FLOSS Weekly

Nov 27 2024 50 ep. 67 mins 312

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It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.

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Episode 811: Elixir & Nerves - Real Embedded Linux

Nov 26 2024 72 mins

This week Jonathan and Lars Wikman chat about Elixir and Nerves. That's a modern language that's a take on Erlang, and an embedded Linux approach for running Elixir code on devices. https://underjord.io https://elixir-lang.org/ https://nerves-project.org/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as

Episode 810: A Rising Wallet Pays for All Boats

Nov 20 2024 72 mins

This week Jonathan, Randal, and Aaron chat about Linux, the challenges with using system modules like the Raspberry Pi, challenges with funding development, and more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon a

Episode 809: Pi4J - Stable and Boring on the Raspberry Pi

Nov 13 2024 76 mins

This week Jonathan and David chat with Frank Delporte about Pi4J, the friendly Java libraries for the Raspberry Pi, that expose GPIO, SPI, I2C and other IO interfaces. - https://www.pi4j.com/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follo

Episode 808: Curl - Gotta Download 'em All

Nov 06 2024 74 mins

This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Daniel Stenberg about curl! How many curl installs are there?! What's the deal with CVEs? How has curl managed to not break its ABI for 18 years straight? And how did Daniel turn all this into a career instead of just a hobby? Listen to find out! https://daniel.haxx.se/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or ge

Episode 807: Bitten By the Penguin

Oct 30 2024 65 mins

This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Josh Bressers, VP of Security at Anchore, and host of the Open Source Security and Hacker History podcasts. We talk security, SBOMs, and how Josh almost became a Sun fan instead of a Linux geek. https://opensourcesecurity.io/ https://hackerhistory.com/ https://infosec.exchange/@joshbressers https://anchore.com/ You can join the conversation in

Episode 806: Manyfold -- The Dopamine of Open Source

Oct 23 2024 74 mins

This week Jonathan and David chat with James Smith about Manyfold, the self-hosted 3d print digital asset manager that's on the Fediverse! https://floppy.org.uk/ https://manyfold.app https://github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show li

Episode 805: Mastodon -- Bring Your Own Algorithm

Oct 16 2024 77 mins

This week Jonathan and Jeff chat with Andy Piper about Mastodon! There's a new release of Mastodon, and plenty on the road map to keep everybody excited! https://joinmastodon.org/ https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-plushie You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full sto

Episode 804: The AI Alliance -- Asimov was Right

Oct 08 2024 67 mins

This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Anthony Annunziata about Open Source AI and the AI Alliance. We get answers to our burning AI questions, and talk about the difficulty of defining what Open Source means for these large models. - https://ogg.camp You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting

Episode 803: Unconferencing With OggCamp

Oct 02 2024 60 mins

This week Jonathan and Simon chat with Gary Williams about OggCamp! It's the Free Software and Free culture unconference happening soon in Manchester! - https://ogg.camp You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastado

Episode 802: Emba -- Layers Upon Layers of Bash

Sep 25 2024 70 mins

This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Michael and Benedikt about Emba, the firmware analysis tool that packs in a bunch of features and tools. It's got virtualization tricks, binary version detection and even more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links fro