
FLOSS Weekly (Audio)
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.
Latest episodes

May 17, 2023 • 1h 7min
FLOSS Weekly 732: Update Your Kernels! - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux Kernel, Cyber Resilience Act
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Greg Kroah-Hartman, the veteran top-level Linux kernel maintainer, about the human side of how kernel development works, how AI is still just pattern matching, and how life is about updating everything you can.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps
Guest: Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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May 10, 2023 • 1h 5min
FLOSS Weekly 731: Confidential Computing - Dan Middleton, Confidential Computing Consortium
Dan Middleton, of Intel and the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), dives deep on the topic of confidential computing (CoCo) and many related concerns, such as Trusted Execution Environments with Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett
Guest: Dan Middleton
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Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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May 3, 2023 • 1h 8min
FLOSS Weekly 730: Going Off the Grid with Meshtastic - Decentralized Open Source Mesh Network, Meshtastic
Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Ben Meadors and Garth Vander Houwen of Meshtastic about adventures of many kinds—all using open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network that runs on inexpensive, low-power devices.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett
Guests: Ben Meadors and Garth Vander Houwen
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Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Apr 26, 2023 • 1h 3min
FLOSS Weekly 729: Commitment Issues - Stormy Peters, GitHub Accelerator
Stormy Peters, VP of Communities at GitHub speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers on FLOSS Weekly. Peters is one of the most passionate, committed, informed, and important leaders in the open-source world today. The panel covers AI, commitment, dependencies, funding, learning models, and much more.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers
Guest: Stormy Peters
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Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Apr 19, 2023 • 1h 8min
FLOSS Weekly 728: Open Season On Open Source - Mike Milinkovich and the Cyber Resilience Act in Europe
"What's going on with forming the Cyber Resilience Act in Europe has the potential to do enormous harm to the open source movement and to the future prosperity of the entire human race," says Milinkovich of the Eclipse Foundation, this week's guest on FLOSS Weekly. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an important topic to discuss in open source. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett speak with Milinkovich about this important matter.
Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett
Guest: Mike Milinkovich
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Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Apr 12, 2023 • 1h 6min
FLOSS Weekly 727: Homomorphic Encryption: the Next Big Thing - Rand Hindi, Fully Homomorphic Encryption
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
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Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Apr 5, 2023 • 1h 10min
FLOSS Weekly 726: Mojaloop and Digital Public Goods - Paula Hunter, Mojaloop, Unbanked World
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
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Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Mar 29, 2023 • 1h 6min
FLOSS Weekly 725: VanillaOS on a Stick - Pietro di Caprio, VanillaOS
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
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Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Mar 22, 2023 • 1h
FLOSS Weekly 724: The Wide World of Open Radio - Levi C. Maaia, Ham Radio
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
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Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Mar 15, 2023 • 1h 8min
FLOSS Weekly 723: Freedom to Fork - Open Source Communities & Democracy With Seth Frey
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 floss@twit.tv.
Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music.
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Sponsor:
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