FLOSS Weekly

This week Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie chat with Julian Lam about NodeBB, the modern take on forum software. And forums have some new tricks, like topic forking, responsive design for mobile, and coming soon Activity Pub integration! What about AI? And Why JavaScript? Listen and find out!

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

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This week Jonathan Bennett and Elliot Williams chat with Eben Upton about The Raspberry Pi! The conversation covers the new Pi 5, the upcoming CM5, the possible Pi500, and the Initial Public Offering that may happen before too long. There's also the PCIe port, the RP1, and the unexpected effects of using Broadcom chips.

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Shawn W Dunn about openSUSE Kalpa, the atomic version of openSUSE Tumbleweed, with a KDE twist. What exactly do we mean by an Atomic desktop? Is ALP going to replace openSUSE Tumbleweed? Are snaps coming to Kalpa? Listen in to find out!

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls chat with David Taht about the Internet. Primarily the IPv4 exhaustion issue, IPv6, and why there's 10%-20% of our current IPv4 addresses sitting unused. It turns out there's a plan to push about half of that address space back into general use, but Amazon might have something to say about it. You don't want to miss this story!

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday.

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This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman talk with Matt Ray about OpenCost and all things cloud! What exactly is Cloud Native? Why do we need a project just for tracking expenses? Doesn't the cloud make everything cheaper? Is there a use case for the hobbyist? All this and more!

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday.

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This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls talk with Tony Zeoli about Netmix and Radio Station, the Open Source Wordpress plugin that manages a show schedule. The conversation didn't stop there, but covered lots of radio and licensing issues, the future of local radio stations, how the Internet changed the conversation, and what the future of local radio looks like.

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday.

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This week Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie talk with JP Mens about Owntracks, the collection of programs that lets you take back control of your own location data. It's built around the simple idea of taking position data from a mobile phone or other data source, sending it over MQTT to a central server, and logging that data to a simple data store.

From there, you can share it as trips, mark points of interest, play back your movement in a web browser, and more. And because it's just JSON inside MQTT, it's pretty trivial to make a connector to interface with other projects, like Home Assistant.

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday.

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This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk with Sean DuBois, one of the few people that seem to really understand WebRTC. He's created Pion, a go implementation of WebRTC, which enables some great tricks like sending TOR traffic through a WebRTC connection. He's also the mind behind some really impressive upcoming OBS features, like direct WebRTC input and output, which among other things enable direct OBS to OBS video connections. Sean also has some words of wisdom about how to make a decent living as an Open Source developer. Catch the all this and more on this week's show!

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week.

Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb talk with Randal Schwartz, the longest running host of FLOSS Weekly, Perl's biggest Cheerleader (well, second to Larry Wall) , and now Dart and Flutter expert. What's new with Randal since his last FLOSS Weekly episode in May 2020? Why should you look at Dart and Flutter? And how do you avoid becoming a security martyr? Learn this and more on this week's FLOSS Weekly!

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week.

Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Jonathan Bennett and Kathrine Drickman talk to benny Vasquez of AlmaLinux all about the crazy trip we've all been on with enterprise Linux, details about the GPL, and how we've gotten to where we are with AlmaLinux. Along the way, the trio chats about the balancing act every project needs for long-term success, how to encourage everyone in the community, and why you really do need more than just programmers. Catch all this and more at FLOSS Weekly!

You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week.

Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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