The Opinion Dominion - Episodes Tagged with “Open Source”

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

JT Pennington — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:00:00 -0500

Jeff and JT discuss stuff.

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Episode 62: One does not simply become a manager

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 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

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Episode 59: Tech that has failed vs tech that hasnt

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 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.

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Episode 57: Does the Desktop need to be reimagined?

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 55: Exploiting Log4j to rant about Management

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 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 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 50: Open Source Software projects we wish existed

JT Pennington — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0400

Jeff and JT discuss software projects they wish existed.

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Episode 48: The Digital Memory Hole Decade

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 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 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 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 43: Digging into the depths of Cryptocurrency Development

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

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Episode 42: The view into the Linspire Saga

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.

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Episode 41: Jeff can't get Doom running

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 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

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Episode 37: Is Open Source a philosophy for Life?

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 34: Viral FUD about Linux

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 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 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 29: ToS: Terms of Servitude

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 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 19: RedHat... i am disappoint.

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 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 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 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 13: One does not simply learn linux

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 10: What's in a name?

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Pennington — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 23:15:00 -0400

A short introduction to who we are and what our goals are for this podcast.
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