The Opinion Dominion - Episodes Tagged with “Unix”

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.

Give us your thoughts...

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Special Guest: Christopher Waid.

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 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
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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 20: Home is where homed is

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 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 11: LUGs in the Time of Corona

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 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 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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