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 217 episodes available.

Bad Voltage episodes:

September 15, 20223×50: Two Riders Were Approaching
Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and special guest Erica Brescia present Bad Voltage, in which a generation of hypochondriacs is created, we are made to do research, and:
[00:01:51] VC/WeWork/Flow

[00:20:28] AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans

[00:28:14] New smart watches

[00:38:22] Notkia

[00:39:52] OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay

[00:42:47] Outro
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×50-two-riders-were-approaching/12468
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
August 11, 20223×49: The Noise of Doubt
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the roflcopter is created, Soli is forgotten, and:
[00:00:00] Intro

[00:02:04] Chorizo space prank

[00:04:04] Floppotron 3.0

[00:10:47] Doom running on $15 smart lamp, and in Doom

[00:16:22] SCaLE 19X

[00:19:59] Who’s liable for AI-generated lies?

[00:28:48] Amazon Slashing Private-Label Selection

[00:31:29] Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuums

[00:36:56] Apple expecting to ship 1.5mill VR/AR units in 2023

[00:38:37] VR as good as psychedelics to transcend

[00:55:24] Firefox adds client-side machine translation

[00:58:15] Outro
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×49-the-noise-of-doubt/12463
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
July 21, 20223×48: Brave Internet Explorers
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which everyone’s middle name is Elaine, there is discussion of the nature of business in the modern age, and:
[00:02:45] We look at Brave, a privacy-focused web browser. They’ve got some interesting technical choices, but more importantly we want to look at the question of their business model. How do Brave propose to remain sustainable? How are they making money now? And once they get the cash… what are they doing with it?
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×48-brave-internet-explorers/12460
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
June 24, 20223×47: Fallacious Piece of History
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Victorian Tumblr is a thing, you should probably check out Lethality, Jono’s band’s latest, and:
[00:00:00] Intro

[00:04:11] USB Type-C EVERYTHING

[00:17:33] Firefox and Google are arguing about extension APIs that ad blockers use

[00:34:00] Spotify comes for audiobooks

[00:57:15] Outro
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×47-fallacious-piece-of-history/12459
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
59min
May 19, 20223×46: Srtrerarm Deck
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and special guest star Jorge Castro present Bad Voltage, in which those of the team not currently having fun on a beach in Spain dig into the latest tech news, including (but not limited to):
[00:08:26] Github start requiring two-factor authentication for contributors

[00:16:21] This show was edited live on Twitch by our audio producer, Marius Quabeck of
NerdZoom Media, and you can watch him do that and see what misery we put him through every fortnight

[00:25:05] Lots of Big Tech companies have put together $30 million to invest in the security
of open source software in the Software Supply Chain Security Mobilization Plan, which is potentially quite great

[00:33:21] Jorge has a Steam Deck! We have questions about Jorge’s Steam Deck!

[00:48:11] Looks like USB-C is coming to Apple’s phones
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×46-srtrerarm-deck/12458
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
1h 1min
April 29, 20223×45: Natural Musk
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Times Square is a much better example, it is Stuart’s turn to seemingly sound like he recorded this at the bottom of a coal mine (sorry about that), and:
[00:01:50] Elon Musk is buying Twitter. We have thoughts, and quite a few of them. There’s a question as to whether it’ll even happen, there are questions about what he plans to do, and there are questions (many, many questions) about what Twitter will look like after it’s been Elonified. Let’s dig into it
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×45-natural-musk/12455
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
49min
April 14, 20223×44: The Loch Dustbinness Monster
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and special guest star Alan Pope present Bad Voltage, in which intelligence is artificial, snaps are un-ned, and art is what you make it:
[00:04:00] popey’s latest tool is unsnap, which helps
you “quickly and easily migrate from using snap for applications to flatpak”, and we’ll get into how
it works and why it exists

[] AI-generated artwork. Aza Raskin made a very cool AI-generated
video for Zia Cora’s song “submarines”, where he put together a list of text queries and then
used AI algorithm Disco Diffusion to generate images as video frames. This sort of AI-generated
imagery and art is increasingly common, whether This
Person Does Not Exist or This Bench Does Not Exist or National
Novel Generation Month or whatever. But what are the wider ramifications of this, for ownership,
collaboration, and open source? What are your intuitions in this: is a list of text descriptions of
an image really the “source code” for that image? If someone uses the same queries that you did,
is their work a derivative work of yours? Would you feel delighted or ripped off if that happened?
This is all a new area, and it’s evolving very fast: where are the precedents for this sort of
collaborative art creation and where should we be drawing inspiration and understanding?
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×44-the-loch-dustbinness-monster/12454
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
March 24, 20223×43: Self Assembly
Stuart Langridge, Jeremy Garcia, and special guest star Jorge Castro present Bad Voltage, in which we in theory want to talk about loads of news but actually we spend all our discussion time on one topic:
[00:02:00] Jorge is into Flatpak. And there’s quite a lot to talk about here. This is very much about the Linux desktop, distribution of applications, and how things have changed; stuff has certainly happened since the last time we looked at this, and it’s worth getting into. Let’s talk about what flatpak means today.
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×43-self-assembly/12449
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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53min
March 03, 20223×42: That High Level of Unlikeliness
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia return, after a couple of months of trials and tribulations, to reveal our predictions for (the rest of) 2022! Prepare to find out What Comes Next in our roles as Cassandras:
[00:06:20] Jono:
VR bonanza: Apple will release their VR headset this year, and PSVR2 will be released, both purchasable by real people. Both will experience critical acclaim (although we won’t have good sales figures)

Tesla won’t release a phone, Neuralink will launch in beta this year

Truth Social will experience significant growth (but nowhere near as much as Twitter etc) but will be plagued with (1) stability issues, and (2) extremist content

Bonus 1: Canonical will not be acquired

Meta’s VR services will actually not be terrible

[00:28:35] Jeremy:
Apple will, for the first time in a long time, release a completely new product line. It will be AR/VR, and it will be panned by critics

At least one very large (think FAANG size but does not have to be a FAANG) will walk back their remote work policy

both the US and EU pass sweeping tech related laws that have broad impact on the industry (part of the “techlash”)

Bonus 1: Gamestop stock price still above $100

Inflation for the year below five percent

Truth Social will shut down

Mark Zuckerberg will not be CEO of Meta

[00:49:40] Stuart:
Apple will either allow sideloading or allow third-party browser engines on iOS

Matter (the common protocol for IoT stuff) will see first devices released, people will not care (they should, but they won’t, of course) and it won’t actually work

Meta’s share price a third at end of year what it is at start: under $100 at end of 2022.

Bonus 1: Some company will leak private customer data onto a blockchain so it’s there forever

Someone buys Twitter (likely to not happen because of the regulatory environment, as Jeremy points out!)

Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×42-that-high-level-of-unlikeliness/12447
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
1h 8min
December 23, 20213×41: By A Hair Or Two
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia are in your ears for the last time in 2021, as we look back on what we thought this year would be back in January, and then how it’s actually been now that we’ve lived through it. Yes, it’s prediction review time! Did you do better than us?
We will do better next year. And we plan to do so, live and on camera! Keep an eye out for our first live stream of a show recording, January 13th 2022!
Have great holidays, and see you all in the new year!
[00:01:35] SIL: Remote work starts to hollow out cities

[00:05:44] SIL: Social media credibility checker

[00:09:37] SIL: Amazon buy Zoom

[00:10:58] SIL: Bonuses – Canonical, Vaccinations, Apple

[00:16:42] JG: Jeff Bezos richest man ever

[00:18:09] JG: Google makes largest acquisition in history of company

[00:19:20] JG: BTC below $5,000 or above $55,000

[00:22:05] JG: Facebook loses 15%-20% of active user count

[00:23:26] JG: Bonus – Amazon search engine, security breach larger than Solarwinds

[00:27:29] JB: Sony releases PSVR headset V2

[00:29:21] JB: vaccine passport required by airlines

[00:34:45] JB: Donald Trump’s Twitter account disabled but not banned

[00:35:52] JB: Zoom remote-working offering

[00:37:48] JB: Bonuses – Facebook spaces, Canonical not getting acquired

[00:41:12] Outro
Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!
https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×41-by-a-hair-or-two/12445
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
44min

FAQs about Bad Voltage:

How many episodes does Bad Voltage have?

The podcast currently has 217 episodes available.

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