Posted by Stuart Langridge on Thursday, December 11, 2014 in Linux, News, Open Source, Reviews, Shows, Social Media, Technology, Ubuntu |

Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we do no singing despite being begged to. We also find ourselves discussing:

Desuckling from the corporate teat: are we being held back by waiting for permission we don’t need from corporate sponsors of Linux OSes? (3.34)

Bryan and Stuart have used Ello, a new social network; they review it and Jono and Jeremy ask questions about whether it’s the GNU/Hurd of social networks (23.38)

We interview Rikki Endsley, journalist and Red Hat community evangelist, about how journalist ethics should work and the challenges facing journalists in the new world order (38.17)

Wrong in 60 seconds: Jeremy on the astonishing monetary success of the vapid and servile internet meme (50.48)

Recently Stephen Hawking suggested that artificial intelligence could spell the death of the human race. What’s the deal? Is he right? (52.13)

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