#815 Hope, not hate

This week on The Bugcast: Southport attacks, social network toxicity, and eight tracks of fantastic 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/topics/c720pzp224yt">Southport knife attacks</a><br />
Protest demonstrations in Hartlepool and Sunderland<br />
The toxicity of social networks<br />
<a href="https://gurushots.com/">GuruShots</a>: the gamification of photography<br />
Passports have arrived

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Late Summer 2024</strong> on Saturday 31 August from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
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  • The next show will be episode 816 which will be streamed live on Friday 9 August 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/UTC+1).
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The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
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#814 Feeling snappy

This week on The Bugcast: Olympics, disruption, excessive force, and eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

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

Topics

<a href="https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024">Paris Olympics 2024</a> start today<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd16en19gd3o">Who could have attacked France’s high-speed rail?</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9xr4q3rk6o">Just Stop Oil sentences condemned by celebrities</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c19ky4z8kjmo">PC to face criminal investigation over airport kick video</a><br />
Caroline’s (and Dave’s!!) new camera

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Late Summer 2024</strong> on Saturday 31 August from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
<strong>OggCamp 2024</strong> on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October 2024 – <a href="https://oggcamp.org">oggcamp.org</a>

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  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next show will be episode 815 which will be streamed live on Friday 2 August 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/UTC+1).
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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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#813 What’s your damage?

This week on The Bugcast: martial arts, assassination attempt, major IT outage, and eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

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

Topics

Alex is now 8th Kup (Yellow Belt) in Taekwondo<br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Donald_Trump">Trump’s Near Miss</a><br />
BBC News Live: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et">Massive worldwide IT outage</a><br />
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident">2024 CrowdStrike incident</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxx2rj467npo">Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty dead at 53</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1xe8p1pq1o">American comedian Bob Newhart dead at 94</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Late Summer 2024</strong> on Saturday 31 August from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
<strong>OggCamp 2024</strong> on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October 2024 – <a href="https://oggcamp.org">oggcamp.org</a>

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  • The next show will be episode 814 which will be streamed live on Friday 26 July 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/UTC+1).
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Special thanks go to

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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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Yannick (FrenchguyCH) for the use of his Shoutcast server

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#812 Secondary superstar

This week on The Bugcast: nasty illness, amazing progress, Shelley Duvall, and we play eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

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

Topics

Caroline and Ethan haven’t been well at all this week<br />
Alex’s progress during rollover<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy77p22jr5lo">The Shining actress Shelley Duvall dies at 75</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Late Summer 2024</strong> on Saturday 31 August from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
<strong>OggCamp 2024</strong> on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October 2024 – <a href="https://oggcamp.org">oggcamp.org</a>

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  • The next show will be episode 813 which will be streamed live on Friday 19 July 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/UTC+1).
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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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Yannick (FrenchguyCH) for the use of his Shoutcast server

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#811 Super VIPee

This week on The Bugcast: on one of the biggest days in UK political history, we can’t talk about politics, so we play eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

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

Topics

Not allowed to talk about politics, but must acknowledge that it’s <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/results">all Change in the UK</a><br />
<a href="https://90sworld.co.uk/">90s Fest</a> next weekend

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Late Summer 2024</strong> on Saturday 31 August from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
<strong>OggCamp 2024</strong> on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October 2024 – <a href="https://oggcamp.org">oggcamp.org</a>

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  • The next show will be episode 812 which will be streamed live on Friday 12 July 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/UTC+1).
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Special thanks go to

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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 />
Yannick (FrenchguyCH) for the use of his Shoutcast server

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Tuxjam 113 – Ultramarine

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Al, Dave, Andrew and Kevie brave heat and cold and everything in between to bring you free bits and bytes and CC tunes. We start off with our usual roundup of recent releases on distrowatch.

We only have one item for review in this show: the Ultramarine distro based on Fedora. Dave and Al look at the version that runs on regular PCs whereas Kevie and Andrew try out the images provided for 64 bit Raspberry Pis.

We finish up with a brief round-up of feedback and how to contact us.

Music licensed under some kind of Creative Commons license played in this show are:

  1. Eversame – warmth of your snow
  2. Richard Shekari – Amazing
  3. Mahidevran – Empty Ocean
  4. Mystic Crock – Crossing Styx

#810 Hooman creativity

This week on The Bugcast: we have a discussion about the impact of AI on the music industry, and play eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

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

Topics

Discussion: AI’s incursion on the music industry

Upcoming events

<strong>OggCamp 2024</strong> on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October 2024 – <a href="https://oggcamp.org">oggcamp.org</a>

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  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next show will be episode 811 which will be streamed live on Friday 5 July 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/UTC+1).
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Special thanks go to

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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 />
Yannick (FrenchguyCH) for the use of his Shoutcast server

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#809 Honour Chimp Banana

This week on The Bugcast: Sutherland, McKellen, Slater, Honour, Chimp, Banana, and eight tracks of fantastic 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/c9rrvdq3g9zo">Actor Donald Sutherland dies aged 88</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gg5drn1v2o">McKellen to miss play’s last London shows after stage fall</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdd3l84zk0o">Jay Slater: Search for missing Brit focuses on village</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>OggCamp 2024</strong> on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October 2024 – <a href="https://oggcamp.org">oggcamp.org</a>

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  • The next show will be episode 810 which will be streamed live on Friday 28 June 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (BST/UTC+1).
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Special thanks go to

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The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
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Yannick (FrenchguyCH) for the use of his Shoutcast server

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#808 It’s Bob!

This week on The Bugcast: jiggling, number 9, hackers, recalls, and eight tracks of fantastic 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/cjll01220yeo">‘Mouse jigglers’ pretending to work fired by bank</a><br />
Telegraph: <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2024/06/12/inside-no-9-final-episode-review-plodding-on/">Inside No. 9 Final episode</a><br />
X: <a href="https://twitter.com/MajorPazuzu/status/1801273889458098402/photo/1">Inside No. 9 collage</a><br />
<a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org">Hacker Public Radio</a> is currently going through their reserve queue<br />
The Guardian: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/14/uk-supermarket-sandwich-recall-full-list-of-products">e-coli alert and recalls</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>OggCamp 2024</strong> on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October 2024 – <a href="https://oggcamp.org">oggcamp.org</a>

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Special thanks go to

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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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TuxJam 112 – Dillo Dally

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Don’t dial 112 but deign to digest our dalliance with Dillo and entertain our engagement with Entroware. Kevie, Dave (aka thelovebug), Andrew and Al are back with another helping of free and open source software peppered with Creative Commons musical goodness.

As ever, we begin with a nose around recent releases on distrowatch.com with a few having a distinctly ARMy aroma.

Dave and Andrew then discuss there experiences with Proteus laptops from the UK company Entroware. Andrew’s laptop was purchased earlier this year and Daves’ a couple of years ago and so the chipset revisions and specs do differ:

Andrew’s Proteus in action with his old Asus Zenbook displaced to the right.

Andrew’s 15″ Proteus £1648.96 including shipping and VAT

  • Processor: Core i7-1360P, 13th Gen 12 cores
  • Memory: 64GB DDR5 4800MT/s
  • Storage: 4TB PCIe NVMe SSD

Daves’s 15″ Proteus

  • Processor: Core i7-1165G7, 11th Gen 4 cores
  • Memory: 32GB
  • Storage: 1TB SSD

Al and Kevie then take a look at venerable no-frills, and somewhat retro Dillo web browser which has had a release after almost a decade of inactivity. Note that the official Dillo website is not dillo.org at present but dillo-browser.github.io for reasons explained here.

We finish with a review of the recent Podcrawl and a round-up of feedback since the last episode.

Creative commons tracks played in this episode include:#