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  • HPR3679: Linux Inlaws S01E64: Non-profits in the US: A closer look at 501(c)s

    In this episode, Martin and Chris shed more light on the riveting subject of non-profit

    and not-for-profit organisations especially in the US with a special focus on the all-
    important topic of tax implications. Warning: Due to the fast-paced and gripping never
    mind explicit natur of this topic, people with sleeping disabilities or who are easily startled
    / offended by graphic content should consult a member of the medical profession to ensure
    that they are capable of handling this episode. You have been warned.

    Links:
    • 501(c) overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization
    • 501(c)3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)_organization
    • NATO 5th article: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm
    • Johnson amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Amendment
    • St IGNUcius / Church of Emacs: https://stallman.org/saint.html
    • Richard Stallman rejoins the FSF board: https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/22/richard_stallman_back_on_fsf_board
    • The Undeclared War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undeclared_War
    • Serviettenknödel: http://gingerandbread.com/2014/12/19/serviettenknodel-a-dumpling-for-special-occasion
    • HPR website project (discussion on the mailing list): http://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/2022-July/thread.html
      • 38 min
    • HPR3668: Linux Inlaws S01E63: John Hawley on kernel dot org and other shenanigans

      In this episode Martin and Chris host John Hawley of kernel.org fame. The discussion centers around Python, the royal British family and other FLOSS topics such as some break-away colonies like the US, version control systems, wireless wikis and containers. Never mind Python. Did I mention Python? :-) And perhaps VMware. Ever wondered why early versions of git just gobbled up your main memory? You may or may not find the answer in this episode. Or its outtakes...

      Links:
      • The Linux kernel: https://kernel.org
      • The wireless subsystem: https://wireless.kernel.org
      • git: https://git-scm.com
      • Linux kernel VCS before git: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/git-origin-story
      • xkcd on git: https://xkcd.com/1597
      • Guido @ Microsoft: https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549
      • Episode on The Halloween Documents: https://linuxinlaws.eu/archive.html#S01
      • TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index
      • PhotonOS: https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/html/3.0/Introduction.html
      • BusyBox: https://www.busybox.net
      • Python Software Foundation: https://www.python.org/psf
      • Google Summer of Code: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com
      • trace-cruncher: https://github.com/vmware/trace-cruncher
      • Zero Dark Thirty: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
      • Command Line Heroes: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/about
        • 1 hr 34 min
      • HPR3658: Linux Inlaws S01E62: HPR's inner workings

        In this episode our two ageing heroes explore the inner workings of a podcast (or podcast hosting platform depending on your perspective) called Hacker Public Radio. Yes, the platform that the Inlaws have been using since the very inception of this rapidly growing FLOSS podcast content. Wondering what the heck this episode is all about, why exactly Martin and Chris are talking about this now and the importance of statistics, lies and damned lies? Then just listen to this episode. You may also find out the difference between mere caching and content syndication. Never mind HPR's inner workings.

        Links:
        • hpr3648: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3648
        • The Internet Archive: https://archive.org
        • Extraterrestrial sheep: https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Sheep_(Kaeloo)
        • QuickAxe: https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Quick_Axe
        • Linux Episode S01E35 (The Free Software Foundation Europe): https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3388
        • Ford v Ferrari: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950186/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
        • Book of Monsters: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7260818/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
          • 35 min
        • HPR3649: Linux Inlaws S01E61: 20 years in review
          A counter point to this show is available: hpr3648 :: A response to tomorrows show

          In this episode, Martin and Chris take a closer look at twenty years of Linux Inlaws

          history. Why, you may ask, given the fact that this podcast has only been in existence
          for roughly over two years, are we reviewing this history? The answer - of course - is
          straight forward: by sheer coincidence our two heroes got hold of a future episode
          which traveled back in time from the future. If you ever wondered about time-travel,
          the paradoxes associated with this and what the next twenty years have in store not
          just from a Linux Inlaws perspective, this episode is for you.

          Links:
          • DeLorean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeLorean#Back_to_the_Future
          • Time-travel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve
          • Timespace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
          • Altered Carbon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227
          • Linux Outlaws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Outlaws
          • The Inlaws @ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1j_uaAbB3magzPs4Z0Y-mg
          • Timetravel with a DeLorean: https://www.backtothefuture.com
          • D-Wave SPAC: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/quantum-computing-firm-d-wave-to-ipo-via-16bn-spac-merger
          • Alphabet's attempt at longer living: https://www.calicolabs.com
          • The Fly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
          • Hello! Magazine: https://www.hellomagazine.com
          • Jeff Bezo's purgatory: https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-divorce-with-mackenzie-bezos-final-with-38-billion-settlement-report-1562387250690.html
          • Internet Archive: https://archive.org
          • The GNU World Order: https://gnuworldorder.info
            • 1 hr 14 min
          • HPR3639: Linux Inlaws S01E60: The Job Interview
            In this episode, the Linux Inlaws interview a potential new recruit :-) call Kris Jenkins, from Kafka, an Apache project implementing a scalable distributed event streaming platform (don't know what that is? Listen to the show! :-) . A cautious warning: This episode contains strong philosophical / political views, language and insights which may change your views on messaging systems in general and Kafka in particular. Two hints: Chris shares his view on what a database *really* is and Kris Jenkins tries hard to convince our two aging heroes that he's the man for the job (teaser: he decided to stay at his current position as a dev advocate at Confluent after all). Plus: More on love, death and robots. Interested in the details? Then don't miss this show!

            Links:
            • Apache Kafka: https://kafka.apache.org
            • Confluent: https://www.confluent.io
            • Redis: https://redis.io
            • Databases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database
            • Event-Driven Architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_architecture
            • RabbitMQ: https://github.com/rabbitmq
            • Zookeeper note: https://medium.com/knerd/eureka-why-you-shouldnt-use-zookeeper-for-service-discovery-4932c5c7e764
            • KRaft: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/zookeeper/kraft.html
            • KIP: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/kafka/kafka+improvement+proposals
            • Monster Hunter: https://www.monsterhunter.com
            • LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9561862
            • Unix Philosophy: https://www.linfo.org/unix_philosophy.html
              • 56 min
            • HPR3629: Linux Inlaws S01E59: The Show with Red Pandas Mosaic Killers and Metal Corrosion

              In this episode, Martin and Chris interview Eric Rescorla, the CTO of Firefox at Mozilla. After
              discussing the weather situation in the Kingdom formerly known as the UK, our two aging heros
              go right into browsers, programming languages, the Mozilla ecosystem and internet history and future
              alike. This episode again is not for the faint-hearted as none of the gory details are spared: We learn about Chris' t-shirt situation (and how you can kidnap apparel), why Google is so sucessful, data privacy and Internet monetization. Never mind rendering engines. Plus: more Rust marketing (Rebecca Rumbul: Take note :-).

              Links:
              • Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers
              • Mozilla Foundation: https://foundation.mozilla.org
              • Mozilla Corporation: https://www.mozilla.org
              • Gecko: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Gecko
              • Blink: https://www.chromium.org/blink
              • Servo: https://servo.org
              • Quantum: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
              • Webkit: https://webkit.org
              • Trident (MSHTML): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSHTML
              • CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS
              • Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org
              • Ada standard: https://www.iso.org/standard/16028.html
              • Web Monetization: https://foundation.mozilla.org/de/campaigns/web-monetization
              • Mozilla's Vision for the Web: https://webvision.mozilla.org/full
              • Peter Watt's Blindsight: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
              • Mozilla Manifesto: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details
                • 1 hr 15 min
              • HPR3619: Linux Inlaws S01E58: Kubernetes and Friends and Sarah
                In this continuation of S01E57 our two chaps discuss how you can take containers from
                single instances to production-ready, scalable deployments handling large app stacks
                and that new-fangled hipster concept called micro-services. Using the once Google-owned project called Borg which later evolved into something now known as Kubernetes (k8s) as an example,
                Martin and Chris discuss typical challenges when using containers as the main infrastructure
                to modern workloads. Including such gory topics such as what happens if a container dies and
                doesn't go to heaven, contradictions in terms such as ephemeral storage and why many k8s developers
                have defected to VMware.
                Links:
                • S01E57: https://linuxinlaws.eu/#episodes
                • k8s: https://kubernetes.io
                • Mesos: https://mesos.apache.org
                • DC OS: https://dcos.io
                • Redis Stack: https://redis.io/docs/stack
                • Docker Swarm: https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm
                • Open Container Initiative: https://opencontainers.org
                • cri-o: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o
                • containerd: https://github.com/containerd/containerd
                • minikube: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start
                • kubeadm: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/setup-tools/kubeadm
                • kubeadm tutorial: https://citizix.com/how-to-set-up-kubernetes-cluster-on-debian-11-with-kubeadm-and-cri-o
                • YAML: https://yaml.org
                • OpenShift: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift
                • HELM: https://helm.sh
                • k8s operators: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operator
                • openstack: https://www.openstack.org
                • Redis operator: https://github.com/AmadeusITGroup/Redis-Operator
                • k8s grid: https://tanzu.vmware.com/kubernetes-grid
                • Bradley Kuhn's Non-Profit blog post: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2013/dec/05/non-profit-home
                • Sarah's HPR episode: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3577
                • Volodymyr Zelenskyy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy
                  • 1 hr 10 min
                • HPR3609: Linux Inlaws S01E57: Operating System Level Virtualisation and Martin's Faith

                  In this episode our two ageing heroes take a closer at operating system

                  (OS) level virtualisation. The main different legacy virtualisation
                  technologies like virtual machines (VMs) and this new-fangled approach is
                  that the OS kernel remains the same across virtualisation domains, thus giving
                  the hippsters and other followers of fashion a cheaper and potentially much
                  faster solution than virtualising the kernel and surrounding hawrdware and all
                  the rest of it. Plus more details on Martin's real faith. Don't miss out on
                  this episode if you're interested in any of these...

                  Links:
                  • Craíc: https://www.irelandlogue.com/irish-slang/irish-slang.html
                  • Celts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts
                  • Celtic languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages#Living_languages
                  • [a-zA-Z]+ Virtualisation: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/VMware_paravirtualization.pdf
                  • Hypervisor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor
                  • BSD Jails: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails
                  • Solaris Zones: https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/it-infrastructure/o11-092-s11-zones-intro.html
                  • Docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine
                  • LXC: https://linuxcontainers.org
                  • Open Container Iniative: https://opencontainers.org
                  • Podman: https://podman.io
                  • Double-fork: https://thelinuxjedi.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-use-double-fork-to-daemonize.html
                  • CRI-O: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o
                  • CGroups: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html
                  • Namespaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_namespaces
                  • The gory details: https://www.haifux.org/lectures/299/netLec7.pdf
                  • Dockerfiles: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder
                  • Containerd: https://containerd.io
                  • From Dusk Till Dawn (TV series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dusk_till_Dawn:_The_Series
                    • 56 min
                  • HPR3599: Linux Inlaws S01E56: Slackware - A User's Perspective

                    In this episode Martin and Chris managed to ensnare a member of the Linux User Group

                    Frankfurt (FraLUG) to talk about his history with Slackware, currently the
                    oldest Linux distribution still maintained. If you ever fancied to know more
                    about this grandfather of a distribution and its ins and outs, this is your
                    show. Plus we get to know more about one of Chris' well-kept secrets...

                    Links:
                    • Slackware: https://www.slackware.com
                    • LILO: https://www.joonet.de/lilo
                    • sed: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed
                    • Linux From Scratch: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org
                    • Arch Linux on ARM 32 bit support: https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15721
                    • Seafile's demise: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/graphs/code-frequency
                    • Distrowatch: https://distrowatch.com
                    • The Ipcress File (65's movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059319/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
                    • The Ipcress File (22's TV miniseries): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13636038/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
                    • Meet the Feebles: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097858/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
                    • Peter Jackson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson
                      • 46 min
                    • HPR3588: Linux Inlaws S01E55: Get yer boots on for a fresh look at init systems

                      In this episode, Martin and Chris discuss init systems and Chris outs

                      himself as a systemd fan boy (Devuan followers take note :-). Even Linux and
                      other FLOSS OS geeks not interested in what happens when you flick the power
                      switch on a computer may find this episode (vaguely) interesting as some light
                      is also shed on the philosophy of the different system architectures and their
                      history (Ever wanted to know what an /360 IPL really is? Then stay tuned...).
                      Disclosure: The following text may resort to regular expressions to keep
                      things concise and simple. Some of the PCRE-challenged readers may take
                      offence - you have been warned.

                      Links:
                      • Booting a PC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#Personal_computers_(PC)
                      • GRUB: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub
                      • ([A-Z][a-z]+ux) Init systems (general overview): https://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.2748v1.pdf
                      • SysV init: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init#SysV-style
                      • systemd: https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
                      • OpenRC: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc
                      • Canonical's Upstart: https://upstart.ubuntu.com
                      • Switch from upstart to systemd: https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
                      • Runlevels: https://www.linfo.org/runlevel_def.html
                      • Serial console: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/serial-console.html
                      • Hello Magazine: https://www.hellomagazine.com
                      • Unix philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
                      • And in much more detail: https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html
                      • Devuan: https://www.devuan.org
                        • 48 min

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