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Ep. 47 – "Ticketing Chaos Explained: Bots, Brokers & Bold Claims with Joel Schwartz" 46:53

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Ep. 47 – Ticketing Chaos Explained: Bots, Brokers & Bold Claims with Joel Schwartz What do Donald Trump, Kid Rock, and a 200% ticket guarantee have in common? They’re all part of the chaotic, misunderstood world of live event ticketing—and veteran ticket broker, founding member of the National Association of Ticket Brokers (NATB) and attorney, Joel Schwartz is here to discuss the current executive order and how it affects ticket brokers and fans. In this high-impact episode, we sit down with one of the original voices in ticket resale to break down what’s really driving the headlines. From political theater to pricing transparency, Schwartz shares insider stories from decades in the game—starting with Lions games in the '70s and stretching all the way to Super Bowl holdbacks, Taylor Swift meltdowns, and FTC policy shifts. In this episode, you'll learn: Why bots aren’t the real problem—and who actually is How “dynamic pricing” impact fans, travel planners, and the entire resale market What the new executive orders and pricing laws could mean for concerts, sports, and festivals How fans, brokers, and platforms can navigate an increasingly complex and competitive marketplace Whether you're a travel professional, ticketing insider, or just a fan tired of hidden fees and vanishing inventory, this episode delivers clarity, context, and a dose of hard truth. Follow us at @Tix2TravelPod on all platforms and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. www.tttpod.com www.xpotravel.com…

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Every 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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3×71: Did we do something correct? 41:41

vor 8 weeks41:41

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we complain about the universe, we cannot commit to podfading, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:28] Governments using commercial chat systems [00:20:55] A pro tip for you: udm=14 [00:24:09] iOS 19 refresh (talked about before the beta announcement of “iOS 26”) [00:39:44] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×70: Swallowed up in Crimethink 48:08

vor 22 weeks48:08

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which encryption backdoors rear their ugly heads (party like it’s 1999!), Minority Report is not a manual, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:19] The UK government demands that Apple put a back door in their end to end encryption . Apple are not prepared to do this , not surprisingly, and correctly. We dig into the reasoning behind this sort of decision, and what can be done about it [00:32:49] Stuart is having his life made harder by AI people. How annoying! [00:45:49] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×69: They Call It Nice 52:43

vor 27 weeks52:43

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Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which Jeremy is sadly unwell (get well soon Jezza!) and so we in theory look at the latest news but actually spend three quarters of the show on one topic! This is what happens when there’s no Jeremy to keep us on track. Including: [00:00:00] Intro [00:00:32] Stuart and Jono are old [00:05:25] Project Stargate: a whole bunch of companies club together to potentially invest a load of money in AI technologies. We get into the weeds a bit on whether this is a good idea, and the position of large tech companies within the zeitgeist (NB: this was recorded before the recent DeepSeek release, which would have come up in this conversation!) [00:39:19] UK considers banning ransomware payouts in public sector — is this a good idea? Is it a bad idea but still better than all the others? A troubling question! [00:50:32] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×68: In The Abysmal Sea 56:20

vor 33 weeks56:20

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we are back, back again, Bad Voltage is back, tell a friend, and we look back a little at the big things that happened in 2024’s tech world: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:19] Social Media 2024 [00:26:19] Drones in NY [00:30:28] The UK is over 50% renewable electricity [00:37:27] AR over-taking VR [00:54:16] Outro Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×67: Drunk From The Wrong Grail 58:33

vor 51 weeks58:33

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Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which there is a particularly excellent shirt, a particularly absent salting of the conversation with, y’know, actual facts and that from Jeremy, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:19] CrowdStrike: how half the computers in the world went down (with thanks to abadidea for research) [00:28:41] Reddit might paywall some subreddits and what this means about Reddit, their business model, and Silicon Valley thinking [00:57:14] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×66: Return of the Mack 53:48

vor 1 year53:48

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Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we return after an unplanned hiatus, there is a squirrel in your car (not a euphemism), and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:04:16] The US government demands that Bytedance sell TikTok, or do they? There’s lots going on in this case, and it leads into lots of discussion about the purpose of tech regulation as a whole, which may well become a whole other show [00:24:59] Tesla’s US market share falls below 50%; the times they are a’changin’ for the EV industry [00:46:03] Windows Recall recalled (LOL) [00:52:00] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×65: Not Evenly Distributed 50:50

vor 1 year50:50

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Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we look to the year ahead (well, the 10 months ahead) and predict what will happen in the tech industry and the world in 2024. 2024’s predictions: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:49] Jeremy: Sundar Pichai will not be CEO by end of 2024 [00:06:55] Jeremy: At least one major streaming service will be shut down, or acquired [00:11:30] Jeremy: Elon Musk Sells X, or X goes public [00:13:42] Jeremy: Bonus [00:17:29] Stuart: Film studio to release movie with AI-revived deceased actor [00:21:08] Stuart: Fusion reactor generates surplus power for practical use, ready for widespread deployment [00:23:05] Stuart: A nuclear weapon is detonated [00:26:23] Stuart: Bonus [00:30:45] Jono: Tesla to release budget EV ~$30k [00:35:22] Jono: Google Gemini will get shut down and replaced [00:39:53] Jono: VR photorealistic avatars [00:46:35] Jono: Bonus [00:47:41] Gemini predictions [00:49:23] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×64: Cassandra Go Home 57:01

vor 2 years57:01

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Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which in traditional Christmas style we look back on our predictions for 2024 and Jono whines about half points. More successfully than usual this year, admittedly. Have a happy holiday season! We’ll be back in the new year. [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:44] Jeremy: Tiktok gets banned in the USA [00:05:59] Jeremy: Hidden Crypto Risks in a Traditional Financial Institution [00:07:17] Jeremy: Netflix gets acquired [00:08:26] Jeremy: AI’s Swift Progress Hits a Clear Slowdown [00:21:42] Jeremy: Web Splinters into Sino, Euro, and American Blocs [00:22:09] Jeremy: Mastodon Peaks Early, Declines Afterwards [00:24:28] Jeremy: Significant Equity Stake Acquired in Canonical [00:25:29] Stuart: Texas HB20 Social Media Law Heads to and is Upheld by US Supreme Court [00:28:01] Stuart: Global daily Twitter users will drop a minimum of 10% by the end of 2023 [00:29:53] Stuart: AI-Generated Song Enters the Charts [00:33:40] Stuart: Apple to Permit Sideloading or Third-Party Browser Engines on iOS [00:34:49] Stuart: Someone buys Netflix [00:35:59] Jono: Meta to Announce Large-Scale Layoffs in Metaverse Division [00:37:45] Jono: Twitter to Introduce Long-Form Video Platform with Monetization Options [00:41:31] Jono: Anticipated Legal Restriction in US or EU for ChatGPT & Large Language Models [00:42:56] Jono: Apple’s AR/VR Headset Earns Praise Despite Lingering Viability Doubts [00:47:20] Jono: Potential Reasons for Trump’s Election Exit: Claims of Persecution or Legal Hurdles [00:48:36] Jono: Bing Introducing ChatGPT-Like Features, Expects Substantial Growth [00:53:51] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×64-cassandra-go-home/12525 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×63: Autonomous Helicopters 47:24

vor 2 years47:24

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Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which Jeremy is temporarily not present, website hosting issues are acknowledged and briefly discussed, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:01:16] New York intends to have air taxis by 2025, including bonus London Illustrated News content [00:10:23] Microsoft Teams announce upcoming 3D meetings in VR , including a Lex Friedman/Mark Zuckerberg interview [00:24:32] As Nikki Haley pushes for “algorithm transparency” and banning anonymous accounts , we dive a bit into the murky waters of legislation of social media networks and what various governments want from that [00:45:27] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×62: Class One Catastrophic Hypercredibility 40:39

vor 2 years40:39

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we do a bit of a deep dive into the (semi-)recent trend of finding new ways for creators to get paid. Patreon’s been around for a long time (but could be doing better ), and the idea of making a thing and getting paid for the thing has been around for considerably longer, but it’s a relatively new innovation for platforms to encourage payments and share revenue with creators. Or is it? Is this actually new? Is this what was there already but in a superficially different outfit? And… will it work? We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×61: A Room of Dalmatians 51:47

vor 2 years51:47

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we revisit an old friend, Room 101, the place where all the things we hate should be banished. At least according to each of us: whether the other two can be so convinced is another thing entirely… [00:04:07] Jono: All videoconferencing except Zoom [00:11:04] Stuart: overly chummy email spam [00:16:16] Jeremy: Influencers [00:19:59] Jono: Marketing Gurus [00:25:07] Stuart: “we are experiencing unusually high call volumes” [00:29:26] Jeremy: Mozilla [00:37:55] Jono: Men who wear scarves inside [00:42:16] Stuart: “join our discord” [00:45:25] Jeremy: a secret extra! We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×60: Never Eat Shredded Wheat 1:03:49

vor 2 years1:03:49

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which multiple minutes of pre-show work are awkwardly wasted, we haven’t got a sign on the roof, and: [00:01:39] GPTBot is launched to crawl your websites and add their technological distinctiveness to its own model, and there is discussion of robots.txt changes [00:11:08] MDN, the central resource for web documentation, added LLM stuff which caused a lot of pushback (and a Mozilla postmortem ) [00:24:30] Apple announce a new VR headset, the Vision Pro [00:40:34] Instagram Threads starts up, Reddit is… hard to say, Bluesky seems to have not set the world alight… now that we’re a month or two in to all this, what’s going on in social media land? Everything’s all over the place [00:52:13] $5 billion lawsuit with Google over incognito mode tracking moves closer to trial We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×60-never-eat-shredded-wheat/12509 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×59: Addition Edition 56:37

vor 2 years56:37

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we discuss ad-supported services and the (potential?) rise of subscriptions. Have ads gone away, or started to? Are social media networks being supported by ads now pivoting to something else? And are Patreon and sponsorships mostly a boon for small creators, or a seed of a shift in the culture of how businesses and services work online? We’re on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×58: Large Langridge Model 1:01:10

vor 2 years1:01:10

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which there is unsceptical intensity, we are all eaten by a T-1000, and we have collected a list of concerns about Large Language Model-based AI, which we’re going to dive into! [00:00:00] Introduction [00:04:30] The “free software” concern: it normalises inhaling information for free and then renting out access to it. Upcoming EU regulation requires LLM creators to declare copyrighted material used in training corpora [00:09:30] The automation one: puts lots of mid-level workers people out of a job, with zero provision for what should happen to those people [00:25:25] The costlessness one: if it’s free (or at least easy) to generate text (and images and sound and so on), it becomes easy to flood places with it, which leads to finding hotels online being even more difficult, more fake news sites, students submitting LLM-written essays, etc [00:30:40] The inaccuracy one: LLMs “hallucinate”, meaning that they make up lies and present it with as much confidence as actual information, so it’s very hard to tell the difference, which is problematic when it’s relied upon and can be downright defamatory (as in the case of Jonathan Turley, law professor, on an LLM-generated list of “lecturers who have sexually harassed their students” which he didn’t ) [00:33:35] The magnification of existing bias one: generated text embeds existing biases [00:53:30] The creativity one: where does the next generation of music and art and writing come from if this generation is written largely by LLMs? Also, we’re now on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! https://community.badvoltage.org/ News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×57: Conspiracyers 41:47

vor 2 years41:47

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which there’s more smoky back rooms than usual, everyone’s on Orkut, and: [00:01:14] Who likes Microsoft Teams? Microsoft promises it’s made Teams less confusing and resource hungry , while Teams surprisingly now has 270m users to Slack’s 20m . [00:08:21] An “open letter” from tech pioneers calls for a halt on AI development [00:20:31] USA wants to ban TikTok : is this tech, security, or geopolitics? [00:33:25] Google Search Adds Features for Info Verification : will this work? can this work? Also, we’re now on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmX7qyr1nV4 https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×56: Hyperbole is the Magic Word 1:01:38

vor 2 years1:01:38

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we spend a show inventing topics which need a whole other show to talk about, we reminisce about Google Plus, and: [00:01:36] Twitter Blue, Meta Verified: the social networks go premium . Is it going to work? [00:35:45] The FBI recommend that everyone uses an ad-blocker [00:45:16] Salesforce pays Matthew McConaughey $10M/year [00:52:47] LastPass hack, allegedly via a senior developer’s Plex? [00:57:11] Reddit does comments search! Also, we’re now on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×55: Don the Mast 1:08:27

vor 2 years1:08:27

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we look, as has been threatened a bunch recently, at Mastodon. What’s it all about? Is Mastodon the new Twitter, and is it trying to be? And how far have we got into it? Also, we’re now on Mastodon! @badvoltage@mastodon.social ! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×54: The Joe Dolce Music Theatre 54:52

vor 3 years54:52

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Jeremy Garcia, Jono Bacon, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we create predictions for 2023! What will happen over the next twelve months in the world of tech? Here’s what we think… Stuart: the Texas HB20 social media law will come before the US Supreme Court, and the US Supreme Court will uphold it as constitutional Stuart: Global daily Twitter users will drop a minimum of 10% by the end of 2023 Stuart: A song claimed to be composed and performed entirely by AI will get in the charts Stuart (Bonus): Apple will either allow sideloading or allow third-party browser engines on iOS Stuart (Bonus): Someone buys Netflix Jeremy: Tiktok gets banned in the USA Jeremy: At least one traditional financial institution will have taken on substantial crypto risk that wasn’t fully disclosed Jeremy: Netflix is acquired Jeremy: The rapid advances in AI slow down in a very obvious way Jeremy (Bonus): the web starts fragmenting into 3 distinct blocs: sino, euro, americano Jeremy (Bonus): Mastodon usage peaks in the first half and drops steadily from there Jeremy (Bonus): someone takes a large equity stake in Canonical Jono: Meta will announce significant (1000+ peolpe) layoffs in their Metaverse division Jono: Twitter will launch a YouTube competitor. Users will be able to upload long-form videos (1hr+), monetize their videos with ads, and see a video view Jono: There will be at least 1 legal regulatory requirement be put into practice in the US or EU that restricts the use of ChatGPT and/or Large Language Models Jono (Bonus): Apple will release their AR/VR headset, will garner positive reviews for the product, but press will still question the viability of AR/VR Jono (Bonus): Donald Trump will drop out of the election for one of two reasons: (1) claims of persecution, or (2) a legal decision prevents him from running Jono (Bonus): Bing will launch with ChatGPT-like functionality and see significantly increased growth. Significantly increased = 30%+ Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×53: Representative but not Shining 1:03:21

vor 3 years1:03:21

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage for the last time in 2022, in which we take a look back at our predictions for this year and review how we did. Surprisingly… not as badly as last year. Although as you may expect there is shameless jockeying for extra points. How did you do by comparison? We’ll see you in 2023! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×53-representative-but-not-shining/12473 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×52: Click By 5pm 52:43

vor 3 years52:43

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we are not necessarily “extremely hardcore”, we aren’t verified (or are we?), we aren’t fleeing the country with a load of money that isn’t ours, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:37] Twitter and Musk: much change is afoot in the world of Twitter, as Elon Musk completes his purchase of the social media network and immediately starts changing things and staffing with varying degrees of competence and forethought. We have Opinions on this, not surprisingly [00:34:46] Tech Layoffs: the world is heading into a recession, and tech firms are at the forefront of at least some of that. Some of the biggest names are laying off thousands of staff: many are affected [00:40:24] FTX: the latest crypto explosion is bigger than most, but it’s also pretty confusing to understand what exactly it’s all about. We’ll dive in for explanations! [00:49:38] Outro Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×52-click-by-5pm/12471 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×51: Control the Meta Connect 52:33

vor 3 years52:33

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Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, and special guest Adam Lorimer present Bad Voltage, in which reality is virtual, metas are connected, and: Meta, nee Facebook, had their Meta Connect conference where they announced their upcoming plans, recent hardware and software releases, and the like. We have some interest in VR generally, as evidenced by Jono always having a prediction about it at Christmas, and so we’d like to dig a bit more into what’s going on over there, some of the upcoming hardware, and talk a little about the place of VR (and AR and MR) in the world order and how it does and might fit in with everything, especially with Adam who actually does this stuff for a living! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×51-control-the-meta-connect/12470 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×50: Two Riders Were Approaching 47:09

vor 3 years47:09

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Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and special guest Erica Brescia present Bad Voltage, in which a generation of hypochondriacs is created, we are made to do research, and: [00:01:51] VC/WeWork/Flow [00:20:28] AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans [00:28:14] New smart watches [00:38:22] Notkia [00:39:52] OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay [00:42:47] Outro Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×50-two-riders-were-approaching/12468 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×49: The Noise of Doubt 59:40

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the roflcopter is created, Soli is forgotten, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:04] Chorizo space prank [00:04:04] Floppotron 3.0 [00:10:47] Doom running on $15 smart lamp , and in Doom [00:16:22] SCaLE 19X [00:19:59] Who’s liable for AI-generated lies? [00:28:48] Amazon Slashing Private-Label Selection [00:31:29] Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuums [00:36:56] Apple expecting to ship 1.5mill VR/AR units in 2023 [00:38:37] VR as good as psychedelics to transcend [00:55:24] Firefox adds client-side machine translation [00:58:15] Outro Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×49-the-noise-of-doubt/12463 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×48: Brave Internet Explorers 58:13

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which everyone’s middle name is Elaine, there is discussion of the nature of business in the modern age, and: [00:02:45] We look at Brave , a privacy-focused web browser. They’ve got some interesting technical choices, but more importantly we want to look at the question of their business model. How do Brave propose to remain sustainable? How are they making money now? And once they get the cash… what are they doing with it? Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×48-brave-internet-explorers/12460 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×47: Fallacious Piece of History 58:43

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Victorian Tumblr is a thing, you should probably check out Lethality , Jono’s band’s latest, and: [00:00:00] Intro [00:04:11] USB Type-C EVERYTHING [00:17:33] Firefox and Google are arguing about extension APIs that ad blockers use [00:34:00] Spotify comes for audiobooks [00:57:15] Outro Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×47-fallacious-piece-of-history/12459 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×46: Srtrerarm Deck 1:00:22

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and special guest star Jorge Castro present Bad Voltage, in which those of the team not currently having fun on a beach in Spain dig into the latest tech news, including (but not limited to): [00:08:26] Github start requiring two-factor authentication for contributors [00:16:21] This show was edited live on Twitch by our audio producer, Marius Quabeck of NerdZoom Media , and you can watch him do that and see what misery we put him through every fortnight [00:25:05] Lots of Big Tech companies have put together $30 million to invest in the security of open source software in the Software Supply Chain Security Mobilization Plan , which is potentially quite great [00:33:21] Jorge has a Steam Deck! We have questions about Jorge’s Steam Deck! [00:48:11] Looks like USB-C is coming to Apple’s phones Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×46-srtrerarm-deck/12458 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×45: Natural Musk 48:47

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Times Square is a much better example, it is Stuart’s turn to seemingly sound like he recorded this at the bottom of a coal mine (sorry about that), and: [00:01:50] Elon Musk is buying Twitter. We have thoughts, and quite a few of them. There’s a question as to whether it’ll even happen, there are questions about what he plans to do, and there are questions (many, many questions) about what Twitter will look like after it’s been Elonified. Let’s dig into it Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×45-natural-musk/12455 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×44: The Loch Dustbinness Monster 59:56

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and special guest star Alan Pope present Bad Voltage, in which intelligence is artificial, snaps are un-ned, and art is what you make it: [00:04:00] popey’s latest tool is unsnap , which helps you “quickly and easily migrate from using snap for applications to flatpak”, and we’ll get into how it works and why it exists [] AI-generated artwork. Aza Raskin made a very cool AI-generated video for Zia Cora’s song “submarines”, where he put together a list of text queries and then used AI algorithm Disco Diffusion to generate images as video frames. This sort of AI-generated imagery and art is increasingly common, whether This Person Does Not Exist or This Bench Does Not Exist or National Novel Generation Month or whatever. But what are the wider ramifications of this, for ownership, collaboration, and open source? What are your intuitions in this: is a list of text descriptions of an image really the “source code” for that image? If someone uses the same queries that you did, is their work a derivative work of yours? Would you feel delighted or ripped off if that happened? This is all a new area, and it’s evolving very fast: where are the precedents for this sort of collaborative art creation and where should we be drawing inspiration and understanding? Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×44-the-loch-dustbinness-monster/12454 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×43: Self Assembly 52:38

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Stuart Langridge, Jeremy Garcia, and special guest star Jorge Castro present Bad Voltage, in which we in theory want to talk about loads of news but actually we spend all our discussion time on one topic: [00:02:00] Jorge is into Flatpak. And there’s quite a lot to talk about here. This is very much about the Linux desktop, distribution of applications, and how things have changed; stuff has certainly happened since the last time we looked at this, and it’s worth getting into. Let’s talk about what flatpak means today. Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×43-self-assembly/12449 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×42: That High Level of Unlikeliness 1:07:46

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia return, after a couple of months of trials and tribulations, to reveal our predictions for (the rest of) 2022! Prepare to find out What Comes Next in our roles as Cassandras: [00:06:20] Jono: VR bonanza: Apple will release their VR headset this year, and PSVR2 will be released, both purchasable by real people. Both will experience critical acclaim (although we won’t have good sales figures) Tesla won’t release a phone, Neuralink will launch in beta this year Truth Social will experience significant growth (but nowhere near as much as Twitter etc) but will be plagued with (1) stability issues, and (2) extremist content Bonus 1: Canonical will not be acquired Meta’s VR services will actually not be terrible [00:28:35] Jeremy: Apple will, for the first time in a long time, release a completely new product line. It will be AR/VR, and it will be panned by critics At least one very large (think FAANG size but does not have to be a FAANG) will walk back their remote work policy both the US and EU pass sweeping tech related laws that have broad impact on the industry (part of the “techlash”) Bonus 1: Gamestop stock price still above $100 Inflation for the year below five percent Truth Social will shut down Mark Zuckerberg will not be CEO of Meta [00:49:40] Stuart: Apple will either allow sideloading or allow third-party browser engines on iOS Matter (the common protocol for IoT stuff) will see first devices released, people will not care (they should, but they won’t, of course) and it won’t actually work Meta’s share price a third at end of year what it is at start: under $100 at end of 2022. Bonus 1: Some company will leak private customer data onto a blockchain so it’s there forever Someone buys Twitter (likely to not happen because of the regulatory environment, as Jeremy points out!) Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×42-that-high-level-of-unlikeliness/12447 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×41: By A Hair Or Two 43:58

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia are in your ears for the last time in 2021, as we look back on what we thought this year would be back in January, and then how it’s actually been now that we’ve lived through it. Yes, it’s prediction review time! Did you do better than us? We will do better next year. And we plan to do so, live and on camera! Keep an eye out for our first live stream of a show recording, January 13th 2022! Have great holidays, and see you all in the new year! [00:01:35] SIL: Remote work starts to hollow out cities [00:05:44] SIL: Social media credibility checker [00:09:37] SIL: Amazon buy Zoom [00:10:58] SIL: Bonuses – Canonical, Vaccinations, Apple [00:16:42] JG: Jeff Bezos richest man ever [00:18:09] JG: Google makes largest acquisition in history of company [00:19:20] JG: BTC below $5,000 or above $55,000 [00:22:05] JG: Facebook loses 15%-20% of active user count [00:23:26] JG: Bonus – Amazon search engine, security breach larger than Solarwinds [00:27:29] JB: Sony releases PSVR headset V2 [00:29:21] JB: vaccine passport required by airlines [00:34:45] JB: Donald Trump’s Twitter account disabled but not banned [00:35:52] JB: Zoom remote-working offering [00:37:48] JB: Bonuses – Facebook spaces, Canonical not getting acquired [00:41:12] Outro Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×41-by-a-hair-or-two/12445 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×40: The House on the Hill 1:07:39

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia hold these rights to be self-evident: [00:02:17] Adele gets Spotify to remove shuffle button [00:09:20] Apple announces self repair program [00:26:25] Meta has a new VR glove [00:35:11] Ubuntu Accomplishments rides again [00:39:03] FTC says “click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal [00:49:16] Cryptobros try to buy the US Constitution, fail, with ConstitutionDAO [00:55:46] El Salvador government strikes deal with Bitfinex for “Bitcoin City” Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×40-the-house-on-the-hill/12441 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×39: Ready Player No 1:03:44

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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!…

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3×38: Nikola Where Are You Now 1:09:06

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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!…

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3×37: I Will See Them In The Fire 45:09

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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!…

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3×36: Nor Any Drop 1:03:50

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we discuss the mysterious arrival of boxes, how to play CDs, and: [00:02:18] We review the 8Sleep Pod Pro Cover , an internet-connected mattress, which Jono claims is actually useful. There is, not surprisingly, some scepticism about this claim, but equally: sleep is important and basically nobody gets enough of it. So let’s have a look! [00:21:35] There has recently been a bunch of governmental, court, and regulatory pushback on Apple around the world about their policies on their app store and their gatekeeping process for their platform: in the US and Japan , South Korea , and Russia among others. Relatedly, the UK are also doing a regulatory study into this sort of thing and Stuart was invited to speak to them as an expert and showed them some slides about browser choice on iOS . We’re going to talk about this a little. Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×36-nor-any-drop/12437 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×35: Generated For The Purpose Of Journalism 1:01:14

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which [00:02:50] Online trolls are assholes offline too , at least according to a new survey [00:17:20] Facebook Workrooms seem to be the long-promised “Facebook Spaces” , much to Jono’s intemperate joy [00:29:50] Excellently detailed albeit mildly depressing summary of Google’s myriad messaging apps which is worth reading [00:40:50] The UK government’s planned “Online Harms Bill” tries, among other things, to define what a journalist is so they can be exempt from some regulations, which is possibly a very concerning development [00:55:00] Twitter are allegedly going to start requiring viewers to be signed in to view tweets (pro tip: embrace nitter.net if this is a problem!) Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×35-generated-for-the-purpose-of-journalism/12435 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×34: The Days To Come Will Be Filled 1:07:16

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Stuart Langridge and Jono Bacon present Bad Voltage, in which Jeremy is away, there used to be a star and now there isn’t, and we devote the whole show to a discussion of Apple’s recent announcement that your iPhone will now scan some of your photos and report them if they’re child porn. This has created quite a lot of discussion ( ZDNet , EFF , Forbes ). In particular, the concern from most is that this is the top of a slippery slope. We’ll dig into this a bit; when the former CSO of Facebook is writing New York Times editorials there’s a discussion to be had, at least, and when seventh-graders now think that Apple is looking at their photos , the message has got a bit out of control, especially as it may relate to Apple’s relationship with governments , especially the Chinese government. Let’s see what all this is about, and whether we’re merely one more screeching minority for asking questions. Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×34-the-days-to-come-will-be-filled/12432 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×33: Eternal Bronze Medallists 54:33

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Stuart Langridge and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which Jono is away, you too are not an astronaut, and: [00:02:00] Shares slide after China brands online games “electronic drugs” [00:03:50] The US FAA changes the definition of “astronaut” after Bezos and Branson go into space , LOL [00:06:25] Machine learning sucks at covid [00:12:15] Sinclair are 60 , and some thoughts on retro computing popularity prompted by @popey [00:15:45] The Pixel 6 has been announced ; what’s the score? They’re being a bit close-mouthed about it, but it’s apparently a real flagship this time, whatever that means [00:23:00] Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 , down from around 250 million [00:26:25] Bronze Medalists Are Happier Than Silver Winners , although this is decided by facial recognition [00:30:00] Facebook creates new unit to build a “metaverse” [00:34:50] Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over streaming of Black Widow [00:42:45] Netflix Plans to Offer Video Games in Push Beyond Films, TV And we said we’d look into Amazon revenue per business unit, and an infographic from “visual capitalist” suggests that it’s 50% from their selling on Amazon.com (and .co.uk, etc) plus another 20% from third-party sales through amazon.com (etc). AWS is about half of the remainder (12.4% overall), and the remainder is divided roughly evenly between subscriptions (Prime), real-world stores (Whole Foods), and other, all at about 5% overall each. Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×33-eternal-bronze-medallists/12430 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×32: Trigger’s Broom 1:01:35

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which God is not our co-pilot. Instead, Github Copilot is. What’s the deal with this thing? Copilot is “an AI pair programmer that helps you write better code”, according to Github themselves. “GitHub Copilot draws context from the code you’re working on, suggesting whole lines or entire functions.” Is this useful? Is it good? Is it good for open source? Matthew Garrett wrote a thing about Copilot which is worth reading, especially if your basic feeling is that it takes our open source code against the licence and that’s bad. And what about the bigger picture? Github — well, Microsoft — are one of the biggest players in the world; is this what they should be doing? And if it isn’t… what is? Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×32-triggers-broom/12429 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×31: Weaponised Death Roomba 1:04:04

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which there is much news from all over the tech industry, including: [00:02:15] Anom app from FBI yanked in a huge amount of criminals [00:08:45] FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web , plus: how Apple’s rise to be the richest company on earth is wholly due to Airdrop [00:15:50] Our Jeff Bezos News Special: Bald very rich guy whose company makes a Linux OS is going to space . I feel like we’ve heard this story before, but there is a petition for Bezos to stay in space once he gets there and it’s up to 80,000 sigs… and in more Bezos petition news, another one demands that Jeff Bezos buys and eats the Mona Lisa … [00:21:30] Hyundair completes their acquisition of Boston Dynamics , makers of BigDog [00:28:00] OnlyFans moving to more non-adult content (and gets valued at $1b) , plus also WordPress, which you wouldn’t think was connected to this, but hey, that’s the Bad Voltage vibe right there [00:37:00] Airbus designs in-flight quarantine tent [00:45:45] Amazon websites are blocking FLoC (with a side order of disturbing but important musings on how new standards get made from mnot ) [00:56:20] Peloton start charging monthly money to existing customers of a treadmill that already cost three grand , in accordance with the prophecy (via @jimmysjolund on twitter) Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×31-weaponised-death-roomba/12428 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×30: Reduced Amplitude 1:01:14

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which it is all the news all the time, including: [00:03:30] The results of our (flagrantly biased) Room 101 polls from the last episode! [00:10:29] The biggest GDPR fines so far [00:16:45] Charlie Bit My Finger becomes an NFT [00:31:50] Tesla (arguably) throttle older cars (at least according to Norway) [00:36:50] Internet Explorer 11 is to finally be retired on June 15, 2022 [00:44:45] AMP pages are no longer being prioritised in Google Search [00:59:15] People are taking UFOs seriously (!) Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×30-reduced-amplitude/12426 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×29: Down With The Peeps 101 1:11:02

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we emulate the old British talk/game show Room 101 by nominating our pet hates and consigning those hates to oblivion in Room 101, the ultimate destination for all rubbish things. Assuming, that is, that our explanations convince our colleagues, which is not as easy as one might think. [00:02:20] Jeremy: reality TV [00:08:05] Stuart: Pepe the frog [00:15:45] Jono: overly cartoony company mascots [00:24:20] Jeremy: Facebook [00:35:30] Stuart: peppers [00:40:30] Jono: new features that slow down devices, um, because they prioritise new features over the operational modality of a device [00:48:35] Jeremy: Peeps [00:55:10] Stuart: websites and apps that demand your phone number [01:00:05] Jono: cats Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×28: Eat The Show 1:01:02

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the subject of artificial intelligence is discussed. We’ve walked around the outside of this topic a few times on the show, and now it’s time to dig in; is AI actually real, or are the jokes about reclassifying a Python script as “AI” to get funding founded in reality? Is AI useful, or is it mostly for parlour tricks? What’s going on that provides genuine use to normal people? And… what does the future look like? Should there be legislation; are AI and ML two sides of the same coin or two fundamentally different things… there’s lots to get into. Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×28-eat-the-show/12421 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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3×27: Bargle-floop the podcast 58:08

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Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which horrible neologisms are proposed, things are both funny and also sad, and there is ooh gosh loads of news: [00:04:10] The BBC’s coverage of the life and death of Prince Philip breaks the UK TV complaints record , and the National Rail make their website greyscale , breaking it for visually impaired users [00:10:30] Sharding is called sharding because of the shards of the Gem of Immortality in Ultima Online [00:13:00] Researchers asked 100 people whether “a reasonable person” would unlock their phone and allow someone to look through it, and most of them said: no, definitely not. Then the researchers tried it, and 100 out of 103 people absolutely allowed it [00:18:00] Microsoft buy speech recognition firm Nuance for $16 billion [00:26:50] Oracle vs Google: an end at last as the US Supreme Court rules that Google’s use of Java APIs is fair use (but gives no ruling on whether APIs are copyrightable) [00:36:20] Jono thinks it is important that you learn that the world’s biggest rabbit has been stolen . We think: mess with the hoppo, bomb gonna droppo [00:38:50] In the last couple of years, the last couple of puzzles from Perplex City , an ARG from 2005, have finally been solved, the last in December 2020 [00:44:44] China Creates Its Own Digital Currency , which seems like an alarmingly big deal for the future [00:49:10] Apple changes ‘subscribe’ to ‘follow’ on Podcasts because people think subscribing means paying . We’re not sure we agree, but then we’re not sure we don’t agree either. Maybe we need a new word Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://badvoltage-slack.herokuapp.com/ ! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×27-bargle-floop-the-podcast/12420 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero , used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!…

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