3×38: Nikola Where Are You Now

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10/28/21 • 69 min

Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and special guest Jorge Castro present Bad Voltage, in which Stuart honestly thought for one second that the Americans have a very worryingly-titled show called “Poor Patrol” before realising that he misheard, and:

[00:02:33] The return of the legendary Bacommunity app! Made by friend of the show Roger Light, who has also been celebrating the 12th birthday of Mosquitto, the MQTT server he built!
[00:07:02] Roku and Google are fighting over content
[00:15:59] A man ate for an entire year at the Six Flags theme park
[00:20:52] F12 is a crime in Missouri, it seems: don’t look in the HTML or they’ll try to send you to prison, you filthy h4XX0r
[00:25:09] Hertz orders 100,000 Teslas in $4.2 billion deal
[00:40:50] Truth dot social dot hahaha dot ohno
[00:45:35] Happy 20th Birthday Windows XP!
[00:51:27] The Steam Deck, with gaming correspondent Jorge

Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!

https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×38-nikola-where-are-you-now/12439

News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.

Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!

[00:02:33] The return of the legendary Bacommunity app! Made by friend of the show Roger Light, who has also been celebrating the 12th birthday of Mosquitto, the MQTT server he built!
[00:07:02] Roku and Google are fighting over content
[00:15:59] A man ate for an entire year at the Six Flags theme park
[00:20:52] F12 is a crime in Missouri, it seems: don’t look in the HTML or they’ll try to send you to prison, you filthy h4XX0r
[00:25:09] Hertz orders 100,000 Teslas in $4.2 billion deal
[00:40:50] Truth dot social dot hahaha dot ohno
[00:45:35] Happy 20th Birthday Windows XP!
[00:51:27] The Steam Deck, with gaming correspondent Jorge

Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!

https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×38-nikola-where-are-you-now/12439

News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.

Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!

Previous Episode

3×37: I Will See Them In The Fire

Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which whistles are blown, audio is twitched, and:

[00:02:18] A whole show on one topic: Facebook and content moderation. Since Frances Haugen left Facebook for the life of a whistleblower, filing complaints with federal law enforcement that Facebook knows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest and conceals that knowledge, this discussion has been in the news a lot. We want to look at it from two different angles: policy and process. Obviously Facebook could choose to do better; if they do not choose to do better, what if anything can be done to make them do better? Regulation may be required, but what should that regulation say? And if we take the more charitable view that Facebook actually do want to fix the problems that hate speech causes on their platform and by extension for the world: is it even possible to do so? Facebook are in the business of spreading people’s thoughts, especially those which produce strong reactions. Is it possible for them to fix or even further alleviate this problem while continuing to be Facebook?

Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!

https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×37-i-will-see-them-in-the-fire/12438

News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.

Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!

Next Episode

3×39: Ready Player No

Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia claim to do research, run conferences, encourage people to hire Marius, and:

Meta. Facebook rebranded to Meta and have gone all in on the “metaverse”, which they call “a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world”. VR and AR are coming with a Facebook brand on it, and we’re going to talk about it. What’s the metaverse all about? Can it work? Does anyone want it? And are Facebook (er, “Meta”) the people who should be providing it?

Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/!

https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×39-ready-player-no/12440

News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.

Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!