Bad Voltage

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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