The Opinion Dominion

Episode 67: 2025: The year of the...

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss stuff.

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Episode 66: New Year; New Episode

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 23:15:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss the last year (2023).

Links

The Artificial Dominion : https://t.me/TheArtificialDominion

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Episode 64: Privacy on the internet: Then vs Now

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss some of the differences between attitudes towards privacy online over time.

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Episode 63: What's a professional?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Jt asks Jeff what a professional is.

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Episode 62: One does not simply become a manager

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Jeff ponders how someone makes the move into Management.

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Episode 61: Getting back into the swing of things with feedback

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss some feedback.

Links

https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/31171023.html
https://www.smart-energy.com/industry-sectors/smart-cities/toyotas-woven-city-a-future-smart-city-prototype/

https://www.arkitekturupproret.se/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Salingaros-–-Anti-architecture.pdf

https://github.com/adobe/node-smb-server

Give us your thoughts...

Episode 60: Why do Designers ruin everything?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0400

JT asks Jeff why it is that Designers want to ruin everything.

Give us your thoughts...

Episode 59: Tech that has failed vs tech that hasnt

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0400

JT talks about Tech he wishes didnt fail while Jeff talks about "tech" he wishes had.

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Episode 58: Open Source Software's Consumer Protection Problem

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500

JT asks Jeff if its a good thing that there's no consumer protections for software.

Give us your thoughts...

Episode 57: Does the Desktop need to be reimagined?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss how some people really want to redesign the Linux Desktop Paradigm.

Links

An example of the Android Spacing Issue JT raised: https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1232094851031687168

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Episode 56: Jeff Defends the honor of Microsoft and NFTs

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

JT asks Jeff for his thoughts on Microsoft buying more game studios and as usual the conversation goes sideways

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Episode 55: Exploiting Log4j to rant about Management

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0500

https://github.com/starship/starship

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Episode 54: Pondering Nvidia's ARMs

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss the Nvidia/ARM deal and then go wildly off topic.

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Episode 53: Jeff's Ponderings on File Retention

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:30:00 -0500

Jeff asks JT about file retention strategies and then we go down rabbitholes.

Links

Feedback: https://github.com/suorcd/public-screenshot

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Episode 52: Exposing a flaw in trusting Digital Evidence

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:00:00 -0500

A guest comes on to talk about a flaw that exists in the trust of Digital Evidence.

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Episode 51: Everybody wants to talk about Jeff's Brain

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT go over the feedback about the episode on Jeff's attention budget.

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Episode 50: Open Source Software projects we wish existed

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss software projects they wish existed.

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Episode 49: Jeff's Attention Budget

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff asks JT about how he manages his attention budget, and JT is confused by what this is.

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Episode 48: The Digital Memory Hole Decade

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss an era of the early digital world, that has been lost to time.

Links

Archive Box : https://archivebox.io

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Episode 47: Jeff doesn't ask for much... just Everything... and Temporal Data for Everything.

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff raises the issue of the temporal nature of data and why that annoys him.

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Episode 46: Discussing Imposter Syndome

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss various aspects of the industry wide Imposter Syndrome Problem.

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Episode 45: The Herbert Problem

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT vents about people he has worked with in the past in his IT career.

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Episode 44: 1 Year AMA

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT do an AMA to commemerate 1 Calendar year of TOD.

Links

Playlist about JT's House: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLKCd6WyCApvs-Ew51zQg8ismdk72mJNU

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Episode 43: Digging into the depths of Cryptocurrency Development

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT are joined this week by Michael Carter, aka BitsBeTrippin to talk about Cryptocurrency development. Carter is a long time Crypto enthusiast and has been producing crypto realted content for approaching a decade.

Links

https://www.bitsbetrippin.io
https://www.youtube.com/c/BitsBeTrippin/videos

Give us your thoughts...

Special Guest: BitsBeTrippin.

Episode 42: The view into the Linspire Saga

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT have a guest this week to talk about Jeff's favorite topic... Linspire. Chris Waid of Think Penguin comes on the show to talk about his experience at Linspire.

Give us your thoughts...

Special Guest: Christopher Waid.

Episode 41: Jeff can't get Doom running

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss their Southeast Linuxfest 2021 Retro Linux Ragchew stream where Jeff was unable to get Doom running.

Links

Retro Linux Ragchew 2 : Failing to run Doom on Red Hat Linux v1.1 : Southeast Linuxfest 2021 Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g290ApehvbQ

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Episode 40: The Plight of Early Adopters

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

JT tries to have a conversation about the troubles Early Adopters Face... and Jeff wants to go off in tangents... as he does.

Links

Starlink Sat Map:
https://satellitemap.space

Give us your thoughts...

Episode 39: Is Technology recreating Feudalism?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss the parallels between the middle age colonialism and the modern digital era.

Links

That tweet:
https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1386419882355535881

Facebook Open Compute Project Server Racl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l6gI-ksdKs

Give us your thoughts...

Episode 38: Old Games are better than new games.

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss why they prefer old games compared to new games

Episode 37: Is Open Source a philosophy for Life?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Keith Perry of DAO Technologies joins Jeff and JT to discuss Open Source being a general philosophy for life.

Links

Keith's OpenSource Voices Episode: https://www.opensourcevoices.org/8

This Keith Perry:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-c-perry-ms-e-e-7023b622
Website: http://daotechnologies.com/

Not this Keith Perry:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24896255-a-prairie-girl-s-life

Though it could be a good book... idk.

Special Guest: Keith Perry.

Episode 36: The Dangers of Deplatforming with Dr. Andy Yen

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Dr Andy Yen, the Founder and CEO of Proton Technologies, joins us today to talk about the matter of Big Tech Deplatforming.

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-yen-03a9676/

Episode 35: Reflections on Social Engineering of Big Data

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0400

JT and Jeff return to the issue of algorithms and openness.

Episode 34: Viral FUD about Linux

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about why some companies are scared to use Linux.

Links

Charlie Reisinger Interview on Open Source Voices:
https://www.opensourcevoices.org/4

SuperMicro:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/08/22/why-super-micro-computer-stock-plunged-today.aspx
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/10/04/why-super-micro-computer-shares-got-completely-des.aspx
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/super-micros-stock-set-to-be-delisted-as-filing-deadline-wont-be-met-2018-08-22

PornHub Links:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k94be/mastercard-will-stop-processing-payments-to-pornhub

The Hippocratic License 2.1: https://firstdonoharm.dev/
As mentioned on TLG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50AVP0rsd9Q
Freedom 0: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Episode 33: Open Source Martian Robots... also Potatoes

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about Open Source Software used in the Martian Robots... and then as usual... go wildly off topic.

Links

SELinux https://selinuxproject.org/page/Main_Page
FIPS: https://www.nist.gov/itl/publications-0/federal-information-processing-standards-fips
Ghidra: https://ghidra-sre.org && https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/

This week's deep thought

Episode 32: Jeff's Spygames... and more...

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff finds a spycam in his house...
Pics:
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-3TNJDdR/0/7a1c0f79/4K/i-3TNJDdR-4K.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-2XkJcGL/0/a4e69b53/4K/i-2XkJcGL-4K.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-kf4ngmC/0/413f7fb1/4K/i-kf4ngmC-4K.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-W7H5TwT/0/ae6d64ab/4K/i-W7H5TwT-4K.jpg
https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-QFBh738/0/00fd0296/4K/i-QFBh738-4K.jpg

Ulfnic's JS Code information:

What is 0.1 + 0.2? Wrong! It's 0.30000000000000004.
Getting JS to evaluate basic decimal math is a StackOverflow greasy rabbit hole of hacky solutions guaranteed to work for at least a week.
JavaScript needs a 3rd-party 24KB library to accomplish basic decimal math(1), alternatively you can use the new (and not well supported) BigInt() to pretend you're doing decimal math by
string hacking decimal points into super long integers.

(1) https://github.com/MikeMcl/big.js/blob/master/big.js
(2) https://dustinpfister.github.io/2019/09/06/js-bigint/
(3) https://javascriptinfo.com/view/3760151/native-bigint-and-intl-numberformat-for-accurate-currency-calculations-and-display

Steps to to reproduce 0.1 + 0.2:

# Option 1: https://jsconsole.com/
console.log(0.1 + 0.2)

# Option 2: In browser
# ctrl + shift + j # Chromium
# ctrl + shift + k # Firefox
# click on "Console" tab
console.log(0.1 + 0.2)

# Option 3: NodeJS
nodejs -e "console.log(0.1 + 0.2)"

Episode 31: Rogue Feedback

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Links

Eon Storage:
https://eonstorage.blogspot.com/2008/11/eon-storage-embeddable-onopensolaris.html
https://sites.google.com/site/eonstorage/

Oracle $39 Billion in 2020 https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ORCL/oracle/revenue
Google $171 Billion https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/revenue
Facebook $85 Billion https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/facebook/revenue
Apple $274 Billion https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/revenue

Episode 30: The Hubris of Tech People

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500

JT asks Jeff for his thoughts on why so many Tech people think they're experts in every other field.

Links

The Bucket Shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r25IWquxe9s

Episode 29: ToS: Terms of Servitude

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss Terms of Service.

Links

INSTAGRAM
https://hacked.com/instagrams-terms-of-use-update/

https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
https://archive.is/35dRD
On the 17th: https://web.archive.org/web/20201219103609if_/https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

Other links:
https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/termsofuse
https://archive.is/mFP9P
https://help.instagram.com/252214974954612/
https://archive.is/2ZKKh

https://twitter.com/bargainbeautyhb/status/1339679351881740290
So here's the update in the TOS:
https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870/
"You can't use a domain name or URL in your username without our prior written consent."

BargainBeautyHub

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/bargainbeautyhb/status/1339679351881740290
Her Question: https://twitter.com/bargainbeautyhb/status/1340207534939009030
Facebooks reply: https://twitter.com/bargainbeautyhb/status/1340207534939009030

Herod Clause:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/i-read-all-the-small-print-on-the-internet
“The biggest lie on the internet is ‘I have read and agree to the terms and conditions’,” says security expert Mikko Hyppönen. Setting out to prove his point, Hyppönen’s company F-Secure set up a free WiFi hotspot in the heart of London’s financial district in June 2014.
Buried in the terms and conditions of the free network was a “Herod clause”: in exchange for the WiFi, “the recipient agreed to assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity”.

Patreon broke the law with updating TOS
https://www.cernovich.com/patreon-lawsuit-owen-benjamin/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24001118

LinkedIn has the right to change your content.
https://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2014/05/13/worst-terms-of-service/index.html

2012 - Instagram could sell your photos -- they quickly reverted it.
https://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2014/05/13/worst-terms-of-service/3.html

Sears - spying
https://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2014/05/13/worst-terms-of-service/4.html
FTC stepped in: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2009/06/sears-settles-ftc-charges-regarding-tracking-software

Twitpic
https://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2014/05/13/worst-terms-of-service/6.html

Apple itunes
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html
You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapons.

Episode 28: A wild Chris Fisher appears... for an interview.

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Chris Fisher of Jupiter Broadcasting joins Jeff and JT to talk about Podcasting and how it's changed over the past decade.

Check Chris' bio for links to where to get all the information about the content he makes.

Links

https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com

https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/coderradio/
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-action-news/
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linuxun/
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/self-hosted/
https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/extras/

Special Guest: Chris Fisher.

Episode 27: Apple Takedown: Part 2

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff continue the "The Apple Conversation".

More grimey crap from Apple:
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-labor-supplier-3-years-cut-costs-2020-12
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-technology-apple-uighur/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-uighur/

Episode 26: Apple Takedown: Part 1

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff finally get into "The Apple Conversation".

Links

MKBHD Video about Mac Wheels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBHY_Qaw5AI

Episode 25: What if RedHat goes Rogue?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

JT raises a concern he has over Red Hat's future and what it means for the rest of Open Source and Linux Community.

Episode 24: Is Javascript is an alien plot to destroy humanity?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff discuss the future of humanity and the threats that JavaScript poses for us.

Links:
https://nodejs.dev/learn/nodejs-accept-arguments-from-the-command-line/

Steps to reproduce Ulfnic' example:

sudo apt install npm
npx create-strapi-app my-project --quickstart
cd ./my-project npm install --force
ls -l

Episode 23: Jeff vs VMware... Round 1

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0500

Jeff thinks VMware has lost their mind over the way they have licensed a product of theres. JT gives his thoughts, and we go over a few pieces of feedback.

Links

Links to vsphere code:
https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python
https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python/issues/38
https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python/issues/79
https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python/tree/master/lib/nsx-policy-python-sdk
https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi

Population Info:
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
https://www.worldometers.info/population/countries-in-the-eu-by-population/
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-population/

Episode 22: Community Feedback! Part Deux

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 03:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT cover more community feedback.

Episode 21: Listeners give us their two cents on CentOS

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff go over the community feedback about our RedHat/CentOS episode.

Episode 20: Home is where homed is

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 03:00:00 -0500

Jeff finally hears about the latest project Lennart is working on, homed, and decides he doesn't like it. JT, as always, disagrees with Jeff.

Links

Youtube Video about homed:
https://youtu.be/ZYOHvzv2T64

Article about homed:
https://linuxreviews.org/Systemd-homed

JT's Conference talks about PuppyLinux:
2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymBQPBEVgQI
2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReHj7juEXck

Episode 19: RedHat... i am disappoint.

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff discuss the recent CentOS Linux 8 drama.

Episode 18: The Dev/User Relationship

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 03:00:00 -0500

Jt and Jeff talk about the Developer/User Relationship, bad examples of such, and how it can be better.

Episode 17: The Unix Philosophy

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss what they like about the Unix Philosophy.

Links

Univ of Rhode Island Course Reference: https://homepage.cs.uri.edu/~thenry/resources/unix_art/ch01s06.html

Episode 16: Does Openness of AI Algorithms matter?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0500

JT and Jeff dig deeper into the Open discussion this time focused on AI... and then go wildly off topic.

Links

Reverse-Engineering Deep ReLU Networks ( University of Pennsylvania ) : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.00744.pdf

Microsoft invests 1 Billion dollars in OpenAI: https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/22/microsoft-invests-1-billion-in-openai-to-develop-ai-technologies-on-azure/

OpenAI gives Microsoft exclusive access to GPT3: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/23/1008729/openai-is-giving-microsoft-exclusive-access-to-its-gpt-3-language-model/

Original Google Research Paper: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Episode 15: Unlicensed Listener Feedback

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0500

Jeff & JT finally get to listener feedback and end up debating the merits and proper boundaries of copyright protection, intellectual property, and their value to a productive society.

Links

License Discussion: https://www.theopiniondominion.org/8

Episode 14: Should Algorithms be Free and Open?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 03:00:00 -0500

JT postulates to Jeff that the algorithms that feed us data from internet sites should be open just like what we expect from every other piece of software we run.

Links

Gaurdian article about Facebook:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds

Douglas Rushkoff's book: Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
https://rushkoff.com/books/program-or-be-programmed/

Episode 13: One does not simply learn linux

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:00:00 -0400

Jeff asks the question about how one "Gets Gud" at linux... and as usual... the conversation goes off in a tangent.

Links

Scratch: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/scratch-3-resource-upgrades/

Episode 12: AI KillBots in the Sky are not a problem, journalists are the problem.

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 03:00:00 -0400

JT gives a perfect example of the pathetic state of Tech Journalism using AI Killbots from the sky.

Links

Crazy VR Motion Chair JT referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KnS3aESNk0

Episode 11: LUGs in the Time of Corona

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT are back after some emergency home repair, to talk about LUGs in the time of Covid-19.

Links

UCLUG: http://www.uclug.org/index.php/Main_Page
PLUG: http://www.phillylinux.org
CharmBUG: https://www.meetup.com/CharmBUG/
CharmCityLinux: https://www.meetup.com/CharmCityLinux/
LancLUG: https://www.meetup.com/lanclug/
Fair Hill Photography: https://www.meetup.com/FAIR-HILL-MD-NATURE-PHOTOGRAPHY-meetup-group/

YouTube Video that our Listener ComputerKid found which relates to Episode 10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Gd9t7FQqI

Episode 10: What's in a name?

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

To quote Shakespeare, What's in a Name? The answer... when it comes to Linux release names... quite a lot.
JT quizzes Jeff on his Release Name Knowledge, and Jeff fails in spectacular style.

Episode 9: Your Distro doesn't suck

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about everyone's other favorite argument... How your distro sucks.

Whatever your stance, Distro discussions can be a hot issue in the Linux world.

Episode 8: Begun... the License Wars have

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 04:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about everyone's favorite issue... FOSS Licensing. JT goes into detail about one concern he has for the future of Software Licensing. Surprisingly overall this was a polite and calm conversation... but we expect some spicy feedback from the community. Confucius say, 'Licensing is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.'

Whatever your stance, Licensing discussions are one of THE hot-button issues in the FOSS world. Only three things are certain in this world: death, taxes, and FOSS licensing arguments.

Episode 7: Much ado about Thumbnails

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff listens to JT rant about Thumbnails in Linux Desktop Environments and gives his thoughts.

Episode 6: Kernel Compiling

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 05:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about the first time they compiled their kernels, and Jeff reflects back on how it used to be an achievement.

Episode 5: Jeff isnt inspired by Linspire

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:00:00 -0400

Jeff opens up about his love/hate relationship with Linspire.

Episode 4: Building Computers in ye olden days

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about building computers back in the days before the internet, or at least that's what Jeff thought this episode would be about.

Episode 3: Zealotry is bad mkay

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about Zealotry in the Open Source Community, also JT promises never to make an init system.

Episode 2: Audio Trials

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT talk about audio on Linux back in the day

Links:
Pulse Audio Diagram:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pulseaudio-diagram.svg

Polypaudio renaming:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse.html

Lennart's Blog Post about PulseAudio being well received:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/foms-lca-recap.html

Episode 1: Retro Linux Ragchew Reflections

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:00:00 -0400

This is a short episode as a quick reflection where Jeff an JT reflect on their Ragchew during SELF and talk about old hardware and software.
Youtube Video of the RagChew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAKmVxnspR4

Episode 0: Bootstrapping Opinions

jt@minddripmedia.com (JT Pennington) — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 23:15:00 -0400

A short introduction to who we are and what our goals are for this podcast.
Feedback can be sent using the fireside contact form at the bottom of the podcast page, or by emailing directly to jt [at] minddripmedia.com
Our Telegram channel is here: https://t.me/TheOpinionDominion