Minutes 2017-09-20

Location

Siouxland Libraries Main Branch
Room: Conference Room in the north east part of the library.
Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:45 PM

Minutes

• Leaving old jobs, entering new ones.
• What its like programming at Raven.
• The difficulties of working from home.
• Some internet-of-things home security systems can be seriously compromised if they lose internet access.
• Oh no! A slug member arrives and splits the conversation in two!
• Vector and Opello talked about the intricacies of the android boot sequence.
• My python is a little rust-y
• Both ccc and c^3 are acceptable.
• Podcasts we like: Reply All, The Adventure Zone, 99PI, IRL, Radiolab, Critical Role
• Somethings that came up during the podcast discussion: Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, Wonder Showzen, “We Are Legion, We Are Bob”, “Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us”
• https://www.masteringemacs.org
• BeyondPod is Vector’s pod catcher of choice.
• Opello aired his frustration regarding the Podcatcher Deluxe phone client not communicating with the computer client.
• Most other attendees use AntennaPod.
• Fdroid may not be the safest place in the world to get software, but I do it anyway.
• VLC can apparently play audio straight from youtube.
• ctrl-shift-a will bring up the add-ons page for a browser