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FLOSS Weekly

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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01:03:05

Episode 775: Meshtastic Central

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/03/20

This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell sit down with Ben Meadors and Adam McQuilkin to talk about what's new with Meshtastic! There's plenty of new stuff, like native Linux support, a new rust-based client, and plenty 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 official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed

Episode 774 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/03/13

FLOSS-774 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 774, recorded Wednesday, March 13th. Let's get Rusty. Hey, this week we sit down with Herbert Wolverson and talk about Rust. He's sort of like one of the Randall Schwartzes of that language. He's written, he teaches, and he sat down with us for an hour and let us pick his brain about Rust. You don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. Well, hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm your host,

01:11:35

Episode 774: Let's Get Rusty

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/03/13

This week Jonathan Bennett sits down with Herbert Wolverson to talk about Rust! Is it really worth the hype? Should you have written that in Rust? What's up with "if let some" anyways? And what's the best way to get started with this exciting language? 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 official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave"

Episode 773 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/03/06

FLOSS-773 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 773, recorded Wednesday, March 6th. NodeBB, don't do the math. Hey, this week we talk with Julian Lamb about NodeBB. It's open source forum software that brings the idea of the forum into the modern age. There's some neat tricks it knows, like forking forum threads, talking on the Fediverse, and more. Hey, it's a great interview, you don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. Hey, hello, it is time for Floss Weekly. Weekly, that's a show about free Libre

01:06:32

Episode 773: NodeBB -- Don't Do the Math

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/03/06

This week Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie chat with Julian Lam about NodeBB, the modern take on forum software. And forums have some new tricks, like topic forking, responsive design for mobile, and coming soon Activity Pub integration! What about AI? And Why JavaScript? Listen and find 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 Mastadon account! Theme

Episode 772 Transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/02/28

FLOSS-772 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 772, recorded Wednesday, February 28th. Raspberry Pi from the man himself. This week, Elliot Williams joins me and we talk with Evan Upton about the Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a potential IPO, and we get some feature requests in for some future products. You don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. Welcome to Floss Weekly, the show about free Libre and open source software and hardware. Well, for today, it's about hardware too. It's

01:06:55

Episode 772: Raspberry Pi From the Man Himself

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/02/28

This week Jonathan Bennett and Elliot Williams chat with Eben Upton about The Raspberry Pi! The conversation covers the new Pi 5, the upcoming CM5, the possible Pi500, and the Initial Public Offering that may happen before too long. There's also the PCIe port, the RP1, and the unexpected effects of using Broadcom chips. 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 771 Transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/02/21

FLOSS-771 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 771, recorded Wednesday, February 21st. Kalpa. Because nobody knows what hysteresis is. This week, Dan Lynch joins me, and we talk with Shawn Dunn about Kalpa. That's an immutable, or maybe we should say atomic, desktop. It's part of OpenSUSE, it's downstream from Tumbleweed, and it's carrying the KDE Torch. Why would you want to run an atomic or immutable desktop? Well, stay tuned to find out. Hey, welcome to Floss Weekly. That's the show about

01:16:14

Episode 771: Kalpa -- Because Nobody Knows what...

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/02/21

This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Shawn W Dunn about openSUSE Kalpa, the atomic version of openSUSE Tumbleweed, with a KDE twist. What exactly do we mean by an Atomic desktop? Is ALP going to replace openSUSE Tumbleweed? Are snaps coming to Kalpa? Listen in to find 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 Mastadon account! Theme music:

Episode 770 Transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/02/14

FLOSS-770 Jonathan Bennett: This is Floss Weekly, episode 770. Recorded Wednesday, February 14th. 10 percent more internet. Hey, this week, Doc Searles joins me, and we talk with David Tot about the state of the internet, IPv4 exhaustion, 10 percent more IP addresses that are just sitting there waiting to be used, and more, you don't want to miss it. So stay tuned. Hey, welcome. It is Wednesday. It is time for Floss Weekly. That's free, libre, and open source software. It's not just me. I've got Doc

01:13:35

Episode 770: 10% More Internet

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/02/14

This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls chat with David Taht about the Internet. Primarily the IPv4 exhaustion issue, IPv6, and why there's 10%-20% of our current IPv4 addresses sitting unused. It turns out there's a plan to push about half of that address space back into general use, but Amazon might have something to say about it. You don't want to miss this story! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story

Episode 769 Transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/02/07

Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 769, recorded Wednesday, February the 7th. OpenCost. We spend how much? Hey, this week Catherine joins me. We talk with Matt Ray, the Community Manager at OpenCost. That project is all about tracking where your dollars and cents go for your cloud compute costs. And it turns out it may just keep you out of trouble if part of your infrastructure gets compromised, too. You don't want to miss it. So stay tuned. Hey, welcome. It is time for Floss Weekly. That's the

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Episode 769: OpenCost -- We Spent How Much?

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/02/07

This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman talk with Matt Ray about OpenCost and all things cloud! What exactly is Cloud Native? Why do we need a project just for tracking expenses? Doesn't the cloud make everything cheaper? Is there a use case for the hobbyist? 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. Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod

Episode 768 Transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/01/31

FLOSS-768 Jonathan Bennett: This is Floss Weekly, episode 768, recorded January 31st. Open Source Radio. Hey, this week we're talking with Tony Zioli, the founder of NetMix, and the guy behind the Radio Station WordPress plugin. We talk with him about open source radio, the history of internet radio, and more. You do not want to miss it. So stay tuned. Well, good morning. It is time for Floss Weekly. It's the show about free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and we've

01:15:17

Episode 768: Open Source Radio

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/01/31

This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls talk with Tony Zeoli about Netmix and Radio Station, the Open Source Wordpress plugin that manages a show schedule. The conversation didn't stop there, but covered lots of radio and licensing issues, the future of local radio stations, how the Internet changed the conversation, and what the future of local radio looks like. 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

Episode 767 Transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/01/24

FLOSS_Weekly-Ep767 Jonathan Bennett: This is Floss Weekly, episode 767, recorded Wednesday, January 24th. OwnTracks, are we there yet? Hey, this week we're talking with J. P. Menz about OwnTracks, a modular set of applications that lets you track, view, and even share your own location data in whatever way you want to. But the most important thing is that you stay in control of it. You don't want to miss it on today's Floss Weekly, so stay tuned. Well, good morning. It is time for Floss Weekly. It's

01:12:49

Episode 767: Owntracks, Are We There Yet?

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/01/24

This week Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie talk with JP Mens about Owntracks, the collection of programs that lets you take back control of your own location data. It's built around the simple idea of taking position data from a mobile phone or other data source, sending it over MQTT to a central server, and logging that data to a simple data store. From there, you can share it as trips, mark points of interest, play back your movement in a web browser, and more. And because it's just JSON inside

Episode 766 Transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/01/17

FLOSS 766 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 766, recorded Wednesday, January 17th. WebRTC, the hack that connects everyone to everything. Hey, this week Sean DuBois joins us. We talk all about WebRTC, including The Pie on Go implementation, how WebRTC helps people connect to Tor, we talk about how WebRTC is coming to OBS in some pretty exciting ways, and then there's also BroadcastBox, which really fills a niche need for live streaming. You don't want to miss it, so stay tuned. Hey, welcome to

01:06:22

Episode 766: WebRTC -- The Hack that Connects...

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/01/17

This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk with Sean DuBois, one of the few people that seem to really understand WebRTC. He's created Pion, a go implementation of WebRTC, which enables some great tricks like sending TOR traffic through a WebRTC connection. He's also the mind behind some really impressive upcoming OBS features, like direct WebRTC input and output, which among other things enable direct OBS to OBS video connections. Sean also has some words of wisdom about how to make a decent

Episode 765 Transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2024/01/09

[00:00:00] Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 765, recorded Tuesday, January 9th. That ship sailed, and sank. Hey, I'm Jonathan Bennett. This week, Aaron Newcomb joins me, and we talk with the OG himself. Randal Schwartz joins us. We talk about Dart, we talk about Flutter, we talk about what Randal's been up to since leaving Floss Weekly years ago. [00:00:22] Jonathan: It's a great show, you don't want to miss it. good morning. It is, it's Tuesday, not Wednesday, but that's okay. It's time for

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