Description

In this Year-End episode, our two heroes take a look back at 2022 not just from a FLOSS perspective and hazard guesses about next year's shenanigans (listeners only interested in these predictions: please fast-forward to the four hour forty-five minutes and twenty seconds mark in your podcast player). Anybody else please keep listening... :-) Plus: The truth about Truth Social, Twitter and Elon Musk.

Links

• D-Wave SPAC: https://www.dwavesys.com/company/newsroom/press-release/dpcm-capital-inc-and-d-wave-systems-inc-announce-completion-of-business-combination
• Guido van Rossum leaving retirement: https://www.techradar.com/news/creator-of-python-quits-retirement-joins-microsoft
• Python performance improvements: https://www.phoronix.com/review/python-311-performance
• Jammy Jellyfish changelog: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/jammy-jellyfish-release-notes/24668
• Snaps in Jammy Jellyfish: https://www.makeuseof.com/ubuntu-2204-jammy-jellyfish-released
• Ruby 3 improvements: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/ruby-3-features
• Securing Open Source Software act: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s4913is/pdf/BILLS-117s4913is.pdf
• Betterbird: https://www.betterbird.eu
• Ethereum Merge: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/#main-content
• Social Truth and its problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Software
• The great Twitter debacle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk
• Elon's history (abbreviated version): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
• Richest people on the planet: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/012715/5-richest-people-world.asp
• Twitter alternatives: https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-twitter-alternatives
• Silence SMS encryption: https://silence.im
• Research in Motion (aka BlackBerry Ltd.): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Limited
• Alice Schwarzer's book (in German): https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/alice-schwarzer-mein-leben-9783462004380
• Simon Singh's book on cryptography: https://simonsingh.net/books/the-code-book/the-book
• Alex Sanafilippo's video: https://youtu.be/Bjeye85l6gE