1×10: Midnight Throne Travels
Jeremy Garcia, Stuart Langridge, Bryan Lunduke, and Jono Bacon present a new Bad Voltage, in which we discuss:
- Tech conferences — which ones are good, which ones are not, and why?
- Desktop machines versus laptops, and a review of Stuart’s new gorgeous desktop computer from PC Specialist
- Whistleblowing. In the light of the Snowden and Manning revelations, is whistleblowing a good idea, what’s available to protect whistleblowers from problems, and do we need to protect against those motivated by malice?
- Miguel de Icaza, head of Xamarin and past founder of the Gnome and Mono projects, talks about why he was singled out as a “traitor”, what he’s doing now, and how to best work in the open source world
- The winners in the Bad Voltage Selfie Competition! See this forum post for more details and all the entrants
- A Bad Voltage community update covering growth on our community forum, the formation of our gaming community, the IRC channel, the Bad Voltage app, Bad Voltage at SCALE12x, and interesting post-show discussions.
1×09: The Starting Pitstop
Jeremy Garcia, Stuart Langridge, Bryan Lunduke, and Jono Bacon wend their troublesome ways down the road of:
- We weigh in on the upstart/systemd brouhaha in Debian and discuss what happened, why it happened, and whether it was a good thing or not.
- Bryan reviews the Lenovo Miix 2 tablet and we get into the nitty gritty of what you can do with it.
- We take a trip down memory lane about how we each got started with Linux, which distributions we used, and who helped us get on our journey.
- We take a recap and look at community feedback about guns, 3D printing, predictions, Bad Voltage gaming, the Bad Voltage Selfie Competition and more, all making an appearance.
Also, be sure to join in the Bad Voltage Selfie Competition to win some free O’Reilly books!
1×08: We Don’t Need Roads
Jeremy Garcia, Stuart Langridge, Bryan Lunduke, and Jono Bacon present an hour of talk about leafblowers, dust-resistant paper, fruitflies, and:
- Back to the Future II, the 1989 film, predicted a raft of technology for 2015. With only a year to go, is anything they suggested even close to achieveable?
- We speak to Matthew Garrett, notable Linux kernel hacker and commenter on security, UEFI, and hardware about the NSA in your firmware, why computers are more compelling than fruitflies, and his work at Nebula on providing trust to the cloud
- Guns. As a followup to our previous discussion about 3d-printing of guns, we talk about the issue of whether guns are a good idea, the arguments for and against gun control, and how this differs internationally
- The second half of our predictions for 2014: Bryan and Stuart give theirs
1×07: Life On Mars
It’s a god-awful small affair
To the guy with odd facial hair
But his
co-hosts are yelling “No”
And his comrade has told him to go
But again he’s nowhere to be seen
Now he walks through his sunken dream
To the mic with the clearest view
And predicts for 2014
Making money from open source
Is it truly a hopeless cause?
He could spit in the eyes of fools
As he asks you to focus on
Hulick
writing for the game team
Oh man! Look at those four guys go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the tall man
Beating up the short guy
Oh man! Wonder if they’ll ever know
They’re in BV’s seventh show
Is
there life on Mars?
(With apologies to David Bowie. Sorry for stealing your song, Dave. Tune in to hear us talk to magnificent musician Sam Hulick, argue about 2014, sorrow over indie open-source developer prospects, and laugh at Mars One. Discuss this show on the Bad Voltage forum!)
1×06: 3D Taco Firepower
In this episode of Bad Voltage, Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Bryan Lunduke ring in 2014 with their first show of the new year, covering such exciting nuggets as:
- 3D Printed Guns: we delve into the technology, the people, the rights and wrongs of it, regulation, and more.
- Review: Jono reviews the Sony Playstation 4 to see if it lives up to the hype.
- Interview: Simon Phipps from the OSI, MariaDB, and potentially The Fast Show shares his thoughts on the evolution of Open Source, Free Software, licensing, and the Jedi, and more.
- The Linux upstream/downstream relationship: is it still relevant, could it be holding Linux back, or is it what binds the Open Source community together?
- We re-visit some of the topics from our last show with updates on Bitcoin, the Roku 2, and your feedback!
Be sure to give us your thoughts on the show on our forum!
1×05: Never Gonna Give You Up
In this episode of Bad Voltage, Bryan Lunduke returns to the fold after his holiday in Europedreadful illness, and these things happen:
- Bitcoin. The team discuss Bitcoin (and crypto-currencies in general), whether it’s a good idea, and whether it might be successful
- Review: Jono reviews the Roku 2, mass-market tv streaming device. Is it any good?
- Open-source phone platforms: Jolla, Ubuntu, and Firefox OS. What is success? Will these platforms get anywhere? Are Android and iOS ripe for unseating?
- Interview: Jeff Atwood talks about Discourse, the modern forum system, and why it’s an improvement over the horror that is web forums currently. You can ask follow-up questions which Jeff has agreed to answer at our own Discourse forum
Give us your thoughts on the show as a whole on the forum thread!
1×04: Fat Drone Backups
Jeremy Garcia, Stuart Langridge, and Jono Bacon (Bryan Lunduke is unable to make it again, although we do of course hope that he recovers from whatever horrific disease he’s contracted) bring you:
- Open Source Health: are the open source community more unhealthy than most? Perhaps the trend for health-related gadgets will save us
- Review: Stuart talks about Ender’s Game, the film, the book, and the author
- Chris Anderson, CEO of 3dRobotics, ex-editor of Wired, and author, talks about his current venture, creating pilotless autonomous “drones” and what they might mean for Amazon Prime Air, agriculture, and society at large – ask Chris your questions too here!
- How do the team actually back up their stuff? Surprisingly, we all actually do (as should you), but how do we do it?
- Your feedback: video podcasting, Bitcoin, new phone OSes, and pod love
Remember, send us suggestions for who we should interview, what we should review, and what you’d like to hear us discuss, to [email protected]!
You can also discuss this show in our new forum, community.badvoltage.org. Start with the discussion about this particular episode!
1×03: Hear My Lung
In our third episode, your hosts Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge (our compadre Bryan Lunduke is away cavorting around Europe) bring you discussion, argument, and amusement on:
- We delve into the new Playstation 4 and XBox One consoles and discuss whether this is the next generation of gaming, or a rehash of the same-old-same-old
- Review: Jeremy provides an in-depth review of Google’s new Nexus 5 phone
- We talk about biohacking and discuss what it is, what people are working on, the implications of the technology, and whether it is a good thing in the first place
- Interview: in this episode we interview prominent kernel hacker, Greg Kroah-Hartman, about life as a kernel hacker, the pressure of working on such a core piece of technology, and his physical relationship with Linus Torvalds
- We had a bucketload of letters, so we read out our favorites, and share the very best dirty haikus
Remember, send us suggestions for who we should interview, what we should review, and what you’d like to hear us discuss. Drop us a line at [email protected]!
1×02: Thank God We’re Here
In the second episode of Bad Voltage, your hosts Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and Bryan Lunduke bring you discussion, argument, and amusement on:
- Are atheists the most smug and annoying people on the planet?
- Review: Bryan talks about Google’s Chromecast digital media streaming adapter
- Mozilla’s role in the world and their developer network. We interview Mozilla Head of Developer Engagement Stormy Peters
- Apple released OS X 10.9 “Mavericks” free of charge: what prompted that? Does it affect open source OSes? The hosts weigh in
- Our first letters segment where we read out your emails, feedback, dirty haikus, and more!
Remember, send us suggestions for who we should interview, what we should review, and what you’d like to hear us discuss. Drop us a line at [email protected]!
1×01: Socially Awkward Headgear
Welcome to Bad Voltage! In this new podcast, your four hosts are Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and Bryan Lunduke. We’ll be talking about technology, politics, the internet, music, open source, and things that interest us. We’ll interview people and review things. And be amusing along the way. In this, our first show, topics are:
- Diaspora* and Identica, open-source social networks: why did they not make it into the mainstream, and does it matter?
- Review: Cards Against Humanity, a “free party game for horrible people”
- Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset for gaming: gimmick or the next big thing?
- Interview: tech journalist Steven J. Vaughan-Nicols
We’d love to hear your feedback on this first show, and suggestions for who we should interview and what we should review. Drop us a line at [email protected] and you might even feature in our “Letters” segment in the next show in two weeks!
Welcome to the show!
We present Bad Voltage, the first show! We, the team, would love to hear your feedback: let us know what you want to hear in future shows!