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FLOSS Weekly (Audio)

199 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratings

We're not talking dentistry here; FLOSS is all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Join host Doc Searls and his rotating panel of co-hosts as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community.

Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy episodes from our archives.

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FLOSS Weekly: FLOSS Weekly Continues at Hackaday - Hackaday is the new home of FLOSS Weekly

January 11, 2024 08:00 - 37 seconds - 321 KB

FLOSS Weekly continues with Jonathan Bennett at its new home at Hackaday Visit hackaday.com/floss or search your favorite podcatcher to subscribe. Host: Jonathan Bennett

FLOSS Weekly 761: We Won! - The Victories of Free Software and Open Source

December 13, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 35.2 MB

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Dan Lynch, Simon Phipps, and Leo Laporte gather to celebrate the final victory of free software and open source—and the final FLOSS Weekly as well. Hosts: Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Dan Lynch, and Simon Phipps Guest: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our th...

FLOSS Weekly 760: Making Money In Open Source - Adam Jacob, Chef & System Initiative

December 06, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 33.2 MB

Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and other development communities that are also businesses. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Adam Jacob Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music...

FLOSS Weekly 759: ActivityPub Crawl - Evan Prodromou on ActivityPub & OpenEarth

November 29, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 32.7 MB

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett go deep into what's happening in the fediverse with Evan Prodromou, the co-creator of ActivityPub, the open protocol behind Mastodon and other truly social networks on the Internet. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Evan Prodromou Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, f...

FLOSS Weekly 758: Raiders of the Lost Source - Rocky and Oracle Unbreakable Linux, OpenAI Shakeup

November 22, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 31.8 MB

Doc Searls and Dan Lynch explore long-standing ethical and technical imperatives of the free software and open source movements, and the wild new challenges they face in an age of AI that is still just beginning. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episod...

FLOSS Weekly 757: Noodling Around with OpenZiti - Philip Griffiths, OpenZiti and Secure Networking

November 08, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 30.8 MB

Philip Griffiths of OpenZiti explains to Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Jonathan Bennett how OpenZiti is on its way to becoming the Linux of secure networking. An overview of OpenZiti and how it implements zero trust principles by putting private networks inside applications. How OpenZiti functions similarly to a VPN. OpenZiti's security and how it authorizes connections. Hosts: Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Philip Griffiths Download or subscribe to this show at...

FLOSS Weekly 756: We Won, Now What? - Luis Villa, Tidelift

November 01, 2023 19:30 - 1 hour - 31.8 MB

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Luis Villa of Tidelift about how it helps code maintainers get paid, plus what's happening in AI, ML, regulation and more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Luis Villa Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at h...

FLOSS Weekly 755: Nextcloud - Frank Karlitschek, Nextcloud Growth and Updates

October 25, 2023 20:37 - 1 hour - 32 MB

Frank Karlitschek joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Nextcloud. Nextcloud is a fast-growing open source collaboration platform that gives customers a huge array of capabilities, all independent of giant gatekeepers. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Frank Karlitschek Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web de...

FLOSS Weekly 754: Is He Still On? - Jon "maddog" Hall, Caninos Loucos, Open Source vs Free Software

October 18, 2023 20:30 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MB

Our guest this week was Jon "maddog" Hall, the Linux Legend, until his connection from Brazil dropped. At any rate, Dan Lynch and Doc Searls went deep into the differences between GPL licenses v2 and v3 on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Jon "maddog" Hall Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web design...

FLOSS Weekly 753: Small Is Beautiful - Aral Balkan, Small Technology Foundation

October 11, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 29.9 MB

Aral Balkan of the Small Technology Foundation talks with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch about the small web, the tame little server called Kitten, and much more about the wide open world we've been losing and how to get it back. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Aral Balkan Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, f...

FLOSS Weekly 752: Stalkers Beware - Cooper Quintin on Personal Privacy and TOR University Challenge

October 04, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 30.9 MB

Cooper Quintin of the EFF treats Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman to plenty of wisdom about the extremes of constant personal privacy exposure online, and how some of the worst threats can come from people you know. The stalkerware industry that allows people to spy on victims easily. How can we truly decentralize social media? The expanding data broker industry. Effective mitigation like encryption tools and pushing for privacy laws. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: C...

FLOSS Weekly 751: The Phipps Certification - EFF, AlmaLinux, Vehicle Software and Privacy

September 27, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 31 MB

Listen closely for The Phipps Certification, and you'll also get news about 3D printing, AlmaLinux, a big EFF win, spyware in new cars and other hot topics on a table surrounded by Simon Phipps, Jonathan Bennett, Shawn Powers, and Doc Searls. Carl Malamud's fight to make the law open to citizens through his non-profit Public Resource. How 3D printing is transforming open hardware through the sharing of designs Mozilla's report on modern vehicles collecting and sharing personal data. Usi...

FLOSS Weekly 750: AI: Just Make It Normal - IQXR, AI and Open Source

September 20, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 29.2 MB

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Michael "Hoff" Hoffman, Co-founder and CEO of IQXR, about open source in AI, immersive technologies, and much more - and what needs to happen before it all gets normal. What are the differences between virtual, augmented, and mixed reality? The challenges holding back widespread virtual / augmented reality, such as the lack of standards. Privacy concerns around augmented & virtual reality glasses / headsets that record users. AI's role in spat...

FLOSS Weekly 749: That's In Chapter Three - Kyle Rankin, How To Write a Tech Book

September 13, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 30.5 MB

Writing a tech book is easy if you start with the proper guidance. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett get that guidance and much more from Kyle Rankin, author of How to Write a Tech Book. The benefits of using LaTeX for formatting and layout when self-publishing. How to pitch a book idea to traditional tech publishers like O'Reilly. Advice on when you're ready to write your first tech book based on your skills. How to make the transition from writing short-form articles to full book projec...

FLOSS Weekly 748: Show Me The ProofMode - Nathan Freitas, ProofMode

September 06, 2023 19:45 - 1 hour - 31.9 MB

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Nathan Freitas, founder of the Guardian Project about ProofMode. A way to turn photos, videos, and other digital artifacts into secure signed digital evidence. Plus, the many other things the Project is up to. Proof Mode for Data Verification Future of Open Source and AI Balancing Privacy and Functionality in Journalism Guardian Project Funding and Future Plans Discussion on Surveillance, Trust, and Optimism Host: Doc Searls Guests: Simon Phipps ...

FLOSS Weekly 747: New, Hot, Big, and Doomed - Business Software License, OpenELA Initiative

August 30, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 31.8 MB

Doc Searls, Dan Lynch, and Jonathan Bennett talk about what happens when open source companies get too big for the licenses that helped them get there, and how their communities are dealing with that. Red Hat recently changed its source code distribution rules, prompting other vendors like Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association in response. What are the implications of these changes, and do Red Hat's actions violate the GPL? Canonical's tight control over the ...

FLOSS Weekly 746: Don't Hesitate, Enculturate! - Claude Warren Jr, Open Source Culture

August 23, 2023 20:30 - 59 minutes - 27.6 MB

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Claude Warren, Jr. about open source culture going back to coffee shops in the 1600s, how open source manners matter, and much more on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. The concept of open source projects as "insurance" against risk and companies that fund them for risk reduction. InnerSource as an open source practice to develop and establish an open source-like culture within organizations. Business source licenses changing mid-project and the fall...

FLOSS Weekly 745: The Buffer Bloke - Dave Taht, Music Collab, Private AI

August 16, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 31.3 MB

On FLOSS Weekly, Dave Taht takes a break and pauses while saving the world from bufferbloat to treat Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to delightful discourses on music and low-latency conferencing and online jams. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Dave Taht Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. ...

FLOSS Weekly 744: A Chill Pirate Lawyer - Damien Riehl, Open Source and Legal Rights

August 09, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 31.6 MB

What lawsuits become frivolous in a digital age that just entered its AI epoch? Attorney Damien Riehl knows and is making it all happen with a raft of projects he talks about with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Damien Riehl Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designe...

FLOSS Weekly 743: Data Is Surprisingly Exciting - Apache SeaTunnel, William Kwok

August 02, 2023 19:08 - 1 hour - 30 MB

William Kwok speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about Apache SeaTunnel, an exciting and extremely useful open-source way to synchronize multiple databases. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: William Kwok Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at...

FLOSS Weekly 742: Endless Sky, Endless Fun - Open Source Game Development

July 26, 2023 20:53 - 1 hour - 31.6 MB

Endless Sky is an open source game set in space with a great array of ships, settings, worlds, conditions, alien factions, and missions — plus a community of thousands. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Jonathan Steck and Shaughn Reynolds of Endless Sky about how and where the game, its community, and open source gaming itself are going. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guests: Jonathan Steck and Shaughn Reynolds Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/f...

FLOSS Weekly 741: This Is the F-Droid You're Looking For - Hans-Christoph Steiner, F-Droid

July 19, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 30.7 MB

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Hans-Christoph Steiner about all things F-Droid: the non-Google app store for Android where you don't need an account and find only free and open source apps.  Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Hans-Christoph Steiner Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme...

FLOSS Weekly 740: Baking the Printer - Jonathan Bennett: A Bad Face For Radio, IBM and Red Hat

July 12, 2023 19:28 - 1 hour - 31.9 MB

Doc Searls and Ant Pruitt talk with Jonathan Bennett about life, love, open source, and what's up with Red Hat. Also, how to bake a printer? Host: Doc Searls Co-Host: Ant Pruitt Guest: Jonathan Bennett Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit...

FLOSS Weekly 739: Whose AI Is It Anyway? - AI Security, Decentralized Identifiers

July 05, 2023 20:30 - 58 minutes - 27 MB

Golda Velez and Romeo Chukwuemeka talk with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly about big AI questions nobody else is asking—and getting deep and surprising answers, you won't want to miss. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guests: Golda Velez and Romeo Chukwuemeka Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and...

FLOSS Weekly 738: Crossplane: Your Cockpit in the Cloud - Jared Watts, Nic Cope, Crossplane and Kubernetes

June 28, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 32.1 MB

Jared Watts and Nic Cope, two founding engineers with Upbound and developers on Crossplane, join Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to discuss control planes for Kubernetes and clouds. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guests: Jared Watts and Nic Cope Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. ...

FLOSS Weekly 727: Homomorphic Encryption: the Next Big Thing - Rand Hindi, Fully Homomorphic Encryption

April 12, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 30.3 MB

Rand Hindi of Zama joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to discuss the importance of encryption and the benefits of homomorphic encryption. It's a great discussion with many branches of topics surrounding encryption and data privacy on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Dr Rand Hindi Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web de...

FLOSS Weekly 726: Mojaloop and Digital Public Goods - Paula Hunter, Mojaloop, Unbanked World

April 05, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 32.3 MB

Paula Hunter of Mojaloop talks with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about using open source, open data, open standards, open content, and other DPGs—Digital Public Goods—to make transactions cheaper and easier in the unbanked world. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Paula Hunter Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designe...

FLOSS Weekly 725: VanillaOS on a Stick - Pietro di Caprio, VanillaOS

March 29, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 30.4 MB

Pietro di Caprio joins Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers to discuss VanillaOS, a new Linux distro with a hot new feature: it's immutable. Hosts: Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers Guest: Pietro di Caprio Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free ...

FLOSS Weekly 724: The Wide World of Open Radio - Levi C. Maaia, Ham Radio

March 22, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour - 27.8 MB

Doc Searls and Shawn Powers take a deep dive into the open source and open data slices of ham radio with Levi C. Maaia, an accomplished pilot, filmmaker, and much more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Levi C. Maaia Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Clu...

FLOSS Weekly 723: Freedom to Fork - Open Source Communities & Democracy With Seth Frey

March 15, 2023 20:51 - 1 hour - 31.1 MB

How open source communities form, fork, and govern themselves are just a few of the many topics UC-Davis professor Seth Frey talks about with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps in an insight-filled show. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Seth Frey Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get e...

FLOSS Weekly 722: DIY Broadcasting With Open Source - Open Source Broadcasting, Tim Pozar and Brian David

March 08, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 29.5 MB

DIY broadcasting with open source is a topic too big and fast-moving for just one show, so this is our second time around with Tim Pozar and Brian David telling Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb about a large assortment of open-source tools and approaches that are ready to go for creators and broadcasters. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb Guests: Tim Požar and Brian David Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on F...

FLOSS Weekly 721: Hacking, Convergence and HyperPurism - Kyle Rankin, Purism, Mobile Phone & Linux Computing Convergence

March 01, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 30.1 MB

Kyle Rankin of Purism joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to talk about how his company's Linux laptop and Librem 5 phone converge with the company's new Lapdock, plus the past and future of hacker culture, how supply chains really work, and convergence in general. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Kyle Rankin Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's...

FLOSS Weekly 720: Fostering an Open Source Culture - Arun Gupta on Generative AI, OpenJDK, CNCF

February 22, 2023 22:16 - 1 hour - 31.9 MB

Arun Gupta, VP and General Manager of Open Ecosystems at Intel Corporation, joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Gupta has been an open source strategist, advocate and practitioner for nearly two decades, and is currently an elected chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Governing Board, where he works with CNCF leadership and member companies to grow the cloud native ecosystem. A great discussion around open source, AI and another personal passi...

FLOSS Weekly 719: Let the Wiki Win! - Peter Kaminski, Decentralized vs Centralized, Massive Wiki

February 15, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 30.5 MB

Pete Kaminski joins Doc Searls and Dan Lynch for a deep wikis (especially his Massive one), how AI helps us collaborate spatially in the natural versus the connected worlds. Great conversations covering many topics beyond wikis. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Peter Kaminski Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and mus...

FLOSS Weekly 718: Future of openSUSE Leap - Luboš Kocman, Douglas DeMaio, openSUSE Leap

February 08, 2023 21:30 - 1 hour - 30.4 MB

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Luboš Kocman and Douglas DeMaio about openSUSE Leap, where it's going, and lots of related Linux and open source issues coming up now and in the near future. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guests: Lubos Kocman and Douglas DeMaio Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musicia...

FLOSS Weekly 695: Massive Wiki - Peter Kaminski, Wiki Utility, Massive Wiki

August 24, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 30.7 MB

Peter Kaminski explains to Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly how Massive Wiki is on its way to being a prominent movement that combines wiki utility with familiar tools and processes for distributed use online by all users. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Peter Kaminski Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer...

FLOSS Weekly 694: Icky Latency and the Dawn of IQI - Dave Taht, Network Speed vs Latency, Blackhat

August 17, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 30.2 MB

Dave Taht returns from the future to talk with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about what's coming and going, plus a dozen other practical and important topics that revolve around freedom, openness (FOSS) and the Internet all of us need. Bufferbloat, latency and open source at this year's Blackhat conference. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Dave Taht Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS W...

FLOSS Weekly 693: Open Source Analytics With Scarf - Avi Press, Scarf and Open Source Insights

August 10, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 31 MB

Avi Press, CEO of Scarf, gives good answers to hard questions from Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about how to run analytics and gain insights on open source software use in privacy-respecting ways. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Avi Press Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music....

FLOSS Weekly 692: Sugar-Free Hammer - Intel ARC, Fedora Outlaws CC0

August 03, 2022 20:30 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MB

Fedora dumps CC0. What does this mean for open source developers? Doc Searls, Shawn Powers and Jonathan Bennett discuss on FLOSS Weekly the implications of this move from Fedora and how it relates to developers. Intel plants its flag in the discrete GPU marketspace with ARC GPU. Shawn Powers feels this is a very good thing. Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, and Shawn Powers Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should b...

FLOSS Weekly 691: Subsea Cloud - Maxie Reynolds, OSINT Framework and Subsea Cloud

July 27, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 29.9 MB

Maxie Reynolds of Subsea Cloud tells Doc Searls and Shawn Powers how the marine underworld is the future of data centers as well as data communications. Putting data centers under the ocean? Yes, it's a real thing, and it's discussed on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers Guest: Maxie Reynolds Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lull...

FLOSS Weekly 690: RISC-V Revisited - Stephano Cetola, New Updates About RISC-V

July 20, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 31 MB

Stephano Cetola, Director of Technical Programs for RISC-V International, returns to bring Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett up to speed on the many new developments in and around RISC-V's radically open and promising CPU architecture. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Stephano Cetola Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web des...

FLOSS Weekly 689: Record Discord with Craig - New Maintainers of Craig for Discord Recording

July 13, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 31.4 MB

Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb revisit Craig, the open source way to make live multitrack recordings of Discord sessions, with its new and already-seasoned maintainers, @Snazzah and @DJCoolguy. The new maintainers share their experience with transitioning from the previous developers as well as other updates in version 2 of Craig.chat. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb Guests: Snazzah and Ralph S Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open so...

FLOSS Weekly 688: Matrix.org - Matthew Hodgson, Decentralized Open Source Chat

July 06, 2022 20:48 - 1 hour - 30.5 MB

Matthew Hodgson of Matrix.org and Element.io explains to Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Want a fully decentralized open-source chat that bridges to existing platforms and can even replace the phone system? Hodgson explains how we might soon get all that and more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Matthew Hodgson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? ...

FLOSS Weekly 687: Open Source Roundtable - Discussing Open Source Security Holes

June 29, 2022 20:30 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MB

Security with open source, the new OSSF, what Substack is doing to newsletters and newsletters are doing to blogging (and both are doing to the growing subscription economy), plus a call for open source tools that help subscribers manage their oversubscribed lives. All those and more are subjects of a roundtable discussion among Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers and Jonathan Bennett on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, Shawn Powers, and Katherine...

FLOSS Weekly 686: Authentic Data - David Huseby, Authentic Data

June 22, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 31.5 MB

Cryptography expert Dave Huseby tells Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how to build infinitely scalable layer two solutions that unbind the Internet from time and space without changing existing systems. All with authentic data. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: David Huseby Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer...

FLOSS Weekly 685: DIDs and DIDcomm - Sam Curren, Importance of DIDs

June 15, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 32.2 MB

Sam Curren unpacks for Doc Searls and Dan Lynch why DIDs and DIDcomm are the best approach to identity—and to making people first-class citizens on the Internet. Curren also discusses the origin story of picos and the advantages of nomadic living and hacking. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: Sam Curren Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Ro...

FLOSS Weekly 684: PlanetScale - Sam Lambert, Open Source Serverless Database

June 08, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 30.2 MB

Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Vitess, his learnings as VP of Engineering at GitHub, sharding, why Rewind is a lifesaver for users needing to undo recovers during schema migrations, and much more. Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett Guest: Sam Lambert Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Rob...

FLOSS Weekly 683: Retro Computing and the Demoscene - Dr. Andre Kudra, Demoscene, Retro Computing

June 01, 2022 20:58 - 1 hour - 32.5 MB

Dr. Andre Kudra, who plays "retro geek jazz" with Aaron Newcomb (himself a retro master) and host Doc Searls in this fact and fun-filled episode about retro computing and Demoscene. Nothing in computing gets more open, real, and truly deep—close to the metal—in a fun way, than retro computing and the Demoscene. And nobody is more involved in all of it than Dr. Kudra. Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb Guest: Dr. Andre Kudra Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/flo...

FLOSS Weekly 682: Free and Open P2P Team Chat with Quiet - Holmes Wilson, Quiet

May 25, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 31.2 MB

Holmes Wilson explains to Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how central servers limit personal freedom, and how you can improve the quality of private P2P team chat and collaboration like Slack and Discord with Quiet, his open source team's work in progress. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Holmes Wilson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email [email protected]. Thanks to Lullabo...

FLOSS Weekly 681: Yes, UCAN - James Walker, Fission.codes and UCAN

May 18, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 30.1 MB

User Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs) are just one of the many new and useful approaches to decentralization that James Walker, of fission.codes, shares with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch. If you want a detailed dose of pure optimism about Web3 working for you and me, this is the episode for you on FLOSS Weekly. Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch Guest: James Walker Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOS...

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