Libre Lounge
40 episodes - English - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsA casual podcast about user freedom
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38: User Interfaces with Máirín Duffy
May 16, 2020 01:02 - 29.2 MBIn 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. Links Máirín's Blog
37: What on Earth will be the title of this epsiode?
May 03, 2020 18:45 - 27.7 MBSerge and Chris have an conversation about a variety of topics including gender, real vs virtual life, language and pronouns.
36: David Revoy on Pepper & Carrot and Free Culture
April 17, 2020 20:30 - 22.6 MBSerge 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)
35: COVID and EARN-IT with Sean O'Brien
April 08, 2020 19:10 - 22.8 MBCW: 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. Links: The Previous Episode with Sean The EARN-IT Act SESTA/FOSTA The Australian Decryption Law Panel from Libre Planet ...
34: The Limits of the AGPL
April 03, 2020 22:00 - 28.5 MBSerge and Chris briefly discuss space games before a deep dive concern about the Affero General Public License. Links: The Affero General Public License Is the AGPL Broken? Empty Epsilon
33: Chris's Return, Covid and Social Gaming
March 26, 2020 18:50 - 22.1 MBChris returns to Libre Lounge for a casual conversation about their work, gender identity and social gaming during the era of COVID-19. Links: Spritely Project Software Freedom Conservancy Greeting Card Terminal Phase Libre Lounge Episode about Cool Terminal Tools What is Non-Binary Spivak Pronouns Empty Epsilon
Coronovirus Announcement
March 17, 2020 05:00 - 860 KBSerge has some personal words about Coronovirus, and how Libre Lounge is responding.
32: Companies, Money and Society with Frank Karlitschek
February 28, 2020 23:30 - 41.7 MBIn 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. Links: Frank Karlitschek's Website Nextcloud Why I forked my own project and my own company Why the GPL is great for business Red Hat announced that they've joined forces with CentOS The Creator-Endosed Mark The Esperanto Language Blisssymbolics ...
31: Society and Free Software with Molly de Blanc
January 25, 2020 05:00 - 33.9 MBIn 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. Links: Molly de Blanc's Blog Article about Detroit's Tree Project Libre Lounge episode about Cypurr Libre Lounge episode about Free Culture movements
30: Fennel with Phil Hagelberg
December 19, 2019 05:00 - 19.8 MBPhil Hagelberg (technomancy) joins Serge for a conversation about Clojure, a new lisp called Fennel, making video games, and making free hardware design keyboards. Links: Fennel Language Website Atreus Keyboard Phil Hagelberg's Website Phil Talking about the creation of the Atreus Keyboard Leiningen Energize! Game EXO_encounter 667 Game The Lua Language Open Source is Not About You, Rich Hickey's essay about community
29: For the love of a Trekker
December 13, 2019 21:45 - 3.8 MBOn 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. Links: Star Trek New Voyages New Voyages Episodes Video of Greg Talking about Props An online tribute to Greg Trekkies Documentary For the Love of Spock
28: CyPurr with RoryM
September 27, 2019 04:00 - 27.5 MBOn 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. Links: CyPurr Collective CyPurr's Github Page RoryM ...
27: Cool Tools of Summer '19
September 20, 2019 04:00 - 8.12 MBIt's been a long summer and it's time for a fun break. Serge and Chris talk about some of their favorite fun tools in this short episode of Libre Lounge! Links: htop figlet byobu Ledger mosh autossh unison baobab Pandoc bb watch Cool Retro Term
26: Announcing Datashards
August 17, 2019 00:00 - 51.5 MBChris 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! Links: The DataShards Website Tahoe-LAFS Freenet Jason Scott Talking about the Death of Geocities and...
25: Managing Spam and Hate-Speech on the Fediverse
August 02, 2019 04:00 - 22.6 MBSerge 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! Links: Serge's Paper Keeping Unwanted Messages off the Fediverse Chris's Paper OcapPub: Towards networks of consent Our show on Object Capabilities Our relevant show on ActivityPub ActivityPub Conf
Episode 24: Hackers and Hackerspaces with Mitch Altman
June 28, 2019 19:10 - 69.8 MBWhat 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! Links: Cornfield Electronics (Mitch's website) TV-B-Gone Hackerspaces.org 2600 Magazine Off the Hook Radio Show Chaos Communication Club Novena Computer Soldering is Easy
Episode 23: Guix with Ludovic Courtès
June 21, 2019 20:00 - 43 MBOn 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! Links: GNU Guix GNU Mes Reflections on Trusting Trust (the "Thompson Attack") Guix 1.0 released (May 2, 2019)
Episode 22: Dungeons & Dragons, Free Culture, and Diversity with Sean Hillman
June 14, 2019 11:05 - 77.8 MBOn 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. Links: Sean Hillan's Patreon Zero Means You're Dead (Sean's podcast) ARMZine DIRGEZine Living Greyhawk (wizards.com) The Grand Duchy of Geoff (wizards.com) The Open Gaming License FAQ (wizards.com) FATE Game System (fate-srd.com) Queens of Adventure (Matt Baume's D&D/Drag Queen Podcast) Sean O'Brien Epic Theme #1
Episode 21: Command Line Culture
May 31, 2019 14:00 - 42.3 MBChris 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. Links: Commodore VIC-20 (wikipedia) Commodore 64 (wikipedia) MS DOS (wikipedia) Freedos (a Free Software DOS replacement) QBasic (wikipedia) FreeBASIC (a Free Software BASIC) GEOS (wikipedia) Unix Philosophy (wikipedia) REPL (wikipe...
Episode 20: ActivityPub Part 3
May 17, 2019 17:00 - 20.4 MBIn this episode of Libre Lounge, Chris and Serge continue exploring ActivityPub. They use this episode to discuss webfinger, http signatures and some of the parts of the ActivityPub protocol that are less well understood. Listen to Part 1 Here Listen to Part 2 Here Links: ActivityPub Webfinger HTTP Signatures 5 Day Wait time in SMTP ActivityPub Federation, Deniel of Service
Episode 19: Community Development with Deb Nicholson
May 10, 2019 04:00 - 25.6 MBSerge sits down with both Chris and Deb Nicholson to discuss building and maintaining a healthy Free Software community. Show Links: GNU Mediagoblin Software Freedom Conservancy Spinach Con Contributor Covenant OpenHatch First Timers Only OpenBSD Release Songs
Episode 18: The Rise and Fall of Instant Messengers
April 26, 2019 04:00 - 22.4 MBChris 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. Show Links: Botten Anna (youtube) (look for a lower quality version which has English subtitles) Pidgin Instant Messenger (pidgin.im) O...
Episode 17: ActivityPub Part 2
April 19, 2019 04:00 - 18 MBIn our ongoing series about ActivityPub, Chris and Serge explore the world of JSON-LD and the ActivityStreams vocabulary. Listen to Part 1 Here Listen to Part 3 Here Links: The ActivityPub Specification (w3c) ActivityStreams (w3c) JSON-LD (json-ld.org) JSON-LD Playground (json-ld.org) Cyc (wikipedia) RDF (w3c)
Episode 16: Behind the Scenes 2019
April 12, 2019 06:00 - 26 MBAre 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. Links: Audacity Haunt Git Annex Archive.org
Episode 15: At Libre Planet with Sean O'Brien
April 05, 2019 18:00 - 15.2 MBWe'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. Links: Yale Privacy Lab (yale.edu) The LibreM Phone (puri.sm) Exodus Privacy (exodus-privacy.eu.org) F-Droid (f-droid.org) LineageOS (lineageos.org) Uber Tracks Users After They've Ended Their Ride (theguardian.com) Uber Stiffling Lyft (theverge.com) Uber's Secret Program to Cripple Lyft (theg...
Episode 14: Secure Scuttlebutt with Joey Hess
March 29, 2019 04:40 - 39.5 MBLibre 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. Links: Joey Hess Scuttlebutt Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol Git Annex Libre Planet FSF (thanks for the batteries!)
Episode 13: Object Capabilities with Kate Sills
March 15, 2019 16:45 - 38.2 MBThe 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. Links: Agoric (agoric.com) POLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream Incident (medium.com) What are Object Capabilities? (habitatchronicles.com) An OCAP Approach to Safe Javascript (docs.google.com) The XKCD Sandbox Cycle (xkcd.com) Professor David Wagner Gives a Google Tech Talk on Object Capa...
Episode 12: ActivityPub Part 1
March 08, 2019 19:45 - 48.8 MBJoin 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! Links: ActivityPub (w3c)
Episode 11: What is Federation? Reviewpub.
February 22, 2019 20:00 - 35 MBSerge 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.
Episode 10: FOSDEM, CopyleftConf and Spritely
February 12, 2019 15:51 - 21.2 MBChris 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. Links: FOSDEM 2019 (fosdem.org) CopyleftConf 2019 (copyleftconf.org) Chris is awarded the Samsung Stack Zero Grant (dustycloud.org) Spritely (gitlab.org) A Guiler's Year of Racket (fosdem.org) ActivityPub panel (fosdem.org) GNU Mes (fosdem.org) Experience with wisp (fosdem.org)
Episode 9: Funding Free Software Development (pt2)
January 25, 2019 06:37 - 33.5 MBChris and Serge continue their discussion from last time about Free Software funding models. Listen to Part 1 here
Episode 8: Funding Free Software Development (pt1)
January 18, 2019 21:17 - 23.9 MBIn this first part of a two parter, Serge and Chris talk about funding models for Free Software development. Listen to Part 2 here.
Episode 7: Free, Remix and Youtube Culture
January 15, 2019 19:00 - 28.4 MBIn 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". Links: Definition of Free Cultural Works (freedomdefined.org) Karl Fogel's Talk on the History of Copyright (youtube.com) QuestionCopyright.org's Minute Memes (questioncopyright.org) Youtube Copyright Issues (wikipedia) Free Culture Book by Lawrence Lessig (free-culture.cc) Remix: Making Art a...
Episode 6: Free Software Video Games!
January 04, 2019 19:30 - 14.7 MBIn 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. Show links: Nethack New ATI Card Pushes Limits of ASCII Gaming Extreme Tux Racer Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Globulation 2 Pixel Dungeon Kobo Deluxe Frozen Bubble Endless Sky Barbie Seahorse Adventures Empty Epsilon
Episode 5: Karen Sandler and Software Freedom Conservancy
December 28, 2018 21:40 - 23.1 MBIn 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. Show Links: Software Freedom Conservancy (sfconservancy.org) Become a Software Freedom Conservancy Supporter! (sfconservancy.org) Free as in Freedom (faif.us) Git's Email from Karen (public-inbox.org) Gender Patch Study (livescience.com) Dark Hands and Soap Dispenders (mic.com) Audio from Software F...
Episode 4: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Free Software
December 14, 2018 05:50 - 28.2 MBIn 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. Show links: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (un.org) An Animated Version of the Universa Declaration of Human Rights (youtube) Is Migration a Basic Human Right? (freakonomics.com) Chris Webber's Patreon (patreon)
Episode 3: Hacker Culture, Past, Belonging and Inclusion
December 08, 2018 07:30 - 24.5 MBIn 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. Show links: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy (stevenlevy.com) Free as in Freedom (sagitter.fedorapeople.org) Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic (opentranscripts) The Problem with the Hacker Mystique (youtube) Eric R...
Episode 2: Thanksgiving, NPM and Malware in Free Software
November 30, 2018 21:30 - 32.2 MBIn their second episode, Serge and Chris return from Thanksgiving thinking about malware in Free Software, specifically the NPM bitcoin attack found in event-streamer Show links: Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy) Backdoor in event-stream library dependency (hacker news) The event-stream bug report (github) Statement about the event-stream vulerability (bitpay) npm's statement on the event-stream incident Bug Report on ESLint (github) Malware in Linux kernel (lwn) Don't Down...
Episode 1: Corporate control, org-mode, mobile phones and PDAs
November 20, 2018 21:00 - 22.8 MBIn 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)! Links to some of the things discussed in the show Linux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in general The Halloween Documents - The documents desc...