Trump, more drones and confession time.

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It’s been well over a month, mostly because Isaac and I have been developing The Pi Podcast. I’ve also done loads of mintCasts and episodes of Linux Luddites which is now a weekly show. Isaac bought a new phone.

News and discussion

We spoke about Donald Trump and the American electoral system.

We mentioned MicroSoft’s new AI and spoke about Windows 10.

Isaac mentioned an old story about the Chinese government banning Windows 8.

The Recall on cars getting hacked led on to discussion about the Internet of things.

Drone watch

Drone swarming language

Don’t bring your drone to New Zealand

Isaac’s old KY home

* more on the drone shooting in KY

Report of a drone shooting a gun

* Police try to follow up on this shooting drone

Feedback

Thanks to Will, Rainy and Jon for getting in touch.

If you want to get in contact, you can email me at JoeRessPodcast at Gmail or podcast at joeress.

Speak soon.

Movies and Futurism

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It’s been about a month and I have done a couple of mintCasts, a couple of Linux Luddites episodes and have been to see Jurassic World and Terminator Genisys at the Cinema. I also bought a projector.

News

Ray Kurzweil and Electronic skin

This Robot Can 3-D Print A Steel Bridge In Mid-Air

Feedback

Thanks to Will, Rob, Leigh and Poruchik Kizhe for getting in touch. Will linked to some good information about encryption.

If you want to get in contact, you can email me at JoeRessPodcast at Gmail.

Speak soon.

Encryption, E-waste and a tin foil test

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Isaac rejoined Twitter and Joe went on the Ubuntu Podcast and produced an episode of Linux Luddites which included an interview with Jonathan Riddell.

News and discussion

Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption

UK crypto firm relocates over ‘Snooper’s Charter’ fears

Tech industry redoubles efforts to fight US gov’t encryption backdoors

Joe doesn’t understand why anyone would waste their time watching people play games on Twitch. Isaac sees things differently.

E-waste

Isaac mentioned a video of a man swatting down a quadcopter.

Grooveshark.li is dead and Joe hasn’t found a replacement yet.

We said we would link to a couple of stories about the geopolitics of remote islands.

Feedback

Thanks to Ronald Houk, Leigh and Steve Engledow for getting in touch.

If you want to get in contact, you can email me at JoeRessPodcast at Gmail.

Speak soon.

Ex Machina and existentialism

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News & discussion points

Grooveshark arms race. Somewhat alive for now.

Would you take a pill that allows you to live to 10000?

3D printed skin

Ex Machina

Computer AI passes Turing test in ‘world first’ (Kryten’s opinion)

Isaac’s podcast list

Feedback

Thanks to Alex and Will for getting in touch

If you want to get in contact, you can email me at JoeRessPodcast at Gmail.

Speak soon.

Election semi-special

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Isaac mentioned a book about Cancer in the intro and another book about robots in the news.

News stories:

We talked quite a lot about the UK general election and alluded to Charlie Brooker’s Election Wipe.

We mentioned two stories about drones.

Robots taking jobs that no one wants.

The death of Grooveshark.

Feedback

Thanks to Jack Dennahower, Alex, Martin Karlsson, Leigh, Richard and Will for getting in touch.

Isaac sent me an email:

“…when you type up the show notes for the episode, can you put a sentence or two that I said thank you to all the people who wrote in with positive feedback?  Thanks buddy.”

If you want to get in contact, you can email me at JoeRessPodcast at Gmail.

Speak soon.

Isaac Carter returns as a potential permanent co-host and there’s a new format.

Feedback

Thanks to Will and Jack Dennahower for getting in touch. A story about two men hurting each other in an argument over iOS and Android was mentioned.

If you want to get in contact, you can email me at JoeRessPodcast at Gmail.

Speak soon.

What I’ve been up to

I’ve done two episodes of Linux Luddites and two episodes of mintCast.

Chat with listener Isaac Carter

We spoke about the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour and its implications for government surveillance and privacy. We meandered all over the place and ultimately felt quite pessimistic by the end of the conversation. Interesting nonetheless I thought and I hope to chat to Isaac again soon.

Feedback

Thanks to Leigh, Jason Connerly and Mr Sterling for getting in touch.

If you want to get in contact, you can email me at JoeRessPodcast at Gmail.

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Linux podcast supergroup spectacular!

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What I’ve been up to

Recording a shouty chat with Scott Newlon (mintCast), jesse (Linux Luddites) and Matt Copperwaite  (The Dick Turpin Road Show) at the meet up in the pub last week. Thanks a lot to everyone who came. It was a great night.

I’ve also done a mintCast and a Linux Luddites.

Feedback

Thanks to Karl, Aaron, Martin, Scramblo and Leigh for getting in touch.

If you want to get in contact, you can email me at JoeRessPodcast at Gmail.

Speak soon.