The focus of this episode is Long Range WAN (also affectionately known as LoRaWAN. For those few people in the audience that don't have a clue: Just listen to episode - all will be revealed!
Clue: it does have to do with that dreaded thing called the Internet of Things (and much much more). So stay tuned for the details! Plus bonus content: Martin finally sees the light and praises Rust (maybe). And much speculation about Valkey, Redis and other oddities. And - wait for it - Martin again ventures into the strange and wonderful world of agriculture. As in: Getting down and dirty with cows, sheep, pigs and other livestock. Plus bonus content: Martin's views on British politics in general and Keir Starmer in particular. So you DON'T want to miss this episode!
Links
LoRaWAN: https://lora-alliance.org
802.11: http://www.ieee802.org/11
Meshtastic: https://meshtastic.org
The Things Network: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org
Lora Server (Chirpstack): https://github.com/chirpstack
The Rust Foundation: https://rustfoundation.org
National Lampoon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon%27s_Vacation_(film_series)
The Black List: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2741602
Software Freedom Podcast: https://fsfe.org/news/podcast.en.html
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LI_S02E49_Halloween_2025
In this scary Halloween episode, Martin and Chris touch on a horrible subject indeed: a 100+ years o life experience. Be prepared for the dreadful details of more than a century of combined wisdom (really?). And, yes, FLOSS maybe involved. Plus: More from another dark side: our beloved Tech Support makes an appearance once again and helps a certain Transylvanian countess with their movie problem. And more bonus content awaits: a primer on floppy disks. Confused? You should be! The answer: Listen to the episode!
Links
Linux From Scratch: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org
Floppy disks: https://www.hermannseib.com/documents/floppy.pdf
Wednesday: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13443470
Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org
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LI_S02E48_GNU_Taler
The focus of this episode is Gnu Taler, an answer to the questions that Diem, various crypto currency shenanigans and other attempts at world domination via money pose to wider audience. Martin and Chris discuss the ins and outs of this approach with two of the main people behind the project, Christian Grothoff and Leo Wittman. So if you ever wanted to know about a totally legit alternative to any dubious currency monkey businesses, this is the episode you don't want to miss.
Links
GN Taler: https://www.taler.net/en
GLS Bank: https://www.gls.de/ueber-uns/english
Germany's cooperative banking sector (history of, read only if you're suffering from insomina): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Cooperative_Financial_Group
GNU Net: https://www.gnunet.org/en/index.html
Tor & onion sites: https://www.torproject.org
Soviet Jeans: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30788492
No phone home: https://nophonehome.com
The Spy and the Traitor: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spy-Traitor-Greatest-Espionage-Story/dp/024118665X
Azrael: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22173666/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_azr
Dead or Alive: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221111/?ref_=fn_ttl_ttl_2
NL Net Taler: https://nlnet.nl/taler
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LI_S02E47_Tied_up_and_shackled
Tied up, shackled and then some: In contrast what you may be thinking after this intro, in this episode Martin and Chris take a closer look at an obscure concept known not only in esoteric circles as the software supply chain (chain being the keyword here). Once only appreciated by the inner circle of a small group of level-eight magicians, this concepts has now entered mainstream and is considered instrumental not only in the area creating and maintaining large scale codebases possibly clocking up a few million lines of code. This especially becomes important when a codebase largely relies on FLOSS components commonly downloaded from the internet. Relying on these components may cause a security issue if not handled with caution as not only the recent xz-utils incident (where possibly a nation-state actor) managed to infiltrate a popular compression library virtually used everywhere. So if you're interested in the security of your builds and applications, this is another episode you don't want to miss.
Links
Left-pad incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident
Lucene library: https://lucene.apache.org/core
Open source licenses episode (S01E36): https://archive.org/details/hpr3399
SBOMs: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-sboms
XZ Utils backdoor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
OpenSSF's tools (not just SBOMs): https://openssf.org/projects
Autotools: https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Autotools-Introduction.html
SPDX: https://spdx.dev
CycloneDX: https://cyclonedx.org
valkey-search: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-
Thunderbolts: https://www.marvel.com/movies/thunderbolts
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LI_S02E46_Brian_Proffitt
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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