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FLOSS Weekly 687: Open Source Roundtable - Discussing Open Source Security Holes
Security with open source, the new OSSF, what Substack is doing to newsletters and newsletters are doing to blogging (and both are doing to the growing subscription economy), plus a call for open source tools that help subscribers manage their oversubscribed lives. All those and more are subjects of a roundtable discussion among Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers and Jonathan Bennett on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.Hosts: Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett, Shawn Powers, and Katherine DruckmanDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: kolide.com/floss bitwarden.com/twit
FLOSS Weekly 686: Authentic Data - David Huseby, Authentic Data
Cryptography expert Dave Huseby tells Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how to build infinitely scalable layer two solutions that unbind the Internet from time and space without changing existing systems. All with authentic data.Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine DruckmanGuest: David HusebyDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit newrelic.com/FLOSS Compiler - FLOSS
FLOSS Weekly 685: DIDs and DIDcomm - Sam Curren, Importance of DIDs
Sam Curren unpacks for Doc Searls and Dan Lynch why DIDs and DIDcomm are the best approach to identity—and to making people first-class citizens on the Internet. Curren also discusses the origin story of picos and the advantages of nomadic living and hacking.Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan LynchGuest: Sam CurrenDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: kolide.com/floss itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30 NetFoundry.io/TWIT
FLOSS Weekly 684: PlanetScale - Sam Lambert, Open Source Serverless Database
Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Vitess, his learnings as VP of Engineering at GitHub, sharding, why Rewind is a lifesaver for users needing to undo recovers during schema migrations, and much more.Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan BennettGuest: Sam LambertDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: NewRelic.com/FLOSS kolide.com/floss
FLOSS Weekly 683: Retro Computing and the Demoscene - Dr. Andre Kudra, Demoscene, Retro Computing
Dr. Andre Kudra, who plays "retro geek jazz" with Aaron Newcomb (himself a retro master) and host Doc Searls in this fact and fun-filled episode about retro computing and Demoscene. Nothing in computing gets more open, real, and truly deep—close to the metal—in a fun way, than retro computing and the Demoscene. And nobody is more involved in all of it than Dr. Kudra.Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron NewcombGuest: Dr. Andre KudraDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Compiler - FLOSS NetFoundry.io/TWIT bitwarden.com/twit
FLOSS Weekly 682: Free and Open P2P Team Chat with Quiet - Holmes Wilson, Quiet
Holmes Wilson explains to Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman how central servers limit personal freedom, and how you can improve the quality of private P2P team chat and collaboration like Slack and Discord with Quiet, his open source team's work in progress.Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine DruckmanGuest: Holmes WilsonDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: kolide.com/floss NewRelic.com/FLOSS
FLOSS Weekly 681: Yes, UCAN - James Walker, Fission.codes and UCAN
User Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs) are just one of the many new and useful approaches to decentralization that James Walker, of fission.codes, shares with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch. If you want a detailed dose of pure optimism about Web3 working for you and me, this is the episode for you on FLOSS Weekly.Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan LynchGuest: James WalkerDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: NetFoundry.io/TWIT itpro.tv/twit promo code TWIT30 kolide.com/floss
FLOSS Weekly 680: Asahi Linux on M1 Hardware - Hector Martin, Linux on Macs
Hector Martin of Asahi Linux schools Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett with a massive sum of fresh, deep and interesting facts about Apple's new M1 hardware, and Asahi's promise and progress toward doing everything on it.Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan BennettGuest: Hector MartinDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Compiler - FLOSS NewRelic.com/FLOSS kolide.com/floss
FLOSS Weekly 679: Open Jobs in Open Source - Amit Taylor, TrueUP.io
Amit Taylor of TrueUp.io joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett for a deep dive booming market for open source talent. TrueUp has an amazing array of data and ready connections between demand and supply in the marketplace for dream tech jobs.Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan BennettGuest: Amit TaylorDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/floss NetFoundry.io/TWIT
FLOSS Weekly 678: Of Musk, Mastodon and More - Ethan Zuckerman, Mastodon and the Future of Twitter
Now that Twitter is a Musk mystery, what becomes of, well, everything? Ethan Zuckerman raises even more questions than he answers in a thought-filled hour of conversation with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly.Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon PhippsDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: NewRelic.com/FLOSS kolide.com/floss
FLOSS Weekly 677: Open Source and Data Visualization - Melody Meckfessel, Observable
Melody Meckfessel of Observable schools Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman about how early it is and how far we've come with open source and data visualization. A deep and exciting show, rich with insight and promise of a better-visualized future in analytics.Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine DruckmanGuest: Melody MeckfesselDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: kolide.com/floss NetFoundry.io/TWIT Compiler - FLOSS
FLOSS Weekly 676: A Platform for Maintainers - Tidelift, Jeremy Katz, Luis Villa
Tidelift co-founders Jeremy Katz and Luis Villa join Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on this episode of FLOSS Weekly to discuss how maintainers should be paid. You might think the answer would be different for every codebase, but not if there's a platform for doing it.Hosts: Doc Searls and Aaron NewcombGuests: Jeremy Katz and Luis VillaDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit
FLOSS Weekly 675: The Plausible(.io) Alternative to Google Analytics - Plausible, Adblocking, Open Source Analytics
Marko Saric of Plausible joins Doc Searls and Shawn Powers to unpack the challenges and rewards of dropping Google Analytics and using an open source alternative such as Plausible.io. This conversation is especially timely given a shifting regulatory environment in which—among other developments—Google Analytics has lately been declared illegal in France and Austria.Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn PowersGuest: Marko SaricDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: NetFoundry.io/TWIT bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/floss
FLOSS Weekly 674: Janus WebRTC - Lorenzo Miniero, Meetcho
Lorenzo Miniero of Meetecho and the author of the Janus open source WebRTC server, joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett for an informative conversation regarding live streaming and broadcasting, new and better ways to bring in network devices, OBS, virtual and hybrid events, WHIP, the open source future of real time communication, and much more.Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan BennettGuest: Lorenzo MinieroDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: kolide.com/floss Compiler - FLOSS
FLOSS Weekly 673: Frontiers of Trust - Drummond Reed, Trust Over IP, SSI
Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services with Avast, leads Doc Searls and Simon Phipps through deep dives into SSI, blockchain, KERI (which avoids blockchains), protocols, standards and much more. The biggest frontier for trust is digital identity, specifically of the self-sovereign kind. Great discussion on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon PhippsGuest: Drummond ReedDownload or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weeklyThink 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.Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: NewRelic.com/FLOSS