The MNT Reform is a Free Hardware laptop that entirely changes the way laptops are desgined and used. Come with us as we talk with the inventor, Lukas Hartmann about his journey into Free Software, the MNT's development and what the future holds on this episode of Libre Lounge!
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In this episode, Chris and Serge talk with User Interface expert Máirín Duffy about her history with Free Software, user interface in modern GNU/Linux systems and what developers can do to make better programs.
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Serge and Chris have an conversation about a variety of topics including gender, real vs virtual life, language and pronouns.
Serge and Chris sit down with award winning artist and Free Culture activist David Revoy on his webcomic series Pepper and Carrot, the Sintel film, and how he started his Free Software/Free Culture journey.
Links: David Revoy's Website Supporting David Financially Pepper & Carrot Sintel Film 3DVF Framasoft Blender Foundation Blender Institute Krita MyPaint GNUess (the cartoon David made live at LibrePlanet 2020)
CW: This episode has dark themes and may be challenging for those suffering from depression
In this episode of Libre Lounge, Serge and Chris invite Sean O'Brien back to the show to talk about the threats to our privacy that have arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic, including and especially the EARN-IT act, as well as how tragedies have effected societies in the past.
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Serge and Chris briefly discuss space games before a deep dive concern about the Affero General Public License.
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Chris returns to Libre Lounge for a casual conversation about their work, gender identity and social gaming during the era of COVID-19.
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Serge has some personal words about Coronovirus, and how Libre Lounge is responding.
In this episode, Serge sits down with Frank Karlitschek, the founder and president of Nextcloud about why Frank forked his own company, the influence of money in software companies and the necessity of federation in the future of computing.
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In this episode, Serge sits down with Molly de Blanc, long time Free Software activist and leader, now president of the Open Source Initiative about the intersection of Free Software and society, and where we as a community are moving.
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Phil Hagelberg (technomancy) joins Serge for a conversation about Clojure, a new lisp called Fennel, making video games, and making free hardware design keyboards.
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On this mini-episode of Libre Lounge, Serge talks about his friend Greg Schnitzer, how the values of Star Trek made an impact on his life, and what we in the User Freedom community can learn from them.
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On this episode of Libre Lounge, Chris and Serge are joined by RoryM of the CyPurr Collective, a Brooklyn based digital security group focused on bringing improved computer privacy and security to the masses through workshops that focus on asking questions and listening.
Hear about CyPurr's approach, its history and its vision, as well as what we in the User Freedom community can learn about how to better connect with everyday people.
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Chris and Serge have an exciting announcement in the form of a new project called Datashards!
Datashards is a collaborative secure communication system that can be used online or offline and solves problems such as the Slashdot effects, offline data retrival, secure communication and more. Chris and Serge walk through the basic features of DataShards and why they're both working on it!
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Serge and Chris have been busy working on a plan to keep the Fediverse safe from spam, scammers and hate speech. On this episode of Libre Lounge, they share that plan with the world.
We also announce the ActivityPub Conference for September 7th and 8th!
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What are Hackers? What are Hackerspaces? What makes us feel a sense of purpose and belonging? What are the origins of the term Open Source and Maker, and what do they have to do with one another? Mitch Altman brings clarity on all these topics and more when he joins Chris and Serge for this episode of Libre Lounge!
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On this episode of Libre Lounge we get on Ludovic Courtès to talk about the Guix package manager and distribution, functional package management, reproducibility, and bootstrapping!
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On this episode, Serge sits down with game creator Sean Hillman and discusses Dungeons and Dragons, the Open Gaming License and how Free Culture encourages diversity.
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Chris and Serge take a walk down memory lane of old computers, programming environments and the command line. During this trip, they deconstruct the appeal of the command line, unix culture and ways that the aesthetics of the terminal have held us back.
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Serge sits down with both Chris and Deb Nicholson to discuss building and maintaining a healthy Free Software community.
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Chris and Serge wax poetic about instant messengers of the past, their influence on Free Software, on communication and ways that they impacted each of their lives.
Content Warning: This episode has a brief discussion of death, including suicide.
If you struggle with depression and are having a crisis, please use one of the resources listed at the end.
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Are you ready for a meta episode? Curious about how Libre Lounge gets made? This show is for you as Serge and Chris talk about their goals for Libre Lounge and the process for making a show in 2019.
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We're still at Libre Planet 2019 and we're talking to Sean O'Brien from the Yale Privacy Lab and Purism about personal security, phones, and how stores use sounds you can't hear to spy on you.
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Libre Lounge comes to you with an interview from Libre Planet with Joey Hess discussing the Secure Scuttbutt project, a secure social network. The interview goes into detail about the protocol, differences between SSB and ActivityPub, and how Secure Scuttlebutt is a bit like Git.
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The Libre Lounge crew invite Kate Sills from Agoric to help explain and explore Object Capabilities, an alternative to traditional ACL (Access Control List) or authentication based mechanisms.
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Join us for the first in an ongoing series on ActivityPub Chris and Serge dive into ActivityPub, explaining how the social networking protocol works, how it handles different audiences, understanding the Subject-Verb-Object model of communication, as well as how following and followers work.
Listen to Part 2 Here
Listen to Part 3 Here
ReviewPub materials coming soon!
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Serge and Chris talk about the concept of Federation, how ActivityPub fits in and Serge introduces a new project called ReviewPub to create a simple ActivityPub implementation that listeners can follow along with.
Chris and Serge are back from FOSDEM and CopyleftConf. Chris has a grant to work on an exciting new ActivityPub application and the dynamic duo talk about recursive compilation and Lisp without parentheis.
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Chris and Serge continue their discussion from last time about Free Software funding models.
Listen to Part 1 here
In this first part of a two parter, Serge and Chris talk about funding models for Free Software development.
Listen to Part 2 here.
In this episode of Libre Lounge, Serge and Chris talk about the Free Culture movement and contrast it with other forms of Free Culture online, including the Remix movement and "Youtube culture".
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In this first of the year episode, Chris and Serge take a break from heady topics and talk about a few of their favorite Free Software video games.
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In their first interview, Chris and Serge interview Karen Sandler, Executive Director of Software Freedom Conservancy, Founder of Outreachy, and co-host of the Free as in Freedom podcast.
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In this episode of Libre Lounge, Chris sits down with Serge to talk about the Universal Declaration of Human rights and discuss how they relate to Free Software.
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In this episode of Libre Lounge, Serge and Chris go back to the roots of hacker culture starting in the 1950s and 1960s and connecting that with the hacker culture of today, its challenges and how it needs to evolve moving forward.
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In their second episode, Serge and Chris return from Thanksgiving thinking about malware in Free Software, specifically the NPM bitcoin attack found in event-streamer
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Chris mentioned that they changed their org-mode configuration inspired by the chat from our first episode to incorporate a priorities-based workflow. Maybe you want to look at Chris's updated org-mode configuration! It looks like so:
;; (c) 2018 by Christopher Lemmer Webber
;; Under GPLv3 or later as published by the FSF
;; We want the lowest and "default" priority to be D. That way
;; when we calculate the agenda, any task that isn't specifically
;; marked with a priority or SCHEDULED/DEADLINE won't show up.
(setq org-default-priority ?D)
(setq org-lowest-priority ?D)
;; Custom agenda dispatch commands which allow you to look at
;; priorities while still being able to see when deadlines, appointments
;; are coming up. Very often you'll just be looking at the A or B tasks,
;; and when you clear off enough of those or have some time you might
;; look also at the C tasks
;;
;; Hit "C-c a" then one of the following key sequences...
;; - a for the A priority items, plus the agenda below it
;; - b for A-B priority items, plus the agenda below it
;; - c for A-C priority items, plus the agenda below it
;; - A for just the agenda
;; - t for just the A-C priority TODOs
(setq org-agenda-custom-commands
'(("a" "Agenda plus A items"
((tags-todo
"+PRIORITY=\"A\""
((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))
(agenda "")))
("b" "Agenda plus A+B items"
((tags-todo
"+PRIORITY=\"A\"|+PRIORITY=\"B\""
((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))
(agenda "")))
("c" "Agenda plus A+B+C items"
((tags-todo
"+PRIORITY=\"A\"|+PRIORITY=\"B\"|+PRIORITY=\"C\""
((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))
(agenda "")))
("A" "Agenda"
((agenda "")))
("t" "Just TODO items"
((tags-todo
"+PRIORITY=\"A\"|+PRIORITY=\"B\"|+PRIORITY=\"C\""
((org-agenda-sorting-strategy '(priority-down))))))))In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.
Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!
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