Bad Voltage

By Bad Voltage

Every two weeks Bad Voltage delivers an amusing take on technology, Open Source, politics, music, and anything else we think is interesting, as well as interviews and reviews. The show is presented by... more

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How many episodes does Bad Voltage have?

The podcast currently has 215 episodes available.

Bad Voltage episodes:

December 19, 20243×68: 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
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
...more
57min
August 12, 20243×67: 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
We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]!
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg!
News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
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59min
July 11, 20243×66: 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
We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]!
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg!
News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
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54min
March 01, 20243×65: 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
We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]!
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476
News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
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51min
December 14, 20233×64: 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
We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]!
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×64-cassandra-go-home/12525
News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
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58min
November 18, 20233×63: 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
We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]!
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg!
News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
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48min
October 19, 2023 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?
We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]!
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg!
News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
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41min
August 26, 20233×61: 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!
We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]!
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476
News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
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52min
August 13, 20233×60: 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
We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]!
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×60-never-eat-shredded-wheat/12509
News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
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1h 4min
June 16, 2023 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?
We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]!
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476
News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.
Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!
...more
57min

FAQs about Bad Voltage:

How many episodes does Bad Voltage have?

The podcast currently has 215 episodes available.