FLOSS Weekly (Audio)

Doc, Shawn and Aaron co-host each other in a lively and deep conversation about higher education, open-source techies making themselves valuable, and a world in which there seems to be no limit to what can be done with surveillance—including what law enforcement does, for example, to tempt and trap bad actors with, a supposedly anonymous and secure messaging app (ANOM) that is neither.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Aaron Newcomb, and Shawn Powers

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The story of the bash shell begins with Brian Fox, who wrote the original, and it continues on this show packed with interesting forays into the achievements and challenges of free software and open source. In conversation with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett, Fox also unpacks the thinkings and workings behind the Orchid VPN, and all the primary and secondary effects of simply making one's work maximally useful.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Brian J. Fox

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History and freedom share the front seat as Fred Stutzman tells Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about how Sunsite became Ibiblio: one of the most important resources on the Internet—and how he grew personally through all that history. And then how he started and runs Freedom.to, a leading screen time product that helps people protect themselves from their own distractions—and how he bootstrapped the company without VC money while remaining involved in the open-source world.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Fred Stutzman

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Without Dale Dougherty, our guest for this show, we might never have had the maker movement with Maker Faire, Make Magazine, Maker Camp, and the influence it has had on education, hardware, and software creation. In a deeply engaging hour, Dale brings Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb up to date on the maker movement with its massive influence on education while visiting other fun topics, such as his role as well in the founding of the Web as we know it today.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: Dale Dougherty

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Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols about what's happening in technology journalism, with the open source world he knows perhaps better than any other journalist on the case, and with where he got started: in space and space technologies. (Bonus fact: Steven digs Starlink, and Jonathan is using it to participate in the show.)

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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Dr. Andre Kudra of esatus.com discusses SSI, or Self-Sovereign Identity. It's a hot and fast-moving topic with a growing base of hackers, companies, nonprofits, and whole states, provinces and countries. Aaron Newcomb and Doc Searls probe Andre for lots of great intelligence about how SSI puts individuals in full charge of how they present minimized ID credentials safely, and inside a whole new framework. They also talk with Andre about his involvement with the demoscene and retro computing, which are especially huge in Europe. It's a great discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: Dr. Andre Kudra

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Browsers and the Web are just one model for making the Internet work. Another is one Doc Searls and his colleagues at Customer Commons are working on: the Intention Byway. With co-hosts Katherine Druckman and Shawn Powers, Doc discusses how it all works: with compute nodes called "intentrons" at the ends and a "byway" for pub-sub messaging in the middle. As a new model, it creates a boundless variety of ways for demand and supply to signal each other in the open marketplace, outside the silos and platforms of the big tech giants. And, of course, it's all open source.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers

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WireGuard, the VPN protocol that Linus Torvalds calls a "work of art," and is now in or close to the kernels of many operating systems, is the subject of this deep and wide-ranging show, in which WireGuard's founder and alpha maintainer, Jason Donenfeld, shares his wisdom and experience. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett of FLOSS Weekly completes a deep-dive into discussion topics around WireGuard including development methods, surprising uses, security design principles, and much more.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Jason Donenfeld

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Jonathan Steck joins Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk to about Endless Sky, an open source video game reminiscent of Elite and Escape velocity, and one that even hearkens back to Spacewar! On FLOSS Weekly, Steck and the show hosts talk about the game itself and the community around it. The project has attracted an interesting bunch of contributors, mainly through its presence on Steam as a free game. There are several challenges the project has overcome, from the sabbatical of the founder, to managing the continued growth and interest in the game. The game is addictive, and the conversation is just as good.

Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch

Guest: Jonathan Steck

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John Mertic of the Linux Foundation joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb of FLOSS Weekly. The Linux Foundation only gets bigger, more interesting and more important for the FLOSS world. There's nobody better to talk to about all of it than Mertic, Director of Program Management for this "foundation of foundations." In a conversation that ranges both deep and wide, and is packed with interesting details regarding the Open Mainframe Project, Linux Foundation and even COBOL developers.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb

Guest: John Mertic

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