#841 North, Miss Teschmacher

This week on The Bugcast: Caroline goes to London, Dave reads books, Gene Hackman, planets align, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons and independent music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

London Trip<br />
Shoes on a bus<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewkkkvkzn9o">Death of Hackman and wife ‘suspicious enough’ for investigation, police say</a><br />
Dave records audiobooks<br />
LibriVox: <a href="https://librivox.org/">Free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers from around the world</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ckgd2zk9k9go">Rare planetary parade caught on camera by our expert stargazers</a>

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TuxJam 120 – Tunnels & Texts

Al, Andrew, Dave and Kevie come together again to find their way through some FOSS pickings sprinkled with creative common tunes. They start as always with a round-up of recent releases found on distrowatch.com.

Dave and Al have taken a look at cluster of tools named after burrowing animals – Pangolin, Gerbil, Badger and Newt – which provides solutions for tunneling, reverse proxies and authentication. The collective noun for such things is, apparently, a fossorial 🙂

Going from the complex to the simple, at least for the end-user, Kevie and Andrew try out Deku SMS which describes itself as “proof-of-concept for secure SMS messaging, SMS image transmission and SMS-Cloud communications”.

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Creative commons tunes played in this episode includes:

  1. Thecoffeeinthefridge – London Baby
  2. NaTaN CoLD – Unbroken Circle
  3. Radioontheshelf – When Yesterday Was Smooth (feat. Mr Yesterday)
  4. Richard Shekari – You Are Enough

#840 There is no cloud…

This week on The Bugcast: Apple does the wrong thing, stalker poses as missing girl, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons and independent music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo">Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx29k37lyp9o">Woman in court over McCann family stalking charges</a>

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#839 Humpback Whale and the Kayaker

This week on The Bugcast: extraordinary portraits, political hit jobs, Adrián and the Whale, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons and independent music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bradford2025/videos/932432038870735">Extraordinary Portraits – totes emosh – Claire (and Rizwan – no link yet)</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77r05nx11po">Political hit job? Rachel Reeves</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly50k8zypmo">Humpback Whale and the Kayaker</a>

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#838 No, but…

This week on The Bugcast: lots of remember but little to celebrate, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9vp24z6qo">Coogan spared lengthy driving ban to film The Trip</a><br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom">Five years since the first case of Covid-19 in the UK</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwxpnxyrnvo">Grenfell Tower to be taken down, government confirms</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7epd3mz0ro">Swedish school shooting victims were seven women and three men</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxeg4q0rddo">Sitcom actor Brian Murphy dies aged 92</a>

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TuxJam 119 – Mini Fun Plus

Our FOSStering foursome – Kevie, Dave, Andrew and Al – forge forward into 2025 feeling funny. First off, as usual, they review recent OS releases on Distrowatch.

Then the “fun” begins with Kevie and Andrew’s review of FunOS. Is it fun? If so, who will have fun with it? To find out you’ll have to listen.

The default desktop background in FunOS at the time of review.

Next up is fun of a more literal kind with the Miyoo Mini Plus (pronounced Miyoo Mini Plus) which offers up retro gaming in an inexpensive compact handheld device. Al and Dave-the-non-gamer went through the hardship of reviewing it, although the latter has since become Dave-the-Dr-Mario-Maestro. The Reddit post that discusses the Miyoo Mini Plus images can be found here.

We were delighted to have received quite a bit of feedback to review. If you have a comment to make or a suggestion of what we might review in the future, please do contact us.

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Creative common and other tunes played with permission in this episode include:

  1. Dan Lynch – (demo) –No Way Out
  2. Cole Powell – Simple Things (ft. Kyle Graves) (Unfiltered X Version)
  3. Boogie Belgique – The Bartender
  4. Christian Petermann – Dreamy Road

#837 What a belter!

This week on The Bugcast: the Green Belt, elections, blood, Marianne Faithfull, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Alex ‘Green Belt in Taekwondo’ Lee<br />
Dave has been elected to the committee of his local Amateur Radio Society<br />
Caroline gave blood today<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8k931j423o">Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull dies at 78</a>

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#836 Bit Windy

This week on The Bugcast: a storm batters the UK, a tragedy that could have been avoided, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy5kwlpzlnkt">Storm Éowyn</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgmn1rxpk4o">Southport killer charged</a> – upcoming investigation

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#835 Complicated grief

This week on The Bugcast: a lot of bad and sad news to discuss, plus eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e18qylq5do">Tik Tok ban in US</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn01dynqx7ro">Neil Gaiman – More allegations</a><br />
Week of loss: Joan Plowright, Paul Danan, Linda Nolan, Tony Slattery, David Lynch, Denis Law<br />
The Guardian: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/16/california-la-wildfires-updates">LA Fires still burning</a> (Less coverage in UK now)

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#834 Meh-ta

This week on The Bugcast: we discuss Zuckerberg’s latest own goal, and the wildfires in Los Angeles, plus eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Politico: <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/mark-zuckerberg-full-elon-musk-dump-facebook-fact-checker/">Zuckerberg fact checking payback</a><br />
Forbes: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/01/16/the-dead-internet-theory-explained/">Dead Internet Theory</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg7z9zjv90jt">LA Fires</a>

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