Bad Voltage
122 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsEvery 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. The show is presented by Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge.
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Episodes
2×30: Accidental Loot
April 19, 2018 11:32 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBJeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which Jono can’t stop laughing, you too are affected by the GDPR, and: [00:01:55] Various antivirus, browser, and backup companies embed tracking info in their installers… Microsoft release their own Linux distro as was foretold by the prophecy… a WhatsApp drug dealer is IDed […]
2×29: Extra Meaty Skid
April 05, 2018 09:07 - 1 hour - 94.7 MBJeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we are raided, we sell the forum (temporarily) to Alan Pope as part of the Papal Weekend, we are the youth gone wild, and: [00:05:00] Cloudflare spin up a new DNS service at 1.1.1.1… Google launching mid-range Pixel – likely focused on India… […]
2×28: Renamed to Spectre
March 22, 2018 10:33 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBJeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which space is raided, beans are endless, and: [00:01:55] News: An Uber self-driving car killed a pedestrian… Google announce the “Google News Initiative“, which seems to be some sort of subscription service, an attempt to fact-check fake news, and a way to help journalists […]
2×27: Much Furdo About Nothing
February 26, 2018 09:35 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBJeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which brick-and-mortar shops go under, brick-and-mortar shops go from strength to strength, things are a bit delayed after a very tough week, and: [00:01:18] News: Blast from the past UK electronics store Maplinare in talks to sell the business, along with rueful speculations on […]
2×26: Shining Emerald City
February 08, 2018 14:05 - 1 second - 85.7 MBJeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which our denials fall on deaf ears, nobody is gallivanting around the world, and: [00:02:05] News: 50 Cent lets people buy 2014 album with bitcoin, forgets about it, goes bankrupt, then remembers the bitcoin account and finds it’s now worth eight million dollars … […]
2×25: The First 17 Pages
January 25, 2018 14:10 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBJeremy Garcia, Stuart Langridge, and special guest presenter Steve Walli from the Microsoft Azure team present Bad Voltage, in which Walli is to his relief not the star of the sting before the intro, and: [00:02:20] Stuart thinks that people are now so averse to the GPL and reciprocal licensing that Apple were prepared to […]
2×24: They Weren’t That Shiny Anyway
January 09, 2018 13:45 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBJeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we look down the barrel of 2018, 2018 gazes back into us spectrally and meltdownily, nobody shines Jono’s shoes for him, and: [00:02:30] The news: the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities are here to eat the world — you know that a security […]
2×23: Twenty Months He Will Bleed The Lands
December 14, 2017 12:05 - 1 hour - 75.4 MB[00:02:30] Apple buys Shazam, for reasons as yet unstated… Nintendo have sold 10 million Switches in nine months… Windows’s AFD.SYS, the “Ancillary Function Driver”, was actually named when one of the team leads of the Windows network team learned they had to write a driver in kernel mode and said, “what? Another f***ing driver???”. LOL, […]
2×22: Known to be Carcinogenic
November 16, 2017 11:22 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBJeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we still don’t have a trillion bitcoins, Bitcoin still don’t have a trillion Bad Voltages, and: Google will remove Play Store apps that use Accessibility Services for anything except helping disabled users, which is a good idea from a security point of view […]
2×21: A Roomba for Companionship
November 02, 2017 09:08 - 1 hour - 106 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and special guest presenter Alan Pope from the Ubuntu podcast and Canonical and Ubuntu (standing in for Jeremy while he tours Europe) present Bad Voltage, in which popey has a hundred job titles, we race to put out the show before the Ubuntu Podcast people do, and: [00:02:20] In the news: […]
2×20: Over a Ton of Window
October 19, 2017 16:32 - 1 hour - 89.2 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which some people watch Star Trek Discovery and some emphatically do not, some are at conferences and some are not, and: [00:02:45] Every wifi device on the planet is broken by a fully-branded attack named Krack, suggesting that nobody listened to the plan to […]
2×19: Machine Learning
October 06, 2017 10:10 - 1 hour - 112 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we are all Google all the time, all news all the time, and: [00:03:00] News: Apple open source the kernels for iOS and Mac OS, with obvious discussion about how useful this is and the nature of open sourcing… the new wheeze is […]
2×18: Before the Music
September 21, 2017 20:20 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we have not podfaded for one hundred shows (count ’em, a hundred), two-thirds of the team are at the Open Source Summit in LA, there is literally no news about the iPhones 8 or X, and: [00:03:00] News: the “BlueBorne” bundle of bluetooth […]
2×17: Nihil sub sole novum
September 07, 2017 08:55 - 56 minutes - 65 MBStuart Langridge and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Jono is away (and not fired, promise), there is too much news, and: [00:02:00] News: Juicero has run out of juice in the latest high-profile IoT market exit… Reddit close their source, igniting entirely atypical Redditor drama frenzy and prompting questions about whether anyone can […]
2×16: Indeskribable
August 24, 2017 09:11 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the Samsung Galaxy S5 is too big (unless it’s too small), it’s certainly too old (unless we’re too old), and: [00:02:00] News: DJI make over-the-air firmware updates for their drones mandatory, community spend only an hour working out how to circumvent it, 59 […]
2×15: One Mouse in a Row
August 10, 2017 06:58 - 1 hour - 91.4 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we will not be your friend, we learn some Italian, the show actually gets mixed on time, and: [00:02:09] The news… Google “manifestbro” posts a screed about Google’s internal attitudes to diversity and opposing affirmative action programmes, says that the way to fix […]
2×14: Continuous Partial Affection
July 27, 2017 17:01 - 57 minutes - 65.9 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we do not have “excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one’s physical appearance”, we mention that Oggcamp is coming up in the UK and you should volunteer to be on the crew, nobody buys any illegally traded goods, and: [00:02:00] The […]
2×13: Built With Alien Technology
July 13, 2017 16:23 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the po-po are f***ed, accusations of posh schooling are levelled, and: [00:02:00] The news… Someone raises $80k for a Jolla tablet… meanwhile Jolla themselves raise a startling thousand times as much to “develop Sailfish OS as the rival of Android”… Fedora 26 arrives […]
2×12: Infinite Loop of Hack Back
June 29, 2017 08:39 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we don’t chop anyone’s Endless in half, we measure immeasurable things, and: [00:01:58] The news… Google get fined €2.4 billion for antitrust violations by the EU (who have a different approach to antitrust than the US)… the Five Eyes (of Sauron) countries are […]
2×11: Alexa play the Bad Voltage podcast
June 15, 2017 14:13 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we command Alexa to play our podcast and it works, Jono turns off his phone so it doesn’t explode with helpful comments every time we say “OK Google” (you may wish to do the same), and: [00:01:55] The news… Verizon spends $4.5 billion […]
2×10: Rainbows and Unicorns
May 18, 2017 07:48 - 57 minutes - 66.3 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which wifi is a problem, updating is a problem, and: [00:02:10] Real news… WannaCry (or WannaCrypt; did the name just get cut off by a tweet?) ransomware worm infects 400,000 machines… Microsoft call out the NSA for hoarding 0-days… will anyone change their update […]
2×09: Visible Private Network
May 04, 2017 08:39 - 1 hour - 91 MBStuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we are secure, we wear the juice, we get to the choppa, and: [00:02:15] The news this week, including going to prison in Portland for calling yourself an engineer without permission, more fast-food incredulity at the KFC Double Down, robbing banks while invisible, […]