Halloween 2026

As it's almost a ritual with the Inlaws around Halloween, our two hosts are catching up with our famous countess. On movies and other fun stuff. If you haven't got a clue what that means, a little refresher: About a year ago, a damsel in distress (for want of a better description :-) rang the Dark Side Tech Support for help with an agent threatening her with a movie deal to ride the wave of success (read: milk the cash cow just a tad bit more) of the movie Nosferatu released a few years back. With the help of our trusted tech support, Vladessa was able to swing this her way: A flick about the stony path from a peasant girl to the ruler of something which is now probably one of the largest blood wholesalers on the planet. Done in true Brontë-style similar to Wuthering Heights, you get it. For the finer details, simply listen to S02E49 (shame on you if you missed this so far! :-). Plus details about the record (Record? What record? No further teasers here, just listen to the episode). Links 2025 Halloween episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E49_Halloween_2025__A6B0" target=_blank>https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E49_Halloween_2025__A6B0 The original documentary (by Bram Stoker): https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/bram-stoker/dracula" target=_blank>https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/bram-stoker/dracula Vampire Waffles: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FB11BMGN?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback" target=_blank>https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FB11BMGN?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org" target=_blank>https://fedoraproject.org

This episode is all about music. And what FLOSS has to do with this. So if you're interested in music (but then who isn't) and how FLOSS can help you there, this is the episode you don't want to shy away from. Plus more shocking revelations about the point in time when Martin first became a father. All those decades ago (and maybe even more :-). So if you are interest in this type of unveiling this is certainly an episode you don't want to miss. At all! Links Strawberry: https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry The analogue era: https://www.everythingisscary.com/screen/when-the-abyss-looks-back-contemplating-the-void The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA): https://alsa-project.org Open Sound System (OSS): http://www.opensound.com PulseAudio: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio Pipewire: https://pipewire.org Pulse Music: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.hardcodecoder.pulsemusic Audacity: https://github.com/audacity/audacity SoX: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox jive-vocals (formerly Jivetalking): https://github.com/linuxmatters/jive-vocals Ardour: https://ardour.org Qtractor: https://qtractor.org Rosegarden: https://rosegardenmusic.com ZRYTHM: https://www.zrythm.org Nyquist Lisp: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nyquist.html Supercollider: https://supercollider.github.io Neural Amp Modeler (NAM): https://www.neuralampmodeler.com Proxmox: https://proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/overview Rick and Morty S09: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_and_Morty_season_9

This episode hosts Michael Neuendorf from Gonicus, a company providing FLOSS solutions. So what? you may rightly ask. But wait - this is not just one of these blatant marketing stunts the Inlaws try to avoid (unless there's significant money involved :-). But rather another showcase of innovative FLOSS solutions at play for more than twenty years, a voice-over-IP (VoIP) with out-of-the-box Jitsi and Matrix integration being one of these solutions. Sounds interesting? Then don't miss this episode! Links Gonicus: https://github.com/gonicus Gonnect: https://github.com/gonicus/gonnect Inlaws' episode on digital sovereignty (S02E66): https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E66_Sovereignty_digital_and_otherwise__C969 LiMux: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/document/declaration-independence-limux-project-munich Asterisk: https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk Bubbles: https://github.com/gonicus/bubbles Virtualisation episode (S01E57): https://archive.org/details/hpr3609 Börek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Börek

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

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

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