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!

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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

There are even events:

• Oggcamp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October – Get your talks prepared!!!
  • Entroware are Platinum sponsors!!! Go buy your Ubuntu laptops, desktops, and servers from them. As well as helping pay for OggCamp, they’re donating a brand spanking new laptop to the OggCamp Raffle!
  • The Ubuntu community and Fedora are also very generously sponsoring OggCamp 2015.
  • Dan sends his apologies for the lack up updates on the website so far. Speaker announcements and schedule details are going up over the next few days. Also, it’s worth signing up on Eventbrite (it can be a free ticket; no money needed) because then you’ll get useful information updates by email.
    over the weekend He’s been inconveniently struck down by life but he’s hoping to make it to OggCamp.
• Podcasters and listeners meetup – London, UK – 12th November

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]
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It’s Episode Thirty-two of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

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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 Moto X Style, and getting the Ubuntu Podcast BattleBus prepped and dead-food-free for the Ubuntu Podcast OggCamp2015 Road Trip.

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

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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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