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Episode 380 - A new Sovereign Tech Fund program and the BBC on destroying hard drives
Episode 380
Josh and Kurt talk about a new program from the Sovereign Tech Fund to fund open source work. It's a great looking program with an acceptable amount …
2 years, 8 months ago
Will open source save the world, again?
Episode 379
Josh and Kurt talk about some new open source projects that aim to start taking back some of our privacy and rights. It's a huge hill to climb, but i…
2 years, 9 months ago
Naming things is harder than security
Episode 378
Josh and Kurt talk about namespaces. They were a topic in the last podcast, and resulted in a much much larger discussion for us. We decided to hash …
2 years, 9 months ago
The world is changing too fast for humans to understand
Episode 377
Josh and Kurt talk about PyPI suspending new accounts and packages for a day, and a 60 minutes story about deepfakes. The problems are mostly the sam…
2 years, 9 months ago
Open Source Summit, who built your open source, and AI
Episode 376
Josh and Kurt talk about the Open Source Summit in Vancouver. Josh was there and we pick on two observations. Firstly that security keeps trying to u…
2 years, 9 months ago
The market forces of left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 2
Episode 375
Josh and Kurt finish up the leftpad discussion. We spent a lot of time talking about how the market will respond to these sort of events, and the mar…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 374 - The event we called left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 1
Episode 374
Josh and Kurt revisit Episode 77, which was named "npm and the supply chain" but was a discussion about the incident we all know now as "leftpad". We…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 373 – HHGG security, Episode 42 remaster part 2
Episode 373
This is the second part of remastering Episode 42 which is all about the security in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. It's a fun show and…
2 years, 10 months ago
HHGG security, remaster part 1
Episode 372
The podcast is on a hiatus for a little while due to some personal matters, but that creates an opportunity to remaster some fun old episodes. These …
2 years, 10 months ago
pip install is the tool we deserve but not the tool we need
Episode 371
Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post about pip and virtual environments. This eventually turns into a larger conversation around packaging tools and …
2 years, 10 months ago