The Command Line Podcast

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. The hacker word of the week this week is flamage. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on personal growth inspired by my recent job change. The previous chapters on accomplishment, stretching yourself, and effecting change brush up against this topic. My career change was partly enabled by this Google talk with Vint Cerf and Chef Andres. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Listener feedback was from Jed in response to the Inner Chapter on Health and Eric in response to the post-peak computing feature and the news story about the study looking at piracy as the future of TV. The hacker word of the week this week is flaky. The feature this week is a look at the duology of Tron films from a hackish point of view. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Listener feedback was from Craig who wrote asking for more info on TIA and Jort with a great suggestion on using game style mechanics and feedback to motivate exercise. Jort’s anecdote reminds me of the work of Jane McGonigal who has a new book out. The hacker word of the week this week is flag day. The feature this week is a talk I gave at MITH about the International Amateur Scanning League. I used one of Dan Bull’s videos, the one about WikiLeaks, in my presentation as well as sharing clips from the FedFlix collection that IASL helped digitize. The clips were The Real Person, a smoke jumper training video, the Longines Chronoscope episode featuring Eugene Black of the World Bank, and The Big Picture installment covering the Army talent show. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 239, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are Google remotely removes Android malware receiving criticism for doing so and unmasking anonymous emails. In this week’s news, an advance in magnetic resonance used in quantum computing, Craig Newmark’s new site for connecting supporters with not-for-profits, the history and future of internet enabled activism, and questioning whether libraries should become TechShops. Following up this week details of Amazon’s DRM in its Android app store and senators urge Facebook to change its privacy policy. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 238, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are a couple of stories of whether difficulties erasing and preserving data on flash storage and how to block Facebook apps accessing your contact info if you aren’t ready to just delete it or your account. In this week’s news, considering whether piracy is the future of television, a novel processor design localizing storage to processor cores to get past the energy/heat wall, memristor based processor solves mazes, and remembering Trumpet Winsock with a call to thank its creator. Following up this week Pirate Party official recognized in Massachusetts and DoJ investigating MPEG-LA for antitrust. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to Vivid Muse (of Into the Blender and Girls Rules) for her generous donation. Listener feedback (the answers to which were long overdue) was from mettaben, bram, Craig, and Jed. The hacker word of the week this week is flag. The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on certain aspects of health from a hackish point of view, in particular exercise and to a lesser extent diet. This feature was developed in response to Jed’s questions on the subject from a little while ago. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 237, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, I urge you to consider helping to support New Mediator’s Kickstarter project. Also I share a promo for UCubed, a one day Ubuntu and Debian workship in Manchester, UK. This week’s security alerts are what was sniffed from an Android smart phone and a keyboard that can tell when you are absent and log you off. In this week’s news, first instance of testing the DMCA and 3D printing following very much from the questions and issues in Michael Weinberg’s white paper, Apple’s new subscription model leads to rejection of Readability’s iOS app, Internet Archive partners with 150 libraries for e-lending program, and computer small enough to fit on a pen tip. Following up this week Freedom Box has a Kickstarter and Rushkoff’s distributed internet idea moves ahead. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is an interview I conducted with rapper and song writer, Dan Bull. You can learn a little more about him from his Wikipedia page. I also strongly recommend checking out his YouTube channel. In the course of the interview we mention his WikiLeaks video and we discuss his entry into iris’ Urgent Genius contest. You can help Dan with that contest by watching his Shaun of the Dead Island remix video. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 236, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, some reflection on this coming con season as I missed Farpoint for the first time in several years due to a tight budget. I will also be missing Dragon*Con, as much as it pains me, as that was a contributing factor from last year leading into this year’s resource crunch. I will be at Balticon and am looking at attending either Southeast Linux Fest or Ohio Linux Fest thanks to listener donations. This week’s security alerts are Intel along with others prepare to support single use passwords and researchers sniff secret keys over the air at RSA Conference. In this week’s news, a lecture on anti-features, why computronium may be unattainable, Brazilian regulator seizing gear and fining a user may parallel a trend away from open sharing, and Moglen’s idea for de-centralizing the web including a foundation to support it and a possible, pre-existing competitor. Following up this week Congress passes Patriot Act renewal without change or comment and two diverging takes on Clinton’s latest net freedom speech. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, I urge you to help listener Nick pitch a talk about his journal at the unconference, on Sunday, that will be part of Students for Free Culture this weekend. The hacker word of the week this week is FIXME. The feature this week is a monologue positing an answer to listener Jed’s question about the shape of computing in a post peak resource world. In the feature, I mention the Wired’s brief article on peak everything and Wikipedia article on bioplastics. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 235, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to Nicholas for his donation this past week and a heads up that there will be no feature cast this coming week do to travel for my day job. This week’s security alerts are a new version of nmap is released and another VLC vulnerability with a quick fix following after. In this week’s news, Francis Ford Coppola as a copyfighter reiterating ideas similar to those expressed by Nina Paley, Kirby Ferguson and Neal Stephenson, a project to empirically study how musicians support their art which contrasts strongly to industry intermediaries working on a new rights database, Readabilty evolves to add features and try to better support writers, and Google’s new Art Project. Following up this week UK reconsider web blocking provision of the Digital Economy Act and Hadopi wants to consider accessing unauthorized media streams one of the three strikes. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, I talk about SCALE 9x for which I have two free passes for the first two people to send me an email asking after them. I also play the official promo for the expo. Listener feedback is from John, Charles and Mike in response to my rant on the pseudocommons. John framed his question on his blog. Charles and Mike contributed their thoughts in the comment thread for the episode. Charles also commented on my interview with Gabriella Coleman, to which she replied with some excellent sources for further reading. Charles has started his own new blog to further explore some of the ideas that informed his comments on the pseudocommons rant. The hacker word of the week this week is fix. The feature this week is some event recording I captured at Wiki X DC, the local tenth anniversary celebration for Wikipedia. These are just two talks out of an entire day’s worth given by Archives staffers and Wikipedians. I was there on behalf of Fedflix to talk about that project. The first talk I have was given by Jill Reilly James. She works with online public access at the Archives where she is a staffer (though her talk isn’t an official statement by the Archives just her own views). She talks through using the existing and new search interfaces. Jill also blogs at Narations, the official Archives blog about online public access. The second talk I have was given by Sarah Stierch who is working on the Wikiproject for Public Art. She mentions the SIRIS database, a site discussing the “morally correct” statuary at Union Station, and Tony Smith. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is news cast 233, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, apologies to Sean or anyone else who took offense at my uncritical reading of the Jargon File entry on fisking. Sean filled in more of the story while I was ignorant that the story even existed. He also offers up one of the articles to which the entry refers. I will endeavor to do better, to not share an entry that refers to a specific person or event without more careful reading and consideration. This week’s security alerts are a technique for revealing 3rd party site logins and Facebook finally offers SSL encryption. In this week’s news, browser makers move ahead of do not track including Mozilla (with a handy infographic) and Google though we should be asking questions about how this all will work, Douglas Adams’ online encyclopedia attempts to save itself from shutdown, an ancient Greek inventor and roboticist, and the rise and fall of graphical adventure games. Following up this week is 3D printing game pieces legal including whether it is a problem if it is and Wyden promises to delay COICA. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. I’ll be at Wiki X DC this Saturday (which may or may not interfere with getting a news cast out on Sunday). If you can spare some cash, Podiobooks could really use the support to upgrade their servers right now. Listener feedback is from Jonathan in response to my piece about being an autodidact. He recommends a couple of videos and David Brin’s blog. The hacker word of the week this week is fisking. The feature this week is a somewhat rambling, speculative rant on the tragedy of the pseudocommons. This stems from a lot of recent attention on commons as economic and governance models, including the Nobel prize winning work of Elinor Ostrom and David E. Williams. The title is in fact a riff on Hardin’s original critique of the commons. In discussing the ethos animating digital commons, I suggest the Free Software Foundation exceeds the core values by insisting on stronger notions of liberty. James Boyle’s book does an excellent job describing the more obvious threat of enclosure. My pondering the pseudocommons is similar in some regards to my thoughts on the true burden of forking. Nicholas Carr pegs on extreme example of the form. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is an interview I conducted with Gabriella Coleman. I was introduced to her work through her writings at The Atlantic. She mentions Malcom Gladwell’s criticism of online activism and Indy Media. The main reason I invited her on was her critique of Bruce Sterling’s The Blast Shack. We delve a bit further into the question of WikiLeaks lasting impacts. I mention a couple of times Clay Shirky’s long haul view. Gabriella recommends Adrian Johns’ book on piracy (which I ordered with a gift card I received recently, can’t wait to read it). She also mentions a revisit of the topic of WikiLeaks at The Economist. You can also find Gabriella on Twitter where she is quite active and sharing some great links related to topics we discuss in this interview and of course her broader work. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.