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FLOSS Weekly

FLOSS Weekly

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It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.2023
Episodes
  • Episode 857: SOCification
    Dec 3 2025

    This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What's the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with SIMD? And what is Konstantinos' connection to ARM's SIMD approach? Listen to find out!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • FLOSS 856: QT: Fix It Please, My Mom is Calling
    Nov 26 2025

    This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That's the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What's the connection with KDE? And how has this turned into a successful company? Listen to find out!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • FLOSS 855: Get in the Minecart, Loser!
    Nov 19 2025

    This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It's a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you really want to! Part of the story is a Kickstarter that resulted in a graphics tile-set. And then there's the mods!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 7 mins
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