
Episode 872 transcript
FLOSS-872 Jonathan: Hey folks, this week we're talking with Tris Willaker about open source and the law, including but not limited to topics about the GPL and legal cases, what AI means for lawyering, and the big court c

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FLOSS-872 Jonathan: Hey folks, this week we're talking with Tris Willaker about open source and the law, including but not limited to topics about the GPL and legal cases, what AI means for lawyering, and the big court c

This week Jonathan chats with Tristan Sherliker about the Craig Wright case, Open Source and the law, and Tristan's own Open Source project, BunTool. How did Open Source help win the day at the Bitcoin trial? And why is

FLOSS-871 Jonathan: This week we're talking with Florian Gilcher of Ferrous Systems about Rust, Rust in the business, Rust in the kernel, the history of Rust, and a whole lot more. You don't wanna miss it, so stay tuned.

This week Jonathan chats with Florian Gilcher about Rust and Ferrous Systems! How have we gotten here, what's coming next, and what's new in the Rust world? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackad

FLOSS-870 Jonathan: This week I talked with Alexander Neumann about Restic, the backup program written in Go that runs everywhere and most importantly will restore your backups. That's important. This is Floss Weekly, ep

This week Jonathan chats with Alexander Neumann about Restic, a particularly compelling backup and restore solution written in Go. Why did the world need one more backup program? And what's Alexander's personal take on t

This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments! The team at TI has been working hard to provide really good Open Source support for Sitara processors, including upstreami

This week Jonathan chats with Johannes Millan about Super Productivity and Parallel Code! Those are two very different projects, but both aiming for helping us get our work done. Super Productivity is a scheduling and ti

This week Jonathan chats with Milo Schwartz about Pangolin, the Open Source tunneling solution. Why do we need something other than Wireguard, and how does Pangolin fix IoT and IT problems? And most importantly, how do y

This week Jonathan chats with Valentyn Danylchuk about BreezyBox. That's the ESP32 shell and toolkit that gives you a console and compiler right on an ESP32 device. What was the inspiration for this impressive project? A

This week Jonathan chats with Philippe Humeau about Crowdsec! That company created a Web Application Firewall as on Open Source project, and now runs it as a Multiplayer Firewall. What does that mean, and how has it work

This week Jonathan chats with Bill Shotts about The Linux Command Line! That's Bill's book published by No Starch Press, all about how to make your way around the Linux command line! Bill has had quite a career doing Uni

This week Jonathan chats with Olaf Andreas Schulte and Lars Kiesow about Opencast, the video management system for education. What does Opencast let a school or university accomplish, how has that changed over the last d

This week Jonathan chats with Toke Hoiland-Jorgensen about CAKE_MQ, the newest Kernel innovation to combat Bufferbloat! What was the realization that made CAKE parallelizable? When can we expect it in the wild? And what'

This week Jonathan chats with Nicholas Adams about OpenRiak! Why is there a Riak and an OpenRiak, which side of the CAP theorem does OpenRiak land on, and why is it so blazingly fast for some operations? Listen to find o

This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose Valim about Elixir! What led Jose to create this unique programming language? What do we mean that it's a functional language with immutability? Listen to find out! You can jo

This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Thomas about OpenShot, the cross-platform video editor that aims to be simple to use, without sacrificing functionality. We did the video edit with OpenShot for this episode, and ca

This week Jonathan chats with K. S. Bhaskar about YottaDB. This very high performance database has some unique tricks! How does YottaDB run across multiple processes without a daemon? Why is it licensed AGPL, and how doe

This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What's the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with SIMD? And what is Konsta

This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That's the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What's the connection with KDE? And how has this turned
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Philippe Humeau
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Jose Valim
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