Linux Inlaws

Linux Inlaws

A podcast about free and open source software, communism and the revolution

  1. hace 6 d

    LI_S02E68_Missing_link

    This episode - aptly named "Missing link" and part of our foundations series of our highly valued educational sub-Inlaws (a marketing term blatantly borrowed from Reddit when it was still relevant but conveniently always forgotten to give back) - dives deep into the innards of computer systems, networks and distributed applications. Discussing the communication mechanism these components use to be precisely to wrack havoc on innocent users, clients, servers and other shenanigans naively using these. So you've missed that all-important third-year operating and/or distributed systems class back in university, now's the chance to catch up on things. So that the next cocktail conversation doesn't have to be about the shortcomings of certain US presidents, open marriages, the weather and other strange phenomena including vampires turned priests in order to gain the upper hand on vegan blood wholesale empires (blatant teaser for an upcoming DSTS episode perhaps? :-). Links IPC (abridged version): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication Socket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket Unix Domain Socket (UDS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_domain_socket Non-uniform memory access (NUMA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access Signal: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html Message queues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_queue Remote procedure call (RPC): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call gRPC: https://grpc.io Protocol buffers (Protobuf): https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf Interface definition language (IDL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language D-Bus: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/IntroductionToDBus D-Spy (D-Bus inspection tool): https://github.com/GNOME/d-spy Component Object Model (COM): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/component-object-model--com--portal Distributed COM (DCOM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Component_Object_Model Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Architecture Object Management Group (OMG): https://www.omg.org Cross Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Representational State Transfer (REST): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST Flatbuffers: https://flatbuffers.dev Model Context Protocol (MCP): https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro The Copenhagen Test: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31314791 SFSCon: https://www.sfscon.it

  2. 9 jul

    LI_S02E67_The_clouds_open_and_otherwise

    This show is host to two clouds, Nextcloud and OpenCloud. A little bit of history: Both clouds go back to some common origin called ownCloud, a FLOSS project devised around sixteen years ago with the aim to allow each and every user of the software to have their own file hosting and synchronisation platform. ownCloud was forked to become NextCloud around 2016 and OpenCloud came into existence in 2025 when ownCloud was forked once again. Curious? Then don't wait but rather hit play to listen to the episode. As we hear this straight from the horse's mouth. As we the founders of both companies on the show speaking about the origins, present state and future. Even if you're not into file synchronisation you don't want to miss this episode as there's both projects have evolved over the years time to become much much more than pure file-hosting platforms (yea, we are talking office functionality similar to the proprietary functionality available from your big hyperscalers, etc.). Interested? Then don't miss this episode. Links Nextcloud: https://github.com/nextcloud OpenCloud: https://github.com/opencloud-eu Frank's FOSDEM presentation: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/nextcloud Nextcloud's Euro-Office view: https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-and-what-open-source-means Open-Office rebuttal: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/onlyoffice-flags-license-violations-in-euro-office-project-by-nextcloud-and-ionos Hacker Ethics: http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/hacker_ethics.html Digital Indepence Day: https://di.day/en

  3. 25 jun

    LI_S02E66_Sovereignty_digital_and_otherwise

    In this episode Martin and Chris tackle the important subject of digital sovereignty. Something becoming more and more important if you don't want to wake up one morning just to see all of your mails and mailboxes vanished just because some foreign provider decided to cut off your mail server access (same goes for file cloud storage, office software, etc. Many other use cases do apply). But how to tackle this conundrum? Fear not, dear listeners, as usual the inlaws got you covered. So don't miss this episode! Links Microsoft's origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft Cloud Act: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-15475/pdf/COMPS-15475.pdf#page=624 Germany's EPA: https://epa.vigo.de/en/epa-simply-explained.html Nextcloud: https://github.com/nextcloud Limux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux Aria (UK): https://aria.org.uk BPI (France): https://www.bpifrance.com/products/tata Zendis: https://www.zendis.de/en OpenDesk: https://www.opendesk.eu/en OpenCode: https://opencode.ai Nextcloud's forking: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/nextcloud OpenCloud's forking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655813 Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE): https://fsfe.org Free Software Foundation (FSF): https://fsf.org Open Source Initiative (OSI): https://opensource.org Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC): https://sfconservancy.org Glaswing: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing Preacher: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5016504

  4. 11 jun

    LI_S02E65_Freifunk

    This episode is host to an eclectic panel representing a German project called Freifunk, essentially a free-for-all mesh network providing Internet access to the general public. Originally developed as a local shortcut to a fast Internet hookup in Berlin, this project has become hugely successful in metropolitan areas around Germany and beyond. So if you have ever wondered about these access points with the name freifunk as part of the name, are just plain curious about the technology behind this network or even thought about running an access point yourself, you don't want to miss this show! Links Freifunk: https://freifunk.net/en Second/interference liability shenanigans (aka "Störerhaftung"): https://international.eco.de/news/who-is-liable-interference-liability-in-germany/ Freedom Fighter Box: https://wiki.freifunk.net/Freifunk_freedom_fighter_box Legal talks on interference liabilibity (in German): https://media.freifunk.net/search/?q=hubrig Chaos Computer Club: https://www.ccc.de/en FSFE's Router Freedom campaign: https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.en.html TV White Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Space_Internet Wireless community weekend (part of the Freifunk Wiki, scroll to the bottom): https://wiki.freifunk.net/Kategorie:English Battle Mesh: https://battlemesh.org Freifunk Radio (in German): https://radio.freifunk.net Digital Independence Day: https://di.day/de Dawarich (That's were I was): https://github.com/Freika/dawarich Jugend hackt LTS (in German): https://jugendhackt.org/lts Unitree: https://www.unitree.com Burn Notice: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810788/?ref_=fn_t_1

  5. 28 may

    LI_S02E64_Privacy_and_FLOSS

    Ever wondered what Google really knows about you (this applies to other big tech companies as well) and how to prevent this unsolicited gathering of information (to avoid the nasty term "spying"), this is the episode you want to listen to. And of course the rest of the back catalog of shows you carefully managed to avoid so far as you were of the opinion that other drugs are better suited to put you to sleep in no time. But weren't aware of the side effects. Now for the good news: As Linux Inlaws doesn't have any side effects (apart from furthering your knowledge of course), there's no package insert (hooray! :-). Links Edward Snowden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden Julian Assange: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange 1984: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1168083W/Nineteen_Eighty-Four Tesla's EULA: https://www.tesla.com/legal/privacy GoC's episode on electric cars (S2Ep2): https://grumpy-old-coders.org/#episodes LineageOS: https://lineageos.org AOSP @ Linux Inlaws (S02E38): https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E38_Android_and_more__7F48 Tor Browser Bundle: https://www.torproject.org/download/tor The Tor episode (S01E75): https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E75_The_Onion_Router_Network__EE74 Google's Chrome shenanigans: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/google-chrome-settlement-shows-the-power-of-privacy-minded-consumers Tails: https://tails.net /e/OS/: https://e.foundation GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org

  6. 14 may

    LI_S02E63_Kodi

    The focus of this episode is a little unknown project by the name of Kodi, formerly known as XBMC. Powering approximately 75% of the world's hotel set-top boxes alone (wild guess :-), this codebase has come a long way since its inception more than 20 years ago. Chris and Martin have a panel of coredevs at the ready, ready to spill the beans and much more. Subjects range from esoteric programming languages such as C++, world domination (no surprises there! :-) and how to get there (as the brochure looks nice) and more. Much more. And FLOSS licenses. Curious what this blatant teaser is all about? Then don't miss this show! Links Kodi: https://kodi.tv Xbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox OSMC: https://osmc.tv LibreELEC: https://libreelec.tv Kodi Foundation: https://kodi.tv/about/foundation DMCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act Open Web OS: https://www.webosose.org Kodi @ Github: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc Pennyworth: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8425532 Rowan's LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rowant_no-hallucinations-activity-7403957717943394304-rW1S?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACoKugBJZ6YDktj_4vqLoah1AT9rQk2eqM

  7. 30 abr

    LI_S02E62_The_history_of_AI_almost_complete

    History is the subject of this episode. So if you ever wondered what happened roughly 13 billion years ago (give or take a few), this episode is for you. Almost. As post-production advised us (to avoid the nasty term "try on your new shoes made from concrete in the middle of the ocean), we had to narrow this down to the history of a particular subject. So sparing no expenses never mind wisdom we chose artificial intelligence. As we are still struggling with the natural type of this anyway. So without further ado, let's get right into it. Word of caution: As usual, please be advised that listening to this show while driving, operating heavy machinery or other activities requiring your concentration and attention may not be a good idea. You have been warned! Plus bonus content about Skynet and winters of the AI persuasion (we desperately hope that at least this got your attention :-). And dolphins of course. Links Alan Turing's paper on AI: https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238?login=false Pavlov and classical conditioning: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Classical_conditioning Overview of machine learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning#Approaches History of artificial intelligence: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/history-of-artificial-intelligence PageRank I: https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/how-search-works/ranking-results/ PageRank II (including lots of math): https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-pagerank DeepMind: https://deepmind.google Elon Musk & World Domination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1bnCHWou9A LLMs: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11645129 Expert systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system Skynet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator) Person of interest: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/?ref_=fn_t_1 Meta's Llama: https://www.llama.com

  8. 16 abr

    LI_S02E61_MongoDB_and_more

    This episode features an update on MongoDB. For those listeners old enough to remember: We had the project on the show a few years back. Much has changed since then - or has it? Stay tuned to find out. But even if you don't know what MongoDB is about but always wanted to dip your toes in the NoSQL waters of document databases and such, this episode is for you! Plus the usual nonsense about vector databases, language models (large, small or medium if size does matter indeed) and all the rest of it. Enjoy! Links MongoDB: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo Previous MongoDB episode (S01E90): https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E90_MongoDB_with_a_slight_marketing_angle___999A Vectors and artificial intelligence: https://medium.com/@myscale/understanding-vector-indexing-a-comprehensive-guide-d1abe36ccd3c TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index SEAL Team: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6473344 Red Cliff: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425637/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1 Red Cliff II: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326972/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2

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A podcast about free and open source software, communism and the revolution

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    Linux Inlaws
  • Años en activo
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodios
    167
  • Clasificación
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    © Linux Inlaws (c) 2026 CC-BY-SA
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    Linux Inlaws

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