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1×40: Zero-Dollar Energy

Posted by on 16th April 2015 in Design, Linux, News, Open Source, Politics, Reviews, Shows | Comments Off on 1×40: Zero-Dollar Energy

1×40: Zero-Dollar Energy

Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which things are longer than normal. Featuring doughnuts with the jam not in them, many many percentages, and:

  • The new release of elementary OS Freya makes us think about their funding model and their design-led approach, and whether it’s all a good idea (2.02)
  • Stuart reviews an attempt to put together a music player for his parents with OpenElec and the Raspberry Pi 2 (26.40)
  • Bryan has objections, sometimes, to vaccines. We unjustifiably accuse him of being a lunatic anti-vaxxer and he explains his viewpoint, after which we get into a discussion of scientific data and public health policy, and generally Have The Vaccine Debate (41.10)

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1×39: Ambitious but Rubbish

Posted by on 2nd April 2015 in News, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×39: Ambitious but Rubbish

1×39: Ambitious but Rubbish

Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage (without Bryan Lunduke who is currently struggling with an attack of Ebola), in which everything needs to be an order of magnitude better. Featuring flying bags of flammable liquid, 120 frames per second, and:

  • What needs to happen so that I can have a drone to deliver my pizza and pick up my shopping? Drawing a line through the technological, regulatory, and philosophical minefield standing between today and Jono’s Glorious Drone-Filled Future (2.40)
  • Tarus Balog speaks about OpenNMS, a network management system for big networks, and some recent changes in the project (27.01)
  • Jono reviews the Go Pro Hero 3+ silver edition extreme sports camera (45.24)
  • Jeremy Clarkson has been fired from Top Gear for hitting a colleague. We draw some fairly obvious parallels between the world of open source and this twin situation of standing up against unacceptable behaviour and whether a project is viable if a leading contributor is dismissed (59.38)

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1×38: Easy Being Green

Posted by on 19th March 2015 in Linux, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Technology, Ubuntu | Comments Off on 1×38: Easy Being Green

1×38: Easy Being Green

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we decide to talk about Linux almost completely for the whole show. Featuring following the dare in the last show a great deal of OpenSuSE (or openSUSE or opensuse or possibly Open SUSE), green-coloured things, and:

  • If you want a thing fixed in an open source project, and you’re prepared to pay market rate for a developer to get it fixed… how do you find someone to pay to fix it? It seems harder than you might think (1.49)
  • We speak as part of this openSUSE-based show to Andrew Wafaa, long-time contributor and member of the openSUSE community board, about why he’s involved and where openSUSE stands with the rest of the free software community (19.30)
  • In the last show Bryan threw down a challenge to the other three to spend time using openSUSE and report back on their findings. We tried Gnome, KDE, and Enlightenment: now we talk about how that went and what we think about openSUSE as a whole (40.42)
  • We review the newly-released Dell M3800 laptop powerhouse (73.12)

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1×37: Spooning with Everybody

Posted by on 6th March 2015 in Linux, News, Open Source, Politics, Reviews, Shows, Space, Technology | Comments Off on 1×37: Spooning with Everybody

1×37: Spooning with Everybody

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we drone about drones, complain about governments, argue about old modem companies, and:

  • Why is OpenSUSE relevant, and why should we use it? Including a challenge to the three non-Bryan members of the team to try OpenSUSE for real (1.51)
  • We speak to Dave Nielsen, founder of Campsite.org, co-runner of CloudCamp, and not at all a money launderer (18.00)
  • Jono reviews the 3DRobotics Iris+ drone and explains what a drone is actually for (29.16)
  • Net Neutrality: the US have brought in some recent rulings which look bright for the pro-net-neutrality world. Are they all they’re cracked up to be? And what’s the deal here? (43.44)

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1×36: Bad Voltage Live at SCaLE 2015

Posted by on 26th February 2015 in Development, Linux, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×36: Bad Voltage Live at SCaLE 2015

1×36: Bad Voltage Live at SCaLE 2015

We present the first Bad Voltage live show! Performed at SCaLE 13x in Los Angeles, with the help of the SCaLE team, sponsors System76 and Acelio, and prizes from System76, Pogolinux and Owncloud, our very first live show on stage is available to watch as a video! See the full video of the show at YouTube!

Also including fantastic work from Ilan and Gareth from the SCaLE organising team dressed as clowns, some Creme Eggs, some shots of Fireball, three hundred glowsticks, all the Jorge Castro you could ever want, a modesty-preserving towel to save all our eyes from the horror, and:

  • Developer Mode Linux: should the Linux desktop have a “developer mode” which you need to turn on to get access to hardcore technical things such as root access or a Terminal or performance information?
  • Wrong In 60 Seconds, the finale: the audience compete to rant most successfully to win a System76 Galago Pro laptop
  • The Bad Voltage Challenge: the four presenters start a battle royale to see who’s the best at collecting videos, technical knowledge, and poetry
  • The Ubuntu phone: is it bollocks? We discuss with the audience how the newly-released device stacks up against the other open-source challengers to the mobile market
  • Q&A: we answer your questions, and a truly horrible act is performed
  • The long-promised, long-awaited shampoo review

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1×35: One Plug Per Segment

Posted by on 5th February 2015 in Linux, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Technology, Ubuntu | Comments Off on 1×35: One Plug Per Segment

1×35: One Plug Per Segment

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge unleash all the Bad Voltage you can handle, this week featuring:

  • Live Voltage! The first Bad Voltage live show, on 20th February at SCALE. Come to it! Be part of the majesty! You can find out more at badvoltage.org/live, including a code to save 50% on your SCALE ticket (2.13)
  • Jeremy reviews the Anova Sous Vide, and discusses the nature of gastronomy and culinary expertise (10.03)
  • We talk to Ilan Rabinovich about the upcoming SCALE conference in LA and the history of how it came to be (26.47)
  • Bryan is Wrong in 60 Seconds about… Wrong in 60 Seconds (42.04)
  • Mir and Wayland: what’s going on there, now? Now that the controversy has blown over, what’s the score with next-generation display servers? (43.10)

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1×34: Hidden Cities

Posted by on 22nd January 2015 in Development, News, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×34: Hidden Cities

1×34: Hidden Cities

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and ginger idiot Stuart Langridge bring you all the Bad Voltage that’s fit to print, including a special feature where three of us record with good microphones and one moron doesn’t:

  • We give the second half of our predictions for where technology will go in 2015: this episode, Jeremy and Jono (2.30)
  • Christian Hergert talks about his crowdfunding campaign to make Builder, a Gnome IDE for building Gnome apps (27.25)
  • Wrong in 60 seconds: Jono on indicating in cars (46.48)
  • Skiplagged, a website for taking advantage of “hidden city” airline tickets through data analysis, is being sued by airlines. We discuss why, and what this indicates for this sort of air-quotes disruptive app (48.33)
  • Jono reviews the Logitech Harmony 650 all-in-one entertainment system remote control (62.35)

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1×33: Unambiguous Win Condition

Posted by on 8th January 2015 in Linux, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Technology, Ubuntu | Comments Off on 1×33: Unambiguous Win Condition

1×33: Unambiguous Win Condition

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge return gloriously to usher in the new 2015 with:

  • We give the first half of our predictions for where technology will go in 2015: this week, Bryan and Stuart (1.51)
  • Wrong in 60 seconds: Stuart on a new direction for Google ads (14.57)
  • Michael Hall from the Ubuntu community team talks to us about the upcoming Ubuntu phone, the developer platform for it, when and where the first phones will be out, and what’s going on (16.30)
  • Jeremy reviews Soylent, the internet-orderable meal replacement drink (41.51)

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1×32: A Hannu-pancha-festi-christ-wanzaa-newton-vent Story

Posted by on 23rd December 2014 in Linux, Open Source, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×32: A Hannu-pancha-festi-christ-wanzaa-newton-vent Story

1×32: A Hannu-pancha-festi-christ-wanzaa-newton-vent Story

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present a special non-specific winter holiday version of Bad Voltage, in which we channel the spirit of notable winter holiday personage Ebenezer Scrooge by examining the ghosts of generic winter holiday Past, Present, and Future:

  • PAST: How did we get started with technology? A tale of Nintendo robots and Acorn and Commodore battles. Let us know how you got into tech on community.badvoltage.org (2.00)
  • PRESENT: At the beginning of 2014 the team gave predictions for what could happen in the technology world over the course of the year. How did we do? We take the opportunity to review the success and failure of our attempts to be technology Nostradami, and give you the chance to vote for the biggest loser on the forum (19.18)
  • FUTURE: Where are we going to be and what’s going to be happening in technology ten years from now in 2024? (49.43)
  • The Bad Voltage Holiday Gift Guide: what should you get for the geeks in your life? (62.10)

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1×31: Would you do it in the pouch?

Posted by on 11th December 2014 in Linux, News, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Social Media, Technology, Ubuntu | Comments Off on 1×31: Would you do it in the pouch?

1×31: Would you do it in the pouch?

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we do no singing despite being begged to. We also find ourselves discussing:

  • Desuckling from the corporate teat: are we being held back by waiting for permission we don’t need from corporate sponsors of Linux OSes? (3.34)
  • Bryan and Stuart have used Ello, a new social network; they review it and Jono and Jeremy ask questions about whether it’s the GNU/Hurd of social networks (23.38)
  • We interview Rikki Endsley, journalist and Red Hat community evangelist, about how journalist ethics should work and the challenges facing journalists in the new world order (38.17)
  • Wrong in 60 seconds: Jeremy on the astonishing monetary success of the vapid and servile internet meme (50.48)
  • Recently Stephen Hawking suggested that artificial intelligence could spell the death of the human race. What’s the deal? Is he right? (52.13)

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1×30: He Saved Every One Of Us

Posted by on 27th November 2014 in Design, Gaming, Linux, News, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×30: He Saved Every One Of Us

1×30: He Saved Every One Of Us

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which sales pitches are not our thing. Jono Bacon attempts to also attend and is let down by the unreliability of the perfectly reliable Transport Control Protocol. We also manage to discuss:

  • Jolla, the company behind Sailfish OS, crowdfund a new Sailfish tablet device and get triple their goal in the first week. This is great. Right? Are we getting one? (1.52)
  • Google Inbox: the new mail app for the modern age, or a revision that nobody needed and which you can’t get an invite for? Stuart reviews Inbox (20.45)
  • Bryan is Wrong In 60 Seconds, about planes (37.48)
  • Adobe Flash: we all hate it. But should we? It works on the open source desktop, and we lose hundreds of thousands of games the day it gets turned off (39.56)

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1×29: Droning On

Posted by on 13th November 2014 in Design, News, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Space, Technology, Ubuntu | Comments Off on 1×29: Droning On

1×29: Droning On

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we discover that whitehouse.com is not the government. We also discuss:

  • Outernet, Google Loon, Facebook et al’s internet.org: all attempts, from small to globally-changing, to help bring internet connectivity to places and people that don’t have it, through satellites or balloons or drones or lasers. What’s the deal? And will it work? (2.15)
  • We speak to Carl Richell, CEO of Ubuntu laptop, desktop, and server vendors System76, about their new rebrand, the nature of design in hardware, and how they work (17.05)
  • Wrong in 60 Seconds: Jono is extremely annoyed (for a minute) about people (34.32)
  • A while back we were pretty sceptical about the Arubixs Portal, a bendable very powerful upcoming phone being crowdfunded: we are still sceptical, and so Brandon Mears, CEO of Arubixs, takes some time to explain to us how it’s not a hoax and the Portal is on its way (36.05)
  • Jeremy reviews the latest model of Amazon’s ebook reader, the Kindle Voyage (54.26)

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1×28: Everything is Orange

Posted by on 30th October 2014 in Linux, Open Source, Politics, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×28: Everything is Orange

1×28: Everything is Orange

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we celebrate our completed first year of the show by not actually doing anything celebratory. We also discuss:

  • Debian agreed to ship systemd as default and now people are talking about forking the whole distribution. The question is: at what point is it right to fork a distro? (2.45)
  • Bryan reviews ChromeOS on the Chromebook Pixel and explains how someone who doesn’t like requiring an internet connection deals with a laptop which does (16.27)
  • Wrong in 60 Seconds: the first of a new regular feature where one of us steps onto the soapbox for one minute. For this inaugural Wrong in 60 Seconds, Stuart talks about choice (32.58)
  • We speak to Guy Martin, senior open source strategist in Samsung’s open source group, about what open source means to Samsung and what it’s like influencing things inside such a huge organisation (34.32)
  • Technology is increasingly being used to help connect people after recent or alert you of upcoming natural disasters or extreme weather conditions. We look at the existing approaches and suggest some new ones. (50.59)

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1×27: Buffalo Wild Wings Dollars

Posted by on 18th October 2014 in Linux, Open Source, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×27: Buffalo Wild Wings Dollars

1×27: Buffalo Wild Wings Dollars

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which there is only one. We also discuss:

  • Would it be bad if the open source desktop fails to go mainstream? Is not wanting large public success just elitism? Or is this the year that we pronounce it isn’t and never will be “the year of the Linux desktop”, and is that a terrible thing? (3.14)
  • We review the Canon HF-R500 digital camcorder (27.10)
  • Why do film and TV scripts get technology wrong when it would be just as easy to get it right? Should we be amused or annoyed by technobabble? (39.45)
  • Should programming be part of a school curriculum, not to program specifically but to teach skills of logically constructing an argument and meta-skills of thinking “how to think”? (50.58)

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1×26: We Do Get To Make It Up

Posted by on 2nd October 2014 in Open Source, Politics, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×26: We Do Get To Make It Up

1×26: We Do Get To Make It Up

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which the team fail to laugh at one another’s jokes, succeed in laughing at one another’s approach to privacy, and discuss:

  • A company named Arubixs have started, and then had cancelled, a crowdfunding campaign for a wrist-strappable device named Portal, in the face of scorn from the Android Police site and disbelief. What’s going on? And how does crowdfunding work in this sort of situation? Should we think of crowdfunding as more like investment than like shopping? (1.55)
  • Bryan reviews the Samsung Galaxy Camera 2, a point-and-shoot camera running Android
  • Xprize have launched the Global Learning Xprize and an associated crowdfunding campaign: we ask Jono to explain it and answer our questions on how it all works and what its open-source requirements could mean for the field (32.48)
  • We are going live. Live Voltage, the first Bad Voltage live show, will be the main evening entertainment at the Los Angeles SCALE conference in 2015! And we ask for your thoughts on how we make it happen and what you’d like to see there on the forum; let us know! (47.29)
  • Are there privacy implications to storing genetic information? A recent announcement and retraction by generic analysis and ancestry company 23andme prompted discussion around the nature of their business and what a big database of genetic information might be useful for (53.42)

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1×25: On a Stick With No Fripperies

Posted by on 19th September 2014 in Reviews, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×25: On a Stick With No Fripperies

1×25: On a Stick With No Fripperies

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we discuss the wonderful products of the Jimmy Dean sausage empire, have unexpected bouts of poetry, lunch each other with frippery, and also discuss:

  • The final installment of the Bad Voltage Reverso Debate, which, due to a tie in the last installment, results in an awkward three-way. Jeremy and Jono are donating to Charity:Water as a result, and we are looking to raise $1500 from the Bad Voltage community to help – go and donate! (2.30)
  • Stuart reviews the EZCast and evaluates whether he can use it to rock the conference circuit on his phone (21.58)
  • We crown the winner of the Bad Voltage Mashed Voltage competition who wins a piece of tat from each member of the team. Go and listen to all the entries (33.27)
  • We cover work/life balance and discuss where the burden of responsibility is between the employer and employee in ensuring people have the balance right (39.32)

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1×24: Bunch of Sockpuppets

Posted by on 4th September 2014 in Open Source, Politics, Reviews, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×24: Bunch of Sockpuppets

1×24: Bunch of Sockpuppets

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan “the Cheater” Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we discuss operating systems, magnanimity in defeat, cheating, mendacious donations to charity, fingerprints being rubbish, how to kiss a Red Hat engineer, and:

  • The “reverso” debate: Jeremy and Jono debate whether projects should have a publicly visible figurehead or if that does harm to the project, but (and this is the key point) argue for the position opposite to what they actually believe. You can (and should) vote for who you think was the winner, by going to community.badvoltage.org and choosing in the poll! (2.48)
  • We review the Samsung Galaxy S5 phone running Android, and diverge into the nature of phones and way to choose (20.56)
  • Karsten Wade, CentOS engineering manager at Red Hat, talks about the recent partnership between Red Hat and CentOS and why it happened (36.25)
  • Is it possible to create a political party which runs like an open source project? Run as a meritocracy? (54.12)
  • Lots of stuff going on in the Bad Voltage community: we have a round-up (61.12)

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1×23: Maybe We Should Have Drill Control

Posted by on 21st August 2014 in Design, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×23: Maybe We Should Have Drill Control

1×23: Maybe We Should Have Drill Control

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we discuss technology, social media, milkshakes, history, and argue violently about:

  • Is putting together technical solutions to social problems a good idea? Can we enforce or encourage good social rules through technical means? (3.30)
  • Blender review by the whole team (18.34)
  • We speak to Emma Marshall from System76, who manufacture and sell laptops, desktops and servers with Ubuntu (29.34)
  • The “reverso” debate: Bryan and Stuart debate whether desktops should be simple or complicated, but (and this is the key point) argue for the position opposite to what they actually believe (40.16)

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1×22: Oval Ted Bag

Posted by on 7th August 2014 in Development, Open Source, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×22: Oval Ted Bag

We return to our normal places around the globe and continue to bring you tasty things for your ears. Jeremy Garcia, Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and an inexcusable absence of Bryan Lunduke think up a new competition involving things in our houses, and also discuss:

  • Where’s our free culture revolution? Lawrence Lessig predicted a world filled with remix culture and set up the Creative Commons, but little to none of it has actually changed the way people think. Or has it? (2.25)
  • Graham Morrison of Linux Voice answers some of the questions from our discussion in the previous show about their magazine, their process, and why the December issue comes out in June (17.45)
  • Mashed Voltage: we start a new competition. Read about it on the forum and listen to it on the show, and enter before September 10th to celebrate remix culture (36.48)
  • Jono reviews the Samsung Gear Live smartwatch and the team watch, smartly (40.25)
  • Open source projects sometimes decide that they’ll build their own hardware. When they try, they fail. Why? What motivates the decision to do it in the first place? (54.22)

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1×21: Everything Old Is Old Again

Posted by on 25th July 2014 in Linux, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×21: Everything Old Is Old Again

The Bad Voltage team present tasty things for your ears. Jeremy “stalwart” Garcia, Stuart “stalwart” Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Bryan Lunduke fight through the logistical challenges of being even further apart than usual to bring you thoughts, expertise, and arguments about:

  • Do Google still know how to make compelling technology? It seems that all Google’s successful products are ten years old. Have they forgotten how to build a new product that lots of people like?
  • Is the technology world ageist? Is being old a problem, and are you old at 40? And is the Valley worse?
  • Linux Voice is a print magazine run by the ex-Linux Format team, and which was initially funded by an Indiegogo campaign. Is this a good idea? A review of the team’s thoughts
  • Ask For Advice: Online payments are a mess. Lock-in everywhere — Android must use Google Wallet; all payments on iOS must go through Apple; Amazon won’t take Paypal; eBay pushes it hard; Verified by Visa is rubbish. What’s good about the current system? What’s bad about it? What could be fixed? Stuart asks for the team and the community’s input.

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1×20: Private Poetry Slam

Posted by on 10th July 2014 in Open Source, Politics, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×20: Private Poetry Slam

The Bad Voltage team present tasty things for your ears, here for the twentieth time. Jeremy Garcia, Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Bryan “Stopped Clock” Lunduke bring you the Knowledge, specifically this time of:

  • The Bad Voltage Versification Perversification: the community gave us a selection of words around which to compose a poem and here are the distinctly poetic results, followed by some poetic justice
  • Uber and Lyft: are taxis relics of the last century? Does having an iPhone app exempt you from the law? Comparing the new cabs with the old, and whether disruption is inherently a good thing
  • We review the Dropcam: a webcam to protect your house and make the footage easy to review in the cloud, specifically by talking mostly about the privacy implications of this approach and not very much about the actual device at all, unless you have a meth lab in your front room
  • The Blackphone is “the world’s first smartphone to put privacy and control ahead of everything else”. Following on from our discussion of privacy implications, we look at a device aiming to change the public debate on the topic
  • Bad Voltage apps for many platforms, and feedback on Firefox OS and free software from the community

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1×19: Fedora Murder Trial

Posted by on 26th June 2014 in Design, Open Source, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×19: Fedora Murder Trial

The whole team return (remarkably) to speak, weirdly, only about things beginning with the letter F. Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, with the following “F-ing” things:

  • Fire Phone: Amazon release a phone, and we decide whether it’s exciting or execrable
  • Firefox OS: the Mozilla project’s phone OS, reviewed by Stuart and discussed by everybody
  • Freshmeat: the late-90s web store of software for Linux has finally closed its doors. Reminiscence, combined with some thoughts on how and why the world has moved on
  • Fedora Project Leader: Matthew Miller, the newly-appointed leader of the Fedora Linux project, speaks about the direction that distribution is planning, working with large communities, and whether his job should be decided by a Thunderdome-style trial by combat
  • err… our Fabulous community: we catch up with what’s going on

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1×18: Shows Restraint

Posted by on 12th June 2014 in Gaming, Shows, Space, Technology | Comments Off on 1×18: Shows Restraint

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and no Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, the greatest podcast in the history of this or any other universe. In this episode:

  • Breaking Down The Bullshit: Gamification – is gamification a useful thing or all smoke and mirrors?
  • Jono leaves Canonical and moves to XPRIZE – what is all this about, then?
  • Review: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
  • A big community update with lots of great things going on in the Bad Voltage community!

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1×17: Intermission

Posted by on 29th May 2014 in Shows | Comments Off on 1×17: Intermission

Owing to various singularities inflicted upon us by the universe — Jono is joining XPRIZE, Stuart’s on a tropical holiday, Bryan’s incompetent — we’ve put together a show giving you some behind-the-scenes technical details on how we make Bad Voltage, some of the early history, some reminiscences from the team, and a few of the greater hits. So if you’re curious about how Jono keeps the high quality of the audio up and running, Enjoy, and you’ll hear from us again as normal in two weeks!

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1×16: Forgotten to be Right

Posted by on 22nd May 2014 in Design, Open Source, Politics, Shows | Comments Off on 1×16: Forgotten to be Right

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, the greatest podcast in the history of this or any other universe. In this episode:

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1×15: Why Dear Watson

Posted by on 8th May 2014 in Linux, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×15: Why Dear Watson

Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, :

  • Bryan gave his yearly “Linux Sucks” talk at LinuxFest Northwest, and the rest of us take issue with his approach, his arguments, his data sources, and his general sense of being
  • The Xbox One reviewed as a TV set-top box, not as a gaming console
  • The up and coming elementary OS: is it any good, and what do we think of it?
  • Our discussion of elementary OS raised a number of questions: Daniel Foré, leader of the project, talks about the goals of the OS and answers our queries
  • Community recap: your emails and forum posts and happenings in the Bad Voltage community

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1×14: Cloudy Donkey Mascots

Posted by on 24th April 2014 in Open Source, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×14: Cloudy Donkey Mascots

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which the cloud shows up a lot this week, in the following ways:

  • Personal cloud storage: what do we use, what do we like, and what do we think? Companies, personal clouds, servers, and Dropbox
  • Christian Schaller, who manages the team at Red Hat producing their “Fedora Workstation” concept, wrote up what “Workstation” is and now comes to answer questions about it
  • Breaking Down the Bullshit: we look at “the cloud” as a whole. What does it mean? And why?
  • Jeremy reviews the Pebble watch: as one of its original Kickstarter backers, he’s now had the Pebble for long enough to form an opinion
  • Community recap: your emails and forum posts and happenings in the Bad Voltage community

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1×13: Weak Web Bronies

Posted by on 10th April 2014 in Gaming, Open Source, Politics, Religion, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×13: Weak Web Bronies

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which the following things happen:

  • Special guest presenter Matthew Garrett hosts a game show, “The Weakest Geek”, in which the presenters attempt to demonstrate their knowledge of technology and the loser has to pay a dreadful forfeit
  • Brendan Eich has left Mozilla as a result of the recent issues surrounding his donation to an anti-gay-marriage campaign. Is this evidence of bullying from the wider community? Did Mozilla do the right thing? What do we think?
  • Jono reviews Battlefield 4 on the PS4
  • Breaking Down the Bullshit: we look at wearable technology, smart watches, and ask whether they’re any good
  • Community recap: your emails and forum posts and happenings in the Bad Voltage community

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1×12: Concerning Virtual Shower

Posted by on 28th March 2014 in Gaming, Politics, Religion, Reviews, Shows, Technology | Comments Off on 1×12: Concerning Virtual Shower

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, and Jono Bacon present a new minimal-Langridge-involved Bad Voltage, in which we discuss:

  • “Her”, the new Spike Jonze movie, has a man falling in love with a computer AI. Will AIs ever actually be our friends? What is love* and are computers capable of it? And will the Singularity happen?
  • The AquaAudio bluetooth shower speaker: is it any good? Also a great deal of completely-unjustified Stuart abuse
  • Brendan Eich has been appointed as CEO of Mozilla, and has in the past donated money to oppose gay marriage in California. Can a CEO’s personal life and work life be separated? Was the appointment a mistake by the Mozilla Corporation?
  • We interview Zohar Babin from Kaltura, an open-source-based video company about what they do and how open source fits in
  • What’s going on in the Bad Voltage community? Gaming Saturday on March 29th, Jono brags about having got a prediction right for the first time in his life, and Bryan still doesn’t know who Penelope Pitstop is

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1×11: Internet of Thugs

Posted by on 13th March 2014 in Politics, Shows, Social Media, Technology | Comments Off on 1×11: Internet of Thugs

Jeremy Garcia, Stuart Langridge, The Invisible and Inaudible Ghost of Lunduke, and Jono Bacon present a new Bad Voltage, in which we discuss:

  • Our new series, Breaking Down The Bullshit where we delve into the current buzzwords and trends and determine if they are all hype or have substance. In this show, we discuss the Internet Of Things: crock of doo-doo or the future of technology?
  • Jeremy reviews the Withings WS-50 Smart Body Analyzer and we discuss it and the notion of measuring your body to get fit
  • Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media joins us to discuss print media, free culture, publishing, the Internet, privacy, and where the future is taking us
  • Jeremy and Jono saw Lawrence Lessig keynote recently, and we all discuss whether his ambitions of ridding governments of corruption is in any way possible
  • We talk about Bad Voltage community goings-on, on the forum, the chat channel, such as selfie contests, gaming servers, Bad Voltage apps and more!

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