Linux Inlaws

The subject of this episode is something that everybody does but only few talk about: elections. Well, not quite. :-) The subject is actually adult entertainment, also commonly known as "porn" (short for pornography). Such a delicate subject is, of course, treated with the required utmost sobriety and earnestness which the Inlaws are known for (yeah, right!). So if you have ever wondered but were too afraid to ask about the finer aspects of the FLOSS in the adult entertainment business, this is the show you don't want to miss. Plus: bonus content on the use of FLOSS in the general movie business (the focus groups insisted that this has to be part of the episode due to "political correctness" and other concepts hard to comprehend:-). And of course this episode would not be complete without the acknowledgment and celebration of Martin's favourite subject: Amish Porn Websites. So don't miss this episode!
Links

Academy Software Foundation: https://www.aswf.io

History of pornography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography#Prehistoric_times

The Greek's take on things: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303444717_The_Origins_of_Pornography

Visual Effects Reference Platform: https://vfxplatform.com

PEP 404: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0404

Alliance for Open Universal Scene Description (AOUSD): https://aousd.org

Pixar's USD repo: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD

MindGeek / Aylo repo (private repo, request access): https://github.com/MindGeekOSS

Stash (StashApp): https://github.com/stashapp/stash

StashBox: https://github.com/stashapp/stash-box

phub-cli: https://github.com/curtosis-org/phub-cli

zobTube: https://github.com/zobtube/zobtube

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

WebRTC: https://w3c.github.io/webrtc-pc

6502 emulators: https://6502.org/tools/emu

Beate Uhse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Uhse-Rotermund

Oswald Kolle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswalt_Kolle

In this episode a high-speed queuing system is the center of the discussion. No, we didn't manage to unearth the corpse of Kafka or some other long-forgotten queuing system but focus on something very fast called LavinMQ written in - wait for it - Crystal. Crystal you may ask? Aren's decent queueing systems written in Java (a joke, I know :-), Erlang or C? And does the world and dog have not enough queueing systems already? All mysteries will be revealed, so don't miss this show!
Links

LavinMQ: https://github.com/cloudamqp/lavinmq

CloudAMQP: https://www.cloudamqp.com

RabbitMQ: https://github.com/rabbitmq

Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org

MQTT: https://mqtt.org

Project Hail Mary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_hail%20mar

Jujutsu: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj

Atomic Blonde: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2406566/?ref_=fn_t_1

This episode is all about SFSCon, one of those hidden FLOSS conference jewels located in northern Italy, in a German-speaking enclave known as South Tyrol. Simon Phipps of OSI-fame and Patrick Ohnewein will give you (and us) the lowdown on this long-standing and popular FLOSS format.
Links

Open Source Initiative @ Linux Inlaws (S02E42): https://archive.org/details/hpr3459

SFSCon: https://www.sfscon.it

NOI Tech Park: https://noi.bz.it/en

Last year's hackathon: https://hackathon.bz.it/edition/november-2025

LLM & EU: https://openeurollm.eu

Simon's extracurricular activities (some of them): https://www.stan4cra.eu/etsi-tc-cyber

Zendis stack(German initiative): https://www.opendesk.eu/en

LaSuite (French initiative): https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/france-phases-out-proprietary-operating-systems-workstations

EU's tech sovereignty package: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-tech-sovereignty

EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act

Collabora comic: https://www.collaboraonline.com/torf/torf1/

Openwashing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openwashing

This episode as part of our strange but wonderful series is host to one of the most elusive musicians not only in the podcast biz. Yes, we are speaking about none other than the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder, also affectionately known as BmC. Who you may ask? If you have strayed and listened to other podcasts (shame on you BTW :-) like Darknet Diaries or the Changelog, you've already experienced some of his work. Sparing no expenses, Martin and Chris managed to get him on the show. Suffice it say, this is one of the most complex but still comprehensible shows (spoiler: BmC turns the tables has questions for our two hosts - what a ride it was). So without further ado, fasten your seatbelts, stop smoking (it's bad for you anyway) and enjoy the show!
Links

BmC: https://www.breakmastercylinder.com

BmC @ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakmaster_Cylinder

The Art of Noise: https://www.artofnoiseofficial.com

Kraftwerk: https://kraftwerk.com

Darwin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

Christy Moore: https://www.christymoore.com

Linux Inlaws catholic audience: https://tinyurl.com/yestw7y6

daft punk: https://www.daftpunk.com

Cro: https://www.cro.de

Linux Inlaws @ FOSDEM: https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/linux_inlaws

Twelve months: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9029366/?ref_=fn_t_1

Dog in Space: https://breakmastercylinder.bandcamp.com/album/bmc-and-dog-in-space-the-complete-series

Blue Monday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(New_Order_song)

White Wedding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wedding_(song)

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