Bad Voltage Episode 54 Has Been Released
November 13, 2015 1 Comment
Jono Bacon, Bryan Lunduke, Stuart Langridge and myself bring you Bad Voltage, in which we are curmudgeonly, we are ethical philosophers, and:
- 00:02:00 Are developers learning libraries and not learning the actual programming languages they’ve chosen? And is this a problem? Are JavaScript hackers just using jQuery or PHP hackers just using Laravel when they shouldn’t? Or is this greybeards complaining about the kids today?
- 00:16:47 Review: the Blue Yeti USB microphone. Almost by coincidence, the whole Bad Voltage team have purchased the Yeti USB mic from Blue Microphones, and so we all review it together
- 00:27:20 The rise of self-driving cars brings up the question of algorithmic morality; how should the car be programmed in the event of an unavoidable accident? Protect the driver at all costs; reduce loss of life overall even if the owner gets the short end of that stick; what? This is a big decision that needs to be made: how do we think this should be handled?
- 00:39:50 THe UK government have recently started making more noises about banning encryption from being used by ordinary people, to prevent terrorists from being able to communicate without security services reading it. It’s the Crypto Wars and the Clipper chip, all over again. Meanwhile, Apple have made a big point of how they work hard to protect their customers’ privacy by ensuring that iMessages are end-to-end encrypted and so forth. Clearly, these proposals are in opposition. The question is this: if Apple declared that these government proposals were incompatible with their customers’ privacy and so threatened to pull out of the UK market… who would blink first? And would Apple do this? And is it OK that they might have this level of power?
Listen to 1×54: The Trolley Problem
From the Bad Voltage site: Every two weeks Bad Voltage delivers an amusing take on technology, Open Source, politics, music, and anything else we think is interesting, as well as interviews and reviews. Do note that Bad Voltage is in no way related to LinuxQuestions.org, and unlike LQ it will be decidedly NSFW. That said, head over to the Bad Voltage website, take a listen and let us know what you think.
–jeremy
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The old Jono was fun when he used to be with Stuart. The new, straight laced Jono is a bit like someones grandmother telling them to eat their veggies and not to make so much noise (its called getting old I guess) so I wasnt too thrilled at first but loved the idea of them together on a podcast again so I was DLing it.
UNTIL I realized that Lund**k is also on the show. Outside of Rob Enderle and maybe Adrian KH, there is simply no one in Linux media that makes me want to throw up more than him. Turned around at work and asked a few guys in IT, all agreed (except the french, german and italians who had no clue).
Rather pluck the hair on my testicles than listen anything he has to say on Linux.
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