Linux Inlaws

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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