Garbage

A podcast about technology, much of it garbage
by Brandon Mercer and joshua stein

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OpenBSD news (00:29)

Listener feedback (10:25)

Gadget review (24:37)

  • Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV

Free software developers asking for money for free software (37:10)

Buying an app compared to buying a cup of coffee (44:10)


OpenBSD news (00:24)

Fallout in Linux land from OpenSSL removing SSLv2 (04:54)

Elixr and Phoenix (13:44)

Listener request: status of OpenBSD GSoC (19:00)

Listener request: web browser security and setup (25:03)

Tangent about RSS readers, Twitter, and web trackers (34:28)

joshua's rant about making things better for other people but then not being able to use them (48:22)

Later OpenBSD News (56:55)

  • Removal of Linux binary compatibility in the kernel

CNN for OpenBSD (00:34)

  • 5.9 has been tagged and branched, tree is thawing
  • New developers - Bitrig is dead?
  • sparc making 5.9
  • FAQ updates

BSDCan 2016 (14:02)

  • Possible Garbage meetup?

The human aspect of software development (16:01)

Google's Brotli compression algorithm (25:04)

Rewrite Everything in Rust (29:53)

Brandon is responsible for systemd (40:30)

Responding to user feedback (44:58)


garbage[14]: Punchy-stabby things
February 19th, 2016

OpenBSD News (00:25)

Apple standing up to the FBI (04:02)

Google reversed its decision to block 3rd party ad blocking apps in Google Play (09:29)

Using Let's Encrypt for SSL/TLS certificates (11:25)

Go 1.6 released, HTTP/2 the default (21:16)

MySQL/MariaDB vs. PostgreSQL (28:20)

  • PostgreSQL binary-compatible updates
  • joshua's dilemma with master-master replication and load balancing API requests
  • SQLite over NFS: web-scale!

Punchy-stabby things (40:49)

Donate to the OpenBSD Foundation (again)


garbage[13]: Listener requests
February 11th, 2016

Listener request: the OpenBSD release process (01:38)

  • diff review process
  • Static code analysis
  • Managing development source trees (joshua's commitid project)
  • Tree freezing, testing snapshots
  • Tagging the release
  • joshua rants about floppy disks and SMALL_KERNEL

Listener request: upgrading Ruby on Rails on OpenBSD (29:19)

  • Concurrent ruby versions
  • Bundler using system-installed gem from an OpenBSD package

Brandon's update on Bulma (40:30)


OpenBSD News (00:38)

  • Moved out of -current to release
  • hostctl, smtpd, pdisk

New APU2 variant, new BIOS (07:25)

Malware in your coffee grinders and TVs (09:50)

Bulma CSS framework (43:57)

The State of Go - time.Parse (46:53)

Progressive web apps vs. native apps (1:00:43)


OpenBSD News (1:10)

News (24:50)

Part 2 of a listener request: interview with joshua stein (26:30)


OpenBSD News (00:26)

  • joshua wrote yet another i2c-HID driver
  • Brandon's updates on Quake ports

Interview with Brandon Mercer (07:55)


garbage[9]: Roaming fees
January 15th, 2016

OpenBSD News (00:45)

OpenSSH roaming fees (15:04)

Listener request from Joris Vanhecke about virtualization (25:23)

  • Brandon's history with virtualization
  • Security of Xen and VMWare
  • Hypervisors adding security or increasing attack surface


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