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Facebook, Dynamite, Uber, Bombs, and You

Exploring ethical dilemmas in tech: industry regulation, whistleblowing, and preventing potential disasters through historical examples and practical strategies for IT professionals.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Clockwork and Its Tools - Open Source Software to Make Things More Easily

Explore Clockwork, an open-source programming tool for simplifying complex system development. Learn to model interconnected 'machines' and create user-friendly IoT interfaces for various devices.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Preventing the IoT Dystopia with Copyleft

Exploring the challenges of IoT devices, GPL violations, and the importance of user rights in software modification. Discusses strategies to protect freedoms in the evolving landscape of interconnected devices.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Docker for Novices

Comprehensive introduction to Docker for beginners, covering basic concepts, terminology, image building, container running, port mapping, and Docker Compose, with hands-on examples.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Multiple Birds with One Linux - IoT in the Automotive Space

Explore automotive IoT applications using OBD-II data for driver profiling, smart city planning, and vehicle performance analysis. Learn to implement edge computing solutions with Linux for data extraction and transmission.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Security Vulnerability Mitigations

Explore security vulnerability mitigations, from classic buffer overflows to modern ROP attacks. Learn about OpenBSD's innovative defenses and their adoption across platforms.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Lightning Talks

A series of rapid-fire presentations on diverse tech topics, from hiring practices to security protocols, showcasing innovative ideas and sparking discussions in the open-source community.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Privacy and Decentralisation with Multicast

Explore how multicast technology can revolutionize internet scalability, enhance privacy, and enable efficient group communication for decentralized systems and IoT applications.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

How to Make Kernel and User Space CI for Input Devices

Explore CI techniques for kernel and user space input devices, covering regression testing advancements and strategies to ensure compatibility across various hardware configurations.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Tensorflow on Open Source GPUs

Explore efforts to enable TensorFlow on open-source GPUs using SYCL, LLVM, and OpenCL. Learn about challenges and progress in deploying AI/ML frameworks without proprietary NVIDIA CUDA stack.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

SMBcmp - A New Tool to Diff Network Captures

Explore a new open-source tool for comparing network captures, enhancing Wireshark's capabilities to efficiently debug protocol issues and analyze packet differences.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Write a Single Library to Handle All Input Devices, It'll Be Easy They Said

Explore the evolution of input device handling in Linux, focusing on libinput's unified approach, design choices, and future improvements for mice, touchpads, and more.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Transpile Anything to Everything

Explore the design of a multi-language transpiler for MongoDB Compass, enabling query translation between programming languages and fostering community-driven language support.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Professional Quality Layout Design with Scribus

Comprehensive tutorial on Scribus for professional layout design, covering document setup, layout elements, text styling, color management, and PDF export. Ideal for beginners seeking to master this powerful open-source tool.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Building a Compiler for Quantum Computers

Explore quantum computing compilation: converting low-level programs, optimizing for specific backends, and improving performance. Learn techniques to enhance results and avoid noisy outputs.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk