led Mark to think about the conversation <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOFuQLTVdZc">Doc Searles and Simon Phipps had at Freenode</a>. Instead of a head long rush into a technological dystopia controlled by profiteering corporations, we need to build socially acceptable norms where humanity is respected followed by regulation and legislation. The guys have a discussion around the whole topic. Wayne tells us <a href="https://www.tesco.com/">Tesco</a> are still using <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14223/windows-xp-end-of-support">Windows XP</a>...
30:20 Wayne tells us about the work he's been doing with the podcast. <a href="https://feedburner.google.com/">Feedburner</a> is going and will not be available come Season 6. Please resubscribe to our <a href="https://www.thebinarytimes.net/rss-ogg.xml">RSS feed</a>. Mark tells us a bit about the <a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a>. Wayne goes on to tell us some more about <a href="https://snipeitapp.com/">Snipe IT</a> and some scripting he's been doing. He's also spun up an <a href="https://osticket.com/">OSTicket</a> virtual machine and a <a href="https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/220066768-UniFi-How-to-Install-and-Update-via-APT-on-Debian-or-Ubuntu">Unify Controller</a> virtual machine. He tells us about his back up solutions for same and his use of <a href="https://rclone.org/">rclone</a> to help accomplish this. He's also been playing around with Electronics using some of his Humble Bundle books in preparation for <a href="http://linux-presentation-day.org.uk/">Linux Presentation Day</a>. Wayne goes on to mention some of the current bundles, including <a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/books/python-oreilly-books">Python by O'Reilly</a>, <a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/books/write-like-a-writer-books">Write like a writer</a> and <a href="https://www.humblebundle.com/books/financial-technology-books">Financial Technology by Wiley</a>. Mark brings up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsYAJYM22VA2NMo61bxIXowgXXHufwPm8">Freenode Live</a> once more and promises to link to it in the shownotes!
51:18 Under the Hood! Mark's under the hood is <span class = "mono">curl wttr.in/[insert location]</span>
In Wayne's under the hood, he tell us about Markdown, and what makes it so great. Wayne's using a markdown addin for Thunderbird called <a href="https://markdown-here.com/">Markdown here</a>. He also recommends <a href="https://demo.codimd.org/">CodiMD</a>, which he heard about on the <a href="https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/126">Ask Noah Show</a>.
56:54 Irish Saying of the Podcast - "Fado Fado" or Long, long ago. Mark thinks long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away could be said as "fado fado, i réaltra i bhfad i gcéin"
<p>Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy the show as much as we did making it!</p>   

The Binary Times – Series 5 Episode 9

Series 5 Episode 9 – This episode we are joined by Sebastian from the Linux Presentation Day event happening in Bristol, we chat about advertising for such events, Linux devices and phones, wifi priority for networks, Internel Health Report, some great under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.
00:24 Wayne introduces us to Series 5 Episode 9 of the Binary Times from a wet and windy Bristol. Mark tells us it’s brightening up a bit in Kilkishen after they were battered by storm Hannah.
01:55 Wayne introduces us to Sebastian, a keen Linux advocate. Sebastian has joined us to tell us about a Linux Presentation Day event happening in Bristol on Sunday the 19th May from 2-7pm in the Prince Street Social. This event will demonstrate GNU/Linux Distributions running on laptops, phones and various other hardware devices. It sounds really interesting, if you’re anywhere near Bristol on the 19th May then check it out! The guys also discuss the state of phones, UBports and the GPD pocket.
40:26 Under the Hood – Sebastian tells us about an under the hood he came across due to a flaky HP laptop motherboard, and that is use acpi_osi=… as a kernel boot parameter.
Mark tells us to check out the 2019 Internet Health Report and Exxon’s role in climate change denial as described by inside climate news.
Wayne’s Under the Hood is the latest Electronics +3D printing bundle. Sebastian suggests Storybundle.com as an alternative to Humble Bundle. Wayne also talks about WPA Supplicant and suggests the priority option to force wifi to register on your preferred network. See the following for more detail:
sudo vi /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
 network {
 ssid=”my-ssid”
 psk=”my-network-password”
 priority=8 – [ This is a high priority, it’ll join this network first if available ]
}
50:45 Irish saying of the podcast: “Tá sé an fhliuch”, or it is very wet. After some debate about how wet it actually is, the guys settle on Tá sé an Aistriúchán, or it is very stormy.
Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did making it.

The Binary Times – Series 5 Episode 8

Series 5 Episode 8 – This episode we are joined by Michael Tunnell of Destination Linux and This week in Linux, Marks been playing with ZorinOS and running the coding club, Wayne is still trying to keep out the neighbours with motioneyeos, lots of chat about Firefox this episode, some great under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.
00:24 Wayne welcomes us to Season 5 Episode 8 of the Binary Times podcast by welcoming our guest to the show, Michael Tunnell of Tux Digital, This Week in Linux and Destination Linux. The guys talk about the weather and Michael tells us a bit about himself.
05:15 Michael tells us that he’s been busy podcasting, doing one a day for the last six days, as well as coding and video work. The guys discuss his busy schedule and what’s involved in producing all this content, some of the tools involved being Zoom, OBS and Kdenlive. He also tells us that he’s working on video content for all the new features in all the flavours for the upcoming 19.04 releases. Phew! He’s some man for one man!
14:16 Mark tells us that he’s trying to get some laptops for the Open Coding Club in Kilkishen and is trying to decide on a distribution. Initially he was thinking of going with Ubuntu MATE, or Linux Mint, because of their more familiar desktop environment. He’s recently started looking at Zorin OS, and the Zorin OS Lite Education Edition. Mike points out that Zorin is in the process of releasing Zorin OS 15. Mark goes on to tell us that he plans to upgrade his current Kubuntu 18.10 to 19.04. Mike informs us his distro of choice is Kubuntu, and of the work on sane defaults in that distro that he helped make happen. The conversation is rounded out with discussion of Ubuntu MATE, synapse and the brisk menu.
26:02 Wayne tells us that he’s been doing some more work with his motion eye os setup, including installing vsftpd and configuring it all to work with his Raspberry Pi. Wayne goes on to tell us about PyCharm, thanks to Ben for the tip! Snaps get discussed.
36:15 Mark tells us that the release candidate of 0.10 of Super Tux Kart has been snapped up since yesterday, the guys hope to play it a bit tonight!

37:31 Wayne tells us there is a Linux Presentation Day happening in Bristol on 19th May.
40:05 Under the Hood! Michael kicks off Under the Hood with a few great tips for Firefox, starting with multi-container tabs in Firefox, followed by darkreader, a dark mode for your web browsing.
Mark tells us about new autoplay controls in Firefox.
This prompts Mike to tell us about the Text Area Cache add on for Firefox, allowing you to save automatically the content in a text input field.
Wayne tells us about the podcast pillow, which he wouldn’t recommend. He goes on to tell us that searching tabs in firefox doesn’t work with containers. Type % followed by the what you want to search for in the address bar to search open tabs. This prompts Mike to provide another Under the Hood for Firefox, and that is keyword bookmark searching.

54:00 Irish saying of the podcast – “Is fhearr fheuchainn na bhith san duil” It is better to try than to hope! Thanks so much to Michael for a great Irish saying, and we hope you all enjoy this podcast as much as we did making it!

The Binary Times – Series 5 Episode 7

Series 5 Episode 7 – This episode we are joined by Ben Klaasen, chat jumps straight into software testing, Mark has been playing with /e/, Ben talks about Termux and gives some insights of his usage of it, we chat about how we choose our software, Wayne just wants to be able to sleep at night, some great under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.
00:24 Wayne introduces us to Series 5 Episode 7 from a slightly foggy Bristol. Mark gives us his most accurate weather update ever thanks to his newly installed /E/ OS on his Nexus 4. Wayne goes on to introduce us to Ben Klassen, a software tester who thinks the term QA is a misnomer and wants to make software fit for purpose. It’s shaping up to be a really lovely day where Ben is too!
04:29 Mark tells us he’s installed /E/ OS on his Nexus 4 and gives us an idea of what it’s like. The process itself involved installing TWRP on his phone and then grabbing the /E/ image and then using it! For a 0.5 release, he seems to think it’s pretty good so far. The guys go on to discuss various aspects of this exciting FOSS project. Ben loves Maps.me. Mark laments the name /E/ and thinks it could hold the project back.
22:50 Ben tells us about what he’s been at for the last while, which is playing with Termux and continuing his love affair with NextCloud. He tells us Termux is a phenomonal little tool and in conjunction with rclone is a great compliment to cloud services. Wherever Ben goes, there’s a shell in front of him! Looking at small screens and the like prompts a Eureka moment for Wayne and that is maker kits for seniors!
Ben kindly provided the following information with regard to Termux and rclone:
Termux can be installed from the Google Play Store or via F-Droid. Once it’s installed, open Termux and run termux-setup-storage to allow Termux to access the rest of the filesystem on your phone.
Before you install rclone in Termux, it’s best to bring your Termux environment up to date first: apt update && apt upgrade -y
Now install rclone: apt install reclone.
Configure rclone to be able to connect to your NextCloud instance via WebDav: rclone config. Step through the wizard to create a new remote. Call your new remote nc. Choose WebDav as the backend. The connection details you need are the WebDav URL for your NextCloud account – find it in the Files app on the lower left under “Settings” – and your NextCloud username and password.
If you’re already using the NextCloud app on your phone to sync your photos, the app will have created a directory named “InstantUpload” in the root of your NextCloud files app. (If not, you can create your own folder in which to manually use rclone to backup your snaps to NextCloud like this: rclone mkdir ‘nc:/Photos/Phone Snaps’)
Let’s say you want to back up everything in the folder ~/storage/shared/DCIM/OpenCamera to InstantUpload on NextCloud. Here’s the rclone command: rclone sync ~/storage/shared/DCIM/OpenCamera nc:InstantUpload. Notice that you can dispense with the trailing slashes that are meaningful to rsync.
If Termux disappears, you probably have a modern Android phone with very aggressive battery saving settings, so you’ll probably need to put Termux in the “manually manage” list.
Ben carries on by talking highly of NextCloud and NextCloud’s documentation. It’s basically replaced Google’s and Dropbox’s services for him. Wayne discusses using Ampache in conjunction with NextCloud music. This leads the discussion around to leading simple lives and sleeping at night.
48:16 Under the Hood – Mark’s under the hood is sending tabs in Firefox.
Wayne’s tip is another Firefox one and that is that the latest firefox allows you to search open tabs. He also has a tip for the Caja file manager and that is just to search on a word rather than trying to use regular expressions to increase your chances of finding a file.
Ben’s tip is one on Termux, rclone and Nextcloud. Firstly set up rclone with rclone config and then to use rclone sync [source] [destination]. Ben also recommends tasker to trigger rclone backups.

57:18 Mark mentions a couple of items from the Open Source Community on Steam – they are having a giveaway for reaching 300 members of the curator. There’s also an announcement that student applications for GSOC 2019 have started, so if you’re interested, check it out. Mark also tells us that Curl Up 2019 is currently happening and this leads to the Irish saying of the podcast – “os an fuinneoigach” – out the window!

TuxJam 73 – Doing the low-level motion

Here is another helping of TuxJam with Dave (aka thelovebug), Andrew (aka mcnalu) and… an empty chair! Worry, not Kevie is just busy and will be back next time. Our depleted duo will do their best to take you on another tour of free and open source software and creative common tunes. We start, as always, with a glance down the latest releases on  distrowatch.

MikeOS Main Menu

Andrew and Dave take a look at MikeOS and MichalOS. MikeOS is a lovingly crafted and documented operating system which demonstrates that it is still possible to go low level and hug your hardware. If you seek a book on assembler then you might like to grab this Humble Book Bundle: Linux by Wiley. Hurry though as it ends 25 March 2019.

Next up, Andrew recounts his experience with the motion detection software called Motion on the Raspberry Pi. Want an inexpensive security or wildlife imaging station over which you have maximum control? Look no further.

But please do listen further and hear Dave’s review of OwnTracks which not only helps you track your position with GPS but also keeps track of your data and keeps it out of the mysterious clouds controlled by big companies such as Google.

Finally we were delighted to get this detailed Twitter response from Haiku developer @waddlesplash with answers to points we raised in TuxJam 72. Although couched in admirably polite terms he is quite rightly suggesting that your hosts could have benefited from a bit more RTFM.

Songs played in this episode

Dr Groove Gang – Concrete Jungle
bARTek – Walking K (feat. Ashes and Dreams)
Quentin Hannappe – The World Is Yours
Haka – Down On My Knees
SadMe – Forest

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