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It’s Episode Thirty-eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording as normal over the internets which are suffering slightly from the storms outside…

In this week’s show:

* We talk about Laura’s recent experience 3D printing Christmas tree-shaped Christmas tree decorations:

The 'design' I did in OpenSCAD last night. Just learning how it works so far. pic.twitter.com/lb0fXHNW4k

— Laura Cowen (@lauracowen) November 5, 2015

So, I made a thing. In 3D. It'll be a xmas decoration. Designed in OpenSCAD. @andysc printed this am.#TheFuture pic.twitter.com/P8WYGFtfUc

— Laura Cowen (@lauracowen) November 5, 2015

So I made my xmas tree hollow (and stuck a hole in it to check it). Learning some maths here. #openscad pic.twitter.com/09bDb9KGOr

— Laura Cowen (@lauracowen) November 9, 2015

* We chat about buying yet another new phone, playing Bandit, and watching Mr Robot.

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We go over your feedback.

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It’s Episode Thirty-seven of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording as normal over the internets which are suffering slightly from the storms outside…

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* Valve launches a massive sale of SteamOS (Linux) titles to coincide with the launch of Steam Machines…

* The first Linux ransomware program, Linux.Encoder.1, has been cracked

* Nvidia has launched the Jetson TX1 module…

* Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club have merged…

* ISPs have told the Commons select committee that £175m budgeted by the UK government will not cover ‘massive costs’ of collecting everyone’s data…. Find out more on the Open Rights Group’s campaign page where you can email your MP.

* The first release candidate for QEMU v2.5 is out…

* Edward Snowden explains how to reclaim your privacy…

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* Ubuntu members should be notified soon about voting in the Community Council elections…

There are even events:

* Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day – 20th November (every year!)

* Google Code-in – starts 7th December

* Pi Wars – the Raspberry Pi robotics challenge competition – Saturday 5 December, 10:00 to 18:30 (GMT) – University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

* 10th Egham Raspberry Jam – Gamification – Sunday 17 January 2016, 14:00 to 17:00 (GMT) – Gartner, Surrey

* SCaLE 14x – January 21-24, 2016 – Pasadena Convention Center, California (including UbuCon Summit – 21st to 22nd)

* FOSDEM 2016 – 30 Jan 2016 to 31 Jan 2016 – Brussels, Belgium

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Thirty-six of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope are still in Liverpool at OggCamp 2015 looking at each other whilst recording the show!

Blurry attempt to fit us all in a photo of the @ubuntupodcast recording on Sunday night after #oggcamp pic.twitter.com/HwH1Z6z2ZL

— Laura Cowen (@lauracowen) November 2, 2015

In this week’s show: * We talk about OggCamp 2015. And we totally run out of time to say how awesome the social events were too! * We go over your feedback. * We chat about Ubuntu convergence:

Had an excellent time at #oggcamp talking with loads of people interested in #ubuntu on a phone as a desktop. pic.twitter.com/84LhdmaZth — Alan Pope  (@popey) October 31, 2015

playing with KDE Connect, and presenting at OggCamp for the first time ever:

@lauracowen presenting her talk about why she loves #parkrun #oggcamp pic.twitter.com/zuEhmQjoTs

— Eileen Cowen (@eileenent) October 31, 2015

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It’s Episode Thirty-five of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording together, in-person, and face-to-face across a dining-room table in Liverpool!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* Official WhatsApp app is now on Firefox OS…

* European Parliament passed a resolution for European Union member states to “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden…”

* Theresa May says ‘contentious’ parts of web surveillance plan dropped

* Librarian of Congress renews and expands protections for fair uses

* GNU Hurd 0.7, GNU Mach 1.6, GNU MIG 1.6 released

* Twitch playing Pokémon was easy mode. Today, Twitch viewers have been invited to do something altogether more challenging: install Arch Linux.

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* Sturmflut posts about setting up a Nexus 4 for convergence

* UOS has happened / is happening

There are even events:

* Podcasters and listeners meetup – London, UK – 12th November

* UbuCon Summit – 21st to 22nd of January 2016 – Pasadena, CA

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Thirty-four of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

* We review Mark’s new Steam controller

* How Mark got the controller working on Ubuntu 14.04

* Mark’s full review in blog post form

* We go over your feedback, which included some podcasts from listeners:

* TechSNAP, BSDNow, The FauxShow, Tech Talk Today, The Linux Action Show, and Linux Unplugged from the Jupiter Broadcasting network

* Welcome to Night Vale

* Under the Influence with Terry O’Reilly

* Laugh Out Loud

* Vinyl Café Stories with Stuart McLean

* Quirks and Quarks

* Spark

* White Coat, Black Art

* Free as in Freedom

* Linux Link Podcast)

* Security Now

* Another list of podcasts from The Linux Link

* Yet another list from Hacker Public Radio

* Here’s the video of the hardware added to the neo900 (16:45)

* We have a command line love, from Roger Light:

!$ on the command line means “the final item from the previous command line” which is something that comes up lots and lots. I use it every day. Easy example:

mkdir bob

cd !$

* We chat about Choose Your Own Adventure Making with Twine, dinosaur hacking on the Isle of Wight, cooking poppadoms in the microwave, and Egham Raspberry Jam.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Thirty-three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* In recent days the have been reports that people’s systems are not merely downloading the Windows 10 installer but actually starting it up…

* Someone uploaded a malicious app to the Ubuntu Click store, that got past the automated testing…

* Chrome 46 will dump the “OK Google” extension because nobody actually uses it, although it will remain in ChromeOS/Chromebooks…

* Ubuntu Mobile OTA-7 released…

* Facebook will start sending notifications to people that it believes have had their accounts hacked by governments…

* The Free Software Foundation have announced the first version of criteria for evaluating services that host free software source code repositories for distribution and collaborative development…

* CIA Director’s personal email allegedly hacked

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* 11 years ago Ubuntu 4.10 was released

* Ubuntu 15.10 has been released along with Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu

* Mozilla has announced their plan to drop NPAPI support for everything but Flash at the end of 2016…

* A small book has been created to help others learn the BQ Aquaris E4.5…

* Find-a-Task is the Ubuntu community’s job board for volunteers…

* Richard Collins, product manager from Canonical, has blogged about the ‘path to convergence’

* Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next release of Ubuntu will be named xenial xerus

It’s Episode Thirty-two of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

* We share the (long) list of podcasts we listen to and why:

* The Talk Show

* ATP (Accidental Tech Podcast)

* Minute Earth

* Minute Physics

* Adam Buxton podcast

* Answer Me This

* Bad Voltage

* Floss Weekly

* Going Linux

* JoeRess Podcast

* Linux Action Show

* Linux unplugged

* Linux for the rest of us

* Linux Gamecast

* Linux Luddites

* Linux Voice

* mintCast

* simply Elementary

* Sunday Morning Linux Review

* #systemau

* The Pi Podcast

* Third World Linux

* TechSNAP

* Coder Radio

* Linux in the Ham Shack

* Everyday Linux

* Doctor Who Podcast

* HursleyFM

* More or Less

* Radio 4 Friday Night Comedy

* Comedy of the Week

* No such thing as a fish

* The Infinite Monkey Cage

* The Life Scientific

* Cory Doctorow

* We go over your feedback.

* We have a command line love, from Martin who switched to hstr and wanted to migrate his Fish shell command history to ~/.bash_history. He used this command:

grep cmd ~/.config/fish/fish_history | cut -d' ' -f3- | sort -u >> ~/.bash_history

* We chat about going to (and presenting at) DevRelCon, using Kodi properly, judging the UbuContest, upgrading a MacBook Pro to OSX (don’t) and buying a Chromebook instead, getting glasses, ordering a

It’s Episode Thirty-one of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* Edward Snowden has claimed that GCHQ are capable of monitoring mobile phones with a single text message…

* Nylas, a small software company based in San Fransico, had announced a new open source mail client called N1…

* Ars Technica has published a thorough (12 page) review of Android 6.0…

* Adblock sold to new owner who they refuse to name…

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* Firefox and Thunderbird crash reports are temporarily going to errors.ubuntu.com, instead of mozilla’s bug tracker…

* An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor…

* Winners announced of the community organised UbuCon contest…

* Intel Graphics Developer Sarah Sharp has published a blog post explaining her decision to leave the Linux Kernel community… (And an excellent follow-up post on what makes a good, welcoming community.)

There are even events:

* Oggcamp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October – Get your talks prepared!!!

* Ubuntu Hackathon – Bangalore, India – 15th-16th October

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Thirty of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

* We chat about OggCamp 2015 with Les Pounder.

* We go over your feedback.

* We have a command line love, from Alan: sed -n '1p;$p'

* We chat about developing cross-platform games in HTML5, the continuing saga of Mark’s laptop, building a kernel the Ubuntu Way, and getting a cheap Jolla phone.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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It’s Episode Twenty-nine of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* Dell’s head of China told The Wall Street Journal that NeoKylin Linux is shipped on 42 percent of the PCs it sells into China.

* Let’s Encrypt are working towards general availability over the next couple of months and passed a major milestone by issuing its first certificate.

* Volkswagen shares have plunged more than 18% after US regulators found that some of its cars could manipulate official emissions tests

* IBM are releasing open source blockchain thingummy (and Imogen Heap’s music idea #longread

* Italy’s Ministry of Defense drop Microsoft Office in Favor of LibreOffice and adopt the Open Document Format (ODF).

* It was decided at this year’s DebConf to stop producing new CD ISOs/images for future Debian updates onward.

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* Big Bug Bonanza Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – call for participation

* Community Council call for nominations.

* Replacing the Startup Disk Creator – call for Python coders

* Ubuntu Developers discuss the future of Snappy Personal, Unity 8, Mir, Convergence

* UbuContest – send us your opinions on the entries

There are even events:

* DevRelCon – London, UK – 30th September

* Oggcamp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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