LI_S02E03_Real-time_Linux Linux Inlaws podcast

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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…

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LI_S02E39_Nextcloud_update

27 days ago

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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…

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LI_S02E38_Android_and_more

6 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E37_Python_on_mobiles

8 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E36_FLOSS_goes_farming

10 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E35_The_Linux_Foundation_Europe

12 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E34_Modern_Python

14 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E33_Telecomms_and_FLOSS

16 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E32_FLOSS_in_the_real_estate_biz

18 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E31_Talking_Kotlin

20 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E30_The_Five_Year_Plan_again

22 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E29_The_Free_Software_Foundation

24 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E28_A_kernel_slightly_rusty

26 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E27_The_Internet_Security_Research_Group

28 weeks ago

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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…

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LI_S02E26_The_Grumpy_Old_Coders_DejaVu

30 weeks ago