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Pre-Show

Killing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I’ve Ever Done

Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all Internet service from my home. It ended up being the best productivity decision I’ve ever made.

Now when I’m on the Internet, it has a purpose—it is a tool I use to enhance my life. Sure, sometimes I log on to watch some funny videos or laugh at memes, but I go to the Internet with the intention of doing these things.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Pinebook Linux laptop is ready to ship

The Pinebook is a cheap, low-power laptop with an ARM-based processor. First unveiled in November, the Pinebook comes from the makers of the Pine A64 single-board computer and it uses the same processor as that tiny desktop.

Prices start at $89 for a model with an 11.6 inch display or $99 for a 14 inch version… but shipping from Hong Kong can add as much as $37 to the price, depending on where you live.

OpenELEC 8.0 Linux OS Officially Out with Raspberry Pi Zero W Support, Kodi 17.1

Based on the latest Kodi 17.1 “Krypton” open-source and cross-platform media center software, OpenELEC 8.0 is here with a lot of updated internals, as well as support for new platforms, such as the recently launched Raspberry Pi Zero W single-board computer, WeTek Hub, and WeTek Play 2.

Snap support lands in Fedora 24, 25 & 26

As part as our mission to get snaps running everywhere, we are pleased to announce that support for snaps has now officially landed in Fedora, starting with Fedora 24 and up.

Why use snaps?

Among other things, snaps make packaging, distribution and updates really easy for developers and automated for users. Which means you will get the latest version of your installed apps directly from upstream, on release day, or even daily if upstream has integrated snap publication into their CI process.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Wes’ Picks

journal-triggerd: Runs trigger on systemd’s journal messages

journal-triggerd is a small daemon that runs in the background, listening to systemd’s journal, and will run “triggers” (i.e. exec a command line) when certain messages are added.

Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface

A quick search for “how to artificially slow down a Linux networking interface” produced a number of interesting results. Folks mostly discussed 3rd party tools like Wondershaper and Dummynet. Other suggestions involved proxying all HTTP/HTTPS traffic through Apache’s mod_bw — yuck!

Fortunately, most Linux distros ship with the tc command which is used to configure Traffic Control in the Linux kernel.

HashiCorp Packer 1.0

Packer 1.0 is a significant milestone. Packer is a powerful and full-featured tool to create cloud images and application packages. Today, Packer is in use by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide to automate their image creation.

Packer was started in 2013 and was the first project started at HashiCorp. Vagrant, our earliest project, was started prior to the founding of HashiCorp. We started Packer with the goal to create one workflow to build various types of deployment images.

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

News

Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT ‘cowboys’ ride into sunset

The stakes are especially high for the financial industry, where an estimated $3 trillion in daily commerce flows through COBOL systems. The language underpins deposit accounts, check-clearing services, card networks, ATMs, mortgage servicing, loan ledgers and other services.

Of the 20 “Cowboys” that work as part-time consultants many have reached retirement age, though there are some “youngsters,” Hinshaw said. “Well, I call them youngsters, but they’re in their 40s, early 50s.”

The Companies That Support Linux and Open Source: Pinterest | Linux.com

Pinterest — “the world’s catalog of ideas” — is built on open source, according to Jon Parise, technical architecture lead and open source program lead at the company. In this interview, Parise explains how adopting open source has changed the company and helped the company’s engineers design software that is more modular, reusable, and well-documented from the outset.

Pinterest is built on open source. From our first lines of Django code over six years ago to the release of Rocksplicator, our latest open source project, we’ve directly benefited from open source projects and the supportive communities surrounding them. In turn, we’ve made significant contributions to the open source technologies we use and have pushed the limits of technologies like HBase. Internally, open source is part of a product cycle. We frequently open source the technologies we build as both a way to give back to communities and because it’s the right thing to do.

Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications

In the context of an open source project, Slack, HipChat, Gitter, etc, provide a forum for advocacy, gossip, informal discussion, and support. My complaints start when Slack and friends are promoted as the recommended way to communicate with the project.

• Slack, et al, are paid services with closed memberships.

• Slack, et al, are based on synchronous communication, which discriminate against those who do not or can not take part of the conversation in real time.

Instead of closed, synchronous, systems I recommend open source projects stick to asynchronous communication tools that leave a publicly linkable, searchable, url. The tools that fit this requirement best are; mailing list, issue trackers, and forums.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year

Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ending development of Ubuntu software for phones and tablets, spelling doom for the goal of creating a converged experience with phones acting as desktops when docked with the right equipment.

“Work on the phone and tablet is also ending, the whole convergence story, really,” Hall said. “The desktop will continue, but like it was in the pre-Unity days where we took what upstream [developers] designed and developed.”

By switching to GNOME, Canonical is also giving up on Mir and moving to the Wayland display server, another contender for replacing the X window system. Given the separate development paths of Mir and Wayland, “we have no real choice but to use Wayland when Ubuntu switches to GNOME by default,” Hall told Ars. “Using Mir simply isn’t an option we have.”

• Ubuntu Abandoning Unity in Favor of GNOME: What This Means

• Mark Shuttleworth says some free software folk are ‘deeply anti-social’ and ‘love to hate’

• yunit – A community-driven unity8 fork

• UBports Community Q&A: April 8, 2017

Post-Show

System76 Isn’t Giving Up On Ubuntu, Plans to Put its Own Spin on GNOME

“The Ubuntu Desktop team have always produced an incredible operating system, whether it be with GNOME or Unity. We’re excited to see their thoughtfulness, effort, and innovation added into the GNOME community,” – Carl Richell, System76 CEO

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Angela and Chris discuss the upcoming holidays in November and some special month long events that you can take part in!

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• f.lux: software to make your life better

f.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer\’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

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Pinterest Fails: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/halloween-pinterest-fails

Movies: https://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2013/10/top-10-halloween-movies

Now that it’s November:

https://linuxbeard.com/

MOvember: https://us.movember.com/about

https://us.movember.com/about/money

https://us.movember.com/programs

https://mustachiofuriosos.tumblr.com/post/231262878/fun-facts

NaNoWriMo https://nanowrimo.org/

NaBloPoMo: https://www.blogher.com/blogher-topics/blogging-social-media/nablopomo
https://www.blogher.com/nablopomo-soup-add-your-november-2013-posts?wrap=blogher-topics/blogging-social-media/nablopomo&crumb=113590
Daily Post: https://www.blogher.com/frame.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdailypost.wordpress.com%2F&_back=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogher.com%2Fnablopomo-soup-add-your-november-2013-posts%3Fwrap%3Dblogher-topics%2Fblogging-social-media%2Fnablopomo%26crumb%3D113590

XKCD: https://xkcd.com/972/

• Nov 5th is Bonfire Night in the UK
• Nov 11th is Remembrance Day/Veteran’s Day
• Nov 21st is Angela’s 30th Birthday https://img0.etsystatic.com/024/0/7812043/il_fullxfull.481216158_sf1e.jpg?ref=l2
• Nov 28th is US Thanksgiving
• Nov 29th is Black Friday
• Dec 2nd is Cyber Monday

Apple cider drink https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aHEjUOjGEeQ/Tu4lCfio5LI/AAAAAAAB92E/_iqGd2qyEt8/s1600/whipped%2Bcu.jpg

Winter starts Dec 21st

Mail Sack:

New subscriber writes:

I was lucky enough to stumble across BSD Now a couple of weeks ago, which was great, and then had a \’every day is Christmas\’ experience as I discovered TechSNAP, then LAS, Linux Unplugged, Coder Radio, and even Plan-B (really hope it comes back!).

The show episodes have been deliciously tech info dense, the show notes are invaluable, and Chris is a truly exceptional and brilliant talent. I truly appreciate and enjoy the consistently high level of tech competent hosts & co-hosts in the Juniper shows, especially Allen Jude.

I had already been planing to subscribe (but procrastinating) until I heard the subcription drive appeal on Unfilter #73 (fantastic coverage of NSA story btw), so I subscribed then and there thru Amazon (larry bain).

Hope to be able to up the funding level in the future to help keep the Juniper awesomeness flowing. Money is a little tight right now in our home and all the expenditures have to pass thru the wife-committee process, but getting vendor approval is the first step Juniper Broadcasting is in!

Keep up the awesome work!

Mattias writes:

I have noticed that Chris abbreviates ‘versus’ ‘vs’ and not ‘vs.’,
but this makes no sense because he thought that the dot in ‘Dr Pepper’
was missing.

Is Allan influencing Chris\’s spelling? (If so, grate work Allan!)

(Abbreviations where you just write the first and last letter
can be written like ‘v:s’ outside the US, but only abbrevations
where you keep the first letters like ‘abbr.’ are allowed to end
with a dot outside the US.)

“huge friend” writes:

Hey Chris, I have heard you say f.lux isn\’t working for you on Arch, which I haven\’t tried yet because I\’m always cli with arch (does it work in the console?) Anyway, with Ubuntu 13.10 it works with cli, but yes the plugin doesn\’t work. I just enter ./xflux -z (your zipcode here). Supose you could cron it and your good to go. F.lux is an essential part

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Angela and Chris go over some projects that didn’t quite turn out the way their creators had hoped. Plus how just changing your perspective, can dramatically change what you see in a picture.

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Food Doing it wrong: https://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/people-worse-at-cooking-than-you-food-fails

Punography: https://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/funny-puns.jpg

Worst ANalogies ever: https://www.c4vct.com/kym/humor/analog.htm

Pinterest Fails: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/reasons-you-should-never-reenact-pinterest-photos

WTF Pics: https://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/photos-you-really-need-to-look-at-to-understand

close calls: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kmallikarjuna/21-incredibly-close-calls?sub=1974727_879340/

Penis Sizes: https://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=3073

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Angela and Chris go over some of the latest G+ changes from the Google I/O and show of a few of their favorite new features. Plus a few of the changes that took us by surprise, and a big mail sack!

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• Google+ completely redesigned, now automatically enhances photos and highlights your best shots | The Verge

The redesign doesn’t just feature a new layout for your Google+ stream — the company has also worked to turn the website into more of a proper app instead of a website.

• Google gives Google+ a facelift, enhances photo features – latimes.com

The highlight of the new features may be Google+’s new photo editing and uploading tools. One of them will automatically sift through a bunch of photos taken during a vacation, for instance, and create a themed album to share with friends. Using the company’s technology, Google+ will choose the best pictures based on a variety of factors, including whether they feature people or important landmarks.

• Google Unveils New Music Streaming, Hangout App, Photo Features – ABC News

Google announced today it jumped on the online music streaming bandwagon with a new service through its Google Play – its Android store for apps, music, movies and other multimedia.

• Hipster Dog MEME

Mailsack:

Mike writes: How do you run freenas from cd rom. Not install but run freenas from or on cd rom

Jeff writes:

While watching your last episode of LAS you guys didn’t think too much about Ubuntu Phone spins! I completely disagree and think that there will/should be tons of spins! You forgot to think about custom Android roms. Every phone has more roms than we can keep track of. As a user, we don’t want to be locked into a venders “way”. We want to break out into different ways, new interfaces, faster systems, and more user customization. I for one am only excited about what spins may come because I am honestly not a fan of Canonical, and fear that they will take a mac approach with there Ubuntu phone OS.

Love the show, keep on rocken!

Andrew writes:

I would like to complain, about your Ting advertising. You keep telling us about how fantastic Ting is and how you can mix and match your voice and data components and only pay for what you use. I continually hear it throughout your shows and it makes me look at my phone, and cry! Because Ting is not in Australia. And without Ting in Australia, I cannot sign up to a Ting plan. And without a Ting plan I am stuck paying for hundreds of minutes of voice I will never use
The next time you are talking to your guy at Ting, please tell him Ting needs to start doing business in Australia.

Cal writes:

This is just a general comment…. I don’t support this “Unfiltered” or any show by JB, individually. But I do go out of my way to support JB as a whole because I take something beneficial from each show I watch. My concern is, in supporting one show I would be neglecting another which I gain benefit from. Please do not view your podcasts as simple podcasts, they are the best I have seen on the internet and truly are a culmination of a network. Specific to your case, the “unflitered” news channel, if it is to remain only your bias and not that of commercial interest, then please keep it part of an important piece of the network. Unaffected by anything else.
To be noted – I do not share yor views on a lot but do on some – still nice to here current event with out bs….right?

Pradeep:

I have been a big fan of your Linux Action Show & Coder Radio for the past one year. I am an indepent game developer and I have just released my game Zenania on Google Play for Androids. All the tools used to make it were open source/ free software like gimp…etc. After listening to your shows about the awesome tech in open source, I decided to try open tools for game developement and now I have release my very first indepent game. Thank you for inspiring me take the effort. If it was not for your show I would not have tried those tools (open source)…. Cheers.

Here is a link to my game.

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