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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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01:03:17

Episode 785: Designing GUIs and Building Instruments...

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/05/29

This week Jonathan Bennett chats with Dennis and Goran about EEZ, the series of projects that started with an Open Source programmable power supply, continued with the BB3 modular test bench tool, and continues with EEZ Studio, a GUI design tool for embedded devices. https://www.envox.eu/ 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

Episode 784 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/05/22

FLOSS-784 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 784, recorded Wednesday, May 22nd. I'll buy you a poutine. Hey, this week Dan Lynch joins me and we talk with Francois Proulx about Poutine. That's an open source project from Boost Security. It is a code analysis tool looking for security problems in your GitHub and GitLab CI actions. Things like leaking secrets or cash poisoning, or maybe even something worse than that, you don't want to miss it. So stay tuned. Hey everybody. Welcome. It is time

01:04:43

Episode 784: I'll Buy You a Poutine

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/05/22

This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk with François Proulx of BoostSecurity, talking about the Poutine security scanner, available at https://github.com/boostsecurityio/poutine. It's all about the security vulnerabilities that may lurk in your Github Actions, and Gitlab Pipelines. When someone sends in a pull request, could they run arbitrary code, and is that going to bite you? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week,

Episode 783 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/05/15

FLOSS-783 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 783, recorded Wednesday, May 15th. Teaching Embedded with the UnPhone. Hey, this week Rob Campbell joins me and we talk with Gareth Coleman and Hamish Cunningham about the UnPhone. That's a piece of hardware designed specifically for teaching computer science students about the world of embedded firmware. It's a lot of fun, it's open source, you don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. Hey folks, welcome to Floss Weekly. That's the show about free Libre

01:00:55

Episode 783: Teaching Embedded with the Unphone

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/05/15

This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk with Gareth Coleman and Hamish Cunningham! It's all about the Unphone, an open source handset sporting an ESP32, color touchscreen, and LoRa radio. It's open hardware, and used in a 3rd year university course to teach comp sci majors about hardware and embedded development. https://unphone.net/ 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

Episode 782 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/05/08

FLOSS-782 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 782, recorded Wednesday, May 8th. Nitric, in search of the right knob. Hey, this week David Ruggles joins me. We talk with Rack and Steve, both from Nitric, a company that makes an infrastructure from code solution. It's all open source. It lets you write your applications in just about whatever language you want to, and then automatically provisions your cloud infrastructure. It's really powerful. It's really neat. You're going to want to check it

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Episode 782: Nitric -- In Search of the Right Knob

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/05/08

This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with Rak Siva and Steve Demchuck to talk about Nitric! That's the Infrastructure from Code framework that makes it easy to use a cloud backend in your code, using any of multiple providers, in multiple programming languages. It's a neat project, so check it 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

Episode 781 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/05/01

Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, Episode 781, recorded Wednesday, May 1st. Resistant to the Wrath of God. This week, Doc Searles joins me and we talk with Matthias and Paolo about HolePunch, the Pear Runtime, the Keet Messaging Platform, and how all of this works peer to peer without any servers needed. You don't want to miss it. So stay tuned. Hey, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and we've got the, the one, the

01:08:27

Episode 781: Resistant to the Wrath of God

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/05/01

This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls sit down with Mathias Buus Madsen and Paolo Ardoino of Holepunch, to talk about the Pear Runtime and the Keet serverless peer-to-peer platform. What happens when you take the technology built for Bittorrent, and apply it to a messaging app? What else does that allow you to do? And what's the secret to keeping the service running even after the servers go down? You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as

Episode 780 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/04/23

FLOSS-780 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, Episode 780, recorded on Tuesday, April 23rd. Zone Minder! Better call Randall. Hey, this week Aaron joins me and we sit down with Isaac Connor to talk about Zone Minder. We cover what's happened in that project in the last few years, why you might want to upgrade to Bleeding Edge, where AI actually makes sense, and more. You don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. Hey, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's a show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm

01:07:58

Episode 780: Zoneminder -- Better Call Randal

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/04/23

This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Isaac Connor about Zoneminder! What's it like running a 20 year old project? What's new with Zoneminder? And why is the bleeding edge so exciting? Tune in for the details! 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) Licensed

Episode 779 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/04/17

FLOSS-779 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, Episode 779, recorded April 17th. Errata Prevention Specialists. Hey, this week Dan joins me and we talk with Andy Stewart, the creator of Andy's Ham Radio Linux. That is the Linux distro made by a ham radio enthusiast, for ham radio enthusiasts. We talk about all kinds of things, including why you might want to connect a computer to your ham radio, what you can do with it, and also what the current state is of the ham radio world, why the raspberry pi is so

01:08:03

Episode 779: Errata Prevention Specialist

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/04/17

This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch sit down with Andy Stewart to talk about Andy's Ham Radio Linux (AHRL)! It's the Linux disto designed to give hams the tools they need to work with their radios. What's it like to run a niche Linux distro? How has Andy managed to keep up with this for over a decade? And what's the big announcement about the project breaking today? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as

Episode 778 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/04/10

FLOSS-778 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 778, recorded Wednesday, April 10th. Octoprint. People are amazing at breaking stuff. Hey, this week Katherine Druckmann joins me and we talk with Gina Hoiska all about Octoprint. That's the open source software that you can put on a Raspberry Pi, or any computer really, to babysit a 3D printer, except it's got more tricks up its sleeve than that. It will slice, it will control, all kinds of stuff. You don't want to miss it. So stay tuned. Hey,

01:03:37

Episode 778: OctoPrint -- People Are Amazing at...

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/04/10

This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman sit down with Gina Häußge, and talk about OctoPrint! That's the 3d-printer babysitter that's turned into much more! How has Gina turned it into a career? How does she avoid burnout after more than 10 years at it? And What's the easiest way to get started? 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. Oh, and follow the

Episode 777 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/04/03

FLOSS-777 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 777, recorded Wednesday, April 3rd. Asterisk, wait, faxes? This week, we sit down with Joshua Culp, the Asterisk Project lead. We talk about the Asterisk Project, its new corporate home at Sangoma, and then fax machines, and why we all still get spam calls. You don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. Hey, it is time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and I've got David Ruggles

01:12:22

Episode 777: Asterisk -- Wait, Faxes?

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/04/03

This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles sit down with Joshua Colp to talk about Asterisk! That's the Open Source phone system software that you probably use way more often than you realize. What's new in Asterisk? What'd the deal with faxes? And will we ever have a real solution for spam calls? 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

Episode 776 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/03/27

FLOSS-776 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 756, recorded Wednesday, March 27th. DNSmask, making the internet work since 1999. This week, Simon Phipps joins me and we talk with Simon Kelly, the creator and sole maintainer of DNSmask. It's a program you may not have heard of, but it probably runs in your router. It probably runs in your cell phone and it definitely makes the internet work. You don't want to miss learning about it. So stay tuned. Hey, welcome. It is time for Floss Weekly. It's a

01:04:16

Episode 776: Dnsmasq, Making the Internet Work since...

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/03/27

This week Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps sit down with Simon Kelley to talk about Dnsmasq! That's a piece of software that was built to get a laptop online over lapLink, and now runs on most of the world's routers and phones. How did we get here, and what does the future of Dnsmasq look like? Listen for the answers! 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

Episode 775 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/03/20

FLOSS-775 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 775, recorded Wednesday, March 20th. Meshtastic Central. Hey, this week we're talking with Ben Meadows and AJ McWilkin about Meshtastic. There's been a lot that's changed since the last time we've had them on. There's been a Rust developer that's added to the team. There's been some new privacy features. There's a web flasher that's really easy to use. Oh, and they convinced me to join as one of their developers. You don't want to miss it. So stay

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