The Command Line
A regularly published podcast by a self-described hacker, curmudgeon and hacktivist about the practice and profession of programming drawing on over a decade of professional experience and a lifetime spent hacking, the intersection of politics and society with technology and anything else clever, elegant or ...
A regularly published podcast by a self-described hacker, curmudgeon and hacktivist about the practice and profession of programming drawing on over a decade of professional experience and a lifetime spent hacking, the intersection of politics and society with technology and anything else clever, elegant or funny that catches my mind as a die hard technology geek.
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TCLP 2010-05-26 Inner Chapter: Legacy Code (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a reminder there will be no news show this Sunday as I'll be at Balticon. Also, a quick review of "Dreaming in Code", by Scott Rosenberg. Listener feedback this week is from Randal on the Dr. Who as a hacker and DeepGeek in response to my discussion of Danah Boyd's essay on Facebook as a utility. The hacker word of the week this week is featurectomy. The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of legacy code. 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.
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TCLP 2010-05-23 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is news cast 214, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to new monthly donor, John Taylor Williams and his wife, Mia. Thank you to fellow Flattr beta testers who have been flattring my posts. I should have an update on how this service compares to donations and ads at the end of the month. My Balticon schedule is up, if you are going to be there, come and say high. Better yet, join me for the unofficial FLOSS and Tech Geek BoF. There will be no news show that Sunday but should be feature casts before and after the weekend. This week's security alerts are Chrome's private mode leaks info and FTC looks into privacy concerns with digital copiers. In this week's news opening of VP-8 video codec becomes so much more including news event Microsoft will support it (kind of) and YouTube will switch to it for larger videos going forward, a technical analysis of VP-8 now that it is open, Facebook's urge towards social utility will invite regulation, and an early, official history of NSA computers. Following up this week The Pirate Party steps in to host The Pirate Bay and EFF issues a strong criticism of Google's latest privacy mistake. 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.
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TCLP 2010-05-19 Interview: Cory Doctorow, "For the Win" (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a few quick announcements. I will be at Balticon Memorial Day weekend and posting my speaking schedule soon. If you are going to be there, come and say, "Hi". May's CopyNight will be next Tuesday, the 25th, with special guest Carl Malamud. Next month's CopyNight will also have a special guest, Cory Doctorow as it happens. That CopyNight will be June 28th, a Monday. For more details about the DC CopyNight, visit the web site. Due to the length of the interview, I didn't get to any listener feedback this week. There also is no new hacker word of the week for the same reason. The feature this week is an interview with Cory Doctorow discussing the issues explored in his latest book just released from Tor, "For the Win". I caught up with him over Skype on his current book tour. We mention quite a bit of material, roughly in chronological order: "Amerika" "English as She Is Spoken" Anda's Game Beyond Circumvention, by Ethan Zuxker How to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams It was Michael Weinberg, from Public Knowledge, on This Week in Law who proposed thinking about three strikes with the telephone "Content" is the essay collection containing World of Democracycraft Facebook is a Utility, All Utilities are Regulated, by Danah Boyd Diaspora*, Kickstarter, and Quit Facebook Day Jane McGonigal created Superstruct and the other game I couldn't remember properly is Evoke Alice commissioned the award winning game, Smokescreen Power Punctuation! in three parts: part 1, part 2, part 3 The Geertz mentioned is anthropologist, Clifford Geertz io9 scooped me and has more details on "Rapture of the Nerds" 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.
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TCLP 2010-05-12 Review: Postsingular and Hylozoic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Listener feedback this week is Philip, Jed and Brad who all commented on my Dr. Who monologue. Sergio, Claudio, and Curtis also chatted up the segment on Identi.ca. Mr wrote in about my NoSQL rant. And pseudomorph wrote in response to the Mozilla Account Manager story from the 2nd news cast. He shared a couple of links on digital identity and whether intellectual monopoly is making us dumb. The hacker word of the week this week is fear and loathing. The feature this week is an in depth book review of "Postsingular" and "Hylozoic" by Rudy Rucker. In the review, I mention the two short stories from which the first book was developed, Rucker's blog post questioning the wisdom of computronium, my earlier review of one of Rucker's non-fiction works, the internet of things, and the free download edition of "Postsingular". 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.
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TCLP 2010-05-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
This is news cast 213, an episode of The Command ...
This is news cast 213, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to new monthly donor, Jamie. Also, I was interviewed for Uber Leet Hacker Force Radio, part of Hacker Public Radio. My part starts around minute twenty-three. Lastly, I will be interviewing Cory Doctorow about his latest YA novel, "For the Win". I'm scheduled to do so on Thursday, the 13th, so if you have any questions for him, get them to me before then. This week's security alerts are a new attack technique that bypasses most common antivirus programs demonstrated by matousec.com and study that shows programming language choice doesn't affect security. In this week's news Hugo Gernsback as futurist (I've read more about him as a publisher) including some criticism of his views of the place of science in science fiction, why computers crash but biology does not, a rallying cry for parallelism even though the trend is well established and the challenges hard then first supposed, and Google releases a code lab and sources to teach and learn security through reading code and hands on exercises. Following up this week the FCC's third way to pursue network neutrality and the FCC allows selectable output control with some qualifications. 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.
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TCLP 2010-05-05 Dr. Who as a Hacker (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to Graham and [si]dragon for their donations. Also, a quick review of "Permanence", by Karl Schroeder. Listener feedback this week is from Robert who posted a comment in response to my NoSQL rant. The hacker word of the week this week is block transfer computations. The feature this week is a monologue consider Dr. Who as a hacker. In it, I mention a section from the Wikipedia page on Dr. Who. 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.
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TCLP 2010-05-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
This is news cast 212, an episode of The Command ...
This is news cast 212, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, a quick update on the advertising experiment. This week's security alerts are Symantec plans to PGP and a massive quantity of GoDaddy hosted WordPress sites are under attack. In this week's news Cyber Privacy Act introduced that would use takedowns against personal info including the flaws that would go along with it, new report shows trillions contributed to the economy by fair use with specific examples of what that means though the point is how the report was produced, Mozilla releases first code for its identity system (which I briefly wrote about earlier ), and raised by Radio Shack inspired by a Wired article and resonating with Levy's "Hackers". Following up this week USTR claims official ACTA draft proves prior rumors were false and MSIE9 to support HTML5 video but only with H.264. 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.
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TCLP 2010-04-28 Rant: NoSQL (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command ...
This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to Josh for his donation and a call for ideas for a premium for larger donations. I'm looking for something as unique and distinctive as the merit badges that would be appropriate for $50 or more and monthly donations of $5 or more. There is no listener feedback this week. The hacker word of the week this week is fat-finger . The feature this week is a rant where I try to get to exactly what it is that bugs me about NoSQL. In it, I refer to my hacking 101 piece on databases. 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.
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TCLP 2010-04-21 EFF on the Recent Al Haramain Ruling (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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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.
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TCLP 2010-04-14 Free Press on Comcast-NBC Acquisition (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command ...
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.
