Linux Inlaws

HPR3128: Linux Inlaws S01E11 The Python Bumper Part 2

Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:00:00 +0200

TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index
Stackoverflow index: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages-loved
PEP 520 (the Zen of Python): https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020
PEP 572: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572
PEP 572 discussion: https://twitter.com/llanga/status/989670881176702976
Claudio's link: http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/DifferentNeXTSpellings/DifferentNeXTSpellings.html
Secret Diary of a Call Girl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Diary_of_a_Call_Girl
Sophie Wilson interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2SdSLCMKEA&t=1852s

HPR3118: Linux Inlaws S01E10 The Python Bumper Part 1

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 02:00:00 +0200

Linux 5.8RC1: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.8-rc1-Release d
Stackless Python: https://github.com/stackless-dev/stackless/wiki
Python 3 documentation: https://docs.python.org/3
Guido van Rossum: https://gvanrossum.github.io
Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs): https://www.python.org/dev/peps
PEP 404: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404
PEP 572: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572
Brad & Alia: https://www.gala.de/stars/news/l_a__news /brad-pitt--ist-er-mit-dieser-schauspielerin-zusammen--22244236.html

HPR3106: Linux Inlaws S01E09 Postgres

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 02:00:00 +0200

S01E09:

Postgres
Listen to our two OAP interviewing Bruce Momjian, Postgres evangelist and long-time supporter of this popular SQL database. Expect lots of strong language around SQL and NoSQL topics and some ranting about MINT's attitude towards snaps, a fun breach of a health service provider in the UK and why broadcasters should stick to monopolies.

MINT Chromium issue: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3766
PostgreSQL: https://www.postgresql.org
Babylon Health breach: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52986629

HPR3099: Linux Inlaws S01E08 The review of the review

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 02:00:00 +0200

S01E08: The review of the review

More shenanigans from our two heroes. In this short episode our two heroes rant about Linus and other old people, Transmeta and other history, discuss Martin's EdgeOS woes and discover that MIPS is indeed a CPU architecture supported by standard Debian. The show concludes with a short review of Claudio's review and poxes about the Arch wiki and Californication. You have been warned!

HPR3097: Linux Inlaws S01E07 The Big Blue Button

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode our two chaps welcome Fred Dixon, product manager for BigBlueButton, on the show to talk about the project, its history and if it will finally run on Fedora and CentOS.

Surrounding musings include how to hack the GDM login screen, why Martin is not behind the recent Easyjet hack and poxes as well as anti-poxes.

Shownotes:

BigBlueButton: https://bigbluebutton.org
The Easyjet hack
How to hack the GDM login screen in Focal Fossa: https://github.com/PRATAP-KUMAR/focal_gdm3_login_theme_complete_hack
The Ubuntu logo for the GDM3 login screen for Focal Fossa and previous Ubuntu versions can be found at: /usr/share/plymouth/ubuntu-logo.png. Simply truncate this to zero bytes and the logo will be gone from the login screen
Virgy's open source website: https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/what-is-open-source-software

HPR3079: Linux Inlaws S01E06 Porn and Trump

Thu, 21 May 2020 02:00:00 +0200

This is Linux Inlaws, a series on free and open source software, black humour, the revolution and freedom in general (this includes ideas and software) and generally having fun.

Linux Inlaws - a podcast about on topics around free and open source software, any associated contraband, communism / the revolution in general and whatever else fancies your tickle.

Please note that this and other episodes may contain strong language, offensive humor and other certainly not politically correct language - you have been warned (our parents insisted on this disclaimer - happy mum?). Thus the content is not suitable for consumption in the workplace (especially when played back on a speaker in an open plan office or similar environments), any minors under the age of 35 or any pets including fluffy little killer bunnies, your trusty guide dog (unless on speed) and cute T-Rexes or other associated dinosaurs.

Links:

Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org
Audacity OSX work-around: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=105586
KDEnlive: https://kdenlive.org
Blender: https://www.blender.org
PwC mishap: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/06/pwc_azure_squatting
The Current War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Current_War
Rick and Morty: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty
Better Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Things_(TV_series)
Pamela Adlon: https://twitter.com/pamelaadlon

HPR3069: Linux Inlaws S01E05 Porn and Skynet

Thu, 07 May 2020 02:00:00 +0200

Linux Inlaws - a podcast about on topics around free and open source software, any associated contraband, communism / the revolution in general and whatever else fancies your tickle.

Ubuntu 20.04: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes
Kernel 5.6: https://itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-5-6
Wireguard: https://www.wireguard.com
Python 2.7.18: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/OFCIETIXLX34X7FVK5B5WPZH22HXV342/
Python 404: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404
RTPM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-Time_Messaging_Protocol
webRTC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC
MPEG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4
VP9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9
Audio compression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression#Audio
Container formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_container_formats

HPR3050: Linux Inlaws S01E04 What's in a name

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 02:00:00 +0200

This is Linux Inlaws, a series on free and open source software, black humour, the revolution and freedom in general (this includes ideas and software) and generally having fun.

Linux Inlaws - a podcast about on topics around free and open source software, any associated contraband, communism / the revolution in general and whatever else fancies your tickle.

In this show the lads Martin and Chris speak about the legacy, its name and also introduce Tech Support from the Dark Side, a new hotline helping politicians and other users in need of computer support to cope with reality.

HPR3033: Linux Inlaws S01E03 32 Bit Time Travel

Wed, 18 Mar 2020 01:00:00 +0100

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HPR3019: Linux Inlaws S01E02 FOSDEM shenanigans

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 01:00:00 +0100

Linux Inlaws - a podcast about on topics around free and open source software, any associated contraband, communism / the revolution in general and whatever else fancies your tickle.

HPR3689: Linux Inlaws S01E65: TerminusDB

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

As part of the effort of turning the planet's premier Rust marketing podcast into a full-blown NoSQL show, in this episode Chris hosts some of the key people behind a NoSQL database called TerminusDB (Martin couldn't make it as he was firing, um, re-organising the Inlaw's marketing department once again). Luke (the CEO) and Gavin (CTO) of TerminusDB spill the beans on the history of the project, ontologies and why they still matter not only in a mobile-first world and why a website called DB Engines simply doesn't do the trick (putting it very diplomatically). Never mind the road ahead... (including quantum AI and some other fancy stuff - you heard it here first!). And also next week's lotto numbers (perhaps).

HPR3679: Linux Inlaws S01E64: Non-profits in the US: A closer look at 501(c)s

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, Martin and Chris shed more light on the riveting subject of non-profit and not-for-profit organisations especially in the US with a special focus on the all- important topic of tax implications. Warning: Due to the fast-paced and gripping never mind explicit natur of this topic, people with sleeping disabilities or who are easily startled / offended by graphic content should consult a member of the medical profession to ensure that they are capable of handling this episode. You have been warned.

HPR3668: Linux Inlaws S01E63: John Hawley on kernel dot org and other shenanigans

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Martin and Chris host John Hawley of kernel.org fame. The discussion centers around Python, the royal British family and other FLOSS topics such as some break-away colonies like the US, version control systems, wireless wikis and containers. Never mind Python. Did I mention Python? :-) And perhaps VMware. Ever wondered why early versions of git just gobbled up your main memory? You may or may not find the answer in this episode. Or its outtakes...

HPR3658: Linux Inlaws S01E62: HPR's inner workings

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode our two ageing heroes explore the inner workings of a podcast (or podcast hosting platform depending on your perspective) called Hacker Public Radio. Yes, the platform that the Inlaws have been using since the very inception of this rapidly growing FLOSS podcast content. Wondering what the heck this episode is all about, why exactly Martin and Chris are talking about this now and the importance of statistics, lies and damned lies? Then just listen to this episode. You may also find out the difference between mere caching and content syndication. Never mind HPR's inner workings.

HPR3649: Linux Inlaws S01E61: 20 years in review

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:00:00 +0200

A counter point to this show is available: hpr3648 :: A response to tomorrows show

In this episode, Martin and Chris take a closer look at twenty years of Linux Inlaws history. Why, you may ask, given the fact that this podcast has only been in existence for roughly over two years, are we reviewing this history? The answer - of course - is straight forward: by sheer coincidence our two heroes got hold of a future episode which traveled back in time from the future. If you ever wondered about time-travel, the paradoxes associated with this and what the next twenty years have in store not just from a Linux Inlaws perspective, this episode is for you.

HPR3639: Linux Inlaws S01E60: The Job Interview

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, the Linux Inlaws interview a potential new recruit :-) call Kris Jenkins, from Kafka, an Apache project implementing a scalable distributed event streaming platform (don't know what that is? Listen to the show! :-) . A cautious warning: This episode contains strong philosophical / political views, language and insights which may change your views on messaging systems in general and Kafka in particular. Two hints: Chris shares his view on what a database *really* is and Kris Jenkins tries hard to convince our two aging heroes that he's the man for the job (teaser: he decided to stay at his current position as a dev advocate at Confluent after all). Plus: More on love, death and robots. Interested in the details? Then don't miss this show!

HPR3629: Linux Inlaws S01E59: The Show with Red Pandas Mosaic Killers and Metal Corrosion

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, Martin and Chris interview Eric Rescorla, the CTO of Firefox at Mozilla. After discussing the weather situation in the Kingdom formerly known as the UK, our two aging heros go right into browsers, programming languages, the Mozilla ecosystem and internet history and future alike. This episode again is not for the faint-hearted as none of the gory details are spared: We learn about Chris' t-shirt situation (and how you can kidnap apparel), why Google is so sucessful, data privacy and Internet monetization. Never mind rendering engines. Plus: more Rust marketing (Rebecca Rumbul: Take note :-).

HPR3619: Linux Inlaws S01E58: Kubernetes and Friends and Sarah

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this continuation of S01E57 our two chaps discuss how you can take containers from single instances to production-ready, scalable deployments handling large app stacks and that new-fangled hipster concept called micro-services. Using the once Google-owned project called Borg which later evolved into something now known as Kubernetes (k8s) as an example, Martin and Chris discuss typical challenges when using containers as the main infrastructure to modern workloads. Including such gory topics such as what happens if a container dies and doesn't go to heaven, contradictions in terms such as ephemeral storage and why many k8s developers have defected to VMware.

HPR3609: Linux Inlaws S01E57: Operating System Level Virtualisation and Martin's Faith

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode our two ageing heroes take a closer at operating system (OS) level virtualisation. The main different legacy virtualisation technologies like virtual machines (VMs) and this new-fangled approach is that the OS kernel remains the same across virtualisation domains, thus giving the hippsters and other followers of fashion a cheaper and potentially much faster solution than virtualising the kernel and surrounding hawrdware and all the rest of it. Plus more details on Martin's real faith. Don't miss out on this episode if you're interested in any of these...

HPR3599: Linux Inlaws S01E56: Slackware - A User's Perspective

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 19 May 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Martin and Chris managed to ensnare a member of the Linux User Group Frankfurt (FraLUG) to talk about his history with Slackware, currently the oldest Linux distribution still maintained. If you ever fancied to know more about this grandfather of a distribution and its ins and outs, this is your show. Plus we get to know more about one of Chris' well-kept secrets...

HPR3588: Linux Inlaws S01E55: Get yer boots on for a fresh look at init systems

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 04 May 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, Martin and Chris discuss init systems and Chris outs himself as a systemd fan boy (Devuan followers take note :-). Even Linux and other FLOSS OS geeks not interested in what happens when you flick the power switch on a computer may find this episode (vaguely) interesting as some light is also shed on the philosophy of the different system architectures and their history (Ever wanted to know what an /360 IPL really is? Then stay tuned...). Disclosure: The following text may resort to regular expressions to keep things concise and simple. Some of the PCRE-challenged readers may take offence - you have been warned.

HPR3578: Linux Inlaws S01E54: Electronic Freedom Never Mind the Civil Rest

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode our two hosts talk to an eclectic panel consisting of members of the Georgian affiliation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called Electronic Frontiers Georgia. Among other topics, civil rights (especially in the digital age), sharing of ideas never mind other intellectual capital and why this still matters in socialist America are the focus of discussion. Plus Chris manages to recount most of the founding fathers of the US (gaps may be present... :-)

HPR3569: Linux Inlaws S01E53: Rust Marketing

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode our two heroes explore the depths a new (?) hipster programming language called Rust. Being an obvious piece of blatant technology marketing, the Linux Inlaws are still waiting for the funds to arrive from the Rust Foundation :-) (@Foundation: If you want to get in touch please send a mail to sponsor at linuxinlaws eu). Jokes aside, the episode give a short overview of this new programming language without going into deeper technical details as this podcast is only the usual four hours long.

HPR3559: Linux Inlaws S01E52: The Zig Project

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode Martin and Chris have a very special guest: Loris Cro of Zig fame. Zig fame? Stay tuned. Not only is Loris an ex-colleague of our two aging heroes, he is also the community vice president at the Zig Software Foundation. So this episode will be all about this new programming language, why you should use it (and perhaps why you shouldn't) and life, the universe and the rest. And Rust. Of course. :-) Full disclosure: In contrast to other episodes, this one is really tech-heavy and may offend the less technical listeners. Listen at your own discretion if you want to into the weeds of Clang, LLVM, typing and cross-compilation - you have been warned. If this is up alley, you may want consider seeking professional help just in case :-).

HPR3549: Linux Inlaws S01E51: git and static site generators

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 01:00:00 +0100

Another fortnight, another episode of our beloved podcast called Linux Inlaws :-). What starts as an episode on the history of Central Europe and the role of the Netherlands and Germany in the greater scheme of things rapidly moves sideways into a discussion of git-powered static HTML website generators in contrast to context management systems (CMSs) and their advantages, disadvantages and why the hell even think about this. Chris uses an innocent (?) Linux User Group (LUG) as an example for a successful site migration from a Python-powered CMS to a version of the website based on a static site generator written in Go and called Hugo. Even if you may find this boring to tears stay tuned as there may be an unexpected ending of this ditty in the shape of two interesting poxes...

HPR3539: Linux Inlaws S01E50: The OpenSUSE Project

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode of the Inlaws our two ageing heroes host Doug DeMaio and Axel Braun, both intimately associated with and actively supporting the OpenSUSE project, the foundation of one of the popular Linux distros apart from RedHat and Debian for companies of all sizes (yes, and Ubuntu before I get any hate mails from Mark Shuttleworth or Cannonical in general :-). Apologies for not mentioning Alma, CentOS or Rocky Linux. Topics of discussion include the advantages of hipster concepts like rolling releases, the year of the Linux desktop, other people's computers (aka Clouds) and philosophical things like IT security, all things cloud-native (well, almost) and Apple laptop users drinking fancy coffee derivatives. Never mind containers, edge-computing operating systems and live kernel patching.

HPR3529: Linux Inlaws S01E48: Year Two of the Five Year Plan

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:00:00 +0100

Right into the third year of the first five-year plan our two ageing heroes discuss the past year in review (blatantly stealing this concept from other popular podcasts), focussing on the hotter episodes of second year and progress with increasing the number of active listeners from two to five and beyond. Also, major fuck-ups and lessons learned from them are revealed including some ranting about badly designed and implemented software never mind documentation.

HPR3518: Linux Inlaws S01E47: BigBlueButton and NAT

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode of your favourite FLOSS podcast our two OAPs discuss the challenges of running conferencing systems like BigBlueButton behind a network address translation (NAT) configuration, something that the Inlaws have been struggeling (?) with for quite some time but now have arrived a solution which might just work :-). If you face similar challenges or just want to refresh your knowledge about intricate network architectures never mind their pitfalls, stay tuned. All will be revealed (hopefully :-). But beware: This show is highly technical and geek-only. Which may come in handy if you're not technical but suffer from insomnia or similar sleep disorders - this is your show!

HPR3509: Linux Inlaws S01E46: The Matrix Project (Without Neo)

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode, the Inlaws are hosting Neil Johnson, VP of Engineering at Element. But this is not just about this popular Matrix graphical user interface but rather about this federated communication network dubbed as the next big thing after Mastodon and Discord, soon to take over the world (pretty much like the Inlaws themselves - it's gonna get crowded... :-).

HPR3498: Linux Inlaws S01E45: The Big Xmas New Year bash with the Grumpies

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:00:00 +0100

In this end of year episode / Xmas bumper our two aging heroes host the Grumpy Old Coders once again. Apart from having lots of fun, our four eclectic panelists discuss the year in review and some obscure predictions the Inlaws made at the end of last year in S01E20 to see if these became true or not. Plus a seriously long commercial break on mainframes done by our own Chris (Arvind / Jim / IBM: If you're listening: the sponsor mail address is ibm_sponsor@linuxinlaws.eu). Plus some juicy competitive knowledge about some hyperscalers. Beans spilled right from the inside... In addition to cloud nightmares. So if you're into horror after never mind beyond Halloween this is your episode... There might be the odd open source angle to this episode but we are not sure and this of course is purely by accident - just find out for yourself! :-)

HPR3492: Linux Inlaws S01E44: Pipewire Just another audio server Think again

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode - sadly missing Martin as he buggered off to do something else - the remaining Inlaw hosts Wim Taymans, inventor and brain behind Pipewire, a new approach to Linux audio. Don't miss out on this episode if you're fed up with Pulseaudio (hello Martin :-) or find Jack just too complicated for every-day usage - you may see audio on Linux from a different perspective after this episode... Never mind those of you who are looking for a crash-course on audio on Linux - this episode is for you!

HPR3479: Linux Inlaws S01E49: Version Control Systems and why bother

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode our two heroes contemplate the ins and outs of version control systems (VCS) and how to maintain sanity using them. Particular focus is on the newer generation of such as git which enabled large-scale community projects such as the Linux kernel, programming languages like Rust and Python and other shenanigans. Including a crash course on version control systems - you may credits at your local third-level education facility for listening to this episode. Just tell them the Inlaws sent you :-). Plus Martin reveals his favourite Pay TV channel and his gun-buying habits being a minor. Don't miss this episode if you're a minor and want to buy a gun in certain countries (details as part of the episode! :-).

HPR3469: Linux Inlaws S01E43: The Great Battle or not

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode Martin and one of the Grumpies (as in Grumpy Old Coders) battle it out: SQL or NoSQL - which technology is better? If you ever wondered why the Structured Query Language was invented in the first place and why the hipster abandoned ship for the latest (?) rage of the likes of the NoSQL variety, this is for you. Plus: A whole family of never-heard-of sound effects make their debut on this bumper of an episode.

HPR3459: Linux Inlaws S01E42: The Open Source Initiative

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode our two OAPs host Deb Nicholson, the general manager of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Apart from riveting insights into open source licensing we discuss the greater FLOSS ecosystem and Deb's views on why wearing shoes is important in certain contexts, open source standards, law suits and the differences between US and Europe among other things.

HPR3449: Linux Inlaws S01E41: The Halloween Documents

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this infomercial on Microsoft, our hosts discuss the infamous Halloween documents ('tis the season after all), a set of ancient scrolls dating back more than twenty years and giving an overview of the behemoth's then strategy on open source and how to possibly combat it. But fear not, ye of little faith :-), all is well now as the episode shows also the long way Microsoft has come since then and its adoption (and giving back!) as an enterprise technology.

Plus: How to increase your market cap by using FLOSS. And last but not least: The Dark Side is back by popular demand! With a special episode on the usual Halloween stuff including vampires, Transylvania, politicians, QAnon, Zoom, Teams and other horror topics (Ever wondered what happened to Angela Merkel after she stepped down as Germany's chancelorette in 2021? Then don't miss out on this episode!).

HPR3439: Linux Inlaws S01E40: The One with the BSDs

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, Martin and Chris host an eclectic panel of contributors to the *other* major FLOSS operating system family - you guessed it: the flavours of the Berkeley Software Distribution (aka BSD among friends). Disclaimer: you may be tempted to diverge from the Path of the Righteousness also known as Linux and give this alternative a spin. So this episode is *not* for the faint-hearted - listen at your own discretion! Also: the true defective nature of our beloved (?) hosts' past will be revealed - an episode not be missed despite the caveat! Plus a refresher on spaced-out operating system concepts including library operating systems and a rant on Android and friends. In addition to some cool BSD trolling...

HPR3429: Linux Inlaws S01E39: Ubuntu and the Community

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, our two hosts host Rhys Davies, a developer advocate from Canonical. So all beans will be spilled on one of the most popular Linux distros out there. Like its past, present and future. Never mind how Canonical makes its moolah and where this goes... Plus an interesting infomercial on old big iron (IBM, if you're listening: the mail address is sponsor@linuxinlaws.eu).

HPR3419: Linux Inlaws S01E38: Tiny kernels

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 02:00:00 +0200

This episode is dedicated to tiny kernels driving operating systems also known as micro-kernels. While discussing the last 100 years of operating system design and implementation, our two aging heroes also shed some light on operating systems in general and their recent history (like fifty years). Unless you're a true OS nerd, you find the episode mildly refreshing and educational on the layers of software underneath your beloved applications controlling the hardware and other shenanigans. If you're an OS nerd, this episode may have the potential of closing your few remaining knowledge gaps (or something like this). A fun show for children of all ages and beyond.

HPR3409: Linux Inlaws S01E37: All about Hacker Public Radio

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode of our beloved open source podcast rapidly approaching its zenith of popularity (with hopefully not an equally rapid decline afterwards) our two elderly heroes pay tribute to Hacker Public Radio in general and Ken Fallon in particular. Plus: a never-heard-of-before peek into Martin's very own private life (we lift the veil and reveal it all - don't miss this!)

HPR3399: Linux Inlaws S01E36: Open Source Licenses

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Chris is trying hard to get Martin to sleep by elaborating on the subject of free and open source software licenses but fails miserably. Listen to a more than riveting episode on the ins and outs of licensing FLOSS code bases in addition to banter about Brexit, plans for a reshaping of Europe after the invasion of England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland leave the UK.

HPR3388: Linux Inlaws S01E35: The Free Software Foundation Europe

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode our aging heroes host the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). Its president, Matthias Kirschner talk about the past, the present and the future of free and open source software not only from an FSFE perspective. Never mind how he got into computers in the first place. Also, different opinions about communism in general and its implementations (and the flaws of the first rounds of implementations) are touched upon. So historians, FLOSS users and enthusiasts, communists and free spirits: This is your episode! Plus: Ever wondered what the Towel Day is all about? Check out the second half of the episode! At our guest's request: Please note that this episode was recorded on June 1st 2021.

HPR3379: Linux Inlaws S01E34: The one with the intelligence

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this fourth part of our three-part miniseries on Deep and Machine Learning our two heroes shed some light on a DL architecture called Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT), a pretty sophistic piece of software that fools most humans when it comes to authoring text (ideal for budding writers with a block in place). Other topics of discussion includes OpenAI (the company behind this framework), Elon Musk, Bitcoin, Microsoft and if the GPT can actually pass the Turing test. All will be revealed - don't miss this episode!

HPR3369: Linux Inlaws S01E33: The Return of the Rust

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode - aptly named "The return of the Rust" our two heroes host a very special guest: no other than Steve Klabnik of Rust fame himself. Needless to say, this hipster programming language which is on everbody's mind at the moment (apart maybe from a few lost souls still crying over spilled coffee) plays a very important role in this show in addition to the newly founded Rust Foundation hosting such eclectic members such as Microsoft, Mozilla, Google and Facebook just to name a few looking after the language.

HPR3359: Linux Inlaws S01E32: Politicians and artificial intelligence part 3

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In part three of the 27.64 episodes long mini-series on artificial intelligences, machine and deep learning and other hipster topics around machines trying to imitate humans (marketing made us do these :-), our two heroes discuss domain-specific frameworks on top of (more generic) infrastructure like TensorFlow or PyTorch. As usual, all will be revealed and no details be spared (apart from a very few) including how to tell animals apart from humans (a tricky feat as any journalist can tell you who's ever faced a stampeding horde of angry politicians!).

HPR3349: Linux Inlaws S01E31: Interview with Paul Ramsey FOSS aficionado and entrepreneur

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode the inlaws host Paul Ramsey of OpenGeo fame. Apart from his PostgreSQL contributions, Paul is probably best known for GIS work and geo DB contributions in general (in addition to off-the-beaten track stuff like URL of his website among other things). Don't miss this for nuggets on geo databases and beyond!

HPR3339: Linux Inlaws S01E30: Politicians and artificial intelligence part 2

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 20 May 2021 02:00:00 +0200

After successfully navigating through the shallow (or not-so-shallow) depths of the first episode on deep learning fundamentals, our two heroes tackle a more concrete topic in this episode: How to use the damn stuff! No expenses will be spared to bring to the listeners the finer details of tensors, TensorFlow and other frameworks which serve as the basis for modern artificial intelligence / machine learning applications running on back-propagation networks (see the first episode on the foundations). Lifting the curtain even more, all will be revealed about a little corner shop called "Google" (well, almost all :-).

HPR3329: Linux Inlaws S01E29: The (one and only) Linux Kernel Contributor Panel

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 06 May 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, our two ageing heroes host an eclectic panel of kernel contributors of a small, mostly unknown operating system called "Linux". The panelists hail from all over the planet (sadly, no money or love would buy Richard's or Linus' way onto that panel :-) but the discussion proves more than interesting regardless of these uber-nerds being absent. All will be revealed including the true age of Linux, one of Chris' secret obsessions (hint: it's not software bugs), Linus Torvald's thought process and evolution as such. Never mind Linux's second future high-level programming language... Plus: a philosophical discussion of the social impact of insulting from a pan-cultural perspective. Don't miss out on this!

HPR3319: Linux Inlaws S01E28: Politicians and artificial intelligence part 1

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, our two heroes explore the realm of artificial intelligence, paying special attention to deep learning (hoping that some of the stuff may rub on them :-). In this first part of a three-part mini-series the chaps discuss the foundation including networks, neurons and other topics of advanced black magic, carefully avoiding the temptations of introducing too much maths (we'll leave this to the Grumpy Old Coders :-).

HPR3309: Linux Inlaws S01E27: The Big Uncertainties in Life and beyond

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, our two heroes explore the realm of the great uncertainties also known as probabilistic data structures. For this adventures they managed to retain one of the experts in this field from the open source realm. Check out the episode to get in on this secret and its details!

HPR3299: Linux Inlaws S01E26: Make your Linux harder

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode our two aging heroes discuss the proper temperature to drink beer at (spoiler: it's not 20 degrees as CAMRA would make you believe) and the ins and outs of basic and enhanced security on our beloved operating system. If you ever wanted to know more about Linux Security Modules, AppArmor and SELinux and how dames of negotiable affections relate to these concepts, this show is for you.

Shownotes:

Campaign for Real Ale: https://camra.org.uk/
Linux Security Modules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Security_Modules
SELinux: https://selinuxproject.org/page/Main_Page
SELinux on Android: https://source.android.com/security/selinux
AppArmor: https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/Documentation
RBAC with AppArmor: https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/AppArmorRBAC
Plan 9: https://9p.io/plan9
Plan 9 from Outer Space: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077
Man down: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2461520/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2
The Midnight Gospel: https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/80987903

HPR3288: Linux Inlaws S01E25: The Grumpy Old Coders

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 01:00:00 +0100

This time our two heroes host an eclectic couple known as the grumpy old coders. Thomas, David, Martin and Chris discuss stealing, um, borrowing (and never giving back) of mottos and mascotts, programming languages including Java, Python and Rust woes and how they all arrived at podcasting. Never mind Chris revealing his true and only heritage and other little-known secrets. Don't miss out on this episode for the full lowdown (never mind the even lower down .

Shownotes:

Grumpy Old Coders: https://grumpy-old-coders.org
The Dig: https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81167887
Oktoberfest: https://www.oktoberfest.de/en
Erdinger Herbstfest (in German only): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdinger_Herbstfest
F#: https://fsharp.org
Vulkan API: https://www.khronos.org/vulkan

HPR3279: Linux Inlaws S01E24: Legacy programming languages

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 01:00:00 +0100

Plankalkül: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
Fortran: https://fortran-lang.org
COBOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
ALGOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL
GNU Fortran: https://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/
IBM System/36: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36
IBM Z: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/hardware
Niklaus Wirth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth
Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)
Modula-2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2
Smalltalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
Lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)
Fourth generation languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language
SQL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
ABAP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP
SAP NetWeaver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_NetWeaver_Application_Server
Rust: https://rust-lang.org
Occam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)
C: https://www.iso.org/standard/74528.html
Foreign Function Interface: https://github.com/libffi/libffi
Cracking Codes with Python: https://inventwithpython.com/cracking
CUDA: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-GPUs

HPR3269: Linux Inlaws S01E23: The first year of the five year plan

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 01:00:00 +0100

Free software (not just Richard's idea): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
How Nvidia became Skynet: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3069
Hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
Claudio and crew: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3099
Not going out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Going_Out
An American Pickle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9059704/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Mrs Honeyhume: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3251

HPR3258: Linux Inlaws S01E22: The Linux Professional Institute

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:00:00 +0100

Linux Professional Institute: https://www.lpi.org
Kali Linux: https://www.kali.org
Anti-pox of the week (Java is broken): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2210720/how-to-analyse-a-noclassdeffounderror-caused-by-an-ignored-exceptionininitialize
Book of Monsters: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7260818
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522
The serpent (BBC series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Serpent_(TV_series)
Grumpy Old Coders (epside 6): https://soundcloud.com/user-498377588/grumpy-old-coders-ep-6-retrospective

HPR3249: Linux Inlaws S01E21: The Big Linux Inlaws Peep Show

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 01:00:00 +0100

Rust for the Linux kernel: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux
Linus opinion on C++ in the Linux kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20
gdb: https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb
lldb: https://lldb.llvm.org
Novell's Netware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare
strace: https://strace.io
ltrace: https://www.ltrace.org
DTrace: https://dtrace.org/blogs/about
ptrace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptrace#Linux
Capabilities: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/capabilities
Extended attributes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes#L inux
eBPF: https://ebpf.io
BCC: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
BCC toolchain: https://iovisor.github.io/bcc
Linux kernel tracing: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/trace/index.html
Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon s_of_Math_Destruction
Audacity: https://manual.audacityteam.org
Jitsi (Meet): https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet

HPR3238: Linux Inlaws S01E20: The Xmas and New Year Special

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 01:00:00 +0100

LinuxOne: https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-linuxone/gettingstarted
IBM quantum computing: https://www.ibm.com/quantum-computing
redis on LinuxOne(in German): https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2019/en/programm/beitrag/206
Ask IBM: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2015/01/13/hello-watson-ask-anything
Jeff Bezo's real name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos
Jeff Bezo's divorce: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-05/bezos-split-finalizes-as-38-billion-amazon-stake-transfer-looms
French protests: https://www.politico.eu/article/spotlight-falls-on-amazon-as-french-businesses-are-restricted-by-lockdown-rules/
2001: A Space Odyssee: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622
OpenAI: https://openai.com
GPT3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3
ARM Jazelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
ARM ThumbEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb_Execution_Environment_(ThumbEE)
TIOBE programming language index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index
Commons Clause and Redis Source Available License: https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-labs-modules-license-changes

HPR3229: Linux Inlaws S01E19: Redis

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode our two heroes interview Itamar Haber, community liaison for Redis, a popular open-source in-memory NoSQL database. Technology prevails in this episode; communism, free love and drugs take a backseat (but only for the moment! :-). The trio discuss the legacy of redis, bemoan their old age and reveal why Itamar initially wanted to be a mermaid. Listen to the episode for more shocking epiphanies!

Shownotes:

Kaypro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaypro
Salvatore Sanfilippo: https://github.com/antirez
redis: https://github.com/redis/redis
Redis Labs: https://redislabs.com
Redis Streams: https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro
Redis Modules: https://redis.io/modules
Windows: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
WSL 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux#WSL_2
On the Bro'd: https://www.mikelacher.com/work/on-the-brod

HPR3219: Linux Inlaws S01E18: Voice Recognition and Text to Speech

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 01:00:00 +0100

In this episode, Chris is harassed by quite a few artificial nuisance callers, among drug lords, Irish nurses and some random Linux Inlaws Chief Financial Officer. Based on these examples, our two heroes discuss the history and current state of text-to- speech (TTS) and voice recognition. We attempted to use voice recognition software in order to produce a transcript of the show.

Shownotes:

Wavenet: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio
Tacotron: https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/12/tacotron-2-generating-human-like-speech.html
DeepSpeech: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
Lyrebird / Welcome.AI: https://www.welcome.ai/lyrebird
Nvidia Tacotron 2: https://github.com/NVIDIA/tacotron2
Tensorflow: https://www.tensorflow.org
PyTorch: https://pytorch.org
Melspectrograms: https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/understanding-the-mel-spectrogram-fca2afa2ce53
GRAPHCORE: https://www.graphcore.ai
FGPA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array
IBM ROMP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ROMP
Google's TTS: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech
Apple M1: https://www.gsmarena.com/the_apple_m1_is_the_first_armbased_chipset_for_macs_with_the_fastest_cpu_cores_and_top_igpu-news-46222.php
Secure Enclaves: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-enclave-overview-sec59b0b31ff/web
OSDU: https://www.opengroup.org/osdu/forum-homepage
Jack Kerouac's On the Road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road

HPR3209: Linux Inlaws S01E17: Nextcloud

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 01:00:00 +0100

Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.com
PHP: https://www.php.net

HPR3194: Linux Inlaws S01E16: The count and the questions

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 01:00:00 +0100

Halloween: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
Ancient vampire folklore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region#Mesopotamia
Blade franchise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(franchise)
Judas history: https://authorlyngibson.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/the-legend-of-judas-iscariot-vampire
Vulcans & Romulans: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Vulcan-Romulan_history
The Fly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064
PETA: https://www.peta.org
Oracle vs. Google: https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/06/standing-by-developers-through-google-v-oracle

HPR3184: Linux Inlaws S01E15: IT Security and stick insects

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Martin discovers that protecting pictures of stick insects (rated XXX or not) on USB sticks (pun intended) can be an ardous endeavour indeed. Never mind eventually turning this into a business including web servers, shared file spaces and password storage. Additional bonus: the lovely Emma from Rainbow Escorts makes another cameo apperance supported by some Irish, um, students.

Shownotes:

Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS): https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/blob/master/README.md
EncFS: https://vgough.github.io/encfs
EcryptFS: https://www.ecryptfs.org
Keepass: https://keepass.info/
Snort: https://www.snort.org
Fail2ban: https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
PSAD: https://cipherdyne.org/psad
Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.com
Tor: https://torproject.org
OPENVPN: https://openvpn.net
WireGuard: https://www.wireguard.com
boringtun: https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun
DistroWatch: https://distrowatch.com

HPR3174: Linux Inlaws S01E14: The big programming language panel

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0200

Shownotes:

Bottlerocket: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/announcing-general-availability-of-bottlerocket
Windows as a rolling release: https://ubuntupodcast.org/2020/08/27/s13e23-horseshoe
LPC Rust in kernel: https://program.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/contributions/804/attachments/641/1168/barriers-to-in-tree-rust.pdf
Redox OS: https://www.redox-os.org
FC33: https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-coming-to-fedora-33
Linux kernel history report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/2020-kernel-history-report
Thunderbird 78 with OpenPGP: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:2020
Python Software Foundation: https://www.python.org/psf
Rust project website: https://www.rust-lang.org
ISO C working group: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14
ISO C++ standard: https://isocpp.org
Rust @ Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQBVUjdkLAA
Rainbow escort: https://www.etsy.com/de/market/rainbow_escort_card

HPR3163: Linux Inlaws S01E13: The road to communism and freedom

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 02:00:00 +0200

brytlyt: https://www.brytlyt.com
OS/2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2
CCP/M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiuser_DOS#CCP/M-86
Communism and open source: https://medium.com/@diego.graziano/open-source-the-communism-of-knowledge-fe76334b9b10
Why Emacs is better than vi (aka The Church of Emacs): https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gospel.html
(Open)VMS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS
Mach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)
Dave Cutler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
The ultimate remedy for insomnia: https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Object-Oriented-Metalevel-Architectures-and-Reflection/Zimmermann/p/book/9780849326639
Randal's departure from FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/posts/inside-twit/doc-searls-new-host-floss-weekly
The Rust Foundation: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/18/laying-the-foundation-for-rusts-future.html

HPR3138: Linux Inlaws S01E12: Reminiscing in FLOSS Weekly

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 02:00:00 +0200

FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly
Kernel patches for Google Futex enhancements: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200722234538.166697-1-posk@posk.io
Google presentation on Futexes: https://pdxplumbers.osuosl.org/2013/ocw//system/presentations/1653/original/LPC%20-%20User%20Threading.pdf
Fuchsia Futexes: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/reference/kernel_objects/futex
The show where Simon Phipps flips: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/521
Perl 6 / Raku: https://raku.org
Flutter: https://flutter.dev
Dart: https://dart.dev
Mouse door opener day: https://www.wdrmaus.de/extras/tueren_auf.php5
Grumpy old coders: https://soundcloud.com/user-498377588/grumpy-old-coders-ep-1-fast-change

HPR3009: Linux Inlaws S01E01

monochromec.nospam@nospam.gmail.com (monochromec) — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 01:00:00 +0100

Linux Inlaws - a podcast about on topics around free and open source software, any associated contraband, communism / the revolution in general and whatever else fancies your tickle.

In this show the lads introduce themselves and discuss the technology they use and why they are putting on the show.

LI_S01E66_The_Bakery_Episode

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:46:22 +0200

In this short episode Martin and Chris discuss the merits of source in a weather context (clouds to be precise) in front of Chris' local bakery at an undisclosed location in down-down Frankfurt (in contrast to the real down-town). So if you ever wondered how FLOSS fits into other people's computers, this episode is for you. Plus the inside track on Dutch breakfast specialities.

LI_S01E67_Cryptocurrencies_and_how_to_sell_relatives_on_the_Darknet

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

In this episode, the Inlaws take a closer look at crypto currencies, how they work and why they may be important on a grander scale. So if you have ever wondered how to get rich quick, this is an episode not to be missed. Or not. All will be revealed, including how to sell your granny (or any other relatives on the Darknet or other places), how to launder money properly (hint: a decent washing machine and some premium detergent may come in handy) never mind how to go about the business of trading contraband the right way.

LI_S01E68_How_to_get_rich_quick_-_how_we_do_podcasts

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

In this episode, Martin and Chris discuss yet another get-rich-quick scheme, as in: How do to podcasts. Or not. More specifically: How we do our podcast. Stay with us while we are still working on the monetary aspect of these shenanigans, getting rich that is :-). Plus: details about Martin's abode.

LI_S01E69_The_legacy_of_CentOS

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

In this episode, Martin and Chris lament the demise of CentOS, the community enterprise operating system, the free (as in: beer) alternative of Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). But in the true spirit of FLOSS, two successors already are filling in this void: Rocky Linux and Alma Linux. The two initiators / main maintainers are part of this podcast: Gregory Kurtzer explains the ins and outs of Rocky Linux and Igor Seletskiy talks about Alma Linux. Also a bonus for our train, um, weather-spotting friends: Chris explains why Germany can be hotter than Nevada in the summer time. :-) And of course our first competition: please send in your bid (see details at the end of the show) by the end of 2022 to enter the draw in 2032 for some awesome Linux Inlaws swag! The email address is as usual feedback (at) LinuxInlaws dot e u.

LI_S01E70_Yer_good_ole_compyler_episodium

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

In this episode, our two heroes dive into the dark and mysterious world of compilers and other shenanigans that take care of translating plain English text readable and understandable by world and dog into something that a computer can execute (a CPU most of the times, to be more precise). If you ever wondered what abstract syntax trees are, how parsers work and what can be done to make your programs run faster or cannot get to sleep in general, this episode is for you!

Links:

Compilers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler
ENIAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
Commodore (sigh): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International
COBOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs): https://www.twilio.com/blog/abstract-syntax-trees
Fourth generation programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language
GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org
LLVM: https://www.llvm.org
illumos: https://illumos.org
Jython: https://www.jython.org
List of languages running on JVMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
Common Language Infrastructure (CLI): https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-335
Wintel kartell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintel
Mono: https://www.mono-project.com
Kleo: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15135104
Unknown Cornish brewery (please send money for further mentions): https://www.sharpsbrewery.co.uk
Kölsch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6lsch_(beer)
Jever (please send money for further mentions): https://www.jever.de
Brlo (please send money for further mentions): https://en.brlo.de
Hopfenstopfer (please send money for further mentions): https://hopfenstopfer.brauerei-haeffner.de/shop/Home

LI_S01E71_An_interview_with_Ran_Levi_from_Malicious_Life

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0100

In this episode our two heroes host Ran Levi, a black magician in the area of IT security and himself host of the famous Malicious Life podcast. So for some fresh perspective on cybersecurity not just from FLOSS perspective, don't miss this episode.

gt;Links

gt;

gt;Malicious Life: https://malicious.life
gt;Curious Minds: https://www.cmpod.net/about
gt;Open Source licensing episode: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3399
gt;Google's Fuchsia: https://fuchsia.dev
gt;GNU's Hurd: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
gt;Journey to the Microcosmos: https://www.youtube.com/c/microcosmos
gt;Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com

LI_S01E72_Of_streams_rivers_maelstroms_and_tsunamis_And_messages

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0100

In this episode, Martin's utmost phantasy has become reality. He finally managed to talk Chris into discussing the wonderful and weird kingdom of streaming and messaging technology. So if you ever wondered how global portals like LinkedIn, Netflix and other new-fangled shenanigans work, you may find this episode vaguely interesting and remotely funny. A word of caution though: please do not listen to this episode if operating heavy machinery or while driving as the Inlaws cannot be held responsible for any resulting damages caused by instantly falling asleep... You have been warned. Plus: a discussion of the Russian annexation of certain Ukrainian territories from a yesteryear's perspective in addition to royal developments in the kingdom after Lizzy's untimely demise (for all you history buffs out there).

Links

Streaming vs. Messaging: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41744506/difference-between-stream-processing-and-message-processing
Kafka: https://kafka.apache.org
RabbitMQ: https://github.com/rabbitmq
Redis Streams: https://redis.io/docs/data-types/streams-tutorial
Terry Pratchett Going Postal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal
MQSeries (nowadays known as IBM MQ): https://www.ibm.com/products/mq
Wind River: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5362988/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Who gives a crap: https://whogivesacrap.org

LI_S01E73_The_Xmas_and_New_Year_Special_2022

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 02:00:00 +0100

In this Year-End episode, our two heroes take a look back at 2022 not just from a FLOSS perspective and hazard guesses about next year's shenanigans (listeners only interested in these predictions: please fast-forward to the four hour forty-five minutes and twenty seconds mark in your podcast player). Anybody else please keep listening... :-) Plus: The truth about Truth Social, Twitter and Elon Musk.

Links

D-Wave SPAC: https://www.dwavesys.com/company/newsroom/press-release/dpcm-capital-inc-and-d-wave-systems-inc-announce-completion-of-business-combination
Guido van Rossum leaving retirement: https://www.techradar.com/news/creator-of-python-quits-retirement-joins-microsoft
Python performance improvements: https://www.phoronix.com/review/python-311-performance
Jammy Jellyfish changelog: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/jammy-jellyfish-release-notes/24668
Snaps in Jammy Jellyfish: https://www.makeuseof.com/ubuntu-2204-jammy-jellyfish-released
Ruby 3 improvements: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-3-features
Securing Open Source Software act: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s4913is/pdf/BILLS-117s4913is.pdf
Betterbird: https://www.betterbird.eu
Ethereum Merge: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/#main-content
Social Truth and its problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software
The great Twitter debacle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk
Elon's history (abbreviated version): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Richest people on the planet: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/012715/5-richest-people-world.asp
Twitter alternatives: https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-twitter-alternatives
Silence SMS encryption: https://silence.im
Research in Motion (aka BlackBerry Ltd.): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Limited
Alice Schwarzer's book (in German): https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/alice-schwarzer-mein-leben-9783462004380
Simon Singh's book on cryptography: https://simonsingh.net/books/the-code-book/the-book
Alex Sanafilippo's video: https://youtu.be/Bjeye85l6gE

LI_S01E74_GIMP_-_From_a_Users_Perspective

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:00:00 +0100

In this episode our two hosts discuss on one of the most popular image manipulation called GIMP. Almost a quarter of a century since its inception, it has been the foundation for much more than than image processing; gtk is probably the most widely-known example for the surrounding technology stack beyond GIMP itself. Martin and Chris host Kevin O'Brien, a long-time user of the project over the years and authority on the software and its technology (he runs a regular show on GIMP on Hacker Public Radio among other things). So if you ever wanted to know more about GIMP's rise to fame, its current state and where this may be headed, this is an episode not to be missed.

Links

GIMP: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp
gtk: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
Kevin's show on GIMP: https://hackerpublicradio.org/series.php?id=113
GIMP scripting: https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-scripting.html
GIMP & Python: https://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html
Wine: https://www.winehq.org
Alpha Centauri (part of Civilization series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri
Deep State: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4785472/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Urban Myths (TV series): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6413094

LI_S01E75_The_Onion_Router_Network

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 02:00:00 +0100

As privacy is becoming more and more of a concern even outside of the shady regions of international arms trading, contraband smuggling and selling relatives on the Internet, even your ordinary man/woman/diverse is turning to virtual private networks and other means for obfuscating personal communications. The Onion Router Project (or Tor for short) plays a central role in this context. Essentially implementing an overlay network on top of the Internet, it not only allows journalists working under less-than comforting regimes (for wont of a better expression) and political oppositions in similar contexts to but rather anybody who uses it communicate freely and without any censorship. As there are quite a few myths and misconceptions surrounding this project, this episode will dispel them all :-) apart from giving an overview of the technical and non-technical side of the implementation. If you're concerned with the your privacy and happen to use the Internet (and who isn't these days), then this definitely an episode you shouldn't miss.

Links

Tor: https://www.torproject.org
Public Money Public Code Campaign: https://fsfe.org/activities/publiccode/index.en.html
Tor Browser Bundle: https://www.torproject.org/download
Tor architecture: https://thesecmaster.com/detailed-anatomy-of-the-tor-network-structure-of-the-tor-network
Tor SOCKS Proxy: https://github.com/PeterDaveHello/tor-socks-proxy
Tor source code: https://github.com/torproject/tor
Theoretical attack vectors: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Speculative_Tor_Attacks
Node control attack: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260353732_A_New_Cell-Counting-Based_Attack_Against_Tor
How to set up a bridge: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/bridges
SAS Rogue Heroes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS:_Rogue_Heroes
Up First: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first

LI_S01E76_FLOSS_in_Healthcare

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 02:00:00 +0100

In this episode, Martin and Chris host an industry veteran to get the user's side perspective on FLOSS usage especially from a health provider perspective. As FLOSS components are a vital part of any of today's enterprise IT systems, medical providers and health care in general are no exception apart from the much higher regulatory and compliance requirements this industry postulates. The discussion centers around these requirements and how to fulfil them in addition to a more security-focussed conversation as these medical IT systems present a prime target for attackers not only due to the sensitive personal information many of these systems process and store.

Links

Project Jupyter (Python notebooks): https://jupyter.org
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA): https://www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/administrative-simplification/hipaa-aca
Personal Health Information: https://www.techtarget.com/searchhealthit/definition/personal-health-information
OpenSSF: https://openssf.org
LNG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_natural_gas
The Code Book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_Book
Lee Child's Jack Reacher series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher_(book_series)

LI_S01E77_Five_Year_Plan_Update

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 02:00:00 +0100

As it has been custom at this time of year, our two ageing heroes give an update on the Inlaws world domination achievement status (being rather modest now :-), FOSDEM and time travel, the feedback process for Linux Inlaws, some weird download metrics, the way to send feedback to the show, what exactly happened with HPR and the Inlaws, (did I mention the feedback mail address?), our new logo and its difficult birth and the road ahead. If there is one. (What happened? Will the Inlaws cease to exist? Is this the end of line for Martin and Chris? Stay tuned and listen to the show for answers. All may be revealed. :-). And of course how to get feedback to the show and its producers. ми присвячуємо випуск українському народу - we dedicate this episode to the Ukrainian people

Links

TTF (gas futures): https://www.theice.com/products/27996665/Dutch-TTF-Gas-Futures/data?marketId=5493476&span=3
The great HPR saga: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E68_How_to_get_rich_quick_-_how_we_do_podcasts__
archive.org: https://archive.org
Wayback Machine: https://archive.org/web
HPR episode: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3409
ChatGPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt

LI_S01E78_FLOSS_and_Quantum_Computing

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 02:00:00 +0100

Ever wanted to know the ins and outs of quantum computing but shied away from the math and other detractors? Fear not, as usual the Inlaws got you covered. In this episode Martin and Chris host Simon Cross to talk about FLOSS in a quantum computing context. Originally a from a highly academic background, Simon is known for his influential contributions in the areas of applied quantum computing and beyond. Plus: Some funky details about Limburg, a patch split in half on both sides of the Dutch/Belgian border (please send complaints about the lack of geographic details on the show / show notes to our standard inbox which has been specifically created for this purpose - it is devnull@linuxinlaws.eu).

Links

David Deutsch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch
Shor's algorithm: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer/docs/iqx/guide/shors-algorithm
D-Wave's Pegasus: https://support.dwavesys.com/hc/en-us/articles/360054564874-What-Is-the-Pegasus-Topology-
Schrödinger's Cat: http://www.sixtysymbols.com/videos/schrodinger.htm
QuTiP: https://qutip.org
QuTiP online: https://hodgestar.github.io/try-qutip/lab/index.html
Pasqal (quantum simulation on top of QuTiP): https://pasqal.io
Juniq / JURECA (German HPC / quantum initiative): https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/systems/quantum-computing/juniq-facility
Quantum Open Source Foundation: https://qosf.org
Qiskit: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/qiskit-runtime
Cirq (Google Quantum AI): https://quantumai.google/cirq
Xanadu (quantum machine learning): https://www.xanadu.ai
NVIDIA's cuQuantum: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuQuantum
Yoon Ha Lee: https://www.yoonhalee.com
Formula One Race Engineering: https://www.amazon.com/Formula-One-Race-Engineering-Performance/dp/B09JJ9GRQ2
The Founders: https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Paypal-Entrepreneurs-Shaped-Silicon-ebook/dp/B08BZXPTGJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BTE7QNYC7K4H&keywords=The+Founders%3A+Elon+Musk%2C+Peter+Thiel&qid=1674628938&s=digital-text&sprefix=the+founders+elon+musk%2C+peter+thiel+%2Cdigital-text%2C161&sr=1-1
The Tomorrow War: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9777666/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

LI_S01E79_FLOSS_in_space

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 02:00:00 +0100

Shpashe: Sje vinyl frontjier (ludicrous attempt at Scotty's Scottish accent :-). In this episode our two aging heroes take a closer look at how FLOSS is used for the exploration of space. But not only from a FLOSS project perspective but also who's actually using these open source components (hint: some guy who recently bought a social network features high on this list). So stay tuned for an episode from the far corners of the galaxy :-).

Links

Linux Inlaws @ FOSDEM 2023: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/linux_inlaws/
NASA's Perseverance Rover: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
JPL's Mars Rover repo: https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover
SpaceX FLOSS Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_spacex_software_team_ask_us_anything/
Ericsson's AXE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AXE_telephone_exchange
Erlang: https://www.erlang.org
FLOSS @ ESA (incl. ISS): https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Radio_Frequency_Systems/Open_Source_Software_Resources_for_Space_Downstream_Applications%20
FLOSS @ NASA (incl. ISS): https://code.nasa.gov
GNU's LEAP project: http://www.cantrip.org/leap.html
OpenSpace: https://www.openspaceproject.com
SETI@Home: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu
SETI@Home source code: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc
ESA's Greenplum project: https://www.slideshare.net/Pivotal/distributing-big-astronomical-catalogues-with-greenplum-greenplum-summit-2019
OpenSpace: https://www.openspaceproject.com
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds
NEIPAs: https://craftcartel.com.au/the-haze-craze-a-quick-guide-to-neipas/
untappd: https://untappd.com
Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/sections/money

LI_S01E80_Bottlerocket

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 02:00:00 +0100

In this episode Martin and Chris and hosting Kyle Davis, a senior developer advocate for the bookshop's Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system for hosting that latest fad of the hipster community known as containers :-). What sets this version of Linux apart from similar endeavours is that much of its userland is actually written in Rust rather than C or C++. So if you ever wondered about how one of the big hyperscalers does it with, for and below containers (in terms of the tech stack involved), you don't want to miss this episode. Plus bonus content on OpenSearch. And Chris really spills the beans on some rumours regarding future AWS CPU architectures. Or not :-).

Links

Bottlerocket ecosystem: https://github.com/orgs/bottlerocket-os
FOSDEM (without the C-4 remark :-): https://fosdem.org
OpenSearch: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch
Amazon Linux: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/?nc1=h_ls
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF): https://www.cncf.io
RISC-V: https://riscv.org
Thank you for smoking: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
QE2: https://www.qe2.com/en

LI_S01E81_On_smart_phones_and_other_fads

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Chris wonders about the German postal system and its (non-existent) efficiency when trying to deliver important administrative documents (hint: possible remedies include personal collection in order to cut down on delivery times). In the tiny part of the show on FLOSS (making up for 90% or so), Martin and Chris discuss the history and woes of software driving tiny computers normally living in coats or pockets, pretending to be useful by predicting the weather, connecting on social media and making phone calls. Yes, we are talking smartphones and their software here. So if you ever wondered what the fuss about Android, iOS and the rest is all about, don't miss this episode.

Links

Android's history: https://codesubmit.io/blog/history-of-android-operating-system
iOS legacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS_1
Legacy mobile operating system heritage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen#/media/File:Mer_and_mobile_operating_systems.svg
Sailfish OS: https://sailfishos.org
Firefox OS: https://mozilla.org/firefox/os
Ubuntu Touch: https://ubuntu-touch.io
Aftermarket ROMs: https://www.xda-developers.com/most-popular-custom-roms-android
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org
Play Store vetting and protection: https://developers.google.com/android/play-protect
Android rooting: https://www.xda-developers.com/root
Magisk: https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk
Android recovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_recovery_mode
Android's SafetyNet: https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet

LI_S01E82_Ada_and_Zangemann_a_childrens_book_about_FLOSS

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode the Inlaws are proud to present a worldwide exclusive: A reading of the first children's book on FLOSS written by no other than Matthias Kirschner, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and also friend of the show. So if you're into free/libre open source software, a kid of any age and despise any sort of monopoly (software or not), then this is an episode not to be missed.

Links

The book: https://ada.fsfe.org
CC BY-NC: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0
The book's source code: https://git.fsfe.org/fsfe/ada-zangemann
Shameless plug: https://nostarch.com/ada-zangemann
Call for action: https://fsfe.org/activities/childrensbook/index.en.html#id-get-active
Safety Not Guaranteed: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1862079/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
The Spy and the Traitor: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/253399/the-spy-and-the-traitor-by-ben-macintyre
Chokepoint Capitalism: http://www.beacon.org/Chokepoint-Capitalism-P1856.aspx

LI_S01E83_DIY_Linux_Distros

Thu, 04 May 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Martin and Chris take a look at three Linux distributions for the ambitious user of the FLOSS operating system. So if you ever wondered how to install Linux from scratch on a machine or what the fuzz on Gentoo is all about or even considered Arch Linux for a computer but didn't know how to get started, you don't want to miss this episode. Plus: More from the Dark Side. Dark Side Tech Support that is.

Links

Linux from scratch: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org
Gentoo Linux: https://www.gentoo.org
Arch Linux: https://archlinux.org
Arch User Repository: https://aur.archlinux.org
Arch Linux ARM (ALARM): https://archlinuxarm.org
ALARM dropping 32 bit support: https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=15946
Debian 32 bit ARM support: https://www.debian.org/ports/arm

LI_S01E84_Thoughts_on_FLOSS

Thu, 18 May 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, the Inlaws talk to Juliette Reinders-Folmer and Elena Kolevska about FLOSS funding, commercial and contribution models. Never mind diversity, community culture and other topics normally not in the focus of the community on a daily basis.

Links

OpenSSL funding: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-giants-chastened-by-heartbleed-finally-agree-to-fund-openssl
PHP's bus factor (historical): https://blog.krakjoe.ninja/2021/05/avoiding-busses.html
Redis' transition: http://antirez.com/news/133
Serene: https://sereneapp.com/app-blocker
f.lux: https://justgetflux.com
Young Indiana Jones: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9733630/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
TomatoTimer: https://www.toptal.com/project-managers/tomato-timer

LI_S01E85_FLOSS_and_Offensive_Security

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:00:00 +0200

Getting more and concerned about the security of your kit (read: infrastructure)? Fret not, as usual the Inlaws got you covered. In this episode, Martin and Chris discuss FLOSS tools for offensive security, i.e. software that you can use to assess the level of vulnerability of your system before the bad guys do the very same. And you make headline news - but not in a good way...

Links

Penetration test phases: https://www.eccouncil.org/cybersecurity-exchange/penetration-testing/penetration-testing-phases
Social Engineering: https://www.wiley.com/en-in/Social+Engineering:+The+Art+of+Human+Hacking-p-9780470639535
Aircrack-NG: https://www.aircrack-ng.org
Nmap: https://nmap.org
CVE database: https://cve.mitre.org
Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org
John the Ripper: https://github.com/openwall/john
Kali Linux: https://www.kali.org
Parrot OS: https://www.parrotsec.org
BlackArch: https://blackarch.org
metasploit: https://www.metasploit.com
Kali Nethunter: https://www.kali.org/docs/nethunter
Termux: https://termux.dev/en
True Lies: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7380366/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_true%2520lies
Kompromat: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13349892/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

LI_S01E86_An_episode_with_the_Cloud_Native_Computing_Foundation

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, Martin and Chris are excited to host Taylor Dolezal from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The CNCF is home to some tiny, lesser known (:-) projects such as Kubernetes, Prometheus and Containerd to name but a few. So if you're keen to know more about these important projects never mind the CNCF you don't want to miss this episode.

Links

CNCF: https://www.cncf.io
CNCF End User Technology Radar: https://radar.cncf.io
GitHub's ReadME project: https://github.com/readme
Stripe Press: https://press.stripe.com

LI_S01E87_Open_Source_Hardware

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Martin and Chris take a trip down memory lane and explore the origins of reduced instruction set computers, the little buggers that - for example - power most of today's smartphone on the planet. But this is merely an intro to todays's topic, the RISC-V processor architecture purely built on FLOSS principals. So if you're interested in open source hardware and how to participate in this exciting new approach to community-designed and -built hardware, don't miss this episode.

Links

Little Britain: https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/littlebritain
IBM 801: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_801
IBM 6150 RT: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS186-006/index.html
IBM System p: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_p
Nvidia's ARM acquisition: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/02/statement-regarding-termination-nvidia-corps-attempted-acquisition-arm-ltd
MIPS architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture
List of SOC architectures found in routers using MIPS: https://openwrt.org/toh/recommended_routers
SPARC: https://sparc.org/technical-documents
RISC-V: https://riscv.org
RISC-V specifications: https://riscv.org/technical/specifications
RISC-V @ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
Chris' Kubernetes presentation at OpenSUSE Conference 2023: https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSC23/program/proposals/4145
Tübix 2023: https://www.tuebix.org
k8s on Android @ Tübix: https://www.tuebix.org/2023/programm/50-neues-vom-spielplatz-kubernetes-auf-deinem-smartphone
American Sniper: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2179136/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_american%2520sniper
The Handmaid's Tale: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834204/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Rat Race: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250687/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_rat%2520race

LI_S01E88_The_Rust_Foundation

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Martin and Chris host Rebecca Rumbul, CEO of the Rust Foundation. Rust, as probably many of our three listeners (who haven't been living under rocks, boulders and similar scree for the last couple of years) know has been quite the hot thing for some time now in the industry with major players such as Mozilla Foundation, Microsoft, Meta and Google to name but a few pouring significant investments in this technology (it also made into the Linux kernel but more on that in the show). So if you ever wondered what the fuzz is all about, you don't want to miss this episode.

Links

Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org
Rust Foundation: https://foundation.rust-lang.org
Rust and Linux: https://rust-for-linux.com
Mac and Cheese and Marmite: https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/marmite-macaroni-cheese
The Suspect: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15548144
The Terminal List: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11743610

LI_S01E89_FLOSS_and_relationships_(marriage_counselling_special)

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, Martin and Chris discuss the relationship between relationships and FLOSS. Given the apparent similarities between these two areas regarding problem solving, escalations, etc. many tried and tested approaches are examined and evaluated in a relationship context. So if you are just after going through a break-up and wondered what the heck went wrong, plan to engage in a romantic liaison or are in the thick of it, this show is definitively for you. Plus: How to save on relationship counselling (by listening to this episode of course :-).

Links

Camilla's relationships (overview): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Camilla#Marriages_and_children
Anna-Nicole-Smith's marriage (explicit!): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12088975/Anna-Nicole-Smith-husband-J-Howard-Marshalls-complicated-love-story-explained.html
Redis: https://github.com/redis/redis
The grand libav/ffmpeg dispute: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35584650
Linus' bio (high-level): https://history-computer.com/linus-torvalds-complete-biography
Kernel contributor leaving the project: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-developer-who-took-on-linus-torvalds-over-abuse-quits-toxic-kernel-community
RabbitMQ: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server
Salvatore's book: https://www.amazon.com/Wohpe-English-Rimmel-Salvatore-Sanfilippo-ebook/dp/B0BQ3HRDPF/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1688384314&refinements=p_27%3ASalvatore+Sanfilippo&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
The Company You Keep: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18412092

LI_S01E90_MongoDB_(with_a_slight_marketing_angle_:-)

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 02:00:00 +0200

This episode features Joe Drumgoole, head of developer relations at MongoDB (at the time of the recording). MongoDB of course being one of the document databases in the NoSQL space. So if you're interested in what this NoSQL hype is all about anyway or want to catch up on the latest shenanigans at MongoDB, this is an episode not to be missed. Full disclosure: This episode does contain some marketing angles and a few somewhat biased views on technologies which some of our listeners may find discomforting (or which others may find particularly enjoyable). Anyway, you have been warned :-). Plus: Details on how to cook salmon with fruit juice and liquorice.

Links

MongoDb: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
WiredTiger: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/wiredtiger
Berkeley DB: https://github.com/berkeleydb/libdb
PostgreSQL: https://github.com/postgres/postgres
LinuxONE: https://www.ibm.com/linuxone
Google's Anthos: https://cloud.google.com/anthos
Porting Redis to LinuxONE: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2019/en/programm/beitrag/206
Linus on C++ in the kernel: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Pine.LNX.4.58.0401192241080.2311@home.osdl.org
House of the Dragon: https://www.hbo.com/house-of-the-dragon
The Rings of Power: https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Power-Season/dp/B09QH98YG1
Red Election: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13696808

LI_S01E91_FLOSS_and_software_testing

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode our two ageing heroes discuss the wonderful and mysterious art of software quality with a special focus on testing. Ever wondered why this bleeding piece of code you just wrote doesn't do what it's supposed to or what to do if faced with somebody else's messy code and are tasked to check it out? Then this episode is definitely for you!

Links

Time travel (Wikipedia is of course wrong with its "hypothetical" presumption): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel
Software quality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_quality
Software testing: https://www.ibm.com/topics/software-testing
Test-driven development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development
Agile software development: http://agilemanifesto.org
Waterfall model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model
Jenkins: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins
SonarQube: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube
FLOSS test automation tools (overview): https://www.stralynn.com/post/top-20-automation-open-source-testing-tools
FLOSS fuzzy testing: https://owasp.org/www-community/Fuzzing
Citadel: https://agbo.com/project/citadel
foodforthought_redux: https://www.instagram.com/foodforthought_redux/

LI_S01E92_LATEX_without_bondage

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0200

IN this episode Martin and Chris host Uwe Ziegenhagen, a veteran of the LaTeX community. For our younger hipster audience, LaTeX has been the typesetting system of choice for generations of scientists publishing their work far beyond the realm of computer science (as a matter of fact, Chris' first two books were produced using this software). Plus more on one of Martin's dirty little secrets (hint: it concerns Netflix lesser known sides). Plus a trip down memory lane for Chris. So if you're interested in computer-aided typesetting or want to know more about Martin's secrets or Chris' past, this is your show!

Links

TEX: https://tug.org
LATEX: https://www.latex-project.org
Comprehensive TEX Archive Network (CTAN): https://www.ctan.org
DANTE e. V.: https://www.dante.de
TeX Live: https://tug.org/texlive
TEX's ecosystem: https://tug.org/levels.html
TEX @ Stackexchange: https://tex.stackexchange.com
Web-based LATEX: https://www.overleaf.com
Happy!: https://www.syfy.com/happy
DIABLO: https://diablo4.blizzard.com/en-us
Strike: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4276618

LI_S01E93_A_blatant_act_of_shameless_self-promotion

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, Martin and Chris host Shea, a long-time listener and first-time caller :-). In contrast to what you may believe listening to this episode, marketing had NO play whatsoever in bringing Shea on air and any of his opinions about the show, Linux in particular, the world in general - you get the idea - are entirely his and are not sponsored by the Inlaws in any way. Want to get on the show as well? Simply top Shea's amount of feedback emails (currently clocking in at approximately 25,000) and an episode is yours. But before getting any ideas like letting a bot do all of the hard work of sending these mails: We will spot the difference, so only genuine, hand-written (on a keyboard :-) emails will be considered.

Links

Hacker Public Radio: https://hackerpublicradio.org
Linux Inlaws DYI Linux Distros: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E83_DIY_Linux_Distros__1792
Dick Turpin Roadshow: https://ukpodcasters.com/podcast/dick-turpin-road-show
Productivity Machines: https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4528/Productivity-MachinesGerman-Appropriations-of
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_Answers_to_the_Big_Questions
The French Dispatch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8847712/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_4_nm_0_q_french%2520dispatch

LI_S01E94_IT_Security_with_an_Armchair_Investigator

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Martin and Chris host Lars Wallenborn, a reverse engineer, software developer and podcast co-host. Topics covered include the use of FLOSS in IT security and how this can help to advance this field, general supply chain challenges from an IT security perspective with FLOSS and the resulting ramifications and other hot subjects in this field. Ever wanted to know to how to stay safe when using FLOSS components in your code? Then you don't want to miss this episode.

Links

Armchair Investigators: https://armchairinvestigators.de
The Cuckoo's Egg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
Kill Chain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_chain
Metasploit: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
Ghidra: https://ghidra-sre.org
FrOSCon talk on Ghidra: https://programm.froscon.org/2019/events/2350.html
Olympic Destroyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvzi_dwuUjI
David Bombal: https://www.youtube.com/@davidbombal
The Mole: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13243898/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6_tt_8_nm_0_q_the%2520mole
History of Violence: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399146/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_history%2520of%2520vio

LI_S01E95_Halloween_Special_2023

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 02:00:00 +0200

In this Halloween special Martin and Chris discuss the scariest moments and people in FLOSS history. No project, person or concept is safe from these in-depth revelations so don't miss this episode. Plus - as it's custom at this time of year - the Dark Side Tech Support makes another appearance when a lower deity rings with a technical problem. You REALLY don't want to miss this if you're religious, like black humour or are otherwise socially challenged. And some PostgreSQL bonus marketing content :-).

Links

Heartbleed: https://heartbleed.com
xkcd on Heartbleed: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency
Shellshock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)
Opinions around ffmpeg/libav fork: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/vvdxn/the_ffmpeglibav_situation/
OpenWRT/LEDE: https://linuxgizmos.com/lede-openwrt-fork-promises-greater-openness/
Linus' Usenet post: https://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2006/03/linus-torvalds-first-usenet-posting.html
Linus vs. Andrew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate
GNU Hurd: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
Linus' NVidia remark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeU1WUb1q10
RMS resigning: https://www.zdnet.com/article/richard-m-stallman-resigns-from-free-software-foundation
RMS reinstation: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-free-software-foundation-reveals-how-rms-was-re-elected-and-its-future
Nobody: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7888964/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_nobody
PostgresML: https://github.com/postgresml/postgresml

LI_S01E96_Tuxedo_Computers

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0100

In this episode host Annika and Werner from Tuxedo, a German PC vendor that ships their systems with a pure FLOSS stack installed instead of proprietary software. Topics of discussion include the origins of the company, their own distribution based on Ubuntu and some of the challenges with this approach.

Links

Tuxedo Computers: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com
Tuxedo OS: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-OS_1.tuxedo
System 76 desktop (Cosmic DE): https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic
ChromeOS: https://chromium.googlesource.com/codesearch/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/master-original/chromeos
Arch on Chromebooks presentation (in German): https://frab.openrheinruhr.de/de/ORR2018/public/events/32
Studio 666: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15374070/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_studio%2520666
Aloha: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1243974/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_aloh
Wargroove: https://store.steampowered.com/app/607050/Wargroove
Casa Susanna: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21875250/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

LI_S01E97_The_one_about_the_public_sector

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0100

This show is all about the public sector. Yes, that money pit where all of your taxes vanish into for the greater good, mediocre services and fat pay checks for politicians. Or so it seems. But despair not, there's a silver lining at the horizon: Martin and Chris dive into the use of FLOSS in this area, shedding light on the good, the bad and the ugly. Plus: Additional juice on the only communist distribution on the planet (spoiler: yes, it does come from North Korea).

Links

France FLOSS adoption: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/inline-files/OSS%20Country%20Intelligence%20Report%2023_FR.pdf
French announcement: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-action-plan-open-source-french-administration
French FLOSS repo (in English): https://code.gouv.fr/public/#/repos
LiMux / Munich case: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/document/declaration-independence-limux-project-munich
HP report on LiMux: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2013/01/that-hpmicrosoft-study-on-the-linux-migration-in-munich-hm
LiMux overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
Open Source at schools in Baden-Württemberg (in German): https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/presse/pressemitteilung/pid/pilotprojekt-fuer-den-digitalen-arbeitsplatz-der-lehrkraefte-startet
Deepin: https://www.deepin.org/en
Red Star OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
Nextcloud: https://github.com/nextcloud/server
The Netherlands: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/netherlands
Predator Dark Ages: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4171544/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_dark%2520ages

LI_S01E98_FLOSS_and_venture_capital

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0100

This episode is host to Alex Hochgarten, a venture capitalist focussing on FLOSS start-ups among other things. Even if you're not a start-up looking for cash right now, you will find this episode more than interesting as it gives an overview of the venture capital funding process apart from other black magic; the chances, risks, ins and outs of these issues and what to look out for when going after this sort of investment for your next contraband smuggling operation, drug counterfeit outfit or weapons wholesale boutique (hint: stay on the legal side to begin with). Plus juicy details about our cash position (if you're interested in that sort of thing :-). Due to some alien interference (in the literal sense, apparently Chris forgot to pay his contribution to the widows and orphans fund of a species called Vogons, normally known for their excellent taste in poetry and other fine literature), the audio quality of this episode has suffered a little bit, a circumstance for which the Inlaws would like to extend their sincerest apologies (Chris has replenished his cash stash once again so contributions to Vogons and other alien races looking for hard cold cash should be flowing without interruptions in the future).

Links

New Forge: https://www.newforge.de
Orangery: https://www.orangery.io
Instana: http://www.instana.com
Codecenric: https://www.codecentric.de
Morgen: https://www.morgen.so
Father Ted: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/father-ted
Rick and Morty: https://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty

LI_S01E99_The_anniversary_episode

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0100

We made it. If you're reading this on your podcast player, you are listening to the 100 episode of your beloved podcast called Linux Inlaws. In this bumper episode, Martin and Chris will look back at almost four years of LI history, recount the highlights (and lowlights!) and shed some light things to come for the next 100 episode. Maybe. Plus a very special greeting from an even more special BDfL (you don't want to miss this if Linux even just remotely rings a bell).

Links

Rust & PostgreSQL: https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres
HPR debacle: https://archive.org/details/hpr3658
Linux Inlaws @ FOSDEM: https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/linux_inlaws
Linux Outlaws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Outlaws
Dan's podcasts: https://www.danlynch.org/podcasts

LI_S02E01_The_Document_Foundation

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E02_Redhat,_EPEL_and_much_more

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E03_Real-time_Linux

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E04_The_Software_Freedom_Conservancy

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E05_Update_on_the_five_year_plan

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E06_XMPP

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E07_OpenWrt

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E08_Perl_and_Raku

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E10_KDE_Eco

Thu, 02 May 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E11_The_darker_side_of_FLOSS

Thu, 16 May 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E09_Redis_SNAFU

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E12_DAVx5:_CalDAV_and_more_on_Android

Thu, 30 May 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E13_FLOSS_in_the_military

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E14_Rustacean_Station

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E15_FLOSS_in_healthcare

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E16_OpenQA

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E17_Large_Language_Models

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E18_FLOSS_at_C24_a_German_neobank

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E19_FLOSS_in_the_automotive_industry

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E20_eBPF_How_to_pimp_your_kernel

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E21_FLOSS_and_home_automation

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E22_OpenPGP

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E23_The_Halloween_episode

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

Moloch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

LI_S02E24_An_Interview_with_Kris_Moore

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E25_The_CHAOSS_project

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E26_The_Grumpy_Old_Coders_DejaVu

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 02:00:00 +0100

This episode is host to the Grumpy Old Coders (GoCs) once again. This dynamic duo consisting of David Meier and Thomas Glaser has made appearances in the past, but this instalment is the one to rule them. You want move this to the very top of your podcatcher's playlist for some serious discussion about the world in general (especially Redis :-), free software in particular and some very dark, ie. really black, humour. Plus bonus content. For example, who's the active one between the two of them. And thoughts about the ultimate monetisation strategy.

Links

GoCs: https://grumpy-old-coders.org
Statler and Waldorf: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf
Regex: https://regex101.com
Semantic caching: https://medium.com/google-cloud/implementing-semantic-caching-a-step-by-step-guide-to-faster-cost-effective-genai-workflows-ef85d8e72883
Valkey: https://valkey.io
Redis license change: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E09_Redis_SNAFU__A77A
Trunp & end of world: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/09/world/analysis-trump-second-term-world-intl/index.html
Secrets of Dublin (in German): https://www.piper.de/buecher/secrets-of-dublin-gebrochene-flueche-isbn-978-3-492-50802-5
HAProxy: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy
Traefik: https://github.com/traefik/traefik
envoy: https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy
Agatha All Along: https://www.marvel.com/tv-shows/agatha-all-along/1
Shameless: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586680

LI_S02E27_The_Internet_Security_Research_Group

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E28_A_kernel_slightly_rusty

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E29_The_Free_Software_Foundation

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E30_The_Five_Year_Plan_again

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E31_Talking_Kotlin

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E32_FLOSS_in_the_real_estate_biz

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0100

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
Nosferatu (1922 version): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442

LI_S02E33_Telecomms_and_FLOSS

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0100

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

LI_S02E34_Modern_Python

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:00:00 +0200

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

LI_S02E35_The_Linux_Foundation_Europe

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 02:00:00 +0200

This episode is host to Mirko Böhm from the Linux Foundation Europe, a subsidiary of the largest industry association (aka the Linux Foundation) for FLOSS projects on the planet. This marks another record achievement for the Inlaws as with only roughly three minutes of length it's the shortest episode ever recorded for this podcast never mind other shows in this realm. Well, almost. Curious about this and other details? Then don't miss this show!

Links

Linux Foundation Europe: https://linuxfoundation.eu
Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org
Open Container Initiative: https://opencontainers.org
Open Source Security Foundation: https://openssf.org
Free Software Foundation Europe: https://fsfe.org
Public money public code: https://publiccode.eu/en
FLOSS and the German government (in German): https://media.fsfe.org/w/cMMF6DCiLB9RncdL46KCNb
FLOSS @ Munich: https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure
Yocto: https://www.yoctoproject.org
Oxide: https://oxide.computer
Linus's fireside chat @ Open Source Summit Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4wlrxFf2lM
Linux Kernel Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct: https://docs.kernel.org/process/code-of-conduct-interpretation.html
Ada and Hangman @ Linux Inlaws: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E82_Ada_and_Zangemann_a_childrens_book_about_FLOSS__3D61
The C Programming Language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30704642
Interior Chinatown: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13354972
Spinach casserole recipe: https://gist.github.com/monochromec/9e49e80b8d259dd1af721f55bb3c8e17

LI_S02E36_FLOSS_goes_farming

Thu, 01 May 2025 02:00:00 +0200

This episode - brought in by Martin's special request - sees our two ageing heroes discuss the various aspects of FLOSS in agricultural environments (Martin almost being a farmer himself). So you're interested in one of Martin's secret lives, the Right to Repair movement and how to really jazz up a tractor, you don't want to miss this episode. Never mind a riveting discussion about size (farm sizes that is). Plus bonus content (yes, the Inlaws have spared no expense to bring you this as usual): Countess Vladessa spills the beans! On her rise to fame from a little peasant girl to one of the world's most famous vampires, vegan blood and its wholesale angle and of course - wait for it - world domination!

Links

John Deer screw-up: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913
Right to Repair: https://www.repair.org/stand-up
ISOBUS (ISO 11783): https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/isobus-introduction-tutorial-iso-11783
AgOpenGPS: https://github.com/AgOpenGPS-Official/AgOpenGPS
Clarkson's Farm: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10541088
LiteFarm: https://github.com/LiteFarmOrg/LiteFarm
FarmOS: https://github.com/farmOS/farmOS
Open Ag Toolkit (OpenATK): https://openatk.com
Andor: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-de/browse/entity-faba988a-a9f5-45f2-a074-0775a7d6f67a

LI_S02E37_Python_on_mobiles

Thu, 15 May 2025 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode our two aging heroes are hosts to Tobias Wegener, a project manager in the area of Internet of Things (IoT). What started as a discussion on Python on mobile devices quickly turned into an interesting conversation about FLOSS in IoT environments, machine learning and the challenges that these environments present. Plus bonus content: A crash course on heavy water, fusion energy and other things you've always wanted to know but were afraid to ask :-).

Links

Nuclear fusion (crash course): https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsdeuterium-tritium-fusion-fuel
Kivy: https://github.com/kivy/kivy
scikit-learn: https://scikit-learn.org/stable
PyTorch: https://pytorch.org
TensorFlow: https://www.tensorflow.org
Keras: https://keras.io
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: https://hpmor.com
Slow horses: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/slow-horses/umc.cmc.2szz3fdt71tl1ulnbp8utgq5o
Beuf Bourguignon (modern version): https://cafedelites.com/beef-bourguignon/#recipe

LI_S02E38_Android_and_more

Thu, 29 May 2025 02:00:00 +0200

This show is host to Chris Simmonds, an Android enthusiast and consultant. So the discussion centers around the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), post-market operating systems in that area and privacy in general. So this is the episode you want to listen to if you don't quite want to hand over your personal life to the data holders of the world (yes, that includes you Google).

Links

Chris Simmonds: https://www.2net.co.uk
AOSP: https://source.android.com
Android's history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
Talking Kotlin (S02E31): https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E31_Talking_Kotlin__8BA5
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org
FORVIA's apning: https://appning.com
AOSP devs: https://aosp-devs.org
Lineage OS: https://lineageos.org
e/OS/: https://e.foundation/de/e-os
Installing a post-market OS: https://www.androidauthority.com/lineageos-install-guide-893303
GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org
Fuchsia: https://fuchsia.dev
Android Virtualisation Framework: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization
Debian and Fuchsia: https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/virtualization/overview
Red Side Story: https://jasperfforde.com/redsidestory/index.html
The Eyre Affair: https://www.jasperfforde.com/subindex/tn1subindex.html
Shades of Grey: https://www.jasperfforde.com/grey/grey1.html
Paradise: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27444205
The last of us: https://www.hbo.com/the-last-of-us

LI_S02E39_Nextcloud_update

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0200

The focus of this episode is an update on a FLOSS project named Nextcloud. Since the Inlaws had Frank Karlitschek, the project founder, first on the show, a lot has happened. Nextcloud evolved from a mere file-sharing solution to a full-blown collaboration suite that comes with a market place of apps, including, for example, conferencing functionality, office documents and much much more. So if you are using Nextcloud or are looking for a FLOSS collaboration suite, this show's for you. Otherwise listen to it anyway for some good old craíc (to use an Irish idiom).

Links

Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.com
Nextcloud @ GitHub: https://github.com/nextcloud/server
Frank's FOSDEM talk: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/nextcloud
Frank's first appearance on the show: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3209
Open source licenses episode (S01E536): https://archive.org/details/hpr3399
Sugar: https://tv.apple.com/show/sugar/umc.cmc.4r6q7tdquewehwvb3rzl0k3dt
Silo: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/silo/umc.cmc.3yksgc857px0k0rqe5zd4jice
Wallace & Grommit's Vengeance Most Fowl: https://www.wallaceandgromit.com/films/vengeance-most-fowl

LI_S02E40_FLOSS_in_education

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode our two hosts tackle the difficult subject of FLOSS in education. Beyond the ubiquitous Microsoft training courses thinly disguised as computer science classes in just too many second and third level education institutions. Plus bonus content: Chris sheds some light on his shady past as an assistant lecturer in computer science. Never mind obscure British cars. If you're into shady things never mind computer science, this is the show you don't want to miss!

Links

Ford Prefect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect
Dual studies in Germany (Frauenhofer example): https://www.iosb.fraunhofer.de/en/jobs-and-career/apprenticeship-and-dual-studies.html#DualesStudium
Chris' seminal paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S074373159690091X
Chris' book: https://www.amazon.com/Advances-Object-Oriented-Metalevel-Architectures-Reflection/dp/084932663X
PDP-11 (@ museum): https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/minicomputers/11/366/1946
Copr: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org
Molly and Max in the future: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21426456

LI_S02E41_FalkorDB

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:00:00 +0200

This episode introduces FalkorDB, a graph database and much more as it turns out. Some old partners in crime (Guy Korland and Roi Lipman) from Martin's and Chris' days at Redis have taken the RedisGraph codebase (an extension turning native Redis into a full-blown graph DB) to new heights. Confused? Don't be - just listen to the episode. All will be revealed - and more...

Links

FalkorDB: https://github.com/FalkorDB/FalkorDB
Redis: https://github.com/redis/redis
Redis modules: https://github.com/orgs/RedisLabsModules/repositories
RedisGraph: https://github.com/RedisGraph/RedisGraph
OpenCypher: https://opencypher.org
RedisAI: https://github.com/RedisAI/RedisAI
Ontologies and LLMs: https://www.docdigitizer.com/blog/ontologies-large-language-models-guide
Server Side Public License (SSPL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License
ElasticSearch and OpenSearch: https://medium.com/@TechTim42/elastic-search-and-open-search-a-brief-history-of-the-license-war-8f474743e2ff
Valkey @ Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community
DeepSeek: https://github.com/deepseek-ai
Courvoisier: https://www.courvoisier.com
Dick Turpin: https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/made-up-adventures-of-dick-turpin
George Lucas: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184

LI_S02E42_LoCode_and_NoCode

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 02:00:00 +0200

This show is witness to Martin and Chris dabbling in the area of programming. Since both of them come from a computer science background, you may be forgiven to assume that this comes natural to them. Quite the opposite in fact. The lazy chaps that they are, they don't want to learn this either (which is quite challenging given their old age anyway). In order to avoid any related effort they discovered low code and no code tools and decided to do a show on their findings. So here it is :-). Plus bonus content on why artificial intelligence in general and large language models are just wrong, wrong and wrong. Never mind evil. Well, most of the time anyway. And - given the episode number of this show - why 42 is still a force to be reckoned with.

Links

42: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
The Gargleblaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaphod_Beeblebrox#Pan-Galactic_Gargle_Blaster
Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu
Snap!: https://snap.berkeley.edu
Charles Babbage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
Budibase: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
Tooljet: https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet
Joget: https://github.com/jogetworkflow
MIT App Inventor: https://github.com/mit-cml/appinventor-sources
Microsoft redundancies: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html
Formula One: https://www.amazon.com/Formula-Official-History-Maurice-Hamilton/dp/1802797785/ref=sr_1_1?crid=62NZPG9HCBB1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.H1DKo7Bz9A5KvT2DYx4xDGPyw3bnt4N8OoMAJ1CBSlpSKxQCVkr1daNkgI44XHpbyD8bzAtNq9Kw4e_dNlSEwZdp5h5S3xgBDD3JroY-9vNFAXFqjkY5YCFPwH65k7Bcghv0il4XXGku4gtRVpu1hKAUACCe8TZYvU0oME8Pauq_D_eOZFAuZ7bL-p1cQPrft0qlMJcZ0VLfIPfgBOr3r9OfJphaWDcw1t4UH8FAEVM.5f1QTYOpcQfT_uxY2r2vgypVIJt5eBq3gjU5mOsovRc&dib_tag=se&keywords=Formula+1%3A+The+Official+History&qid=1748759984&sprefix=formula+1+the+official+history%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1
Gone Girl (movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998
Gone Girl (novel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(novel)

LI_S02E43_Valkey

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Martin and Chris host Kyle Davis and Dmitry Polyakovsky, two members of the Valley technical steering committee. Apart from a trip down memory lane (Kyle used to be a partner in crime when Martin and Chris were still working at Redis), this episode features insights into this more-than-instantly-popular drop-in replacement for Redis, the road ahead and how the project will ultimately contribute to the world domination of the Linux Foundation (if that stage has yet to be reached :-) - stay tuned). Plus - yes, wait for it - more bonus content on Rust, our favourite pet in the programming language zoo. Very few dry eyes in the house guaranteed with this episode, so you don't want to miss this.

Links

Kyle Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-davis-linux
Dmitry Polyakovsky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitrypol
Redis: https://redis.io
Redis license change (2024): https://redis.io/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
Redis license change (2025): https://redis.io/blog/agplv3
Valkey TSC: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/unstable/MAINTAINERS.md
Valkey: https://valkey.io
RSAL + SSPL: https://redis.io/legal/licenses
Open source licenses episode (S01E36): https://archive.org/details/hpr3399
Valkey module crate: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkeymodule-rs
FalkorDB episode (S02E41): https://archive.org/download/LI_S02E41_FalkorDB__3076
Rust client: https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs
Apple's container project: https://github.com/apple/container
WSL: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
DistroWatch: https://distrowatch.com
Salvatore's web site: https://antirez.com/latest/0

LI_S02E44_FLOSS_in_a_small_shop

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0200

This show hosts Michael Jerger, a German entrepreneur who has successfully built a small empire of selling services around FLOSS components which his company has contributed to the community over the years. So if you always wanted to know how federated version control systems actually work, how to program Kubernetes using a functional programming language instead of using boring Helm charts and what the deal with China, trademarks (Linux Inlaws and perhaps other trademarks) is, you really, really don't want to miss this episode!

Links

Meissa GmbH (in German): https://meissa-gmbh.de
Tübix (in German): https://www.tuebix.org
Forgejo: https://github.com/forgejo
Gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
Gogs: https://github.com/gogs/gogs
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org
Popularity of source code hosting sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source-code-hosting_facilities#Popularity
Convention 4 Kubernetes (c4k): https://github.com/DomainDrivenArchitecture/c4k-common
Clojure: https://clojure.org
c4k-keycloak: https://repo.prod.meissa.de/meissa/c4k-keycloak
Fefes blog (in German): https://blog.fefe.de
Microsoft's Typescript move: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port
Lina Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan
Lina's seminal paper on anti-trust issues: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.pdf

LI_S02E45_Darknet_Diaries

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0200

This episode features Jack Rhysider of Darknet Diaries fame. Being an off-topic show (more to come here, for example, how to fail miserably when putting a puppet administration in place - we have screwed things up for the first two terms, but maybe Mr. Trump does have a third term?), we go into the nitty-gritty of how to produce a really successful podcast with millions of downloads (this is where Jack does most of the talking as Martin and myself are taking notes :-), why marketing is so important and how to not do marketing. Plus bonus content on neurotransmitters and how brains work in general (yours included). So you don't want to miss this one instead of doing the dishes, mowing the lawn or getting a root canal treatment (insert your chore of choice here). And if you want to know how many Inlaws episodes Jack's been listening to over the years, don't fast-forward to ten minutes and thirty-five seconds of this show. :-)

Links

Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com
Malicious Life (R.I.P.): https://malicious.life
Jack's blog: https://blog.lime.link
Howard Stern show: https://www.howardstern.com
Waymo (Alphabet, you owe us!): https://waymo.com
Nemesis: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18378942
The Art of Human Hacking: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Social-Engineering-Art-Human-Hacking/dp/0470639539

LI_S02E46_Brian_Proffitt

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode Martin and Chris are joined by no other than Brian Proffitt. Brian Who? If you ask that question, you belong to the approximate 2% of our listenership who don't know this head of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) of a tiny start-up called Redhat :-). Then this episode is especially for you. But apart from contributing to Redhat's OSPO Brian wears many other hats as well (hint: chaos and native americans feature on this list as well. Never mind DOGE and Nixon!). Wanna know which other ones? Then enjoy the show!

Links

Redhat's OSPO: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-does-open-source-program-office-do
DOGE: https://doge.gov
Apache software Foundation (ASF): https://www.apache.org
Linux Foundation (LF): https://www.linuxfoundation.org
SCO kerfuffle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF): https://www.cncf.io
CNF @ Linux Inlaws: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E86_An_episode_with_the_Cloud_Native_Computing_Foundation__5675
Apache HTTP Server Project: https://httpd.apache.org
Redhat episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E02_Redhat_EPEL_and_much_more__B43F
Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act
CRA @ LF: https://linuxfoundation.eu/cyber-resilience-act
CRA @ ASF: https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/open-source-community-unites-to-build-cra-compliant-cybersecurity-processes
Grafana: https://github.com/grafana/grafana
Grafana Renderer: https://github.com/grafana/grafana-image-renderer
Back in Action: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21191806/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

LI_S02E47_Tied_up_and_shackled

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0200

Tied up, shackled and then some: In contrast what you may be thinking after this intro, in this episode Martin and Chris take a closer look at an obscure concept known not only in esoteric circles as the software supply chain (chain being the keyword here). Once only appreciated by the inner circle of a small group of level-eight magicians, this concepts has now entered mainstream and is considered instrumental not only in the area creating and maintaining large scale codebases possibly clocking up a few million lines of code. This especially becomes important when a codebase largely relies on FLOSS components commonly downloaded from the internet. Relying on these components may cause a security issue if not handled with caution as not only the recent xz-utils incident (where possibly a nation-state actor) managed to infiltrate a popular compression library virtually used everywhere. So if you're interested in the security of your builds and applications, this is another episode you don't want to miss.

Links

Left-pad incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
Lucene library: https://lucene.apache.org/core
Open source licenses episode (S01E36): https://archive.org/details/hpr3399
SBOMs: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-sboms
XZ Utils backdoor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
OpenSSF's tools (not just SBOMs): https://openssf.org/projects
Autotools: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Autotools-Introduction.html
SPDX: https://spdx.dev
CycloneDX: https://cyclonedx.org
valkey-search: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-
Thunderbolts: https://www.marvel.com/movies/thunderbolts

LI_S02E48_GNU_Taler

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0200

The focus of this episode is Gnu Taler, an answer to the questions that Diem, various crypto currency shenanigans and other attempts at world domination via money pose to wider audience. Martin and Chris discuss the ins and outs of this approach with two of the main people behind the project, Christian Grothoff and Leo Wittman. So if you ever wanted to know about a totally legit alternative to any dubious currency monkey businesses, this is the episode you don't want to miss.

Links

GN Taler: https://www.taler.net/en
GLS Bank: https://www.gls.de/ueber-uns/english
Germany's cooperative banking sector (history of, read only if you're suffering from insomina): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Cooperative_Financial_Group
GNU Net: https://www.gnunet.org/en/index.html
Tor & onion sites: https://www.torproject.org
Soviet Jeans: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30788492
No phone home: https://nophonehome.com
The Spy and the Traitor: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spy-Traitor-Greatest-Espionage-Story/dp/024118665X
Azrael: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22173666/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_azr
Dead or Alive: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221111/?ref_=fn_ttl_ttl_2
NL Net Taler: https://nlnet.nl/taler

LI_S02E49_Halloween_2025

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0100

In this scary Halloween episode, Martin and Chris touch on a horrible subject indeed: a 100+ years o life experience. Be prepared for the dreadful details of more than a century of combined wisdom (really?). And, yes, FLOSS maybe involved. Plus: More from another dark side: our beloved Tech Support makes an appearance once again and helps a certain Transylvanian countess with their movie problem. And more bonus content awaits: a primer on floppy disks. Confused? You should be! The answer: Listen to the episode!

Links

Linux From Scratch: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org
Floppy disks: https://www.hermannseib.com/documents/floppy.pdf
Wednesday: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13443470
Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org

LI_S02E50_LoRaWan_and_friends

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0100

The focus of this episode is Long Range WAN (also affectionately known as LoRaWAN. For those few people in the audience that don't have a clue: Just listen to episode - all will be revealed! Clue: it does have to do with that dreaded thing called the Internet of Things (and much much more). So stay tuned for the details! Plus bonus content: Martin finally sees the light and praises Rust (maybe). And much speculation about Valkey, Redis and other oddities. And - wait for it - Martin again ventures into the strange and wonderful world of agriculture. As in: Getting down and dirty with cows, sheep, pigs and other livestock. Plus bonus content: Martin's views on British politics in general and Keir Starmer in particular. So you DON'T want to miss this episode!

Links

LoRaWAN: https://lora-alliance.org
802.11: http://www.ieee802.org/11
Meshtastic: https://meshtastic.org
The Things Network: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org
Lora Server (Chirpstack): https://github.com/chirpstack
The Rust Foundation: https://rustfoundation.org
National Lampoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon%27s_Vacation_(film_series)
The Black List: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2741602
Software Freedom Podcast: https://fsfe.org/news/podcast.en.html

LI_S02E51_Podcasts

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:00:00 +0100

This episode introduces a somewhat brand-new concept: an off-topic subject. As in: How to excel in the beautiful and ancient art of Origami (the Japanese fine art of paper folding, going back a few centuries if not more). Still reading? Excellent! Jokes aside, in this episode Martin and Chris will shed more light on one of their dark sides of their lives. To be more precise: podcasts the Inlaws (as in: we) listen to. Apart from the most famous one called Linux Inlaws (and if you believe this, you'll believe anything :-)). But stay tuned: If you are longing for more details of the very private life of our two ageing heroes, this is the episode you do not want to miss! Especially if you're into our time-travelling episodes...

Links

The Sun: https://www.thesun.co.uk
Linux Outlaws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Outlaws
Fab's podcast: https://fab.industries/podcast
Dan's podcast(s): https://www.danlynch.org/podcasts
FLOSS Weekly: https://hackaday.com/tag/floss-weekly
Software Freedom Podcast: https://fsfe.org/news/podcast.en.html
Linux Matters: https://linuxmatters.sh
Grumpy Old Coders: https://grumpy-old-coders.org
Command Line Heroes: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes
Open Source Startup: https://oss-startup-podcast.launchnotes.io
Open Source Underdogs: https://opensourceunderdogs.com
Python Bytes: https://pythonbytes.fm
Talk Python to Me: https://talkpython.fm
Python People: https://pythontest.com/pythonpeople
Rust in production: https://corrode.dev/podcast
The Rustacean Station: https://rustacean-station.org
Rust Ship: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohFzyfZyjxHnChrXUadQ63FbsL7sCi0h
Malicious Life: https://malicious.life
Postgres FM: https://postgres.fm
Valkey @ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@valkeyproject
Code Red: https://www.dash0.com/podcast
Instant (and not Ipanema): https://www.ibm.com/products/instana
Changelog (interviews): https://changelog.com/interviews
SUDO Show: https://sudo.show
Talking Kotlin: https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZyWVfBi0WiPlmomrDQ6PM
CMU Database Group: https://www.youtube.com/c/CMUDatabaseGroup
Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/Computerphile
Techlore: https://www.youtube.com/@techlore
Techno Tim: https://www.youtube.com/@TechnoTim
Neuralnine: https://www.youtube.com/@NeuralNine
Darknet Diaries with Jack Rhysider: https://darknetdiaries.com
Armchair Investigators: https://armchairinvestigators.de
Malicious Life (now defunct): https://malicious.life
David Bombal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP7WmQ_U4GB3K51Od9QvM0w
Unhedged: https://www.ft.com/unhedged-podcast
Slate Money: https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money
Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money
Venture Unlocked: https://ventureunlocked.substack.com/podcast
The Missing Crypto Queen: https://www.bbc.com/audio/brand/p07nkd84
13 Minutes to the Moon: https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p07grkvh
The Royal Institution: https://www.rigb.org/ri-science-podcast
Repair Geek: https://www.youtube.com/c/RepairGeek
FREAKONOMICS RADIO: https://freakonomics.com/podcasts
Search Engine: https://www.searchengine.show
Plus Minus (in German): https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/plusminus-mehr-als-nur-wirtschaft/urn:ard:show:050fba63cd84ab26
Liebt euch (in German): https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/liebt-euch-der-dating-podcast/urn:ard:show:178a60183a5a9d80
The Foreigner: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615160
Open Source Summit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/?_sft_lfevent-category=open-source-summit-events

LI_S02E52_Knoppix

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:00:00 +0100

In this episode Martin and Chris talk to Klaus Knopper of Knoppix fame. For the few listeners who do not know what Knoppix is: Just listen to the episode (hint: it's one of the oldest life distros on the planet). Plus more on Linux for handicapped users. And the challenges of maintaining a distro and how to overcome them (watch out for the magic contained in this segment!). And an abbreviated history of Linux (esp. in Germany). Never mind Microsoft's dirty secrets involving Unix, Linux and some other things swept under the rug of history.

Links

Linux Tag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxTag
Knoppix: http://www.knoppix.org
Damn small Linux: https://www.damnsmalllinux.org
Knoppix for Windows: https://runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm
Yocto: https://www.yoctoproject.org
linbo: https://github.com/linuxmuster/linuxmuster-linbo
Screenreader for Blind Linux Users (SLB): https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE%3AFactory/sbl
espeak-ng: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng
Adriane: https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html
Guy Fawkes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes
Led Zeppelin untitled album (aka IV): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV

LI_S02E53_Xmas_and_New_Year

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:00:00 +0100

As 'tis the season, we have a combined Xmas and New Year's episode for you. And what a blast this is! The usual suspects will make an appearance - all those characters which you have known for years and probably already taken a shine to. Yes, this does include the Grumpies (the Grumpy Old Coders) for the uninitiated, our beloved countess Vladessa and of course our two hosts Martin and Chris. This time (as it has been a tradition for the last two year by now) impersonated by two lovely large language models (LLMs). Which goes to show that - in contrast to popular belief - LLMs DO have humour and CAN make jokes. If so forced into this... For a laughter or two and a bit of fun, don't miss this episode. Plus bonus content: The real truth behind the Redis / Valkey split, how to pack a swimming pool, sauna and much more all into one motorcycle and what this has to do with FLOSS. Or not.

Links

This year's Halloween episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E49_Halloween_2025__A6B0
Grumpy Old Coders: https://grumpy-old-coders.org
Honda Goldwing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Gold_Wing
The Bottlerocket episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E80_Bottlerocket__605D
Redis' license change: https://redis.io/blog/agplv3
Salvatore's post on the Redis license change: https://antirez.com/news/151
Atlas comet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc4A8va8NRU
Avi Loeb's take on this: https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-inspiration-delivered-by-3i-atlas-to-our-doorstep-c7bc08115d0f
Armageddon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/?ref_=fn_t_1
Push: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465580/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_push
Playdate: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31425731/?ref_=fn_t_1
The Substance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17526714/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520substance
Pluribus: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22202452/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_in_0_q_plurib
The Witcher: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5180504/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_6_nm_1_in_0_q_the%2520wit
Altered Carbon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227/?ref_=fn_t_1

LI_S02E54_The_Gettogether

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:00:00 +0100

This episode - recorded in an ultra-secret location near a border (any border will do - almost :-) - is witness to our two ageing heroes being in the same location for a change and gives away some giveaways. For the first time in the Inlaws' history, this episode features a glimpse into the future of the show: an overview of what's to come in 2026! Plus the usual banter about Trump, some FLOSS topics and why red wine for breakfast is almost always the better option. And some beans are spilled - for example, Martin's first programming language (hint: in contrast to popular belief, this wasn't IBM mainframe assembler which was all the rage in the sixties). Plus more from Martin's distant past - if he can remember it.

Links

VIC-20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20
Commodore Basic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_BASIC
ALGOL 68: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/ALGOL/report/Algol68_revised_report-AB.pdf
PDP 11 assembler: https://programmer209.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/the-pdp-11-assembly-language
Smalltalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
XBox system software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_system_software
Xkcd & Nebraska: https://xkcd.com/2347
Excel-managed company: https://xkcd.com/1906
OpenCL: https://www.khronos.org/opencl
Jever: https://www.jever-beer.com
Lucifer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4052886

LI_S02E55_Thunderbird_Reloaded

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:00:00 +0100

This episode features Thunderbird, one of the (if not the most) popular mail clients in the FLOSS ecosystem. Heather Ellsworth, a buddying physicist turned DevRel (better late than never) from the project spills the beans on the history of the project not only in a Mozilla context, explains that TB's hiatus is just another urban myth and what's ahead for the project. In terms of future roadmap, monetisation and world domination. If that sounds familiar, it should! As the Inlaws have been pondering these last few topics for more than six years now. Although in contrast to Thunderbird with limited success (until now, if you want to know more on these topics and more, don't miss the next episode!).

Links

Higgs Boson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson
Altas @ CERN: https://atlas.cern
Thunderbird: https://github.com/mozilla/releases-comm-central
Waldorf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-pope-uk
Statler (or the other way around): https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinwimpress
Thunderbird's history (starting at the very beginning): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application_Suite
Seamonkey: https://www.seamonkey-project.org
Rust in Production Thunderbird episode: https://corrode.dev/podcast/s02e03-thunderbird/
Thunderbird on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thunderbird.android
OpenPGP episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E22_OpenPGP__7525
Thunderbird PRO: https://tb.pro
Thunderbird's Call For Action: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/participate
Mozilla's Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home
umu launcher: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher
Open Printing: https://openprinting.github.io
Bugonia: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12300742/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_2

LI_S02E56_Six_Years

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:00:00 +0100

We have made it! Six years in the making and still going strong. With a steadily increasing audience of - wait for it - at least ten listeners. When they can't get to sleep or have nothing else to do. Or - gosh - want to learn something. Like what's Usenet. And why Linux has been so important (yes, it all will be revealed in this episode!). Including a crash course on operating system design (including the operating system war) and CPU design history. Never mind how humorous works. So wars or not, you have an hour to spare, can't get to sleep or want to learn something, never mind want to know why our beloved operating system conquered the world and how humor works and much, much more, you certainly don't want to miss this episode! (Ok, marketing made us do it - before Martin fired them once again).

Links

Minix: https://www.minix3.org
The OS war: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI?pli=1
The Usenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
GNU Hurd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd
IBM's RISC history: https://web.archive.org/web/20060503190348/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/rs6000.pdf
Car Talk: https://www.cartalk.com
Martin's ancient server: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProLiant
Krentenbollen: https://www.toineskitchen.com/recipes/krentenbollen
Christmas pudding recipe (not for faint-hearted): https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-christmas-pudding
Chromebooks: https://www.google.com/chromebook
Arch on Chromebooks (Chris' talk): https://web.archive.org/web/20211025175723/https://frab.openrheinruhr.de/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/020/original/Arch_Chromebook.pdf?1541482424

LI_S02E57_Codeberg

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:00:00 +0100

Like Github but don't like the company behind it? Then look no further! This episode has Otto Richter and Michael Jerger never mind our lovely elder two hosts discussing Codeberg, an FLOSS alternative to Github, Gitlab and corporate friends. Using a federated technology based on our beloved git, invented by Linus and friends all those years ago. Sounds fascinating? Then don't miss the episode! Plus bonus content: Chris gets philosophical about plants, the sun and mornings.

Links

Codeberg: https://codeberg.org
Forgejo: https://codeberg.org/forgejo
Episode on Meissa GmbH (S02E44): https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E44_FLOSS_in_a_small_shop__DEF0
History of Forgejo: http://web.archive.org/web/20251015192936/https://codeberg.org/fnetX/flock_to_fedora_timeline/graph?page=2
Federated Forgejo (in German): https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3275-foderiertes_forgejo
ZenDiS: https://www.zendis.de/en
Sovereign Tech Agency: https://www.sovereign.tech
NLNETLABS: https://nlnetlabs.nl
Comaps: https://www.comaps.app
Bose screw-up: https://www.bose.com/soundtouch-end-of-life
Kalanchoe pinnata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe_pinnata
The particle @ the end of universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Particle_at_the_End_of_the_Universe
Higgs boson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

LI_S02E58_Continuous_whatever

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:00:00 +0100

This episode is all about the CI/CD of software, standing for chaotic implementation and complete disaster of course :-). Much more seriously, our two ageing heroes take a look at what's out there for the support of continuous integration and continuous deployment of software (you guessed this right? :-). Plus lots of bonus content: Hipster methodologies for developing software, a crash course on two of our most beloved subjects when it comes down to developing the stuf (agile/Scrum), how to really master software quality assurance (hint: no, it's not avoiding it completely! :-) and much much more. So don't miss this episode! If you can't get to sleep. Or otherwise...

Links

V-Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-model
Waterfall model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model
Git hooks: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
Scrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(project_management)
Agile topics: https://agilealliance.org
Jenkins: https://www.jenkins.io
Selenium: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium
Argo: https://argoproj.github.io
Prebake: https://github.com/vgteam/vg_ci_prebake
Jenkins-X: https://jenkins-x.io
Github Actions: https://github.com/features/actions
Tekton: https://github.com/tektoncd
SonarQube: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube
Bottlerocket episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E80_Bottlerocket__605D
Snow @ Britian: https://www.netweather.tv/weather-forecasts/uk/winter/winter-history

LI_S02E59_Coreboot

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:00:00 +0100

This episode is all about getting computers up and running. The software that kicks in after you flick the power switch until the operating system kernel starts up to be more precise. And to be more precise, today's episode is about Coreboot, a FLOSS project aimed at replacing BIOS (rarely these days), UEFI (more often these days) and friends. Plus quite a few primers on CPUs, RAM chips and other esoteric aspects that you always wanted to know about but were too afraid to ask :-).

Links

IPL/booting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#History
BIOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS
Floppy disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
UEFI: https://uefi.org
Coreboot: https://www.coreboot.org
Canonical's UEFI shim: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot
Device Tree spec: https://www.devicetree.org
Oreboot: https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot
Linus about C++ and the Linux kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20
HP Moonshot: https://www.hewlettpackardhistory.com/item/the-miracle-of-moonshot
Das U-Boot: https://u-boot.org
Gummiboot (now systemd-boot): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-boot.html
Libreboot: https://libreboot.org
Grumpy Old Coders: https://grumpy-old-coders.org
Software Freedom Podcast: https://fsfe.org/news/podcast.en.html

LI_S02E60_Esotheric_Programming_Languages

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0200

This episode is witness to our two ageing heroes taking a closer look at the mysterious and wonderful world of esoteric programming languages. So if you ever wanted to know what Brainfuck is really all about (but were too afraid to ask selected members of your family never mind your computer science lecturer), wanted to find out where Forth and Prolog are really used never mind what Zig is all about - you don't want to miss this episode. Plus a trip down memory lane (if our two heroes can remember where to find this memory lane thing).

Links

Prolog: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Prolog
Zig: https://ziglang.org
Forth: https://forth-standard.org
Open Firmware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
Sinclair ZX81: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zx-81
MUMPS: https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane
Brainfuck: https://brainfuck.org
Ook!: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Ook!
Whitespace: https://web.archive.org/web/20150618184706/http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/tutorial.php
Bull$hit: https://github.com/jkstpierre/Bullshit-Programming-Language
Alan Turing: https://www.newscientist.com/people/alan-turing
ArnoldC: https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC
Esolang: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page
Omgrofl: https://github.com/OlegSmelov/omgrofl-interpreter
Chef: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chef
Oxyde: https://oxyde.cloud

LI_S02E61_MongoDB_and_more

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0200

This episode features an update on MongoDB. For those listeners old enough to remember: We had the project on the show a few years back. Much has changed since then - or has it? Stay tuned to find out. But even if you don't know what MongoDB is about but always wanted to dip your toes in the NoSQL waters of document databases and such, this episode is for you! Plus the usual nonsense about vector databases, language models (large, small or medium if size does matter indeed) and all the rest of it. Enjoy!

Links

MongoDB: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
Previous MongoDB episode (S01E90): https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E90_MongoDB_with_a_slight_marketing_angle___999A
Vectors and artificial intelligence: https://medium.com/@myscale/understanding-vector-indexing-a-comprehensive-guide-d1abe36ccd3c
TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index
SEAL Team: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6473344
Red Cliff: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425637/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
Red Cliff II: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326972/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2