Tin Foil Hat Show - Fan Support

I'd like to make a huge call out to Bernd, a Tin Foil Hat Show listener.  He found the show notes interesting enough and made a plugin for gpodder to get the show notes out.   I want to say a few things on this and they are not in order of priority:





1.) WOW man, that is frackin' cool!  I am way impressed and good on ya!
2.) This is EXACTLY what "open source" and "community" are all about.
3.) I am moved by your engagement with the show and I hope to keep the goodness coming for as long as I have listeners like yourself.

In short, Thanks Bernd!!!  In long, Bernd, you are awesome for coding this tool and more awesome for making it available.  I hope this post makes you rock-star famous.  And how you managed to find the username "Bread" to be free, I'll never know.

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Tin Foil Hat Show - Update

Thanks to the anonymous listener who commented on my Tin Foil Hat Show post for episode 001, who let me know there was an issue with the images in the files.  While I have posted the files individually in the posts for episode 001 and 002 the files in the podcast feed have been replaced and you should be able to either download them again or use the images in those posts.  This shouldn't be an issue moving forward since the production team are now aware of how/what I'm doing with that jpeg.  

Enjoy the future shows and thanks again for the feedback.

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Tin Foil Hat Show - Episode 002

As an additional appointment in the continuing saga that is the Tin Foil Hat Show, it would seem that episode 002 has been dropped in the feed.   Please find the link to the feed on the right of the blog or here.

I'd like to thank Seawn from the Fuzion Podcast Network for the upgraded artwork.  Thanks a bunch Seawn, really strong work.

For the instructions to get the show notes please see the instructions as posted in the post for the first episode.  These instructions shouldn't change.


Feedback as always is welcome, tinfoilhatshow@gmail.com or you can contact me by any of the other methods listed here on this blog.  Please remember that the show is very new and still settling in, but constructive criticisms are always appreciated.

Enjoy and please do send me feedback and corrections, it can only make the show better.  A permanent link to the show's rss feed is listed on the right side of the blog.

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It seems that the mp3 file has ID3 tags processed during the workflow to get it in the feed.  During these steps the original image becomes corrupted.   Here is the original JPEG and I'll work with the production folks to make sure the original mp3 file gets fixed.  Sorry for the problems with the commands, I hope that will work correctly in future episodes.

Tin Foil Hat Show - Episode 001

Well to answer popular demands I am proud to announce my debut podcast episode on the Fuzion Podcast Network. This is my podcast where I will soap-box about digital human rights, personal security and the online age.

The intro show is the only one posted at the moment, and I won't say too much except to ask you all to be patient and give me a few shows to let it settle out.

I look forward to your feedback, you can send feedback for the show to tinfoilhatshow@gmail.com or you can contact me by any of the other methods listed here on this blog.

In the show I mention that there would be a couple of commands shared on this post. So in closing, I just want to say to use the following commands to get at the show notes. The number on the text file should change with each episodes, but it will be the only mystery text file in the directory after the other two commands.


eyeD3 --write-image=./ $Filename.mp3
steghide extract -sf FRONT_COVER.jpeg
less tfh-00X.txt

Enjoy and please do send me feedback and corrections, it can only make the show better. A permanent link to the show's rss feed is listed on the right side of the blog.


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-----------------------UPDATE----------------------------

It seems that the mp3 file has ID3 tags processed during the workflow to get it in the feed. During these steps the original image becomes corrupted. Here is the original JPEG and I'll work with the production folks to make sure the original mp3 file gets fixed. Sorry for the problems with the commands, I hope that will work correctly in future episodes.

Apple App store - Best news

Well, there was an Apple event and the "Master -o- Disaster" opened that hole under his nose to my own personal delight.

While others rant on about the 2nd usb port on the new Air or the "Jobs Reality Distortion Field"™ I was resting, non-plussed.  Then came my bombshell.

In the next iteration of the Mac OS X operating system they are going to include a lot of IOS4 features including an app store.  Really?!?!?! An app store?!?!?  I think only two things, both I mentally scream at the top of my lungs:  1.) No greater validation of an idea that was birthed in Ubuntu 9.10 (to much ridicule) and 2.) fantastic, they will just give me another avenue to speak to and convert mac-heads.  I can already imagine the pitch line of "An app store, we have had one in Ubuntu for years!" only to see their eyes light up and beg me to install Ubuntu on their old Mac hardware.

Apple, if the best you can do with OS 10.7 is make an app store and copy Ubuntu, BRING IT ON!  I truly used to hold Apple in high regard for their design and user interface features, but this single action has pushed them to the modest position of "even" with Ubuntu and truthfully, a step behind since they had to copy it and there is "prior art".

Long Live Ubuntu.  Thanks Mac.  You are no longer my hero, just my pimp.

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Fun CLI uses

So if nothing we have learned that command line interfaces are not for novice users, very efficient, loved by CafeNinja and usually very boring and never any fun.

Well that isn't quite true.  I follow one my my favorite sites commandlinefu.com and have in the last few weeks seen some great fun uses of commands that can make anyone look to be a command line ninja with no further training.

The first command that I noticed makes use of a ncurses dialog box.  The command reads like this:

"dialog --gauge "Processing..." 6 40 36"  This defines a progress par that has reached 36 percent with the other numbers being the measure of the progress box.  This doesn't "do" anything, it is stuck in this way and uses no resources, but can make you look quite busy "processing" something.  It looks like the image I've put here.  You make it go away by just pressing Ctrl+C.


The next one make the screen just spew gibberish from the random number generator.  The only "problem" with this one is that it can drive even new processors to spike 100%, even worse than a run away flash page.  I added the "timelimit" command portion to prevent this running on a system that I'm not watching closely.  The command itself is 'cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -d |grep "25"', and will run crazy on your cpu.  My version is : 'timelimit -t120 cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -d |grep "25"'  This looks like this:


There are other commands that can actually make the progress bar count up like "for i in `seq 0 100`;do timeout 6 dialog --gauge "Install..." 6 40 "$i";done"  which like the first command is only making a dialog box that ins't really doing anything besides counting.  Look for your favorite and post them back here.  I bet we can make a small collection that if launched and run in an individual Terminator tab could always make you look diligent and beat the crap outta any "Boss key".

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