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  • HPR3578: Linux Inlaws S01E54: Electronic Freedom Never Mind the Civil Rest

    In this episode our two hosts talk to an eclectic panel consisting of

    members of the Georgian affiliation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
    (EFF) called Electronic Frontiers Georgia. Among other topics, civil rights
    (especially in the digital age), sharing of ideas never mind other
    intellectual capital and why this still matters in socialist America are the
    focus of discussion. Plus Chris manages to recount most of the founding
    fathers of the US (gaps may be present... :-)

    Links:
    • Electronic Frontiers Georgia: https://ef-georgia.org
    • Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org
    • Software Freedom Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org
    • American Civil Liberties Union: https://www.aclu.org
    • The Hacker Crackdown: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101
    • The Electronic Frontier Alliance: https://www.eff.org/fight
    • Shodan: https://www.shodan.io
    • Shotspotter: https://www.shotspotter.com
    • High velocity winds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm
    • Super amigos: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923928/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
    • Chaos Communication Congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress
    • Authors of US constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States
    • The Federalist Papers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
    • US Consitution: https://guides.loc.gov/constitution
      • 1 hr 29 min
    • HPR3569: Linux Inlaws S01E53: Rust Marketing

      In this episode our two heroes explore the depths a new (?) hipster

      programming language called Rust. Being an obvious piece of blatant technology
      marketing, the Linux Inlaws are still waiting for the funds to arrive from the
      Rust Foundation :-) (@Foundation: If you want to get in touch please send
      a mail to sponsor at linuxinlaws eu). Jokes aside, the episode give a short
      overview of this new programming language without going into deeper technical
      details as this podcast is only the usual four hours long.

      Links:
      • Rust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust
      • Rust (II): https://www.rust-lang.org
      • Firefox and Rust: https://servo.org
      • Rust on TIOBE: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/rust
      • Rust adoption: https://thenewstack.io/rust-by-the-numbers-the-rust-programming-language-in-2021
      • Bottlerocket: https://aws.amazon.com/bottlerocket/
      • Rust Foundation: https://foundation.rust-lang.org
      • Cargo (Rust's package management and build system): https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo
      • Rust's Crates: https://crates.io
      • D-Wave's quantum machines: https://www.dwavesys.com/solutions-and-products/systems
      • Grumpies: https://grumpy-old-coders.org
        • 46 min
      • HPR3559: Linux Inlaws S01E52: The Zig Project

        In this episode Martin and Chris have a very special guest: Loris Cro of

        Zig fame. Zig fame? Stay tuned. Not only is Loris an ex-colleague of our two
        aging heroes, he is also the community vice president at the Zig Software
        Foundation. So this episode will be all about this new programming language,
        why you should use it (and perhaps why you shouldn't) and life, the universe
        and the rest. And Rust. Of course. :-) Full disclosure: In contrast to other
        episodes, this one is really tech-heavy and may offend the less technical
        listeners. Listen at your own discretion if you want to into the weeds of
        Clang, LLVM, typing and cross-compilation - you have been warned. If this is
        up alley, you may want consider seeking professional help just in case :-).

        Links:
        • Zig: https://ziglang.org
        • Zig Foundation financial update: https://ziglang.org/news/financials-update
        • Clang / LLVM: https://clang.llvm.org
        • Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org
        • Cargo: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo
        • Mitchell's Tweet: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1481441162871279618?s=20&t=OBGncJWN4B0N7mhflxlAbg
        • 501cs (only read this if you can't get to sleep!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization
        • Miami Vice: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759
        • Lord of the Rings Trilogy: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls072068350
        • Land of the Blind: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433405/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
          • 1 hr 11 min
        • HPR3549: Linux Inlaws S01E51: git and static site generators

          Another fortnight, another episode of our beloved podcast called Linux

          Inlaws :-). What starts as an episode on the history of Central Europe and the
          role of the Netherlands and Germany in the greater scheme of things rapidly
          moves sideways into a discussion of git-powered static HTML website generators
          in contrast to context management systems (CMSs) and their advantages,
          disadvantages and why the hell even think about this. Chris uses an innocent
          (?) Linux User Group (LUG) as an example for a successful site migration from
          a Python-powered CMS to a version of the website based on a static site
          generator written in Go and called Hugo. Even if you may find this boring to
          tears stay tuned as there may be an unexpected ending of this ditty in the
          shape of two interesting poxes...

          Links:
          • CMS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
          • Adam and Eve: https://www.adam-and-eve.org
          • MoinMoin: https://moinmo.in
          • WordPress: https://wordpress.org
          • PEP 404: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404
          • Python Enhancement Proposals: https://www.python.org/dev/peps
          • Static site generators (overview): https://kinsta.com/blog/static-site-generator
          • Linux User Group Frankfurt: https://lugfrankfurt.de/en/Home
          • Gitea: https://gitea.io/en-us
          • HUGO: https://gohugo.io
          • HUGO source code: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
          • Git (web)hooks: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
          • Reacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reacher_(TV_series)
          • The Comeback Trail: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5420210/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
            • 55 min
          • HPR3539: Linux Inlaws S01E50: The OpenSUSE Project

            In this episode of the Inlaws our two ageing heroes host Doug DeMaio and Axel Braun, both intimately

            associated with and actively supporting the OpenSUSE project, the foundation of one of the popular Linux distros
            apart from RedHat and Debian for companies of all sizes (yes, and Ubuntu before I get any hate mails
            from Mark Shuttleworth or Cannonical in general :-). Apologies for not mentioning Alma, CentOS or
            Rocky Linux. Topics of discussion include the advantages of hipster concepts like rolling releases,
            the year of the Linux desktop, other people's computers (aka Clouds) and philosophical things like
            IT security, all things cloud-native (well, almost) and Apple laptop users drinking fancy coffee
            derivatives. Never mind containers, edge-computing operating systems and live kernel patching.

            Links:
            • OpenSUSE: https://www.opensuse.org
            • SUSE: https://www.suse.com
            • openQA: https://open.qa
            • Open Build Service: https://openbuildservice.org
            • CentOS debacle: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta
            • OpenSUSE conference: https://events.opensuse.org
            • MicroOS: https://microos.opensuse.org
            • Kubic: https://kubic.opensuse.org
            • Rancher: https://www.suse.com/products/rancher-kubernetes-engine
            • OpenSUSE mailing lists: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives
            • OpenSUSE bar: https://meet.opensuse.org/bar
            • OpenSUSE social media: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_contacts
            • OpenSUSE IRC: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:IRC_list
              • 1 hr 10 min
            • HPR3529: Linux Inlaws S01E48: Year Two of the Five Year Plan

              Right into the third year of the first five-year plan our two ageing heroes

              discuss the past year in review (blatantly stealing this concept from other
              popular podcasts), focussing on the hotter episodes of second year and
              progress with increasing the number of active listeners from two to five and
              beyond. Also, major fuck-ups and lessons learned from them are revealed
              including some ranting about badly designed and implemented software never
              mind documentation.

              Links:
              • Shameless self-promoting link to the Redis presentation at the 2021 MiniDebConf in Regensburg (among other things): https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2021/MiniDebConf-Regensburg
              • Grumpy Old Coders: https://grumpy-old-coders.org
                • 54 min
              • HPR3518: Linux Inlaws S01E47: BigBlueButton and NAT

                In this episode of your favourite FLOSS podcast our two OAPs discuss the challenges of running

                conferencing systems like BigBlueButton behind a network address translation
                (NAT) configuration, something that the Inlaws have been struggeling (?) with
                for quite some time but now have arrived a solution which might just work :-).
                If you face similar challenges or just want to refresh your knowledge about
                intricate network architectures never mind their pitfalls, stay tuned. All
                will be revealed (hopefully :-). But beware: This show is highly technical and
                geek-only. Which may come in handy if you're not technical but suffer from
                insomnia or similar sleep disorders - this is your show!

                Links:
                • Network Address Translation (NAT): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
                • BigBlueButton (BBB): https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton
                • TURN server: https://gabrieltanner.org/blog/turn-server
                • STUN and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN
                • Google TURN servers: https://gist.github.com/sagivo/3a4b2f2c7ac6e1b5267c2f1f59ac6c6b
                • Dehydrated: https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated
                • WebRTC: https://webrtc.org/getting-started/overview
                • Parallels: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3479316/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
                • Philip K. Dick's Vulcan Hammer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan%27s_Hammer
                • The Ice Road: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3758814/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_7
                • Sorcerer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_8
                  • 56 min
                • HPR3509: Linux Inlaws S01E46: The Matrix Project (Without Neo)

                  In this episode, the Inlaws are hosting Neil Johnson, VP of Engineering at Element. But this is

                  not just about this popular Matrix graphical user interface but rather about this federated communication
                  network dubbed as the next big thing after Mastodon and Discord, soon to take over the world (pretty
                  much like the Inlaws themselves - it's gonna get crowded... :-).

                  Links:
                  • The Matrix Foundation: https://matrix.org/foundation
                  • Element: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web
                  • Synapse (Matrix reference implementation in Python): https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse
                  • Dendrite (Matrix implementation in Gloang): https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
                  • Conduit (Matrix implementation in Rust): https://github.com/timokoesters/conduit
                  • EU interoperability: https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/sites/default/files/eif_brochure_final.pdf
                  • Terry Pratchett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett#Works
                    • 1 hr 14 min
                  • HPR3498: Linux Inlaws S01E45: The Big Xmas New Year bash with the Grumpies

                    In this end of year episode / Xmas bumper our two aging heroes host the Grumpy Old Coders

                    once again. Apart from having lots of fun, our four eclectic panelists discuss the year in
                    review and some obscure predictions the Inlaws made at the end of last year in S01E20 to
                    see if these became true or not. Plus a seriously long commercial break on mainframes
                    done by our own Chris (Arvind / Jim / IBM: If you're listening: the sponsor mail address
                    is [email protected]). Plus some juicy competitive knowledge about some hyperscalers.
                    Beans spilled right from the inside... In addition to cloud nightmares. So if you're into
                    horror after never mind beyond Halloween this is your episode... There might be the odd open source
                    angle to this episode but we are not sure and this of course is purely by accident - just find out for yourself! :-)

                    Links:
                    • Grumpy Old Coders (incuding the Darkside and Women in Tech episodes): https://grumpy-old-coders.org
                    • Broken CentOS 8 promise: https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream
                    • Mainframes and the cloud: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2021/01/23/will-the-cloud-take-down-the-mainframe
                    • Woman in the red dress: https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Woman_in_Red
                    • Goedel's theorems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems
                    • Veritasium video on incompleteness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo
                    • Bezos laughing after divorce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU8AyKO7qX4
                    • KGB (I): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19904683/passing-a-kernel-global-buffer-to-a-local-function-in-opencl
                    • KGB (II): https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=%22kellogs+greatest+beer%22
                    • Shameless Zig plug (dedicated to Loris :-): https://ziglang.org
                    • TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index
                      • 2 hr 16 min
                    • HPR3492: Linux Inlaws S01E44: Pipewire Just another audio server Think again

                      In this episode - sadly missing Martin as he buggered off to do something

                      else - the remaining Inlaw hosts Wim Taymans, inventor and brain behind
                      Pipewire, a new approach to Linux audio. Don't miss out on this episode if
                      you're fed up with Pulseaudio (hello Martin :-) or find Jack just too
                      complicated for every-day usage - you may see audio on Linux from a different
                      perspective after this episode... Never mind those of you who are looking for
                      a crash-course on audio on Linux - this episode is for you!

                      Links:
                      • Pipewire: https://github.com/PipeWire/pipewire
                      • gstreamer: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org
                      • ALSA: https://alsa-project.org/wiki/Main_Page
                      • PulseAudio: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio
                      • Jack: https://jackaudio.org
                      • eventfd: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/eventfd.2.html
                      • Rubik's Cube: https://www.rubiks.com/en-us
                      • And how to solve this: https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/advanced-cfop-fridrich
                      • How to make Kefir: https://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/how-to-make-kefir
                        • 55 min

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