All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows

This week on the show we give you the latest update on the Intel vulnerabilities, Noah sets the record straight on Linux media personalities that don't use Linux & as always your calls are the center of the show.

Everyone’s Linux desktop is getting better this week, well… Almost everyone. Plus why Linux users should be using Firefox, some Gnome and MATE news, communIty, why the Linux desktop isn't seeing as many native apps these days & more!

And start using configuration management! Embrace reproducibility of systems & streamlined management with TechSNAP’s introduction to Configuration Management. Plus the news of the week that could impact your systems, your feedback & more!

Mike and Chris review predictions from years past & check on how well they’ve aged. Plus we take a look at Microsoft’s big picture strategy with .Net & now PowerShell for every system.

A major open source milestone, some OnePlus users compromised, Google switches to Debian & we have Spectre and Meltdown updates. Plus what happened to NHoS & more!

Beard & Chris are joined by a very special guest & discuss the things that’s getting smart this year, the things that life throws at you & all the things that we think are great that you think is weird. + (00:00:04) - Oregon's gas-pumping law wasn't exactly what we thought it was. + (00:01:10) - Chris reports from the CES-pool; there's a lot of smart devices. + (00:19:05) - #AskError returns! What are life's toughest mini-games? + (00:22:54) - #AskError: What video game was "worth it"? + (00:30:24) - #AskError: What's the best twist to a movie? + (00:35:45) - #AskError: It's really weird, but you might like it. + (00:38:35) - #AskError: What are you currently struggling with? + (00:48:35) - #AskError: If you could pick your own name, what would you pick?

We review Meltdown & Spectre responses from various BSD projects, show you how to run CentOS with bhyve, GhostBSD 11.1 is out & we look at the case against the fork syscall.

In an amazing display of bipartisan cooperation the US Federal Government is fast tracking the reauthorization & institutionalizing the NSA’s favorite spying loophole, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. With Trump onboard the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance program seems to be better protected than ever. We cover the small, but vocal push within Congress’ own ranks to stop this, as well as the latest in the Russia investigation, Trump, world news, the high-note, a packed Overtime & more!

Code linting is a way to increase code quality & Mike’s standardized his team on one tool. He shares what they’re doing, why they're doing it & the impact it has made. Plus the brutal life cycle of JavaScript, the exaggerated death of microservices & more!

This week we see how far we can push Linux. Can you use Linux in a professional photo workflow? How about High Resolution Audio? We take your calls and interview industry audio expert Bob Carver.

A big week of community updates, events & news, including great news for Plasma Desktop users, MATE users & Wayland fans. Then Barton George from Dell joins us to discuss the new XPS 13’s shipping Ubuntu, where Linux could see its next big success & more!

Barcelona is switching to FOSS the right way, Nextcloud launches peer-to-peer encrypted video calls, big changes are coming to Google's AMP & why the BSD camp is laughing at Linux this week. Plus Fedora's new "primary architecture", Ubuntu 17.10 is back & more!

The boys are back after the holiday break & a lot happened while they were gone! Oregon let people pump their own gas as Chris looked on with his new dog, the Beard moved to the big city, Noah’s gone a quest to turn Ask Noah up to 11, you guys continued to be awesome & more! + (00:00:05) - Chris and Noah enter a nightmare of unwanted updates. + (00:13:53) - Oregon decides people can pump their own gas. Riots, explosions, and zombie outbreaks ensue. ... Or not. + (00:21:35) - The beard has completed his move to Seattle. + (00:24:00) - Offending Noah with Plex Cloud. + (00:38:10) - Chris begins skipping out on his medical insurance. + (00:45:45) - This just in: JB viewers continue to be awesome. + (00:50:00) - Audio ain't "hot". What now? + (01:04:38) - Chris's new dog is, like, really smart. + (01:16:55) - #StreamADay

The types of workloads that will see the largest performance impacts from Meltdown, tools to test yourself & the outlook for 2018. Plus a concise breakdown of Meltdown, Spectre & side-channel attacks like only TechSNAP can. Then we run through the timeline of events & the scuttlebutt of so called coordinated disclosure. We also discuss yet another security issue in macOS High Sierra, a backdoor in popular storage appliances, your questions & more!

We review the information about Spectre & Meltdown thus far, we look at NetBSD memory sanitizer progress, Postgres on ZFS & show you a bit about NomadBSD.