The Command Line Podcast

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a reminder that CopyNight here in DC is next Tuesday. Also, an update on the badge experiment. And thanks to Kevin M. and George for their donations this past week. Listener feedback this week is from Robert. He recommends the radio show and podcast, Media Matters. The hacker word of the week this week is fat electrons. The feature this week is an interview with Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at EFF. We discuss the recent ruling in the Al Haramain case, one of the many wrestling with the warrantless wire taps conducted under the Bush administration. I mention my previous interview with EFF's Rebecca Jeschke about the FISA Amendments Act. I also mention EFF's resource pages on the Hepting case, the Jewel case, and on this case. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. 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 Robert for his donation. Also an announcement, that there will be no news show this weekend due to time constraints resulting from family and personal commitments. There is no listener feedback this week. The hacker word of the week this week is fascist . The feature this week is an interview Josh Stearns of Free Press about the Comcast-NBC acquisition. In it, we mention the Free Press resource page on the deal as well as the page from Comcast. This interview was prompted by an email from Josh about a story I posted on the FCC docket as part of their review of the deal. More news and commentary, the alternate feed, and downloadable show notes available at http://thecommandline.net/. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are a crowd sourced platform for malware analysis and storing a thirty character random password in your brain’s unconscious memory. In this week’s news, the immensely exciting $99 Android game console and the amazing support it has already gathered, a modest open source license project gathers a lot of interest, a filmmaker aims to live his life using only open source for one year, and YouTube announced a facial blurring capability, one Google is claiming is as un-reversible as they can make it. Following up this week Stephenson’s sword fighting game is fully funded and Linux developers working on the UEFI Secure Boot problem. 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. Apologies, again, for the delay. Hopefully the reasons for my late return home last night will be discussed on a future episode of my other podcast, the Living Proof brew cast. There is no new hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is a discussion of two books from the 1980s that both made some interesting predictions, some of which held up, others which did not, and the value the resides in them regardless of their accuracy. The first is “Islands in the Net” by Bruce Sterling, the other “Cyberbooks“, by Ben Bova. 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 news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, I mention to events of note, HOPE Number 9 which is at the end of this week and Ohio Linux Fest going on in a few months, in September. This week’s security alerts are the end of Flash support on Linux and John the Ripper now able to crack applications and networks in addition to OSes and better able to use your GPU to do so faster. In this week’s news, infinite capacity vortex beam carries 2.5 terabits per second, genetically evolved semiconductors, another call to build an open Twitter work-alike, and how open hardware is driving the 3D printing revolution. Following up this week details of the UK piracy monitoring plan made public including who bears the cost and what next after defeating ACTA in the EU. 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. The hacker word of the week this week is fork bomb. The feature this week is an explanation of my production process and tools for the podcast. I mentioned the FLOSS manual for Ardour, the github project containing my encoding and feed management scripts and the mp4v2 library. 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 will be no podcasts after this one for two weeks as I will be abroad. If you miss me terribly, please do check out the current and upcoming interview series on the Living Proof brewcast. We managed to sit down with frequent guest here, Randy Chertkow, and catch up in much the way he and I have at Dragon*Cons past Due to the length of the feature, there is no new hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is the only audio I recorded at Balticon 46 that I plan on sharing, for reasons I discuss briefly in the episode’s intro. The recording is the panel I was on about social media’s impact on politics. I want to thank Patrick Scaffido who I think did a yeoman’s job of moderating what turned out to be a fantastic conversation. 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. I will not be headed to OSCon in July after all but will be keeping my other event and travel commitments for the rest of this month, and June. The hacker word of the week this week is fork. The feature this week is another monologue trying to bring to the surface my hackish assumptions, this time on how I see public policy, especially my own experiences in cultivating a second career recently in this space. 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 news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. I will be at Freedom to Connect later this month, then at Balticon. In June, I will be in London from the 7th to the morning of the 19th. I will be taking a brief side trip to Paris the 10th through the 12th. In July, I will be at OSCon. Come and find me at any of these events or places or feel free to send a note if you are interested in a meet up. This week’s security alerts are a proof of concept Android trojan that uses motion sensors to capture sensitive data and one of the first responses to the recent string of SSL concerns spins up. In this week’s news, millions of Harvard library catalog records made openly available, first legal focus hackathon, single layer silicon compound could beat graphene to market, and 1Gbps wireless network made with plain old red and green laser pointers. Following up this week CISPA veto recommended by White House and mainstream media ponders how The Pirate Party may be changing politics itself. 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. This month, save for Balticon towards the end, should be pretty quiet. Listener feedback this week was from Ralph looking for information on Commottion Wireless; Jon, ConFigures and Jim on the meaning of feeling your oats with relation to its original usage; Charles on the question of failure despite feeling your oats; and Daniel who was asking about a podcast on how I produce the podcast. The hacker word of the week this week is foreground. The feature this week is another monologue trying to bring to the surface my hackish assumptions, this time on how I see the suggestion of meritocracy in the FLOSS world. 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 news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are researchers develop improve quantum encryption and five year old remote code execution hole patched in Samba. In this week’s news, algorithms for smart sand that sculpts itself, print your own robots being developed, exotics electronics may be possible with topological insulators, and multi-core chips as mini internets. Following up this week The Pirate Bay promotion attracts over 5,000 artists and Blue Systems steps up to sponsor Kubuntu. 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. Listener feedback this week is from Florian, who wrote in response to the episode about Andrea’s Linux Switch and recommended Shotwell in Digikam doesn’t work out, and Brendan who recommended the radio program and podcast, Spark from CBC in particular episode 174, and to share his own experiences support his family’s use of Linux. The hacker word of the week this week is for values of. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the experience of feeling your oats, that is feeling especially confident or energetic. I think of it as a book end piece to the chapter on adjustment, especially my thoughts on the dis-location that comes with starting a new job. Some of the discussion also touches on the chapters on stretching yourself and personal growth. 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 news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are debating the security of multi-word passphrases and analyzing the changing causes and costs of data breaches. In this week’s news, AI project builds video games completely from scratch, making an AI at least as smart as a toddler, advice for taking the saner, slow route to growing a new endeavor, and an alternative to file sharing, flying drones. Following up this week Open3DP is open again and lawsuit around music inspired by Pi dismissed on Pi Day. 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. Listener feedback this week is from Dave, who recommended pymazon; John who shared some excellent thoughts on efficiency and geek fatigue; and Paul, who recommended virtualization as a hedge against the cost of recovery from failed upgrades and experiments. The feature this week is a conversation with my wife, Andrea, about her experiences in her own words switching back to Linux. Andrea has been on the podcast before though not in quite some time. If the mention of her hobbies interests you, I highly recommend you check out her blog. 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.u Share

This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro I mentioned an appearance in a Dan Bull video and explained a bit more about it as well as an appearance of my cartoon avatar. This week’s security alerts are the little white box that can hack your network and Adobe provide a tool for examining Flash files. In this week’s news, IBM busts record for superconducting quantum computer, Smithsonian seeks to make objects in its museums 3D printable though not necessarily by the public, considering the future of scouting in the form of hacker scouts, and erasing a bit experimentally shown to boost entropy. Following up this week a plan for using Raspberry Pi for networked free speech and App Inventor now open to all. 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.