Bad Voltage

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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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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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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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:

Is the GPL still relevant in the 2010s?

We talk to Ilan Rabinovitch, co-founder of the

Linux Fund credit card,

Texas Linux Fest, and the

Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE)

about whether conferences are regional, what SCALE’s all about, and how to fund

open source

In the wake of the European Court of Justice’s

recent

ruling about “the right to be forgotten”, we discuss how the European

law will play out and freedom of expression versus Google’s control of

viewpoint on the internet

We review Balsamiq, a wireframing tool

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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