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LI_S02E30_The_Five_Year_Plan_again
In this anniversary episode our two ageing heroes recount the last five years of the Inlaws and the progress of the famous five year plan (as avid listeners will probably recall from earlier anniversary episodes - if you can't, there's always the back-catalogue). Plus some more NoSQL/Cache Software Bashing. In case you're interested...
Links
Wooden anniversary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_anniversary
Five year plans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union
Salvatore joins Redis (first time): https://redis.io/press/redis-creator-salvatore-sanfilippo-antirez-joins-redis-labs
Salvatore leaves Redis: https://antirez.com/news/133
Redis license change episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E09_Redis_SNAFU__A77A
Salvatore joins Redis (second time): https://antirez.com/news/144
FLOSS and venture capital: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E98_FLOSS_and_venture_capital__FF92
Married... with Children: https://www.sonypictures.com/tv/marriedwithchildren
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LI_S02E29_The_Free_Software_Foundation
In this episode the Inlaws host Zoë Kooyman and Greg Farough from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), one of the backbones of the FLOSS movement. Home to many primordial projects including the GNU congregation of free software such as Emacs and its compiler collection, the FSF can look back on forty years of shaping the FLOSS ecosystem in a way that few other organisations have managed to achieve. So if you wanted to know why Emacs is actually an operating system rather than just an editor, what the FSF really is beyond Richard M. Stallman and what's in store for the FSF, then you don't want to miss this episode! Plus bonus content: the low-down on Dutch street organs and a really well-kept Dutch secret (woa!). Ya REALLY dunt wanna miss tis! :-)
Links
Free Software Foundation: https://www.fsf.org
Free Software Definition: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Gnu Public License (GPL): https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS): https://stallman.org
GNU manifesto: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
Gosling and the GPL: https://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history
GNU Hurd: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd
Hurd on Guix: https://guix.gnu.org/es/blog/2020/a-hello-world-virtual-machine-running-the-hurd
GPL violations: https://gpl-violations.org
VMWare and the GPL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/nov/29/gplappeal
Public money public code: https://publiccode.eu/en
The Inlaws on 501(c)s: https://archive.org/details/hpr3679
RMS / FSF kerfuffle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Comments_about_Jeffrey_Epstein_scandal
FSF volunteering: https://www.fsf.org/volunteer/?set_language=da
Dutch street organs: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=amsterdam+sreet+organ
GNU/Emms: https://www.gnu.org/software/emms
Komijnekaas (in Dutch): https://www.kaas.nl/komijnekaas
Skeleton crew: https://www.starwars.com/series/star-wars-skeleton-crew
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LI_S02E28_A_kernel_slightly_rusty
This episode shines some light on a new (?) technology entering the Linux kernel. Traditionally the Linux has been programmed using C, a programming language almost as old as our two hosts, and assembler for the machine-dependent parts which cannot be done in C. A few years back a couple of kernel devs started to explore the possibility of using a modern, much safer system programming language by the name of Rust (as featured quite a few times on this podcast in the past - check out the back catalog for the details). Even if you're not a kernel dev check out the episode if you're interested in kernel programming or the use of Rust in system programming in general.
Links
Guru Meditation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
Rust for Linux: https://rust-for-linux.com
Mozilla's XML User Interface Language (XUL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
Linus' endorsement for Rust: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-rust-will-go-into-linux-6-1
Linus' view on C++ for kernel programming: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
Linux Plumbers Conference 2021: https://lpc.events/event/11/contributions/986
Linux Plumbers Conference 2024: https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1912
Rust bindgen: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen
Kaput and Zösky (ultimate obliterators): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419344/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_kaput%2520and%2520
Paris has fallen: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33184638/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_in_0_q_paris%2520has%2520
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LI_S02E27_The_Internet_Security_Research_Group
In this episode Martin and Chris host Sarah Gran and Josh Aas of the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). The ISRG is home to such little-known projects :-) such as Let's Encrypt and Prossimo, an approach to rewrite some of the most important pieces of the Internet infrastructure including the Network Time Protocol (NTP) and cURL in a memory-safe language (spoiler alert: details in the episode). So even if you're not running a website where the SSL certificates come from Let's Encrypt: You don't want to miss this episode!
Links
ISRG: https://www.abetterinternet.org
Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org
Mark Shuttleworth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth
certbot: https://github.com/certbot/certbot
ACME protocol: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8555
dehydrated: https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated
Prossimo: https://www.memorysafety.org
Linus and C++: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20
Linus and Rust: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-rust-will-go-into-linux-6-1
Wedson Almeida Filho's LKML post: https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/8/28/1532
Divvi Up: https://divviup.org
Notion: https://www.notion.so/product/projects
Google's first blog post: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html
Zed: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
RocknRolla: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032755/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_4_nm_4_in_0_q_rocknro
The Bear: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14452776/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_2_nm_5_in_0_q_the%2520bear
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LI_S02E26_The_Grumpy_Old_Coders_DejaVu
This episode is host to the Grumpy Old Coders (GoCs) once again. This dynamic duo consisting of David Meier and Thomas Glaser has made appearances in the past, but this instalment is the one to rule them. You want move this to the very top of your podcatcher's playlist for some serious discussion about the world in general (especially Redis :-), free software in particular and some very dark, ie. really black, humour. Plus bonus content. For example, who's the active one between the two of them. And thoughts about the ultimate monetisation strategy.
Links
GoCs: https://grumpy-old-coders.org
Statler and Waldorf: https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf
Regex: https://regex101.com
Semantic caching: https://medium.com/google-cloud/implementing-semantic-caching-a-step-by-step-guide-to-faster-cost-effective-genai-workflows-ef85d8e72883
Valkey: https://valkey.io
Redis license change: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E09_Redis_SNAFU__A77A
Trunp & end of world: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/09/world/analysis-trump-second-term-world-intl/index.html
Secrets of Dublin (in German): https://www.piper.de/buecher/secrets-of-dublin-gebrochene-flueche-isbn-978-3-492-50802-5
HAProxy: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy
Traefik: https://github.com/traefik/traefik
envoy: https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy
Agatha All Along: https://www.marvel.com/tv-shows/agatha-all-along/1
Shameless: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586680
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