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FLOSS Weekly
by Hackaday
It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.
Episodes
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Episode 882 - Better Together
This week Jonathan chats with Jan Altenberg of the Open Source Automation Development Lab, a cooperative of nerds that care about Linux and Open Source! Jan and OSADL helped push Real Time Linux across the finish line, are looking at safety critical hardening, and general cooperating to make Open...
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Episode 881 - Eating Its Own Tail
This week Jonathan chats with Olivier Vernin of Updatecli, the tool that helps you update everything! Need to roll out dependency updates intelligently? Or even automatically deploy to a server on changes? Updatecli can help! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or…
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Episode 880 - The Two Wolves
This week Jonathan chats with Benjamin Samuels of Trail of Bits! The conversation focuses on Patch the Planet, a new initiative to help Open Source projects deal with the fallout from AI coding and vulnerability research. What's the unexpected dichotomy driving the polarized response to LLMs? And...
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Episode 879 - Easy Like Butter
This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and privacy advocacy? Where are we on a true Tor browser on iOS? And what's the ideal solution to the Android Lockdown issue? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in...
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Episode 878 - A Tool With Opinions
This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and how the opinionated tooling can make you a better programmer! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord,...
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Episode 877 - RCE As a Service
This week Jonathan chats with Francois Proulx about SmokedMeat! That's the third in a trio of Open Source security tools from Boost Security, and this one is the red team tool to demonstrate vulnerabilities. Why are Continuous Integration vulnerabilities such a persistent problem, and what's on…
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Episode 876 - There Is No Money Fairy
This week Jonathan chats with Michael Meeks about Collabora! What's the origin story in this consulting company, why do they have an outstanding office suite, and where is the world headed to accomplish digital sovereignty? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday…
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Episode 875 - JavaScript as a Systems Language
This week Jonathan chats with Nariman Jelveh about Puter! It's the project that takes the idea of the Browser-as-the-OS seriously. Why did a simulated desktop on the web take off, what the story of making it Open Source, and what's coming next? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in...
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Episode 874 - Really, We Do PDFs
This week Jonathan chats with Andrea Gallo about RISC-V! What does it mean for RISC-V to be an Open ISA? Where is RISC-V popping up, and what's the new frontier? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube…
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Episode 873 - Wait, That's Not Open Source!
This week Jonathan chats with Andy Gryc and Aaron Basset about QNX, and the interesting Open Source history and future of that embedded OS. Why does QNX Everywhere feel more open, and why do you need to register an account to download images? All that and more -- Listen to find out! You can join...
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Episode 872 - I'm Not Satoshi
This week Jonathan chats with Tristan Sherliker about the Craig Wright case, Open Source and the law, and Tristan's own Open Source project, BunTool. How did Open Source help win the day at the Bitcoin trial? And why is right now such an interesting time to be in the legal field? Listen to find...
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Episode 871 - Rust Won't Save You
This week Jonathan chats with Florian Gilcher about Rust and Ferrous Systems! How have we gotten here, what's coming next, and what's new in the Rust world? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as…
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Open Source Gardening
This week Jonathan chats with Alexander Neumann about Restic, a particularly compelling backup and restore solution written in Go. Why did the world need one more backup program? And what's Alexander's personal take on transitioning from programmer to maintainer? Listen to find out! You can join...
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Episode 869 - Linux on Your Toaster
This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments! The team at TI has been working hard to provide really good Open Source support for Sitara processors, including upstreaming support to the mainline Linux kernel. We talk about the CI pipeline for...
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Episode 868 - Remove the Noodles
This week Jonathan chats with Johannes Millan about Super Productivity and Parallel Code! Those are two very different projects, but both aiming for helping us get our work done. Super Productivity is a scheduling and time tracking suite, while Parallel Code is an almost-IDE for managing and...
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Episode 867 - Pangolin: People Can Lie
This week Jonathan chats with Milo Schwartz about Pangolin, the Open Source tunneling solution. Why do we need something other than Wireguard, and how does Pangolin fix IoT and IT problems? And most importantly, how do you run your own self-hosted Pangolin install? Listen to find out! You can…
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Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers
This week Jonathan chats with Valentyn Danylchuk about BreezyBox. That's the ESP32 shell and toolkit that gives you a console and compiler right on an ESP32 device. What was the inspiration for this impressive project? And what direction is it heading? Listen to find out! You can join the...
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Episode 865 - Multiplayer Firewalls
This week Jonathan chats with Philippe Humeau about Crowdsec! That company created a Web Application Firewall as on Open Source project, and now runs it as a Multiplayer Firewall. What does that mean, and how has it worked out as a business concept? Listen to find out! You can join the…
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Episode 864 - Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early
This week Jonathan chats with Bill Shotts about The Linux Command Line! That's Bill's book published by No Starch Press, all about how to make your way around the Linux command line! Bill has had quite a career doing Unix administration, and has thoughts on the current state of technology. Listen...
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Episode 863 - Opencast: That Code is There for a Reason
This week Jonathan chats with Olaf Andreas Schulte and Lars Kiesow about Opencast, the video management system for education. What does Opencast let a school or university accomplish, how has that changed over the last decade, and what exciting new things are coming? Watch to find out! You can…
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Episode 862 - Have Your CAKE and Eat It Too
This week Jonathan chats with Toke Hoiland-Jorgensen about CAKE_MQ, the newest Kernel innovation to combat Bufferbloat! What was the realization that made CAKE parallelizable? When can we expect it in the wild? And what's new in the rest of the kernel world? Listen to find out! You can join the...
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Episode 861 - Big Databases with OpenRiak
This week Jonathan chats with Nicholas Adams about OpenRiak! Why is there a Riak and an OpenRiak, which side of the CAP theorem does OpenRiak land on, and why is it so blazingly fast for some operations? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get...
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Episode 860 - Elixir Origin Story
This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose Valim about Elixir! What led Jose to create this unique programming language? What do we mean that it's a functional language with immutability? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video...
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Episode 859 - OpenShot: Simple and Fast
This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Thomas about OpenShot, the cross-platform video editor that aims to be simple to use, without sacrificing functionality. We did the video edit with OpenShot for this episode, and can confirm it gets the job done. What led to the creation of this project, and...
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Episode 858 - YottaDB: Sometimes the Solution is Bigger Servers
This week Jonathan chats with K. S. Bhaskar about YottaDB. This very high performance database has some unique tricks! How does YottaDB run across multiple processes without a daemon? Why is it licensed AGPL, and how does that work with commercial deployments? Listen to find out! You can join the...
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Episode 857: SOCification
This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What's the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with SIMD? And what is Konstantinos' connection to ARM's SIMD approach? Listen to find out! You can join…
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FLOSS 856: QT: Fix It Please, My Mom is Calling
This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That's the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What's the connection with KDE? And how has this turned into a successful company? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation…
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FLOSS 855: Get in the Minecart, Loser!
This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It's a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you really want to! Part of the story is a Kickstarter that resulted in a graphics tile-set. And then there's…
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FLOSS 854: The Big Daddy Core
This week Jonathan and Ben chat with Jason Shepherd about Ocre and Atym.io! That's the lightweight WebAssembly VM that lets you run the same containers on Linux and a host of embedded platforms, on top of the Zephyr embedded OS. What was the spark that led to this project's creation, what does...
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FLOSS 853: Hardware Addiction; Don't Send Help
This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Cody Zuschlag about the Xen project! It's the hypervisor that runs almost everywhere. Why is it showing up in IoT devices and automotive? And what's coming next for the project? Watch to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch…
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FLOSS 852: Sir, This is a Wendy's
This week Jonathan talks to Robert Wolff about DevEco! How did this developer group come to be, and what is its purpose? What are the lessons learned about building communities and working with others? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get…
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FLOSS 851: Buckets of Money
This week Jonathan talks to James Cole about Firefly III, the personal finance manager! This one itches James' own itch, but brings a great visualization and management tools for your personal finances! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of...
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FLOSS 850: One Rom To Rule Them All
This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the retro-computing world need a solution for replacement ROMs? How difficult was it to squeeze a MCU and layout into the original ROM footprint? And what's next for the project? Listen to find out! You can join the...
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FLOSS 849: Veilid: Be a Brick
This week Jonathan talks with Brandon and TC about Veilid, the peer-to-peer networking framework that takes inspiration from Tor, and VeilidChat, the encrypted messenger built on top of it. What was the inspiration? How does it work, and what can you do with it? Listen to find out! You can join…
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FLOSS 848: Open the Podbay Doors, Siri
This week Jonathan and and Rob chat with Paulus Schoutsen about Home Assistant, ESPHome, and Music Assistant, all under the umbrella of the Open Home Foundation. Watch to see Paulus convince Rob and Jonathan that they need to step up their home automation games! You can join the conversation in…
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FLOSS 847: This Is Networking
This week Jonathan and and Rob chat with Tom Herbert about XDP2! It's the brand new framework for making Networking really fast, making parsers really simple, and making hardware network acceleration actually useful with Linux. You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or...
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FLOSS 846: Mastering Embedded Linux Programming
This week Jonathan and and Dan chat with Frank Vasquez and Chris Simmonds about Embedded Linux, and the 4th edition of the Mastering Embedded Linux Programming book. How has this space changed in the last 20 years, and what's the latest in Embedded Linux? Listen to find out! You can join the...
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FLOSS 845: The Sticky Spaghetti Gauge
This week Jonathan and Randal talk Flutter and Dart! Is Google killing Flutter? What's the challenge Randal sees in training new senior developers, and what's the solution? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show…
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FLOSS 844: Simulated Word-of-Mouth
This week Jonathan, Doc, and Aaron chat about Open Source AI, advertisements, and where we're at in the bubble roller coaster! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from...
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FLOSS 843: Money Usually Helps
This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Farid Abdelnour about Kdenlive! It's top quality video editing software, and happens to be what we use to edit the show! What's next for the project, and how can you help? Watch to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or...
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FLOSS 842: Will the Real JQ Please Stand Up
This week Jonathan chats with Mattias Wadman and Michael Farber about JQ! It's more than just a JSON parser, JQ is a whole scripting language! Tune in to find out more about it. You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as...
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FLOSS 841: Drupal and AI: The Right Tool for Everything
This week Jonathan and Katherine talk with Jamie Abrahams about Drupal, and how AI just makes sense. No, really. Jamie makes a compelling case that Drupal is a really good tool for building AI workflows. We cover security, personal AI, and more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday...
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FLOSS 840: End-of-10; Not Just Some Guy in a Van
This week Jonathan talks with Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss about KDE's eco initiative and the end of 10 campaign! Is Open Source really a win for environmentalism? How does the End of 10 campaign tie in? And what does Pewdiepie have to do with it? Watch to find out! You can join the conversation in...
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Episode 839: I Want to Get Paid Twice
This week Jonathan talks with benny Vasquez about AlmaLinux! Why is AlmaLinux the choice for slightly older hardware? What is the deal with RISC-V? And how does EPEL fit in? Tune in to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show...
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Episode 838: AtomVM, and The Full Stack Elixir Developer
This week Jonathan chats with Davide and Paul about AtomVM! Why Elixir on embedded? And how!? And what is a full stack Elixir developer, anyways? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as…
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Episode 837: World's Best Beta Tester
This week Jonathan chats with Geekwife! What does a normal user really think of Linux on the desktop and Open Source options? And what is it really like, putting up with Jonathan's shenanigans? Watch to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video...
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Episode 836: Beeps and Booths With Meshtastic
This week Jonathan and Aaron Newcomb chat with Ben Meadors and Garth Vander Houwen about Meshtastic! What's changed since we talked to them last, where is the project going, and what's coming next? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the...
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Episode 835: Board Member B
This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Nate Graham about KDE! Why did Nate walk away from Apple, and how did he find Linux and KDE? And what does he see coming next? Watch to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube,...
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Episode 834: It Was Cool in 2006
This week Jonathan chats with Ben Meadors and Rob Campbell about the boatload of software Microsoft just released as Open Source! What's the motivation, why is the new Edit interesting, and what's up with Copilot? Watch to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch…
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Episode 833: Up and Over
This week Jonathan and Jeff chat with Tom Herbert about eBPF, really fast networking, what the future looks like for high performance computing and the Linux Kernel, and more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as…
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It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.
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