2×20: Over a Ton of Window

2×20: Over a Ton of Window

Posted by on Thursday, October 19, 2017 in Linux, News, Open Source, Shows, Technology |

Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which some people watch Star Trek Discovery and some emphatically do not, some are at conferences and some are not, and:

  • [00:02:45] Every wifi device on the planet is broken by a fully-branded attack named Krack, suggesting that nobody listened to the plan to “Just say no”… Google Maps now also covers various planets and moons across the solar system, giving whole worlds of alien customers to be asked to add their photos of the venue they’re in… Microsoft add support for Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Theora to Windows, not a moment too soon… Essential the phone people are sued by the bloke who set up Nest over the external-devices connector… Netflix adds 5.3 million subscribers in Q3, presumably from all the people on Europa who now have Google Maps as well…
  • [00:28:25] The Purism Librem 5 hits its crowdfunding target of $1.5 million with a week still to go, so lots of people are certainly sure it’s viable enough to be worth buying. New entrants into the phone market are fairly common, and them dying having had little-to-no success is equally common, but the Librem 5 might be different; are they going after the mass market? Can a “security and privacy-focused phone” hit sustainability while only selling to people who are already convinced by the ideas it embodies? And can it be any good? We dive in