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It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.
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Jun 19, 2024 • 1h 12min
Episode 788: Matrix, It's Git, for Communications
This week Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps chat with Matthew Hodgson and Josh Simmons about Matrix, the open source decentralized communications platform. How is Matrix a Git for Communications? Are the new EU and UK laws going to be a problem? And how is the Matrix project connected with the Element company? https://matrix.org/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jun 12, 2024 • 1h 4min
Episode 787: VDO.Ninja -- It's a Little Bit Hacky
This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman chat with Steve Seguin about VDO.Ninja and Social Stream Ninja, tools for doing live WebRTC video calls, recording audio and video, wrangling comments on a bunch of platforms, and more! https://docs.vdo.ninja/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 6min
Episode 786: What Easy Install Script?
This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell chat with Brodie Robertson, the Youtuber that's found his niche reporting on Linux issues, and covering Wayland, Distros, and more! https://www.youtube.com/@BrodieRobertson You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

May 29, 2024 • 1h 3min
Episode 785: Designing GUIs and Building Instruments with EEZ
This week Jonathan Bennett chats with Dennis and Goran about EEZ, the series of projects that started with an Open Source programmable power supply, continued with the BB3 modular test bench tool, and continues with EEZ Studio, a GUI design tool for embedded devices. https://www.envox.eu/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

May 22, 2024 • 1h 5min
Episode 784: I'll Buy You a Poutine
This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk with François Proulx of BoostSecurity, talking about the Poutine security scanner, available at https://github.com/boostsecurityio/poutine. It's all about the security vulnerabilities that may lurk in your Github Actions, and Gitlab Pipelines. When someone sends in a pull request, could they run arbitrary code, and is that going to bite you? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

May 15, 2024 • 1h 1min
Episode 783: Teaching Embedded with the Unphone
This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk with Gareth Coleman and Hamish Cunningham! It's all about the Unphone, an open source handset sporting an ESP32, color touchscreen, and LoRa radio. It's open hardware, and used in a 3rd year university course to teach comp sci majors about hardware and embedded development. https://unphone.net/ You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

May 8, 2024 • 60min
Episode 782: Nitric -- In Search of the Right Knob
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with Rak Siva and Steve Demchuck to talk about Nitric! That's the Infrastructure from Code framework that makes it easy to use a cloud backend in your code, using any of multiple providers, in multiple programming languages. It's a neat project, so check it out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

May 1, 2024 • 1h 8min
Episode 781: Resistant to the Wrath of God
This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls sit down with Mathias Buus Madsen and Paolo Ardoino of Holepunch, to talk about the Pear Runtime and the Keet serverless peer-to-peer platform. What happens when you take the technology built for Bittorrent, and apply it to a messaging app? What else does that allow you to do? And what's the secret to keeping the service running even after the servers go down? You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Apr 23, 2024 • 1h 8min
Episode 780: Zoneminder -- Better Call Randal
This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Isaac Connor about Zoneminder! What's it like running a 20 year old project? What's new with Zoneminder? And why is the bleeding edge so exciting? Tune in for the details! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Apr 17, 2024 • 1h 8min
Episode 779: Errata Prevention Specialist
This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch sit down with Andy Stewart to talk about Andy's Ham Radio Linux (AHRL)! It's the Linux disto designed to give hams the tools they need to work with their radios. What's it like to run a niche Linux distro? How has Andy managed to keep up with this for over a decade? And what's the big announcement about the project breaking today? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/