Linux Inlaws

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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