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 2011-12-18 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This is likely to be the last podcast of the year. Next Sunday is Christmas with familial obligations if not personal observation. The Sunday after is New Year’s day when I am likely to need to quietly recover from the evening before. If you want to hear more from me before 2012, try the latest Living Proof Brew Cast, my latest stint guest co-hosting Tecnorama or the travelog from my most recent business trip to Paris (day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4 and day 5.) Appropriate to the shortening days, listener Florian sent a link to a great blog post talking about hacking your metabolism to offset seasonal effects. This week’s security alerts are OpenDNS adds encrypted security and security problem in PuTTY ssh client fixed. In this week’s news, potential for small and low energy chips demonstrated with first molybdenite prototype, the condescending UI, no copyright infringement intended and 3D printing in space. Following up this week alternate bill to SOPA proposed with open feedback site and early analysis and Other OS class action against Sony dismissed. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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TCLP 2011-12-11 Live Interview with Cory Doctorow about "Context" (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is the recording of the live interview I conducted with Cory Doctorow at the New America Foundation (where I now work.) We talked mostly about his new essay collection, “Context” but as usual the conversation ranged widely from there, especially when we opened up to audience questions. My thanks to both Cory for his time and John Taylor Williams for getting me this audio. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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TCLP 2011-11-27 Digital Scofflaws (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no hacker word of the week this week. The feature this week is a conversation I had with my friend and friend of the podcast, Chris Miller, about digital scofflaws, inspired by Ken Burns’ “Prohibition” documentary. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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TCLP 2011-11-20 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, if you are interested in my recent trip to Brussels, check out my four part travelogue (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4), a great short film about the EU Hackathon, or my beer focused take on it in the most recent episode of Living Proof. I will be heading back to Europe, to visit Paris for the first time the week of December 5th. On the events side, I will be interviewing Cory Doctorow live at New America this Tuesday and the organizers of the fantastic Southern California Linux Expo have extended a special discount code to my listeners. Just put “CMDLN” (without the quotes) in when registering to receive 50% off. In addition, they’ve given me one free pass to give away, just be the first to email me asking about it. This week’s security alerts are study finds privacy tools are failing to protect users and security researchers bypasses Windows 8 secure boot. In this week’s news, gamers create recipes for protein-folding algorithms, a public library completely re-imagined, high resolution microscopy advance could shrink CPUs beyond current limits, and a super computer on a chip. Following up this week Senate votes down anti-network neutrality resolution and the online piracy debate is far from over. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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TCLP 2011-11-06 Rant: Copyright Is Becoming Toxic (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro I gave another brief travel update as I am leaving right after releasing this episode for Brussels to participate in the EU Hackathon. I have booked my travel to Paris for the first full week of December. Speaking of events, Cory will be in DC November 22nd and I will be interviewing him at a live book event followed by Q&A. Another event, which I won’t be attending, but looks worth checking out is the Indiana Linux Fest. The hacker word of the week this week is fontology. The feature this week is a rant on how copyright is becoming toxic. This is partly informed by currently events and partly by my current and recent reading. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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TCLP 2011-10-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, Dennis Ritchie Day, John McCarthy passes away, and a quick review of “Children of the Sky” by Vernor Vinge, his sequel to “Fire Upon the Deep.” This week’s security alerts are using a smartphone as a keylogger and ASLR comes to Android 4.0. In this week’s news, salted disks hold up to six times more data, Kinect turns any surface into an interactive touch screen, 18th century cipher cracked with the aid of machine translation, and massively parallel computer built from a single layer of molecules. Following up this week the House version of the Senate’s flawed copyright bill is even worse. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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TCLP 2011-10-23 Readings from (c)ontext (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro I gave a brief travel update–I’ll be in San Francisco for the Silicon Valley Human Rights conference, Brussels for the EU Hackathon and Paris in December. I thanked Jed for treating me to dinner and beer while he was out in the DC area. I observed a moment of silence to commemorate the passing of Dennis Ritchie. Listener feedback this time was from Eric in response to the interview from last week. The hacker word of the week this week is FOD. The feature this week includes a couple of readings from Cory Doctorow’s just released essay collection, (c)ontext. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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TCLP 2011-10-09 Interview: int 0x80 of Dual Core (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro I mentioned Chris Miller’s post about info-suicide and my thoughts on the passing of Steve Jobs. Listener feedback this time was from Charles who also supplied a follow up, Chris Miller, and Kevin. The feature this week is an interview with int 0×80, the MC of the hip-hop, nerd core group, Dual Core. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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TCLP 2011-10-02 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a news cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are smart meters reveal TV viewing habits and first solutions to new, critical SSL/TLS vulnerability. In this week’s news, the troubled history of UNIVAC America’s first commercial computer, how Microsoft might lock Linux of Windows 8 computers including Microsoft’s own response to the suggestion, Dawkins’ weasels beat British Museum monkeys at producing Shakespeare, and the future of the silicon chip. Following up this week modern replica of Babbage’s unfinished machine moves forward and Canadian DMCA expected to pass. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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TCLP 2011-09-25 Membership and Differences in Community (Fixed) (Comment Line 240-949-2638)
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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Update: A listener brought to my attention a couple of spots in this episode’s audio that were very problematic. I have fixed the original audio and reposted for anyone who hasn’t yet listened to the episode. The hacker word of the week this week is Flyspeck 3. The feature this week is a discussion of some of my recent experiences with communities and the questions they raise. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
