In this episode Martin and Chris are joined by no other than Brian Proffitt. Brian Who? If you ask that question, you belong to the approximate 2% of our listenership who don't know this head of the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) of a tiny start-up called Redhat :-). Then this episode is especially for you. But apart from contributing to Redhat's OSPO Brian wears many other hats as well (hint: chaos and native americans feature on this list as well. Never mind DOGE and Nixon!). Wanna know which other ones? Then enjoy the show!
Links
Redhat's OSPO: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-does-open-source-program-office-do
DOGE: https://doge.gov
Apache software Foundation (ASF): https://www.apache.org
Linux Foundation (LF): https://www.linuxfoundation.org
SCO kerfuffle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF): https://www.cncf.io
CNF @ Linux Inlaws: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E86_An_episode_with_the_Cloud_Native_Computing_Foundation__5675
Apache HTTP Server Project: https://httpd.apache.org
Redhat episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E02_Redhat_EPEL_and_much_more__B43F
Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act
CRA @ LF: https://linuxfoundation.eu/cyber-resilience-act
CRA @ ASF: https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/open-source-community-unites-to-build-cra-compliant-cybersecurity-processes
Grafana: https://github.com/grafana/grafana
Grafana Renderer: https://github.com/grafana/grafana-image-renderer
Back in Action: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21191806/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
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LI_S02E45_Darknet_Diaries
This episode features Jack Rhysider of Darknet Diaries fame. Being an off-topic show (more to come here, for example, how to fail miserably when putting a puppet administration in place - we have screwed things up for the first two terms, but maybe Mr. Trump does have a third term?), we go into the nitty-gritty of how to produce a really successful podcast with millions of downloads (this is where Jack does most of the talking as Martin and myself are taking notes :-), why marketing is so important and how to not do marketing. Plus bonus content on neurotransmitters and how brains work in general (yours included). So you don't want to miss this one instead of doing the dishes, mowing the lawn or getting a root canal treatment (insert your chore of choice here). And if you want to know how many Inlaws episodes Jack's been listening to over the years, don't fast-forward to ten minutes and thirty-five seconds of this show. :-)
Links
Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com
Malicious Life (R.I.P.): https://malicious.life
Jack's blog: https://blog.lime.link
Howard Stern show: https://www.howardstern.com
Waymo (Alphabet, you owe us!): https://waymo.com
Nemesis: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18378942
The Art of Human Hacking: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Social-Engineering-Art-Human-Hacking/dp/0470639539
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LI_S02E44_FLOSS_in_a_small_shop
This show hosts Michael Jerger, a German entrepreneur who has successfully built a small empire of selling services around FLOSS components which his company has contributed to the community over the years. So if you always wanted to know how federated version control systems actually work, how to program Kubernetes using a functional programming language instead of using boring Helm charts and what the deal with China, trademarks (Linux Inlaws and perhaps other trademarks) is, you really, really don't want to miss this episode!
Links
Meissa GmbH (in German): https://meissa-gmbh.de
Tübix (in German): https://www.tuebix.org
Forgejo: https://github.com/forgejo
Gitea: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
Gogs: https://github.com/gogs/gogs
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org
Popularity of source code hosting sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source-code-hosting_facilities#Popularity
Convention 4 Kubernetes (c4k): https://github.com/DomainDrivenArchitecture/c4k-common
Clojure: https://clojure.org
c4k-keycloak: https://repo.prod.meissa.de/meissa/c4k-keycloak
Fefes blog (in German): https://blog.fefe.de
Microsoft's Typescript move: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-port
Lina Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan
Lina's seminal paper on anti-trust issues: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.pdf
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LI_S02E43_Valkey
In this episode Martin and Chris host Kyle Davis and Dmitry Polyakovsky, two members of the Valley technical steering committee. Apart from a trip down memory lane (Kyle used to be a partner in crime when Martin and Chris were still working at Redis), this episode features insights into this more-than-instantly-popular drop-in replacement for Redis, the road ahead and how the project will ultimately contribute to the world domination of the Linux Foundation (if that stage has yet to be reached :-) - stay tuned). Plus - yes, wait for it - more bonus content on Rust, our favourite pet in the programming language zoo. Very few dry eyes in the house guaranteed with this episode, so you don't want to miss this.
Links
Kyle Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-davis-linux
Dmitry Polyakovsky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitrypol
Redis: https://redis.io
Redis license change (2024): https://redis.io/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
Redis license change (2025): https://redis.io/blog/agplv3
Valkey TSC: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/unstable/MAINTAINERS.md
Valkey: https://valkey.io
RSAL + SSPL: https://redis.io/legal/licenses
Open source licenses episode (S01E36): https://archive.org/details/hpr3399
Valkey module crate: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkeymodule-rs
FalkorDB episode (S02E41): https://archive.org/download/LI_S02E41_FalkorDB__3076
Rust client: https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs
Apple's container project: https://github.com/apple/container
WSL: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
DistroWatch: https://distrowatch.com
Salvatore's web site: https://antirez.com/latest/0
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LI_S02E42_LoCode_and_NoCode
This show is witness to Martin and Chris dabbling in the area of programming. Since both of them come from a computer science background, you may be forgiven to assume that this comes natural to them. Quite the opposite in fact. The lazy chaps that they are, they don't want to learn this either (which is quite challenging given their old age anyway). In order to avoid any related effort they discovered low code and no code tools and decided to do a show on their findings. So here it is :-). Plus bonus content on why artificial intelligence in general and large language models are just wrong, wrong and wrong. Never mind evil. Well, most of the time anyway. And - given the episode number of this show - why 42 is still a force to be reckoned with.
Links
42: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
The Gargleblaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaphod_Beeblebrox#Pan-Galactic_Gargle_Blaster
Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu
Snap!: https://snap.berkeley.edu
Charles Babbage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
Budibase: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
Tooljet: https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet
Joget: https://github.com/jogetworkflow
MIT App Inventor: https://github.com/mit-cml/appinventor-sources
Microsoft redundancies: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html
Formula One: https://www.amazon.com/Formula-Official-History-Maurice-Hamilton/dp/1802797785/ref=sr_1_1?crid=62NZPG9HCBB1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.H1DKo7Bz9A5KvT2DYx4xDGPyw3bnt4N8OoMAJ1CBSlpSKxQCVkr1daNkgI44XHpbyD8bzAtNq9Kw4e_dNlSEwZdp5h5S3xgBDD3JroY-9vNFAXFqjkY5YCFPwH65k7Bcghv0il4XXGku4gtRVpu1hKAUACCe8TZYvU0oME8Pauq_D_eOZFAuZ7bL-p1cQPrft0qlMJcZ0VLfIPfgBOr3r9OfJphaWDcw1t4UH8FAEVM.5f1QTYOpcQfT_uxY2r2vgypVIJt5eBq3gjU5mOsovRc&dib_tag=se&keywords=Formula+1%3A+The+Official+History&qid=1748759984&sprefix=formula+1+the+official+history%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1
Gone Girl (movie): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998
Gone Girl (novel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(novel)
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