3×72: Lawyers guns and money
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we have a single topic this week!
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:01:05] OpenSSF: open infrastructure is not free, and the OpenSSF are making some noise about it
- [00:25:16] Outro
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3×71: Did we do something correct?
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we complain about the universe, we cannot commit to podfading, and:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:01:28] Governments using commercial chat systems
- [00:20:55] A pro tip for you: udm=14
- [00:24:09] iOS 19 refresh (talked about before the beta announcement of “iOS 26”)
- [00:39:44] Outro
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3×70: Swallowed up in Crimethink
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which encryption backdoors rear their ugly heads (party like it’s 1999!), Minority Report is not a manual, and:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:01:19] The UK government demands that Apple put a back door in their end to end encryption. Apple are not prepared to do this, not surprisingly, and correctly. We dig into the reasoning behind this sort of decision, and what can be done about it
- [00:32:49] Stuart is having his life made harder by AI people. How annoying!
- [00:45:49] Outro
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3×69: They Call It Nice
Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which Jeremy is sadly unwell (get well soon Jezza!) and so we in theory look at the latest news but actually spend three quarters of the show on one topic! This is what happens when there’s no Jeremy to keep us on track. Including:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:00:32] Stuart and Jono are old
- [00:05:25] Project Stargate: a whole bunch of companies club together to potentially invest a load of money in AI technologies. We get into the weeds a bit on whether this is a good idea, and the position of large tech companies within the zeitgeist (NB: this was recorded before the recent DeepSeek release, which would have come up in this conversation!)
- [00:39:19] UK considers banning ransomware payouts in public sector — is this a good idea? Is it a bad idea but still better than all the others? A troubling question!
- [00:50:32] Outro
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3×68: In The Abysmal Sea
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we are back, back again, Bad Voltage is back, tell a friend, and we look back a little at the big things that happened in 2024’s tech world:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:02:19] Social Media 2024
- [00:26:19] Drones in NY
- [00:30:28] The UK is over 50% renewable electricity
- [00:37:27] AR over-taking VR
- [00:54:16] Outro
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3×67: Drunk From The Wrong Grail
Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which there is a particularly excellent shirt, a particularly absent salting of the conversation with, y’know, actual facts and that from Jeremy, and:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:02:19] CrowdStrike: how half the computers in the world went down (with thanks to abadidea for research)
- [00:28:41] Reddit might paywall some subreddits and what this means about Reddit, their business model, and Silicon Valley thinking
- [00:57:14] Outro
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3×66: Return of the Mack
Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we return after an unplanned hiatus, there is a squirrel in your car (not a euphemism), and:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:04:16] The US government demands that Bytedance sell TikTok, or do they? There’s lots going on in this case, and it leads into lots of discussion about the purpose of tech regulation as a whole, which may well become a whole other show
- [00:24:59] Tesla’s US market share falls below 50%; the times they are a’changin’ for the EV industry
- [00:46:03] Windows Recall recalled (LOL)
- [00:52:00] Outro
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3×65: Not Evenly Distributed
Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we look to the year ahead (well, the 10 months ahead) and predict what will happen in the tech industry and the world in 2024.
2024’s predictions:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:02:49] Jeremy: Sundar Pichai will not be CEO by end of 2024
- [00:06:55] Jeremy: At least one major streaming service will be shut down, or acquired
- [00:11:30] Jeremy: Elon Musk Sells X, or X goes public
- [00:13:42] Jeremy: Bonus
- [00:17:29] Stuart: Film studio to release movie with AI-revived deceased actor
- [00:21:08] Stuart: Fusion reactor generates surplus power for practical use, ready for widespread deployment
- [00:23:05] Stuart: A nuclear weapon is detonated
- [00:26:23] Stuart: Bonus
- [00:30:45] Jono: Tesla to release budget EV ~$30k
- [00:35:22] Jono: Google Gemini will get shut down and replaced
- [00:39:53] Jono: VR photorealistic avatars
- [00:46:35] Jono: Bonus
- [00:47:41] Gemini predictions
- [00:49:23] Outro
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3×64: Cassandra Go Home
Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which in traditional Christmas style we look back on our predictions for 2024 and Jono whines about half points. More successfully than usual this year, admittedly.
Have a happy holiday season! We’ll be back in the new year.
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:01:44] Jeremy: Tiktok gets banned in the USA
- [00:05:59] Jeremy: Hidden Crypto Risks in a Traditional Financial Institution
- [00:07:17] Jeremy: Netflix gets acquired
- [00:08:26] Jeremy: AI’s Swift Progress Hits a Clear Slowdown
- [00:21:42] Jeremy: Web Splinters into Sino, Euro, and American Blocs
- [00:22:09] Jeremy: Mastodon Peaks Early, Declines Afterwards
- [00:24:28] Jeremy: Significant Equity Stake Acquired in Canonical
- [00:25:29] Stuart: Texas HB20 Social Media Law Heads to and is Upheld by US Supreme Court
- [00:28:01] Stuart: Global daily Twitter users will drop a minimum of 10% by the end of 2023
- [00:29:53] Stuart: AI-Generated Song Enters the Charts
- [00:33:40] Stuart: Apple to Permit Sideloading or Third-Party Browser Engines on iOS
- [00:34:49] Stuart: Someone buys Netflix
- [00:35:59] Jono: Meta to Announce Large-Scale Layoffs in Metaverse Division
- [00:37:45] Jono: Twitter to Introduce Long-Form Video Platform with Monetization Options
- [00:41:31] Jono: Anticipated Legal Restriction in US or EU for ChatGPT & Large Language Models
- [00:42:56] Jono: Apple’s AR/VR Headset Earns Praise Despite Lingering Viability Doubts
- [00:47:20] Jono: Potential Reasons for Trump’s Election Exit: Claims of Persecution or Legal Hurdles
- [00:48:36] Jono: Bing Introducing ChatGPT-Like Features, Expects Substantial Growth
- [00:53:51] Outro
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3×63: Autonomous Helicopters
Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which Jeremy is temporarily not present, website hosting issues are acknowledged and briefly discussed, and:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:01:16] New York intends to have air taxis by 2025, including bonus London Illustrated News content
- [00:10:23] Microsoft Teams announce upcoming 3D meetings in VR, including a Lex Friedman/Mark Zuckerberg interview
- [00:24:32] As Nikki Haley pushes for “algorithm transparency” and banning anonymous accounts, we dive a bit into the murky waters of legislation of social media networks and what various governments want from that
- [00:45:27] Outro
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3×62: Class One Catastrophic Hypercredibility
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we do a bit of a deep dive into the (semi-)recent trend of finding new ways for creators to get paid. Patreon’s been around for a long time (but could be doing better), and the idea of making a thing and getting paid for the thing has been around for considerably longer, but it’s a relatively new innovation for platforms to encourage payments and share revenue with creators. Or is it? Is this actually new? Is this what was there already but in a superficially different outfit? And… will it work?
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3×61: A Room of Dalmatians
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we revisit an old friend, Room 101, the place where all the things we hate should be banished. At least according to each of us: whether the other two can be so convinced is another thing entirely…
- [00:04:07] Jono: All videoconferencing except Zoom
- [00:11:04] Stuart: overly chummy email spam
- [00:16:16] Jeremy: Influencers
- [00:19:59] Jono: Marketing Gurus
- [00:25:07] Stuart: “we are experiencing unusually high call volumes”
- [00:29:26] Jeremy: Mozilla
- [00:37:55] Jono: Men who wear scarves inside
- [00:42:16] Stuart: “join our discord”
- [00:45:25] Jeremy: a secret extra!
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3×60: Never Eat Shredded Wheat
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which multiple minutes of pre-show work are awkwardly wasted, we haven’t got a sign on the roof, and:
- [00:01:39] GPTBot is launched to crawl your websites and add their technological distinctiveness to its own model, and there is discussion of robots.txt changes
- [00:11:08] MDN, the central resource for web documentation, added LLM stuff which caused a lot of pushback (and a Mozilla postmortem)
- [00:24:30] Apple announce a new VR headset, the Vision Pro
- [00:40:34] Instagram Threads starts up, Reddit is… hard to say, Bluesky seems to have not set the world alight… now that we’re a month or two in to all this, what’s going on in social media land? Everything’s all over the place
- [00:52:13] $5 billion lawsuit with Google over incognito mode tracking moves closer to trial
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3×59: Addition Edition
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we discuss ad-supported services and the (potential?) rise of subscriptions. Have ads gone away, or started to? Are social media networks being supported by ads now pivoting to something else? And are Patreon and sponsorships mostly a boon for small creators, or a seed of a shift in the culture of how businesses and services work online?
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3×58: Large Langridge Model
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which there is unsceptical intensity, we are all eaten by a T-1000, and we have collected a list of concerns about Large Language Model-based AI, which we’re going to dive into!
- [00:00:00] Introduction
- [00:04:30] The “free software” concern: it normalises inhaling information for free and then renting out access to it. Upcoming EU regulation requires LLM creators to declare copyrighted material used in training corpora
- [00:09:30] The automation one: puts lots of mid-level workers people out of a job, with zero provision for what should happen to those people
- [00:25:25] The costlessness one: if it’s free (or at least easy) to generate text (and images and sound and so on), it becomes easy to flood places with it, which leads to finding hotels online being even more difficult, more fake news sites, students submitting LLM-written essays, etc
- [00:30:40] The inaccuracy one: LLMs “hallucinate”, meaning that they make up lies and present it with as much confidence as actual information, so it’s very hard to tell the difference, which is problematic when it’s relied upon and can be downright defamatory (as in the case of Jonathan Turley, law professor, on an LLM-generated list of “lecturers who have sexually harassed their students” which he didn’t)
- [00:33:35] The magnification of existing bias one: generated text embeds existing biases
- [00:53:30] The creativity one: where does the next generation of music and art and writing come from if this generation is written largely by LLMs?
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3×57: Conspiracyers
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which there’s more smoky back rooms than usual, everyone’s on Orkut, and:
- [00:01:14] Who likes Microsoft Teams? Microsoft promises it’s made Teams less confusing and resource hungry, while Teams surprisingly now has 270m users to Slack’s 20m.
- [00:08:21] An “open letter” from tech pioneers calls for a halt on AI development
- [00:20:31] USA wants to ban TikTok: is this tech, security, or geopolitics?
- [00:33:25] Google Search Adds Features for Info Verification: will this work? can this work?
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3×56: Hyperbole is the Magic Word
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we spend a show inventing topics which need a whole other show to talk about, we reminisce about Google Plus, and:
- [00:01:36] Twitter Blue, Meta Verified: the social networks go premium. Is it going to work?
- [00:35:45] The FBI recommend that everyone uses an ad-blocker
- [00:45:16] Salesforce pays Matthew McConaughey $10M/year
- [00:52:47] LastPass hack, allegedly via a senior developer’s Plex?
- [00:57:11] Reddit does comments search!
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3×55: Don the Mast
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we look, as has been threatened a bunch recently, at Mastodon. What’s it all about? Is Mastodon the new Twitter, and is it trying to be? And how far have we got into it?
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3×54: The Joe Dolce Music Theatre
Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we create predictions for 2023! What will happen over the next twelve months in the world of tech? Here’s what we think…
- Stuart: the Texas HB20 social media law will come before the US Supreme Court, and the US Supreme Court will uphold it as constitutional
- Stuart: Global daily Twitter users will drop a minimum of 10% by the end of 2023
- Stuart: A song claimed to be composed and performed entirely by AI will get in the charts
- Stuart (Bonus): Apple will either allow sideloading or allow third-party browser engines on iOS
- Stuart (Bonus): Someone buys Netflix
- Jeremy: Tiktok gets banned in the USA
- Jeremy: At least one traditional financial institution will have taken on substantial crypto risk that wasn’t fully disclosed
- Jeremy: Netflix is acquired
- Jeremy: The rapid advances in AI slow down in a very obvious way
- Jeremy (Bonus): the web starts fragmenting into 3 distinct blocs: sino, euro, americano
- Jeremy (Bonus): Mastodon usage peaks in the first half and drops steadily from there
- Jeremy (Bonus): someone takes a large equity stake in Canonical
- Jono: Meta will announce significant (1000+ peolpe) layoffs in their Metaverse division
- Jono: Twitter will launch a YouTube competitor. Users will be able to upload long-form videos (1hr+), monetize their videos with ads, and see a video view
- Jono: There will be at least 1 legal regulatory requirement be put into practice in the US or EU that restricts the use of ChatGPT and/or Large Language Models
- Jono (Bonus): Apple will release their AR/VR headset, will garner positive reviews for the product, but press will still question the viability of AR/VR
- Jono (Bonus): Donald Trump will drop out of the election for one of two reasons: (1) claims of persecution, or (2) a legal decision prevents him from running
- Jono (Bonus): Bing will launch with ChatGPT-like functionality and see significantly increased growth. Significantly increased = 30%+
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3×53: Representative but not Shining
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage for the last time in 2022, in which we take a look back at our predictions for this year and review how we did. Surprisingly… not as badly as last year. Although as you may expect there is shameless jockeying for extra points. How did you do by comparison?
We’ll see you in 2023!
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3×52: Click By 5pm
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we are not necessarily “extremely hardcore”, we aren’t verified (or are we?), we aren’t fleeing the country with a load of money that isn’t ours, and:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:02:37] Twitter and Musk: much change is afoot in the world of Twitter, as Elon Musk completes his purchase of the social media network and immediately starts changing things and staffing with varying degrees of competence and forethought. We have Opinions on this, not surprisingly
- [00:34:46] Tech Layoffs: the world is heading into a recession, and tech firms are at the forefront of at least some of that. Some of the biggest names are laying off thousands of staff: many are affected
- [00:40:24] FTX: the latest crypto explosion is bigger than most, but it’s also pretty confusing to understand what exactly it’s all about. We’ll dive in for explanations!
- [00:49:38] Outro
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3×51: Control the Meta Connect
Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and special guest Adam Lorimer present Bad Voltage, in which reality is virtual, metas are connected, and:
- Meta, nee Facebook, had their Meta Connect conference where they announced their upcoming plans, recent hardware and software releases, and the like. We have some interest in VR generally, as evidenced by Jono always having a prediction about it at Christmas, and so we’d like to dig a bit more into what’s going on over there, some of the upcoming hardware, and talk a little about the place of VR (and AR and MR) in the world order and how it does and might fit in with everything, especially with Adam who actually does this stuff for a living!
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https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×51-control-the-meta-connect/12470
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3×50: Two Riders Were Approaching
Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and special guest Erica Brescia present Bad Voltage, in which a generation of hypochondriacs is created, we are made to do research, and:
- [00:01:51] VC/WeWork/Flow
- [00:20:28] AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans
- [00:28:14] New smart watches
- [00:38:22] Notkia
- [00:39:52] OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay
- [00:42:47] Outro
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https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×50-two-riders-were-approaching/12468
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3×49: The Noise of Doubt
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the roflcopter is created, Soli is forgotten, and:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:02:04] Chorizo space prank
- [00:04:04] Floppotron 3.0
- [00:10:47] Doom running on $15 smart lamp, and in Doom
- [00:16:22] SCaLE 19X
- [00:19:59] Who’s liable for AI-generated lies?
- [00:28:48] Amazon Slashing Private-Label Selection
- [00:31:29] Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuums
- [00:36:56] Apple expecting to ship 1.5mill VR/AR units in 2023
- [00:38:37] VR as good as psychedelics to transcend
- [00:55:24] Firefox adds client-side machine translation
- [00:58:15] Outro
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3×48: Brave Internet Explorers
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which everyone’s middle name is Elaine, there is discussion of the nature of business in the modern age, and:
- [00:02:45] We look at Brave, a privacy-focused web browser. They’ve got some interesting technical choices, but more importantly we want to look at the question of their business model. How do Brave propose to remain sustainable? How are they making money now? And once they get the cash… what are they doing with it?
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https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×48-brave-internet-explorers/12460
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3×47: Fallacious Piece of History
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Victorian Tumblr is a thing, you should probably check out Lethality, Jono’s band’s latest, and:
- [00:00:00] Intro
- [00:04:11] USB Type-C EVERYTHING
- [00:17:33] Firefox and Google are arguing about extension APIs that ad blockers use
- [00:34:00] Spotify comes for audiobooks
- [00:57:15] Outro
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https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×47-fallacious-piece-of-history/12459
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3×46: Srtrerarm Deck
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and special guest star Jorge Castro present Bad Voltage, in which those of the team not currently having fun on a beach in Spain dig into the latest tech news, including (but not limited to):
- [00:08:26] Github start requiring two-factor authentication for contributors
- [00:16:21] This show was edited live on Twitch by our audio producer, Marius Quabeck of NerdZoom Media, and you can watch him do that and see what misery we put him through every fortnight
- [00:25:05] Lots of Big Tech companies have put together $30 million to invest in the security of open source software in the Software Supply Chain Security Mobilization Plan, which is potentially quite great
- [00:33:21] Jorge has a Steam Deck! We have questions about Jorge’s Steam Deck!
- [00:48:11] Looks like USB-C is coming to Apple’s phones
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https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×46-srtrerarm-deck/12458
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3×45: Natural Musk
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Times Square is a much better example, it is Stuart’s turn to seemingly sound like he recorded this at the bottom of a coal mine (sorry about that), and:
- [00:01:50] Elon Musk is buying Twitter. We have thoughts, and quite a few of them. There’s a question as to whether it’ll even happen, there are questions about what he plans to do, and there are questions (many, many questions) about what Twitter will look like after it’s been Elonified. Let’s dig into it
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https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×45-natural-musk/12455
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3×44: The Loch Dustbinness Monster
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and special guest star Alan Pope present Bad Voltage, in which intelligence is artificial, snaps are un-ned, and art is what you make it:
- [00:04:00] popey’s latest tool is unsnap, which helps you “quickly and easily migrate from using snap for applications to flatpak”, and we’ll get into how it works and why it exists
- [] AI-generated artwork. Aza Raskin made a very cool AI-generated video for Zia Cora’s song “submarines”, where he put together a list of text queries and then used AI algorithm Disco Diffusion to generate images as video frames. This sort of AI-generated imagery and art is increasingly common, whether This Person Does Not Exist or This Bench Does Not Exist or National Novel Generation Month or whatever. But what are the wider ramifications of this, for ownership, collaboration, and open source? What are your intuitions in this: is a list of text descriptions of an image really the “source code” for that image? If someone uses the same queries that you did, is their work a derivative work of yours? Would you feel delighted or ripped off if that happened? This is all a new area, and it’s evolving very fast: where are the precedents for this sort of collaborative art creation and where should we be drawing inspiration and understanding?
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https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×44-the-loch-dustbinness-monster/12454
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3×43: Self Assembly
Stuart Langridge, Jeremy Garcia, and special guest star Jorge Castro present Bad Voltage, in which we in theory want to talk about loads of news but actually we spend all our discussion time on one topic:
- [00:02:00] Jorge is into Flatpak. And there’s quite a lot to talk about here. This is very much about the Linux desktop, distribution of applications, and how things have changed; stuff has certainly happened since the last time we looked at this, and it’s worth getting into. Let’s talk about what flatpak means today.
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https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×43-self-assembly/12449
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