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

  1. 5D AGO

    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

  2. APR 30

    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

  3. APR 16

    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

  4. APR 2

    LI_S02E60_Esotheric_Programming_Languages

    This episode is witness to our two ageing heroes taking a closer look at the mysterious and wonderful world of esoteric programming languages. So if you ever wanted to know what Brainfuck is really all about (but were too afraid to ask selected members of your family never mind your computer science lecturer), wanted to find out where Forth and Prolog are really used never mind what Zig is all about - you don't want to miss this episode. Plus a trip down memory lane (if our two heroes can remember where to find this memory lane thing). Links Prolog: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Prolog Zig: https://ziglang.org Forth: https://forth-standard.org Open Firmware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware Sinclair ZX81: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zx-81 MUMPS: https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane Brainfuck: https://brainfuck.org Ook!: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Ook! Whitespace: https://web.archive.org/web/20150618184706/http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/tutorial.php Bull$hit: https://github.com/jkstpierre/B******t-Programming-Language Alan Turing: https://www.newscientist.com/people/alan-turing ArnoldC: https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC Esolang: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page Omgrofl: https://github.com/OlegSmelov/omgrofl-interpreter Chef: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chef Oxyde: https://oxyde.cloud

  5. MAR 19

    LI_S02E59_Coreboot

    This episode is all about getting computers up and running. The software that kicks in after you flick the power switch until the operating system kernel starts up to be more precise. And to be more precise, today's episode is about Coreboot, a FLOSS project aimed at replacing BIOS (rarely these days), UEFI (more often these days) and friends. Plus quite a few primers on CPUs, RAM chips and other esoteric aspects that you always wanted to know about but were too afraid to ask :-). Links IPL/booting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#History BIOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS Floppy disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk UEFI: https://uefi.org Coreboot: https://www.coreboot.org Canonical's UEFI shim: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot Device Tree spec: https://www.devicetree.org Oreboot: https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot Linus about C++ and the Linux kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20 HP Moonshot: https://www.hewlettpackardhistory.com/item/the-miracle-of-moonshot Das U-Boot: https://u-boot.org Gummiboot (now systemd-boot): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-boot.html Libreboot: https://libreboot.org Grumpy Old Coders: https://grumpy-old-coders.org Software Freedom Podcast: https://fsfe.org/news/podcast.en.html

  6. MAR 5

    LI_S02E58_Continuous_whatever

    This episode is all about the CI/CD of software, standing for chaotic implementation and complete disaster of course :-). Much more seriously, our two ageing heroes take a look at what's out there for the support of continuous integration and continuous deployment of software (you guessed this right? :-). Plus lots of bonus content: Hipster methodologies for developing software, a crash course on two of our most beloved subjects when it comes down to developing the stuf (agile/Scrum), how to really master software quality assurance (hint: no, it's not avoiding it completely! :-) and much much more. So don't miss this episode! If you can't get to sleep. Or otherwise... Links V-Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-model Waterfall model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model Git hooks: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks Scrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(project_management) Agile topics: https://agilealliance.org Jenkins: https://www.jenkins.io Selenium: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium Argo: https://argoproj.github.io Prebake: https://github.com/vgteam/vg_ci_prebake Jenkins-X: https://jenkins-x.io Github Actions: https://github.com/features/actions Tekton: https://github.com/tektoncd SonarQube: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube Bottlerocket episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E80_Bottlerocket__605D Snow @ Britian: https://www.netweather.tv/weather-forecasts/uk/winter/winter-history

  7. FEB 19

    LI_S02E57_Codeberg

    Like Github but don't like the company behind it? Then look no further! This episode has Otto Richter and Michael Jerger never mind our lovely elder two hosts discussing Codeberg, an FLOSS alternative to Github, Gitlab and corporate friends. Using a federated technology based on our beloved git, invented by Linus and friends all those years ago. Sounds fascinating? Then don't miss the episode! Plus bonus content: Chris gets philosophical about plants, the sun and mornings. Links Codeberg: https://codeberg.org Forgejo: https://codeberg.org/forgejo Episode on Meissa GmbH (S02E44): https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E44_FLOSS_in_a_small_shop__DEF0 History of Forgejo: http://web.archive.org/web/20251015192936/https://codeberg.org/fnetX/flock_to_fedora_timeline/graph?page=2 Federated Forgejo (in German): https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3275-foderiertes_forgejo ZenDiS: https://www.zendis.de/en Sovereign Tech Agency: https://www.sovereign.tech NLNETLABS: https://nlnetlabs.nl Comaps: https://www.comaps.app Bose screw-up: https://www.bose.com/soundtouch-end-of-life Kalanchoe pinnata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe_pinnata The particle @ the end of universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Particle_at_the_End_of_the_Universe Higgs boson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

  8. FEB 5

    LI_S02E56_Six_Years

    We have made it! Six years in the making and still going strong. With a steadily increasing audience of - wait for it - at least ten listeners. When they can't get to sleep or have nothing else to do. Or - gosh - want to learn something. Like what's Usenet. And why Linux has been so important (yes, it all will be revealed in this episode!). Including a crash course on operating system design (including the operating system war) and CPU design history. Never mind how humorous works. So wars or not, you have an hour to spare, can't get to sleep or want to learn something, never mind want to know why our beloved operating system conquered the world and how humor works and much, much more, you certainly don't want to miss this episode! (Ok, marketing made us do it - before Martin fired them once again). Links Minix: https://www.minix3.org The OS war: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI?pli=1 The Usenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet GNU Hurd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd IBM's RISC history: https://web.archive.org/web/20060503190348/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/rs6000.pdf Car Talk: https://www.cartalk.com Martin's ancient server: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProLiant Krentenbollen: https://www.toineskitchen.com/recipes/krentenbollen Christmas pudding recipe (not for faint-hearted): https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-christmas-pudding Chromebooks: https://www.google.com/chromebook Arch on Chromebooks (Chris' talk): https://web.archive.org/web/20211025175723/https://frab.openrheinruhr.de/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/020/original/Arch_Chromebook.pdf?1541482424

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    Linux Inlaws
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