Season 2
Some older episodes are hosted on Hacker Public Radio and the more recent ones on the Internet Archive.
- S02E34: Modern Python
In this episode Python is the center of the attention. More precisely CPython, which is the reference implementation Guido van Rossum (the inventor of the language) started all those years ago in the early nineties. As Martin had to skive off to some FLOSS conference, Chris hosts Mark Shannon and Eric Snow, two CPython coredevs (also featuring Mike Müller, a Python Software Foundation fellow, thrown in for good measure), If you still think that Python is some slow interpreted language only good for esoteric big data problems never mind that latest fad called machine learning and AI in general, you don't want to miss this episode. As all of these myths are debunked. And then some. So fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the show!
Links:
- CPython: https://github.com/python/cpython
- Python package index: https://pypi.org
- Truffle: https://github.com/smarr/truffle
- PyPy: https://pypy.org
- Cython: https://github.com/cython/cython
- Python Enhancements Proposals (PEPs): https://peps.python.org
- Python's meta object protocol: https://jarombek.com/blog/sep-24-2018-python-data-model
- Micropython: https://micropython.org
- Subinterpreters: https://peps.python.org/pep-0554
- The Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) and Subinterpreters: https://peps.python.org/pep-0684
- Pyodide: https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide
- Linux and Rust: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/mixing_rust_and_c_linux
- Nosferatu (new): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5040012
- Nosferatu (old): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442
- Soleus push-ups: https://www.soleusmetabolism.org/videos
- Boba Fett: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13668894
- S02E33: Telecomms and FLOSS
This episode is witness to a riveting discussion about the usage of FLOSS in the telecoms industry. Which goes back approximately fifty years with Ericsson (a large Swedish telco equipment manufacturer) coming up with Erlang, a programming language still prominently used in projects such as RabbitMQ. Listen to our two heroes apply their semi-existent knowledge about FLOSS in general and telecommunications in particular in this mind-boggling episode. Plus bonus content in the shape of a crash course on the history of the telecom industry, a peek behind the scenes of iOS (or to put it another way: the gory details of this mobile operating system that you have always wanted to know but were afraid to ask) and outlook to a future episode of your beloved podcast (gasp!). Consider yourself warned (to some extent anyway :-).
Links:
- First iPhone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)
- Erlang (/OTP): https://www.erlang.org
- Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org
- Android Open Source Project (AOSP): https://source.android.com/
- iOS: https://developer.apple.com/ios
- Mach: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html
- Asterisk: https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk
- OpenStack: https://www.openstack.org
- Verizon hack: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/27/chinese-government-hackers-penetrate-us-internet-providers-spy
- Linux Foundation network projects: https://lfnetworking.org/projects
- Camara: https://github.com/camaraproject
- What we do in the shadows: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
- S02E32: FLOSS in the real estate biz
In this episode, Martin and Chris talk about the use of FLOSS in real estate. Chris laments his big landowner woes which he got into after inheriting a zoo of different pieces of real estate some time ago. And how he solved this using FLOSS components that put sense into half-baked billing information coming from property management companies and how a neural net was recruited to help along the way. Even if you're not insane but just curious about how it's done you don't want to miss this episode. Plus bonus content about what happened to format of the show and why that was.
Links:
- microrealestate: https://github.com/microrealestate/microrealestate
- condo: https://github.com/open-condo-software/condo
- OPRM: https://bigprof.com/appgini/applications/online-rental-property-manager
- ORPMS: https://orpms.github.io/orpms
- minical: https://github.com/minical/minical
- OpenMAINT: https://www.openmaint.org
- OTRS: https://otrs.com
- Beautiful Soup: https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup
- Reading ODS files with Python: https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel
- Tensorflow: https://www.tensorflow.org
- Creating Word documents from Python: https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx
- Syknet documentaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(franchise)
- Codes, ciphers, and computers: An introduction to information security: https://www.amazon.com/Codes-Ciphers-Computers-Introduction-Information/dp/0810451492
- Nosferatu (1922 version): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442
- S02E31: Talking Kotlin
In this episode Martin and Chris host Hadi Hariri and Sebastian Aigner from Jetbrains to talk about Kotlin, IDEs, world domination and many other topics. Such as politics (maybe). And protein bars and their rise to fame in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. And how Google was actually kidnapped. Confused? You should be. But don't miss this episode for the resolution of all this, fun on Google and money, programming languages and more. Much more.
Links:
- Jetbrains: https://www.jetbrains.com
- Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org
- Google's announcement: https://developer.android.com/kotlin/first
- Jetbrains' expectation: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-needs-kotlin
- Talking Kotlin: https://talkingkotlin.com
- Five year anniversary episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13QJt5mqUoM
- Kotlin @ GitHub: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin
- Kotlin @ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/kotlin
- Ultimate Guitar Tabs: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com
- Boardwalk Empire: https://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire
- Jamis Buck's Mazes for Programmers: https://www.amazon.de/Mazes-Programmers-Twisty-Little-Passages/dp/1680500554
- Criminal Record: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/criminal-record/umc.cmc.1sbjeoma6tvxgda6l0h4bb0x3
- PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm
- S02E30: The Five Year Plan again
In this anniversary episode our two ageing heroes recount the last five years of the Inlaws and the progress of the famous five year plan (as avid listeners will probably recall from earlier anniversary episodes - if you can't, there's always the back-catalogue). Plus some more NoSQL/Cache Software Bashing. In case you're interested...
Links:
- Wooden anniversary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_anniversary
- Five year plans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union
- Salvatore joins Redis (first time): https://redis.io/press/redis-creator-salvatore-sanfilippo-antirez-joins-redis-labs
- Salvatore leaves Redis: https://antirez.com/news/133
- Redis license change episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E09_Redis_SNAFU__A77A
- Salvatore joins Redis (second time): https://antirez.com/news/144
- FLOSS and venture capital: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E98_FLOSS_and_venture_capital__FF92
- Married... with Children: https://www.sonypictures.com/tv/marriedwithchildren
- S02E29: The Free Software Foundation
In this episode the Inlaws host Zoë Kooyman and Greg Farough from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), one of the backbones of the FLOSS movement. Home to many primordial projects including the GNU congregation of free software such as Emacs and its compiler collection, the FSF can look back on forty years of shaping the FLOSS ecosystem in a way that few other organisations have managed to achieve. So if you wanted to know why Emacs is actually an operating system rather than just an editor, what the FSF really is beyond Richard M. Stallman and what's in store for the FSF, then you don't want to miss this episode! Plus bonus content: the low-down on Dutch street organs and a really well-kept Dutch secret (woa!). Ya REALLY dunt wanna miss tis! :-)
Links:
- Free Software Foundation: https://www.fsf.org
- Free Software Definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
- Gnu Public License (GPL): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
- Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS): https://stallman.org
- GNU manifesto: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
- Gosling and the GPL: https://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history
- GNU Hurd: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd
- Hurd on Guix: https://guix.gnu.org/es/blog/2020/a-hello-world-virtual-machine-running-the-hurd
- GPL violations: https://gpl-violations.org
- VMWare and the GPL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/nov/29/gplappeal
- Public money public code: https://publiccode.eu/en
- The Inlaws on 501(c)s: https://archive.org/details/hpr3679
- RMS / FSF kerfuffle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Comments_about_Jeffrey_Epstein_scandal
- FSF volunteering: https://www.fsf.org/volunteer/?set_language=da
- Dutch street organs: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=amsterdam+sreet+organ
- GNU/Emms: https://www.gnu.org/software/emms
- Komijnekaas (in Dutch): https://www.kaas.nl/komijnekaas
- Skeleton crew: https://www.starwars.com/series/star-wars-skeleton-crew
- S02E28: A kernel slightly rusty
This episode shines some light on a new (?) technology entering the Linux kernel. Traditionally the Linux has been programmed using C, a programming language almost as old as our two hosts, and assembler for the machine-dependent parts which cannot be done in C. A few years back a couple of kernel devs started to explore the possibility of using a modern, much safer system programming language by the name of Rust (as featured quite a few times on this podcast in the past - check out the back catalog for the details). Even if you're not a kernel dev check out the episode if you're interested in kernel programming or the use of Rust in system programming in general.
Links:
- Guru Meditation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
- Rust for Linux: https://rust-for-linux.com
- Mozilla's XML User Interface Language (XUL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
- Linus' endorsement for Rust: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-rust-will-go-into-linux-6-1
- Linus' view on C++ for kernel programming: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20
- Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
- Linux Plumbers Conference 2021: https://lpc.events/event/11/contributions/986
- Linux Plumbers Conference 2024: https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1912
- Rust bindgen: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen
- Kaput and Zösky (ultimate obliterators): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419344/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_kaput%2520and%2520
- Paris has fallen: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33184638/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_in_0_q_paris%2520has%2520
- S02E27: The Internet Security Research Group
In this episode Martin and Chris host Sarah Gran and Josh Aas of the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The ISRG is home to such little-known projects :-) such as Let's Encrypt and Prossimo, an approach to rewrite some of the most important pieces of the Internet infrastructure including the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and cURL in a memory-safe language (spoiler alert: details in the episode). So even if you're not running a website where the SSL certificates come from Let's Encrypt: You don't want to miss this episode!
Links:
- ISRG: https://www.abetterinternet.org
- Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org
- Mark Shuttleworth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth
- certbot: https://github.com/certbot/certbot
- ACME protocol: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8555
- dehydrated: https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated
- Prossimo: https://www.memorysafety.org
- Linus and C++: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20
- Linus and Rust: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-rust-will-go-into-linux-6-1
- Wedson Almeida Filho's LKML post: https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/8/28/1532
- Divvi Up: https://divviup.org
- Notion: https://www.notion.so/product/projects
- Google's first blog post: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html
- Zed: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
- RocknRolla: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032755/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_4_nm_4_in_0_q_rocknro
- The Bear: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452776/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_2_nm_5_in_0_q_the%2520bear
- S02E25: The CHAOSS project
This episode is host to Dawn Foster and Sean Goggins from the Community Health Analytics Open Source Software (CHAOSS) project, an endeavour to ensure a quality baseline for FLOSS. If you ever wanted to know what chaos(s) really is, how introduce it into your FLOSS developer existence or just curious about chaos never mind quality of FLOSS, you don't want to miss this episode.
Links:
- Community Health Analytics Open Source Software: https://chaoss.community
- CHAOSS practitioner guides: https://chaoss.community/about-chaoss-practitioner-guides
- Augur: https://github.com/chaoss/augur
- GrimoireLab: https://chaoss.github.io/grimoirelab
- CHAOSS metrics: https://chaoss.community/kb-metrics-and-metrics-models
- Valkey: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey
- Redis license change: https://redis.io/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing
- Jupyter Notebooks: https://jupyter.org
- Baysian analysis & machine learning: https://odsc.medium.com/how-bayesian-machine-learning-works-5fd1a746734
- Redis & Rust: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/rust_redisjson
- US government & Rust: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-ONCD-Technical-Report.pdf
- A dirty job by Christopher Moore: https://www.chrismoore.com/books/a-dirty-job
- Terry Pratchett's Mort: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1496
- S02E24: An Interview with Kris Moore
This episode is host to a BSD veteran by the name of Kris Moore. So for the hipsters among you, this trip down memory lane (and more!) explains to where distros such as FreeBSD and friends all come from (to some extend :-). Plus more insights on TrueNAS, why Linux preempted BSD (not only here:-) and long forgotten projects such as GlusterFS, PC-BSD and MacOS. Did I hear you ask: "MacOS?!?!?". Fear not, all will be revealed - just listen to the episode (lame attempt at episode marketing :-).
Links:
- TrueNAS: https://github.com/truenas
- iXsystems: https://www.ixsystems.com
- Kirk's book (and of course other people): https://contents.meetbsd.ir/ebook/Design%20and%20Implementation.pdf
- BSD maintainer panel episode: https://archive.org/details/hpr3439
- NetBSD: https://www.netbsd.org
- OpenBSD: https://www.openbsd.org
- FreeBSD: https://www.freebsd.org
- DragonFly BSD: https://www.dragonflybsd.org
- Darwin: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions
- IXsystems: https://www.ixsystems.com
- ZFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
- GlusterFS: https://www.gluster.org
- Ceph: https://ceph.io/en
- CXL: https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/cxl/memory-devices.html
- HCI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-converged_infrastructure
- Clarkson's Farm: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10541088/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Gravity Falls: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865718
- S02E23: The Halloween episode
This year's Halloween episode has it all: Our two ageing heroes being together once again in a secret location and rambling about free, libre open source software, philosophy and other nonsense, The Darkside Tech Support Halloween sketch (the longest one ever in the history of Linux Inlaws), Moloch, God and her call center, Buddha, Vlad the Impaler and a cast of thousands of supporting characters (/usr/bin/bc just ran out of battery power, so this number may be wrong). Even if you're not religious - you don't want to miss this episode!
Links:
- S02E22: OpenPGP
In this episode Martin and Chris take a closer look at the Gnu Privacy Guard and the surrounding software ecosystem known as OpenPGP, a public key infrastructure (PKI) powering software ranging from mail clients to popular office suites such as LibreOffice. So if you want to know more about this software which you're using on a daily basis probably without even knowing it, you don't want to miss this episode! Plus a Neanderthal talking about crypto software.
Links:
- Pretty Good Privacy (PGP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
- OpenPGP: https://openpgp.dev/book
- Werner's company: https://g10code.com/index.html
- OpenPGP's fork: https://lwn.net/Articles/953978
- LibrePGP: https://librepgp.org
- Schumpeter and moolah (made-up pox reference :-): https://www.jstor.org/stable/40970658
- Homeland (0.5 pox): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_homeland
- Working backwards: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/colin-bryar/working-backwards/9781529033847
- S02E21: FLOSS and home automation
The focus of this episode is the use of free, libre and open source software in the lovely field of home automation, a sometimes much underrated sector. Especially if you're old and cannot be bothered with heating up the pad from afar, controlling the blinds from the other side of the planet and spying on your cat trying to empty the fridge when you're not around. If that's something that sounds interesting regardless of your age, then you don't want to miss this episode. Especially if you're interested in historical aspects of home automation a few centuries ago, whether used by peasants or not.
Links:
- Google's Nest then: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019
- Google's Nest recently: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-announces-the-end-of-multiple-nest-products-heres-what-you-need-to-know
- Home Assistant: https://github.com/home-assistant
- OpenHAB: https://github.com/openhab
- Zigbee: https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/zigbee
- Störtebeker: https://www.stoertebeker.com/stortebeker-brauspezialitaten
- Free online course @ Carnegie Mellon University: https://oli.cmu.edu/independent-learner-courses
- Mach project: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/public/www/overview.html
- S02E20: eBPF How to pimp your kernel
This episode is witness to a deep-dive into eBPF, the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (technical and non-technical) powered by no other than Bill Mulligan from the eBPF Foundation itself. If you ever wondered how to move user-defined code into the Linux kernel in a guarded fashion and how to get away this, you don't want to miss this episode.
Links:
- eBPF: https://ebpf.io
- Linux Kernel Modules: https://sysprog21.github.io/lkmpg
- eBPF documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_vD3XZYOA
- Cilium: https://github.com/cilium/cilium
- ISOVALENT: https://isovalent.com
- eBPF Foundation: https://ebpf.foundation
- Berlin city marketing: https://about.visitberlin.de/en/promoting-berlin-globally
- UEFA: https://www.uefa.com
- 3 Body Problem: https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81024821
- Tour de France Unchained: https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81153133
- S02E19: FLOSS in the automotive industry
This episode scrutinises the use of FLOSS in one of the legacy industries (soon to be anyway) of the planet - yes, you've guessed right: cars! Or generally speaking: vehicles of all walks of life (starting with horse-drawn carriages of yonderyear, hence the episode length of just short of four hours :-). Plus bonus content on the details of Tesla's end user license agreement - if you manage to stay awake that long...
Links:
- Tesla's history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.
- Tesla's end-user license agreement (and more): https://www.tesla.com/about/legal
- Automotive Grade Linux: https://docs.automotivelinux.org/en/quillback
- Autoware: https://autoware.org
- Tesla's Patent Pledge: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
- Waymo's Open Dataset: https://github.com/waymo-research/waymo-open-dataset
- COVESA: https://github.com/COVESA
- AppLink: https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-ford-smartdevicelink-consortium-vehicle-apps
- HERE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Technologies
- HERE @ GitHub: https://github.com/heremaps
- Pam and Tommy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13659418
- OpenHAB: https://github.com/openhab
- S02E18: FLOSS at C24 a German neobank
This episode is host to Philip Kemmeter, CTO of the C24 Bank, a rapidly growing German direct banking company. Being an avid user of FLOSS code bases, Phil shares interesting insights into the use of FLOSS from a general perspective and the particular requirements deployments of such code has in this particular industry. Even if you're not working in banking this is an episode not to be missed if you're using FLOSS in commercial environments. Plus 20,000 reasons why should bank with C24 (maybe even more reasons :-) in addition to some smooth and inspiring guerrilla marketing for banks on podcasts. And even more bonus content: Bits on mobile security. If you can't get to sleep at all...
Links:
- C24 Bank (in German): https://www.c24.de
- Check24 (in German): https://www.check24.de/unternehmen
- Vogon poetry: https://similarworlds.com/poetry/4958545-Vogon-Poetry-Oh-freddled-gruntbuggly-Thy-micturations-are-to
- Google's SafetyNet: https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/safetynet/attestation
- Smarty: https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty
- Lord of the Rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings
- The Snowman: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758810/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_the%2520snowman
- The Acolyte: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12262202/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- S02E17: Large Language Models
In this episode Bard and Copilot discuss a FLOSS podcast named Linux Inlaws. Hang on, no, wait. It's actually the opposite: Our two heroes discuss what two major large language models (LLMs) know and think about the format. Plus feedback from other AIs on the show. So if you ever wondered if you're alone with your opinion on Linux Inlaws, you don't want to miss this episode. Plus Martin's opinion on the king and more future bank holidays in the UK. Never mind industrial actions in the UK, France and Germany.
Links:
- Copilot: https://copilot.microsoft.com
- Bard: https://bard.google.com/app
- Wavenet: https://deepmind.google/technologies/wavenet
- Martin Wimpress: https://wimpysworld.com
- FLOSS Weekly: https://hackaday.com/tag/floss-weekly
- Mycroft: https://github.com/MycroftAI
- A Small Light: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17921714/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Wednesday: https://www.netflix.com/title/81231974
- S02E16: OpenQA
In this episode, Martin and Chris - always having skipped quality assurance wherever possible - host some eclectic members of the OpenQA project team for an interesting chat about Linux distributions, politics, the world in general and last but not least also quality assurance of large, complex software systems. Like Linux distributions. So if any of the above sounds interesting, you don't want to miss this episode. Plus bonus content on
Links:
- - Gesellschaft für Software und Systementwicklung mbH (aka SUSE): https://www.suse.com
- - OpenQA: http://open.qa
- - OpenQA @ Github: https://github.com/os-autoinst
- - Tumbleweed: https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed
- - SUSE Hackweek: https://hackweek.opensuse.org
- - OpenQA hobs @ SUSE: https://jobs.suse.com/us/en/search-results?m=3&keywords=openqa
- - OpenQA meetings: https://progress.opensuse.org/projects/qa/wiki/Tools#Team-meetings
- - Keppler 442b: https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/kepler_442_b--2346/
- - WasmOS: https://github.com/r1ru/WasmOS/tree/main
- - Wayland and explicit GPU synchronisation: https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync.html
- - Product owner summit: https://productownersummit.org
- - Fallout: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0HAQAA7JM43QWX0H6GUD3IOF70
- S02E15: FLOSS in healthcare
In this episode our two FLOSS enthusiasts focus on free and open source software in the healthcare sector, a much debated subject as this can be close to life or death for some people. Even if you're not affected now, chances are you will be - whether that's a pace maker running on closed source software or some, in contrast, other medical device powered by a pure FLOSS stack. So don't miss out on this episode.
Links:
- - Intro paper (ancient): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3950260/
- - Centers for Disease Control: https://www.cdc.gov
- - Centers for Disease Control @ GitHub: https://github.com/CDCgov
- - Open Source First @ UK: https://openuk.uk
- - Mary and George: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26246248
- - Boehringer Ingelheim @ GitHub: https://github.com/Boehringer-Ingelheim
- - Roche @ GitHub: https://github.com/Roche
- - mRNA research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpqfdr9FPWM
- - mRNA research (slightly more serious): https://www.pennmedicine.org/mrna
- - FLOSS @ health sector: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_health_software
- - Karen Sandler on FLOSS in medical devices: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/dec/19/a-note-from-karen-2023
- - FLOSS and pacemakers: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/12/column
- - change.org: https://change.org
- - Renegade Nell: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14502758
- S02E14: Rustacean Station
In thrive for world-betterment (in addition to fostering the competition), Martin and Chris are hosts to Allen Wyma and Marc Otto-Witte, two hosts of Rustacean Station, a podcast purely dedicated to Rust. Not the iron oxide of course, but rather the programming language originating from Mozilla all those years ago that almost took the world by storm :-) but is now a vital part of ecosystems at Microsoft, Google and numerous FLOSS projects to name but a few adopters so far. Ever wanted to know more about the language, podcasting and Asia (never mind FLOSS consulting)? Then you don't want to miss this episode. Plus how to run your FLOSS conference and world-domination. Seriously! Never mind the insides of how to really do a podcast...
Links:
- Rustacean Station: https://rustacean-station.org
- Mainmatter: https://mainmatter.com
- Rustler: https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
- FFI: https://github.com/libffi/libffi
- Internet Security Research Group (ISRG): https://www.abetterinternet.org
- This Week in Rust: https://this-week-in-rust.org
- Rust Foundation: https://foundation.rust-lang.org
- Rust Foundation's trademark SNAFU: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/rust_foundation_apologizes_trademark_policy
- EURO RUST: https://eurorust.eu
- Rust Asia: https://rustasiaconf.com
- Elixir's Phoenix: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix
- Rust Exercises: https://rust-exercises.com
- Ash framework: https://github.com/ash-project/ash
- Evil Dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead
- Mozart in the Jungle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3502172
- S02E13: FLOSS in the military
Not mentioning the elephant in the room, Martin and Chris take a closer look the vital role FLOSS is playing in modern defence systems and as part of military technology in general. Although the topic is not for the faint-hearted, it still shows the important part of FLOSS when defending core values very close to open source software in general: liberty, democracy and freedom in general.
Links:
- OSI FLOSS definition: https://opensource.org/osd
- Android Team Awareness Kit: https://tak.gov
- DARPA: https://www.darpa.mil
- History of DARPA projects: https://www.darpa.mil/timeline/index
- ARPANET: https://web.archive.org/web/20120915113839/http://www.darpa.mil/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=2554
- Mil-OSS: https://mil-oss.dev
- BWMESSENGER: https://element.io/matrix-in-germany/projects/bwmessenger
- Taurus leak: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/04/germany_confirms_russia_leak_genuine
- freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org
- Spectral: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106651/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_spectral
- S02E12: DAVx5: CalDAV and more on Android
In this episode, Martin and Chris host Bernhard Stockmann, the brain and inventor of DAVx5, the central bridge between a *DAV server and any mobile device running Android and thus in bed the Google's approach to calendars (and much more such Contacts and WebDAV). So if even if you've never wondered how to access a CalDAV server from an Android phone or table, this show is definitely for you. Plus bonus content: the recipe for your favourite Scottish national food. Pro tip for a slightly more vegan experience: replace the ox bung with tin foil and cook the mixture in an oven at 160 degrees C (320 degrees F) for about 2 hours. And don't forget to add about a gill of whiskey (approx. 150 ml) to the mixture before the final cooking stage.
Links:
- DAVx5: https://github.com/bitfireAT/davx5-ose
- Google's Kotlin announcement: https://developer.android.com/kotlin/first
- LibrePGP vs. OpenPGP: https://lwn.net/Articles/953797
- CalDAV Push video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ET6T6ZYp8k
- The Terror: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708480/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Revolusi: https://www.amazon.de/Revolusi-Indonesia-Birth-Modern-World/dp/184792705X
- Haggis: https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/traditional-haggis-recipe
- S02E09: Redis SNAFU
In this episode our two hosts discuss the recent license change in a NoSQL data base known a the Remote Dictionary Server, aka Redis. Given the fact that this podcast probably wouldn't exist without this company never mind code base (as Martin and Chris met at this company when it was still known as Redislabs), brace yourself for a riveting trip down memory lane never mind fasten your seat belts for that ride in the Redis DeLorean when our two hosts discuss the implications never mind future of that database...
Links:
- Redis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis
- Salvatore Sanfilippo: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salvatore-sanfilippo-b52b47249
- Ofer Bengal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofer-bengal-4a84ba6
- Yiftach Shoolman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yiftachshoolman
- Pieter Noordhuis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pnoordhuis
- Redis license promise: https://web.archive.org/web/20211022072546/https://redis.com/blog/redis-license-bsd-will-remain-bsd
- GoodFORM: https://goodformcode.com
- Redis license change: https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing
- Redis governance after Salvatore leaving: https://web.archive.org/web/20230530174930/https://redis.io/docs/about/governance
- Madelyn Olson leaving the steering committee: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7176350563071139840/
- KeyDB: https://docs.keydb.dev
- Redict: https://codeberg.org/redict/redict
- Linux Foundation Valkey Announcement: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community
- Valkey on Github: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey
- Simon Riggs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonriggs-postgresql-edb/?originalSubdomain=uk
- Get Shorty: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113161/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_get%2520shorty
- Be Cool: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377471/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- S02E11: The darker side of FLOSS
In this episode, Martin and Chris take a look at the darker side of FLOSS. Want to know what that is? Listen to the episode - all will be revealed. Plus: How to make cotton candy at home.
Links:
- Monkeys and floss: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-009-0159-9
- Meat floss: https://www.chinasichuanfood.com/homemade-meat-floss
- Dance move: hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpV4SmtyqO4
- Water floss: https://www.dentocare.co.uk/blog/post/what-is-an-oral-irrigator
- Jaws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(James_Bond)
- FLOSS (the software this time :-): https://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull1.txt
- Curb your enthusiasm: https://www.hbo.com/curb-your-enthusiasm
- Dragonblade: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3672840
- S02E10: KDE Eco
In this episode host Martin and Chris take a closer look at KDE, one of the leading Linux desktop environments. For this endeavour they are joined by no other than Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss, a long-standing KDE veteran, doubling as a community and project manager for a subproject of KDE Eco, concerned with the reduction of the power consumption of your favourite desktop. If you ever wanted to know how to extend the battery life using the right desktop (and who doesn't want to know?), you don't want to miss this show!
Links:
- KDE: https://kde.org
- KDE Eco: https://eco.kde.org/
- Blue Angel (ecolabel): https://www.blauer-engel.de/en/productworld/resources-and-energy-efficient-software-products
- KDE Akademy: https://akademy.kde.org
- Software repository: https://invent.kde.org/teams/eco
- Agency report: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/entwicklung-anwendung-von-bewertungsgrundlagen-fuer
- Joseph's FOSDEM talk: https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/speaker/joseph_de_veaugh_geiss
- Naomi Klein's Doppelgänger: https://www.amazon.de/Doppelganger-Trip-Into-Mirror-World/dp/0241621305
- Minority Report: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_minority%2520report
- Tron: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
- S02E08: Perl and Raku
In this episode Perl is the centre of discussion. Martin and Chris host Todd Rinaldo and Stuart Mackintosh of the Perl foundation who will explain the ins and outs of this programming language that still drive a significant portion of the Internet and other strange things. So if you want to know what's been hot for the 36 years in the area of scripting languages driving workloads large and small, you don't want to miss this episode!
Links:
- Perl: https://www.perl.org
- The Perl & Raku Foundation: https://www.perlfoundation.org
- CPAN: https://www.cpan.org
- Raku: https://raku.org
- SpamAssassin: https://spamassassin.apache.org
- Martin's paint: https://www.sadolinpaint.com
- Steal like an artist: https://austinkleon.com/steal
- S02E07: OpenWrt
In this episode Martin and Chris take a closer look at OpenWrt, a Linux distro aimed at routers and other embedded devices. If you ever wondered about how to free your router from proprietary crap (aka vendor-issued router firmware), you don't want to miss this episode.
Links:
- OpenWrt: https://openwrt.org
- OpenWrt's LuCi: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/luci/luci.essentials
- LEDE / OpenWrt: https://lwn.net/Articles/686767
- Building OpenWrt with Docker: https://gitlab.com/openwrt/docker
- DD-WRT: https://dd-wrt.com
- freifunk: https://freifunk.net/en
- Extraction II: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12263384/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_extraction%2520i
- The Artful Dodger: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-de/series/the-artful-dodger/OVaLog2e2EIW
- S02E06: XMPP
This episode is host to the XMPP Foundation. Eddie Maurer and Matthew Wild spill the beans on what the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (formerly known as Jabber) really is (and what it's not), its history, future and current state. So if you want to know on what protocol popular apps such WhatsApp (yes indeed), Grindr, Jitsi, Prosody and Zoom (to name but a few) rely under the hood for real-time communication, you don't want to miss this episode!
Links:
- XMPP Standards Foundation: https://xmpp.org
- MQTT: https://mqtt.org
- Prosody: https://prosody.im
- Talking to a coffee machine: https://github.com/Jutta-Proto/protocol-cpp
- Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org
- Software using XMPP: https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging
- Snikket: https://snikket.org
- Modern XMPP: https://docs.modernxmpp.org
- Die Welt des Mittelmeeres (in German): https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/fernand-braudel-georges-duby-die-welt-des-mittelmeeres-9783596168538
- Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io
- Ghosts: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00049t9
- Creepshow: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8762206
- S02E05: Update on the five year plan
Now in its fourth year, this podcast has seen it all: The rise and demise of whole empires, the beloved competition fade into distant memory and a glorious appearance at last year's FOSDEM (Europe's biggest gathering of FLOSS enthusiasts), where actually more than five people showed up (thanks again to the ones attended on that Saturday afternoon in Ixelles - our hearts go out to you!). So it's once again time for an update of the five year plan (true to this beloved tradition going back to the olden days of communist Russia back in the last century) and how our ageing two heroes are doing on world domination, supporting the FLOSS community and recreational drugs (confined to legal ones course :-). Among other things. Such as all the gory details about Amish adult entertainment websites. Don't miss this (even if you're not into Amish entertainment websites - adult or otherwise)!
Links:
- Open at Intel: https://openatintel.podbean.com
- Soviet five year plans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union
- Amish porn (sample): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4
- FLOSS WEEKLY's last episode @ TWIT: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/761?autostart=false
- S02E04: The Software Freedom Conservancy
This episode introduces the Software Freedom Conservancy featuring Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn. Many people probably know the SFC from its FLOSS license verification (especially copyleft licenses) work but there's much more to this non-profit. Without stealing too much thunder - listen to the episode for the details!
Links:
- The Software Freedom Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org
- Copyleft licenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
- VMWare case: https://www.ifross.org/?q=artikel/hellwig-vs-vmware-gpl-enforcement-lawsuit-hamburg-district-court
- Vizio case: https://fossa.com/blog/massive-implications-software-freedom-conservancy-vs-vizio
- Mr. Smith goes to Washington: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_mr%2520smith%2520goes%2520to%2520
- Belgian chocolate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_chocolate
- Yes Prime Minister: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086831/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_yes%2520prime%2520mi
- Hijack: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19854762/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- Red Dragon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289765/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_red%2520dragon
- S02E03: Real-time Linux
In this episode our two heroes shed light on real-time Linux and its applications. Due to the nature of the topic, the episode might sound a little bit more technical than our usual content but as we do cater for all audiences this also includes the geeks and nerd interested in the nitty-gritty details. So enjoy this episode at your own risk or cannot get to sleep otherwise...
Links:
- Unix / Linux scheduling: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Traditional-Scheduling-Intro.html
- Traditional Unix scheduling: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/cpu-sched-mlfq.pdf
- Earliest deadline first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_deadline_first_scheduling
- RTLinux: https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~sbrandt/courses/Winter00/290S/rtlinux.pdf
- Xenomai: https://www.xenomai.org
- Real-time Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/572740
- Real-time Ubuntu: https://ubuntu.com/blog/real-time-ubuntu-is-now-generally-available
- The Class of '09: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14903834/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_the%2520class%2520of%252009
- Fast X: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5433140/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- S02E02: Redhat, EPEL and much more
An important part of the Redhat ecosystem are the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). In this episode Martin and Chris talk to Carl and Julia, two Redhat people looking after EPEL among other things. So if you are interested in Redhat Linux, CentOS.* or even Fedora, you don't want to miss this episode. Plus as bonus content: a short intro into Fedora, Redhat and CentOS.*. Never mind all the gory details of the history of these projects. The VERY gory details of the projects.
Links:
- Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org
- Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL): https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux
- CentOS: https://centos.org
- EPEL: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel
- RMP Fusion: https://rpmfusion.org
- Alma Linux: https://almalinux.org
- Rocky Linux: https://rockylinux.org
- Carl on Redhat's source RPM decision: https://linuxunplugged.com/517
- Oktoberfest: https://www.oktoberfest.de
- Ahsoka: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13622776
- Martin's favourite Indian restaurant: https://undisclosed-location.co.uk
- Robot Chicken: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437745/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_robot%2520chicken
- S02E01: The Document Foundation
In this episode Martin and Chris host Florian Effensberger and Mike Saunders from The Documentation Foundation, home of the well-known office software known as LibreOffice.
Links:
- The Document Foundation: https://www.documentfoundation.org
- LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org
- MikeOS: https://mikeos.sourceforge.net
- Linux Voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Voice
- Linux Format: https://www.linuxformat.com
- HackSpace (Andrew's and Ben's new endeavour): https://www.mclibre.org/descargar/docs/revistas/hackspace/hackspace-52-en-202203.pdf
- StarOffice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice
- OpenOffice: https://www.openoffice.org
- LibreOffice repos: https://github.com/LibreOffice
- Migrations to LibreOffice: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Migrations
- LibreOffice Online: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online
- Disable IPv6: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/disable-ipv6-on-devices
- Alaska Daily: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15421858/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_alaska%2520da
- Happy!: https://www.syfy.com/happy
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